Missing Context
Greninja Feat
I'll post the whole battle.
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/pb0ubl/the_time_when_ash_almost_defeated_a_champion/
That wasn't Greninja but Ash-Geninja, a merging of Ash and Greninja with enhanced abilities outside of typical Pokemon like your Zoroark. For instance, at the beginning of the battle we see Shadow Ball counter Water Shuriken but as Ash focuses his strength into Ash-Greninja, we see Water Shuriken overpower Shadow Ball. What if this applied to Cut too? The first attack is reflected because Ash wasn't focusing but then the second one has a Focused Ash push Ash-Greninja's Cut to be able to breakthrough. Even Glasses Dork's scanners shows just before that Cut attack that those readings he had never been seen before. This battle even ends because Ash focused too much and basically KO'd himself and Ash-Greninja simultaneously which is what was shown on Glasses Dork's Scanner at the end of the battle. This wasn't Double Teams being able to execute attacks, this was a powered up Cut attack pushing through.
Secondly, we see that after ONE SINGLE SOLITARY move, every single Ash-Greninja Double Team disappeared. You have not shown that they can execute more than one attack which means once they use Helping Hand or Retaliate or any other move, they will disappear. Can you show me a Double Team Pokemon that can perform multiple moves?
In fact this brings up an interesting point, how long can Double Teams last? From the feats you have shown so far, they last mere moments. Can you show me a Double Team lasting even 10 minutes? Because if not then all your prep would have to take place mere moments before the battle started and then disappear moments afterwards.
Basically, this feat invalidates your prep strategy entirely while also showing us that if it did work like you suggest, then your Double Teams would only get one attack before disappearing.
The Glalie Feat
This feat does show that Double Team can indeed copy other things. However, those things have to be within close Proximity of Glalie to do so. Show me a feat of those other Glalie Double Teams separating from Glalie.
But you also seemed to not show us what happened when that Sled landed on the ground, only the part in the air. Would it surprise you to know that while there were 5 sleds in the air, only one landed on the ground? That's because Double Team illusions can't displace snow so they disappeared. If they can't displace even common snow then how are they going to deal with antimatter blasts? All of your Double Teams instantly disappear the second they are hit with basically any of my attacks.
This also simultaneously shows that those “water columns” were also just Double Team illusions like the Sled.
So, if you Double Teamed your Mandalorians, they would have to be in close proximity, get approximately ONE move before disappearing, and would disappear to literally any attack I have. How exactly are my hundred Photon Cannons overwhelmed here? They take out every single Double Team in the course of a couple seconds.
The Alakazam Feat
You know that Alakazams and Abras, and Kadabras are all named after magic words used by magicians right? You know that the trademark spoons used by these are a direct homage to the spoon bending trick used by magicians, right? Heck, Uri Gellar, a magician known for such a trick, sued Nintendo over the spoons held by Kadabra and Alakazam. All of this is to say that Alakazams are magicians, showmen. Why is this important, because Alakazam hit every single Double Team before it hit the original. That shouldn't be possible, he should have hit him at either 3 Double Teams or 2 Double Teams especially for such a powerful Precog like Mega-Alakazam. But then you have to remember, that a Magician always goes for the fakeout first before the reveal because it is more showy, more dramatic, more impressive. Mega-Alakazam wasn't fooled in the slightest, he was performing a Trick because he has already seen how this battle was going to happen. Show me Double Team actually defeating Mega-Alakazam and then we can talk.
All in all, you failed to really prove any of your assertions about Double Team and even if we take your assertions at face value, your feats given proper context render your strategy fairly weak.
Pikachu Statues!
Are you kidding me with this? Unless Ash Ketchum, his opponent, and the entire arena are also as fast as Pikachu then he didn't statue anything. Ash tells Pikachu the precise time to execute that wood attack while the wood is suspended in the air, is he somehow hypersonic too? Get that weak sauce out of here.
This is clearly some quirk of the arena or some other ridiculous aspect of Pokemon Physics. Heck, when Pikachu is moving through the wood pieces, they don't even move! That should be impossible under standard Newtonian Physics! How do you explain such ridiculous in any other way than PokePhysics are just different than our Physics? Too bad this battle isn't in the Pokemon Universe.
But really the biggest counter to this is simply that Pikachu and Ash where unable to dodge a falling chandelier and were both KO'd by it in Tower of Terror. If he was as fast as you suggest, then he would never have been hit and would have been able to Iron Tail it away.
Iron Tail
Why did Iron Tail follow a path towards the lava in that instance while it creates an omnidirectional blast in others? What mechanism allows it to do so? Is this more PokePhysics? Or was this just an inconsistent showing and thus should be discarded? Also, the range on that Iron Tail seems to require much more power than a typical Iron Tail, so why was it more powerful here? Much like above, I feel like there is some missing context.
