From what I’m seeing, Aragorn doesn’t use the fear manip and only has it from scaling to Isildur via possession of the Elendilmir. Even if he does, the orcs and men “gave way”. Backing off is not the opening you think it is.
The Elendilmir really doesn't have set conditions for it blazing forth nor is it really activated by Isildur. It suddenly does so on its own so this is admittedly a random factor.
It also just wastes more of his valuable stamina if he gives way which he has very little of with the Sun Sword out (ironically I think he'd stomp without it).
As for his empathic manipulation, it’s just a speech that makes people have some doubt. Atomic can hear the King Engine without feeling any fear even though monsters have died from hearing it.
That's one example. The rest of them are in Imgur and they vary from doubt, to making people look at him in awe, to be unable to look upon him, etc. It's also under the blessings link.
His awe is comparable to High Elves in his best condition with others of his kind being stated to have the same effect. I admittedly need to make this more intuitive to access and understand but it's similar to the Maiar under the Powers and Resistances of the Ainur page.
Awe being the "filled with wonder" sort of awe in the sense of a brief pause. Admittedly I misremembered this as an outright stunning effect which makes it less useful but still provides a brief opening + provides more time for his stamina to run out. Kamikaze really can't afford to waste time with the Sun Sword and every moment counts here.
Atomic can literally just back off, close his eyes and then sweep in terms of skill.
He won't be aware of the fact until he's already looking. This isn't murderous intent, Kamikaze and his disciples have never detected "awe" in the visual sense without looking at someone.
Garou doesn’t need sword skill when he has a bunch of things like IR that automatically uses his attack reflection.
Garou doesn't matter since it's very much implied he just isn't fast or strong enough at that point for his skill to matter. Superalloy just bum rushes him in a straightforward attack with enough speed and power that Garou can't use his skill until he got strong enough for it to matter. He doesn't matter for Kamikaze's skill.
The point is that stuff like that gets folded by Atomic off rip, not that Garou has sword skill to scale above. Atomic already skill stomps every other swordsman in the setting as the strongest swordsman, dunked on a monsterized Haragiri, couldn’t be predicted by G5 via pure skill, trained three Heroes to S rank just off their wildly different sword styles etc.
Considering the context, it's more of a speed feat for Haragiri if anything and G5, at least on the wiki, failed in part due to that but also due to the fact its stats just didn't match up. I'm not doubting he's superior to Aragorn in skill, certainly in the offensive department, but Kamikaze's signature is launching many attacks in a short time. But with speed equal that ability is fundamentally nerfed, stuff like the Atomic Slash for example.
This is worsened by Aragorn's telepathy where he can read Kamikaze's mind and intent to a notable extent, something far lesser Numenoreans like Denethor can do.
All of this doesn’t even come close to matching up to Iaian, Bushidrill and Okamaitachi each deflecting tens of thousands of attacks from every direction that would one shot them and were comparable in speed. Any one of Atomic’s lessers would breeze through every battlefield Aragorn has ever set foot on at the same time.
I don't mean in the sense of deflecting more than a thousand attacks at once, I was using comparable more in the sense of can sense attacks from all around his body. Plus a lot of Kamikaze's ability to launch attacks is nerfed by speed equal.
Aragorn doesn't need to detect more than a single opponent in this context, and while it is an overwhelming opponent in skill, it gives him increased survivability against stuff like the Sun Sword's elasticity and air slashes. Coupled with Anduril's invulnerability it gives him and increased chance to fend off some attacks, something Kamikaze can't really afford since he'll be out of the fight in no more than some dozen attacks at best.
Aragorn has several abilities that just end up wasting Kamikaze's awful stamina in this state (possibly even giving a very brief opening with EM) and he has telepathy + his enhanced senses giving him situational awareness and quick response around him at all times + enough skill to fend off dozens of attackers around him at the same time. Kamikaze won't get hit by Aragorn in a conventional fight, he's too skilled for that. But his signature moves are nerfed by speed equal + his stamina is dog with the Sun Sword to the point he'll manage a few dozen slashes at most and will be wasted by gimmicks like FM (at random chance) and EM.
Tbh, I'm changing my opinion to an Incon as one of Aragorn's win cons is worse than I thought, but I think he'll be able to survive long enough in enough scenarios given how much the Sun Sword gimps Kamikaze's stamina.
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