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It wasn't a problem until Juno started showing up and our challenges, and some of the player base, started racing to catch up to Juno's presence. When I lost to Henry, I was a bit bummed, but Henry was pretty top tier, had a weapon that specifically countered me, and such. I was eager to get back on the horse, upgraded the Daimyo, and wanted round two.
Then Juno showed up, and after I dodged/countered the first attack, she by action said "No, you can't damage me, and you are no longer permitted to dodge, immediately take damage." Ok. Not much I can do about that, but maybe I can hope to not fight Juno.
But then both Henry and Grafdakka started growing (very literally in Grafdakka's case) to try and catch up to Juno so that they could be meaningful in the fight. Henry established his new defense to be so high that Miyu could never hope to scratch him, even when he didn't have the silver eye armor up. Grafdakka grew to the size of a mountain, and my dreams of an awesome mecha fight got crushed as easily as the Daimyo would get crushed underfoot by the new Grafdakka. I felt there was a split growing between people who were growing new powers (there was quite the kerflufle about teleport blocking shenanigans) or establishing their power levels so generally high to be able to compete with Juno, and those who were staying true to their original power levels more in tune with the fighting shown at the Elicitor battle.
I...think this is something you need to be discussing with the RPers of these characters.
When Corrin showed up as a counter to Juno in the next battle, Syphax launched an all or nothing attack, with support from Omega and Tartys, all of whom got had just gotten thunderstones. Corrin immediately responded with "I effortlessly counter all your attacks, and launch my own attacks with them." I'm honestly expecting this to be a contest between Juno and Corrin, where all the other characters limp off when they realize "Your power level is not tall enough to ride this ride." With Juno creating the void path to exit and telling everybody else to take it, and Corrin exclaiming how weak and worthless they are which explains why they were dragged into said meaningless war, I feel like that's what you and KoL intended.
I feel like I made a character who could have had fun, and then the power level required to be more than an audience member went up faster than I was able to compensate for. And, I am frustrated with that. But I'm willing to just table Miyu until enough turns offscreen have passed that she can show up with a more appropriate powerset, while I play with my new characters who can play with the new established base powerlevel.
Now hold on a minute. Did the thunderstones specifically buff up their attacks? If not, then of course the boss is going to counter because your attacks are not buffed. If so, then that's on me.
