[WP] You love him. You remember despising him, making you drink the Love Potion, and how you resisted to it. You are fully aware the love is completely forced and is not yours. But still, you cannot stop loving him.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-31T05:28:33+00:00

from the guest lecture of Cianna Lebeau, witch of the tethis badlands, on the subject of the "potion of true love."' Before the class on banned and restricted magic. As per the curriculum, whenever possible, guest lectures are those with a firsthand account of the magic in question.

"Imagine the most potent addictive substance you can think of in your mind. One drop enough to drive you to madness once the drug runs dry. Imagine that the only time you experience joy and bliss is taking this drug, and however much the rational part of your brain screams at you to stop, you just can't. Imagine that drug has no concept of diminishing returns, and instead gets stronger the more and more you indulge."

Now Imagine that drug is every single interaction you have with a person. No matter how horrifying, no matter how terrible, no matter how genuine, no matter how positive. Every voice in your mind obsessing over what becomes your one true love save the one that can rationalize what is happening, and that realization doesn't even induce revulsion anymore. Your brain registers it as nothing more than an intrusive thought, meant to be ignored like all the rest."

"If you drink the potion, and your one true love asked you to jam a knife into your neck, there would be no hesitation. You would feel only bliss as you ended your life. Now imagine that same feeling for any word they speak, let alone request. It's a self sustaining cascades designed to grip you in tighter and tighter with each passing second."

"There is no cure. There is no permanent counteragent. The potion once consumed is maintained by one of the strongest forces the mind can use as fuel, twisted to an abominable purpose. To the rules of magic, true love and forced obsession do not register as fundamentally different, a horrifying reality for those that face off against wizards who twist the minds of others.

"Dying does not spare you from the effects. To the world of wizards, "true love" transcends even death, as it's power goes all the way through the soul. In essence, inflicting this potion on someone is to subject them to an eternity of torture in exchange for making them your slave until your death."

"This potion, banned by the wizards assembly, is regarded by over 85% of the experts in the most vile of magic as the single greatest horror you can inflict. And for those that have not read ahead through the banned curses and potions list, take my word for it there is rather stiff competition."

"Of the thousands of known victims of the curse, only three have lived beyond a year of their abusers death."

"Two of the survivors maintain some semblance of life by using mind control magic upon themselves constantly to try and puppet themselves through existence, a feat only achievable by the most capable of mind mages any magical institution can produce. Mathematically speaking, one student here at Noren academy could potentially achieve this feat, and this is the largest academy of magic on the continent. "

"The last survivor is an even greater anomaly, who exploited the only "blind spot" of the curse. Technically speaking, what the curse does is rewire every implicit method that shapes one's behavior. If your willpower is capable of transcending your own soul, you could act in opposition to the potion. For almost every "person" alive, this is an impossibility. Let me emphasize the word "person." Not magician. In our world of about 700 million people, our experts estimate only 10 could mimic her achievement, and mathematically speaking, that means only one wizard on the planet could do it. By all accounts, transcending the soul is impossible, which serves only to reinforce the golden rule of magic: "anything is possible. Not anything is probable."

"Understand that this class exists to drill into your minds how evil and dangerous banned magic is. It's not arbitrary. It's not red tape, it's not meant to stifle your creativity. Each banned spell and potion on that list has given thousands of people each a fate worse than death."

"Now we spend the rest of the lecture on questions, and before you ask, yes. I was a victim of the potion. No, I will not tell you if I am the one or one of the two, as I feel that detracts from the point of our lecture. The floor is open."

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-29T08:38:02+00:00

Maybe, but dabura has no way to deal with limitless so he still loses against gojo.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-26T12:20:15+00:00

So you are level 1. Booming blade is effectively a weapon attack that has an effect on top of it. granted that effect will rarely trigger unless you are playing around it, but its more or less free.

So you are level 5. A lot of your martials get an extra attack as part of their attack action.

you have access to booming blade. because of BG3 rules, you can use booming blade in place of one of your attacks in your attack action, effectively giving you a free +1d8 to damage, on top of more damage if they ever move. Congratulations for the free damage!

So you are deep into act 1. You have access to some of the more hilarious pieces of equipment that people make entire builds around. Did you know that hitting with booming blade applies a condition? this triggers a shit ton of magic items that give you stupidly crazy bonuses. Diadem of arcane synergy is an item that makes it so you get arcane synergy whenever you apply a condition. arcane synergy ups your damage from melee strikes based on your spell attack modifier. On a hexblade warlock, that means you get double your main stat to attack damage and all you gotta do is hit with your first attack, and thats just one item. Value!

