Pick your only stat

[NotaNuffian]

So if you run into a wall you go splat

Yeah I noticed when I split speed and reaction.

You running at mach one to a wall equates to the wall flying towards you at mach one (sort of) and without reaction, there will be lots of dead speedsters.

Which is why I say WHATEVER YOU CAUSED IS NEGLIGIBLE, ie for example when you run head first into the wall at mach one, instead of getting smashed with the force of mass*acceleration is mach one over second (this is assuming initial velocity is zero and total time is one second), the stat itself will provide a cushion as this problem is caused by its user and therefore with some MUMBO BS, the force is greatly lessen to maybe same mass times acceleration of Usain Bolt running.

If however the wall is flying towards you by external forces, tough luck.

Strength.

But who the fuck is choosing defense? You gotta endure those shit to become immune. You mustve been reading the Sandman Slim novels while thinking that one up

Please vote, I don't want to be the only one in Strength.

Also, wtf I have never heard of the guy's work... I guess sometimes shits a hit or miss and I managed to land a pointless hit this time.

I was thinking about Doomsday and how Adaptive Regeneration is too OP and thus I try to nerf it by making it local instead of full body.

 

[LordJoyde]

Strength.
I'd take Health if it gave me eternal life, tho.

 

[Layenlml]

Hi, I am stupid. So now, take your pick.

Also, assume that you are not in danger, just isekai-ed into an unknown place with everyone speak and write english/ mother tongue/ whatever language you're comfortable about. No you are not the hero, not the center of the world. But you can be... and possibly getting yourself killed from the natives that find you annoying.

The stat you pick is the only stat that is pushed to inhuman level. Maybe to superhuman but not to absolute. Every other stats may or may not grow.

Strength: Stonks. Increase carrying, lifting, throwing and grip strength to a level that you can deadlift an M1 Abrams or two. Or three. Also helps with jumping, leaping, dashing, punching, etc etc etc. It does not affect your body defense, ie while you have no issue to punch with the force of a speeding truck, you yourself can't take in that force. Also energy consumption is somewhat scaled to your normal body, ie you can lift 10 ton like lifting the usual 10 Kg and get just as tired like before.

Speed: Fast as fucc boi. You can move up to Mach 10. Your acceleration is high af like, from stationary to mach 10 within a second. You can Ora Ora or Muda Muda (or Ara Ara) as you please and make speed clones. It does not affect your body defense, ie adiabatic heating will not kill you. Also energy consumption is somewhat scaled to your normal body, ie you can run 10 miles like running the usual 10 meters and get just as tired like before.

Reaction: Matrix bullet time. I lump this stat with dexterity, so in short,you have good hand-eye coordination and you don't have enough time to react, you can lengthen the time by thinking harder. You get tired though.

Health: Regeneration is your bitch. you don't need to eat and shit like Minecraft Steve to regrow an arm, to hell you don't need to eat or drink or breathe, but you do get tired and need sleep. You also don't get ill, poisoned or die from blood loss but as a caveat, your head is a weak point, namely your pituitary gland. Every bit however is fairgame.

Stamina: No fatigue. You don't get tired and need sleep, but you still need to eat and drink. You can work forever with just your normie body though, at or below the average the human standard.

Defense: Taking a 9mm everyday to build up resistance for higher calibers. You start with your default normie body and take hits like a pinata. Got kicked in the groin? Iron balls. Got sodomized? Titanium sphincter. Got Rasputined? Immune to whatever that happened. The only catch is you cannot die before the immunity kicks in and also, only the parts that got the damage is the one that got the immunity, ie if you shot your hand, after the wound healed, only your hand is bulletproof.

Ok bye. And thanks if you take your pick.

Health seems to be the go for me.

Asida from the partial inmortality, If you want to train like crazy without fear of injuring yourself even when practicing magic this is the best. Try and error aproach.

Strength is also great making you body getting used to its own strength and growing stronger all around the more used it gets but... is MHA in an isekai world at that point.


Everything is great if you can train like a normal MC and the world has magic, even perception would make any fight easier due to you watching everything your opponent do in slowmo.

Defense has a huge flaw, how would you strengthen your arm if your arm is gone?

 

[Lomyril]

I chose stamina.

The basic idea is that if I am dropped off in the middle of nowhere after spending my life as a couch potato, it makes the most sense to me. I can then go on a training montage to build up everything else once I have a good stamina as my base stat.

 

[Western42]

I'll do reaction. If you have a sharp enough reaction time, you'll be a lot more powerful and deadly than you would think.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Strength.
I'd take Health if it gave me eternal life, tho.

Hmm... yeah it will, just that it is conditional immortality cuz when your head's gone, you dead.

 

[xane]

Speed, because of how it is described.

Accelerating from 0 to 7600 mph in a second near someone will generate a shock wave with enough force to, if not outright blow them apart, at least knock most things unconscious.

Defense is my second choice because it actually has potential if it's worded accurately. There's no statement about adaptation limits or can't be compounded, you're effectively immortal, you will not die before your body adapts to the effect. Take a nuke to the face, you're immune to extreme temperatures, extreme radiation, and extreme concussive force. The only donwside is that it's a reactive adaptation, you need to experience them to be immune to it, taking a toll on the psyche.

Reaction is a good mix of offense and defensive capability, but you're still vulnerable to unperceived attacks.

Health or Stamina would be alright choices since you can supposedly raise everything to peak human standards, but there's no mention of life expectancy extension so there's no guarantee you'll be able to get anywhere with it.

Strength has no protection, so unless you can cheat the system by classifying a parry as an offensive maneuver, you'll need to be fully offensive. Meet force with more force, the second you're not the aggressor you're dead. It's a worse version of Speed.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Speed, because of how it is described.

