User blog comment:DancePowderer/The Art of the Prediction/@comment-1454981-20130424161134

The MAIN thing is matching the dialogue and personality with the character. Thats when you can really differentiate between believable and non-believable when making a pred. Tbh you can make w/e match up you want. It technically doesnt have to be believable aslong as you have a good setting and back story to WHY the match up is happening and what purpose does it serve other than beating eachother up. With the moves and techniques i guess some research is in order. But dont go too wild, dont stray from the characters style and try to keep its name in the same echelon of the characters other moves/techniques. Also, when RPing the  fight and battle sequences. Try not to make it too confusing or not understandable. Try to keep it with a little grasp of reality. For example:


 * sanji jumps up and performs a massive heel drop on zoro with zoro swaying back and dodging the kick*

^That right there is good. You tell us what he is doing without going into too much detail and you have the opponents counter also in the RP without having to start a new line for zoro.


 * sanji jumps at zoro*


 * zoro jumps at sanji*


 * sanji does a heel drop on zoro*


 * zoro sways back and dodges*

^Thats just too listy and its like reading a step by step manual tbh -_-. Or stuff like this:


 * sanji attacks zoro with a flurry of kicks with zoro jumping in the air while doing a 360 with sanji  summer salting up to zoro and kicking and breaking his sword*

^Thats a total no-no. The RP is too long for 1 sequence and they are doing things that dont match their battle style.

Again, the main way you can have a GREAT and successful pred is if you match the character to their fictional counter-part. If im reading and not questioning if he/she would actually do or say that and im sitting there and actually playing out the fight in my head as if im reading the actual manga, then its a successful pred. Because the point of the pred is to show us how you think a chapter or story or fight would play out in your opinion. If i can read it and have a believable notion with the pred., it was successful.