How to be OP in War of the Monsters-verse
City+ Scale Threat:
All the Kaiju are here as they are all fairly relative to each other. There are at least several of some of the kaiju (4 alternate versions are playable and it's known there has to be at least 9 of Preytor.)
Earth's history was irreversibly changed when the aliens invaded Earth, destroying much of the world. The Humans to defend themselves created a massive energy shield which succeded in knocking out the alien ufos, causing them to crash land on Earth. Radioactive green liquid leaked out then when added to material caused inanimate material to come to life and causing biological life to mutate and grow massive. The mutant monstrosities created by this would battle each other for control of the world.
The monsters are consistently in the kiloton to megaton range. Togera, the Godzilla reference, was only awoken by a nuclear bomb asnd Robo-47 uses an atomic bomb as his special attack. Any of the monsters can tank the nucleur meltdown of Atomic Island, which leveled most of the island. The monsters can trigger volcanic eruptions and earthquakes by unknown mechanisms and can easily smash alien UFOs which can trigger city-scale tsunami, which the monsters can also withstand. The monsters are possibly much stronger as they can fight final boss Cerebulon who is called "the destroyer of worlds" but this is probably too ambigious. The monsters have a number of impressive smaller feats to support this such as being able to easily smash UFOs that withstood the explosion of the alien mothership that dwarfed the already building sized UFOs or Congar in backstory surviving a terminal velocity fall from Earth creating a crater massively larger then a building.
In terms of speed, the Monsters are all MHS scaling from Kineticlops who is living electricity. They also have likely relativistic reflexes. Alien UFOs can quickly travel the distance between the Earth and the Moon, likely in minutes and while they are faster then the Monsters, the Monsters can still react to them fine.
The Monsters lack much in the way of hax abilities but they do each have nifty arsenals. Robo-47 and Ultra-V are the American and Japanese Giant Mechs brought to life by the alien liquid, 47 having more conventional military tech and Ultra-V having a jetbooster and an energy katana. There is also the robotic first boss Goliath Prime known for his many explosive attacks and transforming into a spinning blade of death. Goliath Prime as a boss is much stronger then the conventional Kaiju.
Speaking of, in the conventional Kaiju there is Congar the giant ape who has a sonic yell attack and there is his adversary Preytor the mantis creature with flight and a form of homing attack. The Preytors attack as a group and may have some form of hive intelligence. Togera is a Sea Dragon Monster that manipulates it's own skeletal structure to attack with it's bones and breaths radiation and Raptros is a flying dragon that breaths more conventional fire. In the Pacific the living volcano Magmo and the stone idol brought to life Agamo do battle with Magmo causing fiery destruction that Agmo's thick stone form can withstand. Agamo is also known for his unconventional attack of using his own head as a bomb. Kineticlops is living electrical energy who the game booklet states has the range and area of effect to consume whole cities in his electricity. Finally there's Zorgulon, one of the aliens who himself seems to have mutated and attacks with lasers and by summong UFOs.
There are also two even stronger bossess then Goliath Prime. The second boss is Vegon, a gigantic plant monster that engulfed all of Atomic Island and attacks both by attempting to consume Kaiju like a venus fly trap and by shooting poisons and acids. However even stronger is the final boss Cerebulon, the leader of the aliens Cerebulon is a giant brain-creature in a power suit. Cerebulon's claws and laser attacks can quickly one-shot any conventional Kaiju and his forcefield tech prevents almost any retailiation.
So attempting to get the biggest threats, the verse has logia and anti-logia, way over city levels of power, various forms of elemental and technological attacks, and poison/acid attacks.
So what are the weaknesses? Well size is not actually ALWAYS a strength in battle. Size usually comes with strength/durability but if you can match that, it actually provides a disadvantage in that it makes one relatively immobile. The monsters lack any strong detection abilities and even more agile ones like Preytor or Raptros would have difficult with a small mobile enemy, much like a human would a fly. If said fly had some way of killing the human, they would have a strong advantage. Though you can't rely solely on that as they do have relativistic reactions so they may tag even a very mobile opponent.
Another advantage is intelligence based strategies or technological manipulation. Some of the monsters are technology themselves, and even beyond that, most of them are never shown to be particularly intelligent as opposed to animalistic in intellect. They are also even outside of intelligence portrayed as warlike and combative. As such someone who is clever could probably do well in outwitting them.
