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With that said, I do think the Ubercharge is doing most of the work in the aforementioned train clip. I don't think that a non-Heavy merc could've done the same deed, but I also think the uber is absolutely tremendous in power. I think Heavy can hold off a lot, but only if not in horrible pain and also his organs are all still inside of his body and not a splattered mess.

KamikazePotato posted...

I'm gonna call this video into question, because Valve didn't make it. It's a community fan video that got upgraded to 'official' status because why not, saves the company work. Maybe that's enough to make things canon, but eh. Heavy tanking a train is more over-the-top than anything I would have expected from the comics or Valve-produced videos.

While I agree it's physically over-the-top...

The gang blows up Atlantis and then Medic outsmarts the devil to give him seven extra lives.

At the point where we start ignoring official fan contributions, we also have to start ignoring any community weapons that got promoted, maps that got promoted, and Vs Saxton Hale. And I don't have it in my heart to say that after it FINALLY got added as an official mode, Vs Saxton Hale isn't canon. I just can't do that.

Scorps is insanely adept at this terrain. Solo revenge missions against the Cyber Lin Kuei and fighting off the Special Forces means he's fought against gunfire with hellfire, and his spear has pierced straight through a helicopter before (MKX Johnny Cage chapter, I think?). The combination of that, his general undead-ness preventing bullets from being the insta-kill it would be on humans, and teleportation makes him REALLY good against pretty much everyone but Marina, whose whole thing is "wait for the tell, then throw it really, really hard".

Which is... basically what's gonna have to happen; Red has the means to properly fight against Heavy with Blastoise, Scorpion can at least keep Marina occupied, which leaves Sylvando and Lara open to either support their team or go in for the proper snipe of the other team's support core (Red and Sylvando, respectively). Which I respect the absolute Hell out of Sylvando to do.

https://youtu.be/Dy1GfhtjuVk#t=15m00s

(15:00 if it doesn't auto-link to there)

Dude's fast enough to killsteal against this sand monster that broke this wimpy prince's sword in the middle of it taking a swing at him, on top of his general support suite. If there's an opportunity to close the distance, he'll take it.

Espeon does not have teleport. However, it does have Magic Bounce, which passively reflects status moves. Which is pretty damn good.

General thoughts:

-I do not think that Heavy gets the ambush. Red essentially has six Pokemon to scout with and Scorpion is literally a ninja, tracking one Pokemon while remaining unseen is not gonna be a problem. Odds are likely that it's Pikachu or Charizard who acts as a scout. They die, definitely. But it likely prevents Heavy from the easy sweep.

-Sylvando's passive buffs give a crapton of longevity. However, if he gets taken out or hit by them, his team in a ton of trouble.

-Venusaur's status effects give a crapton of longevity. However, if she gets taken out or Red gets ganked, her team is in a lot of trouble.

-Blatoise has a good argument for being able to stall out Heavy. Combined Iron Defenses on his shell combined with Rapid Spin makes for him being able to properly stall things out.

-Marina will take an immediate advantage if the fight goes into close range, basically a free win against Snorlax and a horrible 1v1 for Scorpion (would hate to fight someone who actually yanks his spear back and wins). However, she's very possible to be ganked.

I do think this comes down to who ends up dying first - Red or Sylvando. Red needs to type match-up perfectly in order to get his team in an ideal position (basically Pikachu as a sac play, Blastoise to stall until Sylvando dies, Espeon or Venusaur as switches, not picking Snorlax he will lose), and Sylvando needs to make sure that Heavy doesn't take too much incoming damage from the enemy team's guns, or at least is regenning enough that he can continue with boolit.

Yes

How long can one of Bomberman's bombs remain un-exploded? Does he have any remote detonation options or things with a very long timer?

I think SuperBuff, Potentially Reviving Ryu is far, FAR beyond anyone's paygrade. Cao Cao has a chance to duel pretty decently, but his reaction speed is already beneath Ryu's, and his damage output would pale compared to "easily splits a waterfall", especially after buffs. Tron's gattling and bazooka are decent midrange options, and certainly I take a gatling gun over a child, but she could only really mow down one of Lucas or Glory with focused fire, leaving the other free to damage her.

