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Sonic General Discussion Zone Act 1: New Frontiers

Supernatural Willpower is based primarily on feats.
That's what I thought at first. Thank you for confirming it.


he has the feats to prove his morality is unaffected.

ENG Version: "You're the reason you haven't changed at all. You're too strong to lose yourself! ... You never give in to the night, or the darkness inside your heart!"

JP Version: "The only thing that keeps you the same is the strength of your own heart! ... Your mind never gives in to the temptations of night and darkness."

Frontiers' entire plot is another good example because of just how bad Cyber Corruption's afflictions really are, as well as a telepath (The End) confirming Sonic "never doubted [him]self" despite all the obstacles he faced. In a Vs setting, it would basically mean Sonic has full confidence in himself and won't waste time in second-guessing his odds (thus, for example, hax that works off of a character's doubts would be ineffective against Sonic).
Love your explanation.

I asked because I remember talking about on Reddit with someone more knowledgeable with Kirby. I said smth regarding Sonic's Willpower and the fact he technically resists getting both his mind (on a conceptual level, IIRC) and soul (on an informational one) affected, which can be treated as the "origin" of one's morality. In the end, we had different interpretions on how such hax worked.
 
That's what I thought at first. Thank you for confirming it.
Of course! No problem buddy
Love your explanation.

I asked because I remember talking about on Reddit with someone more knowledgeable with Kirby. I said smth regarding Sonic's Willpower and the fact he technically resists getting both his mind (on a conceptual level, IIRC) and soul (on an informational one) affected, which can be treated as the "origin" of one's morality. In the end, we had different interpretions on how such hax worked.
Thanks! Definitely a topic I've given a lot of thought to, as I always find the "indomitable will" aspect of his character to be very intriguing to me.

Ahhh, I get what you mean.
 
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Also, general question, what is the consensus for Tier 1 for Base Sonic & Co? Should it be done or not?
I would prefer it doesn't but I'm also not gonna act like its the most BS thing ever to argue because there at least are things that can imply its possible.
 
Think the statement applies to enemies sonic beated in base form, so like, super eggrobo and gang
I like to see it like this:

downplay: only refers to Chaos, Shadow, Metal Sonic, and Zavok
low-end: refers to all of Eggman's machines he made himself with little to no external support, also counting Egg Dragoon and likely Nega Wisp Armor (& Super Eggrobo) since Egg Dragoon is in the same game
mid-end: refers to all of Base Sonic's enemies and Eggman's past machines with little to no external support, probably excluding Void
high-end: refers to all of Base Sonic's past enemies and Eggman's past creations with and without external support like Egg Wizard and Time Eater, considering he kept in mind ALL of his past defeats
extreme high-end (or wank ig): refers to every enemy in the Sonic series ever up to that point
 
I like to see it like this:

downplay: only refers to Chaos, Shadow, Metal Sonic, and Zavok
low-end: refers to all of Eggman's machines he made himself with little to no external support, also counting Egg Dragoon and likely Nega Wisp Armor (& Super Eggrobo) since Egg Dragoon is in the same game
mid-end: refers to all of Base Sonic's enemies and Eggman's past machines with little to no external support, probably excluding Void
high-end: refers to all of Base Sonic's past enemies and Eggman's past creations with and without external support like Egg Wizard and Time Eater, considering he kept in mind ALL of his past defeats
extreme high-end (or wank ig): refers to every enemy in the Sonic series ever up to that point
I personally subscribe to the Mid-End version at the least and can understand why the High-End version makes sense. I don't subscribe to Infinite scaling to monsters like Solaris or Dark Gaia.
 
I would prefer it doesn't but I'm also not gonna act like its the most BS thing ever to argue because there at least are things that can imply its possible.
I think the most quick and effortless way to argue it is to say "Eggman states the Chaos Emeralds give unimaginable power after Shuffle, therefore Chaos Emeralds > Precioustone as a baseline, Sonic knows the correct and real way to use Chaos Emeralds and is equal to Shadow's super form, who can freely draw power from the emeralds. Super Sonic fights Perfect Chaos, Super Egg Robot, and True Area 51 boss then base Sonic fights Perfect Chaos and Eggman's later "ultimate" weapons"

You could even argue Ultimate Emerl as even earlier proof bc Eggman calls the F.E.B his ultimate and mightiest weapon yet after the Advance games lmao

Not that I'd suggest using this explanation but it's there I suppose
 
Also, general question, what is the consensus for Tier 1 for Base Sonic & Co? Should it be done or not?
Being 100% honest, the majority of people (and I'm only including Sonic fans here) on this site don't buy it but a fair amount do.

I'd put it at 65% vs 35%.

