To be fair, he actually did manage to dodge once! It was pretty cool.
When I said 'Kid Gohan," I was intentionally excluding Episode 60's ongoing glory.
Sure. I am fully aware that there would be vote weighting against it, and Consequences. I am putting forth the option because I feel that many of the people here would be all for it, and it is a way around our current predicament.
If Yammar actually DOES do something that would lead to Dandeer dying faster than we can teleport out, among my approval vote choices will be:
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Don't abort your jump.
don't remain within close proximity of Yammar while he's enslaved.
Especially not if he's crazy enough to try to vaporize Dandeer like this. Try to IT out ahead of it, as Goku did with Cell's Kamehameha.
This is in keeping with Kakara's personality. It may not be the
maximally effective way of saving Dandeer, but it
does try to save her. And quite frankly, if ITing out ahead of the blast won't save Dandeer once the blast has been fired, I'm not sure anything else Kakara could do would save her either,
once it had been fired. If nothing else because Kakara hasn't had her growth spurt, and isn't physically large enough to shelter the entire body of a grown woman from a wide-angle blast that would otherwise vaporize her.
Assuming she doesn't have a dead-woman switch that makes the contingency on Berra look like a cakewalk.
I don't think she'd blow up the planet or otherwise doom it. Her kids live here, and say what you will about Dandeer she
does seem to genuinely value her children in some warped way. Now, it's not inconceivable to me that she's so narcissistic or whatever that she only values them as extensions of her own person or something, but I still suspect that the consequences of any probable dead woman switch on Dandeer blowing up are less-bad than the known consequences of her
winning.
You're right, she probably can't snap-fire a physical Seal.
"If I die, Kakara and all her family and Clan forget how to breathe."
This would require Dandeer to pre-design a contingency that
specifically House Goku (and/or Clan Goku). And you know what? If she's done that and we die with no saving throw, I'm going to walk away from the quest satisfied.
Not that I expect Dandeer to have
that exact contingency prepared.
If you leave someone in front of a speeding train, you killed them as surely as if you shot them. Your intentional action (keeping them in one spot in the path of something deadly) resulted in their death.
Well gee, if Yammar actually fires the blast, then what does Kakara do?
She can't throw Dandeer out of the way of the oncoming
train fireball, because if the blast moves fast enough for super-saiyans to notice, Dandeer would
splatter if thrown hard enough to get clear of the wavefront in time. She probably can't actually deflect the fireball or block it with her body because she's too small and Yammar must be using a lot of power to get this shot to cover the distance fast enough to stop Kakara from teleporting out.
What better option is she eschewing that would be a clearly superior way of saving Dandeer's life than to teleport out quickly,
after Yammar has already fired?
Hey,
@PoptartProdigy what's the limit for learning Styles to level of proficiency that they provide the +10 all the time? I mean, from both an 'avoid meta-gaming' perspective and a 'there's a limit to how many Styles of combat someone can train in before it becomes a useless blur' perspective there should be an upper limit...
Basically, each style represents a discrete and distinctive form of (ki-using) martial arts. They're as different from one another as judo, boxing, and wrestling. Thus, as a rule, you cannot use multiple styles simultaneously and certainly cannot stack them.
...and for the possible uses as a way to simplify attempting to improve a balanced Style like Tien Style, plus as a shortcut to make up for our focus on Social up to this point. It doesn't matter if we're lacking from a Skill standpoint if we've got an additional +100 to dump on the fight.
Uh... as a rule, I think learning the styles necessitates learning the component skills. Being good at Goku Style, for example, isn't a
replacement for being good at hand-to-hand dueling and the other skills associated with it. It's a supplement that rewards you FOR using those skills, which you've already trained up.
That brings up another point. How many Styles do the Clans know of, and how many do our Otherworld friendlies (using that term very loosely here) know of that they don't? Presumably every Z-fighter has one (Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, Tien, Chiaotzu, Krillin, Yamcha, Roshi, Buu, Popo, Kami, Dende, Yajirobe), and every major villain/antagonist (Frieza, Cell, Beerus, Hit, Zamasu), reformed or not, plus the Kais likely have their own set of Styles, but how many 'general' Styles are there that a bunch of people used, and did the Androids bother with a Style? Because somebody who has at least basic proficiency in all of those Styles seems like they'd be incredibly well-suited to upgrading the Piccolo and Tien Styles.
Learning the martial arts styles of every person on the list would take
many centuries. At the end of that process, yes, you'd be very skilled and deadly in every possible condition of things. The problem is, well, living long enough and training hard enough to get there...
I would also like to clarify that the styles practiced by the Exiles are
named after the various Ancestors. Goku Style isn't actually "the way Goku fights." It's "the way a bunch of people trained by people trained by people trained by Goku reconstructed something sort of like the way he fights, in honor of his memory."
