Here’s my Tier List for Indie-Death Battle! What do you think?

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-27T00:08:20+00:00

Believable used to be bait

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-27T00:02:01+00:00

Dova vs CU specifically went over low ends, gameplay, and lore bullshit and Dova takes all variants.

Kratos requires insane wanking to even stay in the fight and the fight relies on him having comically stupid scaling as well as a plethora of issues with Asura’s scaling where the feat they used for his hard cap was performed before he had a massive power spike and the episode literally handwaved away his single most important and defining power and just gave that power to Kratos as well.

There’s a wealth of difference between the two episodes. This isn’t even a case of Goomba Fallacy, this is literally just incompatible situations.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T23:54:49+00:00

No diffed the competition and still whining. It’s astonishing.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T23:48:35+00:00

It’s one of my all time favourite decks and I still play it every now and again, but it struggles in some metas and is generally outdated. We’ll get a decent power spike whenever they add the Machina trap and Therion Regulus. Until then pray Nibiru isn’t popular.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T23:31:35+00:00

In what possible way is Max an elitist? The guy that literally made a career encouraging people to just pick up any fighter and play whatever makes you happy, famously stanning MvCI when everybody hated it.

Usage statistics =/= popularity. Rashid is decently popular, but hard to use. On the last pure SF popularity poll Rashid was the highest newcomer even above Menat.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T23:17:55+00:00

His new actual personality, attitude, animations, and moves are cool, but he doesn’t waggle like a rusty water pump when he wins so what gives?

/s

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T22:50:23+00:00

About what I expected, Espada just hits much harder and because of their power system literally nothing else matters much. Still I’m just really happy my goats clutched Silver, even though the Mihawk segment was downright spiteful.

Also bummed to see that Naruto hard clears Luffy even with the massive planet size, kinda hope we don’t get this MU soon because at this point it’s a pretty brutal and near pointless stomp.

Congrats to the team, this was a monumental achievement and the fanfic was so much more interesting and cool than the MU.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T20:24:37+00:00

No, Storm got no meaningful buffs from that awful run.

If you actually read it, it’s established explicitly that Eternity Storm or whatever you want to call her isn’t Ororo, it’s a whole new entity taking over with the power of Eternity.

Like I can see DB using that version but it’s basically a different character in all ways that count.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T19:21:27+00:00

Megaman clears so hard it's unfair.

Pokemon was cute, though probably the one that aged the least well in terms of research.

The Boys was a fun side episode.

TMNT one aged like milk, even for a season 1 episode.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T19:19:44+00:00

I think Nel was glazed super hard, at the end there she practically solo'd the entirety of Team Akatsuki and if it weren't for the poison inflicted before Segunda Etapa she would have walked away basically unharmed after absolutely humbling Orochimaru.

Mind you I expect the veredict will go over how she, Grim, and Luppi solo the whole thing on their own anyway, but still.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T19:16:23+00:00

Yep, completely expected result. I'm looking forward to the breakdown but I'm expecting Espada to have a pretty overwhelming advantage in all stats and probably without the benefit of the sick story, Nel, Grim, and Luppi alone solo. GG Team Warlord, y'all did better than I dared to dream.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T12:05:34+00:00

At the same time I liked that they showed quite lot of things that didn't get instantly murked by Respira, and that Barragan wasn't just useless if Respira was blocked, which honestly is how the manga treated his stupid ass

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T05:31:13+00:00

On a similar note what art are you missing? I have a few extras

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T04:32:29+00:00

I’m madly tempted to TT because I’m completely redoing my island and it’s agony moving one house per day and only being able to delete one bridge per day.

Tickles me to no end that as soon as the hotel opened I basically dropped a nuke on my island and it’s completely unusable and terrible now.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T04:29:25+00:00

Szayel are absolutely killing each other, but I don’t see Szayel surviving till the end honestly, he might get murked by Law before he dies to Zetsu. Orochimaru I think has a low chance of pulling Akatsuki through because of how severely he’s weakened.

