Post by Inferno Rodan on May 8, 2007 20:34:33 GMT -5
bio said:
And Rygama is perfectly capable of catching and dismembering that puny tailblade you call a weapon....Which doesn't help her avoid getting ripped a new ass by Giga's jaws, so...
Obviously, then, that dictionary doesn't cover all forms of the term.
www.thefreedictionary.com/pressure+point
www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=pressure+point
www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0602526.html
www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/pressurepoint?view=uk
Machines, by definition, cannot have pressure points.
In a machine's case, a pressure point is something like a joint or a moving part.
No, that's a joint or a moving part. My shoulder is a joint, not a pressure point.
The mechanism that allows Gojulas Giga's jaws to move is a good deal smaller than the jaws themselves, meaning if Rygama could find it(X-ray vision, anyone?), she could disable it.
Assuming she even knows what to look for.
Rygama's claws are the only things making her arms any longer than your typical monster's, yet she can still maneuver them just fine.
Her arms are long and powerful
Contradiction, AHOY!
And it's not just arms. Gojulas lacks any sort of segmentation in his neck. I've seen the animated version in action, its ability to position itself to grapple onto another creature in a brawl doesn't impress me one bit. If it's not right in front of him, he can't bite it. Even if his body can turn quickly to allow him to use it, it's a MAJOR disadvantage in a brawl.
In case you didn't notice, this isn't the Gojulas Giga from Zoids: Fuzors. But regardless:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Gojulas_Giga.JPG
Even that Gojulas Giga is quite capable of twisting its head completely to the side.
Rygama latches onto Gojulas' head before he can turn and begins savaging it...
Giga's tail swings around and cuts her arms off...
The tail might work once, then she'll start trying to get rid of it.
Giga has an incredible learning curve, remember?
Same goes for those cannons. If she gets close, those things are going out of commission quickly.
Assuming she is in any kind of shape to take them out of commission by that point.
First of all, Megaguirus' dexterity is overrated.
Duh.
Secondly, if you rememver, Rygama can SEE the shells position themselves for fire. She has a little extra time to see the shots comming and sidestep them. It's easy to dodge something if you have even a split second of warning, provided you're in the air.
As soon as she dodges one (which is still highly unlikely), Giga will adjust accordingly and fire one shell at her, and one shell an instant later, at where she will be when she dodges. And yes, he is quite capable of reading how she'll dodge. Since she has that extra instant to know the shells are coming, she'll be starting to move by the time the shell gets very far. Being a machine, Giga will be able to process that movement and determine where she is going. He can then fire the second shell while she's still trying to avoid the first.
Which really isn't all that impressive, especially since GMK Godzilla is still fairly lumbering in melee. Oh, he can lash out nicely, he can turn pretty well for a daikaiju, but by your descriptions, Gojulas isn't one bit more agile than I imagined.
Nothing in that section of my post was in regards to Grapple mode, which is the mode in which his agility is comparable to GMK Godzilla's.
That, I doubt.
Highly.
Highly.
I don't.
Which will ultimately be his downfall when Rygama latches onto him and peels him apart, disarming him severely here and there.
Finesse has no bearing on one's ability to dismember something.
Except, you know, the cannons themselves. If Rygama gets close, Giga's not even gonna be able to use those things for the simple reason that the barrels are too long.
They can pivot, you know. And they extend maybe 20 meters past his nose in their normal position in Grapple mode. And they're positioned above his head. So he could very easily just fire them into the base of Rygama's neck in the event that she literally gets up in his face, which would more than likely cause enough damage to seriously cripple her ability to move her neck and arms.