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We're gonna reach for the stars, hold the Colors: 4-A Base Sonic

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So as all of you may know, we currently don't accept Emerl scaling to the Final Egg Blaster. I think the reason behind this is fairly flawed, though I can understand where the idea may stem from. It's because Emerl began malfunctioning after having copied the power of the Final Egg Blaster, so I can understand why one may be hesitant to believe Emerl scales to it. However, that's why I'm here.

Counter Argument:
I would first like to note that for some reason, the page is under the impression that Emerl was malfunctioning only after absorbing/copying only a portion/fraction of the FEB's power rather than it being a result of it being its full power. This was never stated, it was only ever stated that Emerl had successfully copied its data and was in pain due to trying to contain the energy of the Final Egg Blaster. Occam's razor would dictate that Emerl copied the full power of the Final Egg Blaster as it is only ever noted that he successfully copied it.

Now to address the malfunctioning bit; As stated by Tails, Emerl had absorbed power beyond his limits, and his body couldn't contain it fully. Because of this, Tails believed that after Sonic beating him in combat, he'd die, likely as a result of his body being in too weak of a shape to contain the energy. But I would like to note that Shadow's comment after Emerl being defeated implies Tails was wrong (The first link in Counter Argument section). He didn't die because his body was in too weak of a state to contain the FEB's power, but because Gerald had programmed Emerl to destroy himself if he ever lost control. Which occurred the moment after he copied the FEB's power. This indicates that Emerl would have been able to live with the copied power of the Final Egg Blaster had it not been for the "safe switch" implemented by Gerald.

However, let's assume that's not the case, and that he would have died either way. This is no basis to not scale Emerl to the FEB. The fact he was able to contain that power and engage in several rounds of combat with Sonic and only died DUE to being weakend by Sonic meant he was momentarily able to contain the power. The issue would be managing it in the long run, which was the issue from the start. I don't think it's right to dismiss someone scaling because they would eventually succumb to their own power.

As an example. Picture someone growing in power uncontrollably. Say after reaching "Galaxy" levels of power, their growth stops as their body is incapable of maintaining that level of power for an extended period of time. While it is true their body would eventually fail, it is also true they are able to use/utilize this power while they are functional. It would simply be listed as "eventually Galaxy level" on the profile, with a note in the weakness section that the user would eventually succumb to the power.

I would say it's fair for Emerl who only ended up being destroyed as a combination of being defeated by Sonic and programming that causes him to off himself to scale to the full yield of the Final Egg Blaster for managing its power for an extended period of time. Especially if the only counter argument towards it is "He didn't absorb the full power" when that was never stated and "He was malfunctioning" when that can simply be noted as a weakness with his power still being reflected accurately within the profile.

However, if that's not satisfactory, Base cast should still scale off of the FEB post Sonic Battle as Eggman goes on to create Gemerl in the very next game. Gemerl is stated to be the Ultimate fighting robot who was made using the data of Emerl that Eggman had gathered after his defeat. Because of this, Gemerl should upscale from Emerl after having copied the power of the Final Egg Blaster as he's both made with his data, and stated to be his Ultimate fighting robot at the time (And should thus scale above the FEB which is one of Eggman's machines and Emerl who mimicked its power). Double so when you consider he wasn't programmed with the same weakness and was able to easily contain power far greater than anything Emerl managed at the end of the game, using the Chaos Emeralds to reach his own version of a Super state (Which scales to Tier 2).

In addition to that, Eggman in later games creates even more mechs and robots that he dubs his strongest invention yet (As well as a narration comment about one of them being the pinnacle of his creations). And given he created the Final Egg Blaster without any outside source such as the Emeralds, should know its power quite well. Especially after visually examining it destroying stars alongside Emerl.

Conclusion
Ultimate Emerl should scale to 4-A via copying the power of the Final Egg Blaster with it being noted on his profile that he simply can't sustain its power indefinitely. As well as a note that if he were to lose control he would destroy himself.

Sonic becomes 4-A for defeating Emerl.

Gemerl and anyone who scales to him and Sonic will be upgraded to 4-A post Sonic Battle/Advance 3.

