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Also, I looked at the exact feat regarding paralysis by needles- it doesn't seem to be a magical effect, moreso it's literally attacking the nervous system itself. I doubt Elm could prepare for this without precog, and I doubt spell resistance will protect against metal ripping apart his brain...
Tezz can see timelines with Clockworking. He can also use various contacts to figure out what's going on.
Even if Tezz choosing a timeline with Clockworking gets resistance, he can still look at it. This means he can see every timeline and what might happen and act accordingly- including...
Also, again, info on Elm's precog? Could actually be really important here.
They could end up in a repeated precog loop, where every time one does something, the other sees it and prepares something to counter it, which the other sees and attempts to counter back, which makes the entire battle...
Prep fights are confusing, I swear.
Not sure the legality of preparing a spell to go off the moment the battle starts- otherwise this could be incon based on Tezz putting together the biggest or most destructive thing he could find, or preparing a spell to kill him the moment the battle starts...
>Completely ignored everything Tezz would do to restrict his movement and prevent him talking and prevent him concentrating.
Yea, okay. Any speed amps Elm gets, Tezz get just as many if not more since Elm has to focus a lot of his timue on casting spells, some of which have decently long cast...
Projectiles from 2 feet away from him, though? Tezz could easily meld items he needs or even make a makeshift mouth bind out of the metal right next to him.
Contingency doesn't allow spells that strong and only spells that effect the user. But even if we assume Contingency can allow people to...
Ow.
Tezzeret's Power Null isn't a resistance and doesn't work like D&D resistances. You can't ignore Counterspell, which is more akin to how Tezz is capable of using his magic, then say Wish ignores saves so it ignores active power null.
https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Contingency...
This entire argument is a NLF of saying resistances that are not perfect and can fail = absolutely impenetrable perfect + incidentally resists Power Null.
Stop. Just.. stop.
I haven't seen any reasonable feats for if the resistances are remotely strong enough to defeat what Tezz can come up with with prep time. As well, again, he doesn't have to just "think" with Wish- he has to say it. And god forbid Tezzeret comes with a way to convert the literal entire island of...
Also @Dargoo I'd add in OP the limits of help. I'm beginning to think restricting them from going to others for help because this is getting absurd- Up to you, though.
Now, Mystra vs Bolas when?
Also, theoretically he could dimension lock himself, but Tezz could dispel that too with blue...
Do you know how horrible wizard fort saves are?
Also, he can't teleport out of the Blind Eternities if he's dead. It's not a matter of him getting out, it's him surviving in the first place.
Tezz has AP advantage and spell resistance won't help him from being physically bound.
Tezz can use...
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html
Why has this not been made into a verse yet? Could it be? One of my favorite webcomics, and it's decently popular, so why not?
Any fans out there?
I feel lonely.
Counterspell in 5E doesn't work like the Counterspell you are mentioning.
I know how 3.5 Counterspell works, you know.
Elm's prep time takes an exceedingly large amount of time. You have not addressed any of the ways Tezz can kill him. And most of all, dragging him into the Blind Eternities...
This is... very close. I'm leaning towards Kondraki. He was indeed able to fight 076 to a standstill, and he leads with the exact strategy he needs. He'll likely end up using the butterflies to **** with his enemy's perception of everything, leaving them confused while he slowly burns them down...
So you admit the Blind Eternities would kill him? Then Tezzeret uses his action to drag Elm in and win.
Dispel Magic and Counterspell are more akin to blue magic than Spell Resistance.
Wish can be Counterspelled; Counterspell is a spell, not just a game mechanic. You see, Elm doesn't just need...
Resistance isn't power null. It's resistance. Not negation or countering or sabotaging or destroying completely.
He has power null.
Also, the Blind Eternities isn't an entity as much as it's a place that he can drag people into. Sorry if it seemed otherwise. So I'm fairly sure Mystra and Bolas...
