Quite sure it’s both if it can phase through Chi based hadokens, and his techniques also hit on spiritual level as supporting evidence (quite sure there are some spiritualist attacks that he can just go through)
alright. At this point if he can then how long?
It honestly kind of depends. In the games, when you use the move, the input (Light, Medium, or Fierce Kick) is what determines the length and time of the move, much like his Tatsumaki.
but how long can he keep up the intangibility? is it like based off his stamina or his it not really explained in the story?
Not really explained and I honestly already told you, it depends based on what input you use. But regardless it's not lasting a day, the argument for Akumas intangibility being a factor is so that he can close in on Arima before it runs out so he can run his fade. But when it runs out he can just do it again, Arima would have to aim in-between that interval, and Akuma can change the amount of time he's intangible to mix people up and change that window's timing (yeah, you can fool people like that in a match, it's pretty useful for cross ups in the game), and it's not like you can predict it perfectly either, it's like playing rock paper scissors, your calculation will always have a chance at failing
Arima can last for days expending energy. And closing the gap wouldnt really happen since Arima can just dodge or jump away. The interval would be easy for Arima to hit honestly, his immense amount of danmaku and summons would always allow him to get a hit at sometime.
I see, kiting huh, I THINK Ashura does give a speed boost (especially for raging demon), but the normal variants (that aren't Heavy/Fierce) don't give that much to offer
Aight, fair enough. Btw, where does it say on the profiles that Arima has lightning hot fire stuff? Can't find it.
Cuz all I got from this is Arima fire is stronger than lightning in... AP, not the temperature unless I'm reading this wrong. This feels like Sasuke's Kirin vs Amaterasu in Naruto, yeah Sasuke's Kirin is stronger, but not because its natural lightning making it hotter than Amaterasu bruh
It doesn't, I'm arguing it here, he just scales above someone else's lightning via scaling and his flames can burn/damage someone who scales above the lightning.
It scales via hurting another who's stronger than the lightning. And Kirin isn't stronger than Amaterasu, idk where you got that from. Also Amaterasu isn't much hotter than lightning so I don't see the point in bringing it up unless I'm forgetting something.
Fair enough sometimes people forget to put stuff in profiles
As much as I want to make an argument that being "stronger than lightning" doesn't necessarily mean "hotter that lightning"... I've got an essay to do LMAO. College is absolutely merciless this past month.
His whole thing is being "the evil Karate man" and using the power of the Satsui no Hado (basically Dark Side of the Force but Karate), so... I guess Arima being an exorcist is a pretty big advantage
what the essay on?
I've never heard about this, what's the source?
SF characters are generally used at dealing with element users, but the highest temperature showed is Ryu incinerating a whole Seth in a couple of seconds.
Well, Akuma's smart enough to recognize a strong and capable foe, and is also able to sense Ki to gauge one's power level. We can't say if he'll Asura Senku right away, nor how much distance he can actually travel, as asked in other messages in this thread, but that's surely an option.
His Kiai is more about reducing damage to a very little amount, but it works on ki attacks and elemental projectiles.
Dunno, there isn't really something like an attack specifically targeting the soul in SF, aside from Necalli's ability to devour souls, which Akuma can resist because of another technique.
Yes, the danmaku seems too much to handle for just the Kiai, which is meant to deal with single attacks, even through game mechanics interfere with the actual functioning of the move. Still, the Kiai can be performed multiple times in a row to deal with combos.
Totally, he's powered by the Satsui no Hado, which is the killing intent turned into life energy fighting power. Since Arima can exorcise those Kagare, which seem to be spirits composed of negative emotions, I guess it could work on Akuma? Idk how it would end up, tho.
If you’re on Arimas level at best he’s shown just deflecting your attacks and body puppetry so no not really.
His attack would have their negative energy purified essentially. But yeah this does seem in Arima’s favor.
Satui is just negative energy right? Well either way, people like Yuto and Benio and Arima himself have all controlled yin energy. It’s literally Yuto’s basic arsenal. Not to mention the Basaras as well. So using Satsui isnt a big deal to Arima.
I think I already countered the Danmaku stuff with Ashura Senku and him just flexing his power nulling chi to blow away forests and what not
I assume that this is what's gonna happen for Arima at best, but Akuma still has ranged attacks and of course the sheer power of Shin Akuma which could overpower this. Does Arima have to like, target Akuma to use it or does it just happen when he thinks it?
There I was just talking about skill stuff, about how Arima's skill is one in a million and that Akuma is the only one that can control the Satsui, I def agree that Arima can turn Satsui into the normal neutral Hado like Sakura's- my point was that they should be similarly skilled at least in general combat, though hand to hand may be different since that's Akuma's thing
It's something Gaja can do and Arima copied that. But otherwise, Arima can just use it to throw rocks at him. If Ashura Senku is only physical powernull then every attack will hit since its all spiritual power. The soul bind works, Akuma has zero resistance to it, and being intangible doesn't negate soul manip
He has to target them and has large aoe for all of his stuff.
I guess, but overwhelming Akuma would be done close combat with clones and shikigamis too.
Does ki protect the soul?
i think ur messing up the names- Ashura Senku is the intangible movement technique- but again, the Soul Bind doesn't work if you're on Arima's level right? Best it can do is deflect attacks- according to what you said urself. So Akuma with great enugh power should be able to just... power through it, especially with his Class M LS
Considering that Gouken survived Akuma's raging demon, which is soul based - yeah i think so
Hm- that line kind of confuses me, at least the "all his stuff"- so are you trying to say that- his soul bindy thing is both target an AoE? Either way Akuma could still kinda just run hands imo with his sheer power
Aren't the Shikigami's weaker than the original (according to the page)? Why can't Akuma just flex and destroy the entire area with his Ki?
like wht...
Weaker than Arima but still far into high 7-A with amps of their own.
What? I'm saying everything he uses has large aoe
Then Akuma's page needs some work.
Yeah he can't kill with it but being in the same tier it definitely is still useable, Akuma would need to be a higher tier than Arima for him to resist the soul bind plus having class m won't mean much if Akuma isn't spiritually that strong nor does it matter. The magnetism is effecting spiritual energy, it can touch spirits like the kegare. And I already went over intang argument.
Wait what? I thought they had a calc of their own.
