With every new large revision comes a new large change to the series' scaling. And this time around, much like
Sisters VS Sisters, this will be a relatively simple and easy-to-understand scaling chain. Additionally, there have been some tweaks to the overall series' scaling chain which shakes it up a tad, but not drastically. Let's first discuss
Game Maker's scaling.
Game Maker R:Evolution Scaling Chain
As mentioned before, this game was actually quite easy to scale, just like Sisters VS Sisters. And though it's not quite as drastic in magnitude as Sisters, we've still got some really nice scaling this time around, no thanks to this game additionally taking place after VII, thus inheriting some of its scaling. Let's show the chain really quick.
As a side-note, even though the First Makers (Guardian Goddesses) and Second Sisters (Goddess Candidates) are not listed in this chain, they are by technicality still a part of it. Just assume them to be lumped with Ultra Neptune and the Failure Goddesses, since they are on the same level as each other. Additionally, Arfoire and the Gold Third being in brackets is to express that they are only there as a supplement to the chain as a whole, and are somewhat of a necessity to list, but not a necessity to explain. As such, they will not receive any explanations as to their placements in the chain.
Zaiquone > Awakened Neptune = Goddess Form Failure Goddesses / Goddesses of Victory > Current Base Ultra Neptune = Human Form Failure Goddesses / Goddesses of Victory > Main Body Zaikopath >> F-Sha = [Gold Form Gold Third] > Zaikopath Clone > [Base Form Gold Third] > [Arfoire] > Copy Clique Trio >>> Baseline 2-C
Just like in our Sisters VS Sisters revisions, we will include explanations similar to the ones seen in the Scaling Chain page. Going from top to bottom, weakest to strongest, here are our explanations:
- Copy Clique Trio >>> Baseline 2-C | The Copy Clique Trio, though put together only have one showing which ended in their defeat, were still able to combat against the entire 12-member party, consisting of the First Makers, Second Sisters, and Victory crew. Individually, Copy the Art unimpressively battled against the Second Sisters and Victory crew, only to be defeated moments later; Copy the Hard shares a similar fate, battling against the Second Sisters and Victory crew before eventually losing; but Copy the Code does have an extra feat under her belt, where she is implied to have battled (and defeated + restrained) a member of the Gold Third before fighting the entire party and losing. Depending on the route chosen, it is either C-Sha or S-Sha that she restrains, but the character of choice doesn't necessarily matter since they're equal in strength regardless.
- Zaikopath Clone | The clone(s) of Zaikopath's main body were able to overwhelm the Gold Third - though they were weakened and unable to transform - as well as heavily exhaust F-Sha after a battle.
- F-Sha | During the prologue, F-Sha receives praise from Ultra Neptune for being quite powerful, with the Failure Goddesses feeling the need to step in and help Neptune take care of F-Sha. In the Lastanita Route, she is seemingly the one to have knocked out the White Sisters. In Chapter 6, she was able to combat against the Victory crew, whom were all in their transformed states, though she was defeated in the battle that followed. Lastly, in Chapter 9, she was able to hold off a clone of Zaikopath to buy more time for Lideo's device, though she left herself extremely exhausted in the end.
- Main Body Zaikopath | During its past two incidents, Zaikopath was unable to be defeated by the Goddesses, and instead could only be sealed away after a long and hard fight. Additionally, it was able to incapacitate K-Sha on the first day of its third resurrection, and seemingly battled against the Gold Third to sap them of their strength. Vert goes on to say that the main body of Zaikopath exudes far greater pressure than its clones, and eventually battled against the entire party in their transformed states, though it was defeated afterward.
- Current Base Ultra Neptune = Human Form Failure Goddesses / Goddesses of Victory | Coming off the heels of VII, Ultra Neptune and the Failure Goddesses were able to defeat F-Sha in the Prologue, though her wounds were healed off quickly. In Chapters 3, 4, and 5, they were able to defeat all three members of the Copy Clique Trio, with Neptune even shocking B-Sha with her strength; the latter saying that she (and by extension, the Failure Goddesses) were on the level of the Gold Third and Goddesses. Also in Chapter 4, the Victory crew was able to defeat fake copies of either Purple Heart and Green Heart, or Black Heart and White Heart depending on the route chosen. In Chapter 7, they had fought and defeated the four fake Gold Third members, all of whom were in their Gold Forms. They then defeated the Copy Clique Trio, even though their strength was restored right after due to having infinite lives in the game world. They then defeated the Trio again, supposedly "shredding them down to the tiniest scraps", according to Blanc. Lastly, in Chapter 8, they fought and defeated Arfoire.
