At first my friends and I thought it was funny when attacks didn't work on her, then we were silent in horror when she basically committed war crimes with a friendly smile.
This is well said and obvious, yet i never considered it at all. Well done, now I am forced to imagine maple as the galaxy level threat Kirby is: Adorable nightmare fuel
I think the only thing that would make that combo worst is for her to somehow replace the poison breath with poison insects, which she will somehow unlock from a random dungeon. The floor is covered in poison insects, and you have just been paralysed and cannot escape from the creepy and disgusting poison insects. Easy trauma.
to defeat Maple you need high poison resistance, high paralyzing resistance, penetrating attacks (all of your attacks) and an entire army who also have all of this abilities, no low heal potion needed because she is practically at dark souls level.
"High Poison resistance" Venom Incantation: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT? Venom Incantation grants a instant death effect to poison attacks and the IK can still trigger regardless of whether or not you have poison immunity
If this game was featured on GameFAQS, this would be the advice given for taking on Maple. *Tips on Fighting Maple* DON'T FIGHT MAPLE. JUST DON'T. IF YOU SEE MAPLE, RUN. IF SHE SEES YOU, *YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD*
just a side note most games penetrating attacks you still need to be able to hit a threshold of the damage before they actually do damage that they need is defense rating attacks (Higher the opponents defense more damage it does) that would be her #1 weakness
*First event* What the developers expect: A fun battle royale with each player trying their best to take down as many enemies as possible What they get: A boss raid where all players teamed up to beat one single boss monster
I'd like to point out she only came in 3rd here... although she might've snaked 2nd if she'd used Paralyzing Shout *before* Deadly Breath rather than after
@@EricSwordswinger I mean that's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is she came in 3rd without moving away from her starting position. That's more impressive, even if it was basically everyone feeding her.
I actually wanna confirm how many war crimes she commited during this event... lets see... war crime 1: attacking a downed opponent, The aggressor mustn't attack a downed opponent or a surrendering foe war crime 2 (and also another war crime but its also associated with war crime 2): use of chemical weapons to harm the opposing force, also the use of chemicals to harm downed opponents war crime 3: genocide war crime 4: (since some of em had companions) the use of bio-material (animals/plants) in warfare war crime 5: (technically maple didn't commit this one but eh): under-aged drafts war crime 6: holding no restraint to the opposing forces although most of them were retreating war crime 7 (which is associated with war crime 2): the use of harmful gases to harm the masses war crime 8: no consideration to preserve the surrounding area war crime 9: no recollection of events and ignorance of the Geneva convention (this is just a joke, well kinda lol, if maple was in an actual war those would be the rules she violated. this is a game and an anime, these rules do not apply)
Boss event for each event: 1st - none... It just a Royal Battle 2nd - Silverwing, Sea Emperor and Earth Dragon... Supposedly design undefeatable yet still got kill by Maple and Sally 3rd - The Archdemon...defeat by Maple alone by eating internally 4th - Maple... Hold the title "The Only Guild Master With No Death Until The End of Event".... 5th - Unofficially Maple - by other players.....
@@arashitendou5941 Maple vs Darkness. They stare at each other without moving an inch for 18 minutes straight, Darkness wants to honor Maple's noble determination and decides to use her strongest skill, Decoy. Maple is forced to attack because she's mentally a goblin, so she punch Darkness with the strength of a puppy. Eventually they both give up.
Pre-nerf Maple was broke as fuck. Spammable super moves, ridiculous amounts of status moves, and high enough defense she literally takes no damage from a majority of the playerbase. And every magic attack you sent her way only recharged her own reserves, forcing you into close range where she can one hit kill with her shield's absorption effect... which ALSO charges her mp reserves.
Imagine, you trained the hardest to be the strongest you can be, you've slain goblin, ogres, bears, trolls, dragons, demons! You've vanquished them all, only for your weapon to bounce harmlessly off a little girl's head and get eaten alive by that same girl. What a monster.
And the worst part is that she got those skills by playing with Usagi-chan, sleeping in open field, and eating the damn poison boss. Oh, and the build itself was born because she didn't want to feel pain. I don't know a single player who would be able to defeat her 1v1 (if we're talking about the moment of time when she get her throne). Sally? She had a lot of problems against fake Maple (web-novel stuff, was skipped in anime). Payne? He could decrease her hp to minimum just because she used a lot of her skills that day, if we're talking about full power, Payne would have like 20% for a win. Payne, literally the strongest player in the game... Mii at her own would just deplete her mana pool to do nothing. I'd say the closest to win would be actually Sally. She just need to get full resistance to poison and paralysis. And even then Maple might find some new way to fight and win.
@@SuterusuDaioh I mean that's been a basic strat in MMOs and ARPGs for a very very long time. SWTOR uses it alot for a modern example that still predates Bofuri being written by about 10 years.
