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Derec on Hero Class Civil Warfare. It's fun at times, but the deeper in you go the more it feels like the hero team is seriously jobbing. They barely seem to learn or adapt or innovate past the occasional initial problem that is either easily outthought or already planned for from my recollection. Yeah, Bakugo's an asshole but he's not an idiot - and when your whole story is about Izuku outthinking people there dang well needs to be a point where it looks like somebody might actually outthink him, and that's never on the table.
To be fair, the reason that the heroes were doing so poorly (besides Izuku's plans) was thatActually, changing from a rec to a derec. I haven't read it for a while and was more focused on the other complaints that I didn't remember that I got annoyed at how the Heroes acted like dumbfucks a fair amount of the time, and rarely actually won engagements. Things don't always go off without a hitch, but most of the time they do and sometimes when they don't seem to it's revealed that actually it was all part of the plan. Nobody ever really outsmarts Izuku and that's a problem that leads to it being more stompy than I like. I do still enjoy the fic a good deal, especially because (as I said) it features a lot of characters that don't get enough screentime, but it does have enough problems that I think it's not worth the list. The thing with the teachers can get over the top, yeah, but I think if you had a more balanced back and forth of the teams outplaying one another and the teachers complimenting the strategy of both sides it'd feel more natural and less wanky. It's not the wankiest thing ever, but there are points where it does get there. Thanks for reminding me.
Setsuna was giving the villains all of the heroes plans, schedules, placements, strategies, etc. It's so much easier to out-maneuver a team when you know everything that a member of the team would know. Which is why the heroes biggest "win" (the attack on their tower base) didn't occur until Setsuna was eliminated. Also, Izuku knows Bakugou. He knows how he thinks and how he acts. And when you know the opposing leader as intimately as Izuku does it is an incredibly boon for predicting him. Same doesn't apply to Bakugou because Izuku is literally acting as someone else.
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