#also shoutout to koga

[reisakumaproducer]

Massun sings old Enstars songs like the rent is due, and I mean that in a positive way. Listen to his Rei voice in Destruction Road. This is a threat

[autisticbokutoenthusiast]

vnl 2024 is officially over :(

italy beat japan in the gold medal match 3-1!!

happy for italy (especially de gennaro who made the game for me with her saves)

also happy for japan for winning their first meal on the international stage!! that match against brazil was one for the ages my god. im so proud of them!!!

ceremony commentary:

WIPAWEE PRESENTING THE DREAM TEAM AWARDS LIKE I DIDNT EXPECT TO SEE MY WIFE TODAY WHAT A SURPRISE AHHHH SHE LOOKS SO GOOD IN THAT FIT. (have i mentioned how much i love her haircut...)

koga is the first member of the dream team! good for her because she is a great outside and people over look her cause they only look at japans defense but she shes good AND reliable

next up is sylla my girl. her flopping on the ground when she missed a dig was so funny and so real. funniest outside imo like i could watch her reactions to things forever

next is korneluk. one of the most intimidating blockers imo, especially with stysiak by her side i would nottttt ever test her block...

next is fahr! i thought it woul be danesi but good for fahr. the way her and sylla pretended the statues were phones was funny

KOJIMA LETS GOOO MY GIRL. im so surprised and happy shes playing in us this year im gonna try my best to go see her play!!

orro best setter. good choice! i was worried for her when fahr scratched her in the eye but she recovered quickly

egonu best opposite we been knew like one of if not the best out there rn. and she got mvp like what hasn't she won (i think the only mvp title shes missing is olympic so lets see if she collects them all)

Medals

Poland presented with BRONZE medal

poland getting bronze second year in a row! i was surprised they beat brazil tbh but they were really on it (also i really like the new young outside czyniańska, excited to see more of her in the future). stysiak is my gf and i love her and she did great as always (even tho she keeps fighting the ref like girlie youre gonna get yellowcarded one day and half the time you were WRONG, but shes just passionate <3)

lmaoooo not them having an iphone on the damn podium lolllll like there isn't already a thousand angles of this sdjkfjalkdfj the players are so funny

Japan presented with SILVER medal

ive been saying since the beginning, this team was capable of getting to finals if not a medal but everyone wanted to doubt me. this squad is so impressive, their persistance, their skill, their DEFENSE. like this is the strongest i think ive ever seen them play, call it recency bias or whatever but i have high hopes for them and it payed off

(also shoutout to japan for showing that height can put you at a disadvantage but it doesn't matter more than you're skill, and this team is amazing and deserves their medal they played 2 great matches against brazil and a great one against turkiye, AND the took a set from italy when usa and poland couldnt)

Italy presented with GOLD

I had a feeling they would make it to finals but to be honest i kinda underestimated them. after their vnl performance last year it felt like they had further to go. week 1 they did ok BUT the SECOND egonu came back it was over for the other teams. now italy definitely isn't a one player team, orro used the full squad in the offense when she could rely on egonu, the middles were on it (especially denesi), sylla and degradi being my girlies (tho they need to know how to stand up cause everytime the camera is on them theyre on the floor sjdkfdjls), antropova is also amazing it must be said, but DE GENNARO imo is one of the reasons they came so far like her, nyeme, kojima, and castillo are my fav liberos...

I had said earlier in the tournament i thought the medals would be brazil for gold, turkiye/poland for silver, and italy/usa for bronze.... (ofc also my dream of japan but i was scared to say it cause it seemed so unlikely) and look at what we got. proves that volleyball is a fun sport to watch

god its now hitting me that vnl 2024 is over :( i want it to go on foreverrrrr

like i know we have olympics next month but its not the same :(

there were so many great moments this year it was amazing to watch as always i cant wait until next time!!!

[lumenflowered]

oh I am always down for seeing more swordlesbianing

....ok that one's on me I meant with pokemon. but I will keep the swordlesbianing in mind bc I know she likes doing that too lol.

ANYWAY. literally no one showed up at the league today :( but it worked out bc pretty much everyone had something they could be doing (shoutout to karen for going "alright cool naptime" and then conking out for the next several hours) EXCEPT for maria and will.

maria lasted about an hour texting the milf before she put down the gear, looked at will, and went "how do you feel about a rematch?"