Reminder: the full dive simulation they play comes with a full range of physical sensation ( hence Maple basing her build on avoiding pain) but this means that all the players she killed FELT HER KILLING THEM as if it were real. This would be especially terrible for the ones that experienced suffocation via poison gas. But hey at least shes cute when she commits war crimes.
@@GenGBby also, the Canadian military did things that got labeled as war crimes after the fact, and her namesake's leaf is displayed on the Canadian flag
More like "cute girl plays badly designed game and becomes overpowered". Nerfing her wouldn't actually be hard since she relies on high base damage,instant kills, and % based damage. Her being nearly impossible to kill is not an issue really. It's that she can do that AND do great damage, and that's soley easily fixable bad design.
with the way the math and her event skills worked out a player with a balanced build would need to be 16x her level to even have a chance of inflicting a single point of damage on her.
Also she is so innocent she actually said "I took a pounding but I liked its" and got super embarrassed because she tripped over her tounge, not the way she said it
Can we take a moment to appreciate and acknowledge how high her battle IQ is? She knew exactly what to do in that 1v100+ scenario even though she’s only played like a couple of weeks, like how she used “deadly breath” to poison everyone, and then uses “paralyzing shout” to stun them so that they can’t run away from the poison. All she really needs is faster sight, so that she could dodge unnecessary attacks, like how she let that morning star bump off her head, so that all she really needs to do is dodge and parry. Because we do know that she takes damage, but the damage is basically nothing. If she could dodge everything while using her skills, battle IQ, and shield all together, she’d genuinely be a final boss
@@greywoode5172 her agility is abysmal to the point that she walks so slow. The only time she needs to be carried is by literally carrying her on your back to travel faster lmao
They nerf her several times adding in ignore defense skills, and a few other examples. Just the whole point is Maple gets more and more outrageous as the series goes on.
Maple and Sally's pets were also considered overpowered on their own. So naturally the devs balanced them by giving _everyone_ pets and then balancing the game from that point around having them.
the shield's skill " devour " i think was her most op skill and it was unlimited use at this point an ult def skill xD even after the nerf to 10 uses per day still very good
Imagine getting Paralyzed and Poisoned at the same time. It must be one of the worst ways to die in the game. You got poisoned to death while can barely do anything.
@@MaxLeCnkerant I mean atleast there should be atleast someone has immunity. I mean if she got hydra... You know what I can't change the story and I'm not really complaining so let's leave it at that ahahaha.
Pretty sure player stats dictate how quickly they gain related skills. Super high vitality means you gain defensive and survivability skills super quick. Having zero Agility however means you probably won't acquire the Swimming skill any time soon.
if you want to get immunity of any negative status in this anime, you need to make sure that you are able to survive with that status within the duration requirement to be immune to that status, maple spams potions to get her poison immunity during her battle against Hydra and also there one character also get poison immunity while healing herself overtime after being hit by maple"s hydra during the guild battle event
@@3qraiko553 Yeah. So you're telling me that only maple had the idea (in her case she really didn't thought of it. More like she just did what she want.) and not a single player had any brains to think of that?
Her offense is behaving against the game rules. With no stats in intelligence or anything like that, her special attacks should be really weak. That is litteraly the point of having those stats. Yet everyone was completely defenseless, with no resistances or anything. When those same attacks were used against Mapple, even before she had her maxed out poison immunity, she was able to withstand them long enough to heal herself. Yet when she uses them, they suddenly work as if she is expert caster. And this theme continues with all other skills too. When she transforms, suddenly fact that she has no stats in attack/agility/mana/intelligence/dexterity does not matter at all. She is fully capable of keeping up with those who have builds oriented towards those stats, while still having her maxed out vitality on top of that. Already half of the stats in this manga/anime have no meaning. Intelligence, Dexterity and Mana do not seem to play any role at all because it does not matter how much mana you have or how high your intelligence is, if you can just ignore those stats and do insane damage simply by aquiring skills as a reward.
