Country level Lugia

[Unclechairman]

Recently, Pietro Maximoff bumped up Lugia to Country level based on a calc done by a Naruto Forums member for the energy yield of creating a 40-day storm.

The problem is that I don't think this calc has been examined and proven to be valid yet. Furthermore, there was another calc for Lugia's 40-day storm that used a different method and only got a yield in the megaton range (City level). The creator of the former calc did not believe the latter had calced the feat properly. To quote him/her:


"Chaos got a figure for the power emitted by thunderstorm and used a multiplier based on duration to obtain the power an equally strong storm would give out in 40 days, but that's very different from the energy needed to create the storm.'

Also, a wing flapping motion won't create a cloud, it will create a gust, so a tropical depression seems like more logical approach than a thunderstorm, if you asked me."


So, which calc is valid? Is Country level Lugia a thing?

 

[The_Everlasting]

Well, if it is a thing, then it means Mewtwo is probably getting a boost, since the combined might of the Legendary Birds could defeat Lugia in Pokemon 2000.

 

[Peter_"Quicksilver"_Maximoff]

I honored you metioned me

 

[Unclechairman]

Bump. This needs to be addressed.

 

[Kavpeny]

Hmm...former calc sounds more accurate, IMO.

 

[Blahblah9755]

The second calc sounds more accurate imo, since wing flapping couldn't logically create a thunderstorm.

 

[SomebodyData]

The second calc sounds more accurate imo, since wing flapping couldn't logically create a thunderstorm.

....POKEMON. Logically speaking anything can happen in fiction, all we need is to calc it.

 

[Blahblah9755]

Yes but why would wings flapping make a thunderstorm? There are types of storms that could actually be made by wings flapping, so it only makes sense to use those.

 

[The_Everlasting]

We're really tring to find logic in a Pokémon game... what has debating come to?

 

[Azathoth_the_Abyssal_Idiot]

Isn't Lugia always portrayed as equal to or superior the combined might of the three legendary birds? If so, why not just put him at like...6-C?

 

[The_Everlasting]

IIRC they managed to defeat him together in Pokémon 2000, and Lugia already has an Island Level feat listed on his profile.

 

[Blahblah9755]

We're really tring to find logic in a Pokémon game... what has debating come to?

We try to find logic in plenty of rediculous and illogical series, don't see why Pokémon is something groundbreaking. :/

 

[Azathoth_the_Abyssal_Idiot]

IIRC they managed to defeat him together in Pokémon 2000, and Lugia already has an Island Level feat listed on his profile.

Why don't we just keep him at that, then?

 

[TheMightyRegulator]

We're really tring to find logic in a Pokémon game... what has debating come to?

This is fiction...no one series is exempt from this fact. Even fiction based on science can become rather ludicrous and illogical (someone entering a black hole can travel into another dimension... Instead of dying a painful death as his atoms are crushed and pulled apart simultaneously)


Even so, I agree with Azathoth. With such vastly differing values, best to leave him at island level.

 

[Unclechairman]

Bump. Where is the calc group? It wouldn't be appropriate to leave a calc with uncertain accuracy unaddressed, especially when it causes a jump in tiers. Neither would it be appropriate to just cop-out and put Lugia back at Island level without evaluating the calc, as it may turn out to be accurate after all.

 

[Antvasima]

The calc group usually does not monitor threads. You will have to ask them directly.