You seen it so many times... New players asking, "How do I use X's special," or "What does X's ultimate do," or "How effective is Twilight," or "Which is worst pony?" Well, normal logic would say to find a wiki, but upon looking at it, it feels, soulless, because wikis also seem to be more about the numbers, objective facts, and bare bones. I (and others that want to chime in) want to share more subjective views on how to play as each hero.First, I insist you check the wiki DragonLight and RedM00n so painstakingly made. Wikis were made to help you. They're your friends... Now, I'll bet you ignored that, so now I shall begin!!
The Basics (The universal facts everyone should know, and probably are on the wiki, but am covering first in case you're too lazy to open a simple link, ya jammy dodgers...)
To access the menu, for Pete's sake, TYPE !pf2
At any time when your charge reaches 100 or higher, you may hit G (your taunt key) to use your Hero's SPECIAL MOVE. This depletes 100 charges and puts your power in Cooldown mode for a period of roughly 30 seconds.
When you max out your charge at 200, you gain the option to hit R (your reload key) to use your Hero's ULTIMATE MOVE. This will use all of your charge and send you into Cooldown as well.
A Hero's Max HP is determined by the number of players on a server. While I haven't pinned down the exact formula (Namely since I've never focused ENOUGH on it before, but now I guess I should), know that the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM max health a hero will ever have is 1125 HP. Remember this fact most of all. Health management is crucial. As I told Toki while on koth_ponyville_b4 when I was playing as Rarity, "A lady knows when to run away."
Now that we have these universal facts out of the way, here is by far the greatest terror any hero can face:
Airblast Pyro
What?! Thought I was going to say Natascha/Brass Beat Heavy or L3 Sentry Nest? Well, that's cute, BUT IT'S WRONG!! Universally for all heroes, an airblast pyro can ruin any pony's murderous rampage in 10 seconds flat. The aggravation of trying to melee when you get sent a third of the way across small maps can be annoying at times, but tenacity pays off on lone pyros or pyros without other classes to back them up. Eventually they'll have to give up the airblast gambit. However, if you see a couple of Beggar Soldiers and/or a good Natascha/Beast Heavy coming to join in, time to get out of there. Airblast pyros also love to use the maps hazards. As a regular player, this would mean instant death, but you're the hero, these 'nuisances' shouldn't concern you... Wrong. Pits hurt. As do trains. Saw blades too. I also discovered the bomb elevator in Hightower falling on you is not pleasant either. All these things are things I've seen heroes, or have myself, been blown into, or under, and if you are near death, it's game over for you. However, unless you totally derp, you should be able to evade most of those hazards on most maps that contain such hazards (And RD can evade most of them anyways). The real terror is in knowing you're in a tiny room (like the shacks next to bomb's start positions in Hightower, or the intel rooms in 2Fort), and that pyro has some good friends. Then you're really under pressure, because that's when airblast pyros love to go W+M2 on you and stuff you in a corner, and all you can do (most of the time) is scream and shout. But enough about Davie Bowie, we're here to talk about ponies!!
Hush Now, Quiet Now, Let Me Heal Your Bloody Limbs...
A Guide to Fluttershy
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Special: Gives the Amputator's taunt effect to all teammates for 20 seconds, regenerating health.
Ultimate: Gives all players within a short distance of her the effects of the Quick-Fix uber and guaranteed mini-crits for 20 seconds.
As the wiki should tell you, your charge, Kindness, only builds while healing. Combined with the fact Fluttershy's attack is tied with Rarity for second weakest, combat should be a low priority if allies are present. Fluttershy is that pony that serves her team best with her powers, not her attack power.
Spread the healing love. This should be an obvious concept, even for vanilla medics, but since you can sponge more damage in a sense you can afford to run in from time to time and save a flailing scout or gushing spy.
If you must jump into the fray and engage in combat, remember that (from my experience) Demomen will be your best bet for quick kills, then dumb scouts. Unless you have outrageous health and a screw loose, most times if you see a Beast Heavy coming for you, just say "Screw it" and run. That Beast Heavy can more often than not eat up yellow pegasi for breakfast and still be hungry. A lone Tomislav Heavy, sometimes more (depending on Max HP), on the other hand, is something a talented Fluttershy player strafing around the Heavy can handle.
Fluttershy truly shines when she can use her ultimate. If possible, always go for it over the special. Even with the nerf in 1.16, it is still a sight to behold, as the mini-crits and rapid heal she unleashed around her is simply a dervish of destruction. Just make sure you stick close to your team, because the skill is dependent on their proximity to you for it to work. As for your special, you'll find that much more useful on King of the Hill maps, where it can be hard sometimes to have the time to build up to ultimate before time runs out. I've seen it used to keep the team's health up enough to flip the control point, then they were able to build to ultimate and use that in the last seconds to keep back the final push.
Versus Twilight can be a true headache, as she can sap your Kindness and your Uber, so the best advice I have to offer is that you should never engage Twilight in close-range combat. You can't afford to lose hard-earned Kindness slugging it out pointlessly (given your weak attack power and the usual high hero HP + regen). A good Twilight will use the opportunity to slip in some sapping, and at that range, it is much harder to dodge. Instead.......................................... minions. Let them fight her. You just bob and weave at mid to long range and try to distract her.
