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So no one got credit for AJ/Shinsuke because it was double countout right
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Hancock
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Sorry Tom it's been a lot less convenient to play the game than expected in my current living state (I haven't been home in over a week) so I haven't even booted it up. I'll try to pre-do some detail work in notepad for next round to make up for doing literally nothing this time.
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It's better built than Backlash, which has a grand total of one week left to build it. But sure yeah it's nowhere near.
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They got segments. Would call that building to them. Like if the whole card was full of Rusev vs Undertakers and Cenas vs Triple Hs, and it was only mentioned in passing on TV rather than having whole segments and hype packages devoted to it, yeah, it's like Beast in the East.

But I mean even normal PPVs typically have a few "where did that come from" matches on the card. If you guys are seriously saying this is closer to Beast than Backlash in how it was built, presented, and marketed, then I simply say you probably don't watch the product at this point

Not that I could blame ya
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Yeah I read it and gave it the appropriate response

It's kinda like saying Wrestlemania is very similar to Shotgun Saturday Night but they double down on it due to the money Injection
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Yeah I remember all the build that Brock Lesnar vs Kofi match got on Raw and Smackdown you're right they're exactly the same
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No they didn't. They had the stupid cutaways during the damn matches saying ONLY ON WWE NETWORK and hyped the full card on TV, actively building storylines towards many of the matches. That is not Network special level hype that is bog standard PPV level hype.
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Farnham
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Hector would have won if he had a sword and was in Smash Bros
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I called it a PPV because it was hyped like a PPV presented like a PPV and booked like a PPV.

It literally being a PPV hasn't really been relevant to anyone but assholes and 70 year olds who don't know how the Internet works for many years now. It's not even relevant to WWE!
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These days it is, yeah, because literally being available on PPV isn't terribly relevant to viewership
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Listen man I'm just saying if we wanna be assholes and split hairs about what is and isn't a PPV we should probably start by nitpicking calling em PPVs to begin with since that's like 1% of the viewership these days.
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Is anything really a PPV anymore
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Definitely won't be watching it live but watching it sometime in the next week is possible. Will be shielding myself from spoilers till then
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Pretty bad PPV overall. Bottom tier Rumble. Way too much bloat all around in the Rumble and the show as a whole.

Would call Mania better and I wasn't exactly a fan. I will say this show was better booked than Mania though.
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Combo Broken at 4.75% by Elise (+Spd/-Atk)

Argh. Spending 180 orbs for a Gravity+ Staff sure is swell
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Sacred Stones has a lot more in common with Awakening than Blazing Blade so people who started with Awakening probably gravitate towards that more than most of the older Fire Emblems. Alternatively people who didn't lose interest with the series after Awakening "tainted" the formula (ie people who would frequent reddits for the series in this day and age)
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Ophelia
Setsuna
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Virion
Tiki
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Matthew
Serra
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Tiki
Virion
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Serra
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I hate seeing Axezura and Airzura much more than Rein and Bow Lyn at this point

Luckily I don't see them as much as I'd used to. Probably the dancer BST hit at work there.
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I know most of the italicized Star Wars characters

Could BS my way through wookiepedia for the rest
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Yeah Rogue Dagger+ is pretty incredible. Takes kinda specific stat spreads to use it well though. Swinging 13 damage when it drops between the buff and seal attack makes him super durable though. I can often have him with Serra (with S support and Spur DefRes) hold off the entire enemy squad cause yeah it's just kinda stupid even with his lower than ideal RES. Like that Saias GHB we just had I pretty much walked him into the danger square and won even with the stupid Gronnblade horse hitting him. Sometimes use Bow Corrin to further up his defenses.

Might make a RES Rogue Dagger just to abuse him better in certain maps. Got enough stones anyway not like there's much else to do with em.
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Yeah this game tends to be streaky with me too. I'll get a bunch of freebie or semi freebie 5*s and then I'll do this

As a small consolation it was a very efficient 4.75%. I only spent about 140 orbs to get there despite only pulling for Colorless. Lots of 3-4 Colorless sets. I'm out of orbs now through again there are a ton on the board since I never clean em out.
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On the plus side finally finished up my second +10 with all those colorless draws! (I had the copies before but was doing it exclusively off 4* draws to save feathers)


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Up to 4.75% on the Hinoka banner. Maybe a new record. (Yes I know I should've waited till the hero banner I really wanted Atk Spd bond though)
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Elincia
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Rey's origins are one of those things I consider "minor details" because ultimately she acts exactly like you'd expect a Skywalker to even if that isn't her blood. Actual interesting subversion of expectations would make her origin matter to the plot or her character in some way beyond that fact.
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Henry
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MVP makes even less sense in TNA than in WWE I think. His run there was shorter, at least. He'd probably make more sense in NJPW than TNA.

