yeah, but 15 beats him because he has Decade's power plus five guys Decade can't turn into.

so canonically, 15 is stronger than Decade.

Guys we all know that the strongest Kamen Rider is Kamen Rider Jun, so this entire debate is irrelevant :lol

I only used Decade as an example because, despite what the series constantly tries to hammer in, we never see such a display of strength. He loses on multiple occasions.

Outside sources try to constantly tell us that Kuuga is an immortal, unstoppable force that can wipe out a planet.
But in an action-drama, that leaves for little tension, so Kuuga has to get knocked around and beaten.
In doing so, it leaves a massive disparity and someone trying to have it both ways. Kuuga can't be quite decidedly defeated by the kabuto Grongi and then have the show tell us he's supergod that can obliterate everything by lightly tapping it with his foot 2 episodes later.

That there is a flawless argument :lol

How could I have been so blind?

Guys you are all looking in the wrong direction.

You need to look more forward as the most powerful rider will be whoever is the most current ;)

Or whoever's toys sells the most. ;)

I don't know how the others did but ryuki's did well and I am very glad if ryuki was the strongest :D

Nah. Otherwise it'd be, like, Den-O or W. Den-O appears in like everything and they kept making those Gaia Memories for years.

Whoever's strongest is whomever the hack writer at the time arbitrarily decides, or is mandated by Bandai.

Of course. No good putting over a show that's 15 years old if you ain't gonna shift all those new toys you've just made!

My personal theory on Kuuga is this: As they uncover more about the nature of Kuuga, and the Grongi, there's this idea that Kuuga is supposed to be a purely destructive force. Thus it stands to reason that Ultimate Kuuga is Ultimate Destruction. That's not accounting for a shared universe, though. That's a world where the only "Rider" is Kuuga.

Honestly though, I'd be interested to see where it is established that Ultimate Kuuga could destroy a planet with his kick. Is it mentioned in some book or other additional material? They don't mention that in-show, just that Kuuga is supposed to be a "Living weapon", and of course we see the explosions of Rising Mighty and Amazing Mighty's kicks...

Unlike Agito, which had a bad case of showing a bunch of stuff and not explaining any of it. (At least not until the last 2 episodes or so.)

Obviously they're not going to show Kuuga's rider kick as having such immensely destructive abilities. The logistics of that wouldn't be properly addressed (not that Kamen Rider ever bothers to address logistics anyway); there'd be no real way to show that and still keep tension and realism. I do think Ultimate Form, when accessed through rage, likely has a huge blast radius , far larger than what we've see or what Ultimate form used with gentleness would have. Rising Ultimate probably has ridiculously potent destructive capabilities, and I wager likely one of the most powerful Rider forms of all.

(Disclaimer: I haven't actually seen Rising Ultimate as I haven't seen Decade, but I'm assuming it's a much more powerful version of Ultimate.)

I'm having issues finding info on KR Black RX's Bio and Robo Riders. Anyone care to share info on them?

What kind of info are you talking about?

Like general info. Are they form changes, extra Riders, etc..

They are Black RX's form changes.

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Kotaro_Minami

Ok. Thanks. But it still doesn't say much about the two forms. At least not from what I can gather.

They are both tied to the emotional states of Minami Kotaro aka Black RX. Bio Rider is powered by anger and Robo Rider is powered by sorrow. Robo Rider allows RX to use a gun and Bio Rider allows him to transform into a liquid state.

Thats pretty much everything about those that isnt just retelling episodes they appeared in.

In OOO's, why was Maki able to make a Unicorn Yummy? Aren't the purple medals dinosaur themed?

This was always kinda iffy. They are themed after extinct animals. But Unicorns arent extinct really since they never existed :lol

Personally I always saw it more as animals that dont exist or dont exist anymore, since the Medals get their power from the absence of desire.

How were the Legend Rider Lockseeds released again? I know the Showa ones were a premium bandai thing, and a handful of them (from the crossovers) were obviously DX releases. But the rest of the Heisei ones...weren't they released in the SG line? Or was that it the Gashapons? Or...both?

With Legend Rider Eyecons starting to be revealed in the Gashapon line, I'm just wondering if it's possible that we'll also be seeing candy toy versions...

Some of them where Gashapons and some where SG candy toys.

Well, that seems logical.

Guess I gotta keep my eyes on both lines...

Which Kamen Rider did you think had the best first episode?

Hmmm....
I can honestly say that of all the Kamen Rider shows I've started, I think Kiva grabbed me the most in the first episode.

If I recall, the first episode of Faiz and Ryuki are also pretty good.

I liked Double and OOO's first episode a lot.
They really set the show up well without feeling like they had to dump everything.

I haven't seen a lot, but I think Gaim's was pretty good. If only for that opening shot with the armies and stuff. Really got my attention...

Black. The opening chase is very tense and beautifully shot.

I always like OOO's first episode. I did like the first episodes for Gaim and Ghost too.

Me personally I'd say that Decade because it was like oh there's a rider war coming and the one to make it happen is a mysterious rider then natsumi woke up and then it went 0 to a 100 real quick.

Close second is Ghost because it was awesome.

How much is EMS from HLJ usually for something like a DX toy?

Black.

So can Akari see ghosts?

No one can see the ghosts unless they are in the same condition as Takeru or they are holding an Eyecon.

How riders do you think Ghost will have in total? Do you think Ghost will have as much riders as Gaim did or less?

Definitely less, I doubt we'll see more than 5.

Considering that by this point in the series Gaim already had eleven Riders announced?

Less. Way less.

I'd say at most 4 Riders, 5 tops I think. Unless we get something really late in the show with a poor budget, like Gold Drive and Jun or whatever. Ghost costumes look pretty cheap to make so we may get some low-budget ones later on. For now I don't see us getting even close to as many Riders as Gaim, though.

Honestly, I feel we'll only see 2 or 3.

Ideally three. Drive really reminded of how perfect that number is for a Rider show.

Drive had four riders (5 if you want count Porto Drive). I hope Ghost will have around 5 or 6 at best. Since Wizard, we had more then two riders and glad that we are getting more then two riders in the shows these days.

I'd say probably 3 in the show and maybe two or three movie/special specific ones.