**** it. Guess I'll just do it.

[ApiesDeathbyLazors]

I've gone over this match so many times in my head I've pretty much already come to every conclusion possible and pretty much lost interest in it, but I might as well just do it anyway. See what happens.

Esdeath and the Thing fight in an abondoned office building in the dead of night. Esdeath is base with ISCIC restricted. The Thing has assimilated three fodder humans, two are confronting Esdeath while one is attempting to sneak up behind. The Thing has complete knowledge on Esdeath. SBA for the rest, victory via any means possible.

Esdeath

The Thing (John Carpenter)

 

[Starter_Pack]

Not voting yet, but can't Esdeath just, I dunno, freeze them in an ice block?

 

[ApiesDeathbyLazors]

Yes, but that won't kill the Thing as it has a resistance to extreme cold. Also if Esdeath touches at all she loses.

EDIT: I'm off to bed.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Esdeath is completely willing to cut off a limb if she catches onto assimilation. She cut off her own arm against Akame after all.

 

[Starter_Pack]

I mean, yeah, I know it has a resistance to extreme cold. But...she literally has a move that freezes her opponent in a huge block of ice. So, I'm not entirely sure that resistance is gonna mean too much with that.

Unless it can somehow break itself out, that is.

 

[Hunterzillas]

Yes, but that won't kill the Thing as it has a resistance to extreme cold. Also if Esdeath touches at all she loses.

EDIT: I'm off to bed.

She diesnt need yo kill it, just incapacitate it.

 

[ApiesDeathbyLazors]

I'm already starting to regret this.

Esdeath is completely willing to cut off a limb if she catches onto assimilation. She cut off her own arm against Akame after all.

If she realizes it happening. The Thing's assimilation is subtle and by the time she's aware something is wrong, most of her body will be converted.

Hunterzillas:
She diesnt need yo kill it, just incapacitate it.
Yup, that literally her only win-con. The issue is whether she'll freeze it or go CQC first. A single drop of blood on her skin is enough for the Thing to win.

 

[ApiesDeathbyLazors]

I mean, yeah, I know it has a resistance to extreme cold. But...she literally has a move that freezes her opponent in a huge block of ice. So, I'm not entirely sure that resistance is gonna mean too much with that.

Unless it can somehow break itself out, that is.

A 9-A, at best, isn't likely to break out of a 7-B ice block. If she starts the battle with a full field freeze then she wins. If she walks up and turns the Thing to paste then she's lost cause she's likely covered in blood now.

 

[Schnee_One]

<7B vs 9B

Okay what?

Lelouch vs Esdeath I get but this?

 

[ApiesDeathbyLazors]

>Durability Negation

>Low-High Regen

>Parasitic Possesion

>Resistance to extreme cold

If Esdeath couldn't incase it in a block of ice she'd have no win-con.

 

[Schnee_One]

Resistance to extreme cold isn't really an issue when her ice is 7B.

Regen can can be dealt with by AoE well enough ic the AP advantage is High, which it is.

Possession is fine, she just cuts off her arm.

 

[ApiesDeathbyLazors]

Resistance to extreme cold isn't really an issue when her ice is 7B.
Regen can can be dealt with by AoE well enough ic the AP advantage is High, which it is.

Possession is fine, she just cuts off her arm.

>The resistance isn't the Thing tanking any ice attacks, just that the Thing cells won't rupture form cold like normal cells and it will infact enter a form of suppended animation.

> How does AOE and high AP counter cellular level regen considering the above mentioned resistance?

> Again, unless Esdeath has some cellular level awareness I'm unaware of she won't know she's being possesed untill it's too late.

 

[Schnee_One]

Suspended animation is incap

AoE that covers all you're cells stops regen, kinda obvious.

It blatantly consumes you're arm with you noticing.

Also, it needs to touch esdeath, really hard when said opponent spams ranged attacks and has a rapier

 

[Starter_Pack]

This match really does boil down to one base question. What is Esdeath going to do in response to this exact scenario? Will she freeze everyone around her, or will she cut them down? And considering her noteworthy erratic behavior the majority of the time, I'm not really sure what she would default to.

 

[Schnee_One]

Erratic?

 

[Starter_Pack]

By erratic, I mean she isn't very predictable in her approach to battle. Sometimes she plays the range game, and sometimes she takes her battles up close. It literally depends on her mood most of the time.

 

[ApiesDeathbyLazors]

And Starter's given the reasons why I personally think the only logical vote is for Inconclusive, but I can't vote so don't listen to me.

 

[Schnee_One]

I mean Esdeath needs to literally touch the ground and the sheer AoE and AP beats the regen

 

[ApiesDeathbyLazors]

That's true, if she begins the fight with Iceing the field. If she decides to say punch, kick or otherwise CQC the fodder Things to death then she loses and Esdeath has no consistant opener for combat. Hence Incon. But that's my just opinion. But if you'd rather vote for Esdeath I can't really dispute that considering she can win and it's very possible.

 

[Schnee_One]

She does

Literally every fight she does

Alternatively she stabs it and freezes it like Susanoo

 

[DMB_1]

>7-B vs. 9-B

Fairly sure that the sheer force of one of her punches would completely vaporize them.

 

[Starter_Pack]

>7-B vs. 9-B
Fairly sure that the sheer force of one of her punches would completely vaporize them.

The thing is that the moment she touches it, it will infect her and corrupt her whole body. That's literally been the whole argument for The Thing.

Not that it would be able to get close thanks to her ice powers, but still.

 

[DMB_1]

A poor argument IMO. The thing can't infect something that would immediately vaporize it by punching it.

Also, any attacks that have more than 10 meters of range are GG for Esdeath.