@@iglidor The difference in in the source of the poison, the poisons she was taking in the beginning were from a low level enemy, and thus not that effective against someone who would naturally have high hp (you have to imagine the shield class has high starting hp since they're meant to be a tank,) whereas her poison and paralysis skills are all from high level enemies like the dungeon boss, Hydra, thus highly potent even with minimal investment. This is also assuming that status ailments even scale with things like intelligence since most games just have a flat rate based on the skill, not the players stats. The transformations also offset her other issues since they're built to give a flat buff in certain stats, thus she can become strong even without investment into anything other than defense. If someone like Pain used the same transformations then he'd hit way harder, that's why both have a massive cooldown period of one day. Maple is only able to ignore mana here because her shield has devour attached to it (hence why they had to nerf the skill to have a daily limit,) and then devour converts the victims into mana crystals that Mable can use (something the anime glosses over with a brief bit of text regarding the shield, though the source material explains it better.) You also have to recognize the possibility that some of Maple's damage is likely defense based, since that's something fairly common for shield classes, sure she won't normally hit as hard as an offense build, but that's where her out of the ordinary playstyle comes into play since she naturally finds skill most players wouldn't because they require doing things most people never would (players can't even replicate her actions to acquire said skills since the devs made sure to make the most problematic ones, like Hydra, harder to acquire.) If you pay attention to what's actually going on then you'd realize that Maple's playstyle only works because she is an outlier among outliers who doesn't behave the way most gamers would and then gets to these skills before anyone else. The only one that you could argue fits with your argument is Machine Lord since she got that through a quest, though that's also assuming the quest wasn't more of a one time only thing since it also changes the area after completion (wouldn't be surprised honestly, the devs probably didn't anticipate Maple being the first to find it.) Obviously the world of the game isn't perfect, but then again, what MMO is? It's not exactly uncommon for players to find a build that trivializes everything else the player could invest in if you're willing to sacrifice certain things (like the fact that Maple is normally slow as crap, meaning that travel around town would be aggravating to most players, thus making the build rather inconvenient for your average player, regardless of the battle potential.)
@@homerman76 And that lack of traveling ability is why she never moves from this one spot during the entire event. She legit was just standing there letting everyone come to her because of the high amount of points they would get. If they avoided her and stayed away none of them would have been killed.
I must agree. her offense skills are great. she defeated a poisonous dragon when her best attack was to bite the enemy. not even Son Goku has ever managed to kill an enemy by eating it.
The best part is she's just playing the game how she THINKS it should be played and still breaks EVERYTHING to the point that even the strongest player who took her seriously was killed by her in-game of course but it's hilarious
I've enjoyed the two seasons of this anime so far because there's no convoluted plot like you'd see in SAO and it's not yet another copy pasted isekai, it's simply a bunch of people enjoying a VR game and having actual fun. Even the rivalries are a convenience plot for friendships which I like, sometimes you don't need a villain to tell a good story.
Let's not forget, the writer gave us in universe explanation for why the MC has plot armor... That's not something that typically gets an in universe explanation.
@@denislima28 the literal name of the anime carries the explanation. But if I must: She maxed out her defense, and did not spend a single point on other stats.
@@denislima28 The PLOT of the story, is about a girl who doesn't want to get hurt while playing a video game. Her ARMOR, is the high defense, because she chose to put everything in defense. Majority of all main characters, live to the end of the story. as a result they have METAPHORICAL PLOT ARMOR, because the plot demands them to live. Maple has LITERAL PLOT ARMOR, because her armor is literally part of the plot. Therefore: PLOT ARMOR WITH AN EXPLANATION!
@@Elmithianthat and people were getting mad they were nerfing her, like she's a dark souls boss or hardcore raid. Edit: I was mistaken, the ARMOR was from her soloing the boss, the SKILLS (both the aoe and one shot shield tap) were both gained from literally eating the boss, which dealt massive poison damage. Plus she can only use it as much as she can because of an oversight, she put them on her equipment and due to that they didn't cost mana. They likely didn't expect anyone to gain access to gear that could hold skills this early into the game's life cycle.
I just realize that 3 guys at 0:38 are reference of Black Tri-stars from original Mobile suit Gundam since they share similar face and use Jetstream attack
Bruh watching her take those attacks like it was a slap of a feather makes me think that Havel the Rock would be a proud dad saying, " That's my daughter!!! I just wish she went STR and FTH build like her father instead of STR and INT." 😂lol.
Can we just focus on the fact that she had to get nerfed several times for a second lol
but everytime she gets nurfed maple always find another op items heheheh
They keep nerfing her to the point they gave up
@@ryve17 at that point they just decided to let her have godzilla mode and mecha loli mode
And declare her the Final world boss
@@CarlosDesmithy yup if they couldn't patch her they'd hype her up as a superboss
At first my friends and I thought it was funny when attacks didn't work on her, then we were silent in horror when she basically committed war crimes with a friendly smile.
the walking war crime!
😂😂
So, Maple is just like Kirby. Indestructible cuteness that eats everything.
Yes
You beat me to it! 🤣👏💯
I love that comparison! LOL!
I already watched this and I'm now finally realizing that 🤣🤣🤣💯🤯
This is well said and obvious, yet i never considered it at all.
Well done, now I am forced to imagine maple as the galaxy level threat Kirby is: Adorable nightmare fuel
one of the most evil things shes done has gotta be her paralyzing shout and poision breath combo lmao just diabolical
I think the only thing that would make that combo worst is for her to somehow replace the poison breath with poison insects, which she will somehow unlock from a random dungeon. The floor is covered in poison insects, and you have just been paralysed and cannot escape from the creepy and disgusting poison insects. Easy trauma.