(also ty koga for filming when I was battling. I appreciate u sir)

do u still wanna see it

[heatwa-ves]

tiaaaa today i was in the mood to read some gl so i just binge read 'the guy she was interested in wasnt a guy at all' that ive seen you mention a few times before and !!!!! i really really liked it!!! i love how aya and koga bond together abt their shared interest and also how their relationship is progressing they are so cuteeee. also the artstyle????? oh my god its SO beautiful and i love so much how they use the color green in the panels.... so yeahhh i like it a lot and cant wait to read more new chapters!!! (also koga give me your gender PLS)

omg im so happy that you're reading it it's such a good manga!!! I loveee the art and the use of limited color it's so cool.. shoutout to koga shoutout to aya 💖

[crystalelemental]

One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you tell me which thing is not like the others? Before I finish my-

IT'S SIEBOLD BECAUSE HE'S A BITCH

Vs. Malva I WAS SO CLOSE, SIEBOLD, YOU ASSHOLE BITCH! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I ENDURED JUST TO GET THAT FAR? LET ME TELL YOU! Improved secondary effect condition means that the 60% flinch rates are guaranteed. So we guaranteed flinch locked the entire stage into submission, while Brock steadily threw out Rock Slides to chunk. Once the sides dropped, all three had guaranteed flinch rates. Unfortunately, two attacks getting through flinch means she gets sync, and that's pretty bad. Because we blocked so many hits and removed Sun, her sync didn't actually KO anyone. Blue could recover up with his Gradual Healing, and Acerola just needed defense buffs to survive. Brock apparently did it naturally. So chalk this up as the first time SS Brock has done anything that others couldn't do too. Grant couldn't have managed this. And it's beating one of the toughest Rock stages in the game.

Vs. Drasna I knew it. Candice is plenty capable of trucking this stage. Ghetsis' Glaciate is definitely capable as well, taking out the right side with perfect timing to avoid the catastrophe that was Skyla dropping. The Ghetsis upgrade is so useful after all. Unfortunately, them being so good means I don't know what this stage does still, but apparently it involves Furious Brain on the sides. So that's delightful.

Vs. Wikstrom Silver exploded them all. It wasn't even funny, except it was hilarious. I'm kinda floored that Marley took so little damage, but I guess the physical defense shield worked out in our favor for once. Unfortunately this means I still don't know what this stage does either. I did see that he boosts defense per attack this time! That's pretty cute. Very specifically trying to stop Silver and Blaine. Didn't work! But A for effort.

Vs. Siebold Douche-lord supreme over here. Siebold is, in my humble opinion, downright impossible to beat F2P. Needing status, having such intense speed debuffing and defense debuffing, the rampage of AoE attacks. There's nothing to beat him. Hau? Inertia sync is ruined by the speed drops. BP Sophocles? AoE deals too much for him to survive, and his damage actually can't keep up with Siebold himself. There's just...no way. I refuse to believe there's a way to do this that doesn't involve premium. Maybe with the Elesa upgrade and Volkner. Maybe. But even that I'm going to say is super unlikely. Oh, and you can forget Stall. Even aside from the damage thrown around, the defense drops make it effectively impossible. This guy...is unstoppable F2P. I couldn't do it, man. I could not do it.

Vs. Diantha This was, admittedly, luck based. BP Janine dodged some really important attacks to dodge. Koga's actually able to deal sufficient damage for clean KOs, with BP Erika setting up stall tactics. Which were integral to taking out the right side. I'm pretty satisfied with this. One day I should run Lucy or Roxie against these stages, but that day is not today, it seems.

Final Thoughts If it weren't for Siebold, this would've been arguably one of the easiest F2P clears of any modern CS. But, if it weren't for the max flinch rate against Malva, there's no way in hell we would've won that, so I guess we'll call it even.

I'm kinda surprised, though I shouldn't be, at how good Ice is as F2P. Candice's sync nuke is for real, and Ghetsis' Glaciate does spectacular numbers for the sides. It really is an ideal partnership with any speed buffing, thanks to Ghetsis' grid expansion. I guess I undersold it. The Fire stage also feels really easy thanks to Silver. That SEUN Sun-boosted nuke is so nice. And hey, shoutouts to BP Janine. She can't tank to save her life, but sometimes when you need her, she does dodge.

Malva is ridiculous. Were it not for the flinch, there's no chance. Brock was dealing like 3k per Rock Slide after two syncs and she was the only one standing, this was so not happening. I'd love to see anyone pull it off F2P. You really just need insane DPS, or Classic Blue, for that stage.

But Siebold. Oooooh my god, I feel like we underestimate the wrath of Siebold, because if you don't have something premium this feels impossible. He's ridiculous. I'm kinda floored they made something this hostile toward F2P. I can't remember the last time I felt like a stage was this aggressive about it. So I guess he gets the Tough Guy Award, and sadly Wikstrom gets the Weenie Award. That's just what happens when you're weak to Fire. Though he did try. There's just no stopping Silver.

