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Worst Downplay

Hl3 or bust said:
Undoubtedly first (back before golovachev-verse hadn't been soloed out of existence by the monarch of pointland) "needing a computer to do anything"
More like used his computer for most things as a medium from what the profile said
 
Mario is only Wall level because he's a plumber stated to be at Olympic human level, Luigi has no feats because he fights ghosts, and Sonic is only as fast as his name suggests because "moving at the speed of sound/wind" are always in his games theme's lyrics.
 
They also slew Low 2-C dragons capable of casually distorting space time continuums; like Velezark.
 
Keep in mind that dimension creation feats were barely accepted for the longest time. "What if the stars are just illusions" was a seriously used argument for the longest time.
 
For Kaguya, it literally is an illusion. For Mundas and Anankos, they were considered outliers. But yeah, now we got plenty of characters who scale to pocket reality feats.
 
One of the last quests in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion takes place inside Mankar Camoran's Pocket-Realm of Oblivion, which has a star, which is repeatedly stated to have been created by Mankar, and outright sustained by him. Not mentioning that Mankar merged with his Realm, described it as "The heart of my power", and the whole thing collapsed once he is killed.

But for the longest time it was rejected out of hand because "Mankar was killed by a guy who wields a sword and can't even destroy walls in-gameplay"
 
Ah, the classic "gaming caps out at 9-B because invincible walls"


I mean it is annoying in like dark souls or something not being able to destroy some specific doors or even just carry around a stepladder but using that to try to cap out a character's strength?
 
Speaking of which, wasn't the Earth shaking feat that scales to pretty much everyone who did the same thing considered heavily lowballed? We might need to find someone to recalc that feat; and hopefully it yields to some potential YYH upgrades
 
Azathoth the Abyssal Idiot said:
Legit reminds me of "Greater Daemons can't be Planet level because they die to sufficient bolter fire in the 40k tabletop".
"9-C Dragonborn because he can take fall damage is more accurate than Tier 6 Dragonborn based on "Inconsistent Lore".

^ Actual comment someone made.
 
@Dark

I remember when the argument against Tier 4 MLP was "MLP is a fantasy world that's geocentric so obviously the sun is a small storybook star that's nowhere near as large as the real one" and comparing it to the size of the sun in Greek mythology, and apparently one would need to prove it's as large as the real sun.

Or when the argument was "Even Tirek only went through a mountain in his fight with Twilight, wouldn't the destruction be worse if he was Tier 4?" as if it's asking MLP to destroy its own setting for a fight scene.
 
DarkDragonMedeus said:
Speaking of which, wasn't the Earth shaking feat that scales to pretty much everyone who did the same thing considered heavily lowballed? We might need to find someone to recalc that feat; and hopefully it yields to some potential YYH upgrades
It was calced into 6-C by assuming it was the weakest, least noticeable Earthquake possible. When we have WOG from Todd Howard saying it shook mountains, destroyed villages and provoked avalanches.

TTGL from the OBD recalculated it into High 6-A. Which is consistent with the Dragonborn's High 6-A Storm Creation feat (Remember when those were always rejected too?)
 
The Everlasting said:
My favorite one was "Luna struggled to split a cloud in a random episode, so she cant be Tier 4".

In a Season 2 episode she literally makes a huge storm just by raising her voice, and dissipates the storm when she calms down.
 
Matthew Schroeder said:
"9-C Dragonborn because he can take fall damage is more accurate than Tier 6 Dragonborn based on "Inconsistent Lore".

^ Actual comment someone made.
I don't see the problem, here. Clearly this makes the most sense, just like how Skarbrand being able to die to lasguns by rolling extremely shit on his dice invalidates him directly splitting a planet open or causing warp storms in the lore.
 
Darkanine said:
My favorite one was "Luna struggled to split a cloud in a random episode, so she cant be Tier 4".
Remove the "so she can't be Tier 4" and this actually works in an argument about how the Princesses are consistently horrible, horrible jobbers and Tempest's idea for "Princess of Military Air Supremacy" would probably be safer for everyone in Equestria.
 
I mean when Rarity had that magical cancer, she did kick Luna's ass so...

@Ever I miss the days of demi-god alicorns. Even the books (which tend to be canon, sometimes) basically say Alicorns aren't stronger than ponies at all.
 
FFVII being wall cutters with bullet speed reactions and in game stuff doesn't count because it's just gameplay.

In itself not terrible, but the frequency I hear this makes it pretty grating. Got especially bad after the Sephiroth vs Vergil death battle.

EDIT: I see MLP has it pretty bad. That sucks, blame the presentation on that one. I mean, if it looks flashy or impressive fans will overblow it as the most powerful thing ever, but if it looks cutesy or low key, they will insist they can't be strong. ...Sorry, kinda annoyed at it.
 
Matthew Schroeder said:
Power Creep and Seasonal Decay does that. Celestia was like, literally a Goddess for about two episodes and treated as this infallible, benevolent all-knowing figure.
ftfy, m8.

But seriously, she and Luna almost immediately went from "basically this world's gods" to "useful because they can consistently do a thing that six powerful enough unicorns could do anyway, but without burning themselves out".

They're basically worshipped for being renewable energy, at this point.
 
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