Here we go. This looks like a pretty straight-forward match. They went all offense and no defense, where as we managed to defend against exactly what they would use to attack us, and are attacking with exactly what they're have little defense to.
H'okay, so:
Id/Kandy's Prep:
Power Sharing
I understand, and don't really dispute that Genis can split up his powers. Whatevs, cool. Does he grant access to unlimited power when he does so though?
In the scans you showed, the man that Genis granted his powers to, in order to draw more power, drew it through Genis. You're already splitting up Surfer's power three ways somehow (more on that later), but then your master plan is to restore Surfer's lost power by drawing upon limitless power... that your scan indicates you wouldn't have access to.
Just reading the evidence boys. I would appreciate some proof that just because Genis donates power to them, they suddenly have the limitless access that you claim Genis does. Otherwise, you have no option to restore Surfer, since apparently your only power access is the original Genis himself, which involves draining his power first.
Secondly, how are you going to split up Surfer's powers three ways? The scan says that he MUST donate 50% of his power to the other dude. There's three of you... let me do the math... 50/50/...0? I suppose you could donate more once you've recharged the original Surfer. Let's see what that would involve:
So, you claim these individuals to have such limitless powers, but in order to pull of your plan, you need to donate Genis' powers to Surfer, recharge Genis, donate Surfer's powers to Genis, recharge Surfer's PC (thus draining Genis), recharge Genis, charge up Genis' half of Surfer's powers, charge up Surfer's Photon powers (thus draining Genis), recharge Genis, give Surfer's powers to Onslaught, recharge Surfer (thus draining Genis), recharge Genis, charge up Onslaught, charge up Onslaught's PC powers (thus draining Genis), recharge Genis....
Considering Surfer required meditation to do a single power transfer, and considering Surfer's sizable energy reserves, it would take all your prep time to simply cover his end of things (if it's even possible to split his power three ways... I think I'm being fairly generous in considering this to be remotely doable)
However, you also need to refill Genis' energy reserves over 5 times, and then Onslaught's as well.....
Having not even indicated the time it requires to recharge Genis once, recharge Surfer once, give Genis' powers away, considering you're supposed to have them performing all these power transfers and energy manipulation without having gathered each others experience yet, and taking into account that Surfer (the best energy manipulator on your team) demonstrated the need to meditate in order to give his powers away...
How in holy hell do you expect to accomplish this in any amount of time even approaching that which we're alloted for prep?
I mean really, this is retarded. I'm frankly tired of teams attempting to shove the impossible into one action of their prep, and still have five more things to check off on their prep list just like it.
You're attempting to refill the powers of people with enough output to create stars, and you're attempting to do this many, many times.
You know they reckon that the power output of the sun for one second is roughly equivalent to what mankind has output up to this point in our history?
But you're going to refill the power supply of the Silver Surfer over and over again, in addition to that of Photon... how many times? 5? 6?
And then, of course, at any other point in the prep or in the battle, if Surfer uses Photon's powers, the only way to recharge is to drain it from your teammate... awesome.
Yay team?
Memories and Experience Sharing
I was actually intending to leave this alone, but since Id insists on attacking Cassandra Nova's mental skill, shall we take a look at his own?
Onslaught's only provided feat of this involves mentally gouging a victim's brain, then slowly drawing out vague recollections and visions from the man's past...
On the other hand, you also back it up with Xavier's feats- because we all know Onslaught and Xavier were, like, totally the same right?
We all know that Onslaught never showed a single telepathic feat of any precision in his entire run as a character. All he did was provide brute force shields and brutally mentally attack people, and never with any particular show of force either, just vague lines that Id likes to quote to hope that hyperbole will cover up for a lack of actual feats. Onslaught is not exactly a telepathic surgeon. He couldn't even silence Jean Grey mentally, he had to physically cut her out.
Unless you've got more feats to provide that you decided not to show just because you love to look incompetent, then all that you've proven is that Onslaught is going to be gouging out his teammates brains, and then using all that tons of prep time that you have left (hahaha....) to... get some vague recollections of their past.
Cool. A self defeating team. I love it.
I suggest in the future the idiom about those who live in glass houses...
Amping
Not a lot to mention here, since most of this is useless against our team...
Strength-
First off, two of our characters are phased, and the other one is Wonder Woman with a strength multiplier of 10. So, please, try some hand to hand combat with us.
Secondly, the scans don't really follow up what you claim they do.
One shows Onslaught claiming he can do something, and then immediately revealing it's an illusion.
One shows Photon claiming that he can do something, then mentioning that if he doesn't expend the strength soon, he'll go nova.
One shows Surfer claiming that the Thing's strength is almost beyond his comprehension, then taking some time (that you don't really have) to match it. That's fine. Diana in her current state could outstrength Thing with a sneeze.
Nice to know that everyone who increased their strength through Photon will either have to try punching Diana or go nova. Sweet. With our spells and shields set up, if anything even remotely hurts us, it gets reflected on you. I like this system where you defeat yourself, and we watch.
Mental shields-
All you have scans of is masking presence from telepaths, and blocking out telepathic probing for info. We plan to do neither of those things.
We're simply, off the get go, mentally destroying anything that thinks. Nothing you've shown would be able to block out an all-encompassing mental override by Cassandra Nova.
Cloaking wouldn't matter for such an attack, but, incidentally, we'll know where you are anyways thanks to Zee and Di.
Energy Discharge
Only thing really worth mentioning here is that they note that it will require a mental trigger from Surfer to work. From the get go of the match, Surfer won't have the mental capacity to drool. All he has up are his and Photon's meager mind shields. Cassandra easily plowed through the entirety of mental blocking from Xavier, Jean Grey and the Shi'Ar empire with ease. All Photon did was evade detection from a telepath, and Surfer has been mentally trumped by Dr. Strange...
Magic
El Oh El- are you claiming that Genis would be more adept at manipulating magic than Zatanna?
Genis only countered an energy blast in the one solitary scan that you have that supports this. Nothing we've done is remotely in the context of what you've claimed to be able to counter, so the point is moot, unless you have scans of Genis performing fine manipulation of magic.
Furthermore, the entire notion that you'd be able to outperform Zee is pretty lawlz.
A quick jaunt to the respect thread...
Originally posted by Galan007
Zatanna freezes an entire room full of magic users
"one of the most powerful magicians in ANY dimension."
Originally posted by jrodslam
Due to the loss of magic in the DCU, many casters and magical beings have to combine efforts to gather high amounts of energy. Of everyone there, Zatanna appears to be the only one with the ability to summon the Spectre.
Originally posted by jrodslam
That literally took me two minutes to find a multitude of magical energy mastery feats that completely outclass yours.
Circe is too powerful a sorceress to be allowed in the tourney...
So... conclusion would be that Zatanna remains to be one of the most adept magical energy manipulators in the entirety of the DCU. While you have two Photons (somehow... ), we have two of her, which is far more impressive than somebody who once endured a single magical bolt of energy.
Once again, Id and Kandy prove their capacity to take one hyperbolic sentence, and put their tourney hopes and dreams on it.