He is "the hottest Free Agent" so it almost makes the most sense he'd not be in a fed to start anyway.
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Okay sure whatever

Feel kinda bad saving Ophelia since I would've possibly saved her for free but what can you do

Ophelia
Cordelia
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You forgot

Eye at Ice Cave
Phantom at ToF:R

At a stretch you could also consider the Thunder Dragon in the Tower leading up to Tiamat one too since it's a spiked square you can't avoid and pretty tough the first time

At an extreme stretch you could also consider the spiked square at the Waterfall with a bunch of mummies and stuff a "boss" too since it guards a plot important item (I would often actually farm this because it gave awesome EXP and GP with minimal risk)-- it wouldn't really be any worse than half of the FFT bosses. And I guess the Nightmares/Clay Golems at the Castle of Ordeals too as a mini boss since they were also on unavoidable spiked squares. I suppose you can run from both of these though which would probably be the distinction to make.

Warmech getting a fight would be awesome though in any case.
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Trading for Matthew/Serra auto I guess.
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Red Mage should be a Spellblade. I mean he wasn't technically one but that's kinda the idea of what a Red Mage is supposed to be.

I do agree that White Mage and Black Mage don't really have any non-redundant niche but I mean FF4 has like 10 5* Black Users so it's not really a big deal.

Could always add Dawn of Souls bonus fights too! Or actually give stuff that is "basically" a boss fight more coverage like The Wizards or the Eye. There were more than the four fiends in that game! Hell I think this event was the first time we saw The Vampire.
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Well I think it's inevitable that Ronda's star value will tank given the way the division is booked so you might as well just accept it and do whatever it takes to get her better in the ring. Putting her against Mickie is about the best you can ask for as far as an opponent goes.

They probably should try and put her at the second from the top on house shows though.
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Matthew
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Well Warrior/Knight is basically implied to be Warrior of Light, particularly with the Fighter Dress Record, whenever he gets that. He's not really needed.

I honestly don't feel like looking like a core necessarily matters all that much. Hell they could use the exact same sprites for what I'm concerned. Really though I think you could make em sufficiently different by using different hair colors and just making their attire closer to the FF1 sprites (red mage has white hair, white mage's hood hangs lower and has red hair, and black mage looks at an angle so you can see both of his eyes)-- most of the cores look more like FFV sprites really.
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Keep MVP as a random free agent that's all I ask, even if I agree he doesn't really fit in WWE so much at this point.

I'd like to stat up some Puro guys but I honestly don't have enough viewing experience with most of em to feel comfortable doing it. Maybe something to focus on though.
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Really don't know why they're so conservative with adding FF1 cores. They're much better than scraping the bottom of the barrel with like Marcus and Reks-- guarantee they'd get more draws than those types. You could have a pretty well fleshed out realm too if you added the remaining 3 and gave Thief what he should have.

Black Mage (FF1) Black 5* Summon 5* Darkness 5*
White Mage (FF1) White 5* Combat 4*
Red Mage (FF1) White 4* Black 4* Spellblade 5*

Thief (FF1) Add Support 5* and Ninja 5*
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Man I wish Thief was any good. I'd totally consider pulling on this banner.
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I will change to A. Cedric Alexander in that case if possible
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Oh were you going to just run it as a bunch of singles matches in a row?

I think a handicap match with timed entrances and/or limited involvement notes would maybe make more sense?
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Tom Bombadil posted...

3) On a related note I'm not entirely sure how I'm gonna swing the gauntlet match without causing some sorta issue or other (or cheating :P) Would help if Bruno was more popular than he is >_>

If you want to trick a booking through without pissing a guy off or that's blocked by Creative Control there's always the "pick no winner and make the guy you want to win strong/protect/etc" trick. That's kinda fun. I had two storylines depending on which way the coin flipped last time I tried that.

That may be cheating to you, though.
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The Greatest Royal Rumble Match
5 Points
Braun Strowman

A. Brock Lesnar
D. Samoa Joe
B. Shinsuke Nakamura
A. Jeff Hardy
A. Wyatt and Hardy
A. The Bludgeon Brothers
B. Whoever the challenger is
B. Triple H
B. Undertaker

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Each worth one point

1. What match will kick off the show? (pre-show matches not included)
IC Title

2. What will be the longest non-rumble match of the night?
AJ vs Nakamura

3. Guess 4 superstars who will be in the final 4 of the rumble. If you get at least 2 right, you get a point.
Braun Strowman, AJ Styles, Roman Reigns, Jinder Mahal

4. Will the winner in the cage match win by escape?
No

5. Who takes the pinfall in the raw tag team match?
Cesaro

6. Who will be the iron man of the rumble?
Seth Rollins

7. Who will be #50 to come out in the rumble? (you can guess 3 people)
The Great Khali, Braun Strowman, Kane

8. Who will be #1 or #2 to come out in the rumble? (you can guess 3 people)
Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, Drew McIntyre

9. Guess which number the winner will enter as, if you are within 4 spots of your number, you get the point (so if you pick 35, and the winner is 31, you get a point).
46

10. Who will have the most eliminations in the rumble match?
Braun Strowman
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Kazarian
John Morrison
Kurt Angle
Alexa Bliss, Tamina, Paige
Owens/Joe
Truth/Goldust/Usos

Bonus (2) Who is the last one standing in the Main Event Contract Signing (Hassan?)
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