@@bowmin1 some how that seems to graphic lol but entirely on brand for her monstrous fighting style
@@bowmin1 she just uses a skill that divides her atrocity into more entities and there you go
Me if I were there: GET ME OUT OF HERE! HELP! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-
@@leandroroman7053 the word paralyzed means that your not doing that
to defeat Maple you need high poison resistance, high paralyzing resistance, penetrating attacks (all of your attacks) and an entire army who also have all of this abilities, no low heal potion needed because she is practically at dark souls level.
"High Poison resistance"
Venom Incantation: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?
Venom Incantation grants a instant death effect to poison attacks and the IK can still trigger regardless of whether or not you have poison immunity
Pretty shure even with al that her machine god for will just orbital strike you.
If this game was featured on GameFAQS, this would be the advice given for taking on Maple.
*Tips on Fighting Maple*
DON'T FIGHT MAPLE.
JUST DON'T.
IF YOU SEE MAPLE, RUN.
IF SHE SEES YOU, *YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD*
@@theoddronin1 in an event or pvp area
Otherwise you are perfectly fine and can have the latter two occur
just a side note most games penetrating attacks you still need to be able to hit a threshold of the damage before they actually do damage that they need is defense rating attacks (Higher the opponents defense more damage it does) that would be her #1 weakness
Maple: I took a pounding but I liked it.
R34: write that down write that down
please let no one else like this comment its a r34 comment with 69 likes
it's perfection
@@darktrinity9897 nice
"Um, uh... I took a pounding but I liked its."
Me: Oh no Maple, don't turn into another Darkness... Stay cute and innocent!
*First event*
What the developers expect:
A fun battle royale with each player trying their best to take down as many enemies as possible
What they get:
A boss raid where all players teamed up to beat one single boss monster
and failed
I'd like to point out she only came in 3rd here... although she might've snaked 2nd if she'd used Paralyzing Shout *before* Deadly Breath rather than after
@@EricSwordswinger I mean that's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is she came in 3rd without moving away from her starting position. That's more impressive, even if it was basically everyone feeding her.
theres also a scene in this anime where the devs joke that they should make Maple the final boss i believe
@@Zulfar-bd9tc recreating the Nazca Lines is more important than rising in the ranks, after all
Everyone: “I have no idea why she didn’t take any damage, but she’s so cute it doesn’t bother me.”
Maple is playing farming simulator while the other is playing dark souls
Maple Mobile Warcrime unit
Interesting how she broke several Geneva conventions all in one ep
you can't break it if it doesn't exist...
It's not a warcrime if it's not wartime. (Cite random dude on Reddit)
I actually wanna confirm how many war crimes she commited during this event... lets see...
war crime 1: attacking a downed opponent, The aggressor mustn't attack a downed opponent or a surrendering foe
war crime 2 (and also another war crime but its also associated with war crime 2): use of chemical weapons to harm the opposing force, also the use of chemicals to harm downed opponents
war crime 3: genocide
war crime 4: (since some of em had companions) the use of bio-material (animals/plants) in warfare
war crime 5: (technically maple didn't commit this one but eh): under-aged drafts
war crime 6: holding no restraint to the opposing forces although most of them were retreating
war crime 7 (which is associated with war crime 2): the use of harmful gases to harm the masses
war crime 8: no consideration to preserve the surrounding area
war crime 9: no recollection of events and ignorance of the Geneva convention
(this is just a joke, well kinda lol, if maple was in an actual war those would be the rules she violated. this is a game and an anime, these rules do not apply)
@@justsomemustachewithoutaguy- yeah but. Look at her smile. She needs to be protected...
@@aronnemcsik oh yea that too, she's to cute to be legal for war, and another for war crime bingo lol
Boss event for each event:
1st - none... It just a Royal Battle
2nd - Silverwing, Sea Emperor and Earth Dragon... Supposedly design undefeatable yet still got kill by Maple and Sally
3rd - The Archdemon...defeat by Maple alone by eating internally
4th - Maple... Hold the title "The Only Guild Master With No Death Until The End of Event"....
5th - Unofficially Maple - by other players.....
"My nations war criminal can't be this cute"
Maple the "Moving Fortress"
Evolution: "Flying evolution"
2nd Evolution: "Cannot be stated"
Giant Regenerating Behemoth of a mama.
Bad enough to release poison gas, she then had to paralyze ESCAPING players and let them die in the gas! ♡
a sertent german is problably asking to make her his apprentisc XD
Maple has mastered the art of Griefing in an MMORPG games. a tank that has a chain stun capability and a full DOT arsenal.
"i took a pounding but i like it"
~maple
"I took a pounding but I liked it" is best line
So Darkness…..but actually competent
@@arashitendou5941 Maple vs Darkness. They stare at each other without moving an inch for 18 minutes straight, Darkness wants to honor Maple's noble determination and decides to use her strongest skill, Decoy. Maple is forced to attack because she's mentally a goblin, so she punch Darkness with the strength of a puppy. Eventually they both give up.
