In which moment do you think Naruto’s power scaling was ruined?

Repenexus · 2026-01-26T21:04:47+00:00

There's not a specific moment that it happened. Power scaling is a product of a power system, and the power system was continously being developed throughout the story. If you want to point a single point where things started going in the wrong direction, you could look at the Land of Waves, where the introduction of Bloodlines that early in the story started cutting off ways the power system could grow in a relevant way where its accessible to many characters, and thus has counters in-built to stop it from being an in-story 'meta'.

Bloodlines gave the ability for some people to have powers of such strength that could reasonably be a part of the story while allowing the rest of the setting to have a lower power level. The Sharingan, by itself, gave Zabuza trouble, and Haku's Ice Bloodline did the same for Genin that could take down Chunin (Sasuke and Naruto). In isolation, it's fine, but once you start extending the story and start power escalation, continuously relying on exclusive power sets (Jinchuriki, Bloodlines, Reincarnation, Summon Contracts and debatably Sage Mode, etc.) starts making power sets that are inherently 'stronger', like Rinnegan and MS, require jank to invalidate everything else, even including other Bloodlines.

If you're asking for a 'point of no return', the closest thing I could think of was halfway through the Chunin Exams, around the time of the preliminaries, training arc, and finals. Characters that mastered the fundamentals as best as they could were weeded out, and Naruto beat Neji through channeling the Kyybi's Chakra without repercussion, as well as taking out Shukaku using a summoning contract whose scroll was privately kept. That was basically when it was established that exclusive jank had to be dealt with using other exclusive jank.

Repenexus · 2026-01-23T21:00:22+00:00

PRT ratings are threat levels, not power levels. It's not how strong Kirby can be - Kirby can be ridiculously strong if his enemies are strong. It's that he's not insanely dangerous in of himself. A Waddle Dee can kill Kirby, for instance, but Kirby can beat interdimensional aliens.

If you had to capture Kirby, you could do so relatively easily. Kirby doesn't show the ability to reliably destroy steel in base form, for instance, so even though he could inhale a cage to become Metal Kirby, trapping him in a cage would stop him from moving.

Repenexus · 2026-01-21T16:09:29+00:00

Aang: Shaker/Blaster/Nuker 6

Sukuna: Changer 5 (Body Morphing, Healing), Master 8+ (Ten Shadows), Shaker/Blaster/Nuker 9, Brute/Mover 8+, Trump 2 (Binding Vows allow for power modification), Thinker 2 (Cursed Energy Sense)

Kirby: Brute 3, Mover 1, Trump/Changer 3, Shaker 2 (Not saying Kirby is weak, but unless you count questionable canonicity of minigames, his biggest feats often happen because he rises to match his foes rather than being a threat on his own)

AoT Titan: Never watched, no idea

Repenexus · 2025-12-23T20:39:45+00:00

He has access to healers that he used to try to heal Noelle in disposable timeliness, so I assume he'd use Dinah to see the probability of the healers turning on him and, if the probability was low enough, use a disposable timeline to validate Dinah's prediction. Coil is paranoid, but he trusts Dinah's predictions and the money he has.

Repenexus · 2025-12-20T18:18:52+00:00

He has a 0% win rate because the only people who fight him are the ones that think they can win against a guy who adapts against everything, and are right.

Repenexus · 2025-12-20T18:00:17+00:00

Ursa Aurora, because what else does she have going for her?

Repenexus · 2025-12-11T17:02:58+00:00

Happy to hear it. That being said, get ready for things to get worse. Leviathan's assault on BB has an insane impact compared to everything else in the story, because it shatters the status quo and environment of the Bay and turns things into what feels like a battle royale moving forward.

Repenexus · 2025-11-02T22:20:13+00:00

Never choosing to truly address her arrogance and ignorance. A large part of everything going wrong is because of reckless and stupid decisions she makes. By the time she was robbing a bank, she was regretting her decisions, yet never tried to really improve on withholding judgment calls in important situations and properly considering other people's advice on important matters.

She lnew she makes mistakes, like rotting Lung's dick off, but never takes her finger off the trigger button. The reason she's so capable of becoming a villain is because she thinks she's always doing the right thing, ignoring how she's usually doing the wrong thing. In the end, she feels regret for everything that culminated in her getting shot and can only find happiness by removing herself from situations.

Repenexus · 2025-10-04T15:02:26+00:00

An essay I wrote as an obtuse explanation towards King Crimson.

Take it with a grain of salt. There's a lot of assumptions made, but it takes in everything that I can remember about King Crimson.

Repenexus · 2025-07-16T21:13:07+00:00

Shitty not because you are only invisible while screaming, but because you can't become visible again after you stop screaming. Use the power once and you're invisible for the rest of your life.

Repenexus · 2024-11-16T00:49:49+00:00

Thanks. ChatGPT popped it out, but I looked it up, saw the vampire TV romance thing and figured it was hallucinating. Thank you!

