So, i was out for a bit, so sorry for my late reply.
Skill: You can honestly scratch most of the skill scaling i have been spouting, i may have underplayed Dry too much. He dosnt have much feats on his own but he does actually scale to Pray more than Anne does. Dry won against Fear in a sword fight, a character trained by Pray through her entire life and she was stated to have surpassed Pray in her prime at Fear's apex of power. Another reason for scaling Dry to Pray is that Dry was the only character she has ever praised (Pray is a haughty brat with a god complex that has consistently shat on anyone) and even admitted that it dosnt take much for Dry to surpasse her. With that out of the way, feats, yeah.
See I'm seeing a lot of inherent issues, I take great issues with it comes to scaling like "will surpass", that much is irrelevant to me due Dry not being Pray's equal as of yet. Also giving praise isn't necessarily a great skill feat, my judo teacher can praise me but again that doesn't mean we're on the same level. As for Fear, didn't Dry have access to the Malanda which is pretty hax from what Rocker is telling me? It wouldn't take much in the skill department to match someone whenever you have Reality Warping and probability based precog. As far as I'm concerned statements of "not taking much to surpass her." whenever his feats and fights say otherwise.
Dry has 2 noteworthy feats, the rest is scaling.
Dry:
-Loloutpredicted a flurry of attacks that blitzed him.
That's something that East Blue- Enies Lobby Zoro is capable of doing, he's capable of defending himself from attacks that far surpass his own speed, Kaku was FTE to base Zoro and could amp his speed even more with his Zoan amp.
-Fought and ultimatly bested Fear, A AG said to have surpassed Pray in a sword fight. The only difference between Fear and Pray was experience, Fear was only a couple months old at their duel, but was trained since birth by Pray.
Experience makes all the difference, Fear is much, much younger than Pray and hasn't the type of combat experience that Pray has gathered throughout the years. The fact that Pray is still much more experienced than Fear makes that statement null, she hasn't lived through what Pray has or gone through the type of battles she has, i think it's pretty incorrect to that that Fear >>>> Pray in skill whenever Pray is the more experienced of the two, by turn making her skill much more honed.
Pray on the other hand:
-trashed 13 Mayer Style masters at the same time, using mandated techniqes and styles due to plot.
How good are they at the Mayer style? I doubt they've mastered it to the same level of Pray, making this one impressive but also fearless.
-mastered the Mayer Style in a few months, something that took her master Karen Mayer her entire life
Zoro created his own unique fighting style that isn't found anywhere else in the verse, and has Mastery over 2 other forms of Swordsmanship, and can copy other unique fighting styles such as Fire-Fox Style, actually his usage was even better than the original users and is also noted to have a very, very high development rate. Zoro being the same person who Mihawk can dance around and yeet with a knife.
-the Mayer Style is a almagation of legendary ancient martial arts and has perfected them for combat. Users of the style would become so skilled that they could fight the vastly physiclaly superior AG's barehanded.
That doesn't tell me much about how effective it is or the type of martial arts that they use. Not every martial arts is automatically useful, look at Aikido and Tai Chi for example, if i could get some more information on the Fighting style that'd be rad, I'm sure it's impressive but that doesn't give me a lot to work with.
-took the Mayer Style, looked at it and perfected it even further. The resulting Pray Style was so deadly and effective that it was considered to become mandatory for every Knight in the Knight Order.
Zoro's did the same with his Santoryu style after the 2 year time skip, greatly improving upon it to the point where he's able to apply his previous durability negation Swordsmanship (Which is skill derivative and not just a hax, only those who have reached the absolute pinnacle of Swordsmanship are able to cut through virtually any substance as long as their blade understands their will.) to every strike while previously he could only apply this to 2 attacks. Zoro's East Blue usage of Santoryu is so deadly that it's much more difficult to register / react to than 6-8 arms all attacking you at once from every direction. A much weaker and less skilled Zoro’s Santoryu strikes as harder to evade and defend from Swordsmen who can attack you from 6-8 direction instantly.
-Became the Top Sword, the greatest currently living Knight, directly after becoming a Knight.
Mihawk's case is quite similar in that becoming the world's greatest Swordsman in name and actuality is an extremely difficult feat to accomplish, and it's implied that he's held this title for years without anyone being able to give him a challenge.
-So hillarously above Anne Mayer, whose best record against Pray in countless practice fights was a win rate of 3%. Pray absolutly scales above Anne, as Anne has learned everything from Pray.
Noted.
Anne on the other hand has a couple of skill feats too.
Anne:
-Fought barehanded against 17 armed Knights who are physically superior to her, at the same time. They attacked at the same time from all possible angles, but she countered everyone of them by sheer predictions alone.
By how much? While Zoro doesn't have feats against multiple opponents who are stronger than himself (well actually yes, Kaido and Linlin are both stronger than him but he also had help.) he does very often find himself in situations where in 1 v 1 combat where he can't even
damage no matter how
hard he tried. This Zoro didn't have Prediction at the time but he overcame someone who's immune to slashing based attacks via sheer skill.
-Other prediction feats like countering an attack few inches away from connecting,
Zoro has feats of countering attacks that are point blank without the aid of Prediction. Such as cutting an extremely small explosive
booger in half, he can even do this while blinded and being shot at
point blank
from a character who speedblitzed her to hell and back
Kaku was also able to become
FTE to Zoro and Zoro still fought him just
fine and this is just base Kaku, Kaku gets faster and stronger with his Zoam forms. Although this was also somewhat due to Zoro's Prediction.
and predicting the path of a spear that was vectormanipulated to become unpredictable, to the point where it was famous for being unreadable.
That's actually pretty fun since Zoro has a verry similar feat in out predicting Kaku's while Kaku was using Paper-Art. Kaku saw Zoro incoming
before he started to move and retaliated via using
Paper-Art, this how Paper-Art
works, allowing users to go limp and become borderline unpredictable like a blade of grass in a windy Strom. Zoro still managed to predict Kaku, even with Paper-Art. Also just to note Kaku is one of the best Assassins in the world, CP9 is composed of the best Assassins that the Government could find, and has some level of precog via Kenbunshoku which he's confirmed to have iirc.
I could honestly fish out more if i really bothered with it, but you get the gist. Its all about being the most skilled bunch out of skill chain of outskilling, with the baseline being the greatest fighters from around the universe, the greatest prodigy of their respectable homeworld. And there is a bunch of worlds to pick from.
There's a lot more I can post as well but also like I'm veerry lazy. I think we can both however agree that neither combatant here has enough of a skill advantage against one another to become untouchable.
Powernull:
Dry applies his powernull with his crazy AoE, just saying. Waves can null crazy things like physics manipulation and do so upon contact. Another thing worth mentioning is that Waves do seem to have some dura ignoring properties, where stepping onto a high concentrations of waves is deadly in a cursing way.
How often does Dry spam them? That's not on the profiles so I'm not gonna argue against it.
For more question just hit me up, im buisy so i wont debate too much right now.