@@slavishentity6705 Darkness would be going hit me with everything wrap them snakes around me and squeze me
"I took a pounding but I liked its-"
You can tell she realized what she just said as she bit her tongue, but poor choice of words there Maple.
Pre-nerf Maple was broke as fuck. Spammable super moves, ridiculous amounts of status moves, and high enough defense she literally takes no damage from a majority of the playerbase. And every magic attack you sent her way only recharged her own reserves, forcing you into close range where she can one hit kill with her shield's absorption effect... which ALSO charges her mp reserves.
There was only 1 effective strategy against pre-nerf maple, stay far away. She has 0 agility and would never catch up to you.
@@JEL625 i have a better one. its called the log off function. she'll never get you that way
@@JEL625 even that wouldn't work cause of her Aoe skills.
This is like Trying to defeat a blackhole by giving it more mass.
@@JEL625 paralyzing shout + Hydra spam. She's immune to poison damage so she could conceivably just fill entire areas with poison and call it a day.
"A shield can't be used as a weapon"
Maple's devour: Observe.
Captain America: ARE YOU SO SURE ABOUT THAT?
@@theoddronin1 Naofumi: allow us to introduce ourselves
Seriously, I hate that saying. These people clearly haven't done their research.
Mapple to everyone: I'm new, please don't be to hard on me
Everyone to Mapple: A cute demon lord
Deadly Breath + Paralyzing Shot. Also known as _the war-crime combo._
Yeah, it is almost like VX nerve gas...
Almost.
Dr Antrax (C&C General): is she one of my People?
@@target4all766 its even more funny considering its 2022
Actually paralyzing shout+deadly breath is better is because I don't see anyone moving outside deadly breath AOE after paralyzing shout is used
Local armor girl commits chemical weapon war-crimes.
Imagine, you trained the hardest to be the strongest you can be, you've slain goblin, ogres, bears, trolls, dragons, demons! You've vanquished them all, only for your weapon to bounce harmlessly off a little girl's head and get eaten alive by that same girl. What a monster.
She's not gonna die anytime soon
And the worst part is that she got those skills by playing with Usagi-chan, sleeping in open field, and eating the damn poison boss. Oh, and the build itself was born because she didn't want to feel pain. I don't know a single player who would be able to defeat her 1v1 (if we're talking about the moment of time when she get her throne). Sally? She had a lot of problems against fake Maple (web-novel stuff, was skipped in anime). Payne? He could decrease her hp to minimum just because she used a lot of her skills that day, if we're talking about full power, Payne would have like 20% for a win. Payne, literally the strongest player in the game... Mii at her own would just deplete her mana pool to do nothing.
I'd say the closest to win would be actually Sally. She just need to get full resistance to poison and paralysis. And even then Maple might find some new way to fight and win.
When you're too precious to fight but too OP at the same time lmao 🤣
Everyone: RUN AWAY!!!
Maple: Oh I don't think so
Ah yes, one of my favorite parts of the show. Mass paralyze and poison, a slow death, basically a war crime.
Funny thing at the end of the seasons all guilds ask for poison and paralisis resistance for new members. I dont know why XD
Forget her defense, she's kinda merciless letting that poison out her shield and paralyzing shout to make sure they die.
Makes all the funnier when you realise she can't move very fast and ends up using "Defend Teammate" ability as a Movement skill.
@@SuterusuDaioh I mean that's been a basic strat in MMOs and ARPGs for a very very long time. SWTOR uses it alot for a modern example that still predates Bofuri being written by about 10 years.
1:52. Thats how war crimes are commited lol
yea but it was committed in such a cute way she would be found not guilty.
@@lordmech That makes it all the better
I wanna be friends with her. Be chill, go places, devour people with her shield, poison people, stun people… Good times.
"I took a pounding but I like this"
I really hate my brain right now.
She took a pounding and liked it.... Everyone went from hating her to loving her... Of course.... lol
you rly making me wanna watch the entire thing all over again.
Samee
I'm already gonna watch it. first thing tomorrow, bing watching this show again. ^_^
@@AragonBattleBorn I've finished rewatching it now, so goooood
Everyone attacks*
Maple:shield...
Someone hits her with a morning star...
Maple:huh?...
Guy with an axe hits her*
Maple: it doesn't work, sorry...
Maple is the cutest final boss ever known to mankind.
Maple:*enters hydra's cave*
Hydra: why do i hear boss music?
@@Waffle280 More like -
New players: why is boss music suddenly playing here in town?
Veteran players: Hm, Maple just logged in.
nobody gonna talk how great her drawing is, also her sand castle
Bonker: *does a massive metal ball bonk*
Maple: huh?
Imagine realizing that you're out of your league, so you go to run away but the boss paralyzes you so you just have to sit in the poison miasma.
You pretty much described Monster Hunter tho.
