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Currently, we have a Demon Physiology page for DMC to basically avoid listing in every single demon profile all those abilities, and that's fine, my problem is that some of these abilities aren't really based on physiology or shouldn't be given to all demons, for many reasons. First, I need to ask you, what makes something a ability physiology based ? Answering that question is the biggest point of this CRT, since, in my view, we lost track of that question. I'm sure most of you agree that physiology based abilities are those general haxes and resistances that demons shall have by being demons, and to further prove that said ability scales to ALL demons, we need feats coming from many of them or a quote that uses words in a general sense, with no specific type of demon being mentioned
Let me show an example:
"Demons can strike fear in men by their mere presence"
A clear, direct statement for all demons about being able to Fear Hax them, scales to all of them and therefore, it is physiology based
Now an example that DOESN'T apply to Physiology:
"A flying demon from the Underworld, they can use poison as weapon"
Despite not being 100% clear, a little attention shows that not all demons in existance can use poison as weapons, as the quote is being specific about one type of demon
Among the current abilities, some of them are literally done by one single type of demon, and we absolutely should be more careful in adding this stuff to their physiology, most of the abilities are fine, and why ? Because the statement mentions "Demons", in general, or the feat is consistently done by many of them in different levels, but some others have no general quote whatsoever and/ or are done by a single one. If we keep in this way, demons are going to start being composite, with no unique abilities, and if u played some DMC games, you'll notice demons are very different from each other, some can fly, some are faster than others, some can lift more than others, some can manipulate space and time, some can use poison, fire, ice, darkness, electricity, sound, weaponize parts of their body, the list goes forever
So we'll look at the current abilities and see which actually have anything close to a proof of being physiology based, following the rules:
- It has to be stated to all (ALL) demons
- It has to be used by many (Many, not two or three) demons
Basic, as you can see, and I don't think I'm asking for too much
Demon Physiology has:
Mid Tier is fine, as it only adds that enhanced regeneration
High Tier
I'll talk about the DWE later
Resistances
High Tier
Now, on the Demon World Energy:
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Most of my problems are about the wording, it repeats stuff many times and could be less convoluted
Accel Deveopment problem:
Small thing actually, as most of the scans are fine, except two:
The first one isn't Accel Development or Reactive Evolution, but actually Rebellion awakening Dante's powers and thus he gains some new abilities (Enough to overcome his wounds at the moment), since it's via a Power Bestowal/Empowerment from a external power source, it shouldn't be listed here.
The other is just the link that explains why they have Low-High Regeneration (As it happens after the Yamato is delivered back to Nero), it should be on their Sparda Mid Tier Regeneration scans.
Then, we have a problem with the other section of abilities:
Current format:
New Proposal:
Basically, separate each ability, each Immortality said ability negates, for each scan, it will be the list a bit longer, but far better to read
Now, on these abilities, we have a MASSIVE circular scaling that happens on the resistances section, as seen here:
Note: EXTREME attention now, this is the most confusing part
Now, it's true that they are not affected by their own Soul and Mind Hax, but the very hax list shows examples of Dante affecting Vergil as feats for him, then why are we listing these as resistances ? There are scans where it shows it working, other shows the opposite. It's extremely confusing and innacurate, specially with quotes like this:
They can withstand attacks from each other or from others demons and still keep normally regenerating from their wounds just fine and they are also capable of developing the ability to resist when their resistances and/or adapting ability are overcome or denied by themselves or others and even resist layers of negations abilities
So, my suggestion ? First we separate what they completely resist from what is currently under discussion:
Avoiding a complete repetition of scans in the process aswell
Now, into the other abilities, let's take a look at each scan and see what's happening there
First scan: like when Dante was still able to instantly heal his wounds when he fought Vergil and he pierced Dante's hands with Yamato and reflected Dante's bullets back for him
This is 6-C Vergil casually fighting Dante, we can't say he was going all out (and thus, using all of his haxes), when he did went more serious, at the top of the Temen-ni-gru, Dante only healed from his wounds after awakening his powers via Rebellion
Second scan: or when Dante after being fatally wounded by Vergil and this time being unable to heal his wound, he was show to have adapted to it by awakened his sleeping demonic powers to avoid dying and also in the process, he became much stronger and faster on his normal form
This only happened because Rebellion was in contact with his blood, which awakened his sword and by that, his demonic power, it doesn't come from his own body reacting but a external power up that will not happen again as the Sword is already awakened. That gave him a higher Regeneration (They jump from Mid to Low High)
Third scan: Vergil was capable to resist to some extent when he was cutted in half by Dante and still was capable to regenerate fast enough to not have his his upper half and lower half disconnected between each other.