[inukag]

How many times does Kagome ‘Sit’ Inuyasha?

Since I always complain about the anime making a lot of things worse, including Kagome’s use of the sit command, I decided to back up what I’m saying with some actual data.

So I present to you: The ultimate Osuwari/Sit count. 

Let’s start with the manga, the real canon. I went over all the chapters, including the bonus chapter 559 / Since Then, and here are the results:

Total ‘Sit’ count in the manga: 56

Highest number of sits in a row: 8  → Reason: Inuyasha was trying to destroy the well using a boulder (chapter 23) Other times she used the beads repetitively:  4 times in chapter 249 →  After he tried to pick up a fight with her when she was in a bad mood because they met Kikyo. 4 times in chapter 339 →  After he got angry at her for being ‘too friendly’ with Koga and she called him out for also being too friendly with Kikyo. 2 times in chapter 327  →  After he went to see Kikyo alone and she thought he was lying to her when he said Kikyo wasn’t there.

I added this because people usually say Kagome sits him “every time he annoys her a little” and I don’t think that’s true. Because of this I also gathered a (subjective) list of reasons why Kagome used the command and counted the number of sits associated. 

Main reasons: he was being violent, or he was being rude/insensitive towards her or others. 

Now, let’s take a look a the anime 🙂 I didn’t rewatch the anime to make this, I watched The Ultimate Inuyasha Sit Compilation video and double checked some episodes myself. Shoutout to zeragon21 on Youtube for making this compilation, it saved me a lot of time! This includes all animated content of the Inuyasha series, so the original anime (episode 1-167) & The Final Act (episode 168-193) and then the 4 movies and the spinoff Hanyo no Yashahime. 

Total ‘Sit’ count in the anime: 154

Highest number of sits in a row: 22 → Reason: Trying to stop a drunk Sango from kissing Inuyasha

Other times she used the beads repetitively: 16 times in episode 109  →  Same as chapter 249 where she used it 4 times but the anime made it worse 11 times in episode 96 →  Because Inuyasha told Jinenji that Kagome has a “small heart” 10 times in Movie 1 →  Because Inuyasha didn’t compliment her cooking and wanted to eat ramen instead 8 times in episode 11 →  Same as chapter 23  6 times in episode 98 →  Because Inuyasha didn’t compliment her cooking, again 5 times in episode 158 →  Same as chapter 327 where she used it 2 times but the anime made it worse

Conclusion: The Inuyasha animated content added almost 100 non-canon ‘Sit’ commands! 

This is honestly, so, so much worse than I expected, lol. I also wanted to note some other differences that would explain why anime viewers find the sit command a bigger problem than manga readers. The first one being the force / intensity of it. In the anime the command will often be strong enough to create a crater, while in the manga there’s usually a “moosh” sound effect and if she uses it repetitively Inuyasha will just stay stuck in a crouched position. 

Another thing I’ve noticed while watching the compilation is that in the anime (especially the dub) Inuyasha often complains about it. He’ll scream/grunt when she sits him, call her heartless, ask her why she’s sitting him. This doesn’t really happen in the manga. He will usually say “Kagome temee!” (Damn you Kagome!) or say “Stop that!” if she’s using it repeatedly (which only happened twice).   

There’s also some added scenes in the anime that portrayed Kagome in a negative light in regards to the sit command. The first one being in the third movie “Swords of an Honorable Ruler”, where Inuyasha asked Kagome to remove the beads and she ignored him, and later she “tricked” him into putting them back on despite his complaints. The other is from the filler episodes 147-148 “The Tragic Love Song of Destiny” where Kikyo created the subjugation beads using the word “beloved” as the trigger word, but decided not to put them on him because she saw he was nice. Sunrise clearly added this to imply that Kagome should have taken the beads off Inuyasha after she realized they weren’t truly necessary (since he doesn’t want to kill her or innocents) and used this to add fuel to the love triangle discourse. In the manga the beads are never really talked about, they’re just a slapstick gag that isn’t meant to be taken too seriously, just like Sango slapping Miroku or Inuyasha punching kids. 

Conclusion: the reasons why the Sit command is worse in the anime than in the manga, is that there is almost 100 added Sits, the force of the command is way worse, Inuyasha complains about it a lot more, and Sunrise tried to make it seem like a bigger deal than it really is by adding certain scenes.

[writertothemaximum]

hiii!! i was wondering if i could request some sub koga headcanons? i just think he would be the cutest sub lol

(love your writing btw!! keep it up <3)

Thank you so much for reading! I hope you have a good day today!

also shoutout to the card where anzu sits on him and force-feeds him ritsu’s food lmao

Koga as a sub

cw: (nsfw/18+, slight mention of petplay)

-omg is koga an adorable sub

-His favorite is head scratches. Please give him plenty of head scratches, just for days, especially behind the ears, he absolutely loves that.

