Wolfox

oof,I can't decide between Mass Destruction or Last Surprise.

Well... Baby, Baby, Baby! I've got Stockholm Syndrome with this song!

...Still prefer Last Surprise, though.

I more prefer Mass Destruction (the original one and not the other versions like the FES versions even though they are all pretty awesome).

Oh, lovely. I hope it goes well!

Same

I'll assume no Fusions were used to expand their ability options:

Discounting personal physical capabilities (where Joker has a distinct advantage over Narukami in several ways), Izanagi does have a slight advantage over Arsene do his immunity to Dark spells. The loss of range isn't quite as big a deal for Joker as it would be for Narukami, though, since Arsene packs Dream Needle (which would probably decide the matchup right then and there if its effect triggers) and Joker's got his

G U N. 

Orpheus, on the other hand, is a liability in this brawl. The guy gives Minato weaknesses to both Electric and Dark means that he's placed in a terrible disadvantage against his foes' Zio and Eiha spells, and since his own spell is Fire elemental, he can't return the sentiment to either of them. Having a measly three attack options in battle doesn't help, either. This means that if Minato wants to win, he'll have to try and ambush the others in the real world, where their Personas aren't accessible- and even then, Joker is both agile and able to slip into the Cognitive Realm rather easily- and that's assuming that Arsene's Adverse Resolve wouldn't be applicable enough to let Kurusu just punch the kid's lights out in the first place!

At least, this is my take on the issue as someone who's really only familiar with P4 and P5. Maybe Minato's got something up his sleeves to give an advantage as a person?

Seems legit. 

That card looks pretty good.

It's not really great,sadly

Al Alfred thought us all: "Some people just want to watch the world Burn." 

And keel over dead from cancer, apparently. These folks aren't gonna be feeling so hot when it's their kids struggling with it and the only option left is to turn to the vary charity they robbed.

Yup

I agree w/ you on the being ready thing, and if you say two weeks, then I'll stick to that as well. Might make my profile background pic that last shot of the intro after that time passes, however.

I went with two weeks because that would be savest bet as to whether or not those who are the most excited about it will have watched it, plus going off of the regular release, not the first exclusive one, it should be quite a save amount of time 

This seems like a reasonable enough take, actually. It'll still mess up the ever living daylights out of EV training, but seeing it's still a mainline game, I doubt that'll be particularly necessary for the story anyway.

i personally dont care at all about the balance in the core series, as it generally does not exist. i doubt that will be different this time around.

also im fairly sure theyve always tried balancing it around exp all as it sorta became their "default" option in gen VI and VII. unfortunately not using it tended to underlevel you while using it overleveled you in all of kalos. it also overleveled in the earlygame of alola but overall the level curve followed the exp all very well, making it fairly obvious that the games level curve was based on the idea of using exp all.

in either case i hope gamefreak follows your logic, but im not very hopeful.