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I just wanted to post a small tidbit but people don’t like it and don’t un-follow me. If you don’t like it, don’t follow. This isn’t drama, this is just me being a douche.

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you're right, they did make Sombra too powerful for him to have no effect toward Discord. I'll concede to your argument. I do still think that in a real Sombra VS Discord, Discord would still win in the end but I will also freely admit I'm heavily biased

[And I freely admit the same once again, as you can probably tell from a guy who has been pretty much making his own canon with the character for about three years now. It seems like an oversight by the writers that ended up rubbing Discord and Sombra fans the wrong way.]

#Anonymous #;Ranting

you're the first person I've seen who actually thinks Sombra hit should have an effect and those are some interesting points. Personally I'm extremely happy Discord was faking cause it gets so tiring that the writers keep nerfing him when he was shown in his intro episode to be so powerful. He's the fucking spirit of chaos for god sake. having a unicorn, even a powerful one like sombra, defeat him with just one hit would have really added insult to injury.

[I think you and I are hanging out in very different crowds then. But yeah no, I don’t think Sombra should be able to like… one shot Discord or anything because yeah, he was once the ruler of Equestria for a reason. Part of my issue with his claim that it didn’t affect him at all though is, to stick to the rock, paper, scissors metaphor, it’d be like making an exception to the system to make the game more interesting and then pretending it doesn’t count when things don’t go your way. For example, imagine if you brought a shotgun into that match.]

[Now, ignoring precedent for other exceptions in the game that can take out “scissors” aside from the rock, that still means that shotgun has just come along and-oh no, it just destroyed the rock. Supposedly the only thing that can defeat scissors has been obliterated to the point that repair isn’t even considered as an option for it. You’ve introduced something haphazardly into the game that is leagues ahead of any of the original components. What point is there in turning and saying “oh well, shotgun surely can’t do the same thing to scissors”.]

[I will admit a place of bias and I would like to apologize if this seems particularly aggressive or anything. I know tone is hard to convey over text but the point of “shotgun” being used in that metaphor was to be a bit “playful” with the argument. But I hope that helped to kinda “explain” my stance in the matter. At the risk of being especially cynical, it seems like the writers were a bit careless with Sombra and didn’t really consider the logical repercussions of making him powerful enough to destroy the Elements of Harmony, magic relics so powerful that it took two different teams of 6 and both princesses of Equestria to successfully harness them while also being capable of besting beings such as one of the corrupted princesses and the Lord of Chaos.]

[It seems, to me, that the rules are sort of…out the window when you introduce something so carelessly that can destroy one of the parties in this “delicate balance” with ease. Surely, the other parties involved are not going to fare any better against something powerful enough to upset the balance THAT drastically.]

#Anonymous #;Ranting

While you can have your opinion I think your argument is flawed. Of course Chaos would be weak against harmony. That doesn't make him weaker than sombra, Its a rock paper scissor situation.

[I’ll have to disagree with that assessment. Of course, the Elements as a specific weakness against Discord makes sense but my point is that Sombra seemed to have an exponential power buff in the premiere and that the fact that Sombra is seemingly immune to/can destroy the Elements, the magic artifacts that were responsible for besting Discord twice and other villains like Nightmare Moon, implies that he is more powerful than said artifacts and, by proxy, Discord.]

[A big reason why I object to how “rushed” the handling of Sombra felt this time around is that it doesn’t seem like there’s a good enough sense of how these things work because we’re not allowed to really dwell on them or consider the logical progression that these sort of moments may or may not imply.]

[I mean, Tirek didn’t use the elements to defeat Discord, he just happened to be another villain who was more powerful than Discord, so it’s not like the Elements are the only thing that can beat him. Hell, if you really want to get argumentative, I can point to the time that Chrysalis’ forces apprehended him. Without the elements. With those in mind, that is why I take so much issue with the claim that Sombra’s attack didn’t hurt/the implication that Sombra could never actually hurt him. There’s precedent for other villains defeating him or at the very least outsmarting him, as Sombra did by attacking Fluttershy to throw him off guard. Any claim otherwise seems to undermine King Sombra’s “logical position” on the tier list, as a result of his demonstrated feats.]

#Anonymous #;Ranting #;[I didn't expect that claim to be met with resistance but I mean to be fair; I never did try to explain my stance]#;[I was just bein' salty right after it happened; I haven't had to explain why yet so this should be interesting]