_JNavs_ wrote:To the top 3 users, nothing says the storm cannot be manifested and used by Ghidorah accordingly. Those tornadoes, the massive flooding as well as the severe lightning that was so specific, it struck and disintegrated 2 soldiers and multiple Monarch Raptors, will definitely do some damage to Legion and her soldiers.
Ghidorah can summon lightning whenever he pleases, just because he didn't use it against Rodan, doesn't mean he cannot do it. As we saw, as soon as they collided he manhandled Rodan. His only form of "retaliation" is certainly not manmade energy sources, those were random nearby boosts for him. I'm sure he could just spread his wings and catch about 6 bolts of lightning which is well beyond boiling hot to the touch, getting rid of any pests the Legion has to offer.
If Ghidorah never liberally used his storm’s properties in purposeful combat on-screen, he won’t here. The infrequent, stray bolts of lightning that take out a few Legion soldiers certainly won’t be putting a meaningful dent in the threat posed by the whole swarm.
Except on the radars in the film he is most certainly at the eye of the storm that his aura alone is carrying.
When he’s flying, sure. But when he’s grounded, Ghidorah is not perpetually surrounded by a storm.
KOTMs kaiju? Godzilla got pretty messed up by some of Ghidorah's lightning skill set.
I was referring to the lightning coming from the storms, not from Ghidorah directly. From what I recall, his weather abilities did not affect a single kaiju in the movie.
Land vehicles were constantly dealing with horrid terrain, Monarch boats were literally floating by the sides of buildings due to the massive floods, the people all around were getting zapped and disintegrated.
The flooding is moot since it won’t be a factor in the fight. But the main point is that despite all of that, there were a plethora of instances of things being able to maneuver in spite of the atmospheric chaos. Monsters, aircrafts, vehicles, and people were able to move around successfully without being zapped or otherwise severely hampered by the weather.
Breakdown wrote:
Most of whom are larger, have more mass, and better flight capabilities than the swarm who are literally filled with air and fly via wings like a mosquito or beetle. If anything, that would make it even harder for them to fly in bad weather.
My point isn’t that they won’t find it difficult at all to fly in bad weather; I’m disputing the notion that some unfavorable rain and wind speed, alone, will be enough to entirely prevent the swarm from reaching Ghidorah.
Which would conveniently allow Ghidorah to annihilate them with a barrage of Gravity Beams. He has no qualms or issue shooting small targets. He'd disintigrate dozens of them at a time, and with 3 heads to do so.
Adding onto what Tomzilla said, the swarm will prioritize electromagnetic sources above all else. When they brought the power station online the entire swarm flat out ignored the queen's orders and flew straight for the grid.
If the Queen is pressing the attack as well, Ghidorah won’t have such an easy time annihilating an entire horde of widely dispersed, mobile soldiers. Never mind the fact that he was inconsistent in shooting down small targets. One minute he’s blasting some random soldiers, the next he’s letting a group of jets fly and fire at him without attacking.
And to address the EM point you and Tomzilla made, it’s a proven fact that the swarm is easily distracted by electromagnetic devices
that give off the same frequency that they use to communicate. That was a point that was clearly specified in the movie, and unless you can prove that Ghidorah’s storms will be reliably generating a similar pattern, you have a weak point here. And on top of all of that, even if the storms possess the right pattern, it would mean that Ghidorah himself would be giving off the same signature (and at a distractingly greater intensity).
Any way you slice it, the soldiers are getting to Ghiddy.
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