Art of the Dagger
A Guide to Rarity
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Special: Unleash a torrent of whining that stuns players, and disables sentries even longer
Ultimate: Swap out your Black Rose with a YER and gain it's ability to disguise as those you backstab for 20 seconds. Also, buildings are disabled for the duration as well, making Rarity one of the best anti-engineer heroes in the game.
From personal experience, I've learned the key secret to an effective Rarity is this - As long as you have more than 1/3 of your health and their are no Natascha/Beast/Huo-Long Heavies converging on you or L2/L3 raining down on you... STAB ALL THE THINGS!! While your aim should be backstabs, remember this. Backstabs, facestabs, stab-stabs, your own team, who cares, stab it!! As I just said, STAB ALL THE THINGS!!
When you are confronted with said heavies from above, this is where knowing your map and wise use of your Invis Watch comes in handy (i.e. stuff Tavy has been screaming at us for a while now about regular spies). Neutralizing these guys, especially on hotly contested control point maps, should be a priority.
Or you could just aim for an all out chaos strategy, where you run about vanish stabbing. Mind games are fun too. That's what make Rarity the best rice ball.
When it does hit the fan, and trust me, after you cause enough mayhem as rice ball pony, the other team will start to try to organize against you, learn the better part of discretion. As I said above to Toki, "A lady knows when to run." That should be between 33% and 50% HP. Also, throw up your invisibility ASAP, even if ablaze, because you don't want them getting a bead on you cloaking after you extinguish or what-not. Sure, it's un-rainbow, but this move has saved me more times than not. Run for the medium health kits and eat them to get back over 50%, then either let your natural regen get you at least back to 70% before you return to action if you're far enough away from the front lines, or find a medic/dispenser to help do the rest.
Rarity is one of those ponies that more often find her special more useful than her ultimate, as the three second stun can often save your (and your teammates) lives, and couple this with the 8-second sentry stun, and you can knock out most unguarded sentry nests just fine. The time to truly use the ultimate is when the other team goes engie happy and loads the intel/final control point with sentries, or you are facing Applejack. The YER effect isn't overly important, as since the real power of Rarity is stabbing mayhem, you really won't get to hold on to disguise you get from the ultimate for more than a few seconds by listening to me, but those 20 blissful seconds of sleeping engie buildings makes the ultimate not be totally useless.
Versus Twilight is a situation where everything can go wrong in an instant if you get blasted with one good laser. Unlike Fluttershy, since your Generosity fills on its own, you do have the option of duking it out thanks to backstabs
Moonshine Gravy!!
A Guide to Applejack
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Special: Throw what you claim to be "cider" on the enemy team, stunning them and their turrets for a couple of seconds, and keeping them soaked in Jarate for 10... Yeah, "cider."
Ultimate: Gives your team 25% faster firing and a periodic chance to regenerate all their ammo for 20 seconds.
Basically, if you look at Applejack as what an Engineer does best on steroids, you already got the gist of how she works. She fixes problems by building gun. If that doesn't work, build bigger gun. What makes her shine though is her default max metal is double that of regular engie, and she regens that metal slowly on her own at a rate of 10 metal every 3 seconds. Furthermore, she can pretty much fix anything from the brink in two whacks, where it can take a normal engie four or more to bring back a building from death's door. Thanks to such fast repairing speed, it can prove sometimes hard to down a sentry a determined AJ keeps fixing, as (depending on your weapon and class) she can repair it faster than you can damage it, unless you have backup. Therefore, good AJ's should begin rounds by not building their own stuff but accelerating the construction of fellow engie's equipment, then set up their own turrets, dispensers, and (if needed) teleporters.
Since Applejack regenerates metal and has a higher max metal level, it is sometimes good to hang back and guard the nest from spies, freeing up the other engies to advance and engage, or possibly start moving equipment if you're on a control point map.
Like the Princesses or Fluttershy, AJ lacks a cool gimmick, like Rarity's invisibility or Rainbow Dash's "flight," to keep them out of sticky situations. Don't get in them. However, if you find yourself pursued by an overwhelming force, suicide sentries (sentries you lay down knowing full well will be destroyed before, or just as, you finish them, having promised them that 72 virgin dispensers will be waiting for them in Building Heaven) can slow down some enemies. Otherwise, your best options are either run your pony head off and keep them distracted (Getting pot shots with your wrench if you're bold enough), or bum rush your aggressor if you feel you have no hope of outrunning your attacker and the terrain is wide open. AJ has, as I call it, full hero attack power, but her particular set of skills betrays her in heavy combat. However, AJ is, as I said, a pony whose true talents lie behind the front lines, not on them, despite what FiW may lead us to think.
SPECIAL, SPECIAL, SPECIAL!!! By all that is holy, use Applejack's special (Which you'll often see me refer to as "AJ pee" in shorthand while playing, since it is based on Jarate, and we all know what THAT is. Sure, it says "cider..."). 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time, the special is beyond useful, stunning the entire enemy team for 2 seconds and soaking them in Aussie pee for another 10. It also seems to stun sentries for 2 seconds as well. And while the music for AJ's ultimate is awesome beyond words, the ultimate itself... sort of peters out. Sure, your team fires faster (which really isn't that much faster, and doesn't help pyros that much at all), but the chance of getting ammo refilled every 4-5 seconds... In my opinion, it just isn't worth the effort of saving for this ultimate. Just pee on them.
