It's called skill. :lol

Hmm, let's see... He has no upcoming in-series forms, and Brave does, leaving Snipe with the oldest and probably weakest form in the roster by the time Chronos and/or Muteki appear. Next episode focuses on him. Nico is a morality pet for him. He's a jerk with a heart of gold. His character doesn't seem to be going anywhere with the exception of what happens next episode - something heavily involving protecting Nico, probably from Ren, who is likely to be at least as powerful as Simulation Gamer. Graphite challenged him to play KRC so he can fight him formally as a boss fight, something that appears to be hard and time-consuming to make possible. That shot of him walking away at the end of 26. I'm sure I'm forgetting some. There's just a lot of ominous story cues surrounding him.

Literally the one that raised flags for me was during the Debut of Bang Bang Simulations. The one line, "I have nothing to lose..."

Except he does, Nico, like it or not she's basically become a surrogate sister to him. Not to mention the fact that the Gashat he's using is on par with a Proto Gashat in terms of recoil and he's basically slowly killing himself as a result.

Maybe I read the scans wrong, but I thought the new Brave form was for the summer movie?

Doesn't seem to be. The two toys for the summer movie are in their own section specifically labeled as being for the movie. TL is outside of that. It also comes out a month too early for the movie.

I could see Snipe sacrifice himself for Nico, Emu understanding him, and Brave forgiving him. Maybe he'll die in a confrontation with a stronger Graphite or maybe the writers are saving Graphite for Brave.
I don't think game over are permanent. Next episode they're talking about resurrecting people. People came back even after receiving flower like the GREEDS in Os. It cheapens out like most shonen animes.

I'm fairly certain that Ren's BULLSHITTING. Beating Chronicle only unlocks the end game villain imo

Maybe the strongest Bugster will be come from Kamen Rider Chronicle game.

Personally I think that the final boss would be Chronos

But man, on Chronicle screen , there are 12 bugsters
palad has 2 datas, if Poppy said player need to beat 13 bugsters to unlock final boss that hiding in the world, the last one probably is Lovrica
12 + Lovrica = 13, but we have one more bugster, the source of all gashats and bugsters ?, he keep hiding in someone's body
So Im betting the final bugster is M
the strongest, the source of all powers