Their fault for getting in way over their head imo
@@HazeEmry Oh 100% You dig your grave, you lie in it. Of the top three, I think they chose right person to kill them though
A super tank that cripples you with constant status ailments. If that ain't a boss fight character, I don't know what is.
She's straight up one shotting people and taking zero damage, its a raid boss for sure.
Reminder: the full dive simulation they play comes with a full range of physical sensation ( hence Maple basing her build on avoiding pain) but this means that all the players she killed FELT HER KILLING THEM as if it were real. This would be especially terrible for the ones that experienced suffocation via poison gas. But hey at least shes cute when she commits war crimes.
Just remember: It's not a war crime the first time!
@@GenGBby also, the Canadian military did things that got labeled as war crimes after the fact, and her namesake's leaf is displayed on the Canadian flag
Maple out here casually commiting war crimes
And with a cute smile.😂
There's one thing that's more powerful than her defense and that's her cuteness
it's probably hard for any guy not to take that the wrong way:
"I took a pounding but I liked it"
🥵
The man attack her with full force using an axe
*"im sorry, that didn't work"* and then she touched the man gently with her sweet smile
Maple uses the Geneva convention as a strategy guide
lmao, I've always said that maple is a walking warcrime
pfft OMG i almost fell out of my chair, she turned it into the Geneva suggestion
@@Dr.McstabyGeneva Instructions
Geneva suggestion
I love this anime and light novel.
Maple is a legend.
How would you describe Bofuri to a friend?
The game masters try, miserably and continously fail to nerf Maple
so like me during my first sessions as gm.
I would just say, "there's a cute girl playing a Sword Art Online type of game. Her main weapon is a shield."
lets be real they gave up after attempt #2 and made her the last boss
More like "cute girl plays badly designed game and becomes overpowered". Nerfing her wouldn't actually be hard since she relies on high base damage,instant kills, and % based damage. Her being nearly impossible to kill is not an issue really. It's that she can do that AND do great damage, and that's soley easily fixable bad design.
1:43 loli war crimes are so cute
isn't she the cutest little war criminal
with the way the math and her event skills worked out a player with a balanced build would need to be 16x her level to even have a chance of inflicting a single point of damage on her.
when you attack the enemy and a series of
-0
-1
-0
you know its gonna take a week to grind it down
@@airiakizuki5592 😂
@@airiakizuki5592 For me, it would be like :
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1! (Critical hit)
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Also she is so innocent she actually said "I took a pounding but I liked its" and got super embarrassed because she tripped over her tounge, not the way she said it
My War Criminal Couldn't Possibly Be This Cute!
she took a Pounding and Liked it!
Nein, Non, Nai, No.
THIS. you know that the official (Funimation) re-edited this with "It was tough but I'm hoppy." _REALLY_I?
Maple she's not even paid any money for item but a Top player. What a game
noone is cuter while completely ignoring the genever conventions
i took a pounding but i liked it
-Some girl in a VR game
At this point the only one that can actually defeat maple is maple herself
Can we take a moment to appreciate and acknowledge how high her battle IQ is? She knew exactly what to do in that 1v100+ scenario even though she’s only played like a couple of weeks, like how she used “deadly breath” to poison everyone, and then uses “paralyzing shout” to stun them so that they can’t run away from the poison. All she really needs is faster sight, so that she could dodge unnecessary attacks, like how she let that morning star bump off her head, so that all she really needs to do is dodge and parry. Because we do know that she takes damage, but the damage is basically nothing. If she could dodge everything while using her skills, battle IQ, and shield all together, she’d genuinely be a final boss
dodging requires agility... something she herself states she has nothing put into
@@greywoode5172 her agility is abysmal to the point that she walks so slow. The only time she needs to be carried is by literally carrying her on your back to travel faster lmao
@@johns5641 yep
not even a hacker could defeat maple
I love how the developer's are pro-active in this series. They saw how bullshit our main protag's skill was and nerfed it right away.
and in the meantime make it worse with every single thing they do
They nerf her several times adding in ignore defense skills, and a few other examples. Just the whole point is Maple gets more and more outrageous as the series goes on.
@@shadeling6717 And then they just give up and use her as promotional device
@@skell6134 Which was the best decision they ever made.
Maple and Sally's pets were also considered overpowered on their own. So naturally the devs balanced them by giving _everyone_ pets and then balancing the game from that point around having them.
The Devs after they start the event: Why is there boss music? It's a battle royal there shouldn't be any boss music!
the shield's skill " devour " i think was her most op skill and it was unlimited use at this point an ult def skill xD
even after the nerf to 10 uses per day still very good
Basically Avada Kedavra but in close range
Is nobody going to talk about the Gundam reference!? They were the Black Tri Stars!
That was awesome
The moment Devs accidentally dragged a hidden boss on pvp event
And just like that, Maple became one of the games most cutest and popular players.
So Hoppy!!