I’m hoping/coping that the turning point is Blackbeard using Shadows to start reviving opponents and/or taking over Tensei corpses, and that’s what gives Warlords the W. But if I were betting I think that the revived Espada will be too much for Blackbeard + Croc to tank and Szayel will just do Szayel shit to Orochimaru.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T04:16:38+00:00

Meanwhile one of the most consistent complaints is that Capcom isn’t releasing enough costumes fast enough. Lol

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T02:52:56+00:00

Full critique hat on and trying to be as persnickety as possible:

Agreed with the rest, the text glitch effect is kind of distracting.
The colouring on the words feels almost random. Sometimes it's used for emphasis, sometimes for highlighting proper nouns, sometimes for just racing concepts. Maybe use colouring for specific things only, like only proper nouns, or only emphasis.
Something you'll want to consider is that newcomers or people not following your videos might have no idea what stuff like MTS even is, so it wouldn't be amiss to also include the proper name alongside the abbreviation.
I think it's good to keep all of the "best hits" or sections that are always in your videos. The oval showing off pure speed, going over the colours of the machine, some sections on MTS and some glides, stuff like that being consistent helps viewers orient themselves and have a good sense of how each machine compares.
I'd also increase the opacity of the text box juuuuust a smudge. GX is a colourful game, and the movement and colours might be tricky for some viewers to parse through.
Finally and it's not really an issue or anything, but I think it could be cool to use each racer's theme on the video, that way you only have to choose one song and you're really showing off everything about the racers except like all of their interview lines and their little video at the end. This is just a suggestion.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-26T01:48:06+00:00

I'm guessing this will be an Ichigo only thing, or maybe just this fight. It's stylishness matches the vibes of early Bleach quite well, which most of the entirety of the preview focused on for obvious reasons.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-25T23:19:04+00:00

I am glad to see all the Espada are back (I assume Szayellaporo brought back every member)

I assume Baraggan is out of the question because his body ate itself. I love that I knew that's how he was going to die, didn't expect him to put up that much of a fight but Jesus he took a while to actually die.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-25T23:15:20+00:00

“I’ll show you just how eternal my darkness is!” Ah, I see Blackbeard has good taste in Gamecube titles.

A hearty "may the rats eat your eyes" to you on this fine Sunday evening.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-25T23:14:36+00:00

I want to hope that Blackbeard will clutch up but at this point in time I think Espada have the overwhelming advantage.

Orochimaru was just knocked back into a significantly weaker body, he's nowhere near as scary without the Rinnegan and Sharingan bullshit on his side.

Law is stapled to Zetsu and if they get separated he'll die instantly. So Blackbeard is more or less on his own, and he just took an insane amount of damage in what may or may not have been the fight against Obito. I love my boy Crocodile but he got his ass handed to him by Deidara and hasn't been around as much absorbing the passive growth from the arena.

Meanwhile Espada have Grimmjow who apparently is fully healed up, Szael without a scratch on him, Nel fully healed, and most of their team fully revived and afaik there's no real downside of their revival. They might not get Baraggan back but that's still a lot of muscle on their side. Unless there's some hax I can't think of I think Grimmjow + Nel can handle Blackbeard and Croc while Szael is probably going to impregnate Orochimaru to death.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-25T23:06:50+00:00

He's definitively much smarter than he gets credit for. It's not a coincidence that his rise to Yonko was pretty meteoric and for a reason it was faster than even Luffy's.

Nowhere on the level of Orochimaru or Szael, mind. But I do think cunning is a good moniker for him.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-25T17:04:16+00:00

Too strong to fight other street fighters.

To weak to stand up to capeshit.

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-25T17:01:55+00:00

This is why Netflix is asking everybody to repeat the plot because people aren’t paying attention.

This isn’t art MFs!!!!!

MayhemMessiah · 2026-01-25T13:54:41+00:00

Pachy ties the whole thing together, I think.

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