Air-Riding in Style: The Sonic Riders CRT

[JJSliderman]

I've been on the site for a fair bit of time, and I've noticed that despite Riders getting sparse mentions on Sonic pages, the full extent of what it provides has not been fully documented. So, I thought I'd try to fix it.

First off, creating a page for Extreme Gear as a whole. Pretty much all the Riders characters are affected by this to varying degrees, but there's also quite a few characters from Sonic Speed Simulator as well, as Extreme Gear did make a presence in that game. And before you ask, yes, Speed Simulator is canon.

So, all the profiles that are affected include:

Knuckles
Classic Sonic
Adventure Sonic
Modern Sonic
Marine the Raccoon (possibly)
Gemerl (possibly)
Tangle
Whisper
Mimic
Surge
Amy
Shadow Android
Big
Tails
Rouge
Blaze
Charmy
Shadow
Metal Sonic
Metal Sonic 3.0
Cream
E-123 Omega
Espio
Silver
Vector
Jet
Movie Knuckles/Movie Tails/Movie Sonic
Storm
Wave
NiGHTS
Ulala
AiAi

(Amigo and Billy Hatcher are also playable but lack profiles)

Second, adding a lot of miscellaneous abilities. A lot of these come from the Japanese Sonic Riders website, which conveniently was translated here. There are equivalent sites for Zero Gravity and Free Riders, but they have yet to be translated and I couldn't even access the Free Riders site. Here's all the scans I was able to pull from the sites for reference, though.

Character abilities:

Eggman and Cream: Status Effect Inducement (via blinding the opponent)

Eggman gets his punching machine and party popper added to his standard equipment.

Shadow and Silver: Status Effect Inducement (via confusing the opponent)

Knuckles and Storm: Status Effect Inducement (via stunning the opponent)

Tails and Wave: Electricity Manipulation (Their attacks release an electric shock upon hitting)

Wave gets Explosion Manipulation, as she not only used a bomb to blow up Sonic's Extreme Gear, but can also create seemingly limitless amounts of dynamite to attack enemies with.

Storm gets Vibration Manipulation for causing vibrations by slamming the ground.

Blaze and Rouge get Smoke Manipulation (Their special attacks generate a smoke cloud around the opponent)

Wizeman gets Curse Manipulation, as his curse is what keeps NiGHTS stuck in the world of dreams

NiGHTS and Cream get Social Influencing (NiGHTS' gossip and Cream' tears can damage enemies)

Amy, Wave, and Knuckles get Minor Fear Manipulation (Their scary roars are capable of damaging enemies)

Sonic gets Sound Manipulation in base, due to hurting enemies with his yell.

Jet gets Breath Attack, as he can damage enemies with his sneeze.

Ulala gets Paralysis Inducement, for her beam being able to cause targets to go numb.

Every character in the original game gets access to a Chaos Emerald as optional equipment, as they can collect them during the survival race.

Knuckles has another statement of being a master martial artist, but also gets a weakness in the form of his stubbornness kneecapping his versatility.

Every racer can detect the camouflaged rails in Green Cave, so possible Enhanced Senses for all the Riders 1 racers.

Eggman with prep time can create a space station that has a universal effect where normal attacks do nothing to hurt enemies, forcing electrocution to deal damage. So, limited Invulnerability Bestowal.

Finally, in the spirit of Riders, I have 3 new profiles for relevant characters from the side-series. These are the E-10000's, a reworked version of the SCR-HD to account for its GP variant, and the Babylon Guardian (Primarily because of the next thing...)

Babylon Guardian being High 3-A

Essentially, the interior of Babylon Garden's treasure vault is a pocket dimension which extends into "infinite nothingness", which the Guardian can freely manipulate. When the Guardian is no more, the realm is in a state of constant flux between heaven and hell, whereas the Guardian keeps it consistent in the hell-aspect. This would make the Babylonians have High 3-A technology, as the Guardian is their creation to protect the treasure. Moreover, Master Core: ABIS fusing with Babylon Garden's Engine Unit and encompassing the entirety of Babylon Garden would be a High 3-A feat in itself.

