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Final Fantasy 16 discussion thread

Actually thinking on it I don't think I agree with immeasurable speed at all, The Ultima were at threat of the blight which very much moves at finite speeds, and travelling to another part of the planet to escape it was deemed beyond the limits of their physical bodies which is why they had to become spirits. I can, begrudginly, accept Low 1-C, but I can't see how full power Ultima and endgame Clive would be immeasurable, feels like you really gotta strech it to say they're fast enough to move through time on a whim via sheer speed.
Same I don't buy low 1-C or immeasurable, heck as you said the immeasurable would literally be plot breaking for ultima to fear something as finite as the spread of the blight, bro wouldn't even need to try and amass a new vessel and build all of this magic to cast raise on his race if he could simply just time travel back to them via sheer speed and say be careful about this blight shit
 
Same I don't buy low 1-C or immeasurable, heck as you said the immeasurable would literally be plot breaking for ultima to fear something as finite as the spread of the blight, bro wouldn't even need to try and amass a new vessel and build all of this magic to cast raise on his race if he could simply just time travel back to them via sheer speed and say be careful about this blight shit
Tbf, the blight is like their kryptonite is it not? doesn’t it erode all magic? the only way to stop it is to stop using magic all together. i dont see how being low 1-c or immeasurable is contradictory of that in a way that already isn’t contradicting the values we already have.
 
Tbf, the blight is like their kryptonite is it not? doesn’t it erode all magic? the only way to stop it is to stop using magic all together. i dont see how being low 1-c or immeasurable is contradictory of that in a way that already isn’t contradicting the values we already have.
Its something thats finite and spreads slowly over time, time being the key factor here, it takes finite time to spread. If you're immeasurable then something that is finite is no threat to you when you can just keep jumping back in time to where it has not yet spread
 
Its something thats finite and spreads slowly over time, time being the key factor here, it takes finite time to spread. If you're immeasurable then something that is finite is no threat to you when you can just keep jumping back in time to where it has not yet spread
yeah but it’s not like the blight is a combatant, wasn’t it like a threat their like way of living and not actually them? if’s been a while since i’ve played the game tho but iirc unless u want them to keep going back in time lol.
 
yeah but it’s not like the blight is a combatant, wasn’t it like a threat their like way of living and not actually them? if’s been a while since i’ve played the game tho but iirc unless u want them to keep going back in time lol.
The blight nearly drove the Ultimas to extinction, the 16 we see in the game are the only surviors that managed to successfully flee from their original homeland when the blight first appeared, the rest of their species were killed by it.
 
The blight nearly drove the Ultimas to extinction, the 16 we see in the game are the only surviors that managed to successfully flee from their original homeland when the blight first appeared, the rest of their species were killed by it.
This^^^

The literal whole reason Ultima made this contrived plan and made humanity was to amass enough magical power and have a vessel strong enough needed to cast "Raise" to revive his fallen race
 
Just wait for Clive to get the inevitable Dissidia buffs or we inflate the Omega feat of destroying all of creation to 2-A. He will finally not be a FF1 White Mage victim.
 
Just wait for Clive to get the inevitable Dissidia buffs or we inflate the Omega feat of destroying all of creation to 2-A. He will finally not be a FF1 White Mage victim.
"Dissidia buffs" Clive truly has it rough if this is the best hes getting
 
Maybe we could do something like

Idk just workshopping.
Could swap endgame to "completed vessel" since by the end he has everything from every eikon including leviathan and was given some of Ultima's power too. He also absorbs the Phoenix completely at the very end so yeah I'd say "completed vessel" works
 
I think it's pretty obvious to give him leviathan stuff for his "completed vessel" key too. Is there a consensus on whether or not to give him Ultima's stuff that he gets after the dlc?
 
I think it's pretty obvious to give him leviathan stuff for his "completed vessel" key too. Is there a consensus on whether or not to give him Ultima's stuff that he gets after the dlc?
Yeah since all of that DLC stuff happens right before they confront Ultima at the end so yeah
 

Fyi the realm he creates is a mindscape.
"In order to further test the strength of the vessel 'Mythos,' Ultima lured both Clive and Joshua deep into the shadowy depths of his fractured mind, where he faced the brothers clad in the remnants of his erstwhile flesh—the Infernal Eikon." and "A place beyond time and space—termed both a "rift between worlds" and "our darkness" by its creator."
In game text.

