The fights

Desperate fights

• Examples:
  • Usopp:
    • Learning Haki (because the life of his crew depended on it)
    • Has a theme of "discovering his courage" which usually wins him the fight
  • Luffy:
    • Learning G5 (to win against Kaido)
    • Learning ACoC (to challenge Kaido)
    • Learning FS (to beat Katakuri)
    • Using CoC for the first times (saving Ace)
  • Zoro:
    • Learning ACoC (to beat King)
    • Leaning to cut steel/haki? (to beat Mr.1)
    • Surpassing the ordinary (to beat Hachi)
    • First time using CoC/ACoC? (to cut Kaido)

Emotional fights

• Examples:
  • Jinbe:
    • All the fishman Karate we've seen him use seems to be techniques he's known all along.
    • All of the new stuff we see from him boils down to: "Ok, now I'm mad! *insert stronger attack*"
  • Brook:
    • Everything we've seen from him seems to be stuff he's learned out of combat or stuff he's known all along.
    • Cold Soul is something he just picked up along the way
    • Soul King; the soul monster in WCI did not come as a surprise to him, he just kinda knew how to do it
  • Sanji:
    • Diable Jambe and Ashura were both powerups that Zoro and Sanji seemed to just know they could do
    • His genes did awaken in battle, but not because of battling
    • When he used Ifrit Jambe, he alluded to always being able to create flames as hot as those
    • Sky walk is something he picked up in TS
    • Even with the Raid Suit, the only reason he put it on was to hide his identity more than just getting more power

Conclusion

• if it is set in a different country (not the UK or the US)
• set in/time travel to a different era (Ancient/ Medieval / Renaissance / Age of Empire: Europe, Greece, Rome, Ottoman empire, India, China, Asia, Mesoamerica, the Silk Road, Egypt, etc...)
• if the MC(s) are ahead or behind the golden trio in their school years or are adults with interesting professions (healer, auror, unspeakable, curse-breaker, magical cartographer, explorer, researcher, detective, spy, businessowner, dealetrader, etc...)
• Depict traditional magical systems, food, fashion and centers of learning such as libraries, monasteries or convents.
• Depicts Secret Societies/ Organizations, Magical organized crime syndicates (maybe trading illegal potions, potion ingredients, creatures, cauldrons, etc...), Assassins' Guilds and Religious Orders.

1. Xiangling, and many other early-game 4 stars, namely Bennett, Xingqiu, Sucrose, Fischl & Beidou exist. To this day, they are the most played characters and for good reason, they are not only strong in terms of DMG and elemental application, they also provide various other things like healing, buffs, DMG reduction & interruption resistance, lot of energy generation and whatnot. Most of them don't need high investment to be good, just medium investment makes them good enough for anything we have in the game. They can also be built with super high investment and then they become even more OP than they already were, and overall, they are way stronger than the new 4 star characters.
   
2. Hyperbloom Powercreeped everything in the game. Good Hyperbloom teams at super low investment beat International with mid-high investment and are easier to play. This is a good thing in the sense that no one is forced to spend for characters they don't want just to do abyss or anything else and no is forced to play characters they don't like, there are more choices now than there were before. Pre-dendro, there were way too many teams that relied on Bennett Xiangling Duo to make them good. There were many teams where there was little to none interaction between the characters like Ningguang teams with Bennett Xiangling or Heizou teams with Bennett Xiangling and many more, which is something that annoyed me as I want to use characters with reactions as the game is sorta balanced around reaction gameplay with some exceptions. It's also just more fun to play that duo with characters that enable reactions and make it better like With Childe International or Sucrose National or even Raiden National cuz in those teams, Xiangling doesn't just exist but she compliments your team in some way. I know this part just might be specific to me but yeah, I don't like teams where 2 characters do their separate things and the other 2 get half carried by Bennett Xiangling. So with the introduction of Dendro and Hyperbloom, Xiangling Impact definitely lessened which is good as there's more choices but at the same time, Hyperbloom is so strong that it powercreeps everything.
   
3. From what we've seen in the new 5 star characters that are similar in role/gameplay to some 4 star characters like Noelle-Itto & Xingqiu-Yelan, the 4 star characters provided more overall team utility but less DMG than the 5 star counterparts. Dehya however, she couldn't even outperform Xinyan's DMG in Mono Pyro with Bennett Kazuha Xiangling. This made no sense to me and it's just sad to see. She also lacks other areas in comparison to basically everyone and that's just sad. So that's why I said I wanted her to be as strong as Xiangling in some sense. Cuz otherwise, what's the incentive to use her over anyone else. And I'm not just talking about Dehya but even the new 4 stars should be the same level as the early game 4 stars cuz otherwise, most of them never get played for the majority of the players. Candace, Layla, Dori, and many more are just not good units and they never get played in most teams by most players, if they were similar in strength & utility then wouldn't there just be more choice for players to make different teams and not just play units they have been playing for the last 2 years.
   
4. So this was what I didn't understand, Powercreep is bad, sure, I get that, but why is wanting SIMILAR strength and utility from the new 4 stars and maybe more DMG but less utility from the 5 stars, why is that bad? Doesn't that make more sense cuz then there would be many more teams that don't need the old units at all and can function just as well as them with the new 4 stars. And same for the 5 stars, if there's a character like Dehya that can't outdamage anyone and provides little to no merit in other roles, why would you use her over other characters? But if she was as strong as Xiangling, then those who like her could play her without griefing and those who like Xiangling would just play Xiangling, where's the issue if it's not a Powercreep but just similar power level?
   

1. Kakaswitch ko lang from corporate to freelancing, I have no ITR to present. (Ang meron lang sakin ay contract namin ng employer ko, and sa BPI account ko rin sila nagreremit ng sahod ko.)
2. Kasi baka mahirap magpawaive ng annual fee. Di ko naman ginawa to nung nagkaron ako ng Blue kaya kung may fee/mahirap pa-waive ng fee din lang yung Gold, di na pala ako mangangarap mag-upgrade haha