And...I think that's it. If I missed something or something I mentioned isn't accurate, feel free to let me know, I don't usually do revisions this big. Thank you.

Agree:

Disagree:

Neutral:

 

[JED]

Agree.
You should add that Sonic’s Lv. 3 attacks stun/paralyze opponents too (I forget which, it’s been so long). So he should get either Paralysis or Status Effect Inducement from that too.

 

[JJSliderman]

Don't recall that specifically, it just mentions the Riders level 3 attack "tangles up the opponent".

 

[LukeChaosBlobz]

Wouldn't Marine and Gemerl also get this?

 

[JJSliderman]

I kinda just went off the wiki for the Speed Sim Extreme Gear, guess they missed 'em.

 

[Theuser789]

Yep. They have Extreme Gears in Speed Sim. I agree with the thread btw. Good job, JJ!

 

[Mephistus]

Agreeable!

 

[JED]

Don't recall that specifically, it just mentions the Riders level 3 attack "tangles up the opponent".

Yeah they were stunned or paralyzed at Level 3. I’ll try to find a scan but it’s been so long it may be tough to find.

 

[Peptocoptr27]

Shadow Android should be affected too due to being playable in Speed Sim. Nights is fine since he already has Sonic scaling and a shared cosmology, but if you're gonna give Ulala and Aiai Sonic equipment, shouldn't you also give them at least "possibly" Sonic scaling? Along with rings and stuff? That seems a lot less reliable for them than for Nights, and require more evidence than what's presented, too.

I thought the Babylon Guardian already had a profile... Not sure about his High 3-A stuff. Manipulating an infinite amount of nothing is normally not really tierable, and we have no proof his heaven/hell extends all throughout the realm afaik. That being said, could this be supplemantary evidence for infinite universes (assuming this dimension is in the prime timeline)?

"Invisibility:

• [COLOR=var(--theme-link-color)]Invisibility[/COLOR] and [COLOR=var(--theme-link-color)]Intangibility[/COLOR] (Turns the rider invisible and intangible to attacks)"

The intangibillity here should be layered if even Sonic and co phase through it with their attacks.

Everything else seems fine as far as I see. Great work!

 

[McFriesGuy075]

There is no hax in Attachments and Power-Ups?

 

[JJSliderman]

I just included AiAi and Ulala cuz they were in the game and wanted to cover bases.

I thought I included Shadow Android.

The dimension is pretty much accessible by going through a door in the Babylon Garden, and isn’t treated as crossing dimensions, so yeah I think it exists in the prime world.

I’ll add the layered intangibility thing.

 

[ShakeResounding]

Amazing work on this thread, JJ!

I agree with all the additions and with High 3-A Babylon Guardian.

 

[Peptocoptr27]

Am I the only one who's iffy on High 3-A? Why would manipulating an infinite amount of nothingness have any AP value at all?

 

[McFriesGuy075]

I mean, he turned that infinite nothingness into something, didn't he?

 

[JJSliderman]

Yeah, the feat is he warps the space of nothingness into a new dimension of hell.

I understand not buying it I just felt like talking about it

 

[Peptocoptr27]

I mean, he turned that infinite nothingness into something, didn't he?

He turned some of it into something at least.

Yeah, the feat is he warps the space of nothingness into a new dimension of hell.

I understand not buying it I just felt like talking about it

Reading the translation again, it does seem to imply he warped all of it. More importantly though, it says he created it. I'm leaning towards agreement, I guess.

Every racer can detect the camouflaged rails in Green Cave, so possible Enhanced Senses for all the Riders 1 racers.

Looking at this GIF again, it seems the rail only becomes camouflaged after the Extreme Gear starts riding it, so I disagree with this actually.

 

[MysticMania]

NiGHTS has layered Bullying added to their profile

This is cool to read through, I agree.