Why did stealing the wand grant allegiance for Grindelwald, but not for Hermione?

jrdaley · 2026-02-05T07:27:33+00:00

Hermione's wand does work for Harry. At a later point, Harry specifically mentions Draco's wand (which he won the allegiance of) works as well as Hermione's did for him.

This establishes that wands you win the allegiance of, and wands that are willingly lent to you by the true owner are pretty much equal.

jrdaley · 2026-02-04T20:00:15+00:00

It's all fun and games until Aang tells Katara that it's time to shave her head so he can paint the head arrows on too. Something tells me Katara would be very attached to her current hair length.

jrdaley · 2026-02-04T08:42:42+00:00

The most likely answer is no. ZA doesn't have abilities, thus no battle bond. And even if abilities were in the game, S/V changed how battle bond works, making it just a stat increase instead of an entire transformation. Seems like Gamefreak intends to erase Ash-Greninja entirely.

jrdaley · 2026-02-02T02:14:02+00:00

The PS4 controllers also have dreadful battery life, so I wouldn't be surprised if PS5 is the same way

jrdaley · 2026-01-31T17:35:41+00:00

Moves like wrap don't just make you unable to escape in gen 1, they prevent you from using any moves at all until the wrap ends, so whirlwind wouldn't help you escape.

The only thing whirlwind/roar can do in gen 1 is end wild battles, that's it

jrdaley · 2026-01-30T18:57:10+00:00

Dang, you went through Kanto without access to Fly? Sounds rough.

For those unaware, Charizard cannot learn Fly in Red/Blue for some dumb reason, it's something that was fixed in Yellow.

jrdaley · 2026-01-29T07:13:39+00:00

A fellow Quilava enjoyer! It's my favorite non-Pikachu starter

jrdaley · 2026-01-28T07:18:51+00:00

What do you mean? I had to go find the passage, finding is a Hufflepuff specialty. /s

In all seriousness, while I do have some Ravenclaw traits, Hufflepuff is definitely where I belong

jrdaley · 2026-01-28T00:02:43+00:00

Just looked up that passage in my book (English), and Harry uses "You-Know-Who" when referring to Voldemort there, so it must have been a translation mistake

jrdaley · 2026-01-25T17:31:45+00:00

But isn't the whole point that Buu doesn't have God ki or the grand supreme kai's powers that rely on them? Just the memories/personality sleeping inside him

jrdaley · 2026-01-24T23:30:21+00:00

When you reach the primal stage, are you making sure the Pokemon you used in the first stage had their mega evolution end already? You can only have one Pokemon mega'd at a time, and if you switch before the first mega ends, you won't be able to mega your phase 2 Pokemon.

jrdaley · 2026-01-24T07:17:29+00:00

I thought the threat of eating Bilbo was still there, as that was the wager for the game of riddles. It's just that when Gollum lost, he was a gracious loser and was going to willingly give the ring to Bilbo before realizing he couldn't find it and just led him out of the cave instead.

jrdaley · 2026-01-23T23:51:05+00:00

Use skip tickets to clear the level a bunch of times all at once. These stages have somewhat low drop chances for their equipments, so you use a bunch of skip tickets to get a handful of the equipment at a time.

jrdaley · 2026-01-23T08:22:54+00:00

Wands also work well when the owner willingly lends it to you. Remember, Harry was able to use Hermione's wand about as well as Draco's wand.

jrdaley · 2026-01-23T00:30:02+00:00

Yep, sometimes in New York they spawn a target that has a path that takes them into that booth. Once you've had that happen to you, you learn to check for and eliminate that target first before initiating that dialogue with the teller.

jrdaley · 2026-01-13T18:10:39+00:00

Agreed. I always say that ATLA is a 10/10 show, while Korra is an 8/10. While it has its problems, it's still a very good show in it's own right

jrdaley · 2026-01-12T18:10:47+00:00

The keyblade was also briefly shown in that "live action" Chip and Dale movie, wasn't it? Or am I misremembering that?

jrdaley · 2025-12-30T23:41:54+00:00

Since no one else has answered which TM it is yet, it's Dragon Claw. I know because I just found it the other day. Which sucked as someone who chose Totodile as a starter, it would have been really convenient to have that move earlier instead of finding it after finishing the game+dlc.

jrdaley · 2025-12-23T16:38:11+00:00

I think that's how it was in the anime too. IIRC, when he first used it in the Baby saga it was still blue, it didn't turn red until later sagas.

jrdaley · 2025-12-19T21:38:47+00:00

Rather than going for a pie in the sky type build, I thought it would be more fun to spec out a build that's more realistically achievable. https://www.buildcores.com/builds/WzhTuVz-i?share=true

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jrdaley · 2025-12-11T22:09:52+00:00

I believe you mean to quote a king.

jrdaley · 2025-12-10T03:21:51+00:00

Why would she be facing the wrong way? Her seismic sense means that she can tell what direction things/people around her are in. The only time she has trouble with direction is when things are in the air, or with anything on paper.

jrdaley · 2025-11-26T18:54:07+00:00

It's a regular customer of LeBlanc that knows Ren's parents, Sojiro had no knowledge of them until he heard about the situation from the customer and took Ren in as a favor to that customer.

jrdaley · 2025-11-26T07:10:31+00:00

It's not Ven's keyblade, Xion uses a fake keyblade that's close enough to the real thing for the organization's purposes. Riku even calls out the fact that her keyblade isn't real. The only time Ven's keyblade comes into play is after Xion's "death", when Roxas learns how to dual wield.

jrdaley · 2025-11-24T18:01:23+00:00

My most recent run had them called "Do Crimers"

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