-He is a brat, but a completely unintentional brat. Like, he doesn’t mean to back talk, he doesn’t mean to bitch and moan, but like it comes out, okay?

-He doesn’t mean it, he swears! He’ll stop cursing and be a good boy this time, okay!

-I know it’s cliche and obvious but Koga really does have a pet play kink. Just buy him a collar and a leash and he’s on the ground woofing at you in less than ten whole seconds.

-Don’t let him get too into it, though, because once he starts trying (emphasis on trying) to howl, everyone in the neighborhood will wonder if you have a raccoon problem or something.

-Koga generally prefers topping to bottoming. Something about getting his face grabbed and pulled into a smooch while he’s inside of you really get him going, he can’t explain why.

-This boy is messy with his tongue. In all the best possible ways. He prides himself at how good he is at sucking you off, well, that’s until you sit on his face for hours until his tongue becomes numb from the sheer amount of times you came on his face.

-Smells are very important to him! It embarrasses him, but he likes the smell of sweat coming off of you, it’s gross, he knows, but for some reason, off of you, the smell is addicting.

-Although bottoming isn’t his favorite, he does enjoy anal (on himself) every now and again. He was really hesitant to it at first, and he always tightens up just a bit too much, always wriggles around too much, but he always gets off in the end, so he comes out happy and satisfied, despite all the struggle.

-This good little wolf will do anything you say, he would literally eat a dog treat if you threw it at him, that’s how deep in subspace he gets.

-A part of him is just so happy that someone is depending on him, that someone needs to use him for something, it just fills him with a wonderful satisfaction.

-Take care of him, and please take him on ‘walks’ in the middle of the night.

[lethargic-lass]

A little late but I cleared 7.5K MM for the first time!

Surprisingly this week wasn’t too bad. Koga was the toughest of the bunch since I chose to bring Steven instead of Ghetsis. What can I say? I prefer using my favorites lol.

Big shoutout to EX Giovanni. He’s da GOAT! Srsly, he OH-KOd the sides even with both shields up. For once, Bruno wasn’t a pain in the ass. I should try off-typing with Gio. Heh Bruno’s gonna be in for a world of pain.

Also, it’s my first time using a meme team. Twas fun running Double Rayquazas and yes, Sawyer. I actually used the optimize feature for this match. The game recommended me Blue but I chose to use this chad simply bc he’s my favorite OC. And Honchkrow is best birb lol.

Now that Ik how to get 1.5K points per battle, I can clear CS faster than usual. Until the next post!

[draconscious]

Me: thinking about Johto and just now realizing that Clair’s team is weak to Pryce’s team is weak to Jasmine’s team is weak to Chuck’s team is weak to Morty’s team is weak to Whitney’s team...and then Bugsy breaks the chain with his bugs. Thanks, Bugsy.

(Bugsy’s team is weak to Falkner’s team though! Also, this is now proof that Clair is that much better than Pryce...sorry, old man.)

And special shoutout to Karen’s team being weak to Bruno’s team which is weak to Koga’s team which is weak to Will’s team. Man, I love Johto.

[kendelias]

💞 + Emi

osamu miya - like okay duh but also... they are legit one of the funniest love stories i have ever concocted like... something about lowkey tricking your girlfriend into dating you is so fucking funny and so personal. also the amount of opposites attract going on is literally the height of comedy i love them so much.

izanami koga - well DUH. its the fwb for me... the (br)otp. stupid hoes really do be out there, doing the most. they’re really like co-dependent and dumb and the way that they build each other up is so personal and so fucking iconic. i literally enjoy their back and forth dialogue so much, it was so fun to write and i always enjoy going back to them.

kimiko minatoya - ah to be the friend that lets kimiko get away with murder. she literally loves her so much and like... genuinely looks up to her as a captain, a leader, and a friend. she’d definitely go to the ends of the earth for her and really just let her do whatever she’d like lmao.

megumi imada - OH TO BE THE SMALL FRIEND AND THE TALL FRIEND. like i love their dynamic, the overexuberant one and the one that is just kind of like “yeah go off queen”. megumi literally running and jumping into her arms and emi dropping anything to catch her... rock paper scissors... i just love them so much.

atsumu miya - dude their friendship is the height of comedy. she won’t let him get away with shit, but he also respects her and she highkey loves him even if she doesn’t tell him so much as sends him memes of barry b benson at 3 am. she won’t admit it but she’s really close to him and loves him like a brother.

shoutout to honorable mentions: yuuji terushima, toru oikawa, and kazuma bobata

send me 💞 + an oc for their top 5 dynamics!

