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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I wish I remembered more of Ex-Aid's pacing. Was the Cronus stuff really super-repetitive? It doesn't stick out in my brain as egregiously dull, but I've also watched literally a thousand episodes of Kamen Rider since then, soooo....

Tbf, I'm one of the people who didn't mind the constant beating of Cronus during the last part of Ex-Aid. I didn't really feel it was so or too-repetitive. I thought Takahashi did a good job on focusing more on its characters and less focusing on Masamune. Ep 37-38 is basically an day of limelight for Hiro with a battered Cronus as a bonus. Same goes for the next few episodes. For Zero-One? I will refrain my opinions for later but my opinions on how Takahashi handled Zero One was not much different than how Ex-Aid was.

If you want some statistics, I can list how many times Cronus was beaten in Ex-Aid:

- Ep 36 : Beaten on Hyper Muteki's debut. Duh
- Ep 37 : Almost beaten by Muteki, Lazer and Poppy but stopped halfway
- Ep 38 : Beaten by Muteki and Taddle Legacy
- Ep 40 : Bombastically defeated by Ex-Aid and Para-Dx
- Ep 41 : Lost to Graphite and to add further salt, also lost to Muteki again after the heroes countered his Reset ability
- Ep 42 : Wasn't defeated as Cronus but Masamune still had a lost because Gamedeus was beaten here
- Ep 43 : Beaten by the three main Riders even after having a power up
- Ep 44 : Even as a big Gamedeus, he still lost to Level 1 Riders
- Ep 45 : The finale so... A big defeat for Cronus

Well, try to interpret that as you want whether if it was repetitive or not.