I personally am part of that 65%, I don't think Tier 1 Base is accurate neither by feats nor the narrative. Any Tier 1 Base thread will have me against it.
 
Fair and valid opinions from all of you, but since the analogy Shake said suggests it does have some merit to it, you think you would all go for a Possibly rating rather then a concrete one? I'm mixed on Tier 1 Base Sonic in my opinion, but do you all the validity of it gets it to that tier, or do you think it shouldn't even be there?
 
Fair and valid opinions from all of you, but since the analogy Shake said suggests it does have some merit to it, you think you would all go for a Possibly rating rather then a concrete one? I'm mixed on Tier 1 Base Sonic in my opinion, but do you all the validity of it gets it to that tier, or do you think it shouldn't even be there?
IMO it shouldn't even be there.

It's not because I don't think arguments exist (Stinkeer's post is a good example that they kinda do), but that it's such a gross contradiction narratively. You could say the same about any tiering past 5-B or Low 2-C, but those tiers have the benefit of being backed up by blatant feats.

Tier 1 Base requires a bit too much reaching and mental stretching to even be under a "Possibly" rating.

Several people may disagree with me, and discussion is always welcome, but it just doesn't sit right with me and in all honestly would probably raise an alarm bell for staff to come and nuke the rating.
 
I mean, I guess?
Tier 1 Perfect Chaos sounds kind of, respectfully, kind of 𝓷𝓾𝓽𝓽𝔂. Not saying that as a way to debunk it, it just sounds, and I say this with respect, wrong.
Tbf doesn't the same go for tier 2 Perfect Chaos? In terms of the greater Sonic lore and scaling he'd be there, at the very least in higher interpretations of the verse. But just looking at Adventure, in a vacuum, makes Perfect Chaos like 5-B, maybe High 3-A at best if the infinite power statements are taken fully literally
 
Personally if there were more 5-D showings then I wouldn’t be against an upgrade, but as of right now I don’t support even a possibly rating on the grounds of a lack of consistency. Like I said before I don’t think Infinite is 5-D right now, just that he’s stronger than a guy who happens to be 5-D through his own feat. However, that feat alone isn’t substantial enough when you start applying it to Infinite and the Sonic Shuffle characters and every character who scales to all them. I know there were mentions of other potential ways to scale basenic to 5-D, but just based on the Void stuff alone I’m against it right now.

For 6-D I have kinda the same thoughts as for 5-D regarding Time Eater and Egg Wizard (if there’s a ton of support then i wouldn’t be against at least a possibly, but in 6-D’s case I wouldn’t like it that much). For Solaris specifically, I don’t think either the promo statement or the Eggman statements should apply to him, however Egg Wizard and Time Eater scale relative to him on the wiki anyway so it functionally doesn’t matter whether it counts or not.

TL;DR Infinite > Solaris and other pre-Forces god tiers is not something I agree with, but if there’s somehow a ton of other evidence out there supporting god tier post-Forces characters then I’ll begrudgingly accept its existence. Similar thoughts with 5-D, but I don’t mind the argument’s existence since there are already basenic enemies that are 5-D and you’re not just upscaling from god tiers.
 
Yeah I am about in the same boat.

I am not Anti-Tier 1, but I also don't believe we have the necessary evidence or feats to warrant even 5-D atm. I won't be waiting in the shadows to pounce on and defile an upgrade attempt, but I also don't want to see arguments that are clearly only being used because of the Tier 1 Base agenda. Especially arguments that collapse at the moment any scrutiny is applied.
 
Quick thing about Chaos
In his third key Ap (Modern (Chaos 0)) says that he was capable of fighting Modern Sonic with just one hand prior to his imprisonment
This seems strange to me, because if you advance frame by frame, Sonic stops before reaching Chaos, and only then does Chaos hold him for a second, before being kicked by Infinite.
Sonic seems genuinely more surprised than anything else, and seems to be more Ls than anything else.

It doesn't literally change anything, because it's still comparable to the rest, but I'm just saying.
 
I think Sonic not tearing his arm off suggests some form of relativity, as in other threads that discuss similar feats (generally crushing stuff), Chaos would need to scale somewhat relative to Sonic (in both lifting and AP) as to not make it so that he'd get instantly toppled over, the struggle in of itself kind of implies relativity, even though its extremely minor
 
I may be blind but did anyone catch where the Earth was spotted in the Master Core: ABIS fight? I've been looking at the timestamps from this CRT but I can't find any earth.

Also does anyone know what the JP version of the "What lurks at the heart of the ravenous, all-consuming black hole?" is?
 
