Board 8 > King of Mercenaries Rumble Topic 5: Neptune's Last Stand (maybe)

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I put the advantage on team Souichirou, drug addled fetch is... eh, and i can easily see kuzuki and ikaruga getting into melee where the other team is vulnerable.

Souichirou
for reasons stated.

I feel like Kuzuki's fighting style is basically perfect to wreck a drug addled enemy so yeah Kazuki's team has a pretty clear cut advantage if she's not a big deal.
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Yeah, Kuzuki
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harsh lookin homeroom teacher
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Snake styleD
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Hey
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What's up? just bumping it or something else Tom?

Yep
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RESULTS
Yukari: 5 new Pre 1 (10/10)
Ellie: 5 abil 2 (15/15)
Kojirou: 5/5 abil 2
J+C, FFIV, Fetch: DONE

Kuzuki: 10 new Pre (15/20)
Rizer: +1 life (26); 10/10 new SoB
Spelunky: 10/10 char
Kiritsugu: 5 abil (10/10); 5/20 new Pre
Ikaruga, Kaos: DONE

RETCON: Damsel was Rizer’s assist.
Week 40-3, High Tier

PEACE
Female Damsel assists Spelunky.

WAR
Rizer+ [+50% HP], Kuzuki, Kiritsugu, Ikaruga, Kaos, Spelunky+ w/Damsel
VS.
FFIV, Kojjirou, Fetch+, J&C, Ellie w/Yukari

Defer. Ellie whiffs, having exhausted her luck previously. Tsubame Gaeshi. Fetch is now the other guy. Final Hour, pumped to auto-KO on Rizer. Done. Kuzuki Snake Stylez that KO. Kiritsugu is the Mage Killer, and makes Rizer driven. Spelunky buys Damsel a Shotgun, and Rizer a Jetpack. Rizer burns 24 lives, using the boost. Everybody but Rizer will show you a dance cloaked in shadow.

[Stealth+Clothes] Rizer+ [+50% HP, Superhero, ++8 lives, Jetpack, no Ika], Kuzuki, Kiritsugu [Mage Killer], Ikaruga, Kaos, Spelunky+ w/Damsel [Shotgun]
VS.
FFIV, Kojjirou [Swallowz], Delsin, J&C, Ellie
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Rizer, Kuzuki, Kiritsugu, Ikaruga, Kaos, Spelunky, and Damsel have challenged FFIV, Kojirou, Delsin, J&C, and Ellie to a fight! Location of the fight: DUP Training Center - The training center Fetch fights in. Multi-leveled with plenty of cover and rooms, but fairly open, none of the defenses are present.

Bill Rizer is as he appears in Neo Contra and Contra Rebirth, with all of the weapons he can use in those games, as well as two Nukes from Contra III, though he doesn't necessarily die in one hit here. (He has 8 extra lives, and when he dies he will respawn where he died, though without losing any weaponry.) His health has been increased by 50%. He possesses a Jetpack from Spelunky HD. He will try to achieve victory in the most efficient, ruthless and riskless way, even if it means sacrificing allies.

Everybody on this first team EXCEPT Rizer is under this effect: They may begin the fight stealthed, invisible to the naked eye until either their first attack or when they are first hit, whichever comes first. However, will fight in generic t-shirt and shorts in their size, in team colours (unless their clothing is already composed of fabric) and will be subject to Senran Kagura-style fighting conditions; their clothing will be prone to tearing as it takes damage, to the point where enough abuse will leave them naked. At this stage they will be considered out of the fight, regardless of how much health they might actually have left. The change in clothing will not adversely affect the fighting ability of characters that normally rely on it to fight (i.e. Samus may still somehow use her arm cannon). Characters who normally fight without conventional clothing will begin the fight wearing generic t-shirt and shorts in their size. Both teams are aware of the conditions surrounding this mercenary.

Kuzuki Souichirou is seen as he is in the Fate series, with all enhancements permanently applied to him.

Kiritsugu is seen in Fate/Zero. He has access to rapid self-healing, due to his contract with Saber and possesses a bevy of assault weapons, SMGs and Sniper rifle as well as his usual assortment of grenades. He has full access to his Thompson Contender and associated mage killer bullets.

Ikaruga is as she appears through the Senran Kagura series, with access to all her techniques. She is max level and begins with five Ninja art scrolls, which will regenerate over time, at a similar rate to which they are collected in-game. She can restore her clothing's condition with a Shinobi Transformation.