Two Best Sisters Play Team Fortress 2
A Guide to the Princesses
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Special: Stuns the enemy team and sentries for 5 seconds.
Ultimate: Bombards the map with meteors that slowly sap that enemy's health (save the enemy's hero) down to 1 and stuns sentries for 20 seconds.
The Princesses are the flat jack of all trades, master of none. While playing as a Princess, think of them as a less awesome Rarity. Sure, they can't cloak or backstab, but they have full combat power like AJ. Since they don't have any neat support skills not dependent on charge, the best place for the Princess is on the front lines, mixing it up against the mid and long-range units, like demomen and snipers. Princesses also are good for swatting down pesky troll scouts. They may have more problems versus soldiers than other ponies given they have no crafty way to combat the rocket jump or some of the other advanced solly tactics, but if you can catch the buggers on the ground close enough, you got them.
Apply Fluttershy logic when facing Natascha Heavies. However, it is plausible to face off with Beast and Huo-Long Heavies as long as you have a plan to back off after you slay them, or it goes south.
Fluttershy logic also seems to work well in how one should use their powers. The Ultimate should be the real goal, as the health sap plus sentry stun puts the princesses on parity with Rarity on engineer/Applejack negation, but the special is pretty decent, and can be used to slow down an attacking wave trying to cap, escape from attackers, or on KotH maps when it is harder to get ultimates sometimes due to time constraints.
Rainbow Dash Presents... How to Win PF2 in 10 Seconds Flat!!
A Guide to Rainbow Dash
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Special: Doubles friendly player's class speed, lowers their gravity, and negates falling damage for 30 seconds, and stuns sentries for 3 seconds. Rainbow Dash also gets mini-crits for the duration (Thanks to kitmehsu & Toki for bringing that fact up)
Ultimate: Does the same as special, also gives team 50% dodge and crits.
Rainbow Dash has one of the most unique abilities, and possibly most useful. RD can jump up to 20 times in a row, practically allowing her to fly!! However, every leap after the second deals her 5 HP damage, which is really a moot point unless you're near death given you regen almost that much every two seconds or so. Use this to get to all sorts of places, to nullify ALL THE SNIPAHS, and escapes from/leap into danger (Thanks to Toki for reminding of that one).
Just like the real RD, speed is the key!! Take advantage of your faster swings to overcome having the weakest attack power of all the heroes.
Never, NEVER stop moving, even if you got to pointlessly wander in place. Like Fluttershy, RD has a special condition to charge her abilities, and that's MOVING!! A still Rainbow Dash is just Derpy is a Rainbow Dash costume, now isn't it?
Don't be afraid of airborne combat. Mid-air Sandman baseballs, more importantly, bat attacks, can be hard to adjust to, but to be at your most effective, you need to learn to do these things, especially on Hightower, where it can be a matter of winning or losing.
While the dodge effect of the ultimate is nice, the special of RD is probably one of the best specials of all the heroes. Basically, it comes down to whether you feel you need to have the 50% dodge on the team, since both give the same speed and gravity buffs.
For Equestria!
A Guide to Twilight Sparkle (written by axelbourne)
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Twilight isn't a charger pony so you gonna need to keep your mates near of you to help, Twilight is an anti-hero more than a support, defensive, or attacker pony.
As Twilight your main objective are light classes like scouts, medics, spies, snipers, etc., use your magic shot to slow scouts down for make them easier to kill with your shovel.
A heavy class like the Heavy can be pretty hard to kill, even more when he has a medic with him, try to shoot charged shots at them both so, with the goal of killing the medic first, even if you don't kill the heavy, for his mates are gonna be easier to kill then.
Twilight's shots and charged shots drain medics' ubers, spies' invis watch, and ponies' magic meter, so if you have them in your sight shoot them so they cannot use those to attack your mates.
Twilight's special move makes your team resistant to crits so that's a good help when the other team has a Fluttershy uber/ultimate, a krits medic, or Pinkie Pie's special in effect.
Twilight's ultimate move makes the enemy team move really slow, that can be a really useful help for your team when your team needs to capture a point or a flag or something like that. Try killing the enemy. That will make it harder to return to the battlefield because Twilight's ultimate is still in effect even if the enemy dies.
The best way to kill someone as Twilight is use a charged shot to lightly damage the enemy for when you hit him with your shovel until they are dead.
When You're Rife With Devastation, Remember You're A Toymaker's Creation
A Guide to Pinkie Pie
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Special: Give your team mini-crits for 20 seconds, and stuns sentries for 3 sentries (Hmmm, a lot of these specials like to stun sentries. Remember that, kiddies!!)
Ultimate: AKA The Party Cannon, this gives Pinkie a 12 round rocket launcher that can load up to four rounds at a time Beggar's Bazooka-style, and does crit damage (Please cite if wrong). You wield this for about 20 seconds. These abilities really like the number 20...
Pinkie is full attack power pony, like Twilight, AJ, and the Princesses, however, what sets her apart from them is her highly offensive powers and her bounce ability. Therefore Pinkie is an excellent front line hero, as she can dish out damage, and then (in most cases) get the flip out of there when it gets hairy.
To bounce, you'll want to look up a little bit and JUMP!!!!!!!!!!
