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DEATH BATTLE! Discussion Thread (All-time Death Battle Spoilers Alert)

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Just because they were wrongfully downgraded wile I was gone doesnt mean thats not the tier they are. I will be reupgrading them asap
 
How does one even scale to a feat done in a dream? Unless it was a case of Ruby's dream self being equal to her awake self, I don't know what the logic would be to that argument.

Also, ain't the manga dubiously canon or something along those lines? I know there's several pieces of media in RWBY that are considered secondary canon, but I don't know the status of the manga.
I mean, when RWBY does return I fully expect them to composite. Not crossovers of course, but otherwise the manga, anime and games will probably be used.
 
RWBY is realistically Multi city to relativistic, pretty much every other scaling community, or person doesn’t buy FTL, and scaling to maidens starts to fall flat when you realize they lose pretty much every fight against Cinder.
 
RWBY is realistically Multi city to relativistic, pretty much every other scaling community, or person doesn’t buy FTL, and scaling to maidens starts to fall flat when you realize they lose pretty much every fight against Cinder.
They lose sure but they can still take beatings from her and hurt her. How are you going to cut off a character's arm and then argue you dont at least downscale from doing that.
 
RWBY is realistically Multi city to relativistic, pretty much every other scaling community, or person doesn’t buy FTL, and scaling to maidens starts to fall flat when you realize they lose pretty much every fight against Cinder.
Do you even know what the word downscaling is?
 
They lose sure but they can still take beatings from her and hurt her. How are you going to cut off a character's arm and then argue you dont at least downscale from doing that.
The very obvious weak point Grimm arm which lacks aura and has always been cut off in one hit. That arms durability is not the whole durability as cinder otherwise she’d be long dead.
Do you even know what the word downscaling is?
Downscaling is when character A can fight on a similar level to character B but is still a bit weaker, but you could reasonably say they’re around their ballpark.

Not team RWBY + a maiden 5v1ing Cinder, all getting their ass kicked with little effort, and then getting no-diffed into the ever after.
 
the downscaling arguments reeks of cope ngl i feel unless there shown there remotely the same tier no reason to scale someone to something thats vastly above them
 
How about Cinder running away from Qrow after only getting half of the Maidens powers

She could've killed qrow, someone who she knows works for Ozpin if she's half of her power, yet chose to run instead and we seen new maidens are able to use the full power of the Maiden Powers so don't give me the thing about her not accessing the full power of half of that magic, she definitely would've if she could

So characters qrow level are half Maiden power level, being half as strong as someone can still be a stomp. Look at Dragon Ball
 
How about Cinder running away from Qrow after only getting half of the Maidens powers

She could've killed qrow, someone who she knows works for Ozpin if she's half of her power, yet chose to run instead and we seen new maidens are able to use the full power of the Maiden Powers so don't give me the thing about her not accessing the full power of half of that magic, she definitely would've if she could

So characters qrow level are half Maiden power level, being half as strong as someone can still be a stomp. Look at Dragon Ball
This isn’t how scaling chains work, also holy assumption, I didn’t even know saying half a maidens power was an argument.

Simple, cinder never fights Qrow, before this so we literally cannot know if he was half as strong as a maiden, this is just guess work and assumptions.
 
the downscaling arguments reeks of cope ngl i feel unless there shown there remotely the same tier no reason to scale someone to something thats vastly above them
Winter without the Maiden powers cut off Cinder's arm

Qrow has a direct statement that him and three other huntsmen on his level would be sufficient to kill Cinder

The Ace Ops overpowered Penny who has a Low 7-B feat without using the Maiden powers, and who was also able to match Maiden Cinder 1 on 1 without the Maiden powers.

Its a major plot point that Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury beat and nearly killed the previous Fall Maiden

In their initial encounter with Salem, who is stronger and more durable than Cinder, Yang's explosives were able to rip her torso apart. Vine previously tanked a dozen of these same explosives to the face.
 
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Downscaling from the maidens, because you expect me to believe 8-A characters can survive attacks from a Low 7-B characters
Low 7-B in environmental magic destruction on storm feats*

We been over this. Maidens dont have the physicals comparable to their general elemental control.

Ppl still cant accept RWBY is pretty comfortably within Tier 8
 
Low 7-B in environmental magic destruction on storm feats*

We been over this. Maidens dont have the physicals comparable to their general elemental control.

Ppl still cant accept RWBY is pretty comfortably within Tier 8
You do know that none of the Low 7-B feats are storm feats right? One is an explosion, one is KE, and one is melting. The storm feats are all 7-C to High 7-C
 
Relax nerds Ruby vs Maka aint happening anytime soon ya can kill each other when It does come in
 
You do know that none of the Low 7-B feats are storm feats right? One is an explosion, one is KE, and one is melting. The storm feats are all 7-C to High 7-C
The one with penny apparently 'destroying a hole in Atlas' we dont see was always bs.