[defeatedbyamerechild]

What trainer protagonist is your favorite? (Touko, Whitley (Rosa), Red, etc.)

OOOOOH YOU ASK SUCH DIFFICULT QUESTIONS!!! XD

But welp, I guess this is my podium! My favorite is Lyra (Kotone), my second place goes to Lucas (Kōki) and third place is Rosa (Mei). But this was very hard to choose!

I placed Lyra as my favorite because I have very good memories from Playing HGSS, it’s a game I totally fell in love with, and if I’m not mistaken it was the first Pokémon game I played after I came back to the fandom. Because, well... I was a huge fan of Pokémon when I was a small child, like... Back when there were only the first 150 Pokés... haha. But later on, as I grew up, I kinda stopped caring about it for a while, because I thought it was “for children” and I was “a pre-teen” so I had to be “cool” and whatever... Until later on when I remembered Pokémon and decided to go back to it, because it’s awesome. And then I dowloaded an emulator on PC (because I didn’t have a console at the time and these games are super expensive here) and a HGSS version. And I played it, but the PC couldn’t make it work really well, so it kept lagging and it was horrible... But I was so into the game that I didn’t even care! So I played the whole thing with that unbearable lag. XD Nowadays I do have a console, I have a Nintendo 3DS and some original games, but I’ve never been able to buy HGSS or Platinum because they are too expensive here. Anyway, I think this is why I love HGSS characters so much, like Morty, Lance, Will, Lyra, Karen, Koga... I actually have a gigantic fanfiction about Lance and Will, and Lyra takes part on it. I also love Silver and I have another fanfiction (this one is not finished though) with him and Lyra, shipping them... Anyway, like... I love these games. My favorite Region is Sinnoh but I have a very fond relationship with HGSS and the characters there! ^^ Also I think Lyra is adorable in terms of design and I love her huge hat!

Second place is Lucas because I played as him when I played Platinum (emulator as well), and he’s one of the only male protags whose design I really like! (I’m pretty fond of caps and scarves haha). He looks so cute and pure! ♥ Not that I don’t like Dawn as well, but the 4th gen is an exception to how I usually feel about the protags, which is: the girls are usually cooler in my opinion. But I prefer Lucas over Dawn. Also Platinum is one of my fave games, mostly because of Cyrus, and I was writing another fanfiction about Cyrus and Lucas, so Lucas was pretty much the main character there too and I loved giving him a personality in my fic. ^^

And third place comes Rosa because I’m an idiot who can’t get over her adorable design. And that’s literally all, because I haven’t even played any 5th gen games (even though I know the characters and the story). I just think she’s too cute! I love her cute face!!! And I ship her with Roxie as well, because I really like Roxie too and I think they have a lovely contrast between them! :3

But, like... shoutouts to Gloria (Yūri), Calem (Calme), Dawn (Hikari) and Hilda (Touko), because I also really like them! ^^ And I kinda have some affection for May (Haruka) because I’ve played ORAS with her, but it’s more about an affection towards my character (Emily) than towards May herself. Just like Pokémon Sun.... I’ve played Sun with the girl protag, but I don’t like her standard look. My character in the game was called Miranda and looked like this:

So, like, when I think about Miranda, I just feel a very strong affection for her! But when I look at Selene (Mizuki), I just don’t feel anything... :/

Anyway!!! I’m rambling, sorry. I guess I’ve answered the ask just with the picture so all this was unnecessary! Hahahah! ^^

[tempestspc-a]

😉😃🐶🐱🦁🐼🌸

Munday On Friday

Read more’d for length

😉 ; Are there any ships for your muse that you enjoy, or ships that you would like to see happen?

I’d like to give a shout out to you specifically for getting me into beautifulworldshipping again, though I need to bring back my Lysandre. Also I would (and probably will) die for the murder lesbians that are Celosia and Volcana.

Aside from that, shoutouts to @blueshadesofvictory for giving Koga a heart attack being a great ship partner. On the note of Janine, I do want to (eventually) get the FatherlyShipping running with @son-of-skarmory.

Also! @forgxtemall we need to get the ball rolling with Morty and Brawly.

🐶 ; Do you have any pets?

I do! A cat and a dog. My dad also has a dog, but I usually live with my mom, so-

🐱 ; Are there any pets you wish you could have?

I do eventually want to raise a larger dog (probably a lab), but I’ll have to wait until I get my own place.

🦁 ; What is your current big obsession?

Nothing really. Been kinda hyping up for Castlevania season 3 and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, though!