In concert with bouncing, gravity is your friend. You'll hear server vets speak about "Goomba Stomping." This is the act of landing atop of a player. This is the result of all heroes having the effect of the soldier's Mantreads on them, but really, in practical use, only RD and Pinkie get real regular chances to use this in normal play. Pinkie however, in my opinion, has the best chance to aim and spam this move with any speed and power behind it.
However, do not expect to be overly stealthy with your bounces. You will emit a loud audible "WHHHEEEEE!!" each time you bounce. Curse you, Pinkie!!! Why must you enjoy this so?
In a high pop server, favor the ultimate, especially when you find the enemy crowded together, especially when your team is moving together in a wave. If the enemy has splintered significantly, the bulk of your team has clearly surrounded the major arm of the enemy, or there are less than 6 people on the opposing force, the ultimate can feel a little... inefficient. Go with the special in those cases.
Low ceilings are the bane of the pink maned one. It takes away her escape tool and forces her to flee on foot. Try not to get caught in a Heavy rush in such corridors if you can. While she can break the fourth wall in the show, you cannot. There's a limit to how much DragonLight and RedM00N can code, you know.
Surprisingly, soldiers can prove to be a credible threat to an uninitiated Pinkie, as I've seen good soldiers rocket jump to keep up with Pinkie's bounces.
"Never trust anyone offering to 'do you a solid.' They may just want to take a dump on your table."
- Me
"Love and Tolerance" isn't really what bronies like us believe. It was just meant for pissing off trolls.
Genuine love and tolerance is a large reason I became a Brony. I still accept you, but as for your logic, in the immortal words of Twilight, "I don't get it."
My Gameme stats:
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That OC I've finally done an art of and posted, but still need to clean up in Adobe!!
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My Pony OC. I finally got around to designing one, and this is a placeholder until I can get around to completing the digital clean-up of my pencil art. Her name is Kagehoshi Akiko. Her backstory can be found in the OC Master Thread, along with my other 11 OC's.
- BONUS - You can now find even more OC's of mine listed here, and I'm working on drawing them even now!!
And now a public service announcement from the New Lunar Republic Anti-Drug Coalition...
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This is your pony.
This is your pony on Lariette. Any questions?!
From "Ask Friendship is Witchcraft." Guess which one is me:
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I give ALL the warm wet hugs...
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If you're still here, then stick around for this bit of nonsense.
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Here we have Lenny Briscoe, most badass cop ever to set foot in Dohv Wolf's 27th Precinct, didn't believe in marriage, coincidences, and OWNED Law & Order for 11 seasons, who met...
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...Olivia Benson in 1999, in the case that spurred the pilot of Law & Order: SVU, who then met a spunky lawyer with a British accent in Season 10 of SVU, even working together to shut down a corrupt judge sending teens away on trumped-up charges in the episode "Crush," by the name of...
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...Miranda Pond (yes, that's her name), who we all know is just...
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"Hello boys."
...River Song, gallivanting around 21st Century New York again, and although she is now the wife of the 11th incarnation of this figure, she originally (from his, and our frame of temporal reference) met this incarnation of this legendary figure...
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...the Doctor, the legendary Time Lord himself, for whom fans of colorful equines have linked to this time-keeping figure...
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...Doctor Whooves, or as he is officially known as, "Time Turner," a peculiar brown Earth Pony believed to be the official clock maker and time keeper of Ponyville, a quaint village a scant few clicks southwest of the capital of her homeland, Canterlot, where dwells...
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...Princess Celestia, the greatest troll the multiverse has ever seen, and also does not believe in coincidences.
Therefore, using a cyclical principal, some abstract philosophy, and wee bit of fuzzy logic, one could ultimately argue that Lenny Briscoe = Princess Celestia and Princess Celestia = Lenny Briscoe. There you have it, the "Six Degrees of Separation of Lenny Briscoe and Princess Celestia." Why does this work? How does this work?
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(Also because Lenny admitted he loved ponies in the 2002 episode "Tragedy on Rye")
i do say this is quite useful, should it be another pinned topic?
(you have no idea what's in that juicebox of yours...)
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Left to Right - Lariette Emeralds, Laurie Emeralds, Nurul Nadia(Nazz), Zaria Emeralds, Larzen Emeralds, Vanilla Cream (they're all adults alredy, i just dont have much grown up pictures of the foals yet)
Meet The OC
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After hanging around you for a while, I've decided you ARE a drug. Charlie Sheen was famous for saying when he went crazy that the only drug he was on was Charlie Sheen, and if mere mortals deigned to do even an ounce of him, their heads would explode. I'm saying if Charlie Sheen cut off a piece of you and tried to smoke it, HIS head would explode.
yes i have a question.... by "ponies on lariette" did you mean they took a drug or something named after my.... entirely made-up-didn't-know-it-has-a-meaning-on-urban-dictionary internet nickname? aka Lariette?
LocationEquestria - The Bridge of the VG Universe and the Megaverse
Posted 06 October 2012 - 11:58 AM
Wooo! I got mentioned in the guide! 0 30
Anyway, I just thought I would point some stuff out.
First of all, Rainbow Dash is capable of jumping infinitely, giving her the power of flight basically. Every jump though, saps 5 HP away though, so be aware if you're under heavy fire, but this can also help you avoid pits of Pyros decide to try and airblast you. Also, activating Rainbow Dash's Special will grant her temporary crits.
