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[Buffalobiian]

In fact he does seem to have troubles understanding not everyone is a great warrior like he is himself. He believes that marching head-on to confront the enemy is perfectly valid since, you know, everybody can fight like a monster.

That is not true. Again, refer to Ainz vs Shaltear. Cocytus can size up a vampire vs a mage. Neither of those fight the same way he does. He's not incapable of sizing up beings that aren't super warriors. He's not incapable of figuring out what they're good again, and what they're bad against.

We saw no indication of him applying any this, but we know he's capable of it.

What are the chances of a lizard man taking on 2 skeletons? or 3?
And how did he come to that answer? We know he can evaluate:
-elemental weaknesses and strengths.
-weapon/equipment effective ranges and handling
-What about morale? Supposedly he underestimated this, but we've never seen him estimate anything during thsi fight.

Our portrayal of Cocytus has been from guy who others go to for a run-down of combat, to someone who says "charge". We know this guy can do better.

See my earlier post:

He can analyse opponents. That much is evident. He didn't become a great warrior by just making himself strong, but he also knows how to read opponents, apply abilities and read the flow of battle. He doesn't have to be the greatest general, but he should at least do something aside from zerg rush.

[KrayZ33]

He knows how to evaluate opponents he has complete knowledge off...but doesn't gather intelligence himself.
Neither in season 1, nor did he do that now.

Which is exactly what Ainz was trying to change.

I disagree with your statment about us knowing he can do "better".
We haven't seen it yet.
I rewatched the season 1 part just now... and he didn't comment on anything other than "I think his chances are 30/70" (which is 100% based on nothing but combat stats, no preparations included and no knowledge about what Ainz has in his pockets) and "I'd do the same" when Shalltear decided to go all out in a melee.

So far, we've seen very little of him... and he didn't really seem to be the smartest guy in the first place. He had this Samurai Aura from the very beginning. He likes to fight, to measure his strength - to use his strength to overcome horrible odds - that type of character.

[Kraco]

We saw no indication of him applying any this, but we know he's capable of it.

Dunno. To me that sounds like being incapable of. Even if he theoretically knows something but is unable to put it to use, it's the same as being incapable.

He has always seemed more like the if you have guts and give it your all, you can do anything guy than the this seems unlikely to work, so let's go for the plan B kind of guy (which would be, for example, Demiurge or Ainz himself).

[KrayZ33]

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Oh man, Ainz, you epic son of a b.
You know how to leave an impression. *thumbs up*

That stuff was epic. Demiurge is awesome too, can't wait to see his fight (from the OP) happening.


lol @ last second before the end.

I really hope this show will include the darker themes of this series too. I've heard that the light novel and webnovel have some really eery scenes in them.

[NeoCybercoin]

See, these are the kind of episodes I expected of this show. Focused on Nazarick and their overwhelming power.

[Kraco]

You know how to leave an impression. *thumbs up*

That stuff was epic.

Yeah, that looked really good. It was splendid to see it animated.

[Munsu]

A step in the right direction, this episode had some great moments in it.

[DarthEnderX]

Binge watched all of this this week. Up to S2E3.

What is going on with this season? It feels like I'm watching Phantom Menace where this series took a sharp inexplicable turn into lizardman politics.

[Kraco]

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They certainly decided not to cut anything from the lizard arc. We even had to suffer through the lizard porn. Now it ought to be over, though. At least not skipping anything ensured the Shalltear chair was included. That was funny already in the novel, but now it was with sound.

[NeoCybercoin]

Shallchair! Gotta love that bit. The same with Albedo's jealousy of that and everyone's praises that only a Guardian would be a fitting replacement as a throne.

[KrayZ33]

The item Ainz held after Lizardman's ressurection, was it a one use only item or something?

I couldn't really read his thoughts there. He was obviously hesitating to deny his request but it felt like he couldn't do it even if he wanted to.

Pretty happy about this episode... and pretty sad about the fact that we are only going to get one more arc. They should make this 24 episodes 8[

[NeoCybercoin]

It was the same wand he hid after the villagers got slaughtered in the first season. He said that he could revive them as well but it would draw too much attention to him. So I am guessing it's a wand with a set amount of charges.

[Kraco]

Even if it was running out, wouldn't he have a spare in his pocket dimension, just in case he needed to revive someone else as well for whatever reason? It would be embarrassing if he couldn't, after having claimed death is but a regular state of being for him. However, for resurrecting that one lizard he already charged a heavy price, making the albino basically spy on her own species. It would be strange if he revived others for no compensation, simply because they asked.

[Ryllharu]

Not gonna lie, thought the lisping revived lizard was funny. Tongue a bit numb after being dead?

[KrayZ33]

Episode 6

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ya, that's way more interesting than the lizards... I like this.
It's not like a whole lot happened, but the characters, the situation and humans in general are way more interesting.

[Kraco]

This arc is one of my favourites in the novels. This ought to be a good ride.

Sebas is such a gentleman. It's a good thing Nazarick has one of those as well.

[Buffalobiian]

I think Solution does a better assessment of wounds than I do. -_-

[Kraco]

I think Solution does a better assessment of wounds than I do. -_-

To be fair, she's a monster, you are a mere human.

[DarthEnderX]

Boring episode, but the setup of a far reaching crime syndicate hints at being interesting in the future.

[Kraco]

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Quite an uneventful episode that was only setting things and characters up for things to come.