The most incompetent demon lord. If not for his incredible luck, he'd be dead a long time ago.
The most incompetent demon lord. If not for his incredible luck, he'd be dead a long time ago
Bentley Rogers
Colton Fisher
Clayman
Isaiah Ross
unironically more competent at demon lording than the retard slime
he was just too weak and got unlucky
Kayden Gray
There are much dumber demon lords who get away with it due to overwhelming power, like Milim.
What Rimuru lacks is experience since he literally speedran his ascension from a lowly slime to a demon lord. Everyone else took decades if not centuries so they could learn all the pitfalls of what comes next, while Rimuru was running blind, he was literally learning new things while attending Walpurgis.
Adam Hughes
I don't understand your reasoning. He built an entire empire that now rules over the land. He snipes all who try to oppose him and his empire. He's dumb? ok.
Andrew Fisher
>doesn't kill powerful enemies before they get stronger
>doesn't utilize the power of his officers at all
>consistently lets people who might in the future oppose him get stronger
>doesn't know how to keep secrets
He's an actual retard. The only reason he survived for so long is raw power, Raphael and luck when it comes to people.
The way he dealt with the Empire in vol 13 annoyed me. If Rimuru was actually competent he could've played it much better.
Tyler Rivera
Luck is a skill
Caleb Ross
Bentley Lewis
Or raped long ago.
Aaron Hughes
You wouldn't a slime
Brody Brooks
Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see a protagonist that *doesn't* immediately become way more competent when they get isekaied.
Everyone calling Rimuru "dumb" is really just showing how everyone's become used to teenage protags who immediately become geniuses.
Subaru is a perfect example of this; he's nothing but a teenage NEET who couldn't even make himself go to school, yet he gains the sheer determination and cunning to overcome nightmarish situations and overwhelming odds.
In contrast, Rimuru is at exactly the level you'd expect. He's a fairly average middle-aged man who gets a variety of intellectual boosts like always being in perfect condition, never tiring, thought acceleration, and most importantly Great Sage.
So he's given a much higher expected intellectual ability than most isekai protags (since most isekai protags are teenagers with no intellectual boosts), but he's "dumb" because the author doesn't make him unexplainably perform above expectations and still allows him to have slip-ups and mistakes.
Logan Allen
but He's cute so It's ok
Jonathan Mitchell
Milim will breed with him in the near future whether he likes it or not. She was sizing him up as a "partner" while pretending to be brainwashed, and he obviously passed.
Brayden King
I would expect him to mature a bit after murdering a few hundred thousand people but he is just as naive.
Mason Watson
I could beat him
Thomas Cooper
baka
Jeremiah Parker
>The way he dealt with the Empire in vol 13 annoyed me. If Rimuru was actually competent he could've played it much better.
First off Rimuru left most of the war matters to his highest-ranking general, Benimaru. Secondly this delegation choice worked perfectly. Zero losses, the attacking enemy armies got completely annihilated and partially revived as potential spies in the future, with a "soul lock" in place to prevent any betrayal. There were almost no information leaks whatsoever which was also a vital reason that stretched throughout the entire series that Rudra made a fatal strategic mistake later when he could have completely crushed Tempest had he acted full force earlier and not tried his periodic "saint-raising plans" instead.
So what could he have done "better" there? Even the ambush probably wouldn't have worked anyway even if the first hit connected, thanks to his Infinite Regeneration.
The only dumb thing Rimuru does is to always underestimate and suppress his own power due to being TOO mindful of his surroundings and being too attached to his previous life's standards although he keeps working on that too.
>doesn't kill powerful enemies before they get stronger
That only happened with Orc Disaster Geld, which was still within the first year after reincarnation.
>doesn't utilize the power of his officers at all
He delegates jobs to them all the time though? Or do you mean actually using their Skills via Foodchain? He did when he needed to, like in vol. 4 where he combined Souei's and Benimaru's signature moves to defeat the Elemental Colossus.