"Never stop fighting for what's right!" -Toki Zenseikai, Dimensional Guardian SHiFTer of the Video Game Universe. Toki's journey through the Video Game Universe (Updated Regularly/Current Episode - 11.5 A - Toki's World 1 Catch Up Part 1): http://www.youtube.c...eature=view_all Toki's Journey through Arad (Dungeon Fighters Online Gameplay/Current Episode - Part 2): http://www.youtube.c...LBGhn66wG3EM-AS
Without using a gun, consider this my Sincerest Form of Flattery
Toki through the Ages:
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Classic Appearance:
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Through the early years when Toki was just beginning his adventures he sported nothing more than black sweat wear and wore robust brown shoes. His hair was larger and less manageable than it is today. He sported this look between the years of 8 - 10.
Punk Style:
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Toki during his early teenage years sported a more rebel phase and even took up guitar lessons to use as a weapon against the forces of evil trying to destroy the Video Game Universe!--It was a rather awkward phase. He sported a torn, short sleeved shirt and matching pants and shoes. His hair started becoming more spiked upwards and a little more manageable. He had this look between years 10 - 12.
Casual Style:
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During his slightly more mature years into his teenage years he sported a more casual look, with a black jacket (both long and short sleeved), his hair starting to stand more up straight now by this point. He had this look up until age 15.
Trenchcoat Era:
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For the last 10 years, Toki had a more robust choice of clothing at this point. He sported a coal-gunner gray/black trenchcoat with signature blue circles marked on each shoulder, a black shirt, navy blue denim jeans, and black shoes. His hair style was now easier to manage with it being lean and tall with his bangs going over his eyes. This has been his trademark appearance for the last 10 years. The coat also sported an optional hoodie version.
The New Age of the Dimensional SHiFTer Guardian of the Video Game Universe
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Now 10 years later and 16 years going on, Toki's new look is a variety of sorts. He now sports a shorter, black trench coat with flame prints on the edges. A long-sleeved white undershirt with a brown vest around the upper waist. Two gun holsters on the outside of the coat. His same denim jeans and black shoes and still present in the design. His hair is now swept back, pointing back.
A lovely guide here and, in regards to Twi, I do have two things:
1. Obviously, you can counter Medics and Spies (aside from Fluttershy and Rarity) with both your normal shots and charged shots, do this to cut back on pushes or when you find a spy in the area.
2. You can unleash charge shots without worrying about cool down, use this to disable enemy sentry guns, teles and despensers to help your team out.
1. Twilight isnt a charger pony so you gonna need to keep your mates near of you to help, twilight is an anti-hero more than a support, defensive or attacker pony.
2. As twilight your main objective are light classes like scouts, medics, spies, snipers, etc., use your magic shot to slow scouts for make more easy to kill them with your shovel.
3. a heavy class like the Heavy can be pretty hard to kill, even more when he has a medic with him, try to shot charged shots to them both so and kill the medic first, even if you dont kill the heavy, for your mates gonna be more easy to kill him.
4. Twilight shots and charged shots drain medics ubers, spies invis watch, and ponies magic meter, so if you have them in your sight shot them so they can use those for attack your mates.
5. Twilight special move make your team resistant to crits so thats a good help when the other team have a fluttershy uber/ultimate, a krits medic, or pinkie pie special mini-crits.
6. Twilight ultimate move make the enemy team really slow to move, that can be a really useful help for your team when your team need to capture a point or a flag or something like that, kill the enemy will make them more hard to return to the battle field because twilight ultimate still even if the enemy die.
7. The best way to kill someone as twilight is use a charged shot to have a slightly damage in the enemy when you hit him with your shovel to dead
not for nothing twilight is almost the only hero i only use
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Ah, excellent axelbourne!! I knew I'd miss some things on Twilight and Pinkie, and you really helped me fill in some things on Twilight I'd miss given my anti-soldier (and anti-soldier based character) stance. I'll add your stuff to the top for easy access, as well as proofread it.
Going to amend the entries here based on the data handed in, and try to give data on Pinkie based on my experiences now.
"Never trust anyone offering to 'do you a solid.' They may just want to take a dump on your table."
- Me
"Love and Tolerance" isn't really what bronies like us believe. It was just meant for pissing off trolls.
Genuine love and tolerance is a large reason I became a Brony. I still accept you, but as for your logic, in the immortal words of Twilight, "I don't get it."
My Gameme stats:
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<- Normal
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That OC I've finally done an art of and posted, but still need to clean up in Adobe!!
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My Pony OC. I finally got around to designing one, and this is a placeholder until I can get around to completing the digital clean-up of my pencil art. Her name is Kagehoshi Akiko. Her backstory can be found in the OC Master Thread, along with my other 11 OC's.
- BONUS - You can now find even more OC's of mine listed here, and I'm working on drawing them even now!!
And now a public service announcement from the New Lunar Republic Anti-Drug Coalition...
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This is your pony.
This is your pony on Lariette. Any questions?!
From "Ask Friendship is Witchcraft." Guess which one is me:
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I give ALL the warm wet hugs...
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If you're still here, then stick around for this bit of nonsense.
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Here we have Lenny Briscoe, most badass cop ever to set foot in Dohv Wolf's 27th Precinct, didn't believe in marriage, coincidences, and OWNED Law & Order for 11 seasons, who met...
