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Introduction
So currently, the Goosebumps verse uses Splat Stats for scaling the strength, speed and whatnot of the characters. To sum up what "Splat Stats" are, it is basically the Goosebumps equivalent to those databooks for anime and manga characters. I have discussed this with people off-site (Tllmbrg and my friends) and we came to the agreement that it is a good solution to just remove them. But I want to go more in-depth with this, so sit back, because you are going to see a loser nerd out about a kids book series.
Why Strength & Speed Suck
There are multiple examples of the ratings contradicting feats and preexisting information. Allow me to show examples;
* The Horrorland Horrors scored a 10/10 on strength, yet they are so scared of Slappy (someone who scored a 6/10 on strength) to the point they actively keep Slappy happy, and can be defeated by dudes like Dr. Maniac who is equals with The Purple Rage, who scored a 8/10.
* Mr. Wood (someone who is equals with Slappy, (who scored a 6/10 on strength) defeating The Haunted Mask (Who scored a 8/10)
* The varying levels of speed across the Splat Stats; The Haunted Mask (5/10), Slappy (6/10), Captain Ben (3/10) and Inspector Cranium (4/10). Despite of much they differ in speed, they were all not only able to keep up with each other but outrun Byron (a Horrorland Horror, a race of beings that scored a 6/10 on speed).
These are just a couple of examples of how they contradict actual scaling that occurs in-story. This isn't even mentioning that if we follow these, these lead to ludicrous results, like a 8-A Haunted Mask, who has never demonstrated this level of power in any other source.
So it should go without saying, this form of scaling is pretty ******, so we should just chuck the speed and strength parts of these things into the bin. The only way I can see these being ok to use is if the character has practically nothing to use to scale their destructive capability (I.E. Scarecrows and maybe Monster Blood) but that's it.
Intelligence, Humor, Attack Skill and Evil
As for the other four parts; Humor is pretty much useless so I'll skip it. Intelligence, I can see it being used as supporting evidence for a character's intelligence rating, there are some cases where it doesn't contradicted already existing information but for the most part it comes out to strange results that don't seem right and aren't consistent with the character's actual intelligence feats, like The Lord High Executioner being above Horrors in intelligence (The Horrorland Horrors create futuristic technology, meanwhile the executioner is some guy in medieval times). For Attack Skill, not sure what to do with this one, not like it really adds anything, likely just remove it along with the others.
The only one that I would say is truly consistent is evil, just with the entities that scored a 9 or 10/10. The big main example of this being The Haunted Mask being able to make things die because of its evil (The Haunted Mask scored a 9/10 on evil), with The Evil Camera (a thing that scored a 10/10 on evil) being able to do the exact same thing but to Spidey in its respective book. So only one thing it scales is consistent but to a small degree since only three characters have such a high score on evil, otherwise it means nothing just like humor. To further hammer in the evil thing, evil has established to be some force that can give supernatural powers to particularly evil beings, with examples like Rip the Cat being able to come back from the dead because of his evil and Slappy being able to draw strength from his evil.
TL;DR
For the most part, remove all stats and powers that are solely on a character's profile because of Splat Stats. Simple.
So currently, the Goosebumps verse uses Splat Stats for scaling the strength, speed and whatnot of the characters. To sum up what "Splat Stats" are, it is basically the Goosebumps equivalent to those databooks for anime and manga characters. I have discussed this with people off-site (Tllmbrg and my friends) and we came to the agreement that it is a good solution to just remove them. But I want to go more in-depth with this, so sit back, because you are going to see a loser nerd out about a kids book series.
Why Strength & Speed Suck
There are multiple examples of the ratings contradicting feats and preexisting information. Allow me to show examples;
* The Horrorland Horrors scored a 10/10 on strength, yet they are so scared of Slappy (someone who scored a 6/10 on strength) to the point they actively keep Slappy happy, and can be defeated by dudes like Dr. Maniac who is equals with The Purple Rage, who scored a 8/10.
* Mr. Wood (someone who is equals with Slappy, (who scored a 6/10 on strength) defeating The Haunted Mask (Who scored a 8/10)
* The varying levels of speed across the Splat Stats; The Haunted Mask (5/10), Slappy (6/10), Captain Ben (3/10) and Inspector Cranium (4/10). Despite of much they differ in speed, they were all not only able to keep up with each other but outrun Byron (a Horrorland Horror, a race of beings that scored a 6/10 on speed).
These are just a couple of examples of how they contradict actual scaling that occurs in-story. This isn't even mentioning that if we follow these, these lead to ludicrous results, like a 8-A Haunted Mask, who has never demonstrated this level of power in any other source.
So it should go without saying, this form of scaling is pretty ******, so we should just chuck the speed and strength parts of these things into the bin. The only way I can see these being ok to use is if the character has practically nothing to use to scale their destructive capability (I.E. Scarecrows and maybe Monster Blood) but that's it.
Intelligence, Humor, Attack Skill and Evil
As for the other four parts; Humor is pretty much useless so I'll skip it. Intelligence, I can see it being used as supporting evidence for a character's intelligence rating, there are some cases where it doesn't contradicted already existing information but for the most part it comes out to strange results that don't seem right and aren't consistent with the character's actual intelligence feats, like The Lord High Executioner being above Horrors in intelligence (The Horrorland Horrors create futuristic technology, meanwhile the executioner is some guy in medieval times). For Attack Skill, not sure what to do with this one, not like it really adds anything, likely just remove it along with the others.
The only one that I would say is truly consistent is evil, just with the entities that scored a 9 or 10/10. The big main example of this being The Haunted Mask being able to make things die because of its evil (The Haunted Mask scored a 9/10 on evil), with The Evil Camera (a thing that scored a 10/10 on evil) being able to do the exact same thing but to Spidey in its respective book. So only one thing it scales is consistent but to a small degree since only three characters have such a high score on evil, otherwise it means nothing just like humor. To further hammer in the evil thing, evil has established to be some force that can give supernatural powers to particularly evil beings, with examples like Rip the Cat being able to come back from the dead because of his evil and Slappy being able to draw strength from his evil.
TL;DR
For the most part, remove all stats and powers that are solely on a character's profile because of Splat Stats. Simple.
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