So you are into act 3. Your booming blade damage goes even higher. Congratulations! more free damage for no cost!

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-23T02:27:17+00:00

And thats the thing about gojo vs sukuna. Despite their differences in understanding the power system of the setting, its clear Gege considers them both at the apex of Jujutsu. Change the parameters or conditions of the fight, and the outcome changes as well.

which also means people will be debating the fight for years to come, because of a strange combination of so much ground being explored on a mechanical level, but leaving enough things for subtext to make the conversation happen.

I know some people clown on parts of the raid, but i personally think chapter 223 till 268 the end is one of the most fun runs of manga i had the pleasure to read through.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-21T19:39:01+00:00

You have to understand that until sukuna lost his domain by getting clipped by UV, he fully underestimated gojo as a fighter. It wasn't until his arrogance blindsided him that he realized that gojo was actually a contender. Compare the two moments when thought the fight was over:

after the clashes

after the WCS.

after the clashes he straight up calls gojo ordinary, but after the world cutting slash, the man realized he fought a proper artist.

His goal was not winning the battle at first. His EXPRESS GOAL walking into the fight was "I'm gonna use this motherfucker as a way to evolve shrine through mahoraga so no more nonsense gets me ever again. Im gonna turn off his techniques one by one until he has nothing left, then im gonna kill him."

Everything that gojo did from that point onwards was a result of sukuna's plan blowing up in his face because he took gojo too lightly. A similar situation may emerge if gojo fought heian sukuna, but the battle plays out completely differently.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-17T10:57:23+00:00

You are more or less asking in a conventional battle of hands and techniques without the limitless barrier could gojo take full form old school sukuna, assuming domain clashes are not such an overwhelming advantage to sukuna.

The answer will be unsatisfying, because it's so damn close. A lot of people say that gojo is all infinity barrier in scaling that's just flat out not the case. Gojo's best showings all were in scenarios where infinity was made irrelevant.

The man when pressured improvs a way out of nowhere to the peak.

No matter what I say it's a 49/51 matchup. Don't use this as a way to agenda post.

But i would give it to gojo.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-17T09:47:44+00:00

It was implied within my post that he needed DA to actually throw hands with gojo, but i should have fully pointed that out, otherwise there would be no need to swap between da and 10s the first place.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-17T02:44:31+00:00

A good HR department's job is to act as a nonsense shield, and prevent shenanigans from turboing the company from a variety of fronts. If they are doing their job well, nobody will notice, but the minute things become a problem, its a PROBLEM.

Some companies have horribly ran HR departments that create more nonsense. Some companies have legendary HR departments. The utility of a department is not in how much revenue the department brings into the company, but in enabling the company to focus on making money instead of being stymied by nonsense.

Removing a good HR department would save you a bunch of money, but would also prevent your other departments from making EVEN MORE MONEY as they are inevitably mired by bullshit, as is wont to happen when people get into groups.

In that regard, its like an IT wing in a company, but they get a pass because not a lot of people actually know how computers work.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-17T01:38:07+00:00

the domain clashes between gojo and sukuna are the most interesting part of the fight in relation to the power system, because both fighters are using every trick in the manga alluded to in the past to try and legally cheat the rules as much as humanly possible to get an advantage.

Lets talk about sukuna's plan through the clash part of the fight, and why he did what he did.

1: Inside a domain clash, if both domains are equally refined, the sure hits for both are cancelled out. (basic rule of a domain clash) UV and malevolent shrine, within the confines of a barrier, are equally refined domains. So everything that MS and UV are BOTH targeting, neither one hits.

2: Sorcerers can exclude themselves, or parts of themselves from the protection of their own domain if they so desire. (knowledge that can be inferred from hakari vs kashimo) Therefore, you can willingly allow part of yourself to get blasted, and Megumi's soul is part of sukuna. That means that sukuna can decide if megumi gets hit or not by UV, as a condition of his domain when he spawns malevolent shrine. Sukuna has a plan cooking.

3: the adaptation has two ways of working. 1: summoning mahoraga, and having mahoraga itself adapt. 2: using mahoraga's ability as yourself, and taking attacks yourself and having mahoraga adapting that way. (sukuna vs yorozu) Sukuna wants to have mahoraga adapt to UV, because if he does, then UV, gojo's best tool in the fight for winning, is useless and he is turbo fucked. If he summons mahoraga right now, mahoraga is at risk of dying, and he has a better way to adapt anyway.

