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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

- So, the odds of this happening later anyway are pretty good, so I'm not really complaining just yet, but I was kind of hoping after hearing Emu's line in the preview for this episode that all the repeated mentions of him not having M's skills to rely on would be building up to him having to like, grow as a character, and learn how to be that awesome on his own. Although if needing Parad's help is the obligatory "leash" on the final form for this year, that's actually a very solid excuse and with how much I like Maximum Gamer the prospect of it (and by extension his Level 2 form) staying around is great. Although if it turns out he just "has" Parad's skills from now on again that'll be lame as crap.

I doubt that will be the case. Rumored spoilers for a later episode (I want to say 37 or 38) have Masamune coming up with a plan to kill Pallad so Emu can't access his final form. IIRC, it's actually the first time I've witnessed in a Rider show where the main villain was genre savvy enough to know that the main guy's final form is stupidly OP and the only way to beat them is to cut off their access to it..

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- So how long before Chronus realizes he can just Pause before Emu starts transforming and kick the s*** out of him?

I mean, he sort of realized it. He tried to pause time before Emu could finish the henshin into Hyper Muteki, but it's almost like the gashat just stuck its middle finger out at Cronus and he transformed anyway. I like to think that was an intentional design feature on Kuroto's part just as a "fuck you" to Cronus.