Ok, I'm back.
Just a reminder that W's IA will allow him to know everything about Nyan combatwise: how he fights, what his powerset is, what his weaknesses are, etc. Basically Nyan's fighting against someone that practically has prior knowledge of him. And his intelligence rating allows Kamen Rider W to exploit this.
Nyan's fear of affection comes from being the cat of an overbearing lady who pampered him too much before he monsterized. It was enough to make him run away from PriPriPrisoner, who was a character he could low diff, only turning back to attack him after he kept going after him.
In a battle setting like here i'm not sure if it would be enough for self-bfr, considering it would only make him very uncomfortable. (And in story he could probably just avoid PPPrisoner and let another cadre fight him with no real damage to their plans.)
This is essentially what I proposed in my very first reply:
Despite being a detective, Shotaro's common line of work is to find lost cats for their owners. The usual scenario would be him using his detective skills to find said cats. Even though he's a stranger to them, he usually returns the cats to their owners without being scratched and the cats themselves being docile. This might not be much yet.
As for Philip, he owns a cat, and their relationship is pretty swell. He should know how to show affection well to cats; Shotaro can also do this too thanks to the lost cat searchings, and also Mick (Philip's cat) joining their shared residence.
The moment they get the IA up and running, they'd immediately go for the 'smother with love' motive and chase him as he runs for his life (or something). Shotaro's cat finding skills come in handy, and they keep finding Nyan and restarting that cycle all over again.
While this won't exactly make him self-bfr, W should be able to use this to ward off any attacks on him when Nyan's about to hit them, most especially the ones that come from left field. This weakness should come in handy for W.
Yeah that's the same for Drive Knight I'm ngl. Nyan is literaly able to shrink so small that he can fit inside of motherboards and in between the winds of tornados.
I meant that the gaps don't go anywhere other than the gaps of his armor parts. Nyan still has to cut gashes into W to go inside his body. Basically, those aren't holes that Nyan can go into to use his wincon.
I don't think W can land any of his ranged attacks on Nyan due to how small he can shrink. Danmaku doesn't really matter against someone like him. Meanwhile most of Nyan's attacks are blitz-style speed amps like Feline Retributions and stronger variations. Nyan is capable of one-shotting people who scale to his value while sleeping, and he can amp himself further with rage amps and his claws. This means that the already large gap in stats would be even bigger at Nyan's peak.
How far can Nyan jump? Because W will be up flying in the air and essentially not allowing Nyan to get anywhere close to him. Trying to blitz W is also a no-go, thanks to his instinctive reaction, which can tag enemies that can teleport instantly. Gold Xtreme has his own AP scaling chain,
being able to no-sell Eternal's Never Ending Hell attack without any injuries. This attack itself scales above the given 150 megatons. W's finisher in this form can go for over 750 megatons, and I won't be surprised if it barely reaches the limits of 7-A. The Metal Memory can enhance the user by 5x when used, allowing W to not only encase himself in metal, but also increase his AP and Dura. Nyan won't be able to drill holes into W or utilise his higher AP value this way.
Nyan can shoot ten long ranged slashes at a time that would be very difficult to dodge since they would be coming from every angle. As W tries do dodge, Nyan would already by inside of him attacking the suit from the inside. It says in W's weaknesses that if the suit is damaged enough, he gets unfused, and that would mean an instant win for Nyan.
One problem. His shockwaves are counted as air manipulation in his profile. W can already passively absorb air, and sending air shockwaves at him would just empower him without receiving any damage. There's not much of an exact multiplier, but keep in mind that absorbing some good amount of air was able to make W Xtreme turn into Gold Xtreme, so that does more harm to Nyan than it does to W tbh. Ixa explained the weakness part, so I'll just not speak about it.
Nyan has been shown to be able to slip inside of bone-rendering tornados and remain uninjured. I'm unsure how effective this would be.
How much can Nyan shrink actually? Also, wouldn't that just send him flying from W?
If they follow Nyan, they would just land on W instead. Is proof that Heat Memory produces fire completely from inside of W's body?
Not sure about homing close range, but if Nyan tries to shrink, and he's like not on W, the bullets would either hit him, or he'd keep dodging at the expense of his location being known by W. They're orbs of energy now when shot, so trying to block or deflect it might hurt him.
The Heat Memory can
completely combust and envelop W in flames, so Nyan would get hit with the fire even if he's inside. The fire itself isn't putting a strain on W btw; it's the fact that he's pulling off two finishers simultaneously.