Agree: 12 (@BlastX, @JJSliderman, @omegabronic, @It_is_i_wyatt, @JED, @Remus1998, @Mephistus, @Maverick_Zero_X [Fine with a likely rating], @LordGriffin1000, @DarkDragonMedeus [Fine with a likely rating], @CosmicWreck, @Starter_Pack [Fine with a likely rating])
Neutral: 9 (@ShakeResounding, @Theuser789, @The_Axiom_of_Virgo, @thetechmaster36, @ShadowWarrior1999, @Gilad_Hyperstar, @TyranoDoom30, @Elizhaa, @Psychomaster35)
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Agreed, could also be consistent with Sonic defeating Death Egg Robot in Forces that could make a starry dimension.
what the death egg robot made was a nullspace,not a starry dimension.
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nullspace is basically Infinite.
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Agree

There was no reason to assume that Emerl absorbed only a portion of the FEB's energy and couple that with the fact that he could fight Sonic even after his body began to fail him.
 
Agree

There was no reason to assume that Emerl absorbed only a portion of the FEB's energy and couple that with the fact that he could fight Sonic even after his body began to fail him.
Tbh, it seemed like it only started to fail after Sonic beat him rather than before. He was only in pain and returning to his original programming before. Also counted.
 
Neutral. I am still iffy on scaling Emerl to the FEB, and the arguments given didn't fully convince me. Plus I am wary of using "hype" statments to put other mechs above the FEB
 
Hype statements seem alright; given the Egg Blaster wasn’t even Eggman’s main plan in the game and was solely used to form a Link with Emerl.

Plus, with the original downscaling approach Emerl would probably still be much stronger than where he is currently, even if Emerl only absorbed a quadrillionth of the power of the blaster.
 
Gonna add that because 4-A has been rejected repeatedly over the years, we're gonna need more than the usual 3 staff count (more like 5, I'd say).

Anybody able and willing to tag more staff for this thread?
 
Gonna add that because 4-A has been rejected repeatedly over the years, we're gonna need more than the usual 3 staff count (more like 5, I'd say).
wait what? i don't think so, db recently had numerous rejected repeatedly topics put out over the years recently approved with 3 staff aprovals, we can apply it with 3, but yeah, i think tagging more staff would be cool
 
Eh? Well then... Nevermind, I guess.
I'm still iffy on this considering post-battle we've got multiple incidences of non 4-A feats that narratively would've killed the main cast;

*Infinite nuking the planet with a pseudo-sun in Forces.

*ABIS-core black hole in Riders ZG.

*The big SUCC! in Lost World

*Etc.

I don't mind upgrades but imo it's contrived to scale so many characters to a single tier 4-A feat (the next best base cast feat is Knuckles surviving a super massive black hole in Shuffle iirc which already contradicts the narrative of the cast dying to a smaller black hole in Riders ZG) ironically there's multiple tier 2 base cast feats.

I'm not fully convinced on this, so consider me neutral for the time being.
 
I'm still iffy on this considering post-battle we've got multiple incidences of non 4-A feats that narratively would've killed the main cast;

*Infinite nuking the planet with a pseudo-sun in Forces.

*ABIS-core black hole in Riders ZG.

*The big SUCC! in Lost World

*Etc.
Well, to be fair (and I don't mean this as though you're entirely wrong), AOE doesn't translate to AP most of the time, so feats having smaller AOE than what better feats have shown isn't necessarily indicative of said characters not being a certain tier.

This is kinda what happened with Moon Level Roshi a couple years ago, where the tier (5-C) finally got accepted despite there being no feats following this being even remotely on that level until early DBZ with Piccolo.

To the "Infinite nuking the planet with a pseudo-sun in Forces" point specifically - and seriously correct me on this if I am wrong, because frankly, I can't be assed to play or watch Forces for this context - that could be something akin to Infinite's power being imbued within this pseudo-sun, and thus would be powerful enough to actually defeat and/or kill the main cast as a result.

But with that said, there could definitely be a few antifeats you could pull from post-Battle games to disprove the notion of 4-A. So overall, count me as neutral.
 
I'm still iffy on this considering post-battle we've got multiple incidences of non 4-A feats that narratively would've killed the main cast;

*Infinite nuking the planet with a pseudo-sun in Forces.

*ABIS-core black hole in Riders ZG.

*The big SUCC! in Lost World

*Etc.
Big succ is life absorption hax, the characters were inside the black hole that would supposedly have destroyed them (and we already accept Astral Babylon as having moved light years away during the boss battle so it would have to be beyond planetary range regardless), Infinite nuking the planet is the same as Kid Buu’s planet burst ball not being locked to planet level despite having planet AOE.
 
