Ultimate Team War - RMS Titanic

Mongeese, this has been great. Thank you for being my opponent, and making this UTW such fun; we should do this again. I cannot change my plan this round, but I do not need to. My remarks will be limited to clearing up the few issues that might otherwise give my opponent a chance of winning. DM: "Yugi manages to use "Magical Hats" practically instantaneously to both protect his party and teleport them to a safer location." and "The Dark Magician immediately launches numerous deadly attacks merely by holding out his staff and looking in a random general direction, destroying the surrounding monsters in his trademark negative-color fashion." Even with these new videos, DM's weaknesses are still apparent: His spells are not "instantaneous", but take seconds to take effect; and he can only use one at a time. We never see him using multiple attacks/defences, just one at a time. In other words, when the Magic box shows up, my team is alerted to his arrival; and when the doors start to open, while he is still unable to cast a defensive spell, my team can destroy him. This was my plan, and I see no reason why it would not work. I dispute the effectiveness of his multiple attack, as the monsters he is flying past seem completely unaffected by it; but as he is dead before he ever gets a chance to use it, it means nothing to this debate. Link: "My opponent counts on Deadshot to take care of Link, but, well, he's kind of dead." As DM never gets the opportunity of taking out Deadshot, nor does DM know Deadshot's vital role in my plan, nor does my opponent remember that I have stated all through our debate that Khan is shielding the weaker members of my team (Hellboy, Deadshot, and poor Harold) from DM's magic attacks on the off chance DM didn't die right away, it's fairly safe to assume that Deadshot is alive and well to take on Link. "Even if Deadshot were alive, he'd have a problem making out Link and Cloud in the nearly pitch-black night sky, especially when Link doesn't show his head until he's 1,000 feet away vertically." Cloud is an easy target; being large, light grey, oddly shaped, and the only cloud up there with a scowl. Link just happens to be sitting on top of a giant bullseye. "My opponent claims to get the same "ficitonal light source" that Link gets when he aims his Hero's Bow, but this light source happens to be whatever lights are on the ship itself. Surely, there are some lights on the Titanic at this time. I mean, this 800-foot ship can't be invisible to Link." Conceded. For the eight minutes that the lights are on, the stern is easily visible from the air. "Then its just a matter for Link to identify the stern, notice any movement at all on this small area, and fire with the incredible aid of his Hawkeye mask." And he's shooting arrows, hoping to get through Deadshot's body armour? Regardless, though, this does not happen. Cloud emerges from the window, starts to rise into the night sky, and gets hit by Deadshot. Remember that the stern is up in the air some distance already, and Cloud is off to the side of the ship; Deadshot has a clear shot even while Cloud is still in the light from the ship. Cloud dies, and Link goes into the water right off. Once there, Link cannot use his ranged weapons. The bow, clawshot, boomerang, etc. all require him to be standing. While he is swimming, he cannot use them, and Deadshot is safe. It should be a simple task to pick him out of the water while he is still on the surface; otherwise Khan can take care of him later. I concede that the fall, from no matter how high, will not KO Link; this will not save him, though. Gyarados: "A microscopic Gyarados' Hyper Beam is just as powerful as a giant one. With this super-minimization, Gyarados will become the ultimate weapon, with all of his original power, defense, speed, and accuracy, but just plain impossible to actually spot." This was my opponent's strongest point, and I admit it puzzled me for a while. My plan for dealing with the sea monster Gyarados is to shrink him and Kirby down to microscopic size, allowing me time to get rid of the rest of Pro's team. Now, it seemed like that plan backfired. Let's examine this situation. Gyarados comes out a window near the bow of the Titanic (as Magikarp); ~800' away from my team, and very near (or under) the water. My team is on the top deck at the very stern, which is by this point well out of the water and rising through the entire battle. As Gyarados evolves, Khan hits him with a shrink spell; now, instead of a giant sea dragon, he is a sea dragon invisible to the unaided eye. Now, instead of being able to cross that 800 feet in a matter of moments, each of those feet will take him hours to cross. His speed hasn't been decreased, but the relative distance has increased by several orders of magnitude. There are 304,800 micrometers in a foot[1], and about 800 feet between Gyarados and my team. Gyarados was about 20 feet long before, according to my opponent's source, so the distance was about 40 times his length. Now he is about 1 or 2 micrometers long, so to him, each of those micrometers now equals about 20 feet. That 800 real feet has become, to him, a distance of 923,636 miles. [2] Let that sink in. To Gyarados, the Titanic's stern is now unimaginably far away. The circumference of the Sun is slightly smaller than that distance, in real miles. Gyarados has no hope of finding, reaching, or affecting this battle. Khan can kill him at his leisure; remember, the magicians do not need to know where a character is to target them. [1] http://www.wolframalpha.com... [2] http://www.wolframalpha.com... (304,800 micrometers x 20 = the number of feet from Gyarados's perspective in each real foot; x 800 real feet = the total distance) Kirby: "Meanwhile, Tiny Kirby will invisibly jump on Master Khan's back without being noticed, then enter Master Khan's body..." Kirby is basically a non-entity now. So tiny that he now must avoid being eaten by plankton, his ability to reach Master Khan is practically nil. From Kirby's perspective, he is now many thousands of miles away from the truly gargantuan Titanic; it would take centuries for him to reach Master Khan. Kirby will die long before that. So, here is what happens. DM casts Magic Box; poor Harold dies. As the Box opens, DM dies under the fire of Team Con. Shortly thereafter, the rest of Team Pro begin to make their escape through the window. Deadshot picks off Cloud and Link; Kirby and Magicarp/Gyarados are caught in a shrink spell from Master Khan, and disappear. Khan kills the Gyarados/Kirby duo, and levitates my entire team above the surface of the chilly North Atlantic as the RMS Titanic goes down, taking team Pro with it. Thanks again, Mongeese; it's been fun. However the voters choose, I have enjoyed this battle; if another UTW Tournament ever gets started, I look forward to crossing swords with you again.