Pre-launch claim checklist
Separate official footage, hands-on observations, community inference and unsupported claims.
Operational objective
Before release, every claim about ANANTA belongs to one of four tiers: the studio said it, someone was filmed doing it, a player inferred it, or nobody has a source. Most bad pre-launch guides are built by quietly promoting tier three into tier one. This page is the sorting procedure we run on our own pages, written down so you can run it on anyone else’s.
Decision route
- Ask what kind of evidence this is before asking whether it is true. Stated, demonstrated, inferred and unsourced are four different things, and only the first two have an origin you can point at.
- Date everything. A statement from an early showing and one from the most recent broadcast are not equal evidence about the same system, and the gap between them is usually where the change happened.
- Separate what a build showed from what a build proved. Footage from a controlled demo shows a system exists; it does not show its cost, its frequency or its final tuning.
- Name the inference out loud when you make one. "Probably works like X because similar games do" is a legitimate thing to publish — as long as the sentence says so and does not arrive dressed as a fact.
- Write down what would change your mind. A claim you cannot imagine being wrong is not a claim about the game; it is a claim about your expectations.
Failure review
- Citing a tier list built before release as though ranking unreleased characters were an observation rather than a guess.
- Treating repetition as confirmation. Ten sites repeating one unsourced sentence is still one unsourced sentence.
- Losing the date. An accurate claim about a build from a year ago becomes a false claim about the game today without anyone editing a word.
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This page describes a method, not a verdict. It cannot tell you whether any specific claim about ANANTA is true — only which tier it belongs to and what would move it up one.