However, if Bomberman can use the Servbots to essentially force Team Ryu to approach, there IS a very large cliff behind them. That is lethal enough to actually score a kill, but it's contingent on Ryu's team being the one who needs to approach, which is unlikely when they can just camp out and buff and Lucas knows "hey there's a cliff there." If there's a theoretical situation where Cao Cao can make a line in the flowers, and then the Servbots burn the other half of the flower field to force an advance, I think that the collateral from Bomberman's knockback will be able to rattle pretty much everyone but Tron in a very unfavorable position. That is, however, entirely a question of how feasible that is with Bomberman's bomb variants.

Johan

Ultimately I think that Bill's desire for self-satisfaction is an entirely different, more understandable evil (though on a grander scale) than Johan's desire to irreparably harm others and the world as a repayment for a true act of kindness given to him. I'd say that Bill has no concept of the value of life (or finds it funny), whereas Johan does, and chooses to snuff it out because it has value, which is more purposefully evil to me.

Donkey Kong Country

Metal Gear's also an acceptable answer, though.

Just to toss out a couple that haven't been mentioned yet

Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece)
Cioccolata (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)
The Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate 3)
M. Bison (Street Fighter)
Dr. Eggman (IDW Sonic Comics)
The Child Catcher (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)

Yes.

He's a funny little guy who just wants to play Mario Golf.

I play Kirby Super Star once every year just so it can be the best game I played every year.

So far it's only lost twice, once to me being a child and loving Banjo-Kazooie, and once to my first playthrough of Persona 4. And I'm pretty sure it wins at least one of those runbacks today.

Yes

Gets a really fantastic resolution in Yu-Gi-Oh R, too. Think it caps off both his and Joey's character arcs in an incredibly satisfying way, easily the best part of that run.

These are the only Pokemon who have shown up in a later gen and I've thought "oh neat a new Pokemon" despite definitely seeing them before:

Cherubi
Chingling
Maractus
Bergmite
Bounsweet (I do not remember this line having something that isn't the 'step on you' joke ever)
Pincurchin

I'd also say a lot of Gen 7 Pokemon who only appeared in Gen 7 like Minior might qualify from a pure public consciousness perspective. That might cause them to stand out to some people, but probably only those into ALL the Pokemon or REALLY into SuMo.

I like the balance between the two; if you make Squall receptive, you end up with a narrative where he's opening up for one person but constantly going back on it to be professional/a mopey idiot and he's not sure why. If you make him an ass, Rinoa treats him like everyone else where they get "oh this guy's a loser being sad on purpose" and she pushes that because of her own immaturity, and he doesn't understand why until he hits a breaking point. They're both stupid kids following stupid ideals, and having worked with a bunch of teens, it reminded me of those kinds of interactions a lot more than other games, and seeing it actually work out in the end made it work for me.

... I'll freely admit it's grating on patience outside of that context and doesn't create a necessarily well-paced story arc from it, though. Kids being stupid can be painful to watch.

Yes

Excellent chemistry with Squall, (I believe their meeting is the first time Squall laughs in the game?) both really have to work around their issues and attachments to others/fear of being attached to others to make anything work. Massive loser like the rest of the party, it's great.

Yes.

He's awful I love it.

If I was trying to have someone play as much of the series' big moments as possible while buying as few games as possible:

Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World (or just an NSO SNES sub, finishing Lost Levels optional)
Super Mario 3D All-Stars
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
Super Mario Maker 2
Super Mario Odyssey

I think that would land you pretty much all the styles of Mario platforming other than the original two Land games, which could be picked up with the same NSO sub (along with the NES versions of the SMAS games). Everything else I think is a solid "if you want more of this type of game, there are options" like Galaxy 2, 64DS, the other three New Soup games (Wii I think has the strongest historical precedent with the Koopalings returning in that game and being the 2D series' return to console after almost 20 years), 3D Land, but I think that would encapsulate Mario's career pretty nicely and let you make an informed estimation on how you'd like pretty much any of his other platformers.

Yoshi's Island is just there if you want to play it, really. It's the most 'bonus' game, but it's about as much of a Mario platformer as Super Paper Mario is, so like. Figure that one out for yourself, too.

The fact that Ben Campbell is perhaps not just as good of a singer as he was 25 years ago, but better is incredible.

DK fans will really sit for years and make the most amazing things on their own when no games are coming out.