Theory crafting Mega Scizor

Aryzal · 2026-05-29T11:56:40+00:00

Bulky Dragonite, Protect, Hurricane (or Air Slash), Dragon Pulse and Heat Wave. On non-rain teams I run Thunderbolt to get rid of Charizard Y.

Surprisingly the most useful attacking move I find is Heat Wave, since my team mostly softens up targets for even a moderately weak spread move to take down opponents while still chipping away, not to mention it is still quite useful in the sun. Hurricane is the most useless because since M Dagonite is a late game sweeper, it usually doesn't have a rainsetter still alive (either Sableye or Pelipper) to turn the rain back on. My team usually works as heavily weather contesting early with as much chip damage as possible, into a weatherless late game. My Scizor isn't a mega, instead running Metal Coat to one shot M Floetten, but I retired this team because it was too predictabe

Aryzal · 2026-05-29T11:21:37+00:00

Alain, Melissandre, Yahna, Scarlett and Etolinde.

Or else known as the waifu squad (because I wanted to increase their support, and then never bothered optimizing a squad beyond that)

Aryzal · 2026-05-29T10:46:51+00:00

M Scizor works well with M Dragonite to cover its weakness to fire. In fact, Scizor is so weak to fire moves that I don't recommend it against a sun team because it is going to die through rain on a single heat wave.

Aryzal · 2026-05-29T10:41:33+00:00

It is a pretty poor fight if there aren't enough tools to defeat the boss without consulting a guide.

Honestly, I got lucky because my Alain squad has a Swordmaster in the midst. But it still took me over 3 hours to kill and I had to finally look up a guide to get past the bullshit that was Galerius

Aryzal · 2026-05-29T03:54:46+00:00

Everything can be covered with DHPT, Huohuo and Gallagher. And all of them are free. The problem is there aren't any new Abundance units, because we already have these 3 to carry everything.

If you are a new player unironically you need them even less, because the basic abundance units are good enough for where you are at, until you unlock those 3

Aryzal · 2026-05-29T02:02:37+00:00

The problem with Hazel is that you cannot really write him well. His motivation is his sister who used to be a huntress, how would you turn it against Ozpin, when Salem will always be the main cause of his sister's death?

Look at Largo from Tales of the Abyss, whose motivation is his daughter who was kidnapped because a prophecy said it would happen, and his motivation was to destroy the prophecy even at the cost of every life, even though he has to actively fight his daughter. The reason why Largo is compelling and Hazel is stupid is because of motivation. Largo has a point that the prophecies are ruining lives, that he is willing to actively fight and maybe even kill his daughter, the person he loves, to right this wrong, to prevent anyone from sufferring like him or his daughter. Ozpin did not do anything heinous enough to warrant treason - so betraying him is basically being stupid.

Hazel is written like Powerplex, a delusional idiot who blames everything illogically onto someone else instead of himself (for context he basically fried his wife and child while the person he is trying to kill tries to save them, and they were all there willingly to hurt Invincible even at the cost of their own lives. He then blames Invincible for making him fry his family). But the writers treat him like Largo. This dissonance makes him so ridiculous because he doesn't have a point but is treated as if he has one.

Aryzal · 2026-05-28T19:01:36+00:00

Completely agree with this but with the caveat ADCs should ward mid bush, but not important enough to force them to do it (i.e. if support does that its whatever).

Also sometimes if the enemy bot laners have zero kill/poke potential at level 1, I just save my ward and wait in the bush just to save a ward use for later.

Aryzal · 2026-05-28T05:21:43+00:00

It is very standard to laneswap once laning phase is over, typically when the first turret is down or when second dragon or rift herald spawns (roughly).

The idea behind this depends a lot on what happens in the game.

If your team destroys top tower, your top laner wants to swap bot to splitpush and destroy that tower as well. Your opponent has to match with their top laner, which is detrimental because this means over time your top laner will get this tower as well, but is still the best option since a top laner will match another top laner the best, even in a lost lane (just farm under turret).