This one is the good one
Note that literally none is related to Accelerated Development, they never nuke this from each other
What actually happens is that they can negate each other regeneration to a certain point, and as you guys saw above, their Reactive Evolution do cover their Regeneration (Dante's Awakening and Nero's case aren't good examples as mentioned, but we still have Vergil's case), which explains why they still can eventually regen, but close attention, they are not negating their Reactive Evolution, as it is what's making them heal and come back, what is being nuked is their Regeneration. Being capable of adapting to the current body damage and heal is literally Reactive Evolution, we do have examples of Dante not being able to nuke someone's regen nd eventually managing to harm said person, but they are done by God Tier 2-C Dante (Beyond Sparda Blood), it isn't the case here (But DMC5 changes that, just wait)
So the order of events is:
Vergil cuts Dante > Regeneration Negation > Dante is wounded > Reactive Evolution > Dante heals overtime > Vergil is still capable of harming him
DMC3 is literally filled with this. Based on that, my suggestion actually is, instead of them having this massive circular Hax-Resistance thing, this:
Add to their Regeneration Negation this:
And add to their Accel Dev and Reactive Evolution this:
I believe this leaves the explanation much easier to understand and avoids the circular scaling. It's one big "wow, that looks so much better", isn't ? Now, one can argue this is all about stacking Hax and Resistance again and again and again, but that severely lacks proof and is a massive High End interpretation of their battles that literally can be explained with a low end, safe explanation of the events. It also makes their Regeneration extremely difficult to fully negate
Now, the last thing
Like I said, DMC2 Dante did nuked someone regen after not being able to (Against Chen), however, he isn't capable of negating Vergil's in DMC5. Yes, now we have the broken scaling of events, as DMC2 Dante already has:
So DMC5 Vergil should have:
Aaand that's it, it's a bit long and I'm sorry for such a massive list of stuff, but all these problems are really tiresome to see on the page, and I had to do something. Read with attention and let's focus in making the page as "safe and accurate" as possible, never as "strong" as possible
Let me show an example:
"Demons can strike fear in men by their mere presence"
A clear, direct statement for all demons about being able to Fear Hax them, scales to all of them and therefore, it is physiology based
Now an example that DOESN'T apply to Physiology:
"A flying demon from the Underworld, they can use poison as weapon"
Despite not being 100% clear, a little attention shows that not all demons in existance can use poison as weapons, as the quote is being specific about one type of demon
Among the current abilities, some of them are literally done by one single type of demon, and we absolutely should be more careful in adding this stuff to their physiology, most of the abilities are fine, and why ? Because the statement mentions "Demons", in general, or the feat is consistently done by many of them in different levels, but some others have no general quote whatsoever and/ or are done by a single one. If we keep in this way, demons are going to start being composite, with no unique abilities, and if u played some DMC games, you'll notice demons are very different from each other, some can fly, some are faster than others, some can lift more than others, some can manipulate space and time, some can use poison, fire, ice, darkness, electricity, sound, weaponize parts of their body, the list goes forever
So we'll look at the current abilities and see which actually have anything close to a proof of being physiology based, following the rules:
- It has to be stated to all (ALL) demons
- It has to be used by many (Many, not two or three) demons
Basic, as you can see, and I don't think I'm asking for too much
Demon Physiology has:
Fine for obvious reasons
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics: Even the most simple type of demon is easily capable of tearing humans apart, cutting them in half with a single blow, and pose a threat to entire sections of a city.
Fine, the statement is demons in a general sense
- Supernatural Willpower (Demons are capable to use the powers of the Beastheads, which is confirmed that you need a strong will and mind to be able to do that and also to not get possessed by it)
Fine, the statement is demons in a general sense
- Shapeshifting (Demons can shape-shift all they want, even when possessing humans or objects and can also make weapons from their bodies)
Fine, the statement is demons in a general sense
- Power Bestowal: Demons are beings capable of becoming Devil Arms by either crushing them and gaining power over them or becoming friends with them.