I highly doubt she'd be aggressive enough to actually end up attacking the fox until it's too late. If they are in character and not devoted to killing each other, she likely won't resort to killing it and will lose as a result.
I am amazed. The fox wins.
Also, he doesn't have any feat for silent spells, so if Tezzeret uses his speed to bind his mouth (Elm will need to speak Wish out loud in order to cast it), Tezzeret can prevent his casting of it.
I assumed Elm had silent metamagic, but it seems he does not. Another factor Elm needs to prepare...
His reaction speeds, his speed of thought, is less than Tezzeret's speed.
You have shown no reason why Tezzeret's anti magic and power null that nullifies all magic, which is more or less a hax on it's own, that Elm has no resistance to, won't nullify Wish. It literally says it negates all...
It's also worth noting that, in Central Park, Rick can have the time of his life hiding. A green object hiding among lush, green wildlife is indeed hard to spot. As Rick is much smarter than Big Smoke, he'll certainly abuse the hell out of the cover he has.
Tezzeret moves faster than Elm's reaction times, even if we assume he's strictly baseline.
Also, Antimagic Field is capable of making a wizard incapable of casting spells, such as Wish. So Wish can be negated by power null such as that, and likely what Tezz can come up with.
OP stated Tezz moves Mach 100 while Elm has Mach 64 reactions. He can activate his blue magic extremely quickly, and all magic negation is all magic negation; Elm has no resistances to it.
I just stated above; blue magic and prep time certainly gives him an out, at least for an amount of time. If needed, he can just dash forward and use one of his devices that disable magic completely.
Now what?
...Because the comparison between a fighter and a confirmed way of dealing with a spell, dealing with said spell is a dog shit comparison, maybe.
As for finding exact examples of countering causality manip, it might be a tad difficult as a large amount of high 2-A hax was back over 10 years...
Wish gets counterspelled.
Also, a majority of those spells are not on the level of Tezzerret's hax.
(Removed his father's mind and absorbed it into his own. Made a device that would have given him control over Jace's telepathy. Created an alternate personality in a clone of Nicol Bolas that...
@Bambu Elm's only way of winning, Wish, can be counterspelled, and I'm fairly sure we are breaking some level of vsbattlewiki rules by letting them now take allies from friends- if I were the OP, I'd ban anything other than informational help from allies so we don't have Bolas sending his army...
Also, list how Mystra will help him.
I think we can, by now, state their argument is null and void. They repeatedly ignored all evidence as to Tezzerret's hax is above Elm's resistances. They repeatedly ignored Tezzerret's better precog. They repeatedly ignored Tezzerret's death manip (Wizards...
Tezz can use precog to tell what he needs to do first, or Clockwork into it.
Provide any feat that could compare Elm's resistances to Tezzerret's spells.
I explained how Tezz's spells were strong enough. He was able to defeat a mind mage, also tier 6-B, with ease. It's a NLF to assume Elm's...
Resists then to an extent. D&D resistances are not perfect and can be defeated if the spell is strong enough. Tezz's spells are strong enough. I'm not ignoring it, because a 'basic adventurer' would be a thrall to Tezzerret's powers. You are relying on resistances that don't compare to spells...
As well, Wish can be counterspelled in D&D, so it's still unreasonable to say Tezz can't Counterspell it here. Call it a game mechanic, but it means it's physically possible to do so.
His Ring of Spell Storing would be broken apart by Metal Manip when the battle starts.
Tezzerret's mind magic...
>Wished out of existence Counterspell. >Time Stop Blue magic covers time, but if that's not enough for you, Counterspell again.
As well, Elm's resistances to causality manip. are reactionary- he can cast the spell that way to undo something. But if Tezzerret picks a timeline where he wins, he's...
Also, in 5E, a 9th level spell slot Counterspell will counter a Wish. No resistances required.
So, Tezz can certainly power null Wish, at least long enough for him to pull out a win, AP or hax wise, since Elm can't prepare himself against every single hax, find a way to resist his AP, and have...