Which will do pretty much nothing to panda as they are used to parrying and blocking from people more powerful then this like shin Akuma.
Panda has no parry like other characters in the cast, Shin Akuma is comparable to Kazuya strongest devil form at the time, where you got that from she can handle a character of such level
If panda does get chipped down they will enter rage and get a huge stamp amp for ap and dura.
Getting rage only at low health is a gameplay thing, characters can access it without going low on health
The Drifter has already fought foes who could turn him into blood mush in one or two hits on hard mode (and still like two to three in standard because 2 damage attacks suck so bad), so fighting an opponent who can heavily damage him with multiple strikes that can amp themselves isn’t something that matters much.
Drifter sits at 174 megatons, Panda sits at 901 megatons from a character below her level a x5 gap in power on top of Panda amps available
Same with LS, since he constantly has to evade crystal spiders trying to immobilize him and let the others kill him when he's in the West.
Class M vs class 10 is a huge difference, nearly 14k tons vs 6.6 tons, you say he deals with opponents with better LS, when he dealt with someone having over 2000 times better LS
Also Panda grabbing him is a huge "if" because Drifter is far more nimble than her and has fought against skilled war generals like the Hanged Man without taking many hits or even none at all. Granted, that's like Alarak level skill with extra steps, but it should still be more than enough here, especially since acrobatics exist.
Panda fights Xiaoyu, whom is a very acrobatic and stance evasive small character, from whom she has a few moves from too
Nothing really stops him from strafing around her, slowly wearing her down and then finishing her off with a Phantom Strike or a Heavy Strike decap.
The cast can fight from daylight to sunset to night in their fights, meanwhile i see nothing from Drifter besides comparable even at superhuman in the profile and the AP/dura gap isnt small to claim they can decapitate or anything
Med-kits fully heal him in a mere moment, and with how much he can outmaneuver her, he can just dash away a bit to heal and immediately rush back toward her.
Panda can self heal too with specific moves or after a heat dash for your info, also has dura neg when in heat
hmmm, well if panda cant catch up they will just get peppered down then but I still dont think drifter going into melee will be great idea she is used to fighting people who can teleport around like
eliza and
kazumi
Nobody fought Kazumi outside Heihachi and Eliza faced only Claudio as far as we know, Panda never fought characters like this, only Paul and Kuma, along spars with Xiaoyu