🐼 ; What are some of your favourite hobbies?

RPing is my only huge hobby, but once I can afford to, I’m gonna get back into cosplay.

🌸 ; Have you ever met an rp partner in real life? Would you like to? 

Not yet, but it’s on my bucket list to step foot in each state at least once, so if I’m taking a trip and you’re near where I’m traveling, HMU, y’all.

[crystalelemental]

WE DID IT LADS!  "Wow, how?"  I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT

Except I do, you know I can't shut up.

Aaron went first, because there was no chance in hell that Hau was going to pull this off.  The only potential success was going to be paralysis on his Heal Order, and I wasn't willing to test that.  Maybe in time, but certainly not here.  So we used Cheese Team Alpha to take him down, because I was scared, and also a buffoon.  Horrible Mistake #1.

Then we had Bertha.  Thought I, "Oh hey, we beat this one with this team before, there shouldn't be a problem, we can just cheese Cynthia!"  So I brought Ghetsis.  Horrible Mistake #2.  Oh, and Hop.  Horrible Mistake #3.  They did do it, as promised, but oh god.

Then we had Lucian, who was actually obscenely tough.  I blame Flying-weak.  Flying units just aren't equipped for 2k Master Mode.  Kahili had the best performance due to sync nuke, but frankly the lack of EX is devastating.  We had to take out Exeggutor as it queued up a move to save time, then hit two crits on Lucian and still had to worry about Morty getting the right flinches at the right time, while keeping Kahili alive.  You know what saved it?  You want to know what made this work?  Endure on her trainer move.  That did it.  Because of Swift and Dazzling Gleam.  We were that fucking close to failure, and needed Endure on an offensive unit to stand a chance, just due to the spread moves.  This League is vicious.

Oh, but in case you thought that was rough, then we have Flint.  Would you believe I struggled?  Against Flint?  Psychic-weak Flint?  Shameful.  Yet here we are, with Flint having so much HP on his baby bitch monkey that Giovanni couldn't just blast it.  And again, the solution was Endure.  Endure on Roxanne and Giovanni let us win.  That's it.  That was the only thing keeping us alive.  I wish that were a joke.  Oh, and extra shoutouts to Roxanne.  Blaziken only uses Heat Wave, because this whole league is nothing but spread moves.  But joke's on it, because if Giovanni didn't explode it to death on sync, Roxanne blocks it anyway.  Get fucked, bitch chicken.

Then, the culmination of all my failures.  Cynthia.  So, fun fact here.  Cynthia's -1 accuracy is apparently -27, because nothing ever hits.  I missed eight 100% accurate moves in a row, while at max evasion her Stoutland never missed that 90% even once.  It is such unmitigated bullshit.

So, the initial plan was Stall Team.  Turns out, impossible.  Misty buffs her special defense and evasion wonderfully, but Cynthia needs to miss like 8 attacks for it to matter, and her sync and Tri Attack are such high natural damage because of Normal that we couldn't take the hits.  Not to mention it was supremely reliant on Viola getting debuffs from Struggle Bug, which relied on her hitting Cynthia which she often didn't, and which could only be spammed once we had Cynthia trapped, which needs reapplied.  And that's without Koga needing to hit a 50/50 shot while also dealing with accuracy issues.  The closest we ever came was a double KO, which took so many lucky breaks it's ridiculous.  This team just could not perform.  Mostly because Discombobulate 4/Ripple Effect 9 is a nightmare, and the goddamn sides hit for eleventy billion damage despite being on defensive parameters.  Stall Team Alpha may have been able to do it, but frankly I'm not convinced, given that Skyla couldn't take special hits.  And because no Ghetsis, we couldn't debuff everything reliably and try Lucy instead.  So we gave up.

Initially, I didn't think Bruno would do it, so we tried some off type stuff.  Cyrus literally never once hit with Hydro Pump.  Yes, even with the boosted accuracy and everything.  Impossible.  So that was out.  Gardenia similarly stood absolutely no chance, and I’m not sure what I was thinking there.  With that, we were left with only Bruno.  Who has base 80% accuracy.  And no Hop.  So that's great.  Miraculously, he did it.  Maylene remains a fantastic partner to him, but the ultimate saving grace?  Misty.

