leonidas
Digi wrote on Jul 31st, 2017 10:08 PM:
Digi's Writeup
My team:
- Jakita Wagner
- Aegis
- Storm
Remember that it's a full amalgamation, and full knowledge of power usage is assumed.
My amalgam name: Cersei Lannister
The Crux of It
Since drafts were randomly assigned, it's a small surprise to me that no one got totally hosed. That said, some certainly came out better than others. Like me.
The bulk of my strategy boils down to this:
1. Jakita >>> Wild Child, in ways that give me other advantages like dictating match pace and encounter style.
2. Aegis can tank anything Philo can do. Like, anything. With ease.
3. Storm > Crystal. And Thunder, for that matter. Granted, Crystal's power set is very similar, and she's no slouch. But even combining Crystal and Thunder's best feats, Storm's best sh*ts on them, and Jakita + Aegis perfectly compliment her and erase her usual weaknesses (see: durability).
And that's it. But that will be more than enough. Now let's get to the proving of it.
Jakita
She might be my "low meta" draft, but she's the fastest, strongest, most durable and most skilled person in this fight. All by a fair margin. She can fall from the top of this skyscraper:
http://imgur.com/wDSFYsJ
...and only be a bit sore:
http://imgur.com/SB1apMi
http://imgur.com/40srqfB
She can leap tall buildings in a single bound! I know, that's someone else's line. But seriously:
http://imgur.com/2n4DQwV
That's also a sick speed feat. After leaping probably 100 feet up, she closes that gap before the dude can even pull the trigger.
And she's fast. Like, really fast:
http://imgur.com/61XozyF
http://imgur.com/P6HeD0r
or
http://imgur.com/BnVPi3V
In that last one, for reference, that streak along the left in the third panel is her, and the effect is in the last panel.
I have a couple more if needed. For only having ~30 issues to her name, she racked up a lot of good feats. And I'd actually refer to her a low-level speedster.
So think about this for a moment: if I close the space gap between my character and Phil's (which I will), he has to show that Jakita wouldn't beat him to death in seconds. Like, literally, I can just cave his face in. And that's before my other two.
Aegis
Oh man, let me introduce you to this motherf---er. Aegis is worthless in a tourney...on his own. But in the right amalgam, he's amazing. Because he's a one-trick pony, but it's a REALLY good trick.
See, he has a breastplate created by Hephaestus of the Greek pantheon. It can create an impenetrable forcefield around the wearer, as well as a couple slightly more esoteric powers, all defensive in nature.
Let me just start off with this:
http://imgur.com/DmKoOnV
That scan doesn't lack context. It's not cropped to leave out something bad. Even the earlier punches from Herc that he says "sent him flying" didn't do any damage, and as soon as he figured out how to control it, Herc's punches were nothing. And he isn't, say, vulnerable to a different type of attack. It's just that good against everything. He no-sold Hercules, who is far beyond anyone's power level in this fight.
And this isn't an isolated feat. I actually have others that are better than this, but it's a useful starting point.
If Philo did his homework, he'll throw out a couple scans of Aegis getting hit. He was a dumb kid, and AoE attacks surprised him in his first few appearances before he figured out that he could, ya know, shield his entire person instead of just parts of it. I have ample evidence for this. And Jakita is also going to be the "one most in control" if there's a question of skill or battle-readiness, and this is a battle scenario where he's not going to go in half-cocked. Any time I have my shield up, which will be as often as possible minus attacks that require otherwise, it will be a full Herc-no-selling shield, which literally takes no more effort than any other shield Aegis has made.
Storm
We all know Storm. But depending on your X-knowledge, you may not know just how many stupid feats she's racked up. I'm not going to spam them all here, but a few representative ones are below. And I'm entirely confident I'll be able to go feat for feat with anything Phil posts without breaking a sweat. He'll need two of his drafts just to come close to one of mine, while my other drafts will turn Storm from a glass cannon into an impenetrable, unhurtable cannon.