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...Olivia Benson in 1999, in the case that spurred the pilot of Law & Order: SVU, who then met a spunky lawyer with a British accent in Season 10 of SVU, even working together to shut down a corrupt judge sending teens away on trumped-up charges in the episode "Crush," by the name of...
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...Miranda Pond (yes, that's her name), who we all know is just...
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"Hello boys."
...River Song, gallivanting around 21st Century New York again, and although she is now the wife of the 11th incarnation of this figure, she originally (from his, and our frame of temporal reference) met this incarnation of this legendary figure...
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...the Doctor, the legendary Time Lord himself, for whom fans of colorful equines have linked to this time-keeping figure...
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...Doctor Whooves, or as he is officially known as, "Time Turner," a peculiar brown Earth Pony believed to be the official clock maker and time keeper of Ponyville, a quaint village a scant few clicks southwest of the capital of her homeland, Canterlot, where dwells...
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...Princess Celestia, the greatest troll the multiverse has ever seen, and also does not believe in coincidences.
Therefore, using a cyclical principal, some abstract philosophy, and wee bit of fuzzy logic, one could ultimately argue that Lenny Briscoe = Princess Celestia and Princess Celestia = Lenny Briscoe. There you have it, the "Six Degrees of Separation of Lenny Briscoe and Princess Celestia." Why does this work? How does this work?
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(Also because Lenny admitted he loved ponies in the 2002 episode "Tragedy on Rye")
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Posted 07 October 2012 - 01:43 AM
If you would like me too, I could toss the info from this thread into the wiki for those who go to it.
It could use a bit of community based input in terms of do's, don'ts, strategies and so on....
If you would like me too, I could toss the info from this thread into the wiki for those who go to it.
It could use a bit of community based input in terms of do's, don'ts, strategies and so on....
Excellent. Just glad to help. I just felt like doing this after hearing so many new people pop in and wonder "what does what," and I looked at the wiki when I was new and feeling like the wiki was incomplete at the time myself, and really learning what I have up till now by just passively listening and watching folks (A time when autism works in my favor).
"Never trust anyone offering to 'do you a solid.' They may just want to take a dump on your table."
- Me
"Love and Tolerance" isn't really what bronies like us believe. It was just meant for pissing off trolls.
Genuine love and tolerance is a large reason I became a Brony. I still accept you, but as for your logic, in the immortal words of Twilight, "I don't get it."
My Gameme stats:
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That OC I've finally done an art of and posted, but still need to clean up in Adobe!!
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My Pony OC. I finally got around to designing one, and this is a placeholder until I can get around to completing the digital clean-up of my pencil art. Her name is Kagehoshi Akiko. Her backstory can be found in the OC Master Thread, along with my other 11 OC's.
- BONUS - You can now find even more OC's of mine listed here, and I'm working on drawing them even now!!
And now a public service announcement from the New Lunar Republic Anti-Drug Coalition...
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This is your pony.
This is your pony on Lariette. Any questions?!
From "Ask Friendship is Witchcraft." Guess which one is me:
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I give ALL the warm wet hugs...
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If you're still here, then stick around for this bit of nonsense.
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Here we have Lenny Briscoe, most badass cop ever to set foot in Dohv Wolf's 27th Precinct, didn't believe in marriage, coincidences, and OWNED Law & Order for 11 seasons, who met...
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...Olivia Benson in 1999, in the case that spurred the pilot of Law & Order: SVU, who then met a spunky lawyer with a British accent in Season 10 of SVU, even working together to shut down a corrupt judge sending teens away on trumped-up charges in the episode "Crush," by the name of...
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...Miranda Pond (yes, that's her name), who we all know is just...
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"Hello boys."
...River Song, gallivanting around 21st Century New York again, and although she is now the wife of the 11th incarnation of this figure, she originally (from his, and our frame of temporal reference) met this incarnation of this legendary figure...
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...the Doctor, the legendary Time Lord himself, for whom fans of colorful equines have linked to this time-keeping figure...
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...Doctor Whooves, or as he is officially known as, "Time Turner," a peculiar brown Earth Pony believed to be the official clock maker and time keeper of Ponyville, a quaint village a scant few clicks southwest of the capital of her homeland, Canterlot, where dwells...
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...Princess Celestia, the greatest troll the multiverse has ever seen, and also does not believe in coincidences.
Therefore, using a cyclical principal, some abstract philosophy, and wee bit of fuzzy logic, one could ultimately argue that Lenny Briscoe = Princess Celestia and Princess Celestia = Lenny Briscoe. There you have it, the "Six Degrees of Separation of Lenny Briscoe and Princess Celestia." Why does this work? How does this work?
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(Also because Lenny admitted he loved ponies in the 2002 episode "Tragedy on Rye")
I figure I'll further enhance this guide here with videos of how the heroes play, starting with the one I'm beginning to become synonymous with, Rarity:
It isn't 100% quality work, and I bet there are some spy flubs that if Tavy or Albert saw this, they would choke me, but 26 dead souls (22 of which are counted as backstabs), and winning the round, especially versus Paragon, a known hero killer, as well as Toki, RedM00N, Charibasa, and Tornado, good players in their own right, seemed like it was good enough to post here for tutorial purposes. Later on I'll see about making videos on the other heroes, probably Fluttershy or Rainbow Dash next, but of course you'll never see a Twilight video from me, since she's a soldier-based hero, and I don't play soldier for any reason, ever (That also means by default no Trixie either from me, since I'd have to play Twili to get her).
