Wahl huh? Didnt see that coming, thought for sure it'd be Invel or Brandish. Though other than Neinhart all my predictions have been wrong.
Wahl is mad underrated, I wouldn't be surprised if he goes out soon even though he is easily the 5th strongest spriggan. He has the highest attack power of the spriggan (Top 2 not included) and can spam it just as easily as Serena can. His physical stats are also amongst the highest of the spriggan. His body disposition (being a robot) makes him immune to half of the haxxed magic out there, and his weakness magic covers most of the other half, making him a walking anti-hax machine (literally). DiMaria is the only 'regular' spriggan above him, and thats purely because of Age Seal, and even still with it being stepped on by pseudo END she could potentially go down one or two places.
But that doesn't hit hard, so why does being able to land multiple attacks matter.
It most certainly did not look more impressive, he literally just threw a guard up while Bradman is stopping Gajeels attack with the palm of his hand (base Bradman at that). Bradmans is a display of strength, Jacobs is not.
Yes it does. It allowing Ajeel to assimilate with it cuts Stealths weakness to omnidirectional attacks by half (since he can only be hit when he re-appears). Even when he does take physical form, he still cannot be seen. I'd argue that attacks like Sand Pit are far more dangerous then Transport in battle, let alone Sand World. At least with Sand Pit a solid chunk of the characters have no counter (even if those that do can counter it easily), Transport can be countered by anyone with a pair of legs on them.
Nope, at least 5 seconds. It activates and everyone is surprised, then Makarov has the time to physically ask what the hell is going on (which would take more then a second by itself) and then some more time passes as everyone is aimlessly looking around and then we get a panel showing the outside of the guild with Transport STILL seemingly being in effect. I'd wager that its the higher end of the interval I proposed, definitely not a meager 3 seconds, although even in that case it is still relatively easy to dodge for someone with a shred of battle instinct. Yes trying to put a number on panel-time is dodgy, but the point was quite clear that the attack is far far far from instant.
Its probably more deadly then that because if it wasn't then some of the other attacks Bradman showed would have been better then it, since according to Bradman they weren't that would mean that Gajeel got downright lucky to escape it.
If you mask your bodies properties then you yourself aren't making any sounds, only when coming in contact with an object will THAT object make a sound, but Jacob is an acclaimed assassin so it stands to reason that he knows how to prevent noises from leaking out.
Actually it tanked the initial punch, it only broke when Gray added extra momentum to the thrust.
Sand Pit is damn near instantaneous, Ajeel activated it and Elfman is balls deep in the ground a mili second later. Transport takes far longer. I'd liken Transports speed to Sand Tsunami, probably a little faster but its AoE isn't even a tenth of the latter so its still far less practical.
Sand World was not only used in combat, but used to destroy someone who was holding their own with human Irene. Barely given emphasis? You are talking out of your ass bro, when it was used we had a good 10 different reactions to what was going on. It had more emphasis then pretty much any technique used by a spriggan to date, except maybe Age Seal and Larcades pleasure magic. Its hardly a matter of pretending to know how it works, the fact that a given body occupies a certain amount of space around which everything goes around is something I've known since elementary school. A ghost being made visible by throwing some cooking dough is a concept demonstrated by fucking goosebumps for crying out loud. The situation I am saying will happen happening in another manga is hardly the focus of my point, that was just to put a little extra emphasis on it.
Now tell me, do you seriously believe that Sand World won't reveal Jacob quite easily?
DPS, a single attack from Jacob doesnt do much, but his barrages of attacks do, Just one was able to do more damage to Natsu than Azir's whirlwind was able to do to Erza during the entire time she was trapped in their(due to Marin).
Yeah, it really did. Jacob shrugging off Natsu's attack was given an entire page, and one extra panel zoomed in to show just how unaffected Jacob was, even laughing it off. Bradman blocking Gajeel's punch was just a single zoomed out panel given no particular emphasis. There is no argument that can be made where Bradmans blocking Gajeel's attack was portrayed as more impressive than Jacob blocking Natsu's.
Sand World doesnt affect Stealth at all, since Azir still needs to find where Jacob is, which he has no way of doing. Except no one has ever dodged it the way you say they can. Horologium even acknowledged it as so dangerous that he had to interfere. It is totally out of Sand World's league, let alone Sand Pit's.
Definitely 3 seconds or less. Probably not even that considering we quite clearly see Cana, Max and the others
instantly affected by the magic, at that point it was likely too late to do anything, jump or not they wouldve ended up inside Transport.
So you're blaming Gajeel's escape on luck? Seriously? You could say that about almost every feat in the manga cause good feats are rarely repeated twice. No, Gajeel escaped because he could escape, he escaped with Levy because he was strong enough to do it. Transport is an instant kill, Third Seal isnt, not any where close.
Yes, just like coming in to contact with snow makes
THAT snow leaves footprints, but Jacob is an acclaimed assassin so it stands to reason that he knows how to prevent leaving tracks.
All right, then Ice armor tanked one and a half punches.
Sand Pit got
Elfman, Transport got the whole guild, i dont think i need to say more.
Not Sand World man, that had plenty of emphasis i agree. I was talking about Azir's ability to "talk" to the sand. This ability has never been used in combat and was given no particular emphasis, but you are trying to use in ways we dont know works.
Yeah, but you are just assuming that Azir's sand works as a direct extension of his senses, that can give him the details of the battlefield whenever, despite
NOTHING implying it works that way.
Azir used the sand to
tell him where FT was, but does that mean he can just sense everything all the time? No, if anything what Azir's sand does is more like a spell he has to
activate so he can home in on a specific thing, not some sixth sense he has on all the time.
So yes, Sand World wont reveal Jacob at all, let alone easily.
