Talk:Charizard VS Greymon/@comment-27033016-20151209035140

Anyway, here's a little something I want to talk about for a sec. Anyone here familiar with a game called "Elsword"?

For those of you who never heard of, Elsword is a Korean MMO RPG/platformer/beat-em-up game that has been around for a few years now. The game itself has some very interesting characters that for a while I wanted to be in Death Battle, but now that I think of it, I don't think it will be such a good idea. I'll give you my reasons why Elsword characters should not be in Death Battle.

1. Lack of characterization and feats. As far as Elsword story and lore go, we hardly see any characterization of any of the characters aside from the side comics, making it difficult to gage how they would be portrayed correctly. It doesn't help that most of the characters themselves do not appear in much of the story texts and while we do learn about their backstories, it's just merely there to introduce the character and their reasons to why they are going on an adventure. In other words, an excuse plot. The characters also barely have any feats that would show what they're capable of and how they would fair against their opponents. And while you could argue that we can see their abilities via in game and claim "Oh, well Elsword can beat X because he cleaved through hordes of enemies and beat bonus dungeon bosses single-handedly like a MLG pro!", those feats are only specific to the player and really don't transfer to the characters themselves. We are talking about canon feats, something that is shown in the official materials, and this is something that all Elsword characters lack.

2. Job Paths. This is the single most-important factor in why Elsword characters should not be in Death Battle. For those of you who have played Elsword, each character has three seperate paths to take, each with differently abilities and are purely determined by the player. One thing to take note of is that each path is basically an alternate continuity to the character him/herself, meaning that once a path is chosen, the character sticks with that path and cannot change to something else. And since Death Battle is all about portraying characters at their prime, that means choosing between three different portrayals of the same character which makes it all the more confusing. And while you could argue that you can have the character in base form and have all the abilities from all three paths, the only problems I see from this is that it would make the character too OP for the match so it wouldn't be such a good idea in the first place.

These are my reasons to why Elsword characters should not be in Death Battle. If you have different thoughts about this, please feel free to leave a comment. I would like to be proven wrong.