I'd like to say, contrary to popular belief, IR does not mean being untouchable.
6.65 tons*
Neither do I, but it's pretty damn helpful when any dodge or parry is a win.
Might be missing something, but none of that feels THAT mindblowing. I mean, it's good, but Travis also stomps multiple trained and armed individuals at once with ease and he has fought an incredibly varied amount of trained assassins- and when I say varied, I mean "superheroes with lasers, ninjas, giant sci-fi tanks, undead, magicians, laser-spamming flying astronauts, cowboys, doctor octopus, giants, robots, giant robots, et cetera, et cetera".
Travis can easily cut through someone who can stand in an intense housefire and not even feel it while in a weakened form.
Eh, look at the person he stomped again. She says "I could master in one day techniques it would take others years to do!", so if we assume just two years per day, that's the equivalent of 1500 years of obsessive training dedicates solely to defeating Travis, and keep in mind Travis' fights were televised so she totally knew what he fought like. And yet he defeated her super easily despite going out of his way not to scratch her with his weapon. This is assuming "years" means the lowest possible thing it could mean, it could be three times that for all we know.
Travis doesn't really do anything supernatural outside of Dark Step/Dark Side/Ecstasy Mode, which are basically wincons. He'd just seem like a really weird swordsman. Besides, he's fought against explosion and magic users.
What I'm trying to say is, resistance to fire doesn't cut it against a beam katana. Besides, from what I understand from glancing at the wiki, that's one sword of many, and one that works better against monsters than humans.
Best weapons available to him.
Travis himself doesn't have those techniques, but he is directly and incredibly superior to a very very gifted fighter who prepared those techniques specifically for killing him. Centuries are obviously less than millennia, and a martial art requiring superhuman statistics is kinda moot when Travis is comparable to Geralt.
Eh, just saying he's not new to anything here, and as a reminder the people he fights are all top-level assassins, maybe not quite the same as him in skill but definitely comparable.
Even weaker Beam Katanas can easily melt and cut their way through large amounts of steel with a single slash, I don't think the melting will be a gradual process, I think the second Geralt attempts to block a blow Travis will cut through it and him in a single swipe.
Every weapon Geralt has have unique abilities so it's hard to judge which one is the best, the shovel is probably the haxxiest
The whole thing about Kimmy's training being equal to about a few thousands of years of obsessive prep?
Not really for senses, but his level of skill kinda implies superhuman dexterity.
Well, as for explosives and general "having to dodge a lot of shit", there's Holly Summers, who shoots dozens of homing rockets at once on a beach that she's filled with covered pits, and also throws grenades with their explosion delayed specifically to trick people into running into them. As for "stunning the mind", he's faced Chloe Walsh, who passively paralyzes anyone within 10
In the end it's still a huge advantage Travis has even if Geralt works to compensate for it. Is Quen visible? Travis plays a hell of a lot of videogames and he's faced people with forcefields before, he'd know to wait it out. Also, the VSBW page says "Geralt uses it mainly to protect himself from attacks that cover great range/omnidirectional attacks and is not necessarily using it in direct close quarter combat."
But he's a close range fighter right? Did he dodge all those attacks from close range?
Yeah, but every time he dodges it, he'll get out of Geralt's range, He will lack the options to hit him. He will still need to get in Geralt's range to attack him, and he will get eventually hit by Aard if he does constantly keep entering that range. Any ranged attack can be blocked with Quen.
About stunning the mind, it's mind manipulation, not paralysis inducement.
If Geralt decides to use Axii, Travis will already have his head lying under his feet, because he prefers to go for the head.
He used Somne only once in the entire series so I doubt it would be a better choice than a quick Axii.
It is visible. He doesn't have to wait it out, Geralt can cast it and turn it off whenever he wants to. Yes, it says Geralt mainly protects himself from ranged attacks, though in face of a glowing hot blade I doubt he will be a dumbass not to use it, if he can't dodge. That would mean him trying to tank it and he's not that dumb.
Geralt should be able to sense the sword being made out of plasma or whatever it's made of, would he really resort to sword fighting?
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Skill is cringe so I can respect that. I will say however that Travis does have plenty of showings, such as learning wrestling moves from reading a magazine once, or getting all his sword skill from cassette tapes and then beating the daughter and pupil of the one who made those cassettes, but I'm fine with them being considered equal.
Yeah, though her strategy is to run away at all times so it was kind of a mixture.
Travis doesn't have anything ranged in this key. But dragging the fight out is a big mistake for Geralt cause Ecstasy Mode, and because he can "only use a small number of signs consecutively before needing to recharge"
Oh I know, but he can deal with paralysis is what I mean, unless it just freezes him completely.
Fair enough
Eh, aight.
I dunno, you tell me. It has a metallic part to it, so he could consider striking that, or maybe he'd consider the sword to be equal to a fire elemental's attacks. His profile does say he prefers melee against swordfighters. And again, Travis needs one attack only.
It happens instantly and from the player's perspective, both slows down enemies to a crawl and makes Travis move at crazy speed, definitely blitz material. Travis immediately starts slashing as fast as he can when it activates so he cannot really react to it and activate Quen afterwards. If Quen is active then Travis has to wait it out but again, he knows a forcefield when he sees one, he wouldn't use it.
Fair, though every second matters in this fight.
He does not, not yet at least, I kinda have some plans but those have to wait for me to finish another game in the same world, but even then it'd apply to his 8-B key.
It's behind it, yeah. But I wasn't saying Geralt would mistake him for a fire elemental, I was saying he'd assume a sword that can hurt them without melting can parry his blade. Ain't unreasonable.
Issue is, he probably wouldn't be THAT impressed by Travis, all he'd see is someone with skill and speed comparable to his and a weird weapon. That's before Travis pulls out a speed amp, of course.
