Talk:Nanomachine Ninja, Byakuya/@comment-25600444-20150619154834

I have 2 theories to explain his use of the "Shadow Dive" ability, something synonymous with the Death Rulers;

1. His Shadow Dive is more a physical based one i.e. being a NInja, he's sneaking in the physical shadows by seperating his nanobotic body to do a direct attack i.e. Vashta_Nerada style.

2. He's the collective "ghost consciousness" of all of the previous Tsukikage nanobots, reborn. Nanomachines are said to be able to make more of themselves by cannibalising the environment for the minerals to make them, hence whenever Tsukikage created more bots to replace his destroyed ones or for his "Nanomachine Body Replacement", it's possible that over time, enough managed to split off and merge back together into Byakuya. As a further addition, it could be (somehow) Shido and/or Gallows came across these robots while or shortly after they remerged and it assimilated the Shadow Dive ability from one/both of them.

As for other users of "Shadow Dive"

Province Baron, Shido was acceptible because of Shido's connection to them.

Ghoul, Gojimaru is a "fusion" (if you will) of Tsukikage and Byakuya, hence his Shadow Dive.

For any other card with a direct attack effect, why didn't they just simply give it to Byakuya rather then Shadow Dive?. There's something there. It could be nothing, but I think otherwise.