Finally they lack much in the way of long-term capabilities. They rely on radioactive energy to maintain their massive forms and if drained, which can happen very quickly in gameplay, they either need to let their energy regenerate or find natural sources of radiation to feed off of. Thus regeneration, high endurance/stamina, forcefileds (like Cerebulon's!) really anything that makes it hard for them to win quickly would probably work well.
So that brings me to my first counter
Eva Unit-02 piloted by Asuka Sohryu
Eva Unit-02 Angel Israphel's self-destruction which was calced to be over 112 megatons worth of energy, suggesting she would be similar in power output to the Monsters, even without using Berserk Mode. With it, Unit-02 could likely rise to Cerebulon's level. She also has comparable reaction/attack speed being able to react to the Spear of Longinus which traveled to the Moon at about 18%c
Eva-Units have an incredibly survivability exceeding the Monsters. They produce AT fields, basically forcefields made from their souls which should make them comparably durable to Cerebulon but also possess regenerative properties, able to regenerate whole limbs if needed and possibly higher over time.
Asuka with her Eva would also have vastly more mobility and fighting skill the monsters as well as the ability to hit them from a range outside theirs. While Kineticlops can engulf a city, the positron gun can fire into low earth orbit aided by the electromagnetic sensors described in the DVD booklets.
And Asuka would likely use such tactics given her advanced intellect to the point that she is considered a child prodify who gained a university degree as a teenager. The only possibly downside is that her own arrogance and short-tempered nature might allow her to get caught off guard by some of the more unconventional abilities of the verse like Agamo's head explosive.
For a more indirect counter, you could use
Jury Rigg from Ben 10.
Despite his small size, Jury Rigg can compare to the power and speed of Appoplexians and able to build advanced machinery in seconds which means in stats he should actually scale to power and speed to at least the normal Kaiju.
However his real trick is his superhuman technological abilities. The aliens tech in the verse has already shown to be able to create and do damage to the Monsters as has human tech and it's possible he could reverse enginee them to his side, or he could just build something of similar effect himself. More notably three of the Kaiju, including one boss are entirely robotic and Cerebulon relies entirely on a power suit. It's likely that if he could get his hands on such technology, he could create things as powerful or stronger then the monsters.
It's especially likely he would be able to get such level tech since humans, when two kaiju are fighting, they put up shields they can't break to basically create an arena for them they can't get out off. However Jury Rigg could very well dismantle said shield technology, similar to what he did to the Highbreed pulse technology, and create personal bubbles for himself that would be nigh unbreakable. The only real threat for him would be getting caught out in the open by a non-robotic Kaiju like Vegon.
For a counter that would be able to fight them more consistently, you could use
Cure Heart from DokiDoki Pretty Cure
By the time she Parthenon Mode, Cure Heart is several powerups above a form of hers that was able to fight Melan whose fire breath destroyed much of a island, calced at 12 megatons. This suggests by her Parthenon Mode she should be able to fight any of the Kaiju evenly in raw power. She is far above lightning in speed, bordering on 1% of c showing she should be much faster then the monsters. Combined with her flight rivaling Raptros she could easily dodge the Monsters blows and hit them with as much force as they do each other.
She could hit Kineticlops directly as well as Pretty Cure have anti-intangibility let alone anti-logia intangibility. She's also an incredibly skilled fighter like most pretty cure and would easily be able to avoid the blows of the Monsters. She could fly around blasting the Monsters with energy like she did to Proto Jikochou.
However there's a character I think would be able to deal a similar strategy, but with the addition of the most haxed counter ability to the War of the Monsters-verse. That would be
Mew Mint from Tokyo Mew Mew
Mint with the Mew Aqua scales to Mew Zakuro who with one burst of energy destroyed a dome that covered Tokyo that the military couldn't break, calced to over 900 megatons of energy, suggesting she would be relative to the monsters, possibly exceeding all of them. She also scales to the Aliens who traveled from the Earth to their spaceship at a value calced over Mach 600, over twice that of Kineticlops' lightning at Mach 300.