To further this. The whole point of FFXVI's conflict is that Ultima could not save his CONTINENT. He is from the same planet. Not from anywhere else. If he could create a starscape the story's conflict wouldn't have taken place. Eikon's are described as a country level threat. This is fine. Bahamut might be considered slightly stronger than your average Eikon based on some statements and series presence but truthfully there's nothing really supporting that. However, Aether-gorged Bahamut is another ballgame and is likely second only to Ifrit Risen and is likely continental atp. The statement, "He would burn the world!" is just a statement and not something said with intentional exactness. If I saw an attack coming to my planet that would likely glass the entire side I was residing on (but not destroy it) I would still say that, and it that kind of attack would be multi-continental. The problem with statements and taking them literally is how people speak. Nobody's going to say, "omg he's going to destroy multiple continents with that!" It just doesn't roll off the tongue very well nor is dramatic. And again, "He would burn the world!" is a very qualifying statement for that. And frankly, someone who is "just" continental could burn the world in a reasonable amount of time. Character's in stories aren't powerscaling constantly nor say things with that kind of intent.
The end of this is; Ultima could not save his continent with his magic = less than continental? Ultimalius was ALWAYS an option to him. Ultima wasn't his combat form to begin with, so he doesn't upscale or downscale from it. And he doesn't fight you as it ever, so let's not bother arguing about that (just pre-empting it). And we can't say; "His magic wasn't suited for it." Because Clive does it using HIS power + his own. Bro just needed more. He claimed as much and it was demonstrated. Bahamut + Ifrit + Phoenix were roughly equal to Ultima Risen. If slightly beneath, but it was enough to get Ultima out of that form. Ifrit Risen beats Primal Risen and Clive beats Ultimalius. Which makes this hard to scale specifically since Aether-gorged Bahamut also lost to Ifrit Risen as well (with a lot of effort). I'm comfortable stating all 3 are at least continental though with post-Ultima absorbed Clive being multi-continental or possibly even planetary. Hard to say, he had no intent to destroy the planet and he was really just deleting magic on the planet. So perhaps somewhere between multi-continental and planetary. With Enhanced Bahamut and Ultima Risen being continental.

Also, Beams are not lasers. Do not treat them like lasers. However, the guide does say Clive canonically time stops and time slows with various Shiva and Odin abilities, so there's that.
 
Fyi the realm he creates is a mindscape.
"In order to further test the strength of the vessel 'Mythos,' Ultima lured both Clive and Joshua deep into the shadowy depths of his fractured mind, where he faced the brothers clad in the remnants of his erstwhile flesh—the Infernal Eikon." and "A place beyond time and space—termed both a "rift between worlds" and "our darkness" by its creator."
In game text.
Yeah, but it's still a real tangible realm that exists given it's noted to be a place beyond time and space and is a rift between other dimensions, Clive, Joshua, and Torgal were able to be physically teleported there and Ultima's old physical body even remains there. Mindscapes can be used for scaling so long as they're treated like an actual realm like FF16 does with the interdimensional rift.

To further this. The whole point of FFXVI's conflict is that Ultima could not save his CONTINENT. He is from the same planet. Not from anywhere else. If he could create a starscape the story's conflict wouldn't have taken place.
The blight is a result of using magic, creating another realm like the interdimensional rift wouldn't solve the issue since if they started using magic there they'd just bring about the blight again which is why they didn't just make the interdimensional rift and chill in there for all eternity. Not to mention creating a new world free of the blight at all was just the half of it, the other purpose of Ultima's plan was to revive their race since most of them were killed by the blight.

Eikon's are described as a country level threat. This is fine. Bahamut might be considered slightly stronger than your average Eikon based on some statements and series presence but truthfully there's nothing really supporting that. However, Aether-gorged Bahamut is another ballgame and is likely second only to Ifrit Risen and is likely continental atp
Well, yeah. We've already accounted for this by having the stronger Eikons be small country level based on some calcs and Ifrit Risen / Bahamut amped by a mother crystal being Multi-Continental.

The statement, "He would burn the world!" is just a statement and not something said with intentional exactness. If I saw an attack coming to my planet that would likely glass the entire side I was residing on (but not destroy it) I would still say that, and it that kind of attack would be multi-continental. The problem with statements and taking them literally is how people speak. Nobody's going to say, "omg he's going to destroy multiple continents with that!" It just doesn't roll off the tongue very well nor is dramatic. And again, "He would burn the world!" is a very qualifying statement for that. And frankly, someone who is "just" continental could burn the world in a reasonable amount of time. Character's in stories aren't powerscaling constantly nor say things with that kind of intent.
Ok I'm not sure what your point is here, we've already accepted Ifrit Risen and amped Bahamut as Continental via that statement.

The end of this is; Ultima could not save his continent with his magic = less than continental? Ultimalius was ALWAYS an option to him. Ultima wasn't his combat form to begin with, so he doesn't upscale or downscale from it. And he doesn't fight you as it ever, so let's not bother arguing about that (just pre-empting it). And we can't say; "His magic wasn't suited for it." Because Clive does it using HIS power + his own. Bro just needed more. He claimed as much and it was demonstrated.
The blight isn't something that can just be blown away with physical force, you step into an area covered in blight and it stops anyone from using magic, and it's magic that brings the blight in the first place so using magic to get rid of it is pointless since using that magic will just bring more blight, which will eventually stop the use of magic and make the land inhabitable and start killing all life as a result. Flying away and nuking it from a distance at best just delays it's spread, it's a hax based problem. Plus if you wanna go the route of Ultimalius not below planetary or something for being unable to save his contienent from the blight, you may as say he's not even building level given the blight spreads slow enough it takes time to engulf a few hundred meters.

Bahamut + Ifrit + Phoenix were roughly equal to Ultima Risen. If slightly beneath, but it was enough to get Ultima out of that form.
Ultima Risen was basically clowning on them the entire fight, they were at best a minor annoyance to him not roughly equal or only just slightly beneath him which was best shown by him casually creating a barrier that no sold their Tri-Attack and then shortly after showing up to Clive and Joshua unharmed after he dealt with Bahamut.

Also, Beams are not lasers. Do not treat them like lasers. However, the guide does say Clive canonically time stops and time slows with various Shiva and Odin abilities, so there's that.
We treat them like lasers for several reasons, spefically the ones that Clive dodges / reacts to act very similar to lasers, moving in a straight line, burning on contact, etc...). We don't just say any beam is a laser just a few specific ones.
 
I basically have all the same thoughts as Dust here myself, also your whole point of him having that much power being narrative breaking makes 0 sense, Ultima's goal isn't to destroy the planet and being and X amount of strength doesn't matter to whether or not he is fast enough to like travel space or something so it really makes no sense as to why him being X power would contradict the story, hell him just being able to create Bahamut, Odin, and Shiva alone is narrative breaking by your logic since one can burn the world with that being a High 6-A (which take at its actual highest up most could even means he vapes it meaning 5-B), Odin can literally cut literal space itself, and Shiva can freeze time over large areas so then if the solution was something that could be solved with him using magic like them like the stuff they have access too It'd be narrative breaking but guess what they can't and so something like creating another dimension doesn't help to escape the blight and in another note if Bahamut being strong enough to wipe the planet potentially would also mean he is in that category of being narrative breakingly strong which it obviously isn't but you can't praise bahamut for this feat but ignore in the context a weakened husk of Ultima was the one who made him this strong to begin with.


Funny enough too Ultima also created the arete stones too which are stated to not be bound by the fundamental laws of time and the hall of virtue Clive is transported too is also another dimension as well so I'm not sure why you're so suprised ultima can make his own dimensions when the gamss also says as much for the interdimensional rift its treated as a actual physical space
 
Yeah, but it's still a real tangible realm that exists given it's noted to be a place beyond time and space and is a rift between other dimensions, Clive, Joshua, and Torgal were able to be physically teleported there and Ultima's old physical body even remains there. Mindscapes can be used for scaling so long as they're treated like an actual realm like FF16 does with the interdimensional rift.


The blight is a result of using magic, creating another realm like the interdimensional rift wouldn't solve the issue since if they started using magic there they'd just bring about the blight again which is why they didn't just make the interdimensional rift and chill in there for all eternity. Not to mention creating a new world free of the blight at all was just the half of it, the other purpose of Ultima's plan was to revive their race since most of them were killed by the blight.


Well, yeah. We've already accounted for this by having the stronger Eikons be small country level based on some calcs and Ifrit Risen / Bahamut amped by a mother crystal being Multi-Continental.


Ok I'm not sure what your point is here, we've already accepted Ifrit Risen and amped Bahamut as Continental via that statement.


The blight isn't something that can just be blown away with physical force, you step into an area covered in blight and it stops anyone from using magic, and it's magic that brings the blight in the first place so using magic to get rid of it is pointless since using that magic will just bring more blight, which will eventually stop the use of magic and make the land inhabitable and start killing all life as a result. Flying away and nuking it from a distance at best just delays it's spread, it's a hax based problem. Plus if you wanna go the route of Ultimalius not below planetary or something for being unable to save his contienent from the blight, you may as say he's not even building level given the blight spreads slow enough it takes time to engulf a few hundred meters.


Ultima Risen was basically clowning on them the entire fight, they were at best a minor annoyance to him not roughly equal or only just slightly beneath him which was best shown by him casually creating a barrier that no sold their Tri-Attack and then shortly after showing up to Clive and Joshua unharmed after he dealt with Bahamut.