Kaos is as seen in Skylanders: Trap Team in his final boss battle, with access to all of his powers seen within .

Spelunky Guy is as he appears in Spelunky HD, with his whip, 10 hearts, 20 bombs, 20 ropes, bomb paste, pitcher's mitt, climbing gloves, spike shoes, spring shoes, spectacles, Vlad's amulet, jetpack, crysknife, shotgun, and teleporter.

Female damsel is as she appears in Spelunky HD. She has a Shotgun from Spelunky HD.
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~VERSUS

Cecil, Kain, Edge, Rydia, Rosa, Palom&Porom, Yang, Cid, Edward, and Fusoya are as they appear in Final Fantasy IV Advance at max level. They are all equipped with their best character specific gear obtained from completing the Lunar Ruins and all trials from the Cave of Trials as many times as necessary to obtain them, with Fusoya having his starting gear. None of them may cast Death, Break, Tornado, Pig, Toad, Stop, Hold, Confuse, Mini, Berserk, or Teleport.

Sasaki Kojirou is as seen in Fate/Stay Night's Fate route. Unlike the game, he is allowed to move freely. He possesses an unbreakable and unbendable version of the 1.5 m long Laundry-Drying Pole and is allowed to use the ability Tsubame Gaeshi freely. Conventional weapons are allowed to affect him, despite his status as a servant.

Delsin Rowe is as seen in inFamous: Second Son, with maxed good karma, and all skills fully upgraded. He will have one full-replenish of all of his different resources at his team's starting position.

Jonathan and Charlotte are as they appear at the end of Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, with all relics. Jonathan is equipped with the True Vampire Killer, Final Sword, Alucard's Spear, Platinum Plate, Winged Boots and Hercules Ring, with all of his sub-weapons mastered. Charlotte is equipped with the Tome of Arms X, Robe Decolette, Silent Sandals and Sorceress Crest, with all of her spells other than summons and Time Stop. They have one use of [A legal Dual Crush].

Ellie is as she appears in the endgame of Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, equipped with the Pinaka and a Godly Emblem, with all Radiant skills other than Endless Act and Endless Song, and no Extra skills. Virion is an Assassin with the Command skills Grand Tack, Myriad Arrows, Thunder Strike, Inferno Strike, Overload, Power Charge and Stealth, as well as the Passive skills Bow Expertise EX, Elec Expertise, Fire Expertise, Absorb Elec, Shura's Soul, Dodge Feather and Pierce.
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invisible Kiritsugu with mage killer bullets is going to destroy the enemy's back line
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He only gets one shot before appearing, and i feel that appearing is going to be a detriment since the clothing = life clause means they are a fair bit weaker.

True, but he is near Batman tier of being able to exploit advantages and prep time.
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Seriously, Kiritsugu is a cold-blooded menace. You gotta respect that.

My main thing is... Kiritsugu's the only one who has a chance against Kojiro. Plus, Delsin is the real deal and probably isn't "magic."

Yeah, I gotta go with Delsin.
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Even with what i said, i mean this fight's rather close, because rizer's going to be a complete jerk the entire fight, because he has 1350% total life. (1+8 lives with +50%)

he could not rizer to this occasion
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eh, i always felt off on voting on the majority of fate characters.

i wonder why that tag from 3 weeks ago popped up again
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because you're the lightning expert
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maybe today, maybe tomorrow
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Or maybe even tomorrow!
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RESULTS
Yukari: 10 abil, DONE
Ellie: 10/20 new Trig
J&C, FFIV, Fetch: DONE
Kojirou: 10 to contract to Illusory 106 and Nation of Fools

Eliminated: Souichirou, Rizer, Spelunky, Kiritsugu, Ikaruga, Kaos

Entering: like forty people or smth

Edit: hey 41 I was close!

....I am going to hate this cycle but hey then we are in the playoffs! We have TWO matches next cycle for the first (and last) time since like cycle 7
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Since we're near the end, what people had the most impressive runs during this, and what were the biggest suprises?