Not fine, only Blades are seen on this level underwater, and their description is:
上級悪魔が現世を攻撃するため開発した俊敏な戦闘生物
今回登場するのは水中に潜み鋭い爪を打ち出して攻撃する水棲の亜種であるらしい
Which translates to:
A battle creature created by the senior demons to attack this world.
The one encountered this time seems to be an aquatic subspecies that lurks in the water and attacks by striking with its sharp claws.
There are those skulls that u fight underwater in 1 and Lucia's mission in DMC2, but still not enough proof to cross scale to all demon kind as still doesn't show many demons having this ability
Since there were multiple demons inside them, not only Dante, I have no problems
Massive problem, the feat is done by Dante who has the Sparda Bloodline, which is directly stated to be special among demons, they don't scale to Dante, it's Dante who scales to them. It should be added to Sparda Lineage
As again said by Nico:
"He may be only half demon, but when that half is the blood of Sparda, that's some high octane gas you're working with. Most demons don't stand a chance"
So feats done by Dante (or anyone from the Sparda Bloodline) can't scale to other demons unless stated otherwise
Only one demon is seen here with no quotes with general sense, it should be removed and given to this specific demon, and added to the Sparda Lineage
Fine, the statement is demons in a general sense
Fine, the statement is demons in a general sense
- Regeneration (Low-Godly) via Incorporeality and Possession: Demons are many kinds of evil spirits and they also can send their consciousness from the Demon World to the Human World from small gaps and they can also rebuild their bodies when they are possessing things and even materializing themselves when they died, once their rage and fury are mixed together to create the demons called Soul Eaters. However, is required that they possess nearby materials using only their souls to be able to reform their bodies back. They Devil Trigger state allows then to heal their wounds instantly.
Fine, the statement is demons in a general sense
- Immortality (Types 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7): Demons don't age at all, and thanks to their regeneration, they can also survive great amounts of damage, and also can possess others to exist in the Demon World while also being undead.
Fine, the statement is demons in a general sense
- Acausality (Type 4): The Demon World has a different flow of time, laws of physics, laws of gravity and is a place that have different laws that exist upon reality compared to the Human World. Demons are unaffected by the Beasthead's powers, which is capable to bind the fates of humans to himself to never let them escape and to devour them, they are also unaffected when the Demon World is stopping the flow of time and warping space along with the past, present and future. Demons also do not need to follow the laws that exist upon realities, either being the Demon World or the Human World.
Fine, the statement is demons in a general sense
- Fear, Pain and Blood Empowerments: The mere presence of demons causes fear, can also feed off despair and get stronger from it. Demons receive more demonic power if they hit their opponents or take damage. Demons get stronger by receiving human blood and even the blood being in their bodies already increases their demonic powers.
Fine, the statement is demons in a general sense
- Corruption Type 1 (Implanting demonic powers in someone to gain powers beyond what ordinary people is capable of, is necessary that the person in question have a strong mind and body to not become a mindless beast in the process)
Fine, the statement is demons in a general sense
- Demonic Energy Manipulation, Unholy Manipulation and Magic Manipulation: Every demon power, physical or magical, shares the same source of energy, their Demonic Energy.They can channel it through objects to increase their power, manifest it out of thin air to create a platform for double jumps, among other uses. Although not every demon is capable of using Demonic Energy as magic.
Fine, the statement is demons in a general sense
- Empathic Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Madness Manipulation (Type 3) and Aura: The mere presence of demons causes despair, fear and insanity.
Multiple feats from multiple demons from multiple tiers, perfectly fine
- Soul Manipulation: Demons can manipulate souls in various ways to kill their opponents and themselves, ranging from simple destroying to removing and absorbing of the souls.
Fine, the statement is demons in a general sense
- Dimensional Travel: Demons can travel between the Demon World and the Human World and can also get out of Fault's body, which is another dimension.
Mid Tier is fine, as it only adds that enhanced regeneration
High Tier
Only done by Mundus, no quote for others or general quote for demons, so it should be on Mundus profile only. It's also done by Sparda DT Dante, who has the Sparda Bloodline and thus, doesn't scale to any demons unless statements saying otherwise. It should be added to Sparda Bloodline (At 2-C)
Only done by Alternate Mundus, no quote for others or general quote for demons, so it should be on Alternate Mundus profile only. He is COMPLETELY different in physiology from any demon to EVER set foot on the series (As he is Non Existant), this being on the physiology page is contradictory
- Improved Empathic Manipulation and Improved Fear Manipulation: Their Fear power is even greater, capable of making people who can endure normal fear from demons completely collapse out of terror. Alternative Mundus's laugh was making Berly fell despair and fear, a very casual Dante was capable to completely paralyze V of despair and fear, when V senses Urizen's powers, he instantly become unable to even move.
