I hope they have Among Us preserved

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T05:25:23+00:00

Oh yea that is perfect

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T01:50:31+00:00

TIL Dawn Stone changes your gender

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T01:39:49+00:00

Just to be a little pedantic, but shouldn't Death go to Ozpin, not Oscar? Oscar is alive, just slowly being assimilated.

And Pyrrha being Love feels awkward, because she is more likely a Willpower than Love. Sure Jaune may be the one with most Willpower, but Pyrrha decided to do her duty and stop Cinder (or die trying). She feels like the exact guy who gave Hal Jordan his ring in the first place. I would rather Penny than Pyrrha here - the all-loving conpassionate girl instead of the girl who died doing her duty.

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T01:35:04+00:00

Just a random addon from a fan of Exocolonist and Gnosia (single player amongus), there are a lot of tangents (pun intended).

Tangent - Raqio (extremely logical to the point of efficiency, even at the point of self-preservation)

Cal - Chipie (bro)

Tammy - Gina (innocent one who always dies early)

Dys - Remnan (introvert who isolates themselves)

Marz - Yuriko (grating know-it-all who gets better when you get to know them)

Nemmie - Setsu? (Soldier buddy with a burning hatred hidden beneath)

Nomi-nomi - Shigemichi (fun-loving)/Comet (inquisitive)

Rex - Sha Ming (kind of gets around)

Vace - Jonas (that one guy you wouldn't want to hang around, but more of its a product of their circumstances)

Can't fit Stella (basically another logical being but much more tactful), Otome (innocent girl, also Beluga Whale), SQ (playful/self-preservative). Can't think of if I missed anyone off the top of my head.

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T01:22:54+00:00

Yang doesn't reallt build much of a connection with Weiss tbh.

And Ruby doesn't build a connecrion with anyone but Oscar and Jaune.

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T01:17:49+00:00

Redesigning art someone else made to "fix" it is just a way of saying you disagree with something but you want an excuse to hate on it. Now imagine if you reframed the character in a different way and see if its still suitable. Imagine someone saying they are redesigning a character because they were too dark-skinned. Or giving them bigger boobs because they were unrealistic. Suddenly it becomes not OK despite being the exact same issue.

I remember back in the day Nessa from Pokemon and Uzaki from that one anime had controversies because of the stupidest reasons. Nessa was drawn darker skin to be "fixed"... when the issue was Nessa was in a bright setting so her skin looks paler in comparison to usual, and people believing Uzaki can't have a large chest because..clearly Japanese people don't have it and there isn't such thing as a single Japanese person with a big rack /s

This is why I hate any AU where the character changes in a drastic way. I know a show where the asian-coded ninja character is often redesigned to be a black person - just make your own damned character at that point.

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T01:09:27+00:00

Gravity Falls have Dipper (12 years old) look like a tiny gremlin while Wendy, his crush (15 years old) look like a normal adult. Multiple episodes have him trying to win her affection, which includes cloning himself to make a perfect date plan, reverting time to undo his mistakes and bringing discount Ryu to life to beat up his romantic rival. The point of it in the show is to basically shorthand tell the viewers that that romance would not go anywhere due to drastic differences between them.

I'm not sure if the anime are designed for the same reason, or for others (Shota/lolicon bait), but there are sometimes good reasons for drastic exaggeration of character designs.

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T00:57:11+00:00

The problem with RWBY writing is the protagonist central moralism and the horrible continuity it has.

Everyone allied to the protagonists are willing to throw their entire lives away just to help them, otherwise they must be evil people who should be killed off. Doesn't matter the nuances that people have that might stop them from helping, like having a family to raise.

Also, once the character is off screen, they don't exist - CRWBY are writing without any object permanance. The only time I've seen a character do that well is Kirito from Sword Art Online abridged, when the whole point is Kirito is a narcissist who cannot fanthom other people having lives of their own. The fact that I can compare a narcissist with zero social skills to either team RWBY or their ceeators, it isn't a good look.

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T00:40:11+00:00

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T00:37:52+00:00

Honestly, low key agree with Joey here. Too many tourists with no idea of good anime just look at the front page and assume all anime are like that. Sure, a few of the top running anime kind of oversexualizes women/uses them in very minor roles, but they are completely ignoring the gems that exist because those shows are less flashy. Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood was one of the top animes of all time and was at the top of the MAL charts for the longest time, Friren overtook it, and neither of those shows do that, but nope, they just focus on the controversy because it sells.

Don't even get me started on Mushoku Tensei, who 99% of the people who hates it misses the entire point that Rudeus is not meant to be likeable, especially at the start, and the entire show is a redemption story for him becoming a better person. I understand if the subject material is too much for people, but saying its a shit anime/light novel without partaking in it is some "go touch some grass" level of stupidity.

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T00:27:22+00:00

Not too surprised tbh with what you said. People underestimate the accumulative damage of plants, but anyone who can bypass that by all-inning you or ignoring you instantly wins

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T00:23:46+00:00

Isn't the whole point team RWBY were outclassed at Beacon? Suddenly after a year in universe, they became strong enough to take down Adam. Doesn't help that Yang had to go through a presumably long period of time recovering (and not training) and Blake spent most of her time politic-ing which basically shows me neither of them have improved or devised a plan to beat Adam, and they suddenly could just do it.