Besides by that logic Low 4-C-4-C-High 4-C wouldn't count either since it's from one feat only.
 
Personally not 100% on this since I’m wary of hype statements. Though I’m fine with a likely/possibly rating I suppose.
I'm neutral but to play Devil's Advocate; Hype statements are fine so long as they're supported by the narrative, like our old friend Jiren (yeah I know, more context yadda yadda but you get the idea).

Infinite being stronger than the Egg Wizard, Solaris, etc. doesn't make much sense at all and is obviously unreliable. Scaling Infinite above Gemerl, Gemerl above Emerl, and Emerl to the power of the Final Egg Blaster seems like it would hold more water.
 
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Besides by that logic Low 4-C-4-C-High 4-C wouldn't count either since it's from one feat only.
The thing is there's a multitude of tier 5 support feats/lore also multipliers plus the gap between High 4-C and 4-B is bigger than the gap between 5-A to 4-C iirc but I digress.
 
The thing is there's a multitude of tier 5 support feats/lore also multipliers plus the gap between High 4-C and 4-B is bigger than the gap between 5-A to 4-C iirc but I digress.
Actually, the gap between H4-C and 4-B is smaller than the gap between 5-A to 4-C.
 
Neutral. I am still iffy on scaling Emerl to the FEB, and the arguments given didn't fully convince me. Plus I am wary of using "hype" statments to put other mechs above the FEB
While you have the right to be neutral, I feel you should elaborate on why in further detail. Saying "I'm iffy on it" just sounds like a more formal way of saying "It doesn't feel right, my gut says otherwise". I will cover the "hype" statements after I respond to the others.
I'm still iffy on this considering post-battle we've got multiple incidences of non 4-A feats that narratively would've killed the main cast;

*Infinite nuking the planet with a pseudo-sun in Forces.

*ABIS-core black hole in Riders ZG.

*The big SUCC! in Lost World

*Etc.

I don't mind upgrades but imo it's contrived to scale so many characters to a single tier 4-A feat (the next best base cast feat is Knuckles surviving a super massive black hole in Shuffle iirc which already contradicts the narrative of the cast dying to a smaller black hole in Riders ZG) ironically there's multiple tier 2 base cast feats.

I'm not fully convinced on this, so consider me neutral for the time being.
There's non 5-A feats that would have narratively killed the main cast too. I don't feel a few anti-feats should be enough to dismiss a tier. Especially in these case because

*You could argue that's not even continent level given the size. This isn't really fair since this an attack intended to only kill the resistance, not blow up Earth. This is simply a case of small DC but higher AP which isn't uncommon in Sonic (Most of the cast suffers the exact same issue).

*Surviving a Black Hole is considered High 3-A in the wiki. If anything, this in and of itself would prove to be an outlier (Tho there is merit to Tier 2 Sonic given a multitude of feats). Speaking of black holes, Sonic lived through extended exposure to one in colors without dying. As did Eggman (Though likely due to his Egg Mobile?). A massive one at that, which was calculated at 4-B IIRC.

*Are you referring to Eggman absorbing the planets life force? Nothing dictates that's only Planet level, and if we're arguing that, we could say the current Star level ratings have the same issue due to the giant gap. It's also funny you mention it because it has some of the biggest evidence for being above the FEB.

Another Black Hole feat, which again would be High 3-A based on VSB standards. The energy to generate and move it? Not High 3-A, but the energy to survive in one is.

Anyway, there's feats from Eggman that support this rating. Like Eggman escaping into Null Space with stars and galaxies in the background. Or Eggman creating a device in IDW that holds a reality with stars in the background. Keep in mind, the latter was infinite in size as it would be able to contain an infinitely expanding maze. There's also Sonic beating Erazor Djinn after tearing apart stories and absorbing them, some of which contain starry skies. So 4-A isn't as farfetched as one would think.
I'm neutral but to play Devil's Advocate; Hype statements are fine so long as they're supported by the narrative, like our old friend Jiren (yeah I know, more context yadda yadda but you get the idea).