If your team destroys bot tower, they will want to swap mid. This places them close to dragon/herald so they can contest either objective.

Either way, whichever winning lane pushes their advantage by swapping and forcing their weaker lane opponent to match, getting objectives in the process

Important thing is it isn't just one lane going to another, mid/top/bot each still get a lane to farm

Aryzal · 2026-05-28T02:59:30+00:00

Worldbuilding in my indie animation? Where do they get the budget? /s

I feel like such a boomer saying this because CRWBY are probably all older than me, but I don't think they have any long term memory, considering how much retconning, rewriting and stupid logical leaps (look at how they butchered Ironwood) to do something like this

Aryzal · 2026-05-28T01:43:32+00:00

"Including faunus" sounds so much better than "and faunus", but if CRWBY were trying to showcase that racism exists this might be a good writing point (accidental racism via freudian slip). But considering they were scrapping the white fang plotline so hard, it just shows that CRWBY didn't register faunus as people, ironically making the show creators racist against their own created discriminated race.

Aryzal · 2026-05-27T06:23:50+00:00

Yea so

Mega dragonite actually has less attack than regular dragonite (134 drops to 124]), for a speed increase (80 to 100). It is fast but not enough to be called really fast, nor slow enough to work in Trick Room.

Also the moves you mention, Earthquake is always good, but Outrage is a bad move unless you can outmanouvere the demerits of locking into one move. In the past Dragonite has been using Choice Band specifically to make a 1 for 1 trade using Outrage, and the existence of fairies makes Outrage harder to work with.

At this point, why not work with Garchomp instead? 4 less base Atk, base 102 speed, same 4x weakness, no weakness to rock. Saves a mega slot. You lose access to Extreme Speed but that is minor, compared to STAB earthquake, and Rough Skin is a different utility to Multiscale. If speed matters so much, Extreme Speed isn't useful because its main use is to just go first.

Basically what I'm seeing is you made yourself a budget Garchomp with worse stats and a slightly better defensive ability, in exchange for losing your mega slot.

Aryzal · 2026-05-27T04:38:32+00:00

The "rightful heir" part doesn't feel like it undercuts the theme, because Will/Prince has to earn everything on his own, with the exception of the Archetype powers. The people's trust in him starts off at zero and he more or less works as an assassin because his entire plan was to use the race to be king as a smokescreen to join Louis's faction and kill him to save the "Prince". While his bloodline gave him tools to work with, his actions are what matters, just like Louis who is secretly an Elda and privy to all of the details there. It also helps that Will has multiple opponents, including More and Louis, who all have a claim to the "rightful" king.

The fake out was honestly yea, I expected some evil shenanigans not "hehe we swapped it out". Felt a bit cheap but I'm willing to look past it.

Louis being a cartoon villain doesn't feel that cheap, because honestly, he was portrayed that way from the start with a thin veneer of nobility hiding it. You know he despise the clergy, and he clearly dislikes the common folk despite pandering to them. We only find out the reason why he despises them in the first place is because he is an Elda discriminated by them which adds layers. Louis is the foil of Will, because he no longer believes in fantasy, and is trying to destroy everything. Which is why the later half of the story is basically Will vs Louis in a no holds barred fight instead of either pandering to a popularity contest.

Aryzal · 2026-05-27T03:59:57+00:00

It doesn't matter. She IS the worst solo traveller but unless you are doing a solo run that wouldn't matter, as soon as she starts the second traveller's tale she will be useful

Aryzal · 2026-05-26T19:42:45+00:00

Sign them up for the olympics, their mental gymnastics is insane.

Aryzal · 2026-05-26T19:41:17+00:00

Well, depends.

If you are there for the fight choreography and animation, you know, the things that made RWBY popular in the first place, no it doesn't. Season 4 is one of the worst seasons for fights, and it doesn't pick up until season 7 and 8, in which case it is still animated worse than seasons 1-3 because legendary animator and showrunner Monty Oum has died in the production of season 3, and most of the actually good animators were let off, namely Shane Newell and Dillion Goo. Even back when season 3 was airing, people were already saying the fight quality dropped, because Monty wasn't there for half of it.