- Awakened Neptune = Goddess Form Failure Goddesses / Goddesses of Victory | Due to being in their transformed states, the Victory crew are all much stronger than their Base Form counterparts. In Chapter 1, the transformed Victory crew was able to fight and defeat Base Form C-Sha, though she was not taking the fight seriously whatsoever. In Chapter 6, they were able to defeat F-Sha. In Chapter 9, the entire transformed party was able to defeat Zaikopath's main body. And lastly, in Chapter 10, they were able to defeat Zaiquone; a fusion between Zaikopath, Arfoire, Copy the Hard, and Copy the Code.
- Zaiquone | As a fusion between Zaikopath, Arfoire, Copy the Hard, and Copy the Code, Zaiquone should be much stronger than its fusees, as it required the combined effort of the entire transformed party to be damaged enough for the Failure Goddesses to seal it one more time. Additionally, during the climb to the top of Arfoire's company building, Uni states that Zaikopath was able to become much more powerful just from fusing with Arfoire alone.
Updated Series Scaling Chain
You already knew that this was coming, so let's cut to the chase. The changes mainly only include adding the Game Maker R:Evolution characters into the chain, as well as updating Ultra Dimension Neptune's position. The underlined characters are either new additions or changed positions.
Legend
- > - Stronger than
- >> - Much stronger than
- >>> - Far stronger than, borderline stomp
- ≥ - Stronger than or equal to
- = - Equal to
- ⇄ - Interchangeable due to uncertainty
- () - Potentially
- Green Text - (Baseline) Tier
Next Forms > Full Power Dark Orange >>(>) Depowered Dark Orange > Current (Post-SVS) Average - High Shares HDD Forms > Current (Post-SVS) Low - Below-Average Shares HDD Forms > Arfoire-possessed Gray Sister with the IS Crystal's Shares >>> Arfoire-possessed Human Form Maho >>> Fake True Deity of Sin (SVS) > Peak Resurrected Vessel Arfoire (SVS) > Current (Post-SVS) Human Goddesses + Candidates >>> Zaiquone > Awakened Neptune = Goddess Form Failure Goddesses > Current Base Ultra Neptune = Human Form Failure Goddesses > Full Power HDD Rei > Hyper Dimension Rei > Base Kurome w/ Rei’s powers > Base Kurome w/o Rei’s powers >>> Complete Dark Goddesses > Gray Sister > Maho > Main Body Zaikopath > Full Power Dark Purple-infused Arfoire > Ultra Dimension Rei ≥ Incomplete Dark Goddesses > TDoS Zero Arfoire > Depowered Dark Purple-infused Arfoire >> Anri (F2P) > Higurashi > Shanghai Alice >> Affimojas > DoS Zero Arfoire > Current (Post-VII) Orange Heart > Anri > F-Sha > Zaikopath Clone = Gold Form w/ Crystal >> Gold Form w/o Crystal > Current (Post-VII) Uzume ⇄ Base Zero Arfoire = Copy Clique Trio > Current (Post-VII) Makers = Current (Post-VII) Gold Third > Seely = Post-Victory Iris Heart and Yellow Heart > 2nd-Amped Yellow Heart > 1st-Amped Yellow Heart = 10x Normal Goddess Strength > Trendfluencer >>> Rei's Powers in VII > Heart Dimension and Hyper Dimension Fusion = Baseline 2-C, possibly 1-C (9-D) >>> Warechu King >> Steamax >(>) Post-Victory Plutia and Peashy >> Fake Goddesses > Gamindustri-amped BoS Nepgear > TDoS mk2 Arfoire ≥ Average-High Shares BoS HDD Forms > Very Low-Below Average Shares BoS HDD Forms > BoS Human Form Goddesses / Candidates = BoS Makers > Holy Sword Nepgear > Conquest Nepgear > DoS mk2 Arfoire >>> CFW Magic ≥ Eggplant-amped Ultra Arfoire > TDoS Ultra Arfoire > DoS Ultra Arfoire > Mr. Badd > Anonydeath > Copypaste > CFW Trick ≥ CFW Brave > CFW Judge >> Linda = Warechu > Killachine >>> Histoire = Baseline Low 2-C, possibly 1-C (9-D)
Due to the explanations for the
Game Maker characters already stated above, we won't repeat them here to avoid redundancy. That said, we were heavily considering simply isolating
Game Maker's scaling chain due to it not being
fully connected to the main series timeline. However, because this game is coming off of the heels of
VII, I still consider it to be important to index and integrate this scaling into the main series. It was somewhat annoying to figure out at first, but overall, what we have seems to work out. If there are too many questions that arise from confusing placements in regards to the
Game Maker characters, we
will isolate that scaling, though.