I'll talk about the DWE later
Resistances
Now, said demon does have a strong poison, but the Noctpteran is a Boss Fight that you face inside its lair, where you also find the larvae, giving the circumstances, it's very clear that not all demons in existance resist this as it's under a specific domain, we also never see this demon around the DW and how the others react to them, they can avoid the posion by literally staying away from it or its lair, similar to how a human avoids a snake. We know, via Nico's statements, that demons can eventually adapt (Under no specific timeframe) to their environment which is literally what happens on earth with the animals, so yes, this should be removed and added as a Poison Resistance to DMC2 Dante (Outside of Sparda's Bloodline as he is already beyond his father at this point)
- Poison Manipulation. Demons can withstand the poisons of the Noctopterams's wings, which is strong enough to kill an elephant.
The enhanced resistance in DT is also fine, while Dante's examples obviously do not scale to the demons (special demon juice), Lucia isn't, so no problems for me
High Tier
Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiations: They can endure being in deep space, which has these properties
Only done by Mundus, no quote for others or general quote for demons, so it should be on Mundus profile only and for 2-C Sparda Physiology via Sparda DT Dante
Now, on the Demon World Energy:
Currently, Demon Kings are listed on Demon Juice page as users of the Demon World Energy, which is, you guessed, the magic power that sorrounds the Demon World, you can find the list of the page. But, there is massive problem with that: It isn't physiology based
As you guys already know, physiology pages becomes necessary when a race has many abilities and resistances by basically being what they are, one notable example is the Noble Physiology Page from Vampire Hunter D, which takes all of their common powers and list them there, to avoid a massive repetition of abilities in every single page. DMC's Demon page is no different, but what surprises me is said energy being there even when the very page assumes it only applies to two Demon Kings: Alt Mundus and Argosax, possibly for Mundus and Pluto, but that, actually, is wrong
Mundus was likely THE Demon King, and we never actually saw his Prime (Not in power, but as a King), while we know even less about Pluto, however they possibly having said energy just because they are/were Kings is very unlikely for me, the reason being Urizen, the (apparently) forgotten Demon King. Even after consuming the Qlipthoth Tree (And actually becoming King), he never showcased said energy or was even stated to have on his side, that alone shows us that being a King of the Underworld isn't enough to wield its energy in battle, therefore, it is a abiility, not a physilogy based thing, and should be removed from the DMC Demon page and added to Alt Mundus and Argosax profiles. I welcome anyone who links scans with them using said energy, however
Now, I know adding this to their profile does make their P&A section a lot bigger, but we have long sections like that all over the wiki (Some of them are bigger than Dante's whole profile) and keeping non-physiology based powers inside a physiology page is wrong by default, so please, avoid comments on that
Sparda Bois
Most of my problems are about the wording, it repeats stuff many times and could be less convoluted
Accel Deveopment problem:
Small thing actually, as most of the scans are fine, except two:
The first one isn't Accel Development or Reactive Evolution, but actually Rebellion awakening Dante's powers and thus he gains some new abilities (Enough to overcome his wounds at the moment), since it's via a Power Bestowal/Empowerment from a external power source, it shouldn't be listed here.
The other is just the link that explains why they have Low-High Regeneration (As it happens after the Yamato is delivered back to Nero), it should be on their Sparda Mid Tier Regeneration scans.