Infinite being stronger than the Egg Wizard, Solaris, etc. doesn't make much sense at all and is obviously unreliable. Scaling Infinite above Gemerl, Gemerl above Emerl, and Emerl to the power of the Final Egg Blaster seems like it would hold more water.
I agree, infinite's statements of being Sonic's strongest enemies shouldn't include characters Super Sonic fought. Just Sonic, as in Base Sonic. Not to mention Infinite's already hundreds of times stronger than Sonic's current rating (Though that will be for another thread with big multipliers).
Personally not 100% on this since I’m wary of hype statements. Though I’m fine with a likely/possibly rating I suppose.

@DarkDragonMedeus @Elizhaa @LordGriffin1000 Thoughts?
I think it should be flat out. And while I can get not believing blank statements of just being his greatest invention with no context, some of these undoubtedly hold water. Let me list the most important ones:

The Egg Dragoon is called by a narrative source to be the pinnacle of mad science from Eggman. He had puts YEARS of effort and studying into this machine specifically with the goal of beating him in mind. It even held out against an AMPED Sonic (Dark Gaia's energy). It wouldn't quite make sense for it to have be designed to be stronger than some of his weaker inventions as opposed to his strongest ones. I mean if the man can casually design a Multi-Solar weapon that uses the Death Egg as a fuel source (Meaning the Death Egg in and of itself possesses 4-A energy), then why would the pinnacle of his work not be of greater power?

The Nega Wisp armor is explicitly referred to as special compared to all his creations in that it's "invincible", with Tails believing they didn't stand a chance against it. This holds some merit given Sonic needed to combine his power with several Wisps to successfully take it down, and it used a source that Eggman was stated to be beyond anything he had ever seen before. It scaling to 4-A also seems like a given.

The Egg Robo at the end of Lost World is called his ultimate fighting machine and it has destructive power that Eggman stated wasn't able to be measured. This is coming from the guy who created a 4-A device. It would absolutely upscale from the FEB.

I think flat out 4-A is warranted, at absolute worst likely 4-A, but I think that's pushing it.
 
Surviving a Black Hole is considered High 3-A in the wiki.
Another Black Hole feat, which again would be High 3-A based on VSB standards. The energy to generate and move it? Not High 3-A, but the energy to survive in one is.
Surviving a black hole is not considered High 3-A, it's considered a resistance to what black holes do to those who are affected by it, i.e. spaghettification. Black holes are essentially dura negging phenomena, so surviving one wouldn't grant you blunt durability, it would grant you a resistance to that form of dura neg.

I'd just like to point that out, the other things you said are okay imo
 
Surviving a black hole is not considered High 3-A, it's considered a resistance to what black holes do to those who are affected by it, i.e. spaghettification. Black holes are essentially dura negging phenomena, so surviving one wouldn't grant you blunt durability, it would grant you a resistance to that form of dura neg.

I'd just like to point that out, the other things you said are okay imo
I understand that it's treated as black hole resistance, but only because it would otherwise be a High 3-A outlier for many verses. As noted on the Black Hole page. The way is was argued here is that it was somehow below 4-A to be killed by a Black Hole when that isn't the case.
 
I honestly don't have much of an opinion on this, I'm not a sonic buff so I can't argue consistency. If the knowledgeable sonic members agree, I don't have any issue.
 
more formal way of saying "It doesn't feel right, my gut says otherwise".
What's the problem with that? I'm not staff, so my opinion isn't that relevant, and I don't have the free time to argue for a topic I don't have strong opinions of. So yes, I will stay neutral here because I don't feel the arguments proposed are that valid.

However, I will say this is similar scaling to what we already do for the Eclipse Cannon. Except for that we got emerald scaling to support it, while this is mainly just hype statments not directed towards the FEB
 
Tbh Emerald scaling is kind of flawed as a concept since their feats run the gambit, I’d argue the hype statements are more reliable since it’s directly comparing one piece of Eggman tech to another in a chain. As opposed to chaos emeralds counts less than 7 having feats ranging from large planet to multi+ at random.
 
What's the problem with that? I'm not staff, so my opinion isn't that relevant, and I don't have the free time to argue for a topic I don't have strong opinions of. So yes, I will stay neutral here because I don't feel the arguments proposed are that valid.

However, I will say this is similar scaling to what we already do for the Eclipse Cannon. Except for that we got emerald scaling to support it, while this is mainly just hype statments not directed towards the FEB
I guess in the end non staff votes won't matter, but I still feel saying "I don't feel the arguments are valid" without reason/counter evidence isn't very constructive. I feel if you feel neutral on the topic for your reasons, you'd have just not voted at all.

