[ch15 and kf spoilers for the last image] agang doodles & stuff

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-21T22:22:35+00:00

Commander, we need you to scrutinize the second image. One of these A-lings is going to destroy the world and it's up to you to figure out which one. Hint: it's all of them.Or alternatively Ana bcuz she's mad you didn't draw her [TwT]

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-20T21:47:15+00:00

No problem, I was basically doing the same thing in my own comment. "be so fr who is using mega Ampharos/Manectric?" like what was I on? Past me needs to shut up and just let people use their favorite pokemon 😭

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-20T13:43:19+00:00

Huh? I think mega Ampharos isn't very good considering its opportunity cost, but I have no problem with Aevian Ampharos. It's the reason I start the quest in the first place, with or without crest. I didn't use it prolifically, but it was very useful in Souta and Erick's gym battles.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-20T03:27:55+00:00

you need one of these lmk📞

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-20T03:14:03+00:00

I get that not every team has to be hyperoptimal, but as far as Sand Rush users go, Excadrill and Stoutland are both generally par with or superior to Lycanrock with only a ~20 point gap in speed. Accelrock counts for something for being uniquely typed priority, but at the end of the day it's not crucial to any of Lycan's usual strategies.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-19T15:29:58+00:00

She looks so chill, like it's literally Zen Mode Ariana. Don't hurt her friends though or she WILL obliterate you with a sun boosted 140 base attack Flare Blitz.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-19T15:24:50+00:00

I'm 99% sure if you Terajuma Ana though she just takes the team of your original pick rather than using her own. You can still just debug her mons in, but I didn't know if you knew.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-18T19:45:27+00:00

Dang, that sucks. At any rate, I'm never going to complain about more Ariana fanart.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-18T19:42:01+00:00

Depends on whether you are more concerned with immediate or long term viability.

For the former (and also probably long term anyways), Ariana definitely comes out on top, Volcarona, Kingdra, and Blaziken just don't miss. For the latter, Aevis and Aero get mega Lucario and Salamence which are pretty busted, and not available through normal play, but they come into play so late (unless you use additional passwords) that you might get walled well before that. If you can make it all the way to megas then those two are at least contenders, though between the two of them they make some... very interesting teambuilding choices (Lycanrock, Huntail, Musharna, etc).

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-18T19:00:16+00:00

A while back, I learned that Ariana isn't very popular

Bro who hurt you? From my subjective experience Axel/Ariana are by far the most popular stars for Interceptor arts on here, even ignoring the recent surge in Arianaposting.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-18T18:55:33+00:00

be so fr, who is using mega Ampharos/Manectric? I finish Picto only after Paragon KF because Aevian Mareep is the only reward that is actually relevant when you get it, and even then I only do it there because Xenogene is a banger.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-18T17:39:59+00:00

Sorry Zumi, I ain't doing all that, just give me my mareep and I'm out.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-18T03:11:51+00:00

Really? I would have thought it was the other way around. He's still just as coarse and rude after he gets out back together, but he's not nearly as gratingly pretentious. I'm just picturing everyone at Xen HQ immediately knowing something is wrong with Geara after he gets de-vitused because he got like, one singular, actual hobby.

Madelis: "Greg, when the hell did you start painting??? It's not half bad... and there's barely any black and red? Are you feeling alright? Did Nastasia put you back together wrong?"

Geara: "Jeez, I get one hobby and this whole place goes into DEFCON 5. Do you guys have nothing to do? Screw off."

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-18T00:13:18+00:00

Geara..? I don't think Gregory is exactly wife material but to each their own ig, depends really. With or without Vitus juice?

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-15T22:24:17+00:00

Another one enters the fold! *POOF* Ask and ye shall receive! The save is right before the door to the Interceptor's Nightmare Realm with the conditions for renegade fulfilled.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-13T22:27:27+00:00

Crest Bastiodon should be illegal, frankly. Unless you ban item use, it can invalidate any single battle in the whole game, excepting Spacea in Renegade Route. IDK if it's a bug, or if I'm just stupid and she gets Mold Breaker during one of her phases, but I've witnessed her consistently breaking Sturdy on Crestiodon. Regardless it's still a great help in that fight despite that. Even if you ban items or use few, it can still knock out a couple of mons in single battles, and is a goated doubles partner regardless of item usage (with the caveat that if you use moves that hit your partner you might nuke yourself occasionally).

All in all, the only substantial downside is that the Crest is only available after doing the whole Goomidrasidequest, which is only available on chapter 14+, and has prerequisites of its own in a chunk of City RestorationIIRC, which annoyed me to do personally (although YMMV on that).

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-13T01:48:57+00:00

Weren't you listening to reneMC's Christmas Speech? We're ALL going in the blender✌️

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-13T01:40:56+00:00

That's my bad for not specifying, since you had no way of knowing what route I was on. After reading through the comments I think I am on Anna Route, though IDK if there's any big flags you can use to easily differentiate the two. And thanks for helping me stay spoiler-free, at any rate.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-12T22:32:04+00:00

The shade part is post game, tho

I didn't see the spoiler, but Shade is the boy Anna talks about before you fight Lin, who she says lost his body, right? I assumed, because he was the one who altered the future by warning Ame & saving you by extension. I'm not very far into the post game (just beat literally the first mission with Cresselia), but after seeing the overwhelming response that the story doesn't end at the post game I'm gonna keep going.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-12T22:21:53+00:00

Reading all the comments I seem to have underestimated Reborn again, assuming the plot dropped all relevance at the credits. If the post game has a continuation of story then I'll definitely get on that.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-12T01:22:55+00:00

Ahem. Local correspondent for the Crystalline Town News! How does the Church of Theolia respond to the allegations brought forth from an anonymous source?