We treat them like lasers for several reasons, spefically the ones that Clive dodges / reacts to act very similar to lasers, moving in a straight line, burning on contact, etc...). We don't just say any beam is a laser just a few specific ones.
Sorry, but it's a mindscape. I don't accept creating a starscape for it. Doesn't matter if Clive and co got moved there. You can do anything in a mindscape, and furthermore as it's a complete outlier it stands against the grain. If the rest of the story was even close, sure. But it's not. You won't get me to budge on this. It's just a mindscape, no creation feat. It is, by design, not the same as creating physical matter or physical space. And it's ridiculous for you to think otherwise and draws all your other conclusions in to question.

Yeah, I figured you guys scaled them to small country through multi-continental. I was simply stating my position how I see the series. It was for context. Not a challenge.

Good thing I never mentioned blowing the blight away by force and only mentioned magic multiple times and it was removed by magic. Good talk. And because I never said anything about physical force it really renders your building level comment void as it's not relevant.

Saying Ultima Risen was clowning on them is an extreme exaggeration. There's a reason he got dunked by Bahamut's sacrificial beams which aren't even his strongest attack. He was winning, he had the advantage, but he couldn't one or two or three shot them. It's not enough to significantly scale him higher. Just like in real life when you're losing to someone stronger and faster than you doesn't upgrade a human beyond wall level.

I just know Bahamut's attacks are named as beams. They are beams of "light" though. That being said, Plasma also kind of does everything you're mentioning too. Whether it travels in a straight line is a piece of evidence but not the whole picture since they can control the shape of their attacks. Which is normal for fiction media.
 
I basically have all the same thoughts as Dust here myself, also your whole point of him having that much power being narrative breaking makes 0 sense, Ultima's goal isn't to destroy the planet and being and X amount of strength doesn't matter to whether or not he is fast enough to like travel space or something so it really makes no sense as to why him being X power would contradict the story, hell him just being able to create Bahamut, Odin, and Shiva alone is narrative breaking by your logic since one can burn the world with that being a High 6-A (which take at its actual highest up most could even means he vapes it meaning 5-B), Odin can literally cut literal space itself, and Shiva can freeze time over large areas so then if the solution was something that could be solved with him using magic like them like the stuff they have access too It'd be narrative breaking but guess what they can't and so something like creating another dimension doesn't help to escape the blight and in another note if Bahamut being strong enough to wipe the planet potentially would also mean he is in that category of being narrative breakingly strong which it obviously isn't but you can't praise bahamut for this feat but ignore in the context a weakened husk of Ultima was the one who made him this strong to begin with.


Funny enough too Ultima also created the arete stones too which are stated to not be bound by the fundamental laws of time and the hall of virtue Clive is transported too is also another dimension as well so I'm not sure why you're so suprised ultima can make his own dimensions when the gamss also says as much for the interdimensional rift its treated as a actual physical space
He created regular Bahamut, not amped Bahamut. Amped Bahamut was the one that got that statement and the statement itself is already questionable. You're 3 degrees of reaching here, nevermind that we're talking about magical power here... not strength or speed...

Where was it stated weakened Ultima created them?

How is the interdimensional space just like a physical space? Don't say, "Because they can move" it's a mindscape, of course they can move. There's nothing saying they can't. Nothing conflicts with physical interaction. In fact, you can have him travel 15b km in that space if you want, it's still not a physical space and doesn't get created under the same rules.

Odin is statements man. He proved nothing.

The arete stones, by my aforementioned logic, change nothing.
 
Sorry, but it's a mindscape. I don't accept creating a starscape for it. Doesn't matter if Clive and co got moved there. You can do anything in a mindscape, and furthermore as it's a complete outlier it stands against the grain. If the rest of the story was even close, sure. But it's not. You won't get me to budge on this. It's just a mindscape, no creation feat. It is, by design, not the same as creating physical matter or physical space. And it's ridiculous for you to think otherwise and draws all your other conclusions in to question.
It's straight up stated to exist in between other worlds, if it's just a mindscape that exists only in Ultimas mind and has nothing physical about it, how would it also exist in between other physical dimensions?

Good thing I never mentioned blowing the blight away by force and only mentioned magic multiple times and it was removed by magic. Good talk. And because I never said anything about physical force it really renders your building level comment void as it's not relevant.
Then what point were you even trying to make with this:

"The end of this is; Ultima could not save his continent with his magic = less than continental? Ultimalius was ALWAYS an option to him. Ultima wasn't his combat form to begin with, so he doesn't upscale or downscale from it. And he doesn't fight you as it ever, so let's not bother arguing about that (just pre-empting it). And we can't say; "His magic wasn't suited for it." Because Clive does it using HIS power + his own. Bro just needed more. He claimed as much and it was demonstrated."