Misty cannot reliably dodge, but she doesn't need to.  She only needs to dodge once, right at the outset.  This prevents Discombobulate, and from there, the solution is to pack Bruno with Accuracy, Crit Strike 2, Double Down 5, and the sync damage nodes.  It's around 11k on sync, if you take -2 sync cooldown and half HP conditions to only give her Strength 1 instead of 3 or 5.  Then you had to be able to queue up Cross Chop before she queued up her move, and you could take her out pre-sync.  Remember, all of these are 90% accuracy rolls, because she canceled his Pinpoint Entry.  So it went great, thanks.  Snorlax has to go first, or Earthquake will OHKO Bruno, but thankfully sync is up so we can just explode the doggo and you missed the crit.  Missed the 80% crit.  Of course.  Thankfully, the last Cross Chop landed, and was hitting for enough to finish the job, but Christ that was close.  Especially with no speed buffs to keep Cross Chop up and running.  This was fucking dire.

But it's done.  10k F2P clear on Sinnoh Master Mode.

Weenie Award goes to Bertha.  Sorry, Bertha.  It feels a little unfair, due to EX Candice and Hop, but you just didn't impress.

Big Dick Award...probably should go to Cynthia because of how hard this was, but I'm giving it to Lucian.  Cynthia's hard because she's unfair.  Lucian is just like that.  Though I also have to acknowledge the struggle of limited Flying type.  Once I went to Bruno, Cynthia went down fast enough.  Nothing was going to make Lucian easier.

Most Impressive Award goes to Stoutland.  I'm not even kidding.  Cynthia's fight was insane as it was, but the ultimate problem was that fucking Stoutland.  1200+ damage with defensive parameters?  Are we real right now?

To call this the hardest CS to date is an understatement.  Sure, there have been matches on par with this nonsense.  Flying-weak Bruno springs to mind as a nightmarish challenge that F2P seriously struggles to handle.  Electric-weak Lorelei is a broad struggle, and I think it's Fire-weak Grimsley is brutal too.  And yet, those don't really overlap.  They're individual terrors that show up periodically and are the match to be wary of.  But this?  This is a gauntlet.

Everyone is brutal.  Aaron's getting a lot of focus as a ridiculous threat, and with good reason, but the others are far from pushovers.  Lucian's constant spread damage is terrifying for any team that has to take it slow.  Flint's so powerful in single-target attacks, with such a high burn rate, that your tank is likely to drop too.  Cynthia's evasion bullshit and naturally high BP is absolutely insane.  And then there's Bertha.  Who I feel kinda bad for, but she gets the Weenie Award.  I just...also feel like if I didn't have EX Candice and didn't use Hop here, I'd probably be struggling like crazy against her too.  This isn't a scenario of having one terrible match, but the rest being pretty smooth sailing with a good plan.  This is a league out for blood.  Over half of them required me to completely re-work grids to sets that otherwise wouldn't be ideal, just for one specific counter strategy, or getting the exact right conditions in the match to survive.  And that's a really, really high threshold to meet.

The worst part is, I don't even expect it to slow down.  Cynthia's Spiritomb was ridiculous even without Master Mode, and Aaron showed off similarly fantastic tools for survival with Heracross.  Flint got Sun, Lucian had the ability to break down defenses, and Bertha had high damage and Catalyst.  These fights are likely to all be at this challenge level.  Which...is really interesting for turning up the power, but also kind of frustrating for an F2P approach.  It's doable, but let's not pretend like I'm not someone who had the resources to get everyone to 5*, with a lucky skill and max theme skills.  Not everyone's going to have that.  And some of those tools were, in fact, pretty necessary for the damage.  I don't think Bruno would've pulled through without the match with Maylene.  And when you're pushing that level of need, it's frankly nuts.  They're scary.

But as someone who does have strong tools, it is kind of exciting to have a League with some serious teeth.  I gotta try out off-type.  I'm so excited.

[fictionkinfessionsarchived]

whats up gaymers its koga oogami here and i love my stupid bastard boyfriend rei to the point it makes my physically angry and i dont know whether i want to punch or kiss his stupid attractive face. this man is ruining my fucking life. i will never admit out loud to anyone outside of undead how much you fucking consume my thoughts you fuck. also shoutout to adonis for sticking through our bullshit u the man - koga oogami 🐺🎸

[gacharikku]

[Translation] Mai’s LINE blog, 20180330

What’s being translated: The whole post

Notes before we start:

Didn’t bother translating the emojis

For a moment, I thought “F-san” was Koga (facepalm)

I haven’t translated Mai’s blog posts before, but this one tended to use really long sentences which was frustrating as heck a good translation exercise. That being said, I took some liberties in translating in order to make it not so stilted.

ETA: Shoutout to @gachaesthetic and the wondrous people on the Gacharic Spin subreddit!

Link: https://lineblog.me/gacharicspin/archives/1046675.html

♡ Do you know what today is? ♡

Even though we’ve just returned from a long trip, Gachapin has been rushing around with radio interviews, recording, and rehearsals, so when I returned here, I was surprised to see the cherry blossoms in bloom.

