Well, robots with living creatures in them anyway. I agree that he kills people for wasting his time, but that just fits in with him being a sadistic **** like I had claimed earlier. If he melted a Lieutenant for having bad breath, I don't doubt him singling out some people to strike some sense of fear into Eggman before using an AoE to blow most of his stuff away.
Yeah, birds and rats, are things that aren't even worth the time to torture. As far as he's concerned they aren't even sentient. It'd be like tortuing a rock for him.
Like who is he going to single out? The robots? Why would he want to strike fear into Eggman? He usually does that to people he
keeps alive, like Vegea, his soldiers, etc to prove a point, or as a means to get information like killing namekians s the survivors would tell information on the Dragon Balls.
If Freeza wants you dead, you're going to die. And unless he wants to torture, which, well it's Eggman, give one reason why Freeza would want to torture Eggman?
I think you misunderstood. I accounted for the fact they could be holding back by suggesting Freeza could simply hold back to the level of the weakest fighters and use AoE to harmless blow them off the arena.
And how would he know they're weak? Maybe they aren't and are just hiding it? (this was the case with a good chunk of them). Maybe the weakest is actually someone stronger from a pure PL level and by doing an AOE below them all he does is alert the whole tournament to get rid of him.
If he sensed people and they were weak, he's not going to use an attack with enough force to kill them.
See above, notwithstanding the weakest person there
is his ally. i think anyway, pretty sure roshi was the weakest from a pure PL standpoint
I also disagree that he cared about painting a target on his back when he was already picking out fighters individually left and right. And his personality sure didn't help him either since it got him beat up quite a few times.
You just contradicted yourself, he was picking fighters out individually, but so was
everyone. That isn't painting a target on his back, it's doing what everyone else is doing. But this isn't even a point of debate we know this paints a target on your back, that being doing huge **** off AOE, as Kale exists, which got a target painted on her back and even alerted Jiren to get her to **** off due o her going wild nuking everything.
That seems valid, though it would also just make sense for Freeza to target areas where his teammates aren't. Wouldn't be hard to wipe out cannon fodder with AoE while avoiding teammates when he can sense and see where they are.
His whole team IMMEDIATELY spread out omnidirectionally actually. Everyone went in different directions for the most part. Including himself, he didn't **** around with the earthlings. Bro was legit just biding his time.
Might be confusing the manga for the anime here, so my apologies. I do recall him picking off weak people with Frost up until his betrayal.
Which was just a ploy to get rid of Frost. Who he had a bit of a vendetta against.
Ah, my mistake. Was hard to tell since there are a couple characters who actually can use eye blasts like Piccolo and Jiren. Did he use eye blasts against Base Goku? If so I forgot.
Most DBZ dudes have it, even Goku has it
it's just usually so much weaker than everything else they don't bother
I was implying he'd be too busy getting nailed by the robots to focus solely on Eggman. You've got Metal Sonic who has a 346x speed increase that can statue people equal to him in speed on top of a metric shit ton of other militia who will be constantly firing at him. All of which are comparable enough to harm him.
Bro, Frieza can legit flex and obliterate basically anything there. And mind you, "comparable to him", based on what? This Frieza fodderizes Gohan, Piccolo and Gotenks. just because they're the "same" tier does NOT mean they're comparable. Take 9-B for example, the low and high end f it is a 50,000x gap.
The speed is an issue, but AOE, danmaku, whatever, he has a multitude of ways to just make it so there's nowhere to even dodge. Like they might be fast, but how are they going to dodge when there's nowhere left to dodge without ramming into a giant few hundred km blast?
99% of Eggman's militia can't even harm Frieza, they're a nonissue.
The beams in question should be equal to Eggman's travel speed. All he'd need to do is fly away in a straight line to get out of range. Any curves the beams make to home onto him will just result in them taking a larger distance and thus lag behind something that has equal speed to them. He'd also be a bit caught up with all the robots attacking him simultaneously to fire any meaningful attack at Eggman.
Frieza then proceeds to notice he's flying and keeping pace with his beams and says **** it and blows up the whole planet because he's a nuisance.
And again no, why do you keep saying Frieza would be preoccupied with him, he can literally just flare up his ki and wipe out 99% of Eggman's army, 99% f the army is a non-threat, all they serve to do is goad Freeza into nuking everything to save time.
Though see below, that is actually
not the case, combat speed get equalized, not movement (or well it does, but relatively). If anything I wouldn't be surprised if a Metal Sonic has to straight-up sacrifice itself to save Eggman from the hail of Death Beams if you want to go that route with Frieza's lead.
What exactly is the AP gap again for him to be flexing and destroying them? DB pages make it kinda hard to tell what value people scale to. Nor does Freeza actively want Eggman dead. SBA assumes they're in-character and willing to kill. Actually, double-checking it, it just says willing to win. So that's a slight lapse on my part:
**** if I know, I'm wondering why Freeza is even High 4-C to begin with given Gohan is 4-B in RoF (who Freeza one shots and cripples).
But assuming he's scaling to the Z High 4-C's, they can get so high in Hgh 4-C that they end up just scaling into 4-B eventually.
And lucky for Freeza him willing to win and wanting to kill overlaps.
Outside of a few games, the robots do have living beings inside of them. Particularly Sonic's small animal friends. I visualize the match in my head and see Freeza taking out a lot of fodder to try and strike a sense of inferiority, or rather fear within Eggman. Though I don't really wanna keep going back and forth on this point since it'll just be ad nauseum back and forth.
Yes so? They're small flora and fauna, they aren't even worth his time.