At least with your first point you made about it you were arguing that Ultima can't create realms as that would sidestep the issue of needing to physically escape the blight, this point made it sound like you were arguing that Ulitma being unable to save his continent from the blight made him less than continental. Why bother bringing up power in relation to what Ultima could and could not save from the blight?

Saying Ultima Risen was clowning on them is an extreme exaggeration. There's a reason he got dunked by Bahamut's sacrificial beams which aren't even his strongest attack. He was winning, he had the advantage, but he couldn't one or two or three shot them. It's not enough to significantly scale him higher. Just like in real life when you're losing to someone stronger and faster than you doesn't upgrade a human beyond wall level.
Ultima overpowered Ifrit during their first clash, stopped Pheonixs attack with a casual backhand without even looking at him, easily blocked Bahamuts attack and soon after knocked away Ifrit and Pheonix with one punch, then he unleashed a beam attack that easily shattered Bahamuts barrier, dunks on Ifrit during their brief 1v1 with Ifrit only getting a single hit in at the very end, and then he easily just blocks their combined Tri-Attack. And to top it all off, he hits Ifrit with a single punch which is shown to have completely knocked him unconscious.

Bahamuts sacrifical attack did the most and even then the most it got out of Ultima was an unenthusiastic "oh" before they make contact. It doesn't even show Ultima taking any significant damage, he gets hit but it cuts away to Dion dying after he was hit by Ultimas own attack as Bahamut, and then it cuts to Ultima showing back up and droning on about rising his kin from their slumber. He was just very clearly clowning on them.
 
You can do anything in a mindscape, and furthermore as it's a complete outlier it stands against the grain.
Quite literally the opposite of an outlier, there is nothing capping Ultima's strength at the end when he's just absorbed all of his people who have gathered thousands of years worth magic power as the mothercrystals, he's at the strongest he's ever been.

It's just a mindscape, no creation feat. It is, by design, not the same as creating physical matter or physical space. And it's ridiculous for you to think otherwise and draws all your other conclusions in to question.
This doesn't still discredit anything about it being its own physical dimension even if its made from his mind, being made from something doesn't limit it to only that thing. It may have been created from his fragmented mind but it is still a physical dimension that exist between worlds on a plane beyond time and space

Saying Ultima Risen was clowning on them is an extreme exaggeration. There's a reason he got dunked by Bahamut's sacrificial beams which aren't even his strongest attack. He was winning, he had the advantage, but he couldn't one or two or three shot them. It's not enough to significantly scale him higher.
Its not exaggerating by any means he quite literally low diffs them and while he's suprised by Bahamut sacrifical beam it does nothing to actually harm him
I just know Bahamut's attacks are named as beams. They are beams of "light" though.
Specifcally beams of light btw, but even then we're not counting all of said attacks as SoL anyways in calcs so point here is moot

He created regular Bahamut, not amped Bahamut. Amped Bahamut was the one that got that statement and the statement itself is already questionable. You're 3 degrees of reaching here, nevermind that we're talking about magical power here... not strength or speed
You know the magical power enhances both the strength and speed right? Guess not but anyways while this is true you realize he got that strong after eating a piece of the mothercrystal which contained a fraction of fraction of the total magical power Ultima would have at the end with the full power from each of those he absorbed into himself

Where was it stated weakened Ultima created them?
The literal plot of the game? He abandoned his flesh flew to this land and created humanity and eikons for his plans, this ultima is weakened already when he does this
 
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What's the point of discussing this, when the lorebook hasn't even been released yet?

Furthermore none of the profiles or ratings have been published yet let alone approved in a CRT. Jumping the gun with the debunking, aren't we?
Just asking, what do you mean? The Ultimania has been released for a long while and is mostly translated. Are you referring to another kind of book?
 
It's straight up stated to exist in between other worlds, if it's just a mindscape that exists only in Ultimas mind and has nothing physical about it, how would it also exist in between other physical dimensions?


Then what point were you even trying to make with this:

"The end of this is; Ultima could not save his continent with his magic = less than continental? Ultimalius was ALWAYS an option to him. Ultima wasn't his combat form to begin with, so he doesn't upscale or downscale from it. And he doesn't fight you as it ever, so let's not bother arguing about that (just pre-empting it). And we can't say; "His magic wasn't suited for it." Because Clive does it using HIS power + his own. Bro just needed more. He claimed as much and it was demonstrated."

