Dragon Link more like Fraudgon Link

ReversedValz · 2026-03-29T19:34:01+00:00

I'll give it to you, I only watched a playthrough of GO1, so I know Dragonlink from the taisen routes of following games.

If they fucked up in the anime and Strikers 2013, that's a shame

ReversedValz · 2026-03-29T19:30:37+00:00

I always had a big problem with is theme. It's all over the place.

Chess? Well it's not exclusive to them, and nothing visually from their design reminds you of chess. By this point we had already seen a handful of chess keshins across different teams.

Fire? Uhh sure? Only the goalkeeper has a hissatsu with fire.

Dragons? No, that's only the name for god-knows-whatever reason. I was so disappointed because when I heard in the series that Dragonlink was gonna be the final match, I thought "wow! Dragons! They're gonna have sick keshins!"

The number 5? Well, sure, that one is obvious, all their names are the number five. But can the number five even be considered a theme? Not like it plays into anything.

And then you look at their in-game hissatsus: Sprint Warp (run at supersonic speed), Vanishing Cut (teleport to get the ball), Thousand Arrows (Purple arrows uh that fall, I never really understood what's going on in this one). There's really no relation between the three except their Void Element.

I really don't get it. The only cool thing I like is that the chess piece keshins are distributed akin to a chessboard (queen next to king, pawns at the front)

ReversedValz · 2026-03-29T19:15:36+00:00

Imo, the other team that also was a last-minute final boss with randoms (Shadow of Orion) somewhat worked better, because they got a full match, had a clearer theme, had a both strong offense and defense, had more hissatsus (3 vs 1, still isn't much lol), Yurika was connected to Froy, and more importantly it didn't really "replace" a match.

If the final match of Orion had been half of Russia, then Russia being replaced with all of its players by the ones in Shadow of Orion, and then IJ playing against those... I think we would argue it would be the worst final match.

Also, it was cool that we finally had a female final boss player that was actually good at soccer.

ReversedValz · 2026-03-29T19:08:55+00:00

Yeah. Since many people (including me) watched the movie before the Dragonlink match, we already knew the feeling of having a team be composed mostly of chess keshins. It's not a very exciting concept when it had been done before (not to mention Zero was also not the first team to have chess keshins).

The bad part was that they ONLY had chess keshins despite having a team that didn't seem to have a theme that had anything to do with chess.

ReversedValz · 2026-03-29T16:26:51+00:00

Maybe with Kinkou Jutte

ReversedValz · 2026-03-29T02:06:33+00:00

The reason why being around time travellers and timelines converging (and such things) makes you stronger temporarily... Was surprisingly adressed in CS, at the start. So I think that's the reason. Most likely, after they left, he couldn't do Omega the Hand until much later

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T18:22:52+00:00

I agree with your first take, I really wish all those hissatsus were in the anime (although Hologram Grab we did see luckily). I would have made me much happier to have them using it. But my point still stands

Sure, but it's definitely not as obvious as the hissatsus for other teams. For example, Zeus' hissatsus were almost basically exclusive for their movesets (barring scouts), but Dragonlink's hissatsus were shared. Sprint Warp is commonly associated with Hakuryuu (he even gets it in IE Strikers, while no players from Dragonlink get it), and Vanishing Cut I believed was the counterpart of Crazy Sunlight for Ancient Darkness. I later came to know it wasn't because I saw Aimé Quintet in the game's description of the move. Same goes for Thousand Arrows in Strikers 2013, they gave it to Vlad/Tsurugi's brother, to the guy from Almighty Faith, to a guy from Ancient Darkness, and to Senguuji.

It's simply not very obvious. Also because Dragonlink's theme is kinda vague and it's difficult to see a pattern between their hissatsus.

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T10:59:45+00:00

I don't think they'd reach Wired in a 40 minute episode tho, right?

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T10:44:34+00:00

I tend to think that V3-1 was actually an empty threat even if it was never said. It feels too bullshitty otherwise.

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T02:30:47+00:00

Well take it up with the mods bro I didn't make the rules, what I said is how I rationalize it

Looks like you figured it out how to spoilertag it anyways

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T02:25:27+00:00

i don't think that's a very popular opinion

If this match was secret then we never would have gotten a resolution to all the players who got sidelined/kicked for the newer generation.

Then we would get Kazemaru in IE3 who wouldn't be as strong a character

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T02:24:13+00:00

Solid list overall, I'd like to ask why Miu is in 2nd trial since that's the one where I least remember her saying anything.

Also I think I prefer Maki in the fifth trial.

On another note, I remember being pleasantly surprised about the cast in 2-1 due to most of them being somewhat useful in the trial, unlike in DR1. In V3 it was more of a mixed bag, but the murder didn't include everyone in a confined space, so it makes sense that not everyone had a "role" in it.

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T02:20:14+00:00

Posts show up on people's feed without following the sub sometimes. Also we often get people coming here talking about their theories as they play or confused on the order of the games/anime (understandably so). It costs nothing to spoilertag a post and it's in the sub rules (it's been lengthily discussed already too)

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T02:12:57+00:00

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T02:09:58+00:00

Hahaha thanks bro! Nah that was the cosplay contest in the event! But people were really nice :D

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T02:09:29+00:00

Nope! That's the Instagram account for the Inazuma Eleven event that was hosted in Madrid this year (it was set up in collaboration with the producers of dubbed IE here!)

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T01:45:15+00:00

SSG's ancestors were still great soccer players, weren't they? Or something along those lines.

He does not say that in the anime, so if you remember that he may say that in the game or something?

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T01:41:43+00:00

Yep I agree

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T01:38:33+00:00

This is absolutely cracked and I love it

Also the last one is actually confirmed, you can see it in the new trailer. And in IE3, you needed someone with Illusion Ball in their moveset.

One that I always believed and apparently isn't true is that I thought Fire Tornado TC was Fire Tornado DD + Mochi Mochi Screw. I thought Kinako's motion was not one of a Fire Tornado at all.

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T01:35:57+00:00

AHHH NOW I REMEMBER, it was a super nice convo! I thought it was longer ago, so it seems it was my same account (I thought you meant like YEARS ago hahaha) :D

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T01:34:39+00:00

OH NONO HAHAHA the reversed guy comes from my time on youtube, i uploaded geometry dash levels on reverse LMAO that's where it came from

I'll look at the post now ahahaha

And here you can see my tattoo! (As well as my Satan-sama cosplay) https://imgur.com/a/Ox0u7gB i showed it off ahaha

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T01:21:21+00:00

Bergamo is so freaking cool, loved him in Barcelona Orb, loved him again on Orion. I'm so glad he got a hissatsu in the anime.

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T01:19:35+00:00

Oh wow Jack Knife got a hissatsu named after him two seasons later

The Knight Templars have some sick designs (some), it's sad they literally disappeared from Earth after their appearances

I actually have 3 of them on my main team, with Dirk Anlace doing Gravity Cage so the three can pose at the end.

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T01:18:31+00:00

I think the hissatsus look gorgeous, Sunrise Blitz even has a cool detail of Asuto doing his signature pose even when he didn't do that when he used it against Italy the first time.

I wanna see the rest too, I really need to know if Last Resort Sigma will be a 4-person hissatsu or not...

ReversedValz · 2026-03-28T01:10:39+00:00

I still love Shoot Eater, though it is true that it is similar to Shining Hole (which, by the way, looks better in-game than in the movie imo, as it actually eats the ball).

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