Also, are you suggesting deflecting an Lucario's attack makes Iron Tail as strong as that same attack? So when Statham deflected an RPG with a pan in the Transporter trailer are we now saying that Statham is as strong as an RPG? Your assertion here doesn't make any sense.
Pokemon Physics
Given that the Pokemon world is designed for children, it seems like almost nothing that Pokemon can do would actually kill someone. In fact show me one Pokemon move that Zoroark can do actually killing someone? We see Ice Pokemon commonly freeze people into solid ice and not kill them. How is this possible? We see Pikachu shock people with enough electricity to lift them off the ground, leave scorch marks on their clothing, and still be fine in the next shot. Even lightning doesn't have enough energy to charge them with enough static charge to counter gravity and yet the humans in the Pokemon Universe can tank that hit like nothing is wrong. Yet a Falling Chandelier can KO them. It makes no sense that these people can survive Pokemon attacks with crazy energy releases but then get taken out by a chandelier. Pokemon Physics are not consistent and not reliable! If they are not reliable then we can't use real world physics to judge them. So, an attack that looks big would not necessarily be that big in the real world or in the instance, the Starcraft Universe.
Blaster Speed
That was a specialized Sniper Blaster, that is not typical of the shitty blasters used by Mandalorians. It had significantly more destructive power than your typical DL-44. This is like using the feats of a Barrett 50 cal for a 38 special. Just because it has Blaster in the name does not mean that they all share the same feats.
That ship is capable of significant speed but as there was no Sonic Boom associated with it, it was at subsonic speeds which is fairly typical of Star Wars Ships in atmosphere.
In addition, the ship was heading towards the sniper! So it was actually helping the sniper blaster bolt hit it faster!
This feat isn't anymore impressive than Deadshot doing the same thing with a gun. Blasters are at best as fast as guns. Hydralisk spines are faster than sniper rifles. My team is as fast as your team.
Rebuttals
Outnumbered, LOL!
You really think that even with hundreds of Double Teams that I am outnumbered? Did you watch the video on the Spear of Adun, it literally has 10s of thousands of troops in stasis that I can make use of in addition to the Star Forge that can instantaneously fabricate as many psionically powered drones as I need. I can outnumber you 100 to 1 even with your fake Double Teams.
Let me just show you how much a 3 KM Mothership can hold, now extrapolate that out to 74 KM Spear of Adun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWUkOMqgJvE
This also contains a pretty good stealth feat for Zeratul, because not only was he able to completely avoid incredible Protoss Sensors, he moved undetected through a ship with thousands of psychics on board. That is some Batman-level shit!
Time Stop
Protoss Time Manipulation isn't Telekinesis or similar to Telekinesis and as such does not apply. But even if it did, that would still nullify your Mandalorians, your Lightsabre, your Double Teams, your Illusions, and BD-1. I hope you weren't relying on any of those things. With only Cal and Zoroark free to move, my team can kill every single Mandalorian and Double Team in moments.
Alarak
Alarak comes from a death cult, his first idea in most situations is to use his Death Fleet's firepower to destroy the planet of his foes. He doesn't generally want to waste time on capturing objectives unless he has to do so. For instance, the main bad guy of the series was on the homeworld of the Protoss and his first suggestion is just to blow the whole planet up! Everyone else looks at him like he is crazy! Once he figures out that none of your guys are fully space capable, he won't hesitate to use the most expedient means of killing your whole team.
Alarak, like all Protoss have a built in device that automatically teleports them away should their life ever be in threatened. The Protoss do not number that high, so each life is especially precious. They go to such extremes that even completely mangled Protoss can still die Warriors deaths in Dragoons or a number of different Protoss constructs.
The idea that you could even slow him down is also hilarious as he can drain the life force of his allies to survive. There is even an achievement in the game for sacrificing 500 troops to him in one match. I have tens of thousands of troops at my command, you'll run out of stamina well before Alarak runs out of troops.
Zoroark
I have shown that my characters are acting exactly how they would for this battle, have you? You questioned Alarak, but have you ever seen Zoroark use the strategy you have suggseted? Have you ever seen it use Double Team on a 100 people and then generate hundreds of Double Teams that then use Helping Hand or Retaliate or any moveset like this?
I asked for feats for what you claim and you provided basically nothing.
You didn't show Copycat copying anything other than a Pokemon. Do you think Rogue just goes around copying Sentinels? Nope, because she can only steal biological powers not technological abilities. If Copycat doesn't work on Tech, then it can't copy Warp Blades or anything like it because those are technology-enhanced capabilities. Without both parts of the puzzle, you can't use it. So Copycat can at best copy Psionic Abilities, but Protoss Psionic abilities take decades to master, so good luck with that.