Accelerating from 0 to 7600 mph in a second near someone will generate a shock wave with enough force to, if not outright blow them apart, at least knock most things unconscious.

Defense is my second choice because it actually has potential if it's worded accurately. There's no statement about adaptation limits or can't be compounded, you're effectively immortal, you will not die before your body adapts to the effect. Take a nuke to the face, you're immune to extreme temperatures, extreme radiation, and extreme concussive force. The only donwside is that it's a reactive adaptation, you need to experience them to be immune to it, taking a toll on the psyche.

Reaction is a good mix of offense and defensive capability, but you're still vulnerable to unperceived attacks.

Health or Stamina would be alright choices since you can supposedly raise everything to peak human standards, but there's no mention of life expectancy extension so there's no guarantee you'll be able to get anywhere with it.

Strength has no protection, so unless you can cheat the system by classifying a parry as an offensive maneuver, you'll need to be fully offensive. Meet force with more force, the second you're not the aggressor you're dead. It's a worse version of Speed.

Yup, speed actually is the one with the most damage caused because a mach one right at street level can kill loads of people and one can go the Quicksilver route and burn a person to death by carrying him/ her and run at mach 10.

I set defense as conditional adaptive solely because an invulnerable person fron the start seems meh.

For Health, I just set a conditional immortality.

Speed(?) > health/reaction > strength > defense > speed(?)
Stamina is a wild card.

With enough speed you get both offense and defense, the only thing that doesn't make it the objectively best choice is that reaction time isn't included, and that if you tried to run with this on you'd just die by bumping into something, also can you turn it off? if not this is the worst one.

Health and reaction basically allow you to not die as long as you don't look for trouble, these are great for just retiring in some village and settling down.

Strength sounds really good until you realize you ONLY have strength, with this you'd basically have to finish every fight on one hit, but you'll probably won't have the speed to do so.

Defense is just a much worse health, since it apparently only works on certain bodyparts, but even if it didn't, the moment something gets past your defense you're dead.

if you can train your stats stamina is the the best choice though.

As I stated earlier, both strength and speed gets a "bail out of jail" card with *insert odd name* force is protecting them.

For example, if the person ran into a wall at high speed, due to the action is caused by himself, the stat will discount (not negate) the damage taken should he hit the wall to a level that might or might not be lethal... calculation needs to be done and death by snapping your neck and death by ripping your head off is the same.

 

[Maldon]

As I stated earlier, both strength and speed gets a "bail out of jail" card with *insert odd name* force is protecting them.

For example, if the person ran into a wall at high speed, due to the action is caused by himself, the stat will discount (not negate) the damage taken should he hit the wall to a level that might or might not be lethal... calculation needs to be done and death by snapping your neck and death by ripping your head off is the same.

Hmm, that makes speed better, but you would still bump into everything if you decided to run.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Hmm, that makes speed better, but you would still bump into everything if you decided to run.

And that is the problem you faced when picking speed without reaction.

Nah, I noticed. Which is why I mentioned training earlier. You can train reaction time, and since my body would already be accustomed to the movement speed, it would take only, for a similar example, as long as a bodybuilder would need to gain large muscle mass. So, 6-8 months to around 2-3 years at most?

@SilvCrimBlac did state to train until you get used to it.

 

[owotrucked]

Health

Solve world hunger with deez nuts

*Accidentally turns into Fire Punch*

 

[T.K._Paradox]

Strength with the way it is described would make you a glass cannon, min-max your heart out but this is not for me.

Speed would make you blind while running like the tiger beetle so you'd probably need to stop and get your bearings, but if you blitzed someone or even just ran into them, they would probably turn to chunky salsa.

Reaction would allow you to basically be like Max Payne or Wesely from 'Wanted' or even Daredevil if it is good enough. You'd a master be a countering people before they even finished their action, but you'd have to worry about sensory overload with how things appear to you.

Health is memey as shit, especially if you want to live out your Deadpool fantasies, and as long as you are not reckless, you'd probably be fine unless you are fighting against a large-scale powerhouse or against a group of people.

Stamina is the most vanilla out of all of them, pick this you want to be a workaholic or just want to be very efficient.

Defense is a fairly decent skill that I'd imagine would work like in Unbreakable or Handcock. Like the Dozer from Payday says, "You're up against a wall and I am the fucking wall!" The only real issue here is getting trapped or finding something or someone that can break your defense.

I'd choose Reaction. Though Defense and Speed make good second and third choices.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Slowing down aging makes the health one OP

 

[T.K._Paradox]

Slowing down aging makes the health one OP

Until the government decides to dissect you for science.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Slowing down aging makes the health one OP

I've noticed. Apparently Han Xiao would agree considering the stat that he chose for godhood is this stat.

Until the government decides to dissect you for science.

Ngl, isekai might have sketchy govt, just in different flavors of medieval west, ancient east and random assortment along the timeline.

Kind of tells you something about too much power concentrated at one location.

 

[LordJoyde]

Hmm... yeah it will, just that it is conditional immortality cuz when your head's gone, you dead.

Cool, then Health it is.

 

[orangepeel]

Strength, having a 3rd arm is just OP

Clearly I have a 3rd arm if I am deadlifting 3 abrams.

But seriously do I start with my current self or an average human body? cause as a nomal human I would choose health. My RL body has an abnomal pain tolerance so I would have no big issus making myself basicaly full body immune to nearly everything. I once broke both arms and was like I'm fine, 10 min later I still couldn't open the door cause my hands didn't work, then I was like, well maybe I could use a little help.

 

[Shaizic]

I pick health

 

[Alski]

Speed would be my first choice. Zoom Zoom super express delivery coming through, any damage cause by my sonic booms is your own fault