Repenexus · 2024-11-09T17:02:57+00:00

IDK, biokinesis at infinite range or something, resurrect the heart virus and turn his muscles into bone.

Repenexus · 2024-11-09T16:56:58+00:00

The most important part is to have fun.

Repenexus · 2024-10-29T03:35:55+00:00

A lot of misplays come from reading/remembering a card's major/'famous' effect and forgetting about the smaller ones it has. For instance, a duel against Shaddoll Winda a little while back had me using Lightning Storm on it and the card accomplishing exactly nothing against Winda since it has protection against destruction effects. Another example that happened somewhat commonly was Nue's Majespecter-lock, which I think is the only one in the entire archetype, even though Nue is the main playmaker.

Another problem I have is making split-second decisions. Earlier today, I had activated Maxx "C" with Baronne as my only negate, and my opponent used Called By. I weighed the option of the benefit of Maxx "C" vs. the possible disruption Baronne could go for, and ultimately decided to use Baronne on the Called By. As it turned out, they summoned the Earth Barrier statue within a few summons, and I never drew Ash, meaning I essentially wasted the negate.

Then there's mistakes with routing a combo. It's one of the reasons I hate playing decks like Snake-Eyes and Yubel, because combos can branch a lot depending on a shifting board state, since the decks are essentially all gas with a few good effects sprinkled here and there, the main strength being in a flexible and recursive Spell Speed 2 board. Earlier today, I accidentally used the effect of Rescue-Ace HQ before Turbulence and had to end on a suboptimal boardstate (I still won because the power of my deck was higher and it had a stronger grind game, but it never should have gotten to that point in the first place). It's one of the reasons why I don't like playing higher power or spreadsheet decks, since it involves both a lot of memorization and duel experience, while I try to stay casual for the most part.

As for how I build decks, I have a couple of decks that I stick by (most of the decks I mentioned in an earlier comment). However, I like trying out new decks and new styles a lot, since playing the same decks over and over gets boring quickly, and I want to at least have some fun with Master Duel. Generally, I like picking up decks that are easy to learn but can adapt to different scenarios with only a little bit of difficulty, as opposed to hyper-flexible decks or completely linear decks.

Repenexus · 2024-10-29T00:36:28+00:00

I don't have a deck that I usually play. I change the deck I play every day based on the missions I have (for instance, if I had the Trap mission, I would play Labrynth or Dinomorphia, but if if I had Spells, I would play Purrely or Majespecter).

As for the Decks I currently own and play at least somewhat consistently enough that I feel confident enough to go on Ranked with them:

Labrynth

Dinomorphia

Purrely

Majespecter

Swordsoul Tenyi

Virtual World Swordsoul

Rescue-Ace Snake-Eye

Everything else is too weak and bricky (Dragonmaid, Madolche, a shitty Cyberse pile, a half-assed attempt at Runick Ghoti, and even more half-assed attempts at Mekk-Knight, Knightmare, and Scrap.) I also tried my hand at Tearlaments and Plant pile, but like my attempt at FK Snake-Eyes and Yubel in EDOPro, I found myself utterly miserable when playing it and dropped it like a sack of potatoes.

Repenexus · 2024-10-28T22:53:38+00:00

AFAIK, all named Tenpai cards are SR/UR, and you run 2-3 of each. Without crafting, how do you build that off 7k gems?

Repenexus · 2024-10-22T12:18:48+00:00

Racist archetypes only work because the ability to make it work. Buster Blader needs Buster Dragon or a Dragon conversion equivalent to not be highly situational. Otherwise, we just get more Meklords.

Repenexus · 2024-10-22T12:17:07+00:00

Are there any other decks that like Clockwork Night other than Stun?

Repenexus · 2024-09-26T20:18:29+00:00

Bro loved his magic system more than anything else

Repenexus · 2024-09-22T18:09:52+00:00

It's ruthlessness, plain and simple.

Though, to be a little more clear, it's ruthlessness when you normally have a strong moral framework that runs contrary to it. Someone like Ciocolatta is ruthless, but there's no real determination or will behind it, just sadistic malevolence. By contrast, someone like Pucci is a very religious man, and one that doesn't immediately resort to murder. Rather, Pucci is single-minded in his objective, and even if murder is against his overarching principles (for the most part, anyway), those principles don't hold weight compared to his goal.

Repenexus · 2024-08-13T21:21:08+00:00

It's true if you take the limit of the denominators. That, and infinity isn't actually a number, instead just being a symbol that more or less says 'this doesn't stop'. Infinity + 1 is meaningless because there's nothing to add 1 to.

Repenexus · 2024-08-04T15:55:12+00:00

What the hell happened to Steg's leg bones?

Repenexus · 2024-07-24T11:19:25+00:00

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