You didn't show Helping Hand or Retaliate working on anything other than Pokemon, which means that the tech that Cal and your Mandalorians use to deal damage will be unaffected. Maybe if the Mandos choose to go hand to hand they can benefit?
You have not shown Brick Break working on technology, so until you do, it does nothing to my shields. Even if it did, Shieldguards and the Spear of Adun can directly transfer their shields instantaneously to my guys. Good luck getting your Confuse Rays through!
You failed to show Detect working on invisible foes or any foes for that matter. You have yet to present any feats for it all. Much like above, you haven't shown the ability to work on tech at all so until you do, it will not allow Zoroark to detect any of my Templar.
You still have not shown Rest protecting your Pokemon. In fact in Harley Rides Again, Octillery used Rest and his foe almost kills him. There is even a handy “health” bar in the episode showing this. Had his foe gotten one more hit, he would have lost. Rest won't protect you from being dismembered.
My guys are already in the supersonic to hypersonic range by feats alone, that is the limit for the tourney. If Agility makes you faster than that then it is not allowed. You aren't in anyway faster than my team.
You haven't shown any feats for protect, much less Zoroark using it. While using Protect, it looks like you can't attack. So, how does this do anything but give my team time to prepare their attack? My shields can near infinitely be restored by Spear of Adun or Shieldguards and I can still attack while using them.
You have failed to show Taunt working on a being protected by a shield which my team will be protected by at all times. Heck, you failed to show Taunt at all? Also, if Alarak is teleported away by the ship, then how does Taunt stop him from venting the atmosphere?
Overall, your entire strategy is out of character for Zoroark. You have shown nothing that would allow it to use many of these moves in any meaningful way and those that can be used only prolong the inevitable dismemberment of Zoroark.
BD-1
Why would Alarak kill BD-1 when others have not? Because Alarak lives in a Universe with Shield Restoring Sentries, Shieldsguards, and Shield Batteries as well as Time Manipulating Energizers that make you faster, as well as Targeting aids like Havocs, and health restorers like Terran Medics, Medivacs, and Zerg Queens. Fact is, Alarak knows to kill support units first because it weakens your foe. More to the point, Alarak's people engage in Rak'Shir, a purely psionic battle where you leech support from your followers to empower you enough kill your foe. It is like voting but the loser dies. He would not hesitate to kill your support forces, because that is a personally rewarding strategy.
Cal
That Gorgara fight was very underwhelming, if his Lightsabre was really as hot as the sun, why didn't Cal dismember it? Here is a Zealot killing an Ultralisk, which again are 50 foot tall monsters that casually crush 60 ton tanks underfoot, in the course of 2 moves.
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/14/142946/3913860-kills%20ultralisk.jpg
The Ultralisk is far stronger and larger than the Gorgara and is specifically bred to take a beating. Alarak, far more powerful than a Zealot, would have take apart a Gorgara in seconds.
While I am loath to use gameplay feats, there are certain missions were you get to control a small number of characters. In one such mission you get Vorazun and Alarak, which is basically like having Zeratul and Alarak as Vorazun is the Matriarch of the Nerazim, Zeratul's people. In this mission, Alarak and Vorazun are pitted against an Ultralisk and the 2 Protoss barely even notice it. You can see in this video his telekinetic Destruction Wave has no problem knocking it back. His TK blasts are well in excess of anything you have shown for Cal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlmQ0vxo6SA
Cal also can't slow my antimatter weapons because they are encapsulated in Psionic Energy not Electromagnetic fields like Blaster Bolts. Psionic Energy is the same energy he would be using to slow it. My Photon Cannons are powered by a psionic matrix that holds the combined psionic might of all linked Protoss. Cal ain't strong enough to stop this.
This mission also shows how Alarak can drain the lifeforce of things he kills. Every time you see a red orb go from a dead enemy to Alarak, it is restoring him. I have tens of thousands of troops I can provide to feed him life force.
Overall, Alarak has feats that make as fast as Cal, stronger than Cal, more durable than Cal, better support, and armed more heavily than Cal. Even with Double Teams helping Cal, Alarak will dispel them with one Ultralisk moving TK blast. Without those illusions helping him out, Alarak will tear him apart.
Conclusion
You have failed to prove any of your points.
You are using a Pokemon out of character, you didn't even purchase any morality shift.
Even if we grant you those points, they still fail to counter my massive battlefield advantage and army advantage. I have 74 km of ship at my command and 10k+ troops at my command.
Your team was simply not equipped to deal with my planet conquering army. My team regularly takes on forces that your team couldn't even comprehend.
In the future, when using Pokemon, you need to pair them with other Pokemon otherwise you lose a lot of effectiveness. Also, why didn't you just choose a trainer instead? Then you get multiple Pokemon that could actually benefit from each other!
If you can provide actual feats for your strategy then I'd like one more post to address them but if not then we can go to voting.
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