0) The Dream Rod has no implication of having statistics amplification, which we shall talk about in the other points. And what do you mean "most" Dream Friends may be the actual characters? I doubt the Dream Rod is used for summoning
and cloning, depending on the character. All Dream Friend have their past along with them.
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Game mechanics explains power, just like the enemies that can be turned into allies by the Friend Heart, they usually get one-shot by Kirby but can tank hits from Void Termina, but
it's not their canonical strength. Adeleine never dies from an attack from Kirby, only gets defeated, so injured enough to not fight, and since bosses also can harm Kirby and not get knocked out in one hit, Adeleine having lower durability but not a lower tier makes sense. Like after Kirby knocks Dark Matter out of Adeleine in KirbyÔüÂÔü┤ the Crystal Shards with one hit, she was on the ground and defeated, but she woke up immediately, which would be an accurate to her low durability in Kirby Star Allies, lower durability than him but in the same tier. I think pre-Star Allies Adeleine's durability should be multi-solar system level instead of unknown since we have a good idea of what she can survive.
a) Magolor was already comparable to Kirby and is seemingly stronger than him in this game. He likely has some power of the Master Crown cause of the effects the attacks have and how he has used magic before in base form, regardless if I remember if they said it in the news. I got it,
here, is the news article.
| One of his great features is that he wields the giant Ultra Sword! Did he secretly stash up some power from the Master Crown? Or perhaps he stole this ability from Kirby? | | |
| | ~ Yuki Endo | |
They mention he might have stole this ability from Kirby too, but that has nothing to do with the Dream Rod or statistical amplification, it has to do with the Ultra Sword being something Kirby uses. It also says what I said about the Master Crown, and considering Magolor has used two huge swords when he had the Master Crown, nothing leads to the Dream Rod changing his stats to be more like Kirby.
- So if Magolor being very strong is canon and it's not just gameplay, then it's even better because stats being changed when being summoned by a Dream Rod
is. Even if we agreed on that, the Dream Rod wouldn't canonically amplify characters cause it is not apart of the story, not stated anywhere, nor is there something within the same game to compare it to. (And there reasons to believe otherwise too that we are covering in the other points.)
b) So if Adeleine is on par with the others cause of her paintings and Ribbon's Crystal Gun, then their stats aren't buffed to match Kirby's, exactly. They are not Kirby level, having their own stats.
- "Forgive me and participate in the rain" is in normal writing: "Marx is forgiven for his past actions and is now able to participate in the adventure.". I don't know why adventure is "rain", but they could mean "fray" or something, pretty much just the battle and chase after the Jamba Hearts.
- That wasn't my point. This point isn't needed anyway.
c) I'd like to mention that the Dream Rod has nothing to do with this thread's topic, so if someone comes to debate about what the OP says, I'm going to stop talking about the Dream Rod.