Scaling to Ozpins shield is packed full of way too many assumptions that only tip to high-ends and destroy contextual scaling. Been through this song and dance loads of time.

Cinder melting things with her semblance, or her maiden powers, is still not necessarily linked to her physicals. Not so much so that we're gonna try and put the cast in a maiden's full power court for the sake of making RWBY as crazy as possible
 
The one with penny apparently 'destroying a hole in Atlas' we dont see was always bs.

Scaling to Ozpins shield is packed full of way too many assumptions that only tip to high-ends and destroy contextual scaling. Been through this song and dance loads of time,

Cinder melting things with her semblance, or her maiden powers, is still not necessarily linked to her physicals. Not so much so that we're gonna try and put the cast in a maiden's full power court for the sake of making RWBY as crazy as possible
All these years and you still dont have any idea about RWBY scaling or feats. Sad. I thought you wouldve gotten better at this in two years.
 
Anyways yeah, will be upgrading RWBY and fixing/downgrading parts of Soul Eater sometime soon, hopefully before the episode drops so people get a accurate representation of the stats
 
All these years and you still dont have any idea about RWBY scaling or feats. Sad. I thought you wouldve gotten better at this in two years.
Well you weren't gonna admit how 'better ive got' either way, so your comments dont mean anything lol.

RWBY has been dead for ages so idrc how you think they scale now, but it feels like you'll only ever accept what you think about the verse and nothing else lol.

Either way ill be happy to read through the thread whenever you get to posting it. RWBY being within Tier 8 ranges is wayyyyy better for its matchups anyway imo, so much more variety but obv thats not what its about
 
Well you weren't gonna admit how 'better ive got' either way, so your comments dont mean anything lol.

RWBY has been dead for ages so idrc how you think they scale now, but it feels like you'll only ever accept what you think about the verse and nothing else lol.

Either way ill be happy to read through the thread whenever you get to posting it. RWBY being within Tier 8 ranges is wayyyyy better for its matchups anyway imo, so much more variety but obv thats not what its about
Tier 8 is better for matchups, tier 7 is better for an accurate portrayal of their stats

Missed you kid
 
Winter without the Maiden powers cut off Cinder's arm
I mean, I know you know that that's because Cinder's aura can't protect her grimm arm, but that's beside the point.

Cinder melting things with her semblance, or her maiden powers, is still not necessarily linked to her physicals. Not so much so that we're gonna try and put the cast in a maiden's full power court for the sake of making RWBY as crazy as possible
To play devil's advocate, I was rewatching Cinder ambush the fall maiden, and as soon as she uses the powers she starts to no sell Emerald and Mercury, until Cinder knocks her outta the sky. The whole fight is Amber jobbing sure, and you could chalk it up to inconsistency or maybe she wasn't going all out, but they pretty definitively dunked on her.
 
I mean, I know you know that that's because Cinder's aura can't protect her grimm arm, but that's beside the point.
That doesnt make it any less durable
To play devil's advocate, I was rewatching Cinder ambush the fall maiden, and as soon as she uses the powers she starts to no sell Emerald and Mercury, until Cinder knocks her outta the sky. The whole fight is Amber jobbing sure, and you could chalk it up to inconsistency or maybe she wasn't going all out, but they pretty definitively dunked on her.
...Yes, this is why they downscale from her
 
To play devil's advocate, I was rewatching Cinder ambush the fall maiden, and as soon as she uses the powers she starts to no sell Emerald and Mercury, until Cinder knocks her outta the sky. The whole fight is Amber jobbing sure, and you could chalk it up to inconsistency or maybe she wasn't going all out, but they pretty definitively dunked on her.
Amber was a new maiden and inexperienced. Her best feat is creating the storm, but all she was doing was trying to hit them with lightning and a few things holding them off bay. Merc, Cinder and Em were ambush prep-timing her too. Its been proven Maidens can be 'held off' with a large group of huntsmen elsewhere like Penny vs the AceOps

Maiden powers have just not proven to scale their physicals to the environmental elemental capabilities. Maiden powers are literal magic which in RWBY seems to only extend to energy and elemental attacks. They dont amp physically as opposed to just being a potent magical force, and thus i dont think we should be scaling anyone to high-end magic maiden feats just cause they could box Cinder in cqc for a while. The only thing that people are saying in defense of this is the old lady winter maiden just casually restraining Cinder on her deathbed, but that doesnt mean shes not just naturally that strong (or Cinder any less weak)

Rwby makes it a huge point that Magic is its own separate power (for some reason?) so it in general just shouldnt be scaled based on only aura/semblance properties.

And yh you're right about the Grimm arm. Literally first time it gets properly revealed in V5, they make it known as a huge glaring weakspot for Cinder and that its nowhere near as durable. Its only really good for absorbing magic, stretching and regenerating but other than that its a huuuuge detriment
 
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