>consistently lets people who might in the future oppose him get stronger
Again, just Orc Disaster. Also Rimuru has a much higher growth rate anyway so it doesn't matter.
>doesn't know how to keep secrets
He keeps the secrets he really wants to keep at varying degrees. Otherwise Rudra would have killed him off quickly. The only ones who thoroughly know about GS/R/C are Veldora and Charys.
Cameron Jackson
Best girl
I liked her in her original form, though
those thick, bulging horns.
those red teardrops
those fangs
She literally just turned into "normal girl, just with horn accessories, teehee"
If she'd kept the red teardrops and fangs like Benimaru I'd feel much better about her.
Luke Miller
>I liked her in her original form, though
Her so-called "original form" is a retcon.
Robert Russell
He completely fucked it up. The fact that there were no casualties was mostly because Testarossa and Ultima were accidentally in the right place.
As Rimuru theoretically understands, quality over quantity is the rule here. Instead of sending some thousands of his majin soldiers to the first battle, he should have just sent a few demons over there. That would have been completely sufficient and would avoid any chance of casualties, and the Primals wouldn't be limited by having their allies nearby.
With the main 900k Empire's army, he should have done the same. His Primal demons could easily dispatch the ENTIRE army by themselves. More than that, there was absolutely no point in the labyrinth defense plan, which was itself a mistake because he placed his entire fate in hands of Ramiris and by proxy Guy.
>That only happened with Orc Disaster Geld, which was still within the first year after reincarnation.
It actually happens consistently throughout the story. Maribel, Yuuki are two examples. He should have killed Yuuki immediately after he caught him scheming against Tempest after his demon lord evolution, but muh japanese man!
>He delegates jobs to them all the time though?
In most of the series he doesn't utilize the power of Diablo & co. at all. Or many other of his officers.
>Again, just Orc Disaster. Also Rimuru has a much higher growth rate anyway so it doesn't matter.
No, actually almost everyone. Take the evolution of Mizeri and Raine as an example. Sure, he gained some souls out of it but at immense cost. He appears to think that everyone he is at the moment friendly with him has to be friendly with him forever, or so it seems. Another minor thing that annoyed me is that he didn't kick out the sons of Dagrull out, but instead trained them. For what purpose? He's doesn't have any diplomatic relations with Dagrull.
tl;dr he got lucky
Adrian Butler
>quality over quantity
The soldiers, officers, and generals were supposed to also gain experience from these fights. Also exposing the primordials to too much attention early on might backfire. It could have led to Calgurio's group deciding to act more cautiously and not to enter the Labyrinth, or in the worst case it could alert Rudra and cause him to abort the "Saint Raising plan" and instead unleash a full-foce attack with himself, Velgrynd and the Top 10 Royal Guard. Tempest would have been crushed. Rimuru's and Benimaru's approach instead muddled the information about the Primordials because they mostly only entered the fray after the Empire armies were already on the backfoot and were there just in case things went south for the army.
>Maribel, Yuuki are two examples
Mariabel never got a "power-up" at any point. What are you even talking about?
>He should have killed Yuuki immediately after he caught him scheming against Tempest after his demon lord evolution, but muh japanese man!
Which would spectacularly backfire without any info on who/what Yuuki's motives, hidden allies, or powerset are. "The new Demon Lord attacked the Free Guild Grandmaster! So he really was just another malicious monster with a pretty facade after all!" Way to destroy everything he had built up until that point. Mind that Rimuru didn't control the Western Council until after vol. 11 events.
>Take the evolution of Mizeri and Raine as an example
Was he supposed to just say "no" to Guy Crimson? The Foodchain backflow from the 9 awakenings were not progressed enough to even attempt beating Guy yet. He had no choice unless he wanted Guy to be hostile towards him. Rimuru changed his tune once the power-balance changed later by being the only one who got to keep his Ultimate Skills a secret during Walpurgis in vol. 18
>he didn't kick out the sons of Dagrull out, but instead trained them. For what purpose?
Shion's request.
Eli Scott
You mean if not for his wife.