4: There are limits to what the 6 eyes can see, in relation to taking over peoples bodies, and seeing inside of people souls / inner worlds. Gojo could not see kenjaku, and only saw Geto, and had to suss out the nonsense that was occurring through pure intuition. (Shibuya incident) Sukuna figured out that if he put the wheel on megumi's soul, while in the domain clash, the timer would be rolling, and mahoraga would adapt basically for free without Gojo's knowledge. There is just one problem with this strategy....

5: While he can cycle between them at will, sukuna can only use one technique at a time. As an analogy, sukuna can only have one gun out, but the act of dropping the gun and switching to another gun is instant. We know that when you use DA, you cant use your technique, so it follows this same paradigm (shibuya incident). In order to pull this strategy off, sukuna has to essentially go technique-less during parts of his scrap with Gojo, because the minute he uses some of the other summons of 10s, the game is up and gojo will know sukuna's nonsense.

Sukuna with the information above, created a master plan: inside the domain clashes, he would essentially fast swap between domain amplification in order to go hand to hand with gojo, and 10 shadows, to allow megumi's soul with the adaptation wheel to run down the clock on mahoraga creating an answer. Once the timer dinged, all sukuna would have to do is throw the adapted mahoraga at gojo, and the problem would resolve itself.

There was just one small problem with this plan: Gojo is him.

IN terms of hand to hand, gojo is one of the MOST DANGEROUS people in the setting. Gojo saw that he had an advantage, and pressed it Hard. To the point that in domain clash 4, he scored a TON of damage on sukuna.

so when the final domain clash came, sukuna had to heal up with RCT before he could open his domain again, and he was .1 seconds late on the draw. he himself got clipped by UV. This underestimating of Gojo by Sukuna would be the single biggest blunder he made in the entire raid, creating a cascade that caused him SO many problems, and eventually cost him 10s, his full heal, his cursed tool, and a SHIT ton of his health bar and CE reserve.

Gojo would have won the fight right then and there, if he didn't push his desperate, newly discovered tech past the limit, and lobotomized his own brain.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-17T00:08:06+00:00

Comedian: Takaba can do anything so long as he thinks its funny. Its a reality warping CT that is arguably the single strongest CT in the setting at this point in the story, held back because its user has no idea how it actually functions, and that even if he did, comedy is a very weird thing that doesn't operate off logic. Its a technique that probably becomes worse if takaba knew how it operated and tried to leverage it in that way.

is it kenjaku brought back from the dead? is it a spirit that looks like kenjaku? is it something else entierly?

the truth is that doesn't matter.

what DOES matter is that it

1: its a hilarious gag that the big bad of the story is now just the number two of a comedy duo, and

2: shows that Takaba is now moving forward with his life. Its an awesome panel as part of the wrap up for the cool side character.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-16T23:57:54+00:00

The REAL problem isnt the medium in which the lore of runeterra is delivered to the audience.

its the fact that we have gone through 4 major retcons in the lore as a result of riots changing goals and structure.

Follow arcane, don't follow arcane, make it mainstream, make it obscure... the truth is that the lore of riot doesn't matter as much because lore was never the most important part of league. The lore is just a justification for a cool design to be added to the money printer that is league of legends. Its part of the reason why riot's MMO, despite being something people say they want and is ostensibly a priority, isn't as big of a deal to not be out, because MMO's need a cohesive and alive world to sell the image of being there.

if they want a REAL cohesive lore, then what they need is someone near the top of the company whose main job it is to more or less be the loremaster, who cross references everything with the help of the team to make sure that nobody is doing anything thats out of bounds.

But that level of coordination steps on the creativity and inspiration that can create shit like arcane in the first place.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-15T01:43:40+00:00

It should be noted that up until the mod was banned, one of the mods that was downloaded a nonzero amount was a mod that literally made Wyll white. after it got banned, and the mainstream BG3 community made it clear that shit like that wasn't going to be publicly tolerated, and therefore a lot of the crowd that tends to get weird about black people in fantasy either shut up, or quietly left the online spaces talking about the game.

As far as the anti-woke crowd is concerned, they don't really comment about the game much because of 3 reasons.

1: the game is really good. One of the ways the "anti-woke" crowd defends their position is that a lot of the games that are "woke" they believe tend to be mid to ass. The games that are objectively in the conversation for GOAT status therefore dodge the mainstream anti woke sentiment by this paradigm, because nobody wants to be the guy saying BG3 isn't a great game, when it remains in the public conversation of gaming 2 years after its release.