At least with your first point you made about it you were arguing that Ultima can't create realms as that would sidestep the issue of needing to physically escape the blight, this point made it sound like you were arguing that Ulitma being unable to save his continent from the blight made him less than continental. Why bother bringing up power in relation to what Ultima could and could not save from the blight?


Ultima overpowered Ifrit during their first clash, stopped Pheonixs attack with a casual backhand without even looking at him, easily blocked Bahamuts attack and soon after knocked away Ifrit and Pheonix with one punch, then he unleashed a beam attack that easily shattered Bahamuts barrier, dunks on Ifrit during their brief 1v1 with Ifrit only getting a single hit in at the very end, and then he easily just blocks their combined Tri-Attack. And to top it all off, he hits Ifrit with a single punch which is shown to have completely knocked him unconscious.

Bahamuts sacrifical attack did the most and even then the most it got out of Ultima was an unenthusiastic "oh" before they make contact. It doesn't even show Ultima taking any significant damage, he gets hit but it cuts away to Dion dying after he was hit by Ultimas own attack as Bahamut, and then it cuts to Ultima showing back up and droning on about rising his kin from their slumber. He was just very clearly clowning on them.
The fact Ifrit could even get a hit in is a big deal who, for someone 1 on 1 should be leagues above them. Don't mistake me saying the trio is close if slightly underneath them for any one of them individually being close to them. They're close enough in power to damage him, but his barriers are stronger than their standard output (but can be overwhelmed and attrition'd) he hits harder than they do, and he's a bit faster. Durability is questionable but seems lower, actually.
Yeah, he gives an unenthusiastic "oh" but that's to show it catches him off-guard and he clearly knows it's a problem. It ends his form, so it clearly had an effect. Tri-Disaster doesn't have to kill to have an effect on him either. He clearly survives it, and given he clearly takes damage from 1 of each other Eikon, I can't say it had 0. It just didn't finish him. And yeah you left out that Phoenix does get solid hits on him.
I think you and I just have a different definition of "clowning" on people. My definition understands it as having no chance whatsoever. The whole time you're watching this fight, you don't have an understanding that they have no chance, only that it's going to be tough. That's just not clowning on people. Frieza clowned on Vegeta, but didn't clown on Goku until he went up to 50% and even then got pushed back a couple times. That's an example.

Unfortunately regarding "existing between worlds" this ends up as an ipso facto argument. Sure, we can take that interpretation. But then it's not a mindscape. But it IS a mindscape. In a way, that is to say, both can't be true at once. It's up to me to accept that it's physical, which I won't. Or up to you to accept it's non-physical or meta-physical, which you probably won't. Both parts of that statement support their opposites. I have chosen to accept it as a non-physical mindscape because it makes more sense. Because the alternative is we have to bump him up like two tiers which is way above and beyond what the verse is regularly showing. This is like if Cloud in 7, after beating Sephiroth, just jumped up and chopped Meteor, fragmenting it. It's reasonable to assume that these two are powerful and above and beyond those around them, it's another order to assume he's going to break Meteor just like it's another order to jump Ultima up in to starspace creation, be it Solar or more.

Going to the middle; sorry if it's confusing. Because the magic power tied to output is clearly what's needed to deal with the Blight. Clive was able to do it. Ultima thinks he can do it with Mythos' power and says so throughout but most importantly at the end, when he states that by winning Clive will live on a poor Blighted world (which he doesn't). Ultima heavily implies by saying this that if he had won, he would have resolved the Blight problem too. It's just that he would have done it via oppression instead. The power is equal, the methodology was not.
Clive deletes magic in the whole world and this nearly kills him. It's a bit grey but I would argue that removing magic planet-wide is a lesser feat than Planetary+ creation, which is what you guys are arguing for. If Ultima can create a planet, none of this is necessary. Hell, if he can create a continent. Like, idk if we want to call him stupid but I just doubt he'd take the harder road.
 
Quite literally the opposite of an outlier, there is nothing capping Ultima's strength at the end when he's just absorbed all of his people who have gathered thousands of years worth magic power as the mothercrystals, he's at the strongest he's ever been.