Mew Mint has mew power which has the power to restore matter to it's natural state. This would absolutely destroy the verse, as all of the Monsters are mutations brought on by radiation. However mew power restores on a genetic level, and would revert all of them to their small size or inanimate states.
Mew Mint unless the other Mew Mews has flight and her attack is a bow and arrow which carries mew power showing she could fly out of detection from the Monsters and fire her bow, restoring them without them ever noticing her. Even if they did notice her, Mew Mint is noted for her agility, not just from her ballet training but from her genetic animal, the blue Lorikeet. She would be able to evade their blows gracefully, even ignoring the shielding effect of her mew power.
A fight between Mew Mint and the War of the Monsters-verse would basically just be Mew Mint vs the Moth Kirema several times over, when Mint defeated the Moth purely as a side effect of restoring the city with her mew power.
And that's how to be OP in War of the Monsters-verse.
This was a fun little blog, I think theres something especially fun about doing a verse with a modest non haxy arsenal as it lets you play the game of what common powers counter what other common powers. I really like all the classic kaiju film reference this verse uses i mean they had freaking Biollante! that made my night :D
ReplyDeleteThe Counters were really well done and from a good variety of series from Pretty Cure to Ben 10, and while yeah i could immediatly see how those two series were OP I was Blown away by Mint Chan! Her Aresnel is simple but batshit crazy broken here, she could beat almost everything in this verse as a sideeffect of her attack thanks to that one be all broken power of Mew. but her other powers of being a flying sniper just make this unfair, she would actively have to try to lose for them to actually win.
I remember seeing this game; that takes me back. Kaiju-verses like this usually appeal to me so it's cool to see you look at one. I was happy to see Asuka here; she's a interesting character and it was great point that the Eva-units' AT field and range would likely keep the monsters at bay (on top of Asuka's intelligence). Mew Mint seems like a perfect op character for this verse just for her mew power alone rendering the monsters defenseless. I think the character's chosen cover the entire range of different strategies you can use against this verse and sufficiently take advantage of all the weaknesses you mentioned in the beginning of the blog. Overall, great job.
ReplyDeleteOne tier? That makes for an interesting change of pace. I don't have experience with this game, but it sounds like a good old-fashioned kaiju fighting game, which is always good for some fun. And true to that spirit, your background on the verse is succinct, with enough to grab my attention and keep it. I think my favorite "monster" would probably be one of the robots, who are actually alive thanks to this goo? Super cool. Goliath Prime sounds like the coolest one but what can I say? I'm a simple man who loves big explosions.
ReplyDeleteHow to tackle these beasts? I liked how you highlighted size advantage in an unexpected way. There's tons of characters in fiction much more powerful than their size might lead you to believe; comics, anime and video games abound with super-powered humans. I really didn't expect that significant stamina weakness here though. I like tanky characters, and it seems they'd do fantastically well here. Speaking of tanky, gotta love AT Fields. I was so excited to see Asuka here! Obligatory Asuka>Rei. As soon as I saw her pic, I thought of the positron rifle in conjunction with that long range tactic you mentioned earlier. She's certainly my favorite character out of your counters in this blog, but to everyone's surprise (even my own), my favorite pick for a counter to this verse comes later.
Jury Rigg having comparable stats to these kaiju puts a smile on my face. Yes I know the difference between his size and a human isn't large compared to the kaiju, but he's just so small! And strong! That just helps him take advantage of the verse's tech weakness even more. I'm pretty confident based off the information you provided here that he can twist all the very handy technology around his little finger.
Speaking of amusing, Cure Heart flying around blasting all these huge monstrosities sounds like a lot of fun! Would be great to strap a camera on her and get a view from that angle as she zips between buildings dancing circles around the monsters. She even has significantly better speed than them! Total mobility dominance, which spells OP when coupled with any way to kill them.
But Mint. Oh, Mint! This is the favorite pick I was talking about earlier. Mew Mew Power is so deliciously OP here. This is one of the most wonderful cases I've seen of something created in an entirely different series, of course not taking other series into account, and then being plopped into one where it's totally broken. There's not much to say here other than you found the perfect counter, congratulations Imp! Time for the kaiju to go back to sleep. Or whatever an electric current does when it's bedtime :P
Thanks for the quick strategy guide Imp! If anyone ever invites me to play War of the Monsters, I'm officially down now.