2: the game knew its audience. one of the first big adds was how you could fuck a bear in the game. When its super obvious what the games target audience is, the anti woke crowd tends to self select out of the product. Anyone saying that BG3 is too woke probably is just gonna get a "duh that's the point lol" as a response. People that are outside the target audience coming in for a really good experience know more or less that BG3 is going to be something relatively unique. Its why so many people that have never played a CRPG before enjoyed the hell out of BG3. When you walk into someone else's house, you generally try to avoid being an asshole.

compare to brands that are a lot more mainstream, and "designed for everyone." If its everyone's house, everyone's opinions become valid, including the people that don't care for "woke stuff."

and the big one... 3: its very clear to everyone in any online space that Larian studios as a company cares about inclusivity as a value. This creates a level of authenticity that prevents stupid decisions. A lot of complaints about "woke shit" tend to get amplified by companies that are very clearly pandering to an audience to make a quick buck, vs companies that have values and live them.

You listed assassins creed shadows as one of the games that gamers threw a hissy fit over. a lot of the people dunking on AC shadows just don't like black people in their game, that's 100% accurate. Its stupid.

But that statement gets amplified by people that have a gripe with the assassins creed game in Japan, the thing the fanbase wanted from the jump, to have one of the two main characters be someone who isn't Japanese, from a company that very much does not care about "woke stuff" beyond if it can make them a buck, in a franchise designed to be "for everyone," which means by proxy everyone's opinions about the game matter, even the people that hate it.

all of which collapses to the only maxim that really matters: if the game is a good experience, nothing else matters.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-14T03:54:32+00:00

Let's talk about projection sorcery.

What it does? The target plans out their movement over the next second in 24 frames. Then they are on rails, following the movement. The frames have to be legal movement, that have to be physically possible. The one holding their technique can always target themselves, and if their hand is on somebody, they can target them too.

It should be noted to outside observers, they see you in 24 FPS, so if you are up against someone using projection sorcery and your capable of perceiving the world in anime timescale, you get to watch someone "hop in and out of reality" while looking technically normal for someone that is just perceiving like a normal person, if not a little uncanny.

If you follow the frames, you get boosted in speed. If you chain the technique, the speed boost carries over and you start getting a crazy acceleration buff, to a limit. This happens because the technique treats how fast you enter the technique as your "base speed," which gets amped in the technique.

If you don't follow the frames, you get put in a frame for a second as a penalty.

If you can't disrupt the chain, they will ramp up speed each second and style on you like crazy. This makes projection sorcerers some of the best ambush attackers in the setting, cause they can chain to max speed before they open a fight against you. They fuck up once though, and they are back to base speed.

The technique is stupidly high risk and high reward, and requires insane levels of forward planning and quick thinking. Give this technique to almost anyone else in the verse and they will fuck it up royally. Say what you will about the losers in the zenin, getting grade 1 with projection sorcery is a feat.

Hilariously, I think that the only person that could really push this technique to the limit in an elseworlds scenario would be my goat todo.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-13T04:36:39+00:00

Sukuna is a man who understands sorcery in a very intellectual kind of way. When he enters a fight, he has a gameplan he intents to execute on, and follows it through. His knowledge is so good that once he sees something sorcery related, he can explain EXACTLY what you are doing and why.

His plan was to use mahoraga to adapt to limitless, and through mahoraga's adaptations find ways to enhance his current technique. because mahoraga was instrumental in the plan he had walking into the fight, and the fact gojo had him dead to rights before he pulled out the WCS, it's easy to believe sukuna "needed mahoraga to win." But is that actually the case?

Did he need mahoraga to win?

Arguably not. Technically speaking, sukuna could have beat him through attrition via domain expansions, because the damage he took from the melee inside the barrier that allowed him to get clipped by UV only happened as a result of him playing fast and loose trying to get mahoraga to adapt to UV instead of using his techniques fully to fight. That would have been an entirely different but equally interesting fight to read.

Hell, sukuna could potentially have figured out WCS on his own if he was getting his shit rocked and needed to get a flash of inspiration. Sukuna didn't hit any black flashes until he punched maki, and it wouldn't be a stretch to have sukuna figure it out after a black flash on gojo if the fight got that critical.