"Never trust anyone offering to 'do you a solid.' They may just want to take a dump on your table."
- Me
"Love and Tolerance" isn't really what bronies like us believe. It was just meant for pissing off trolls.
Genuine love and tolerance is a large reason I became a Brony. I still accept you, but as for your logic, in the immortal words of Twilight, "I don't get it."
My Gameme stats:
Spoiler
<- Normal
<- Heroes
That OC I've finally done an art of and posted, but still need to clean up in Adobe!!
Spoiler
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My Pony OC. I finally got around to designing one, and this is a placeholder until I can get around to completing the digital clean-up of my pencil art. Her name is Kagehoshi Akiko. Her backstory can be found in the OC Master Thread, along with my other 11 OC's.
- BONUS - You can now find even more OC's of mine listed here, and I'm working on drawing them even now!!
And now a public service announcement from the New Lunar Republic Anti-Drug Coalition...
Spoiler
This is your pony.
This is your pony on Lariette. Any questions?!
From "Ask Friendship is Witchcraft." Guess which one is me:
Spoiler
I give ALL the warm wet hugs...
Spoiler
If you're still here, then stick around for this bit of nonsense.
Spoiler
Spoiler
Here we have Lenny Briscoe, most badass cop ever to set foot in Dohv Wolf's 27th Precinct, didn't believe in marriage, coincidences, and OWNED Law & Order for 11 seasons, who met...
Spoiler
...Olivia Benson in 1999, in the case that spurred the pilot of Law & Order: SVU, who then met a spunky lawyer with a British accent in Season 10 of SVU, even working together to shut down a corrupt judge sending teens away on trumped-up charges in the episode "Crush," by the name of...
Spoiler
...Miranda Pond (yes, that's her name), who we all know is just...
Spoiler
"Hello boys."
...River Song, gallivanting around 21st Century New York again, and although she is now the wife of the 11th incarnation of this figure, she originally (from his, and our frame of temporal reference) met this incarnation of this legendary figure...
Spoiler
...the Doctor, the legendary Time Lord himself, for whom fans of colorful equines have linked to this time-keeping figure...
Spoiler
...Doctor Whooves, or as he is officially known as, "Time Turner," a peculiar brown Earth Pony believed to be the official clock maker and time keeper of Ponyville, a quaint village a scant few clicks southwest of the capital of her homeland, Canterlot, where dwells...
Spoiler
...Princess Celestia, the greatest troll the multiverse has ever seen, and also does not believe in coincidences.
Therefore, using a cyclical principal, some abstract philosophy, and wee bit of fuzzy logic, one could ultimately argue that Lenny Briscoe = Princess Celestia and Princess Celestia = Lenny Briscoe. There you have it, the "Six Degrees of Separation of Lenny Briscoe and Princess Celestia." Why does this work? How does this work?
Spoiler
(Also because Lenny admitted he loved ponies in the 2002 episode "Tragedy on Rye")
After seeing the video, I think there are a few things you could add to the Rarity guide:
Circle-strafing is key to STAB ALL THE THINGS... successfully. Remember that the backstab detection is the player's entire backside, all 180 degrees. Adding that with Rarity's speed, sidestabs can help take down those tougher yet slower targets.
As with any Spy, Rarity excels in ambushing. Rarity can help her team when two pushes collide by taking out dangerous targets and then escaping safely to her team's side of the push when her health is low.
Her speed and small size makes it easier for her to do more advanced Spy techniques like stair-stabbing.
Even if Rarity cannot get too many targets for one reason or another, she can cause paranoia to the enemy team. A distracted team is a team easier to take out.
I hope these help your Rarity guide, since Rarity is one of your favorites.
Well, I finally made a guide for Rainbow Dash, and also have an advanced video for Rarity I've decided to replace my original tutorial with, and make the definitive example of rice ball play.
EDIT: Paragon convinced me to do a third render of the Rarity video, and there it is!!
Well, anyways, here they are:
Edited by Lord Nanfoodle, 22 November 2012 - 09:26 AM.
"Never trust anyone offering to 'do you a solid.' They may just want to take a dump on your table."
- Me
"Love and Tolerance" isn't really what bronies like us believe. It was just meant for pissing off trolls.
Genuine love and tolerance is a large reason I became a Brony. I still accept you, but as for your logic, in the immortal words of Twilight, "I don't get it."
My Gameme stats:
Spoiler
<- Normal
<- Heroes
That OC I've finally done an art of and posted, but still need to clean up in Adobe!!
Spoiler
Spoiler
My Pony OC. I finally got around to designing one, and this is a placeholder until I can get around to completing the digital clean-up of my pencil art. Her name is Kagehoshi Akiko. Her backstory can be found in the OC Master Thread, along with my other 11 OC's.
- BONUS - You can now find even more OC's of mine listed here, and I'm working on drawing them even now!!
And now a public service announcement from the New Lunar Republic Anti-Drug Coalition...
Spoiler
This is your pony.
This is your pony on Lariette. Any questions?!
From "Ask Friendship is Witchcraft." Guess which one is me:
Spoiler
I give ALL the warm wet hugs...
Spoiler
If you're still here, then stick around for this bit of nonsense.