Then, we have a problem with the other section of abilities:
Current format:
- Soul Manipulation (Soul Destruction and Soul Removal), Possession Negation, Mind Manipulation, Immortality Negation (Type 2,6 and 7), Regeneration Negation (Up to Low-Godly), Accelerated Development Negation, Reactive Evolution Negation and Resistance Negation (Are capable to manipulate souls, can kill demons which are evil spirits when they are possessing things with nothing but normal attacks, can remove the souls from demons, like when Dante separated a demon from the host without killing the possessed and when V's removed Nightmare's core. They can interact and destroy demon's minds, which results in than avoiding that demons became Soul Eaters in the process, once their rage and fury are mixed together. They can develop the ability to overcome and/or negate resistances and/or adapting abilities in the middle of combat and even overcome layers of resistances, like when Dante was capable to permanently destroy two heads of the Cerberus when they fought on the entrance of the Temen-ni-gru, or when Nero was able to inflict fatal wounds on Berial and he needed to retreat to the Demon World to recover his strength and even after coming back to the Human World again, Berial states that he is not completely recovered from his battle with Nero. Vergil was capable to eventually kill Dante when they fought at the top of the Temen-ni-gru. Sparda was show to have made a scar on Beowulf's face. Dante was capable to overcome and eventually land a fatal injury on Vergil when they fought in the Demon World and despite being able to regenerate from being cutted in half, he was unable to completely heal himself, which resulted in him admitting being defeated by Dante and also resulted on him being defeated and turned into the Nelo Angelo by Mundus some time after his fight with Dante. When Dante after absorbing the power of Sparda sealed inside the Devil Sword Sparda, he was capable to overcome and eventually land a fatal injury on Mundus.)
New Proposal:
- Soul, Possession and Immortality Negation: (Soul Destruction, Soul Removal, Types 6 and 7): Are capable to manipulate souls, can kill demons which are evil spirits when they are possessing things with nothing but normal attacks, can remove the souls from demons, like when Dante separated a demon from the host without killing the possessed and when V's removed Nightmare's core.
- Mind Manipulation (Mind Destruction) They can interact and destroy demon's minds, which results in than avoiding that demons became Soul Eaters in the process, once their rage and fury are mixed together.
- Regeneration and Immortality Negation (Up to Low-Godly and Type 2): Can consistently nullify Demon Regeneration, Dante was capable to permanently destroy two heads of the Cerberus when they fought on the entrance of the Temen-ni-gru, or when Nero was able to inflict fatal wounds on Berial and he needed to retreat to the Demon World to recover his strength and even after coming back to the Human World again, Berial states that he is not completely recovered from his battle with Nero. Sparda was show to have made a scar on Beowulf's face. When Dante after absorbing the power of Sparda sealed inside the Devil Sword Sparda, he was capable to overcome and eventually land a fatal injury on Mundus)
- Accelerated Development and Reactive Evolution Negation: Vergil was capable to eventually kill Dante when they fought at the top of the Temen-ni-gru. Dante was capable to overcome and eventually land a fatal injury on Vergil when they fought in the Demon World and despite being able to regenerate from being cutted in half, he was unable to completely heal himself and also resulted on him being defeated and turned into the Nelo Angelo by Mundus some time after his fight with Dante.
Basically, separate each ability, each Immortality said ability negates, for each scan, it will be the list a bit longer, but far better to read
Now, on these abilities, we have a MASSIVE circular scaling that happens on the resistances section, as seen here:
Note: EXTREME attention now, this is the most confusing part
- Resistance to Soul Manipulation, Regeneration Negation (Up to Low-Godly) Possession Negation, Mind Manipulation, Immortality Negation (Type 2,6 and 7) Accelerated Development Negation,, Reactive Evolution Negation and Resistance Negation (They can withstand attacks from each other or from others demons and still keep normally regenerating from their wounds just fine and they are also capable of developing the ability to resist when their resistances and/or adapting ability are overcome or denied by themselves or others and even resist layers of negations abilities, like when Dante was still able to instantly heal his wounds when he fought Vergil and he pierced Dante's hands with Yamato and reflected Dante's bullets back for him, or when Dante after being fatally wounded by Vergil and this time being unable to heal his wound, he was show to have adapted to it by awakened his sleeping demonic powers to avoid dying and also in the process, he became much stronger and faster on his normal form. Vergil was capable to resist to some extent when he was cutted in half by Dante and still was capable to regenerate fast enough to not have his his upper half and lower half disconnected between each other.