So, feats. How would you like to die, Phil?
http://i.imgur.com/4wCU9c9.jpg
Suffocation? Seizure? Brain death? And yeah yeah, she's just talking there. But, for instance, she backs it up almost instantly in that issue:
http://imgur.com/E0ee7A5
http://imgur.com/q5KMnDZ
She has feats for the others too. Freeze you from the inside, for example? Easy. That's the kind of thing you hope your opponent calls you out on, because you have feats just waiting for them.
But maybe you buy that Crystal's control can counteract Storm's. To an extent, sure, a bit. I'm not delusional. But I'm going to be the agressor here, and Storm's control is in fact better.
But if it comes to it, I can simply overpower her. With Jakita, Aegis, or Storm. Good thing I have all three. But this is Storm's section in the writeup. Here's some power/scope feats:
Winds that can hold up a building (and immobilize Johnny Storm):
http://i.imgur.com/z5yK47c.jpg
LIGHTNING...
Single massive strikes:
http://imgur.com/ZEbYs9k
AoE
http://imgur.com/iarI4uJ
Or, ya know, this:
http://imgur.com/PHMOXH8
...which, yeah, lol, but hey, it happened.
And if things go to the air, I still dictate the battle with my flight speed:
http://i.imgur.com/hi7QQQq.jpg
Another "scope" feat, among dozens of others I could post:
http://imgur.com/1oIJLDP
http://imgur.com/yt2jjQW
Now, does Crystal have good feats? Of course. But the point is, "anything she can do, I can do better."
How I Do It
So the fight starts, shield is up in full, which will no-sell anything he does. Take that first speed feat I posted for Jakita, the one where she covers AT LEAST 0.5 kilometers before a dude can even stand up. So I close the 0.5 km gap between us with Jakita's speed in seconds (less?) and literally just unleash everything on him.
And since Storm won't be taking damage, I can focus her considerable powers into any and all attacks I've posted here, and others I can pull out if needed. So...non-stop barrage of punches, some infused with lightning strong enough to vaporize Philo, some to disrupt mental patterns, some backed with gale-force wind to simply take his head off, some while I freeze his heart from the inside.
Then if he manages a counter-attack, my shields are up and Jakita will laugh off most attacks, and Storm's elemental immunities will blunt most of his power anyway.
Whatever he has planned won't matter. I'm faster, stronger, my elemental control is better, and Storm is straight-up immune to about half of what Thunder and Crystal can do. And that's before my Aegis shield. And let's say for the sake of argument he gets through that, then Jakita is still the buffest in the fight, so I'm still capable of going blow for blow.
Philo's Plan??
He requested mountains in the nearby terrain while we were planning this tourney, and I'm guessing he knows a feat war is going to favor me, so he's likely going to try to equalize the playing field by, say, dropping a mountain on my dome. Just a guess, really, but not entirely uninformed imo.
My counter is pretty simple. I'll be on top of him before he has a chance to do anything fancy, so his concentration and ability to dictate the encounter will be nil. Second, some combination of Storm's powers (for example, the earlier scan of her holding up a damn building with nothing but wind) and Aegis's shield is going to turn whatever massive attack he has planned into a metaphoric love tap.
B-b-but Crystal Controls Stuff Too
She and Storm actually fought for half a second. Phil will likely post it. It was a stalemate while Storm was caught off guard and groggy from a punch. But it's better than going against Storm's best feats.
Btw, I have another direct comparison between them that sh*ts on Crystal, but I'm nearing my 10K character limit here.
Dotting My I's
Here's a feat of Storm having global scale with her powers:
http://imgur.com/XHNuYNy
I have about six more like that if needed.
I think we established that a city environment is somewhere nearby, and as much as she's able with the rest of the battle happening, I'm having Storm reach out to it to pull some very specific things toward the battle. I don't have all the scans yet for this part, but want to put this here to establish it as "canon" to my strategy. If I get to it, cool. If not, I'm good with the above strategy.
Where's the Twist
This is a friggin' straightforward battle strategy by my standards. But I also need to see what Philo is doing with his elementals. Storm has multiple immunities and Aegis has additional options to turn their attacks against them. But I won't know for sure until I see them. So there's going to be more. But for now, Cersei just unleashes hell until Philo's amalgam is a bloody stump. The Rains will Fall...
