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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #45 on: June 15, 2015, 05:55:36 PM »
Jake's Tiger morph was probably my favorite morph of the series.

I also always liked the elephant, but it seems to impractical for the sort of close quarters combat the Animorphs typically got themselves into.

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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #46 on: June 15, 2015, 06:10:47 PM »
Just wanted to note that, even though the Animorphs did visit the Hork-bajir homeworld, there wouldn't have been any Deep-monsters left for them to acquire one.  Most of the monsters were killed off during the events of HBC, and I'd be willing to bet that the Yeerks hunted down and killed the rest as soon as they won the war.  Maybe giving Visser Three a chance to acquire the ones he wanted (we know he at least acquired a Lerdethak), before driving them all to extinction.

Heck, they drove the Arn to extinction by #34, and the Arn would have been a lot harder to track down than the monsters would have been.

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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #47 on: June 15, 2015, 06:12:55 PM »
Because you're poisoning everyone that gets close, and a fast moving snake is hard to avoid when you have other things to worry about too.


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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #48 on: June 15, 2015, 06:35:26 PM »
Because you're poisoning everyone that gets close, and a fast moving snake is hard to avoid when you have other things to worry about too.

What question are you answering?

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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #49 on: June 15, 2015, 07:13:25 PM »
Jake's Tiger morph was probably my favorite morph of the series.

I also always liked the elephant, but it seems to impractical for the sort of close quarters combat the Animorphs typically got themselves into.
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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #50 on: June 15, 2015, 08:21:07 PM »
Because you're poisoning everyone that gets close, and a fast moving snake is hard to avoid when you have other things to worry about too.

What question are you answering?

The one about how a snake would cause chaos in battle, which I forgot to quote.


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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #51 on: June 15, 2015, 08:27:51 PM »
I was thinking should I get rid of Shark and Dolphin? They aren't really battlemorphs...
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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #52 on: June 22, 2015, 01:14:42 AM »
Why is owl not an option?

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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #53 on: June 22, 2015, 12:54:08 PM »
Why is owl not an option?

I see owl as an option, and even a vote for owl!

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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #54 on: June 22, 2015, 01:08:58 PM »
He asked that before I put owl on the poll :P
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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #55 on: June 22, 2015, 02:01:27 PM »
Because Owl is not a battle morph? There are much better options, given all the possibilities.


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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #56 on: June 22, 2015, 03:14:04 PM »
That is where you are wrong because owls are the best at everything.

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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #57 on: June 22, 2015, 10:19:03 PM »
Because Owl is not a battle morph? There are much better options, given all the possibilities.

It is all about diversity. Having only big and powerful morphs isn't always good.

What if you have to fight in darkness?
Owl's great senses do help, you could use it as scout morph and also capable of causing some damage(they are silent predators, after all)
Yet seeing your post made me think, "omg, I've never thought of that, you are an evil genius".

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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #58 on: June 23, 2015, 08:26:09 AM »
^Dis guy knows what he's talking about :D

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Re: If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?
« Reply #59 on: June 23, 2015, 12:19:49 PM »
That makes a lot of sense.  I'd actually always wondered how the Animorphs could consistently beat Hork-bajir in combat.  If you showed me a Hork-bajir, and asked me who would win in a fight between that and a tiger/bear/gorilla/wolf, I would put all my money on the Hork-bajir, every time.  I generally tended to think it was because the Hork-bajir had been herbivores with no natural predators, and thus would have no natural instinct for fighting; the Yeerks that controlled them therefore wouldn't have the benefit of that instinctual knowledge, either.

Either way, though, Hork-bajir still makes sense as a battle morph.

Because hork-bajir controllers were never trained to fight Earth's wildlife. Let alone those working as a team, fitted with human brains.
When you think about it, hork-bajirs were used most of the time as guards at Yeerk Pools, or other specific spots. Because in every other occassion they had human controllers to use.
Even if h-b controllers met wildlife, they would always just blast it off from safe distance, if necessary.

Now on the other hand, as I said Animorphs were dedicated, they had advantage of beforeseeing, planning in advance and so on. Combine that with teamwork between all of them, reconnaissance information and element of surprise, and you will have pretty good odds.
Also it was hard for hork-bajir controllers to adapt to the strategies of Animorphs, because most of the time those who survived encounters would probably have been executed by V3. And those who didn't, well chances are pretty slim that they would meet them again, and even then Animorphs did swap between battle morphs every now and then.
Yet seeing your post made me think, "omg, I've never thought of that, you are an evil genius".