Now, it's true that they are not affected by their own Soul and Mind Hax, but the very hax list shows examples of Dante affecting Vergil as feats for him, then why are we listing these as resistances ? There are scans where it shows it working, other shows the opposite. It's extremely confusing and innacurate, specially with quotes like this:
They can withstand attacks from each other or from others demons and still keep normally regenerating from their wounds just fine and they are also capable of developing the ability to resist when their resistances and/or adapting ability are overcome or denied by themselves or others and even resist layers of negations abilities
So, my suggestion ? First we separate what they completely resist from what is currently under discussion:
- Soul Manipulation and Immortality Negation (6 and 7): Can withstand attack from each other, which are capable of destroying Souls as previously mentioned
* Mind Manipulation: Said attack are also capable of destroying the target's mind as previously mentioned
Avoiding a complete repetition of scans in the process aswell
Now, into the other abilities, let's take a look at each scan and see what's happening there
First scan: like when Dante was still able to instantly heal his wounds when he fought Vergil and he pierced Dante's hands with Yamato and reflected Dante's bullets back for him
This is 6-C Vergil casually fighting Dante, we can't say he was going all out (and thus, using all of his haxes), when he did went more serious, at the top of the Temen-ni-gru, Dante only healed from his wounds after awakening his powers via Rebellion
Second scan: or when Dante after being fatally wounded by Vergil and this time being unable to heal his wound, he was show to have adapted to it by awakened his sleeping demonic powers to avoid dying and also in the process, he became much stronger and faster on his normal form
This only happened because Rebellion was in contact with his blood, which awakened his sword and by that, his demonic power, it doesn't come from his own body reacting but a external power up that will not happen again as the Sword is already awakened. That gave him a higher Regeneration (They jump from Mid to Low High)
Third scan: Vergil was capable to resist to some extent when he was cutted in half by Dante and still was capable to regenerate fast enough to not have his his upper half and lower half disconnected between each other.
This one is the good one
Note that literally none is related to Accelerated Development, they never nuke this from each other
What actually happens is that they can negate each other regeneration to a certain point, and as you guys saw above, their Reactive Evolution do cover their Regeneration (Dante's Awakening and Nero's case aren't good examples as mentioned, but we still have Vergil's case), which explains why they still can eventually regen, but close attention, they are not negating their Reactive Evolution, as it is what's making them heal and come back, what is being nuked is their Regeneration. Being capable of adapting to the current body damage and heal is literally Reactive Evolution, we do have examples of Dante not being able to nuke someone's regen nd eventually managing to harm said person, but they are done by God Tier 2-C Dante (Beyond Sparda Blood), it isn't the case here (But DMC5 changes that, just wait)
So the order of events is:
Vergil cuts Dante > Regeneration Negation > Dante is wounded > Reactive Evolution > Dante heals overtime > Vergil is still capable of harming him
DMC3 is literally filled with this. Based on that, my suggestion actually is, instead of them having this massive circular Hax-Resistance thing, this:
Add to their Regeneration Negation this:
- Regeneration and Immortality Negation (Up to Low-Godly and Type 2): Can consistently nullify Demon Regeneration, Dante was capable to permanently destroy two heads of the Cerberus when they fought on the entrance of the Temen-ni-gru, or when Nero was able to inflict fatal wounds on Berial and he needed to retreat to the Demon World to recover his strength and even after coming back to the Human World again, Berial states that he is not completely recovered from his battle with Nero. Sparda was show to have made a scar on Beowulf's face. When Dante after absorbing the power of Sparda sealed inside the Devil Sword Sparda, he was capable to overcome and eventually land a fatal injury on Mundus. Capable of inflicting fatal wounds on each other
And add to their Accel Dev and Reactive Evolution this:
Their body can adapt to damage and is capable of eventually overcoming their own attacks, which are capable of nullyfing their own Regeneration
I believe this leaves the explanation much easier to understand and avoids the circular scaling. It's one big "wow, that looks so much better", isn't ? Now, one can argue this is all about stacking Hax and Resistance again and again and again, but that severely lacks proof and is a massive High End interpretation of their battles that literally can be explained with a low end, safe explanation of the events. It also makes their Regeneration extremely difficult to fully negate
Now, the last thing
Like I said, DMC2 Dante did nuked someone regen after not being able to (Against Chen), however, he isn't capable of negating Vergil's in DMC5. Yes, now we have the broken scaling of events, as DMC2 Dante already has:
Improved Accelerated Development and Improved Reactive Evolution (Dante can develop the ability to negate or overcome his opponents's regeneration in the middle of combat...)
So DMC5 Vergil should have:
Resistance to Limited Accelerated Development and Reactive Evolution (Dante, despite being capable of overcoming his opponent's regeneration even if he's unable of doing it at first, was still incapable of sucessfully harming Vergil, who managed to heal his wounds despite being left tired from the fight)
Aaand that's it, it's a bit long and I'm sorry for such a massive list of stuff, but all these problems are really tiresome to see on the page, and I had to do something. Read with attention and let's focus in making the page as "safe and accurate" as possible, never as "strong" as possible