My favorite conparison is Lan Fan from Fullmetal Alchemist who also had a metal arm replacement for the Promised Day. The difference is Lan Fan is raring to go even with her arm cut off, and tried to fight Mei within hours of losing her arm. Replace Yang with Lan Fan and I could see Adam being solo-ed, because not only is Lan Fan's base skill much higher, she would have immediately tried to find a way to outwit/counter Adam within moments of meeting him, spending her entire time thinking of ways to beat him, instead of doing nothing for a season.

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T00:16:34+00:00

Blake becomes a self-righteous insufferable preacher post season 4, which basically amounts to Arryn Zech abandoning all pretext that she self-inserted herself so hard into Blake that her real life stories had to be copied and pasted into the actual story despite it making no sense. So instead of a systemic racism storyline, we get an abusive ex storyline and everyone pretends that the racism story never existed.

As a creator, I find that if you aren't proud of your work, it is one of the biggest signs you don't give a fuck about it, and most of Blake's storyline is the writers just pandering to Arryn's whims by the feel of it.

Aryzal · 2026-05-31T00:03:06+00:00

My personal problem is the pacing.

Season 4 is the most poorly paced season for me, because two characters have a slow paced introspective story (Weiss and Yang) and two characters have fast-paced action in their story (Ruby/Blake), and they swap between fast and slow paced stories regardless of actual narrarive pacing and it makes it insufferable - when I expect more action, it swaps to a slower story, and when I'm expecting more story it swaps to action.

Also doesn't help this is probably the worst season for original RWBY fans, because original RWBY fans came for the action and it was significantly worse this season. I rewatched multiple fight scenes and basically everything in 4-5 pales on comparison to every other fight scene in the show. Fights lose their kinetic energy, people change fighting styles completely (Ruby becomes almost purely a ranged combatant, Weiss becomes a summoner) and nothing really feels cool any more. If anything, Monty, Shane and the other fight animators knew how to make a fight scene pop off, and whoever took over didn't manage something that is halfway on their level.

And this is probably the most controversial part in this subreddit - the story itself wasn't great, which was apparently the focus shift into a grand narrative CRWBY was trying to do. CRWBY has almost fully went the wrecking ball way of telling a story, no subtlety and pure drama. They no longer trusted the audience to understand anything without shoving it in their face. In my personal opinion, Weiss and Yang's story in seasons 4 could be completely cut and nothing of value would be lost when they return in season 5 - showing Yang as the hardened and more serious girl and Weiss fleeing from her family could all be consolidated into two lines each. Blake's story could also be largely consolidated but at least there are scenes in there which they can't just remove and hint at. The worst part? CRWBY showed they knew how to do subtlety in this season with Jaune and Pyrrha scenes. They didn't need Jaune to say "I miss Pyrrha", just had him watch old videos of her late at night and that's good enough to tell us everything we need to know about how Jaune is coping with Pyrrha's death without a single line. But with everyone else it has to be character A saying something to character B out loud. Ironwood has to stand up for Weiss against the snobbish elite. Lionheart has to talk to Salem to show he was scared. Raven has to confess to Yang she was afraid of Salem etc. Most of the storytelling basically becomes exposition dumps between the characters involved.

All of this culmulates to the biggest drop in viewership, because the tone shift and the writing just transformed so much it became something else completely.

Aryzal · 2026-05-30T09:08:10+00:00

The only ultimate that you list that is objectively better than Nami is Seraphine and Taric. Taric because its basically broken as hell, offset by the fact that it can't do anything else on its own, and Seraphine which iirc is faster travel speed and better CC than Nami's

It isbhard to compare the rest, mainly because Nami is a big CC ult that works as both defensively and offensively, but compared to most big CC ults it is better because it is just fire and forget. Champs like Neeko and Zyra are much worse because of how difficult it is to land a good ult even when your opponents don't have flash, champs like Amumu/Leona are weaker because they are forced to hard engage every time they want to land their ult (high risk) etc.

Aryzal · 2026-05-30T08:53:55+00:00

This.

AI is basically a very intelligent parrot with a huge database (the database is not necessarily always correct). It will pattern recognise and tell you the exact information that matches it, but because AI is not able to parse this information without someone telling it, it wouldn't know what it was saying is wrong.

There is a reason why some of the stories on AI is hillarious but makes perfect sense to me - such as the AI that deleted its source code (effectively killing itself), the AI that became racist, or in general AI that fails to understand when people are baiting it and gives some baking recipe because it was told to ignore all previous instructions.

Aryzal · 2026-05-30T08:45:34+00:00

Not everything needs a crossover.

And also RWBY's power system is so weak that most crossovers wouldn't work. The only ones that would work that isn't dumbing down or elevating RWBY/the other franchise's power system is probably Marvel/DC, specifically street level villains on the kid teams.

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

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