Yeah, the only reason the latest Leaf/Mist war ended so quickly was because of the Skywalkers and their surprise innovation of warfare. Unfortunately, Cloud has them now. Fortunately, Asuma liked the Netting Building Protection idea, just like Jiraiya. So Leaf isn't completely defenseless.
It'd be a fundamentally different design. Right now it's optimized for, well, making sure he can survive being attacked or ambushed. It's not optimized for making him into a deplorable combat asset. We could do that if we are willing to give up on sealing, but the sad truth of the matter is that we'd still never have a strong a build as Akane. IMO, it's much better to focus on sealing (which we need to stop the Great Seal collapse) and making sure we won't be utterly fucked the second an enemy jōnin pays attention to us.
Probably spot amateur ambushes with 69 Alertness. If attacked, dodge with Athletics: 57 + 3 (IN) + 7 (boost) - 1 PCJ = 66. If needed, use Substitution up to twice to dodge off-turn attacks, each use giving +15 for 2x 81 dodge, then 66 dodge thereafter.
In fairness, we haven't had the chance to even use our new Sealing 42 stat due to injuries so there may even be buffs that we can make now with the appropriate Calligraphy. Still, it's virtually guaranteed better sealing would mean better buffs. Something to weigh for sure. Hazou will be plausibly better off overall while his teammates will be slightly weaker by comparison due to lacking hypothetical Sealing buffs.
Goo Bomb, a seal which we already have samples of, is an "attack" that is based on Sealing. So we won't be defenseless at higher levels. Just toss out one of those bad boys and let our Doggos mop up.
Do we have Goo Bomb? I vaguely recall there being some confusion/debate over it.
Kagome has researched them
Kagome knows it, Hazou hasn't researched it. We have a few of Jiraiya's extraordinarily excellent Goo Bombs left to study in addition to the Kagome ones.
nah I think it was ruled you also have to make a ranged attack with it. There was some confusion over it though so I can't be sure.
I think I include that in my Rockwar Tactics post (link in Sig). The main issue is that we don't know how Rock imports its supplies (ninja scroll carriers, merchant caravans, underground tunnels?), And Leaf's surviving maps of Rock aren't detailed enough that we can make guesses.
Ooh, awesome. We should learn that and churn them out via Shadow Clone once we heal up. They were useful in the Chuunin Exams, iirc. More live captures mean more information on Rock.
The description doesn't mention at all if the defender rolls when you get the seal into range or what the range is. So it is ambiguous. We could have kamikaze puppies thoughKnown Seals said:
>Make better macerators
I mean getting from 20 m/s ejection to 370 m/s ain't no piece of cake
sure but our current model is from like Sealing 10 or something right? I doubt we will hit bullet speeds with Sealing 42 but I can definitely see us hitting "deadly at close range" speeds.
Good point, also the booms from youthanizers will get much bigger since a larger cloud means more surface area and more oxygen inside the cloud.
That's actually another big chunk of the reason that we don't make our survivability investments until after we spend some time with a safe sealing TN of at least 56. I'd be thrilled if we could invent something that bypasses the need to spend our XP.
Actually, I think this is a pretty good idea. CR seems to be a prerequisite for some of the more interesting worldbuilding (and maybe even unlocking jōnin aura) that we haven't been able to explore yet. Also it's been strongly hinted at by the QMs in thread and by Cannai in story that raising the stat would be a "Good Thing" (the capital G and capital T come directly from the Cannai quote).
Pantsaa kinda seems like an asshole, he's largely responsible for the militaristic xenophobia of the Pangolins. I don't think he'll be interested in becoming one of Kei's Summons. We might be able to set something up like Oro has with Manda where we pay him a bunch of cash (or skytowers) each time we summon him, but I highly doubt he'll just agree to kill things for her.
Step 1: Summon Pantsaa
And this is one of the reasons that he would refuse to be a summon at all, pantsã is a bastard but its a clever bastard.
