@GavinVGC@NorfDoot Because this is just just a 1-1 port of the SV OU version and doesn't adapt to new usage, and smogon decisions are baffling to begin with.
@recondirective@XeronicLoL It's not as much that protect is always SO strong but that it's usually not weak and everything has access to it. The main thing it enables is mind games.
@hatsu3425 The obvious corollary of this point is that like physical science can make testable predications in material observations, powerscaling can make testable predictions in fictional worlds. I personally predicted much of recent One Piece a few years ago only reading pre-timeskip.
@hatsu3425 Powerscaling should only bring you closer to the writers. The ideal powerscaler is beyond the scientist, as science turns out to be a special case of powerscaling, which is generalizes its principles beyond the physical through the fictional.
@JoeMerrick The nature is applied after the +32 in the stat. It is a new stat system because technically you can get an extra point sometimes because you bypass old rounding.
@TrifGaming It’s a very interesting go second format because dodging interruption is kind of just everywhere. Sending a spell from field for cost is even crazier, they just lose the ability to interact with it from there
@distantcoder The truth is that yugioh decks can just do many things. Your 5 card opener doesn’t give you 5 effects, it gives your whole deck and extra. You don’t really have to give up anything. You have access to removal, interaction, high atk points, advantage, and floodgates, all at once.