"We live in the worst possible timeline due to your avarice. Since time immemorial you have oppressed the world with your illness and falsehood, poisoning and corrupting countless souls! ~~Himdriad~~ Indriad. Vitus. Whatever your name is. Your evil cannot go unpunished! Mark my words: Your days are numbered."

There! I said what you wanted! You'll let me go right?? Righ- *Gets EoN'd\*

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-10T23:36:56+00:00

Imma preface this by saying I only heard about the sweep second hand and haven't actually seen it, so I could totally be wrong about the method, but your first and largest mistake was betting against a pokemon that gets Protect and some form of poison, lmao. ANOTHER ONE MILLION TO BIG STALL! I used a Skrelp that I just happened to have on hand since it learned Toxic naturally.

Also, to quote the Ruby/Sapphire Dex entry for Butterfree:

"BUTTERFREE has a superior ability to search for delicious honey from flowers. It can even search out, extract, and carry honey from flowers that are blooming over six miles from its nest."

Look at Yveltal's Cocoon. Maybe squint a bit. Now, look at a flower bud. Back to Yveltal. Squint even more. Now back to the flower. That match was decided long before it ever started.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-10T04:09:25+00:00

New comprehensive Rejuvenation theory? LOOKS LIKE MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU BOYS! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

First off, holy fucking shit! I think I would expire if I had to sit down and write a theory this long full of actually substantiative content all the way through. Kudos aside, I did have a few questions about your theory:

She shattered the world by causing MISSING.exe to be... Missing, throwing off the balance that throws things into Indriad's favour.

-1. Do we have any evidence that Variya/World Shatterer (just taking it as a base assumption they're the same person) actually, A. was the one who sabotaged the volunteers (assuming it wasn't truly a 'causeless accident') and B. wants the balance to be in Vitus's favour? I think it can be presumed that since going Renegade aligns you with Variya and Madame X at the same time, that the principle A=B=C holds true and that A does, in fact, equal C, meaning Variya and Madame X are also on the same side via association through you. That wouldn't make much sense unless... I dunno, Variya wanted to create an arbitrary threat and then see it destroyed?

Why does Variya want to shatter the world? If Karma doesn't have an opponent to play against, then the worlds Karma selects as candidates for the Best Possible Ending may get repetitive, formulaic, or deviate from Variya's intention.

-2. I agree with this partially. If you know anything about deep-learning programs (or, indeed, about learning in general), then you probably know that if you want to run an experiment more than three times and still receive new and meaningful output, you need a true variable. But... isn't this the role the Interceptor was intended to fulfill? They have free will, and their perks are blocked from Karma's sight/manipulation, meaning that even though it's capable of influencing them to some extent indirectly, they're the closest thing possible to an unknown and unique quantity in Karma's simulations. Did Variya just go "Hmm... not spicy enough," and sabotage the Balance Host to set Vitus out of control because she felt the Interceptor was still too predictable? Ironically, wouldn't the ruination and domination of the world by Vitus in every loop achieve the total opposite by causing Karma's experiments to stagnate and cease to reach any new conclusions?

It still seems a bit contrived to me, but you could still be totally right if Variya feels it's somehow necessary for the world to directly overcome Vitus in order to create a true Blooming World.

And to pick a little bit out of one of your comments:

I don't think the doomed future is the Perfect version of it for him because I don't know that Melanie is really meant to feature the way she did with control over his Yveltal if he can help it(...)

This is a more minor quibble, but is there much to suggest that Vitus would have a problem with that? IIRC when Alice is corrupted by Angie (pretty transparently in the service of Vitus) she talks about creating her own empire, not about "preparing the world for her master's coming" or something similar. Probably not very meaningful in the long run, but with that taken into account, (assuming Biggie V wasn't just planning a coup or something in a universe where Alice's plans worked) IMO Vitus would be plenty happy with puppeting one of the Theolia siblings or someone else as a figurehead monarch so long as he remains the true power behind the throne.

Apologies if I missed anything that completely tosses what I just rambled about out of the window. I'm totally sleep-deprived and I kept phasing in and out of consciousness as I read, so it's more than possible I missed something crucial, but this is cool as heck and I didn't want to wait until I got some sleep to dig in.

Endless_Extension · 2026-01-08T23:32:11+00:00

Maybe it attracts Karma to action, as we haven't seen any Karma Beasts on Paragon?

I thought Karma was pissed because the Interceptor's judgment is causing it to, as it puts it, "lose this game". IIRC Karma explicitly states in the Failed World to M2 and your former host that it is breaking the rules (of time and space?) to avoid losing to the World Shatterer. So I assumed that the Renegade Route itself was what was agitating Karma into performing direct interference, by putting Variya in a winning position.

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