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Powerless Brackets: Round 3

Jeez. The fact that one of these two is making it to the quarterfinals is a travasty in itself.

The Lion takes this through the Koopa's cowardice, and the Lion's pain resistance. While the Lion won't roar at it (it only does that after eating) a charging lion with it's mouth open is probably one of the most terrifying things imaginable. The Koopa will be in it's shell before you can blink.

And once that happens, it's only a matter of time. The Lion will eventually break through the shell through continous effort. While Koopa can spin and cause some damage to the Lion, a lion has fought on with broken bones before for an extended time.
 
Also, question. Like I said, the Lion only roars after eating. Does that mean that if it makes it through here, it will get that after-dinner roar for the next round?
 
Crimson Azoth said:
Also, question. Like I said, the Lion only roars after eating. Does that mean that if it makes it through here, it will get that after-dinner roar for the next round?
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Not really. Each of these rounds are counted seperately so I can add them to the pages.

{EDIT} Also,

Lion - 1 (Crimson)

Koopa - 0
 
What does FCARA even mean? Anyways, the Koopa may be dumb but we should mention that Koopa Troopa is not some weakling who will just break a few bones by ramming. This huge weight wrestler of a tiny yellow turtle has destroyed blocks of bricks in the past and might as well **** the hell out of or even kill the lion in one blow. Even if lions can fight with broken bones, there's no way it's taking two blows from Koopa and still moving.

I'm voting for Koopa on grounds of higher intelligence and way higher physical prowess.

Also, does anyone have data on what speed Koopa scales to?
 
Mand21, I'm assuming, don't quote me on this, but since FRA means For Reasons Above, and the initials of my name are CA, I think FCARA stands for For Crimson Azoth's Reasons Above. Just a thought.

Also, Koopa ain't standing and fighting the Lion! The dude is a coward even by human terms! And show me the one human who thinks that s/he can bare-hand wrestle a lion! Koopas are brawlers, at best. Lions practise fighting against their own kind since they learn to walk.

Higher intelligence? Say what? Lions are pretty intelligent, one of the most intelligent animals in the world, I will have you know.

Much higher AP? From breaking bricks? Lions have torn apart metal and cars, easily murdered elephants, and dominated bears. Their bite strength alone is over 1000 PSI!
 
Koopas have rammed half a cubic meter walls into fragmentation. This really is above the level of crushing some metal bars on your teeth or being able to lethally damage a big animal.

Cowardice by human terms doesn't mean they are stupid enough to believe themselves to be humans. They're pretty high into 9-B. They wouldn't look at a kinda close to baseline animal with fear. A human cannot bare-handed wrestle a lion, but a Koopa can take a crap on a lion every day so long as they don't utterly screw up. A lion's bite should be to them like what, a small dog's bite?

Human-level intellect is above any animal's, you should know. While I'm pretty impressed by the fact lions can fodderize elephants, MOTHERF*CKING ELEPHANTS FOR GOD'S SAKE, they should still lose to a koopa troopa, after all, it's a mid-to-high-end 9-B soldier we're talking about. Plus, flight.
 
While they may be able to lethally damage a lion in one or two blows, the Koopa doesn't know that. A lion is absolutely terrifying while charging, and no Koopa would care about their skills against that! I'm no coward, and I run for the hills when my fricken cat hisses at me!
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Scary boi

And Koopas are cowards! A big cat snarling at them like this would scare them out of their skin.
 
A lion's bite is 1000 PSI. I did the maths (you're welcome) and it would take seven times that to crack a Koopa's shell. But if the Koopa is hiding and the lion is whaling on the shell, then that threshold wouldn't take long to be overcome. And if the Koopa is actively fighting back, it would have to be out of it's shell. The neck of the Koopa is exposed, lions tend to go for the neck when attacking as they know that it is vulnerable. Sorry, but how long can a Koopa go on when a giant cat is gripping it's neck, crushing the bones and bleeding it out? Sure, it can throw some punches, crack some ribs, but a lion will keep grimly holding on.

In this situation, the honest best a Koopa could hope for is an inconclusive as they both die at the same time. But that is best case senerio. This overgrown turtle is going down.
 
Spinosaurus75DinosaurFan said:
Inconclusive cuz the lion can't break Koopa's shell.
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Was going to say this myself. The Lion's going to wail on the shell and likely injure itself, and leave on its own violition before the Koopa gets back out. Seven times dura/AP is far above the generally accepted line for a stomp, but the Koopa is going to hide the moment it sees something that large going towards it.

Lion - 3 (Crimson, Apies, Core)

Koopa - 1 (Mand)

Incon - 1 (Spino)
 
Spinosaurus75DinosaurFan said:
The lion votes should be invalidated. The lion can't break the Koopa's shell.
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Yeah, I usually don't like doing that, but the Teeth/Claws are going to break well before the shell does as a numerical fact.

Koopa - 1 (Mand)

Incon - 1 (Spino)
 
What about the lion taking the Koopa by the neck if it fights back, as I presented earlier? Is that also invalid?
 
Crimson Azoth said:
What about the lion taking the Koopa by the neck if it fights back, as I presented earlier? Is that also invalid?
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The Koopa's durability out of the shell is Brick/Wall breaking. In the shell it's presumably higher.
 
Koopa is also a soldier who has fought Mario. He's probably not that cripplingly coward (and like I said, he should probably notice his advantage over the lion).

Yeah, going for the neck is sure a good advantage for the lion, but given Koopa's high durability, even that is not a sure kill.

In terms of power, the Koopa has a noticeable advantage that would give him a high-diff victory, imo. In terms of intelligence he can think his ass out of the situation of being attacked by a lion and win it mid-diff.
 
This thread is moving slower than usual. Is it because of the other brackets going on at the same time, or perhaps something else?
 
Mand21 said:
This thread is moving slower than usual. Is it because of the other brackets going on at the same time, or perhaps something else?
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Eh, everything runs out of momentum eventually. That and I suppose the Powerless brackets only had a small portion of the original bracket submitters.
 
Well, hope we can at least finish these two tournaments before the momentum completely vanishes.
 
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