2011-07-06, 23:05 | Link #3202 |
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Pretty sure the Air Force would appreciate her long-range airborne bombardment skills just like how real militaries found use in beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles and bomber-launched cruise missiles. Or is it stated somewhere that the Air Force only owns fighter-equivalents and support units go to the CGF?
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2011-07-07, 06:15 | Link #3210 |
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Is there a specific reason why Hayate can only cast high-powered spell? If it's just a matter of power level, Nanoha is S+ while Hayate is SS, so there's not much of a difference.
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2011-07-07, 08:46 | Link #3211 | |
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Additionally, there are different categories of ranking. Cheers.
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2011-07-07, 08:56 | Link #3212 |
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This discussion of rankings reminds me.
There exists a numerical power rating, as it was used to describe Nanoha v Fate in season 1 by Chrono. Was it ever mentioned again, or was it basically shelved for the more relative letter ranks? IIRC, both of them were already 1,000,000+.
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How are they sorted anyway? I was under the impression it went something like this: SSS>SS+>SS>S+>S AAA>AA+>AA>A+>A and so on. And if there are many categories, what are they and what do they mean?
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Also, it is said in A's manga that she kept breaking Bureau-constructed Devices with her sheer power output, and in StrikerS, she requires either Rein or Long Arch guidance to aim her spells properly. It is therefore likely that not being born with that kind of power, she is not really able to control how much of it and where she applies. Quote:
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As for the double and triple ranks, I guess that it was originally (in the newly-founded Bureau) just a scale from A to E, ranging from their then-top mages to muggles. Then someone of Ace-level power and skill was ranked and awarded with an S-rank, which eventually stopped being a unique rank. At some point, mages appeared who were stronger than A-ranks but not-quite-S-yet, so the interim ranks of AA and AAA were inserted, and so on... Of course, that's all a fanwank, Tsuzuki probably just took the scale from some other work and slapped it onto anything with a power level.
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2011-07-07, 11:37 | Link #3216 |
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I was more thinking that if you start that high in numerical representation on a pair of prepubescent mages, the numbers are only going to get higher and we'd have started to refer to them with units (1,056K! 1,589K! 2M!). And it'd fall into the very same trap of power inflation DBZ did.
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2011-07-07, 11:40 | Link #3217 |
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The reason why Hayate is unable to fight effectively in combat, unlike Nanoha and Fate and others, is because she is unable to effectively process her mana due to the vast amount of it she has. Without Rein, she's basically only able to act as the universe's most powerful artillery piece. Hayate's mage rank of SS is only a composite rank, and is only indicative of her massive mana reserves and her raw, destructive potential, and has nothing to do with her skill in combat.
Actually, the numerical power rating was mentioned again in StrikerS, by Uno when Fate used the Sonic Drive. She merely remarked that her values were going up... and then she got tied up by Verossa.
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2011-07-07, 15:20 | Link #3220 |
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I don't see how they're higher ranked. Though if you're talking about the manga page, it doesn't say "you need to be at least A-ranked to fly" but "you need to be at least A-ranked to get to skip your mandatory years in the Ground Force."
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