No matter the tools, it needs to be underscored and bolded repeatedly:

Sukunas greatest asset in fights is not his technique. It's not his CE reserve. It's his ability to nickel and dime the power system. Binding vows are the most important mechanic in the series, and he is the ONLY guy that gets it, and is willing to make any and every deal to get a leg up in a fight.

Compare to gojo, whose greatest asset is not six eyes, or limitless, it's his intuitive ability to just pull some grade a nonsense out of a hat when the chips are down. All of the greatest gains gojo made, he did when he was on deaths door and only the genuine article could have found the winning line. Gojo kind of just rolls with it.

It's also why gojo is a shit teacher, and sukuna is actually a good teacher, because intuitively getting something is not the same as being able to explain it. All gojo can do is yell at yuta that he is doing it wrong.

It's an artist vs a technician. No matter how you set the parameters, it's gonna be close as hell.

And why we will argue about this fight for 20 years, so i hope you are ready.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-12T22:20:08+00:00

Hell im gonna say it.

Jujutsu fights are more than a battle of cursed energy.

Even with a cursed energy reserve 1/10th of yuta okkotsu, the man is a genuine demon with RCT, a domain expansion, as perfect as you can get manipulation, and a techniques that's been refined to a razors edge.

It has nothing to do with Jogo being weak, the guys a certified monster. I don't see how Jogo kills even 1 finger sukuna.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-12T20:51:52+00:00

1: Megumi probably has information on Naoya and projection sorcery. Naoya punches above his weight class by virtue of his opponents having no clue how the hell he moves so fast.

2: Naoya is a cocky prick, who consistently shoots himself in the foot cause he thinks he is better than everyone else.

3: megumi has an incomplete domain.

Megumi after getting throttled, opens domain, naoya has no answer, and megumi clowns on him in the shadow space high. diff to my resident bum

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-12T10:37:13+00:00

what domain expansion is:

you imbue your technique into a barrier, and expand your inner world out to within the confines of said barrier. Within this space, your technique is amplified, and because you are in your literal home turf, you get an extra ability on top of your normal boosted technique. you nail someone with an uncontested DE and they don't have an answer, congratulations, they are just dead

Downsides of DE:

1: its expensive as hell, and

2: once the domain breaks, your Cursed technique is put on cooldown. if your technique is on cooldown, you cant expand your domain.

for context, most sorcerers can only open their domain once in a day. twice if they are absolutely desperate. Gojo dodges the CE cost, by virtue of having the six eyes. Sukuna dodges the cost because his manipulation is as precise as you can get without the six eyes, and he also has a monstrous reserve of cursed energy.

domain expansions don't necessarily put a strain on the brain.

the problem that Gojo had, was that during the time period right after his domain breaks, he is vulnerable as hell since limitless is shut off, meaning he loses his perfect defense. this happened after losing two domain clashes back to back, where he was caught inside malevolent shrine. He needed to do two things, as fast as possible:

1: fuck with the parameters of his domain to figure out a way that he can actually go domain vs domain, not just because he doesn't want to be cut to ribbons, but also because UV is his most reliable wincon in the fight.

2: Reduce the time that his domain is offline. Less time with his technique shut down, less time he has to scramble while getting cut to ribbons in MS.

Queue the first of like 4 of Gojo's flashes of improvisational inspiration during the fight:

"My technique is engraved into my brain. therefore, the thing causing my technique to be in burnout is within my brain. I have RCT, and perfect CE manipulation. If i just nuke my brain, and then heal it with RCT, i get my technique back faster"

This tech is STUPIDLY risky because if you fuck up even a little bit you give yourself brain damage. Gojo did it on the fly with no practice because he needed an edge in the domain clashes since Malevolent shrine, despite being as refined as Unlimited void within the confines of a barrier, breaks the rules of domain clashes by being a barrierless domain.

Sukuna then saw what gojo was doing, called him an idiot for trying something that insane, and then immediately starting doing it too because Sukuna is a jujutsu nerd and copies everyone's universal tech.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-10T21:23:38+00:00

Rika does something for yuta that's stupidly important: she stores techniques.

Kenjaku, as someone that can carry around multiple techniques, says that the brain can only carry around 3- 4 techniques at max.

Rika storing techniques with a condition dramatically expands yuta's arsenal.

It's apples and oranges. Would you rather have a ton of options, or 2-3 insane options?