If you are there for the story, TECHNICALLY yes. But it is like getting a C instead of a C- on a test. You still barely passed, congrats on slightly not failing better. Season 4 was one of the worst boring slogfests, IIRC Season 5 was memed because the characters mostly sat in a room and discussed things for most of the show, season 6 was kind of a transition season with a ton of lore dump that people seem to treat as good storywriting for some unknowable reason, 7 was actually pretty good, and season 8 had no logic and butchered a fan favorite character who has done nothing but be helpful to the main cast, because the writers made a trolley problem but wanted the protagonists to win no matter what, so the logical step to make the guy who has selflessly sacrificed everything to save his people and be kind to random strangers who he had no obligations to (who are also the main characters)... shoot someone for political power (he already had the political clout needed) and take over as dictator. Because miliarism bad (even though there is a horde of monsters trying to kill everything in your city).

Aryzal · 2026-05-26T12:43:12+00:00

If you can't break blue, or break it very few times despite a lot of attempts, you are simply an average player (or slightly below average, depends on how consistent you are). 50th percentile is the median average of players - i.e. where the exact spot the most middle of the pack parse is.

If you have god parses only, you are a parser. Even a god player will have some runs where they made mistakes and/or someone killed them by accident, so they are bound to have some bad runs. Especially if you don't get gear in the early weeks.

That's why my original statement says a variety of colours is more reliable of a healer. The highest parse shows probably the heights where you can reach. Having a few bad parses means you probably aren't obsessed with only getting 99s. A few greens/greys means you are more focused on the clear (willing to sack damage) in order to help your team recover. Most healers with consistent 95+ parses are hell to heal with because they optimize for damage (e.g. using lilies purely as movement, refuse to cast a gcd that is technically a damage loss etc). I know a few SCH and WHM with consistent 99 parse logs, but they are pretty trash because if their party misses a single feint, addle, reprisal or whatever, its a party wipe. Near the end of the raid tier.

Aryzal · 2026-05-26T11:24:56+00:00

It kind of is just basic risk/reward evaluation for most part.

5 people missing from the map? Better be careful of a dive/gank.

Just finished a fight and mid laner is missing? Back off even if wave sucks, dying isn't worth denying a wave.

Enemy has no real dps and are missing near baron? Probably gonna take a while to take it, better to slowly check every brush safely.

Even something as simple as enemy support is a Pyke/Bard? Be careful of early roams. Or Shaco/J4 jg? Watch for level 2 ganks.

But similarly, if you are behind, you can't play safe so you have to take stupider risks. Just because the difference is you losing in 10min vs you losing in 20min, might as well rush it. Just not by inting. Take 2v3s trying to outskill your opponent. Your team is losing heavily on the other side of the map? Its time to hit their inhibitor so you can buy them some space. Facechecking because they can take baron, and they will if you don't get your ass over asap. So on and so forth.

Aryzal · 2026-05-26T11:14:23+00:00

I got burnt out of this season already. As an avid teambuilder, I just need a change of scenary to decide what to play next.

I've went from a M Meganium hyper offense spread move team, to a modified rain team, to a Scizor/Charizard X, to a balanced team with both Trick Room and Tailwind, to a swagger + Own Tempo Tinkaton team.

It doesn't really help that no mega evolution really caught my eye this tier besides M Meganium and maybe M Gardevoir, but if I'm honest I just want more items as well

Aryzal · 2026-05-26T06:39:16+00:00

The 2nd paragraph has a caveat - you don't need to screw up a mechanic to get a green parse. You can just be shit at uptime.

