7-A Brackets Round 9

[Dargoo_Faust]

Ninth round of the 7-A brackets begins! The winner of the last round depends on whether we consider ship girl to be too haxxed, which is probably the case.

Current Standings

The contenders for this round are Lucario, nominated by The real cal howard, and Hardcore Leveling Warrior, nominated by Overlord and Monarch Laciel.

Base Lucario and Dark's Birthday HLW are used. Speed is equalized, battle takes place in the filming studio for Lazy Town, each 20 meters apart.

Lucario - 5 (Monarch, Zell, Ricsi, Cal, Phoenix)

Hardcore Leveling Warrior -

Incon -

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

So for starters, AP definitely goes to the jackal. By a wide margin.

 

[FateAlbane]

Legitimately the match I was looking forward to the most.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

I was waiting for this match too (for obvious reasons lol).

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

AP shouldn't be a problem. HCLW can use his lucky coins to even the gap.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

The gap gets widened again due to Lucario's stat amps.

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

To put it into perspective, Lucario super-fodderizes 531 megaton characters.

 

[Overlord775]

@Dargoo Why are you using the weakest 7-A key of HCLW for this match ?

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Tbf, he's using the weakest key of Lucario too.

 

[Overlord775]

Lucario only has two keys, one of which isn't even 7-A

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Three keys...

Riolu, Lucario, M-Lucario

 

[Wokistan]

Anyone mind if I tabberize HCLW's P&A? He has 7 keys.

 

[Overlord775]

Riolu doesn't count

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

So anyway, Lucario abuses his AP advantage and his ability to boost all of his stats continuously and repeatedly and to land a guaranteed critical hit to just...beat him to death. Couple that with outranging and homing balls of doom as a main method of attack, alongside precog, mind reading, movement prediction, and instinctive reaction and illusions to keep from being hit.

 

[Overlord775]

TBH we should use the rank 1 key

It puts much better of a fight

 

[Sir_Ovens]

Rank 1 key puts his previous one to shame as he is canonically less than 10% his original strength currently.

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

How far into Mountain level is 531 megatons? Because rewound to rank 3 is way above his normal state which can casually cut mountains in half. He's been completely unfazed by a being directly hit by a wave of ice that froze over a large mountain range. His lucky coin can boost him to the point that he can blitz people who were keeping up with him a moment prior, his master's instinct and hero's body can boost his perception speed and normal speed even more, ngutmarization can further boost his power along with essentially halfing lucario's own durability. Lucky man means that HCLW gets a free dodge and counter attack. Also Lucky Coin can boost HCLw's accuracy to the point that reality says he literally cannot miss his next attack. He can also copy Lucario's abilities and use them back at him with Lucky Three.

Also why aren't we using his Rank 1 7-A key?

 

[Wokistan]

Bit more than halfway through. 7-A caps at a gigaton.

 

[Kaltias]

@Monarch

Baseline 7-A is 100 megatons

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

531 megatons is slightly below the + range by 19 megatons. However, Lucario scales so stupidly above that (Lucario scales to Tyranitar. Pupitar, the one with the feat, is literally the mere pupal stage of Tyranitar). Furthermore, 330 megatons does literally nothing to Lucario. Not even chip damage. It legitimately doesn't hurt. Lucario still has Agility and Extremespeed, so speed boosting doesn't help, especially since Lucario can boost his speed more than once. Halving Lucario's durability doesn't matter as Iron Defense is a thing, which doubles it. Lucky Coin isn't really a boon when Lucario's main attack, Aura Sphere, has perfect accuracy (see my "homing balls of doom" comment above). HCLW is similar due to Lucario's detect. Lucario has two attacks that are power mimicry, one that boosts them back at the opponent with 1.5 the power (which in itself is already boosted via being used by the stronger Lucario) and Lucario steals the move before HWC uses it. Furthermore, if Lucario gets low enough health to get defeated, Endure keeps that from happening, leaving Lucario with a smidgen if health left, while a subsequent Reversal essentially turns all that health lost into pure AP. Also, forcefields and healing and fear manipulation.

If we use Rank 1 HWC, then we should use Mega Lucario.

 

[FateAlbane]

For the timebeing and judging by Cal's replies, Lucario has all his bases covered despite his opponent's own versatility. So count my vote for Lucario (of course I'm subject to change later down the road if the reasoning is contested/refuted).

 

[LordGriffin1000]

So the winner of this match fights Gaspard... "Looks at Lucario's AP and Hopes Gaspard's ridiculous scaling chain is enough".

 

[FateAlbane]

Speed is equalized, battle takes place in the filming studio for Lazy Tow,

So does that mean this is the fight theme playing here?

 

[FateAlbane]

We now have a mystic jackal trading blows with an avid gamer to the sound of Cooking by the Book in a Lazy town episode.

Best tournament ever.

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

I still want Rank 1 to be used

 

[LordGriffin1000]

If Rank 1 is his best 7-A key I don't see way it can't be used unless he becomes Haxed beyond belief.

 

[FateAlbane]

I've seen stuff like Time Slow, ignoring 100% of someone's defenses and Pretty OP invulnerability in his higher keys though.

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

Time slow is localised and literally just a generic speed debuff spell. 100% of defences I think you're talking about Nightmarization which he can already do here and only 50% of. Invulnerability can be bypassed by removing his armour.

 

[FateAlbane]

@Monarch That's odd. The profile states:

"Invulnerability Bypassing (Was able to kill the Hercules-Attribute Ranker with his sword despite the ranker taking 100% reduced damage from all physical weapons), "

Which indicates he outright nopes the defenses (and this ability is one key after the one being used here.

Invulnerability can be bypassed by removing his armor sure but why would Lucario suddenly know he has to stop and start taking pieces out of the armor from the guy who is now no-selling his every blow and, as a result, can freely fight back unimpeded? Moreover, there's also no reason the Warrior would conveniently stand still and let a character now unable to harm him take parts of his armor off. That's why I said it sounds OP.

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

Oh the invulnerability bypassing.

It's weird, but I'm pretty sure it's not "ignore 100% of defences", or else everyone who takes a hit from HCLW without dying has resistance to defnese ignoring, which is a stretch.

It's just that for whatever reason, HCLW was able to deal damage with a physical weapon to a guy whose special ability was immunity to damage from physical weapons.

The invulnerability doesn't extend to anything other than his health not going down, so paralysing or holding him down or something would work.

 

[FateAlbane]

Eh, guess I'll stay neutral on it then.

 

[Dragonmasterxyz]

I vote HLW due to the fact that if my nomination had to lose his fight, then so should Cal's.

 

[Wokistan]

Invulnerability works up to what it's demonstrated, so if we let Lucario be mega as well to compensate I don't think it would make the fight totally unviable.

 

[LordGriffin1000]

I vote HLW due to the fact that if my nomination had to lose his fight, then so should Cal's.

Solid reasoning, I agree with this.

 

[Sir_Ovens]

I vote HLW due to the fact that if my nomination had to lose his fight, then so should Cal's.

I agree with this sentiment.

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

So, change to Rank 1?

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

Sooooo

Rank 1 plz?

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

Alright, Rank 1 it is.

 

[Iapitus_The_Impaler]

What does rank one mean?