I may be blind but did anyone catch where the Earth was spotted in the Master Core: ABIS fight? I've been looking at the timestamps from this CRT but I can't find any earth.
Look below. Seeing through the glass like panels might help. The Earth is outside of the blackhole, so it's tinted darker and moves relative to the player instead of swirling in the blackhole.
 
I personally believe Tier 1-C stuff is fine if there's backing for it. Respectfully, I feel like certain gripes with the tier as this line of logic can be applied to literally every other tier that the Sonic franchise has in terms of their scaling. At that point, are we just allowing rules for certain other verses/characters, but not for Sonic? I'm not sure I get it 100%. Yes, it is 100% a whataboutism, but this one is valid purely because all things scaled here are done so via the site's own rules that every page must follow. Every time I look at the Sonic scaling here, it sorta feels the goalpost gets moved more and more, even if things have gotten better since, I dunno, five years ago.

I'm not trying to be disrespectful to anyone who scales this franchise or spit on any of the good, hard work anyone has done here, but it's genuinely one step forward and two steps back with lots of scaling with this franchise. Not saying that every downgrade is bad or people on this wiki are liars. Just that a lot of the time, I see some gatekeepy stuff. Like with how Sonic still isn't Immeasurable in Speed despite a whole game dedicated to it and it just being seen as "oh, he was buffed in white space so he has that tier but also actually doesn't cuz it's only in white space".
 
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Look below. Seeing through the glass like panels might help. The Earth is outside of the blackhole, so it's tinted darker and moves relative to the player instead of swirling in the blackhole.
I've looked frame-by-frame, from each direction, and checked back on the ones present in the CRT and the most I could find was something that vaguely looked like Earth, but seemed more like a coincidence of the spinning galaxies. And something that was more than likely just a part of mobius strip
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I would highlight it myself but I don't know how to post images to VS Battles without an external link.
 
I would highlight it myself but I don't know how to post images to VS Battles without an external link.
this is technically still an external link but If you're on any other social media, you can quickly post it there in another tab and drag it over to the VSBW reply, and delete it right after. At least that's how I do it.
 
I personally believe Tier 1-C stuff is fine if there's backing for it. Respectfully, I feel like certain gripes with the tier can be applied to literally every tier other tier that the Sonic franchise has in terms of their scaling. At that point, are we just allowing rules for certain other verses/characters, but not for Sonic? I'm not sure I get it 100%. Yes, it is 100% a whataboutism, but this one is valid purely because all things scaled here are done so via the site's own rules that every page must follow. Every time I look at the Sonic scaling here, it sorta feels the goalpost gets moved more and more, even if things have gotten better since, I dunno, five years ago.

I'm not trying to be disrespectful to anyone who scales this franchise or spit on any of the good, hard work anyone has done here, but it's genuinely one step forward and two steps back with lots of scaling with this franchise. Not saying that every downgrade is bad or people on this wiki are liars. Just that a lot of the time, I see some gatekeepy stuff. Like with how Sonic still isn't Immeasurable in Speed despite a whole game dedicated to it and it just being seen as "oh, he was buffed in white space so he has that tier but also actually doesn't cuz it's only in white space".
With 1-C specifically, it just doesn’t feel right since that’s the same tier as the strongest Super Sonic level threats that can match him at his peak. We’re basically saying basenic > peak Emeralds, and while I don’t remember it being inherently contradictory if you count the multipliers and stuff, it’s still something that feels unintentional. If Sonic had his own feats scaling him to the cosmology then I wouldn’t deny using that argument, as again I don’t think it’s contradictory unless I’m missing something, but as long as there’s only upscaling statements I don’t think I can support 1-C basenic.

When it comes to Low 1-C, I honestly don’t treat it that differently to any other tier. If there’re more 5-D arguments I find valid then I have no issues with Low 1-C basenic, as that tier really isn’t that much more special than 2-C or 4-A or any other tier these characters have been. People treat Tier 1 as this sacred hard to achieve thing when it really shouldn’t be. Like any tier, if characters have enough feats to be placed there relative to the consistency of their verse, then they should be Low 1-C.
 
I mean tbh IDW is not the best written thing and discussion about it can be bleh, but on their own Tangle & Whisper themselves arent the issue.
 
I mean tbh IDW is not the best written thing and discussion about it can be bleh, but on their own Tangle & Whisper themselves arent the issue.
Tell that to the shippers.
Me being needlessly mean aside
I'm glad seeing these two being voiced. I would love to see what a Whisper game could play like.
Considering it's been 20 years and Sega still haven't figured out how to properly integrate Silver's abilities into gameplay and repeatedly gets left out (despite being a "main character"), it'll likely be your grandkids playing that Whisper game.
 
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