Spoiler
Spoiler
Here we have Lenny Briscoe, most badass cop ever to set foot in Dohv Wolf's 27th Precinct, didn't believe in marriage, coincidences, and OWNED Law & Order for 11 seasons, who met...
Spoiler
...Olivia Benson in 1999, in the case that spurred the pilot of Law & Order: SVU, who then met a spunky lawyer with a British accent in Season 10 of SVU, even working together to shut down a corrupt judge sending teens away on trumped-up charges in the episode "Crush," by the name of...
Spoiler
...Miranda Pond (yes, that's her name), who we all know is just...
Spoiler
"Hello boys."
...River Song, gallivanting around 21st Century New York again, and although she is now the wife of the 11th incarnation of this figure, she originally (from his, and our frame of temporal reference) met this incarnation of this legendary figure...
Spoiler
...the Doctor, the legendary Time Lord himself, for whom fans of colorful equines have linked to this time-keeping figure...
Spoiler
...Doctor Whooves, or as he is officially known as, "Time Turner," a peculiar brown Earth Pony believed to be the official clock maker and time keeper of Ponyville, a quaint village a scant few clicks southwest of the capital of her homeland, Canterlot, where dwells...
Spoiler
...Princess Celestia, the greatest troll the multiverse has ever seen, and also does not believe in coincidences.
Therefore, using a cyclical principal, some abstract philosophy, and wee bit of fuzzy logic, one could ultimately argue that Lenny Briscoe = Princess Celestia and Princess Celestia = Lenny Briscoe. There you have it, the "Six Degrees of Separation of Lenny Briscoe and Princess Celestia." Why does this work? How does this work?
Spoiler
(Also because Lenny admitted he loved ponies in the 2002 episode "Tragedy on Rye")
If I might add a few Rarity tips:
Use your cloak. A LOT. Rarity has the Saharan Spy decloak noise reduction. In addition, I believe she also gets more cloak restocked on pick-up of weapons/ammo crates. Use this to your advantage when Engineers try to camp a point or intel. After you take them out, it's likely they will return, assuming you've moved on to other targets. Level three sentries are often the toughest defense, ESPECIALLY if they decide to build more than one. Memorize the ammo spawn points on the map, and circle the chokepoints, picking up the ammo boxes to stay invisible so you can keep an eye on the area without enemies keeping an eye on you. Uncloak behind anyone who leaves the area and backstab them, and immediately recloak. The Saharan Spy buff prevents them from hearing you, and you can recharge your cloak through their dropped weapons.
Also, something for Rainbow Dash:
The more you jump, the more gravity will pull you down. If you're still practicing with RD, land every now and then to prevent gravity from pulling you down instantaneously, leaving you disoriented and knocking off a chunk of your health. It's already been covered that you should practice with your sandman in the air, but you can also use the gravity build-up to your advantage by getting a quick drop on your opponent. Hitting them from above grants you additional stun time, due to the fact that additional height counts as additional distance. Still, Natascha heavies could always stand to be stunned a little longer, but if you can't stun them longer, get to them quicker by flying around constantly to fall faster. Maybe shaving those few seconds off your descent doesn't actually help that much... but it sure feels like it does to me. I'd advise testing this out before adding strategic quick-drops to the guide. And maybe try landing on top of the targets instead of next to them, so you could skip the melees and just goomba stomp them. I have yet to try quick-drop goomba stomping because the idea only just now occurred to me, but it seems like a good idea in theory.
Even though I'm not sure quick-drops help and I'm unsure if doing so purposefully should be added to the list, the fact that it occurs at all should probably still be posted. I was very confused the first few times I played RD only to instantly drop out of the sky. I thought it was a glitch.
And some tips for non-hero players:
We all know Natascha helps take down heroes, but there are other weapons too. Pyro airblast and Scout's FaN are prime examples of impeding the hero and increasing your survivability. But don't just increase your own survivability! Find someone who's well-suited for taking on objectives, and keep them alive! I don't recommend using the FaN to take down an engie nest, but the sticky launcher isn't as easy to thwart a hero's rush. But sticking together and assisting each other works similarly to heavy-medic in pubs:one acts as the offensive power, the other keeps them alive. Heavy-medic doesn't work to the same degree on targets with 1000+ health, so think outside the box!
One last thing, Twilight Sparkle's special and ultimate are not currently listed.
Well, I finally made a guide for Rainbow Dash, and also have an advanced video for Rarity I've decided to replace my original tutorial with, and make the definitive example of rice ball play.
EDIT: Paragon convinced me to do a third render of the Rarity video, and there it is!!
Well, anyways, here they are:
The insane amount of twitching in the video... it's absurd!
It's all part of the Rice Ball gameplay, maybe... I'll give the twitchy thing a shot the next time I get to playing with Rarity...
And, what "I suck at this game said" is true, I noticed when spectating rarity, on the bottom right corner, shows the weapons and it's stats: Reduced Decloak Noise... Intriguing Needs testing for me to believe though... lemme try decloaking right behind him...
That's why I have mentors...
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Heavy:
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Kirilloid57
Demoman:
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Tavy
Scout:
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Tavy (MGE) Mute (demos and such)
Trading:
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Bunglar Destroyer of Worlds
More to come... I've learned so much from pubs, now it's time to move on to bigger fish: MGE!