Besides the Tier 5 Overlords stuff,
Cherri Bomb: Her bomb did no damage to Valentino, and the only damage she did was to a Valentino Husk beat up and was restrained to be unable to do anything. But most damning is the fact Angel Dust is stronger than her, shown not even half a minute later.
This is the sequence in question.
First of all, Husk did not beat up Valentino. Throughout the whole fight,
Husk lands exactly one hit, a thrown bottle that doesn’t even knock Valentino’s glasses off. All he really accomplished besides that was
knocking Valentino’s guns out of his hands. Not that being roughed up or restrained should at all affect his durability anyway? You think if say a 9-B with good TK just immobilized a "5-B" and then went to town on them they'd bleed or really feel any of it? Obviously not.
As for the claim that the bomb “did no damage” to Valentino, based on what, exactly? The lack of bruise? He very clearly
groans in pain and
Cherri attempts to finish him off by shoving a bomb into his face, like clearly the scene isn't trying to convey that Valentino can just no-sell her bomb if not 20 seconds later they're treated as a legitimate threat to him. Worst the bombs aren't even portrayed to be much powerful than Cherri herself, if at all. They've never grievously harmed anyone in the cast and she legit
pulled one out while her and Pentious were stuck together, so obviously they're not this huge thing that eclipses her AP or whatever
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Why did Husk mention that Val has shit eyes before the bomb throw then?"
Cause it's thanks to that bad eyesight that he
failed to notice the bomb strapped to the knife he just caught? It has nothing to do with that bomb then exploding on his face.
And the "Angel Dust is stronger than her", no?
Cherri gets downed by an attack from a hypnotized Angel she
clearly didn't expect and he then proceeds to strangle her while restraining her with his extra arms, which she
breaks free from within seconds. The only reason she fails to immediately retaliate is because Angel’s body proportions give him longer reach.
Plus, since when has strangling someone ever been proof you’re physically stronger? By that logic,
Mark is stronger than Conquest lol (Invincible Spoiler)
As for Angel Dust himself,
Angel Dust: Gets overpowered and maimed regularly and effortlessly by Valentino, who is one of the lower scalers here. Only scaling point is to Husk who has actually genuine feats against Val and tanks an attack from Velvette.
Just because Angel Dust never attempts to fight back, it doesn't mean he's entirely incapable of harming him? Like put me in a ring with any boxer and and I’m getting demolished, that doesn't mean there's a billion gap between us. Especially since in this case
Angel regularly withstands Val's abuse, and we're talking about the guy who
ripped another Sinner limb from limb cause he was pissy. You expect me to believe he was restraining himself just enough to only lightly scratch Angel or whatever?
Also remember, Angel would only sorta scale to Cherri and even she only managed to bruise Valentino after relentlessly wailing on him while he couldn’t fight back.
None of this implies Angel is anywhere near equal to Valentino or Vox.
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But they're both regular Sinners, and Overlords can gore those."
I mean, clearly Angel is a fair bit stronger than your average Sinner, just via the fact he can
push back an Exorcist's attack.
And Cherri regularly partakes in turf wars solo, relying only on herself and her bombs, and by feats alone is blatantly stronger than your average Sinner.
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But Pentious went 2v1 with Cherri and Angel on equal footing"
He didn't. He had his
whole army of Eggs by his side (He
straight says he can't fight without them) and
fought at range against Cherri with his raygun.
And the one time he went physical, Angel
didn’t show even the slightest hint of pain from it.
At best, you could argue Pentious’ durability scales to them. But like, guy took hits from both
Alastor and
Zestial, and
Husk also complimented his endurance sooo