(May. 08, 2021 6:03 PM)i\m batman Wrote: (May. 08, 2021 5:37 PM)The Blacknight Wrote: Never said he wasn’t. The other dude was saying aiga and Lui wasn’t plot armor. And since bell is 11(I think), and the beginning of burst was like 5 years before current events, and lui became world champ before the beginning of the anime, I’m fairly sure lui has the edge in experience. To be fair, bell has better tech, but lui got obliterated. Bell is barely on the world scene but has a decent rep, which means we can assume he got his bey between the gt-sparking timeskip or during the events of sparking. That’s generous, as aiga and drum got international recognition pretty early on. If he’s so op, you’d think he’d be one of the legends if he started blading during gt, right? One more thing. I’m sure the WBBA has rules set on how good a bey can be. Since sparking beys body GT beys, and db beys obliterate sparking beys, bell would have to have created his bey by sparking to comply with regulations. Even underground organizations like the snake pit, and whatever Kurt, phi, and Arthur’s things are, don’t have anything past the newest system. And even if bell started to battle in places with zero regulations, a ton of beys with like knives coming out of them would have ended him.
I'll agree with you on the first point, Aiga vs Lui was plot armor. Lui being more experienced than Bell, well the same can be said for Valt vs Lui. Valt didn't even have the fundamentals down before S1, so a few months of experience, versus Lui with 4 national championship victories, and Lui would have most definitely lost if not for the crack. Valt vs Free counts too, as Vtryuga mentioned. No one calls this stupid and rightly so imo. While beating a champion with mere days of experience could be seen as plot armor, past a certain period of time, experience takes a backseat compared to things like ingenuity (like Valt) or the element of surprise (like Bell) combined with hard work. As for him not being on the world stage, from what we've seen of him (he didn't know who Valt and Lui were), he very likely doesn't care about it. If you never participate in official tournaments or otherwise make your talent known, the world won't notice it. Doesn't mean you have zero chance against the best. As for the Snake Pit and whatever Kurt, Phi and Arthur's things are, some do have beys past the newest system, specifically Phi. Remember he got Phoenix (and Hearts got Hades) when they were children. Cho-Z beys were not even used by the world level bladers until 1 or 2 years before Chozetsu. I think him defeating Lui is in no way non-sensical.
If he’s new enough not to know who valt and lui are, then that proves my point even more. You don’t play soccer if you don’t know who, say, Pele is. There are some people that you should know. Valt has been holding the title for, well, forever. It doesn’t matter if you play or not. Looking at how popular beyblade is in that universe, valt is practically a legend. If you even know what a spinning top is, you know valt.
For phi and hearts, In the words of batman:
I’m rich
Srsly tho that’s sorta valid. But then again;
They’re rich
For you other point, valt has plot armor. Granted, not a lot, but enough.
Ik I didn’t elaborate too much, but this is why I feel bad for lui here: yes, bell won, I don’t have too much of a
problem with that. It’s how he won that bothers me. Lui and the dude with Solomon (I feel like it was Subaru but I’m thinking about cars rn) got the exact same treatment. They lost to the same move. Lui has been degraded from the op Asian champ that plot armor couldn’t kill- 5 TIMES to cannon fodder. At least Subaru has some place in the story. Lui won’t be reintroduced like this till September right? He don’t deserve this
Also I haven’t been watching past eps 3, had finals. Not invested in the story, I don’t like it so far. The beys are cool tho
emotional DaMAgE