Both on the news and among people walking outside, it’s crowded with talk of viewing cherry blossoms.

I want to go see the cherry blossoms too~

Next year I’ll try!

March is also about to be over [R: I think she’s likening it to cherry blossoms?] with tomorrow,

The last day of March is an important day!

Yup! Today, the 30th is

Gachapin’s manager, F-san’s birthday!

Happy birthday!

F-san does many things for us, like thinking about the member’s well-being, staying late at work for us, using “high-sense” design that the members don’t have about selling merchandise to draw designs that “pop”, and especially standing magnificently on stage during performances lol

And of course driving us ..

As always, thank you so much!

F-san was our first manager, if we were without staff like F-san, we wouldn’t be able to perform like we do, so we’re extremely grateful.

With F-manager, I like having a "series talk" about spicy things and spicy foods, so whenever we have an “off-talk”/don’t talk about work, it always ends up that we talk only about that lol

Recently I haven’t found [spicy food] but when I do, I’ll share it with F-manager and the others lol [R: I’m not sure what’s the “it” she’s referencing here  Thanks to rov124 on Reddit for helping me out!]

Happy birthday!

And so!

From tomorrow, we’ll be at Nagoya ELL for 2 days of live performances!

3/31 JUICY GIRL'S Vol.8

4/1 Tour “Don’t stop” 2018 One-man

JUICY GIRL'S is a music festival with extravagant artists [R: I have no idea how 「対バン」 translates omg Thanks to gachaesthetic for helping me translate!]

It’s been a long time since Gachapin has sponsored an event and there’ll be lots of artists there so I’m excited!

And the next day is a one-man!!

Looking forward to the stage we’ll have in Nagoya

Together let’s make a super hot 2 days!

I’ll leave you with this picture from Nagoya

[crystalelemental]

Okay, so it wasn't actually impossible.  It was just obnoxious, and given that you can't reset until it's beaten, would have been impossible had this been my first attempt because of how badly I locked myself into a corner.  Neato.

Hop, Nanu, MU Solgaleo vs. Grimsley A nice, clean win.  At least someone can attack competently, and sadly that someone is me.  I do not like having to use MU, but here we are.   Nanu's defense debuffs saved the day, as did Endurance on Solgaleo.  It was, uh...it was closer than I like to admit.

Cyrus, Winona, MU Torchic vs. Shauntal Absolute slobberknocker.  Once we got one (1) sync buff in, Cyrus could one-shot the sides, and what was left of Shauntal.  It was not close at all.   Also, MU was on two of these fights, and they were both the ones that won with offense, what is happening?

Koga, Viola, Misty&Starmie vs. Caitlin Electric-weak stages are a challenge, because the only real F2P option is Hau, who is not inherently bad, but does have the disappointing limitation of needing very specific support to work.  In this case, I could've tried with Cheryl and BP Surge, but frankly I got frustrated with things and just cheese stalled.  This team remains really, really good against specially offensive stages.

Skyla, Ghetsis, BP Erika vs. Marshall Fairy-weak Marshall sucks.  I'm guessing there's a way to clear this offensively with Sycamore somehow, but fuck if I know how.  The main issue is evasion.  +2 evasion on entry is bullshit, and means you don't even stand a chance of pre-sync clearing.  At least Lorelei has the decency to pull her bullshit only before sync so you can have a chance.  This guy just cheats.  So I am also cheating. Eat my entire ass, Marshall.

Janine, Lucy, BP Morty vs. Iris I tried to beat this with Clair.  This is where I tried with BP Surge and Cheryl, and I desperately wanted Clair to get the win.  But no matter what I did, we couldn’t get it to work.  Allowing paralysis meant taking extra modifiers that cause problems, and slowed down Surge’s boosting support.  Not taking that meant she had no multipliers.  So we had to stall.  Again.  Fortunately, this team also does really well at stall, so we managed to power through.  Shoutouts to Morty for Confuse Ray helping to stick the landing against the sides.  Janine dodging literally every attack that went through also helped, but I'm going to give Morty a win since they did hit themselves twice in confusion.  Not that it mattered, Lucy was full HP thanks to gradual healing when Iris went down, so the sides were a non-issue.

And that's another week of all F2P units clearing 10k CS.  I...really don't love how few options I have available to me for offense, and I'm even more bothered by the fact that Clair kinda sucks.  Please give her an EX, she needs it so badly.  Having EX legitimately would've been the difference between her constant defeat and a pretty reasonable win.   There's no longer any justification for holding back on the story units, they deserve their due.  But in the mean time, remember kids: stall is the most valuable form of play for Champion Stadium.