This doesn't still discredit anything about it being its own physical dimension even if its made from his mind, being made from something doesn't limit it to only that thing. It may have been created from his fragmented mind but it is still a physical dimension that exist between worlds on a plane beyond time and space


Its not exaggerating by any means he quite literally low diffs them and while he's suprised by Bahamut sacrifical beam it does nothing to actually harm him

Specifcally beams of light btw, but even then we're not counting all of said attacks as SoL anyways in calcs so point here is moot


You know the magical power enhances both the strength and speed right? Guess not but anyways while this is true you realize he got that strong after eating a piece of the mothercrystal which contained a fraction of fraction of the total magical power Ultima would have at the end with the full power from each of those he absorbed into himself


The literal plot of the game? He abandoned his flesh flew to this land and created humanity and eikons for his plans, this ultima is weakened already when he does this
An outlier is when you have a piece of media where everyone is performing tier 6 feats, then suddenly someone does one tier 4 feat. That's an outlier, and you can't argue it isn't. That's what it is.
We're arguing if it's feasible he's actually capable of that. Being the strongest he's ever been is not a calculable statement. I was the strongest I ever was when I was 24, didn't mean I could topple mountains. How strong was he before Ultimalius? Well, he takes on a combat form before manifesting origin and loses to Clive and Joshua in base forms. So not too strong. Certainly less than continental. Ultimalius is likely weaker than Ultima Risen. That is, there's no reason to believe he's above it. And while we'll never know for sure, I seriously doubt Ultima Risen can fight Ifrit Risen (well, ****, he lost to it even after absorbing his brethren so) and Aether-gorged Bahamut at the same time. Ergo, he can only be beneath anything Ifrit Risen is capable of. Of course, Clive has no desire to destroy the world, and if instead he wanted to after absorbing Ultima, I could believe it. But the fact remains removing magic, an incredibly large feat still but less than destroying a planet, still nearly killed him. Means I can't accept someone who couldn't beat him before that, as having the destructive or creative ability of even around planetary.

"Specifcally beams of light btw" I specifically said that, too, dude.

"You know the magical power enhances both the strength and speed right?" To a degree, yes. But they're also separate things. Chicken and rice are individual ingredients that make a meal. His speed doesn't make his barriers for him, his magical power does.

"mothercrystal which contained a fraction of fraction of the total magical power Ultima would have at the end with the full power from each of those he absorbed into himself" Except that didn't happen. The Mothercrystals were the shells of the Ultima kin, the Mothercrystals were designed to siphon aether from the land of Valisthea for the Raise spell, to remake the world (again, he wouldn't need to do this if he was planetary lol). While he undoubtedly gets stronger, they aren't the mothercrystals themselves and cannot be scaled to them. Ultima specifically states the Mothercrystals are "no more" long before he absorbs his kin. The act of gorging on Mothercrystals is simply separate to him absorbing his kin. You're using headcanon. And again if he absorbed them in the case they had that kind of power, he would have ignored Mythos entirely.

"The literal plot of the game? He abandoned his flesh flew to this land and created humanity and eikons for his plans, this ultima is weakened already when he does this" No, go ahead and cite it, because I don't think you know the lore of the game more than I do. The Mothercrystals stood for over 4000 years but the Eikons were relatively recent, about 700-1000 years. He did not create them at the same time. Ultima planted seeds. He does not scale to his creations or you would have to scale him to Mythos which makes no sense, as he lost to Mythos. He planted seeds called "Motes" which were humanity with the potential for elemental power which eventually turned in to dominants and Eikons. This was intentional, of course, but he planted and grew a tomato plant, he did not manifest the tomato plant from nothingness.
All of this is in Active Time Lore, the murals depicted throughout the game, and the Ultimania.
But yes, he was weak when he created the mothercrystals 3000+ years before Eikons emerged. But given the Mothercrystals WHOLE PURPOSE was to siphon and store aether, he clearly does not scale to their modern day power storage.
 
The fact Ifrit could even get a hit in is a big deal who, for someone 1 on 1 should be leagues above them.
Ultima doesn't have to blitz them to be leagues above them, he is still far stronger than the trio at the end of tbe game so yeah they can land hits but it doesn't matter when the hits do nothing to him or phase him

Yeah, he gives an unenthusiastic "oh" but that's to show it catches him off-guard and he clearly knows it's a problem. It ends his form, so it clearly had an effect. Tri-Disaster doesn't have to kill to have an effect on him either. He clearly survives it, and given he clearly takes damage from 1 of each other Eikon, I can't say it had 0. It just didn't finish him. And yeah you left out that Phoenix does get solid hits on him.
I think you and I just have a different definition of "clowning" on people. My definition understands it as having no chance whatsoever. The whole time you're watching this fight, you don't have an understanding that they have no chance, only that it's going to be tough. That's just not clowning on people. Frieza clowned on Vegeta, but didn't clown on Goku until he went up to 50% and even then got pushed back a couple times. That's an example
Wholly disagree here even after everything they do they only nicked his health down maybe 5% max with him not exerting really any effort until the beam clash at the end. The oh can show suprise he actually managed to get a last attack off in the first place but claiming it harmed him is headcanon

Unfortunately regarding "existing between worlds" this ends up as an ipso facto argument. Sure, we can take that interpretation. But then it's not a mindscape. But it IS a mindscape. In a way, that is to say, both can't be true at once. It's up to me to accept that it's physical, which I won't. Or up to you to accept it's non-physical or meta-physical, which you probably won't. Both parts of that statement support their opposites
To say it again, just because the rift was made from Ultima's fractured mind doesn't mean it can't be a physical dimension we're literally told it is after all. Being made from something ≠ being limited to the thing its made from. The dimension can be made from Ultima's fragmented mind yet still a real spatial dimension, you're treating it as if this is a mutually exclusice thing.

