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I never thought I would ever make a thread like this, but after looking over lightning feats on a bunch of our profiles I noticed a ton of versus scale to lightning when they shouldn’t. I’ll start with Dark Souls because it is a game I know very well and it has the most obvious problem.
Pretty much every character is Massively Hypersonic+ for scaling to lightning spear and other similar miracles. However there is regular natural lightning in Dark Souls showcased in Dark Souls 2 and 3. In the Glass Mirror Knight’s boss fight and Gael’s boss fight both bosses use regular lightning from thunderstorms. This lightning comes from the sky to ground and in both cases is blue (or a bluish white). Meanwhile the Lightning spears and miracles all come from unrealistic sources, are yellow, and sometimes move in unnatural ways like Nameless Kings goes up from his spear down onto you like it did 2 90 degree turns.
Even if the miracle lightning didn’t have those problems it doesn’t matter anyways because the true lightning from the clouds literally travels thousands of feet in a single frame while the Ashen One or Bearer of the Curse don’t even move an inch. I’ve tried multiple times to compare the Ashen One to Gael’s lightning, but he doesn’t move at all during the entire strike of the lightning. The sky to ground lightning is also instant in comparison to the lightning miracles
The next best feats the Dark Souls characters have are Hypersonic+ but the calculations that have them that speed are years old and off site, so they preferably should be recalculated. The Ashen One being able to reflect arrows with the dlc Katana and Splitleaf Greatsword should be calculated. Also I think the lightning spears speed should calculated from the intro in Dark Souls 1.
Glass Knight fight for reference: Lightning is at 0:53 seconds - clearer example at 2:00 minute mark.
Gael’s boss fight for reference: Lightning all over the place in the last phase of the fight.
Pretty much every character is Massively Hypersonic+ for scaling to lightning spear and other similar miracles. However there is regular natural lightning in Dark Souls showcased in Dark Souls 2 and 3. In the Glass Mirror Knight’s boss fight and Gael’s boss fight both bosses use regular lightning from thunderstorms. This lightning comes from the sky to ground and in both cases is blue (or a bluish white). Meanwhile the Lightning spears and miracles all come from unrealistic sources, are yellow, and sometimes move in unnatural ways like Nameless Kings goes up from his spear down onto you like it did 2 90 degree turns.
Even if the miracle lightning didn’t have those problems it doesn’t matter anyways because the true lightning from the clouds literally travels thousands of feet in a single frame while the Ashen One or Bearer of the Curse don’t even move an inch. I’ve tried multiple times to compare the Ashen One to Gael’s lightning, but he doesn’t move at all during the entire strike of the lightning. The sky to ground lightning is also instant in comparison to the lightning miracles
The next best feats the Dark Souls characters have are Hypersonic+ but the calculations that have them that speed are years old and off site, so they preferably should be recalculated. The Ashen One being able to reflect arrows with the dlc Katana and Splitleaf Greatsword should be calculated. Also I think the lightning spears speed should calculated from the intro in Dark Souls 1.
Glass Knight fight for reference: Lightning is at 0:53 seconds - clearer example at 2:00 minute mark.
Gael’s boss fight for reference: Lightning all over the place in the last phase of the fight.
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