Nobody came to my defense about my martial abilities, I'm hurt
hey, even adum said he couldnt do it, and he's our resident swordsman.
What?!
Nah, I said the opposite, I said I could beat DK.
What I said is that Roy would kick my ***.
I just see it (as everyone's said) that Roy would need to play -perfectly- to Kill DK the majority of the time. That said, i brought up that we dont know exactly what kind of training he had, just that he was a noble...yet we do know he was sent away for scholastic reasons, then was brought back to a war that was foght using magical abilities and simple sword animations/manuevers that also shot out beams...
The scholastic reasons included military training, as was standard for nobility during that period.
I'm sorry, but it was so crucial to their way of life that NOTHING interfered with the training.
And yes, we toss out the laser beams.
That said, no, he doesn't have to play anywhere near perfectly, he's got a good margin of error because of either time (DK will be far slower then reaction time) or distance depending on which DK model we use.
It SEEMS like it requires perfection to somebody unfamiliar with it, but the reality is that it's like smash, the small periods make the difference.
What's the difference between Falcon punch and Marth's jab? Both are less then a second, so it seems like it requires perfection to dodge both, but how many people get hit by a standing falcon punch unless they committed to something?
Not many.
That's because there's a massive margin of error, sure somebody who didn't know how to take advantage of it would still be hit by both (casual players are hit all the time), but to anyone who takes the game remotely seriously, one will hit, the other is a laughable attack.
At least Zelda has a reasonable excuse of having no backstory to speak of other than chillin' at her castle, which can be filled with weapons training, along with being trained by the sheika (thus why she's shiek). Roy has the story of being sent of to school at a presumably younger age, then being drafted into a war where he fights using cunning (vs lycans at the least) and magical sword-beams rather than pure skill. Oh, and ph1r3.
I could see any of the other swordsmen doing what you're saying Adum...but Roy doesnt really show this finess, and kinda lacks the backdrop for it (sure, he's a lord, but as Ive said like 10 times he was sent away to school, not training to be a knight, then essentially drafted)
*shrug*
You seem to be missing the point, every noble was trained in military, and heavily so. He would've gone through the process that was described there.
Why?
Because it was fundamental to the culture of the period, it was part of the agreement every noble made with his liege lord and was required in order for inheritance. If it was broken, they lost their home and land.
In other words NOTHING would interfere with his martial training unless he was literally incapable, but the family would be obligated to produce another son or lose their fief. A daughter only meant the land would go to whoever she married.
From that understanding, Zelda's training was more unlikely, however she gave direct evidence that it occurred, so she was the exception as opposed to the rule.
Roy, is the rule. He would never not be trained like this, it's quite simply totally unrealistic.
It's like a family that's ancestors came over on the Mayflower and still lives in America not teaching their kids English. It just simply wasn't done like that.
