Talk:Battle in New York 2018/@comment-31202257-20180928032804/@comment-4802891-20180928043813

Not reading moonrunes make you miss all the effort put into those gimmicks.

Tawara is all about rice, therefore all of his gimmicks are buffs and debuffs centered around the (fabled) properties of rice cooked with other ingredients, and the demerit of eating too much. He is also very tanky, which is a trait of his character.

Leonidas is supposed to have that much defense when he summons his Spartan soldiers, that's the true power of Thermopylae Enomotia, not that ridiculous NP we are given to play with.

Izou has the ability to learn all techniques and counter those that are in the realm of the possible, hence why he has a card-based defense gimmick and buffs attached to those gimmicks (if you attack him with quick attacks, he moves faster and get in more critical hits, if you attack him with skillful attacks, he moves as skillfully to prevent deadly moves etc.). Him resisting NP isn't part of what he should be able to do though, that's even the flaw of his Shimatsuken: not being able to understand and copy secret techniques and Noble Phantasms.

The battle against the Jaguars is a testing ground for terrain buffs. It HAS to do with jaguars being way stronger in their environment, but it's a conceptual, joke-like battle. A very mean joke if you ask me...

Sheba, like Tawara with rice, is all about money and profit. Her gimmicks is to lend you "money" (skills) that you have to repay, or else you will get interest, making her "richer" (stronger), making you "poorer" (weaker). The mobsters are most likely a "mafia joke" to emphasize the "pay with your life" situation one suffer when owing money to someone influential.