Personally, I think running away from Leaf just to minimize interruptions is pants-on-head dumb. The wilderness is dangerous, Hazou is a juicy capture target. We should stay near the bubble of safety that is Leaf even if sometimes we have social problems there.
Mari isn't Hazo. She lacks S-rank ambition at the moment, probably due to mental health issues, and actually being willing to use your power matters.
Wait, what? Why? What about all the other jōnin clan heads? And why on earth would Shikamaru not have it? It seems perfect for a Nara and the Nara should have known that for generations and worked out some kind of deal to have access to it to some extent.
Kei (not the KEI, but the clan) who I think is Anko? She seems like a jonin.
Her best matchups imo are Hidan/ Itachi/Deidara, IE younger jonin with S rank abilities stapled on. Everyone else is 30s or even middle aged (then there's kakuzu lol)
All of this reads like 'not S-rank and we have no timeline on when she will become S-rank because that's gated behind finding her a defensive shiny, something we aren't working on'.
No one needs to join the Kei. They exist so the KEI has a seat on the council and pretty much no other reason.
Ik you were replying to Oneiros but my post was more if she can beat any of the Akatsuki, something you implied she couldn't do (or that's how I parsed it), and I think she can beat some of them.
Mari may learn Earth Element just for PEA, honestly.
My meaning wasn't whether or not she could beat any of them, but whether I like her in those abstract conflicts. 'maybe under the right circumstances with a bit of luck' is not something I would bet on - Hazo could win those matchups under the right circumstances with some luck.
Not being able to beat any S-ranker with any degree of reliability to me implies that someone isn't S-rank, especially because there's no one weakest S-ranker by dint of the rock-paper-scissors nature of their interactions. Mari can't throw down and won't be able to until something changes.
One of the reasons I think Mari is an essie instead of just an Ejounin is that she basically has an EJounin level defense with a combination of the Pangolin Conditioning Jutsu and Skywalkers. That's pretty solid until you get to the higher level essies who can throw out more esoteric and diverse attacks
She does have access Pangolin Flash which def helps if we are the attacking party.
Essie fights are so hard to white room TBH. Mari's right at the level where small edges either way can drastically swing the fight against other essies. But against EJounin competition I expect Mari to be favored almost every time.
Note that this lady might be dead and they've probably adopted other powerful KEI members.
I get your meaning but I'd contend that nearly every essie is like that. I wouldn't bet on Hidan beating most of the Akatsuki 99% of the time either but I'd still call him S rank.
Yo hold up WHAT
Ig my point is she might be at this point. I have no idea how good she is at genjutsu. If she's got genjutsu 80 then tbh I'd bet on her winning against a lot of them. If it's just like, 65, maybe not.
I think the big problem is everyone has flight now and a +5 or +10 to Ath is good but not nutty. If she had 3 Ath buffs all with +10 that's a different story. She's got Sub and Rocket Boots, maybe a lightning buff? Dunno what her kit is cuz she never shares LMAO. Thunderburst (library jutsu) is a good pickup for her though if she didn't already grab it cuz boost isn't buff limited.
Gotta disagree with you on this one I think PF is straight up ass
Hmm she probably has the CR to actually benefit from it but OTOH it wouldn't stop e.g. Amaterasu. Still a good trick though, yeah.
Clan Heads officially and legally get tax refunds on the missions their ninja do. Which means that either Kei ninja get more money per mission, or the KEI fund gets additional donated income, or both. And, for whatever reason (probably to take advantage of storage spaces legally protected under the Clan Secret Acts) the Kei have a Clan compound that's completely separate from both the old KEI HQ (on Uchiha grounds) and the new KEI HQ (on Shimura grounds).
Now that I think about it, to learn a new element means you have to have an xp reserve of 1,000.
A level 30 ninjutsu in a new element costs 465 XP.
Wait, why?
So clanless shinobi should never teach techniques to anyone, because that person might join a clan and give away their secrets? This is one of those areas where while the letter of the law says one thing, the needs of society require that people just don't do that. Yes clans can steal techniques through tactical adoption, but if they do that then Leaf breaks down even further than it already is. For Leaf as the QMs have portrayed it to make sense, this is something the clans have the power to do, but refrain from (except when they can do it secretly and get away with it). Certainly not something a tiny fledgling clan would do if it had any sense, as it would poison the clanless population (and most clanless Jonin who are the ones who come up with those techniques) against them, even without KEI.
...no, it isn't
Whoops. I threw it in a spare character sheet and didn't bother to double check it. I must've messed with the formula at some point, thanks for the explanation! ^.^...no, it isn't
Try actually adding them up. Level 30 takes 465 XP and 40 takes 820 XP.
A quick rule of thumb to save time on doing them one by one is that it costs X55 to increase to the next AB. 0 to 10 costs 55, 10 to 20 is 155, etc. But yeah no getting to 40 does not cost 410. In fact, 410 is exactly half of what it costs.