This isn't just hype statements tho. Emerl scaling to the FEB for absorbing its power successfully is the main crux of the argument. Statements about Eggmans layer devices being stronger and behind what he can measure is just strong supportive evidence.

But I won't pester you anymore, ill keep you in neutral as per your demand
 
Now to address the malfunctioning bit; As stated by Tails, Emerl had absorbed power beyond his limits, and his body couldn't contain it fully. Because of this, Tails believed that after Sonic beating him in combat, he'd die, likely as a result of his body being in too weak of a shape to contain the energy. But I would like to note that Shadow's comment after Emerl being defeated implies Tails was wrong (The first link in Counter Argument section). He didn't die because his body was in too weak of a state to contain the FEB's power, but because Gerald had programmed Emerl to destroy himself if he ever lost control. Which occurred the moment after he copied the FEB's power. This indicates that Emerl would have been able to live with the copied power of the Final Egg Blaster had it not been for the "safe switch" implemented by Gerald.
No. It doesn't indicate that. Even if he did die from the safe switch, Tails still said he couldn't contain it, and Shadow never said that he could contain it either. Tails is also a mega-genius and therefore more reliable.
However, let's assume that's not the case, and that he would have died either way. This is no basis to not scale Emerl to the FEB. The fact he was able to contain that power and engage in several rounds of combat with Sonic and only died DUE to being weakend by Sonic meant he was momentarily able to contain the power. The issue would be managing it in the long run, which was the issue from the start. I don't think it's right to dismiss someone scaling because they would eventually succumb to their own power.
Sonic was supposed to inflict damage on the already unstable Emerl, who as previously established couldn't contain the power, and was being destroyed because of that. So Sonic's a.p in this scene might not even scale to Emerl's durability, which doesn't scale in full to FEB.
As an example. Picture someone growing in power uncontrollably. Say after reaching "Galaxy" levels of power, their growth stops as their body is incapable of maintaining that level of power for an extended period of time. While it is true their body would eventually fail, it is also true they are able to use/utilize this power while they are functional. It would simply be listed as "eventually Galaxy level" on the profile, with a note in the weakness section that the user would eventually succumb to the power.
If their body can't maintain it their dura doesn't scale, and Sonic never canonically engaged in any punch clashes with Emerl, or anything that would mean his A.P scales.
However, if that's not satisfactory, Base cast should still scale off of the FEB post Sonic Battle as Eggman goes on to create Gemerl in the very next game. Gemerl is stated to be the Ultimate fighting robot who was made using the data of Emerl that Eggman had gathered after his defeat. Because of this, Gemerl should upscale from Emerl after having copied the power of the Final Egg Blaster as he's both made with his data, and stated to be his Ultimate fighting robot at the time (And should thus scale above the FEB which is one of Eggman's machines and Emerl who mimicked its power). Double so when you consider he wasn't programmed with the same weakness and was able to easily contain power far greater than anything Emerl managed at the end of the game, using the Chaos Emeralds to reach his own version of a Super state (Which scales to Tier 2).
Wasn't the FEB destroyed? Eggman was also K.Oed during that fight so he couldn't have gathered data then.
In addition to that, Eggman in later games creates even more mechs and robots that he dubs his strongest invention yet (As well as a narration comment about one of them being the pinnacle of his creations). And given he created the Final Egg Blaster without any outside source such as the Emeralds, should know its power quite well. Especially after visually examining it destroying stars alongside Emerl.
Eggman is the type of person to hype himself tons without the merit to back it up. And the narrative statements like from Forces were confirmed Hyperbole by Ian Flynn.
 
Eggman is the type of person to hype himself tons without the merit to back it up. And the narrative statements like from Forces were confirmed Hyperbole by Ian Flynn.
Ian also considers it hyperbole that surge saying "my speed of light" even though it is consistent that sonic is faster than light,again don't think that will count either
 
If their body can't maintain it their dura doesn't scale, and Sonic never canonically engaged in any punch clashes with Emerl, or anything that would mean his A.P scales.
that will be with overtime,not instantly,is like resistance to abilities,if you are able to resist them,even if you are succumb at them,that will give you limited resistance
 
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