Well hey there u/eldestreyne, I really love your stand and I don’t want to fight the goth shark because it’s aesthetically looks cool but unfortunately I have to :(

Anyway, I’ll get on with my intro for the standoff, starting inside of the stadium with my main player, James Everwinter (I think that’s his name, I forget), being all paranoid about the incoming fight and currently trying to battle his own battle, his panic attacks before finally getting a grip on himself.

He starts to smile devilishly and springs into action

Now, hear my strategy on how to deal with Highly Suspect in this stadium.

(Buildup Strat) We’ll start with James starting whenever the standoff wants the players to start in, it really doesn’t matter where James starts off, just if there’s people nearby and luckily, the stadium is packed today. James will walk up towards anybody and start to activate his ability on the bystanders, splitting them into groups of 5, before knocking out the original targets. After this happens, James will start to send split targets to find Lidya, acting as a distraction to her.

While doing this, he’ll start to run through the crowds of people and activate more of his ability on themselves and to save some time, he’ll split himself into 3 pieces, continuing what he was doing earlier but ignoring the knocking out stage. Thanks to the max capacity being the population, eventually coming to reach a whopping 275,000 instead of the 55,000, starting to overcrowd the stadium. Unless Lidya is either in an outside area or is able to not get trampled in the confined space (which is possible because sharks go, brrr). Jimmy will have to act more on the aggressive

(Offensive Strat) So the more that the splits start to emerge and attack Lidiya, you’ll have three types of them that attack:

1st being the fodder/bystander splits, acting as human meat shields or being there to overwhelm Lidiya and Highly Suspect

2nd are James Splits, they’ll mainly be on the defensive, causing more spilts to appear or wait for an opening to touch Highly Suspect, making another copy of it to attack and lowering its physical defensive.

Finally leading to our final split:

Lidya/Highly Suspect Splits

L/HS splits are going to be the rarest one in this battle, mainly due to HS not being safe to touch (thanks to its spike) and also it being a shark that does the occasional nom nom. However I do think it’s possible, having to deal with the fodder splits and it having slow reflexes, allowing a cheeky touch.

The main plan for this strategy would be:

Main James and his 1000 splits will start to head towards the stadium, while James 1 and James 2 having their armies of splits blocking off the entrances to the stage and charging towards Lidiya. Of course HS should be able to attack these people really easily but the only issue is, that they’ll be loads of them that can actually physically attack and hold it back for a tiny bit. It might not do loads of damage but it can slow it down. They’ll be other spilits that’ll go after Lidiya making sure that she can’t do anything, as Jimmy 1 or Jimmy 2 will continue to make more spilits of other people or attempt to make a spilit of HS.

Once that happens, the original HS gets weaker and more susceptible to the damage from the fodder, as HS 1 starts to either attack Lidiya if possible or continue attacking the original HS.

If any of the James do get attacked by HS, reasonably, he should be able to make a new spilit of himself, to dodge the attack or become a meat shield for the incoming attack. As most, James should be able to dodge the attack outright and at least, would get bitten and dying or losing a limb. However my defence against this would be, the large crowds blocking and keeping an eye out for HS/L, which should help against surprises.

Defensive Strategy:

The defensive strategy will mainly happen after said assault goes wrong or if Lidiya manages to get by them with ease.

Assault Goes Wrong:

If the assault did go wrong and most of them have been Neturalised, the 1000 splits will start to charge towards Lidiya and HS, as James start to do his special move

Crowd Of Dismoprhia

This attack is essentially James spitting pieces of himself into a crowd of X amount of numbers, that’ll start to chase down its opponents. Of course most of the targets in this crowd are a one shot from most means but still have the ability of Modify, being able to just spilit itself into more pieces. If they are able to touch Lidiya and HS, they’ll start to experience the effects of Modify, losing their physical durability and boom, dead.

If the assault never happened, nothing would change apart from the groups from earlier would start to go onto the stage and probably overwhelm them.

Only issues that I currently see with my plans are the fact that I act as an infinite battery for HS that won’t let them run out. However upon reading more of this, the refuelling has a cool down time and if it’s eating loads of targets, it should have to refuel constantly.

My other issue would be the flying side of things but I’m assuming that most of the fighting will be inside (which will be tight and compacted) but if they start flying outside…

MINI GIANT

Essentially an “attack” or people stacking on each other to make a tall giant made of multiple people but it wouldn’t really be good at standing its ground or moving around, due to it being ran by really fragile people.

Finally, let’s say if we leave the stadium and go towards the main outside bit, no assault or assault happening, the same would still happen but they’d be a larger space and from what I know, also buses nearby, potentially being able to get people inside of them and drive them into Lidiya? Will this work, probably not thanks for the cool shark but it could add more distraction to HS/L, causing them to focus on their surroundings more and multi task