Imagine getting Paralyzed and Poisoned at the same time. It must be one of the worst ways to die in the game. You got poisoned to death while can barely do anything.
If you added some gold steal to it, you'd probably rage quit.
@@nujevad28 I doubt that kind of skill exist in PVP. But, yeah...
You think that's bad? Try minding your business eating then suddenly a flying turtle rain acid on you with a slow death
@@claresaprama499 I could see a mana drain combo with it to be just the icing on top.
@@nujevad28 why
Maple PVP War crimes 1:08
its not a warcrime the first time
I like how not a single person who got paralyzed don't have any immunity at all.
I think immunity only comes with damage in this rpg
@@MaxLeCnkerant I mean atleast there should be atleast someone has immunity. I mean if she got hydra... You know what I can't change the story and I'm not really complaining so let's leave it at that ahahaha.
Pretty sure player stats dictate how quickly they gain related skills. Super high vitality means you gain defensive and survivability skills super quick. Having zero Agility however means you probably won't acquire the Swimming skill any time soon.
if you want to get immunity of any negative status in this anime, you need to make sure that you are able to survive with that status within the duration requirement to be immune to that status, maple spams potions to get her poison immunity during her battle against Hydra and also there one character also get poison immunity while healing herself overtime after being hit by maple"s hydra during the guild battle event
@@3qraiko553 Yeah. So you're telling me that only maple had the idea (in her case she really didn't thought of it. More like she just did what she want.) and not a single player had any brains to think of that?
"I took a pounding but I liked it."
phrasing
I can’t read that NOT in Archer’s voice
You gotta love how persistent they were to defeat her for her points.
Until you realise they were secret supporters feeding their queen.
@@leonm8906
R-Reverse stream sniping?!
Plot twist: Maple was the inspiration for Pekora.
1:00 She got BONK xD
She's bonkproof.
Bonk dog: finally, a worthy opponent
It was not very effective...
Her offense is actually pretty good too if you think about it...
Not really... She just uses status and counters in this one event...
Her offense is behaving against the game rules. With no stats in intelligence or anything like that, her special attacks should be really weak. That is litteraly the point of having those stats. Yet everyone was completely defenseless, with no resistances or anything.
When those same attacks were used against Mapple, even before she had her maxed out poison immunity, she was able to withstand them long enough to heal herself. Yet when she uses them, they suddenly work as if she is expert caster.
And this theme continues with all other skills too. When she transforms, suddenly fact that she has no stats in attack/agility/mana/intelligence/dexterity does not matter at all. She is fully capable of keeping up with those who have builds oriented towards those stats, while still having her maxed out vitality on top of that.
Already half of the stats in this manga/anime have no meaning. Intelligence, Dexterity and Mana do not seem to play any role at all because it does not matter how much mana you have or how high your intelligence is, if you can just ignore those stats and do insane damage simply by aquiring skills as a reward.
@@iglidor The difference in in the source of the poison, the poisons she was taking in the beginning were from a low level enemy, and thus not that effective against someone who would naturally have high hp (you have to imagine the shield class has high starting hp since they're meant to be a tank,) whereas her poison and paralysis skills are all from high level enemies like the dungeon boss, Hydra, thus highly potent even with minimal investment. This is also assuming that status ailments even scale with things like intelligence since most games just have a flat rate based on the skill, not the players stats. The transformations also offset her other issues since they're built to give a flat buff in certain stats, thus she can become strong even without investment into anything other than defense. If someone like Pain used the same transformations then he'd hit way harder, that's why both have a massive cooldown period of one day. Maple is only able to ignore mana here because her shield has devour attached to it (hence why they had to nerf the skill to have a daily limit,) and then devour converts the victims into mana crystals that Mable can use (something the anime glosses over with a brief bit of text regarding the shield, though the source material explains it better.) You also have to recognize the possibility that some of Maple's damage is likely defense based, since that's something fairly common for shield classes, sure she won't normally hit as hard as an offense build, but that's where her out of the ordinary playstyle comes into play since she naturally finds skill most players wouldn't because they require doing things most people never would (players can't even replicate her actions to acquire said skills since the devs made sure to make the most problematic ones, like Hydra, harder to acquire.) If you pay attention to what's actually going on then you'd realize that Maple's playstyle only works because she is an outlier among outliers who doesn't behave the way most gamers would and then gets to these skills before anyone else. The only one that you could argue fits with your argument is Machine Lord since she got that through a quest, though that's also assuming the quest wasn't more of a one time only thing since it also changes the area after completion (wouldn't be surprised honestly, the devs probably didn't anticipate Maple being the first to find it.) Obviously the world of the game isn't perfect, but then again, what MMO is? It's not exactly uncommon for players to find a build that trivializes everything else the player could invest in if you're willing to sacrifice certain things (like the fact that Maple is normally slow as crap, meaning that travel around town would be aggravating to most players, thus making the build rather inconvenient for your average player, regardless of the battle potential.)