ECewrAld3zw
Digi's Writeup
My team:
- Jakita Wagner
- Aegis
- Storm
Remember that it's a full amalgamation, and full knowledge of power usage is assumed.
My amalgam name: Cersei Lannister
The Crux of It
Since drafts were randomly assigned, it's a small surprise to me that no one got totally hosed. That said, some certainly came out better than others. Like me.
The bulk of my strategy boils down to this:
1. Jakita >>> Wild Child, in ways that give me other advantages like dictating match pace and encounter style.
2. Aegis can tank anything Philo can do. Like, anything. With ease.
3. Storm > Crystal. And Thunder, for that matter. Granted, Crystal's power set is very similar, and she's no slouch. But even combining Crystal and Thunder's best feats, Storm's best sh*ts on them, and Jakita + Aegis perfectly compliment her and erase her usual weaknesses (see: durability).
And that's it. But that will be more than enough. Now let's get to the proving of it.
Jakita
She might be my "low meta" draft, but she's the fastest, strongest, most durable and most skilled person in this fight. All by a fair margin. She can fall from the top of this skyscraper:
http://imgur.com/wDSFYsJ
...and only be a bit sore:
http://imgur.com/SB1apMi
http://imgur.com/40srqfB
She can leap tall buildings in a single bound! I know, that's someone else's line. But seriously:
http://imgur.com/2n4DQwV
That's also a sick speed feat. After leaping probably 100 feet up, she closes that gap before the dude can even pull the trigger.
And she's fast. Like, really fast:
http://imgur.com/61XozyF
http://imgur.com/P6HeD0r
or
http://imgur.com/BnVPi3V
In that last one, for reference, that streak along the left in the third panel is her, and the effect is in the last panel.
I have a couple more if needed. For only having ~30 issues to her name, she racked up a lot of good feats. And I'd actually refer to her a low-level speedster.
So think about this for a moment: if I close the space gap between my character and Phil's (which I will), he has to show that Jakita wouldn't beat him to death in seconds. Like, literally, I can just cave his face in. And that's before my other two.
Aegis
Oh man, let me introduce you to this motherf---er. Aegis is worthless in a tourney...on his own. But in the right amalgam, he's amazing. Because he's a one-trick pony, but it's a REALLY good trick.
See, he has a breastplate created by Hephaestus of the Greek pantheon. It can create an impenetrable forcefield around the wearer, as well as a couple slightly more esoteric powers, all defensive in nature.
Let me just start off with this:
http://imgur.com/DmKoOnV
That scan doesn't lack context. It's not cropped to leave out something bad. Even the earlier punches from Herc that he says "sent him flying" didn't do any damage, and as soon as he figured out how to control it, Herc's punches were nothing. And he isn't, say, vulnerable to a different type of attack. It's just that good against everything. He no-sold Hercules, who is far beyond anyone's power level in this fight.
And this isn't an isolated feat. I actually have others that are better than this, but it's a useful starting point.
If Philo did his homework, he'll throw out a couple scans of Aegis getting hit. He was a dumb kid, and AoE attacks surprised him in his first few appearances before he figured out that he could, ya know, shield his entire person instead of just parts of it. I have ample evidence for this. And Jakita is also going to be the "one most in control" if there's a question of skill or battle-readiness, and this is a battle scenario where he's not going to go in half-cocked. Any time I have my shield up, which will be as often as possible minus attacks that require otherwise, it will be a full Herc-no-selling shield, which literally takes no more effort than any other shield Aegis has made.
Storm
We all know Storm. But depending on your X-knowledge, you may not know just how many stupid feats she's racked up. I'm not going to spam them all here, but a few representative ones are below. And I'm entirely confident I'll be able to go feat for feat with anything Phil posts without breaking a sweat. He'll need two of his drafts just to come close to one of mine, while my other drafts will turn Storm from a glass cannon into an impenetrable, unhurtable cannon.