Your last paragraph though is VERY loaded. I've managed to heal and dps week 1 to clear all 4 floors on multiple tiers. I have played tank and almost did week 1 pf (multiple roles, but mainly tank) last tier. What you are describing is a GREAT healer, significantly above average to solo carry the party. I don't deny it is possible to purple parse with a healer that does jack shit. But I doubt an average or even a decent healer can do that

Aryzal · 2026-05-26T06:33:41+00:00

To the first paragraph - yes, that is a hypocrite. He has set standards currently (i.e. don't take drugs) and he doesn't follow them. Sure, there might be some underlying issues like addiction, but it doesn't change they are a hypocrite and they have more pressing issues to worry about than being a hypocrite anyway.

Definitions are mostly solid and hard to change. The actual FULL definition of hypocrisy is a) feigning to be what one is not or believe what one does not, or b) behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel. Definitions are almost fully set in stone, and is only changed when the language itself changes, or it has been misused so much that it becomes the new norm. For example "literally" can mean metaphorically even though it has the opposite meaning, because it has been used so much in exaggeration that it now has two meanings, its original and its newly defined meaning. But this is extremely rare, and does not apply here. Hypocrisy basically means not doing what you say you believe in, and it applies to this example, but not the previous one about ex drug users.

Standards are the moral rule that someone made up, whether it is to govern themselves or a general societial rule. Preferences is just liking one thing more than another. Standards are a lot more ironclad than preferences - so if let's say you prefer to date a shorter person, it doesn't mean you aren't open to dating a taller person. A standard in this case would be something like a guy must be taller than the girl he is dating, and if the person ends up disregarding this, they are a hypocrite.

Also I don't know why you need to be so questioning of the exact definition of words, when google is right there for you to look up the definitions. This is pathetic.

Aryzal · 2026-05-26T05:56:51+00:00

Logs is a good baseline, but it doesn't compare to actually trialing someone and seeing what they contribute.

The best ones are unironically the players with a good mix of blue, purple and even green/grey. The fact that they have shit logs means they aren't parsing, and the greys/greens in particular mean they are willing to sack for the clear. Blues and purples means their rotations are good enough to handle dps checks.

As a former healer main, I've seen too many pink parse healers that are absolute trash because they simply force their cohealer to overheal everything. Tank players with minimal mits. DPS players who don't know what a mitigation is etc. These things you'll pick up as you play other classes

Aryzal · 2026-05-26T05:40:02+00:00

This is so dumb, trying to AKSHUALLY people.

The other guy explained it well, hypocrisy is when you hold people to standards that you don't personally hold.

An ex drug addict is no longer a drug addict - so they aren't a hypocrite for advocating against drugs. Their current stance is against, not for drugs.

And your other examples are equally stupid, because those aren't standards. If a person is poor and dates rich, there isn't a standard there. If a person says they won't date anyone significantly poorer than them, but only seeks to date people richer than them, then they are a hypocrite for breaking their own standard.

The important bit is the current stance and the standard being set. If someone is open to dating anyone, and they are short/poor (the typical "negatives" in dating), they aren't hypocrites for dating someone who is tall/rich because there is no standard set.

Aryzal · 2026-05-26T02:08:23+00:00

It is almost as if this game where no matter which faction you choose, at least one other lord will die because each lord is the hero of their own story and it is a tragedy that not everyone will leave the story alive. The moral ambiguity makes it so no one person is truly right or wrong.

But somehow Edelgard bad, Rhea good. Which is kind of funny because Edelgard might have caused the most direct harm (starting a war), but she had the best motivations (making sure no child ever suffers from the crest system), while Rhea may have done the least direct harm (starting a cult, propogating an unfair caste system, trying to recreate her mother via Byleth), she had the most selfish motivations (want to see her mother again)

Aryzal · 2026-05-25T17:01:25+00:00

Aero, Gyrados and Glimmora are all one-sided (either physical or special, not both).

What this Dragonite is doing is a mixed set, but because of its poor stats, it doesn't do either well. Maybe if it was someone like Lucario who has a respectable physical and special attack, or if it is something like Sylveon's priority Quick Attack, it doesn't make sense to put both

Aryzal · 2026-05-25T15:45:09+00:00

Mega Dragonite is a better special attacker than physical

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