Hm! Terra, Zero, Wesker, Lloyd, and Nep have had the deepest runs numerically. (I haven't run the numbers for the last few cycles, but I don't think we had any great runs lately) In addition, I feel like Annie and Rizer contributed more than I was expecting during their runs- I remember Annie getting several clutch KO's, and Rizer very nearly single-handedly dragged his team to victory despite a bad mismatch. Scanning the one-and-done guys, I would've expected President, Seymour, Tidus, and Lightning to fare better.
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I do remember Scorpion+Happy Mask was someone that was punching way above his weight back in the old weeks

Peanut gallery, what armor option should Terraria Player take?
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RULINGS/ON PURCHASE:
-Glass Joe will function like every other Merc, except that he gains 2 or 0 XP instead of 10 or 5. He is a cool idea but I'd either have to figure out a way to eliminate him or mess up my nice even 4 teams of 12 (although Slime will probably do that later anyway)
-Machamp takes Revenge, Poison Jab, Foresight, and Thunder Punch
-Last option on Devour is ignored
-All On Purchase genders are female, because Kanjifear > U-1fear
-Yandere is assumed to relink even if I don't specify it
-Beartic is named FFDragon
-Slime and the parents will be considered co-winners with their child if it wins the whole Rumble

ONE OF THESE MERCS (.or a related slimechild) IS YOUR KING OF MERCS RUMBLE CHAMPION

FFIV
Kojirou, Fetch, Flynn, Magnus
Julius, Artorias, Tusk, Beartic
Ashtar, ZE, Freddy
VERSUS
Nephalem, Donte
Winchester, J+C, Schicksal
Yuzuriha, Honoka, Brad, Lemeza, Machamp, Slime
R+J

~and~

No high tiers lol
Terraria, Golbez, Corrin, Jaesa, Tank
Ellie, Sensei
Operative, Okabe, Yandere, OS, Clementine
VERSUS
Grigori
Ramlethal
Mileena, Kanji, Geese, Nilin, Joe
Yukari, Oak, U-1, Monobear
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RIP Terraria
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I don't know, you could argue there's no high tier on the other team either.
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terraria dude can 1v1 grigori for sure
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but in which armor???
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Hmm, i'd say between the tank and golbez, there's more than enough front line there to hold in front of the opponent for a decent time, so either the Vortex armor (Near invis, boosts range damage with the space dolphin machine gun) or the nebula https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Nebula_armor which is easier to link because it does some serious fancy crap. (note, the max hp is 500/600 without/with buffs, and mana maxes at 200/400 so at max buff, 15 hp a second, and 30 mp a second is really impressive. being 3% hp a second and 7.5% mp.) the nebula also allows potential underground bs via digging underneath the enemy team and just dropping lunar flares till the opponent dies. Both have their advantages.

Perhaps Vortex then! But there's still time to debate.
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as long as we don't purge
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Eh, flip a coin, heads vortex, tails nebula. I'll argue the value of whatever one wins.

Fair enough
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some shining day
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will be in the next topic at this rate!
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but we'll go ahead and 500 this one
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because why not
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Boing
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Okay question. How do you like Kojirou's odds in his "block them for 1 min" sidetopic against any of these guys:
-Donte
-Nephalem
-Knight Blazer Ashley Winchester

on any of these terrains:
-Ryuudou Temple
-Illusory 106
-Nation of Fools
-Mt. Ordeals
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Can you give me descriptions of the terrains?

Temple is long narrow steps where he has home field advantage

106 is a multi level mall themed dungeon where non flyers can do a puzzle thing to climb between levels. Sharp corners.

Fools is j and c terrain with weird gravity

Ordeals is a big mountain from ff
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Does he have the Tsubame Gaeshi upgrade for that ability?
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Yes.

Also, now that I'm on my computer:

Ryuudou Temple - A mountainous temple on the edge of Fuyuki City, and the heart of its strong latent spiritual energy. The whole of the temple grounds as well as the steps leading up to it are accessible, but a boundary field is present prevents any entity from approaching from any direction sans the stairs.
(He has canon feats of holding the chokepoint very well, but a flyer could just go over him.)

Illusory 106 - A warped department store where access between floors may be manipulated by traversable posable dresses as well as flights of stairs. All doors are unlocked, teleporters are inactive, no Mirage will spawn and there is no access outside of the Idolasphere.
(Annoying terrain to traverse, especially if you can't fly or super jump. Could either be very easy or very hard depending on your definition of "get by" because it'll take work for groundbound folks to even make contact in the time allotted....but it's not very hard to get from one side of a floor to another.)

Nation of Fools - A deranged circus shaped like a square with the center of gravity located in the middle, making navigation disorientating. There are no monsters but the traps are still present.

Mt Ordeals - As seen in Final Fantasy IV. Cecil's team, or the defending team if he's not present, starts at the summit, the other team starts at the base. No enemies are present, and the Cave of Trials cannot be accessed.
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Also, the actual match will be in the next topic: https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75861949
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and right now the sidetopic is tied!
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