@@homerman76 And that lack of traveling ability is why she never moves from this one spot during the entire event. She legit was just standing there letting everyone come to her because of the high amount of points they would get. If they avoided her and stayed away none of them would have been killed.
I must agree. her offense skills are great.
she defeated a poisonous dragon when her best attack was to bite the enemy.
not even Son Goku has ever managed to kill an enemy by eating it.
0:32 - the scream. LMAO 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Let's be honest it's not the there top ranked players but actually two players and a special hidden boss
Yup that checks out 🤣
Wont lie, if I was a contestant and died to that, I would wouldn't even be angry. 😅
Our war criminal can't be this cute UwU
The best part is she's just playing the game how she THINKS it should be played and still breaks EVERYTHING to the point that even the strongest player who took her seriously was killed by her in-game of course but it's hilarious
@@MDKGunner yep
sasuga peko
Maple earned the title"Invinsible loli"
Do you mean invincible?
@@RTSTG62 i read their comment as invisible lmao and got so confused
"i took a pounding but i liked it"
take a pounding when all attacks against her just bounce off...........................................
Hentai artists: Write that down, write that down
Maple: *Okay, first... I was minding my own business.*
_slams table_ BULLSHIT!
*I waaas...!*
The why boňier: und I unzastood zat reference
So there I was on the castle roof chillaxing like a BALLER...and then these schmucks ran in!
I've enjoyed the two seasons of this anime so far because there's no convoluted plot like you'd see in SAO and it's not yet another copy pasted isekai, it's simply a bunch of people enjoying a VR game and having actual fun. Even the rivalries are a convenience plot for friendships which I like, sometimes you don't need a villain to tell a good story.
Let's not forget, the writer gave us in universe explanation for why the MC has plot armor... That's not something that typically gets an in universe explanation.
@@deathsheir2035, what was the explanation?
@@denislima28 the literal name of the anime carries the explanation. But if I must: She maxed out her defense, and did not spend a single point on other stats.
@@deathsheir2035, I was asking about the plot armor.
Maple putting everything in defense is not plot armor, it's a choice.
@@denislima28 The PLOT of the story, is about a girl who doesn't want to get hurt while playing a video game. Her ARMOR, is the high defense, because she chose to put everything in defense.
Majority of all main characters, live to the end of the story. as a result they have METAPHORICAL PLOT ARMOR, because the plot demands them to live.
Maple has LITERAL PLOT ARMOR, because her armor is literally part of the plot.
Therefore: PLOT ARMOR WITH AN EXPLANATION!
Now imagine if the devs HADN'T patched Hydra's Shield and Maple could still do *this* 0:54 unimpeded.
In the end they all just gave up. XD
@@josephsuh525 Made her a Boss they did. Since no other path for fairness was possible.
@@Elmithianthat and people were getting mad they were nerfing her, like she's a dark souls boss or hardcore raid.
Edit: I was mistaken, the ARMOR was from her soloing the boss, the SKILLS (both the aoe and one shot shield tap) were both gained from literally eating the boss, which dealt massive poison damage. Plus she can only use it as much as she can because of an oversight, she put them on her equipment and due to that they didn't cost mana. They likely didn't expect anyone to gain access to gear that could hold skills this early into the game's life cycle.
It's her cuteness that increases her defense. That's Maple's secret weapon.
Maple being precious
Maple the walking war crime.
Maple irl name is kaede, her full name is honjou kaede and her seiyuu is hondou kaede XD the author really a big fan of this seiyuu
That's adorable. I love that the author was able to get her as Maple's va!
There's no way my loli committed that many war crimes, the animation
It's never a war crime, the first time
@@XMorbidReignX there is never a first time forgiven clause for war crimes
I think your talking about youjo senki
@@randompersonontheinternet6567 wasn't my intention, but sure
This is the type of anime that i never bored watch over again and again and again
i wanna play a game like that cuz you would just be playing with no danger having fun with your guild
I can't have been the only one who died of laughter when she was hit with a morningstar to the head and barely reacted LOL
HAHAH she is insanely powerful and cute..
I just realize that 3 guys at 0:38 are reference of Black Tri-stars from original Mobile suit Gundam since they share similar face and use Jetstream attack
Gaia, Mash, and Ortega
at that point she basically become the game mascot lmao
Maple : I took a pounding but I liked it ....
What kind of pounding are we talking about? 😆
If she turns evil, we're all f***ed. 😳😆
then thank good that its just a game
Bruh watching her take those attacks like it was a slap of a feather makes me think that Havel the Rock would be a proud dad saying, " That's my daughter!!! I just wish she went STR and FTH build like her father instead of STR and INT." 😂lol.
Nobody:
Her: I took a pounding and I liked it
I had the same reaction as the players when that Morningstar bounced off her head. 😂
This anime captures with its sweetness and naturally the way Maple plays