[Orange Duke]

Originally Posted by Sunder the Gold

Then why would Graphite Edge need to advise his fellow legionaires to focus only on bonuses to their color specialties, and why is it significant that Scarlet Rain focused entirely on Long Range Firepower?

What makes you think that there aren't specialties WITHIN colour specialties themselves? Indirect attacks can vary from illusions, buffs and attacks that do no damage themselves but cause something to happen that results in the opponent being damaged. Clearly Lotus' Absolute Cutting property resulted from her avatar, and this property was classified under the colour black, causing her avatar to be black.

Not to mention all the other legionaries except Lotus were not pure colours and thus had access to a range of options. Did the LN specifically mention 'COLOUR specialties' or was it simply 'specialties'?

As for Scarlet Rain, I already addressed this in a previous post.

Originally Posted by Orange Duke

Don't forget though that Scarlet Rain isn't 100% pure red, a fact that Yellow Radio never fails to remind her of (kukukunowisn'tthatcolourabitcheaplooking...).

According to wikipedia,

So they could be referring to the fact that Rain still has access to yellow/orange bonuses.

Originally Posted by Sunder the Gold

It has legs. If it has the strength to bear a rider and gallop, it has the strength to kick and stomp. The same realism that has Ash Roller's V-Thunder with rear-wheel-only drive and an actual gasoline tank that can run empty.

Originally Posted by Sunder the Gold

No one ever said that White Cosmos can't fight, just that she can't attack. Or that she has no particular ability for attacking. Since she has hands, she ought to at least be able to punch.

Whether her punches does any damage is another thing. The horse might be able to support an avatar, but it can simply do so from a knockback effect it exerts on the ground. In other words, when it gallops nothing is disturbed/moved/crushed etc.

Originally Posted by Sunder the Gold

Besides, I'd like to think that the horse was often equipped with artillery much too heavy for a pure Red weakling to lift and control. Side-mounted railguns and missle pods!

[Reds have to be the physically weakest of avatars to counterbalance their range advantage, and Rider was apparently built lightweight for speed (on foot or horse). Armor and muscles are heavy.]

There isn't anything concrete to support this, unfortunately, so you'll forgive me if we ignore this.

Originally Posted by Sunder the Gold

Of course retracting the stake as soon as possible is best. The question has always been "how fast can he do it?"


Also, interesting fact: The Pile Driver has an independent "energy gauge" like the Gale Thruster, which limits how soon Cyan Pile can fire off the next shot.

Recharging his pile takes only mere seconds, and Pile did prove that he didn't really care if Crow got away since he was confident of winning the duel .

Originally Posted by Sunder the Gold

Impressive, yes. But not all small bugs are as agile as flies, and the bug made no fly-speed reaction to Pile's attack. Dusk Taker used his stolen tentacles to grab up a number of the same bugs while trying not to be obvious about it.

Even then, being able to hit something that small with a weapon as unwieldy as a pile driver is testament to how well Pile can aim.

Originally Posted by Sunder the Gold

Seems to me that there is a slight "cone of fire", where the target area is larger than the firing area of his chest.

Spoiler for :

His chest is an outwards V shape. The spikes curve inwards to shoot straight.

Originally Posted by Sunder the Gold

His pile starts on his right side and then slants centerward to hit a target right in front of him, which places it directly in the firing zone of Splash Stinger.

Would like to see some evidence supporting this, as it makes absolutely no sense. Not only does this make it much much harder to aim, but the simple solution of simply moving so that the opponent is standing in front of his pile would have sufficed if it moved straight forwards.