This match should wait another half a decade 'til Ladybug profile begins to be updated.
LMAO TRUE
S2 Ladybug > Carapace >= Power of Sekmeth Pharaoh >>> S1 Ladybug (& Chat Noir!) = ~37 KT
Fair enough, but its not the only factor here. Also as
@WeeklyBattles mentioned, Ruby also upscales from the 29 kiloton feat she scales to, so the gap is still quite narrow
Ruby
Range: Extended Melee Range with Crescent Rose, at least Hundreds of Meters with sniper rifle
Ladybug:
Range: Standard Melee Range, at least
Tens of Kilometers with her Yo-yo, likely far higher (Thomas Astruc stated on Twitter that the length of the Yo-yo is "probably infinite"
[3])
Is there something I might be missing here? I might assume this is about effective range and whatever, but Ladybug can definitely target her from hundreds of meters a way if she wants so.
True, Ladybug does technically have the longer range, but its not a concistent range nor is it really an effective combat range. Ladybug could try using the range to tie up Ruby with her yoyo, but the latters semblance makes grabing her very unlikely, much less restraining her for a long period of time.
I don’t know from where the comparisons this would stream of. Desperada legitimately outmaneuvered Ladybug and Aspik over (not exaggerating) 25,000 times on a loop that lasted months without even realizing that time was being rewinded against her to repeat that same moment over and over. I won’t pretend to know Ruby at all, but as far as to targeting somebody goes, Desperada is hard to top, especially because there’s no way in the world you’ll make me believe that Ladybug is, on any conceivable way, an incompetent dodger for the feat to be seen as any sort of trivial.
I brought up Desperada because much like Ruby, she's an effective sniper and basically kept Ladybug hiding behind cover until she could get the help of Aspik and then eventually Viperion, though Desperada is also good at closer ranges as well. And this was also the first time that Desperada appeared as well, so she had managed to take down Ladybug multiple times despite being new with her powers as well as unknowingly going through thousands of variations due to Second Chance.
The reason why I bring Desperada up is that Ruby is like Desperada but with MUCH more mobility. Consider her semblance, which not only gives her a massive speed amp, but also makes her intangible and grants her the ability to FLY with her semblance. Also factor in Ruby's own non semblance acrobatics and you're left with an opponent who can not only match Ladybug's own agility, but also surpass it. And this is not the only factor Ruby has going for her, but I still need to do that full analysis.
UPDATE: Also while im on the topic of intangibility, I should mention that one of the only villains Ladybug faced that actually used Intangibility was Style Queen, who Ladybug could not even harm nor destroy her akuma until she used her Lucky Charm. And style Queen was hardly much of a capable fighter outside of using her powers, so Ruby would basically a hypermobile style queen who not only has actual combat experience with her Scythe and some H2H skill (not that she needs it), but also has a giant Sniper-Rifle/Scythe hybrid.
Fair enough, I'll concede that timebreaker does get amps as well, I just think that's Ruby's amps are just better given her more noticeable feats, and its not the only thing Ruby gets with her semblance.