So, feats. How would you like to die, Phil?
http://i.imgur.com/4wCU9c9.jpg
Suffocation? Seizure? Brain death? And yeah yeah, she's just talking there. But, for instance, she backs it up almost instantly in that issue:
http://imgur.com/E0ee7A5
http://imgur.com/q5KMnDZ
She has feats for the others too. Freeze you from the inside, for example? Easy. That's the kind of thing you hope your opponent calls you out on, because you have feats just waiting for them.
But maybe you buy that Crystal's control can counteract Storm's. To an extent, sure, a bit. I'm not delusional. But I'm going to be the agressor here, and Storm's control is in fact better.
But if it comes to it, I can simply overpower her. With Jakita, Aegis, or Storm. Good thing I have all three. But this is Storm's section in the writeup. Here's some power/scope feats:
Winds that can hold up a building (and immobilize Johnny Storm):
http://i.imgur.com/z5yK47c.jpg
LIGHTNING...
Single massive strikes:
http://imgur.com/ZEbYs9k
AoE
http://imgur.com/iarI4uJ
Or, ya know, this:
http://imgur.com/PHMOXH8
...which, yeah, lol, but hey, it happened.
And if things go to the air, I still dictate the battle with my flight speed:
http://i.imgur.com/hi7QQQq.jpg
Another "scope" feat, among dozens of others I could post:
http://imgur.com/1oIJLDP
http://imgur.com/yt2jjQW
Now, does Crystal have good feats? Of course. But the point is, "anything she can do, I can do better."
How I Do It
So the fight starts, shield is up in full, which will no-sell anything he does. Take that first speed feat I posted for Jakita, the one where she covers AT LEAST 0.5 kilometers before a dude can even stand up. So I close the 0.5 km gap between us with Jakita's speed in seconds (less?) and literally just unleash everything on him.
And since Storm won't be taking damage, I can focus her considerable powers into any and all attacks I've posted here, and others I can pull out if needed. So...non-stop barrage of punches, some infused with lightning strong enough to vaporize Philo, some to disrupt mental patterns, some backed with gale-force wind to simply take his head off, some while I freeze his heart from the inside.
Then if he manages a counter-attack, my shields are up and Jakita will laugh off most attacks, and Storm's elemental immunities will blunt most of his power anyway.
Whatever he has planned won't matter. I'm faster, stronger, my elemental control is better, and Storm is straight-up immune to about half of what Thunder and Crystal can do. And that's before my Aegis shield. And let's say for the sake of argument he gets through that, then Jakita is still the buffest in the fight, so I'm still capable of going blow for blow.
Philo's Plan??
He requested mountains in the nearby terrain while we were planning this tourney, and I'm guessing he knows a feat war is going to favor me, so he's likely going to try to equalize the playing field by, say, dropping a mountain on my dome. Just a guess, really, but not entirely uninformed imo.
My counter is pretty simple. I'll be on top of him before he has a chance to do anything fancy, so his concentration and ability to dictate the encounter will be nil. Second, some combination of Storm's powers (for example, the earlier scan of her holding up a damn building with nothing but wind) and Aegis's shield is going to turn whatever massive attack he has planned into a metaphoric love tap.
B-b-but Crystal Controls Stuff Too
She and Storm actually fought for half a second. Phil will likely post it. It was a stalemate while Storm was caught off guard and groggy from a punch. But it's better than going against Storm's best feats.
Btw, I have another direct comparison between them that sh*ts on Crystal, but I'm nearing my 10K character limit here.
Dotting My I's
Here's a feat of Storm having global scale with her powers:
http://imgur.com/XHNuYNy
I have about six more like that if needed.
I think we established that a city environment is somewhere nearby, and as much as she's able with the rest of the battle happening, I'm having Storm reach out to it to pull some very specific things toward the battle. I don't have all the scans yet for this part, but want to put this here to establish it as "canon" to my strategy. If I get to it, cool. If not, I'm good with the above strategy.
Where's the Twist
This is a friggin' straightforward battle strategy by my standards. But I also need to see what Philo is doing with his elementals. Storm has multiple immunities and Aegis has additional options to turn their attacks against them. But I won't know for sure until I see them. So there's going to be more. But for now, Cersei just unleashes hell until Philo's amalgam is a bloody stump. The Rains will Fall...
ECewrAld3zw