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Australian: Wont some fish and chips? (Particular emphasis on the f's and i's). Kiwi: Wunt some fush und chups? South African: Want some feesh and cheeps?

Hang on now, I've picked up the Plume Fossil myself before even beating Serra in episode 15. It was the community version rather than the public release but I highly doubt it's changed. You must be missing something, though I can't think what it might be.

"When you look for proof all you'll find is proof. Only with an open mind will you find the truth." - Sheep musing on the dangers of having expectations before you even start investigating something.

Well to be honest this topic wasn't even started on your birthday here but eh. Happy late birthday friend.

Well according to my account sign up date I'd be episode 11. Definitely started playing in 10 but I think the former is what you're interested in.

I think it works when you take into account the fact that I'm not satisfied with how little time I spend here these days.

Yeah, all of my theorycrafting thus far has been centered around the roster for the 3rd route, under the assumption that we have easy access to grinding. 3rd route gives you a lot more options when it comes to S/A+ ranks.

Isn't there a seal that extends the level cap so that you can grind people up to stat caps in the post game?

The thing is that in previous games mages couldn't double with it but other people had an easy time of doubling them. This time around you can't double them, but with access to 1-2 range they can still effectively double any melee unit. It's probable then that the weapon will be broken in combination with that skill in 1 on 1 scenarios, and the logical thing to do is gang bash the nosferatu user in a single turn. This still isn't easy though as they're effectively activating sol on every attack and will presumably take a lot of killing. This puts you at a disadvantage as you've spent most of your men killing one unit, and nosferatu is still therefore very good.

Kudos to you man, I enjoyed this.

Infernape's really good but at this point in the game Blaze is a better ability than Iron Fist for it. The chance of getting elemental punches on an Infernape if you play the current version is nix, and Mach Punch isn't exactly what I'd call useful when Infernape already hits base 108 speed. I still have it on mine, but I could probably count the number of times I've actually used it post getting Close Combat on one hand. At least with Blaze you can fire off a very powerful kamikaze Flare Blitz. 100% better abilities for other starters (outside of the aforementioned Speed Boost) are Sheer Force on Feraligatr, Contrary on Serperior, Reckless on Emboar, and Protean on Greninja. Debatably even abilities are Chlorophyll on Venusaur, Flash Fire on Typhlosion, and Bulletproof on Chesnaught. So I personally don't think removing Iron Fist Infernape should really even be considered as a possibility. On topic, yes Speed Boost Blaziken is broken, this is very well known but I'm 99% sure it's not getting removed from the early game any time soon because a more important aspect than difficulty is the freedom to pick one's own favorite starter.

I doubt this'll make a huge difference. Just pair it with the skill that means no-one can double (honestly this skill is the most broken thing I've seen in a looooong time), and a decent damage buffing skill and you're still broken.

mfw I read all 5 pages of this thread. Even though I already got my theme from Ark a year ago. Should probably stay on topic though so... Vinny:

Gotta agree with you there Mael. The male hair options are awful. This is the best I can do: Wouldn't usually go for unnatural hair colours like that but I think in this case it does suit the rest of the look particularly well. Looks like it's going to be an offensive spell that has the side effect of healing you for 10 HP whenever you use it. So basically they didn't learn that Nosferatu-esque spells are horrendously broken.

Hmm... There's a spell called Sheep God. I like this spell.

Obviously my Elite Four would be: No but for real this time: Pryce - I hope I look this badass when I'm old. Aurorus, Avalugg, Lapras, Froslass, Mamoswine, and Mega Abomasnow. Cheren - Young, full of potential and skill, and using a highly underrated but very strong type. Stoutland, Cinccino, Staraptor, Porygon-Z, Heliolisk, and Mega Lopunny. Karen - I can't agree more with the message she sends you, even if the team full of power I've given her doesn't. Hydreigon, Weavile, Sableye, Houndoom, Honchkrow, and Mega Absol. Steven - Cool design, cool personality, strong type, generally good pick. Aggron, Aegislash, Lucario, Excadrill, Escavalier, and Mega Metagross.

I think the idea is that he was never actually killed. No-one actually saw him die, the only thing we saw disappearing was a scrap of cloth on the ground. If you ask me it's a bit ridiculous that he could survive everything that he did (especially seeing as he's a weak ass servant in terms of parameters), but then I find basically everything that happens in UBW after Lancer's death to be ridiculous.

Archeops and Aurorus. Both have amazing designs, and I've been struggling over which I like more for a while now.

I've got you covered mate. Luna (Severa): Lazward (Inigo) and Odin (Owain): Shara (Tharja): (She's in the smallest picture, bear in mind that as a child character she's inherited her mother's hair. Children are linked to their fathers this time around.)

It's also likely that Tharja, Gaius, and Cordelia will be implemented as children characters funnily enough. A Tharja-esque character has already been seen on Hoshido's side, so perhaps these three will even the scales that were tipped by putting three awakening characters on Nohr's side.

I think I remember reading that the third path is to be sold post release as DLC. It'll be included in the collectors addition version with the other two though (I think). I also edited the title, if you didn't want it changed Godot then feel free to change it back.

Factional class reels for those of you who haven't seen them yet: