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Hmm I see. But again, Mega Man has a long history of rock-paper-scissors strategy and general adaptability to what his opponent does. As soon as he sees Blades as an ice user, he'll pull out some fire or electrical attacks by default based on previous experience. Not saying they'll do massive damage or that Blades has the same weaknesses as the Robot Masters, but the fire weapons can increase the temperature of the air around them with flames or evaporate his water (assuming if the water works that way) to prevent Blades' boost. But then again, Mega Man can't do anything to AZ temperature when that's pulled out.
Even then, this argument should be negligible considering that Mega Man one-shots with anything whereas Blades one-shots with AZ in general.
AoE includes acid rain (which was proven useless since Blades resists), gravity-enhanced rotating boulders, reflecting lasers, multiple crystal projectiles, etc. and homing attacks are missiles just to list them. Yeah Blades may null them, but at least the projectiles are there to provide distractions or cover to prevent Blades from landing a killing blow to Mega Man whereas Mega Man is given more time to dodge or counter with something of his own in the crossfire.
In the context you gave me, Calibur's precog just seems to be the kind of precog that's not used for combat (in the sense of like immediate precog where he sees an attack beforehand and immediately counters) but the kind that's long term in the future where he sees something and tries to prevent it from happening throughout the course of a journey or something. It seems story-based and not definite because you said it yourself when you said how the world "could possibly" end or where Calibur "could fail". In a sudden fight against an opponent he's never seen before (like this one), I'm not sure if this will still apply. Again, I could be wrong since I know nothing about the series so kindly correct me on that.
Blades' performance against Durendal's hax is impressive but is no different than what Mega Man has done more consistently and with more varied opponents that I listed previously, especially when Durendal's ability is like a glorified teleportation. And I see now, Blades has more so analytical prediction from his performance against Durendal. Well in that case, that's not going to help him against a time stop since Mega Man can still harm him as time is stopped whereas Durendal couldn't attack during Ocean History and needed to come out first. And even without time stop, Mega Man has the pressure and set-ups to land the killing blow, providing cover and escape while making it harder for Blades to hit him and possibly make it harder for him to predict him with his versatility.
I still think Mega Man can edge it out not just because of his versatile arsenal, experience and time stop but also because of the fact that virtually anything he attacks with is gonna kill Blades. Meanwhile, Blades needs to rely on AZ otherwise his other attacks and skills aren't going to do much. So in that regard, it's much easier for Mega Man here to get a kill.
I must leave for now, but I'll return once I have free time.