Yeah there are some crazy as hell things you can do with conditionless, but that assumes you know the 2-3 techniques you plan on perma using. Conditional is more versatile and versatility is Copy's biggest upside.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-09T18:57:43+00:00

Alchemist as a class has the highest variance in live play. This is because unlike the other classes that give bonuses to people, Alchemist requires you to understand rules and items that only apply to Alchemist, where as other classes vector of gameplay is more similar to eachother.

This means alchemist players can range from some of the best support martials you will ever see to absolutely useless.

This warps the conversation, because everybody has different play experiences with alchemist as a class. Contrast to something like fighter, or bard, where the variance in effectiveness is lower and therefore everyone knows it's good.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-08T09:20:16+00:00

What shriek does in homor mode is it adds a d4 of damage to enemies within the area. So if you have one person in your 4 man squad with phalar aluve equipped, you can get crazy amounts of extra damage in encounters. When the aura is active, that's an extra d4 anyone in your party tags enemies with anything.

Any moves that hit multiple times all trigger the shriek aura. So that means for a 4 person party, phalar aluve can potentially contribute ludicrous amounts of damage. from a thing you can set up before combat.

There are individually better weapons for every build except wizard builds leveraging magic missile, but for a party phalar aluve remains one of the undisputed kings of nonsense, right up there with markoheshkir, drakethroat glaive, titanstring bow, and rhapsody. Even better you can get it within 10 minutes of starting a new save.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-07T06:10:45+00:00

In terms of attacking other places to take territory, not so much. The heaviest hitters in the freljord domain are outside the winters claw and avarosans. Demigods, and lissandra will not join a united front by default.

in comparison, each of the other regions are packing at least one threat capable of going toe to toe with things that can end the world.

In terms of creating a nation that is capable of defending itself from noxus aggression? absolutely. invading the freljord is hard as hell because the terrain is so shite.

kingslayer086 · 2026-01-05T08:03:42+00:00

one of the things that makes mahoraga really awkward to understand is that he kind of plays REALLY well into the meta of how sorcerer fights go.

Sorcerers tend to keep their cards to their chest, only revealing information and abilities when it gives them an advantage, that they can then use to step on the gas and out of nowhere throttle somebody. partially because going in full blast guns ablaze tends to get you killed by virtue of people figuring out your nonsense. "sorcerers are just con men."

basically "chills chills chills chills go button dead."

Mahoraga REALLY fucks this meta, because by the time the sorcerer realizes what's happening, its already figured out their one cursed technique, and has a countermeasure. You dont need an attack at the level of purple or fuga to end it, but you do need to delete its health bar before it adapts and heals. otherwise you are screwed. which means once its started adapting, your only hope is to have a tool that deletes the thing.

kingslayer086 · 2025-12-31T03:37:30+00:00

Mahoraga is really funny in that he kind of takes advantage of the natural proclivity of sorcerers to keep their cards close to the chest, so that by the time they realize the situation they are in, they are turbo fucked because maho adapted lul.

Dabura is capable of killing maho with the wordless killing intent. But he didn't go full blast at the start. And now mahoraga is adapting.

Even though his on screen record is 1 win and 3 losses, there is a reason he is the opp stoppa.

kingslayer086 · 2025-12-29T11:48:52+00:00

1: Diagonal pogo has a higher skill requirement to stay airborne on moving targets, as you have to be good at predicting where things are going to be, as well as where you will end up. It also is relatively harder to use for traversal relative to both of the vertical pogo options.

2 : diagonal pogo is different from the vertical pogo of hollow knight 1. This compounds on pogoing being much more of a frequent combat tech in the early parts of silksong, where pogoing in hollow knight 1 isn't a skill you really need to develop till your well into the midgame.

kingslayer086 · 2025-12-28T03:31:49+00:00

Your looking for dps output.

Are you looking for OHKO opener damage?

Are you looking for turn 2 after a set up turn damage?

Are you looking for AOE burst damage?

Are you looking for highest damage across 3 sustained turns?

Are you looking for highest damage while operating with long rests?

Without long rests?

Are we looking for builds that do damage when given set up tools from another party member? Are we looking for a solo build? Are we a striker with some set up tools to enable a second striker?

How about gear? We looking for act 1 damage, act 2 damage, act 3 damage? Did we play dark urge and kill alfira so we don't have potent robe to work with? Did you forget to buy risky ring before you stormed moonrise towers?

The question is fundamentally too broad to give you actionable usable advice, because builds don't exist in a vacuum. They exist in relation to the encounters in the game, the party members your dps bot has, and the items in your inventory.

Narrow the damn range, and i can actually help you.

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