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However, aren't the stats for this medium-sized operator a bit too outrageous?
[Huh? Such generous figures! No wonder there's nothing fancy about them. It actually seems... somewhat believable.]
[If Brother Feng isn't lying... then it seems like most people really can't break through to the Large Cup realm.]
[I don't believe it! I don't believe it! I don't believe it! It's definitely a scam! You just randomly picked a large or extra-large size to fool people!]
[Hehe, I'm in the same cup level as Miss Skadi, hehe??]
Gravel Star: [Something feels off, but it also feels pretty reasonable... You're not lying, are you?]
"Hey, do you guys really think being a medium-sized cup drinker is so easy?"
Li Ji sighed and said softly to the audience and the rubble planet:
"Okay, if you still want to ask me how to determine your cup level..."
"Then it would be best if you asked yourselves these questions more often when you go to bed at night."
"Do you have endurance? Can you take on multiple enemies on the ground? Are you fast and have long-lasting mobility? Can you fight flying enemies? Are your skill stats fully upgraded? Is your module suitable for free-to-play players? Do all three of your skills have their effects? Is your cost less than 15? Does your active skill activate within five seconds of landing without buffs? Is your redeployment time fast? Is your magic resistance higher than 10? Do you have hard crowd control? Can you withstand pressure and perform well in daily situations? Can you be effective in team formation? Do you have self-healing? Can you deploy on both high ground and ground? Do you have built-in resistance and protection? Can you open up new lanes? Do you have powerful summons that don't occupy deployment slots? Can you defend multiple lanes by yourself? Do you have new positive mechanics?"
"If you don't have any of those, then why are you even bothering to figure it out?"
Chapter 73: What, you're not convinced?
Tili Xing scratched his head, still feeling a bit confused after pondering this long sentence.
Although he was initially somewhat convinced, upon reflection, he felt something was amiss.
Skadi seems to lack a clear mechanic... She's definitely not as strong as damage dealers like Machete and Manna.
However, many times...
Numbers are the most basic and unadorned mechanism. With strong and powerful numbers, a large part of the mechanism can be eliminated.
Skadi, on the other hand, perfectly fits the description of "numerical value".
At a time when many special agents' skills only increased attack power by tens of percent.
Skadi's skill directly increased to 130%, and it wasn't just her attack; her health and defense were also increased to 130%.
This isn't just an operator, it's practically a mini-boss!
Furthermore, during the demonstration of Skadi's panel, the rubble planet also discovered that Skadi possesses a very powerful talent—Deep Sea Predator!
When Skadi is added to the team, all operators of the [Deepsea Hunter] faction receive a 22% increase in attack power and a 20% increase in health.
It's worth noting that talents that take effect as soon as they're added to a team are actually quite rare.
You don't have to do anything; just enter the map and lie down, and you can gain extraordinary attributes for your allies.
With 22% attack power and 20% health, this can already be considered a pretty good buff.
But this simple numerical monster was relegated to the medium cup level...
With this kind of quality, even without the Deep Sea Hunter talent bonus, it shouldn't only be rated as a medium-quality product, right?
With an attack power approaching three thousand, plus massive defense and health...
Among the monsters that have appeared now.
How many of them are armor she can't break through?
But how many people can beat her?
Among the current high-armor units, there is probably only one Rat King with Sand Shield that she cannot break through. She cannot break through the armor of units like Flash Shield and Patriot!
Tilapia: [Why is this a medium cup? I still don't understand.]
Tibbers couldn't help but send a SC message, and even sent gifts in the live stream just to get an answer.
This SC also resonated with a large portion of the viewers in the live stream.
[Yeah, why should this be considered a medium-sized cup? I've been thinking about that last sentence for ages. She also has self-healing, her group formation has an effect, her skill lasts longer, and her redeployment is faster than others thanks to her talent bonus, right?]
[Don't be fooled by Goufeng, everyone. Even if they think someone's brainless, you can't call this a medium-sized cup, right?]
[It feels like Goufeng has no shame at all. To make everyone else look like a medium cup, he deliberately chose a super large cup as the bottom tier!]
[Forget about output, with that kind of beauty, she could never be a medium-sized player! Waaaa, I feel so sorry for Miss Skadi having to work for someone like Dog-Maple.]
Li Ji had anticipated a strong reaction from the audience, but he hadn't expected so many people to find it hard to accept the fact that Skadi was the middle cup.
However, this was exactly the reaction Li Ji wanted!
The world we live in now has only reached the level it has been at for a little over a year since the game launched.