This is like if Cloud in 7, after beating Sephiroth, just jumped up and chopped Meteor, fragmenting it. It's reasonable to assume that these two are powerful and above and beyond those around them, it's another order to assume he's going to break Meteor just like it's another order to jump Ultima up in to starspace creation, be it Solar or more
Why would cloud be able to do that? The meteor scales above sephiroth. You know the whole lifestream is like multiversal and encompasses several timelines and worlds, seph is just like galaxy level. His whole plan revolves around absorbing its power to grow stronger
he would have resolved the Blight problem too. It's just that he would have done it via oppression instead.
Ultima's plan was to revive his fallen race using raise that's why he gathed all that magic not to cure the blight and get rid of magic, bro doesn't want to stop being a god and give it all up.
It's a bit grey but I would argue that removing magic planet-wide is a lesser feat than Planetary+ creation, which is what you guys are arguing for. If Ultima can create a planet, none of this is necessary. Hell, if he can create a continent. Like, idk if we want to call him stupid but I just doubt he'd take the harder road.
Then you'd be arguing headcanon, there is no set amount of energy needed to erase magic as a concept from their world its incomparable. The same goes for Ultima'a casting raise for his race we can only judge those by how much the narrarive emphasizes the scale of those feats versus others and both Raise and whatever the magic wiping stuff Clive did are just above what would be needed otherwise for Ultima's other feats.

And creating alternate dimensions doesn't stop the spread of the blight

An outlier is when you have a piece of media where everyone is performing tier 6 feats, then suddenly someone does one tier 4 feat. That's an outlier, and you can't argue it isn't. That's what it is.
Thats not what an outlier is actually, its part of what an outlier is but not the full context.

Lot of your argument hinges on headcanons tbh so I'm not gonna go back and forward with ya, you can comment when there is a CRT and we'll leave staff to decide
 
The oh can show suprise he actually managed to get a last attack off in the first place but claiming it harmed him is headcanon
It's just as headcanon to assume it did nothing. Otherwise you're saying he dropped his form for no reason.
Ultima doesn't have to blitz them to be leagues above them, he is still far stronger than the trio at the end of tbe game
I agree, he's just not in "clowning" territory.
Also the Ultimania doesn't have what we need, there is a second lorebool coming out the Logos: World of FF16 Lore book
Fair enough. I forgot about this. But it does have some stuff. It's not completely vacant.
Thats not what an outlier is actually, its part of what an outlier is but not the full context.
tbf I was just giving an example. I wasn't covering everything.
Lot of your argument hinges on headcanons tbh so I'm not gonna go back and forward with ya, you can comment when there is a CRT and we'll leave staff to decide
So are the rebuttals. That being said, does this thread not influence the CRT? A lot of feats would have to be left out if they're leaving out anything that can be "interpreted".
Ultima's plan was to revive his fallen race using raise that's why he gathed all that magic not to cure the blight and get rid of magic, bro doesn't want to stop being a god and give it all up.
Well, yes. I think you read my comment a little off. I wasn't saying he was trying to get rid of magic, but getting rid of the side effect: Blight. It's part of the plan.
Then you'd be arguing headcanon, there is no set amount of energy needed to erase magic as a concept from their world its incomparable. The same goes for Ultima'a casting raise for his race we can only judge those by how much the narrarive emphasizes the scale of those feats versus others
That's what I said and gave reasoning for? Lots of people argue headcanon in the vs fights all the time. I see it in every thread pretty much. They just have to give sufficient reasoning for it and I feel I did that. Creating an alternate dimension doesn't stop the Blight, yes, but it becomes irrelevant. The blight affects the land, not the people (directly). So just keep creating land over and over.
Why would cloud be able to do that? The meteor scales above sephiroth.
Exactly my point.
You know the whole lifestream is like multiversal and encompasses several timelines and worlds, seph is just like galaxy level.
Ridiculous. You don't even know what BS Tetsuya Nomura is cooking up in the remake. Besides, as far as I see it, it's not the same continuity. Same characters, different story. You can't be sure the lifestream in the other timelines in the same lifestream and not just a parallel copy.
 
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