Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-30710533-20180329225749/@comment-30542316-20180411202511

Hax does not make something powerful or not. The namesake of "hax" comes from the term "hacks". Basically hax = cheat code. What makes a verse powerful is having high attack potency in regards to its relative tiers. You don't need to have a million 2-As to be considered "strong". A verse that peaks at Planet level can be strong should it have a number of characters that are well into the 5-B tier. Not just baseline 5-B or somewhat above baseline via powerscaling. Blowing up the planet a hundred times over is FAR more impressive than an a 5-B that uses 90% of their power to blow it up once, to a degree that the first 5-B would one-shot the second, unless the second has some form of hax to help him out. However having hax does not put him above the first 5-B, he's still weaker.

Obviously hax makes things more interesting. With hax, you can have weaker 5-Bs tangle with stronger 5-Bs but context and verse mechanics come into play there. But hax does not make or break a verse from being powerful...at all. Unlike ACF, we do not tier verses, so what makes a verse powerful ultimately is subjective. Some people claim Dragonball is strong when I'd argue it's rather pitiful in attack potency for its most notable tiers (5-B, 4-C, 4-B, 3-C and Low 2-C come to mind) pale in comparison to Marvel's characters of the same tiers and that isn't even including hax.