In this era when Surtr is king, and SilverAsh, Eyjafjalla, and Saria are known as the three Egyptian Gods.
Skadi certainly deserves a place among the few six-star characters available.
And the real world is currently in roughly the same stage.
This is also one of the main reasons that sparked the debate.
Skadi alone is still quite competitive in the current meta.
But compared to the super-sized cups that cross time and dimensions in Li Ji's list, it's really not enough.
Unless it's a Mega Skadi synthesized from an entire Deepsea team.
Or perhaps add a team of buffs from the Sui family to synthesize a super-sized Titi, and maybe then it will be viable in the future environment... and even then, it will only be viable.
Because all she has are numbers, and that's all she has left...
But later games like N15 Rogue, Contingency Contract, and Annihilation Test... weren't they all numerical monsters?
Their stats are far superior to Skadi's.
In addition, Skadi is the only Guard operator in Arknights who does not have an expanded attack range, cannot attack air units, and can only block one enemy at a time.
In this abstract game, where group attacks have higher output than single-target attacks, and ground-to-air attacks have higher output than simple ground attacks,...
Operators like Skadi, who rely solely on stats and lack any other mechanics... it's indeed difficult for them to be assigned to a high-tier tier.
But Li Ji couldn't explain it so clearly to the audience.
He knows what the future environment will be like, but the current audience doesn't.
So he could only explain to the viewers in a different way:
"Sigh, why don't you guys understand? When I said she was a medium-sized operator... it was based on my list of operators."
Looking at the gift from Wali Xing, Li Ji thought to himself that this kid was really a bit single-minded. "If she were in a group of many of you, it would be hard for her not to become a super-sized one!"
He even patiently explained to the rubble star and the barrage:
"how to say……"
"It's like when you're playing Yu-Gi-Oh!, you watch all sorts of meta decks get thwarted by the dominant Pearl of Elegy deck, and then you yell 'useless' like Teostra, Raikou, Migratory Bird, Pure Love... and then you pull out your strongest, old-school White Dragon deck, without even including a single White Spirit Dragon or Dragon Egg. In the end, your invincible White Dragon gets crushed by all those 'useless' decks you called trash..."
"Or like Four Gates Guy vs. Six Paths Madara, Gojo Satoru vs. Sukuna, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni vs. Yhwach..."
"You can't just say the losing side is weak, can you? If the other side weren't the boss of this phase, you'd just see if these guys could win or not!"
"When it comes to food, it's only relative. You shouldn't always take it to absolutes."
"You have to consider who you're comparing them to. Maybe someone's skill level is just a bit weak compared to the strongest..."
"If you ask me, you can create your own ranking system. There's no need to follow my team's ranking! If you insist on following mine, then everyone will be in the middle tier, and no one will be able to escape it."
At this point, Li Ji could finally say what he had been wanting to say most.
As long as everyone arranges their own order, then in the end it's none of his business.
If anyone gets ranked in the middle cup, go find the person who ranked them; you won't find it on Li Ji!
Although he was the one who first started the heinous topic of the "cup debate" in another world, as long as he didn't create the rankings and classifications, it's fine.
Whoever wants to do this offensive thing can do it!
"Stop stealing the streamer's understanding. You can't even understand the streamer's team's understanding. You're not kids anymore, you need to have your own understanding!"
Li Ji's final, definitive statement drew boos from the live stream audience.
[Old man, your understanding is completely useless! In the end, we still have to rely on the group members to rank the cups, you're hopeless!]
[Pah! You're getting a good deal and then complaining. If you're so capable, why don't you make the Mace God a free man?!]
[I want Marner. Name your price. Once I have Marner, can I say that too?]
[I refuse to believe it! Dog Maple, if you're so capable, show me every operator you bring out in the future that's better than Skadi today! I'm now a die-hard Skadi supporter, and if you can't produce an operator with a medium rank or higher, I'll kick you out!]
[You can't even figure out how to arrange the cups properly, what use are you, Dog Maple? Hurry up and provide the strategy for the new level; that's all you're good for.]
"Sigh, you verbally criticize the streamer, but physically you still rely on the tips provided by the streamer. Wouldn't you call yourselves a bunch of little devils?"
Li Ji watched with amusement as the comments section exploded, and relentlessly mocked them:
"If you send me a message saying, 'Please, streamer, please put the great strategy guide on your little screens,' I'll show you the walkthrough for the new map."
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[Don't be so arrogant, Wanfeng!]