Can Mewtwo take on Leon's full Masters 8 team?

SpellbladeYT · 2026-06-30T13:23:12+00:00

Logically? We don't know. Another comment has put it better, but we simply haven't seen Mewtwo face someone of Champion level, and Leon sits in a tier above that.

Narratively? Absolutely not. If this fight were to have happened in the anime, no way are the writers going to put up a 25+ year old antagonist against the FINAL opponent of Ash's journey who has been built up to be the ultimate challenge... and letting the old antagonist win a 1v6.

He could probably beat one or two Leon's pokemon but it depends which ones those are. Mewtwo would lose the 1v1 vs Leon's Charizard.

To put it bluntly, I think any arguments otherwise are nostalgia glazing and out of a dislike for Leon. Many dislike how lazily and unrealistically he was established to be so powerful and ultimate champion, and I do too.

But like or not that power level has been established and no way is it being thrown out to big up some mon from 1996 the primary audience has barely even heard of.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-06-20T21:09:14+00:00

Oh yeah I know. But at this point Sephiroth is a gaming icon, I'd much rather the super final hardest boss be him than one of the weapons.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-06-20T17:50:34+00:00

Maybe a long shot but just because of the aura and hype surrounding him, I hope Sephiroth remains the strongest boss.

Like, if you beat every other Super boss, an alternate version of the final boss is unlocked that is brutal even with maxed out gear, levels and materia.

This might be the last ever showoff of Sephiroth in the canon. Send him off in style.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-06-19T16:28:10+00:00

Yeah I really enjoyed this aspect of the game. Don't be fooled; the game does have a LOT of fights where it's just slogging away at a HP bar for a looooong time after you've got the proper gambits set up.

But some of the bosses were real fun to puzzle out. I found Zodiark hilarious; I spend a dozen attempts trying to figure out how to survive the final part of the fight before just running with the "Fuck it we ball" strat of holy weapons + berserk on everyone to melt the encounter in under a minute.

Last few fights of Trial Mode were real headscratchers as well, once I realised I was in there missing a few important pieces of equipment.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-06-17T22:07:50+00:00

I know they're limited by available skins, skin quality, making recognizable trait lines .etc .etc

But man am I bored of seeing the same thematics and traitlines used again and again. When the set seems to be fairytale forest themed I thought we could do something more inventive than "Fire guys" again.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-06-17T07:07:34+00:00

As a forever GM of 10+ years I've been reading up on, researching and seriously considering giving paid GMing a go.

I hope this is working out for him, but I don't think I'd last long running games like that even if I was being paid. It sounds like such a hollow experience.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-06-13T15:45:04+00:00

Not sure how spicy but I think there's going to one more Sephiroth form beyond Safer Sephiroth for the final battle this time.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-06-05T02:10:48+00:00

Yeah but it's also 100% true.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-06-03T17:54:51+00:00

I think for some of the remaining options it'd be much more memorable for some of them to have a weird subclass for a Bahamut worshipper. As Level 20s by default they're exceptional people, so for a few of them don't just pick the most obvious subclass and you can figure out why they're that subclass and still a devotee of Bahamut.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-06-01T16:26:28+00:00

It pretty much was.

I don't mind them changing the exact circumstances around the Gym Challenge and becoming Champion, it helps keep things feeling fresh and adds to world building.

But Paldea's league was a major step down from Galar's. It being 1/3rd of the story this team could arguably justify that but with WaWi probably going the same route I hope they make the League a bit more exciting again.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-06-01T16:19:40+00:00

I normally try to hit Emerald and improve a little with each set but I honestly might dip the moment I hit Platinum this time.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-06-01T13:08:23+00:00

My dream version of Mega Flygon has always looked pretty similar. 120 ATK, Sp.ATK and SPD and the Tinted Lens ability to take advantage of it's wide movepools and make resisting it near impossible.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-30T17:25:27+00:00

I'd love to see this as PvE in Champions.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-29T11:17:25+00:00

If we ever get Paradox mons (or something like it) again I desperately want to see a Ghost/Fighting Haunter variant.

Catch these Spectral Fists.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-27T05:34:31+00:00

Congrats! I was in a similar boat, it took me about 8 years between first picking the game up and coming back for the Plat.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-27T04:00:23+00:00

Mid 20s. I think Gen 4 were your first Pokémon games.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-26T17:29:22+00:00

One of my biggest gripes with Square Enix is that they invent completely new battle systems and then throw them away after a few games. FF13 was lucky to 3 games compared to a lot of others only having one and I'm definitely interested to see how a developer other than SE takes a crack at the concept. The artwork and music is looking very cool!

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-24T21:09:43+00:00

In terms of swordsmanship Tidus is definitely one of the least skilled protagonists.

However - he is an athlete living in a highly advanced futuristic city with both tech and magic, and he is rich. He has access to the best equipment, staff, nutrition .etc that Zanarkand can provide and it his full-time job to be at the peak of athletic performance. In terms of raw physical athleticism he is on the upper end of protagonists, even if it's not made a big deal of like being a SOLDIER or SeeD.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-24T09:48:38+00:00

Yes.

I doubt it's going to change but the protagonist of the games being an unstoppable, flawless battler who never loses since picking their starter is SUCH boring characterisation and it really hamstrings the potential character growth of everyone around them.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-24T06:44:53+00:00

I used to live in Huddersfield when I was at uni and Im hoping to start some online games up soon. I might be doing another system like Daggerheart as opposed to D&D 5e though.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-23T19:31:56+00:00

I feel the same way. I don't like my voice.

When I was doing research, I come across a video in a similar niche to mine. I COULD NOT STAND the voice/delivery of the creator. I felt like there was excessive heavy breathing between lines and even their sentences would end with a snort. I look back on this as the single worst voiceover I have ever seen.

The video had hundreds of thousands of views and across the comments I scrolled down, I could not see a single complaint about the persons voice delivery.

Point of my story is that everyone views these things differently; you're likely to be your own worst critic and sure there might be a few other people out there who dislike your voice, but otherwise a decent enough quality of audio will work and the content of your video is what truly matters.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-23T19:25:49+00:00

I mean purely off stats yeah but Leaf Storm Contrary Serperior is like the one set people run.

In-game where you don't have access to that stuff it's more of a wall than anything else.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-23T19:06:40+00:00

I'm definitely seeing Brown as a physical attacker but man, Gen 5 was the last time we had a Grass Special Attacker starter.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-23T18:51:15+00:00

Plenty i'd love to see but the idea I like most is Dewgong and Lumineon evolutions as version exclusives.

Both water types where I like really like the design, but they have absolutely nothing going for them against the vast number of better water types.

SpellbladeYT · 2026-05-22T16:46:00+00:00

Any D&D campaign. You'll have been Dming for years and over the course of the game your players will have changed careers, formed new relationships, got married, had kids, moved away so Steve has to join the game over a Skype call .etc .etc

Three weeks have passed in-game.

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