And you grossly exaggerate the whole "Freeza likes to strike fear" thing, he usually has an actual reason to do so. Otherwise, it's whatever, just depends on the mood.
I think if a verse never elaborates it's fine to assume they have a soul. But in verses where it's made specifically clear they don't possess a property, then yeah, I think we shouldn't give a characters who are soulless souls for the sake of verse equalization.
If it's actually elaborated such a thing doesn't exist, like I can think of a few verses where souls and the afterlife do not exist, such as Death Note, then yeah it's fine but if it's just ambiguous, unknown or not touched upon, then the default is they have it.
Because if Eggman flies away, he won't be able to cover any significant distance to catch up if he has supersonic travel speed. I felt that much would've been obvious. And given Eggman can simply retreat to bases in space and have self assembling armies continue to attack Freeza, having slow travel speed wouldn't be doing Freeza any favors. Especially since it gives Eggman to prepare stuff to fold Freeza more effectively.
My brother in christ... You just shot yourself in the foot.
Frieza, in this key has movement speed comparable to his combat speed and even if he didn't, he'd still have burst speed that lets him zip across a planet as we see in his fight with Goku.
But Eggman? Oh Eggman on the other hand actually has that discrepancy, his movement speed is
magnitudes below his combat speed (which is what's equalized), meaning yeah sure he can react and throw hands with Frieza, but he isn't going
anywhere by the time Frieza decides to lay waste to everything, and even if Frieza for some godforsaken reason decides to legit throw hands with every robot in his army 1 by 1, by the time Frieza is done doing so, Eggman may as well not have moved, that's how big the difference between his combat/reactions and movement is.
Eggman's own movement is
billions of times slower than everyone here, unironically from his perspective, moving 1 meter would take like a year from Frieza or Eggman's own POV. Yes even with speed equal, as you yourself pointed out in the case of Frieza's movement speed.
Hmmm, I guess that seems fair. I feel it's made clear though that if the Chaos Emeralds stop existing everything in the universe starts dying should be indication that it's the only life force system. Otherwise they would've continued to have life. I will look into specific statements regarding this though since Sonic does have some interesting implications regarding life force and what not.
Why? It can sustain life, but it's not the only esoteric life concept. Like souls exist in Sonic do they not? (Which btw, souls are a component of Ki, along with the mind and courage I think?) It's no different how in Zelda the triforce sustains the world, but that doesn't mean there isn't stuff like life force either, it's not inherently one or the other.
It's quite literally only a handicap to Eggman. Just gives Freeza free sonar on where Eggman is and is unable to use it himself (Well, maybe? I guess if he had time you could argue he could channel it? not sure). I also wasn't opposed to giving Freeza prior knowledge. Though not sure what he should get prior knowledge on. I don't think him knowing Eggman is weaker than him is going to help a lot when he would already be able to tell through ki sensing (Well, assuming Eggman's ki would even correlate to how strong Eggman is physically. The implications of Eggman having Ki is kinda confusing).
You misunderstood, Eggman having knowledge,
is a handicap on Frieza. If Eggman wasn't aware of how strong Frieza was, would you really be arguing "oh eggman tries to escape the moment the fight starts so he doesn't instantly lose", of course not. Eggman having prior knowledge is the only thing saving him, as such, it's handicapping Frieza unfairly.
You're complaining that Frieza gets to use a super basic ability like knowing where his foe is as if most matches don't inherently have that be the case by default, while the only reason Frieza would NEED to know where he is, is because Eggman got intel that makes him leave to begin with. If Eggman didn't have intel, Frieza wouldn't even need to use ki sense.
I think TK is fair. I do recall him using that more often than the Krillin tech or AoE immediately. But it's basically the same stuff I mentioned earlier. Being preoccupied with being attacked and speed blitzed by Metal via amps (I'm not sure if we give Metal Sonic the same AD as Sonic, but if he does, it is a wraps for Freeza since a Metal Sonic on Freeza's level alone would be a GG in Metals' favor).
The Krillin tech
is TK. Also, he's legitimately used AOE as a lead more than he's used TK.
And, again, Frieza flexes, they're gone.
Of course not, but I also don't know where the statement of the Saiyan race being so incredibly small and basically on the brink of extinction came from. Was it somewhere in Z or something? Super? I genuinely don't remember such a statement. It's been a few months since I consumed DB material.
Somewhere in Super? It definitely isn't from Z, it's post 2010 at least.
He does pant when he's tired. Which is just breathing quickly. As does Sonic who can also "breathe" fine in the vacuum of space and was immediately affected. Freeza breathes, but doesn't need to given his self-sustenance covers space and underwater IIRC (I do remember him fighting underwater with Goku in Namek).
He doesn't
need to breathe, doesn't mean he can't. And well, he isn't starting this match so...
Also bro can survive as disembodied chunks without functioning lungs, he 100% doesn't need to breathe in the way a human does
Either way, I'm not buying any of this. You do you but I see no reason why Frieza wouldn't nuke the ten fucktillion robots, space ships and more other than false equivalences or just saying he wouldn't, especially when Eggman needs to do a bunch of extra steps to win as opposed to Frieza just doing whatever, especially with the recent light of Eggman's initial movement speed being sus.
As for how far that extends, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not very given Frieza's casual attacks can one-shot RoF Piccolo and RoF SSJ Gohan. I can not stress enough that Eggman is fighting a dude who at a whim could light up everything between Earth and the moon with attacks that annihilate everything they're coming into contact with, they'd be an issue, if they weren't blown away by basically anything Freiza does (for what it's worth, if Freiza wasn't that much stronger, I'd say he'd lose to either one with equal stats).