it would tell him Julius' intent, and whether the attack in question is meant to kill or incapacitate.
Can it really discern to this extent, especially unconventional attacks? it's not full on precog after all
also yes, it should translate to hax. when Izuku started preparing an OFA transfer soul attack, Shigaraki knew the attack would be a guaranteed victory for Izuku, even though he was winning, so his body almost instinctively created flesh armor as fast as possible to prevent Izuku from drawing blood, and he somehow knew that blood contact is all it would've taken for the attack to work.
Isn't search doing this here? and that combined with some feeling he has tells him he can't take it, it wouldn't be
quite the same as Julius trying to incap him with Chrono Stasis, and trying to block time acceleration also won't help
I also forgot to mention that Julius can seal away Shigaraki too if need be
so basically, if the attack is a guaranteed win for his opponent, Shigaraki will detect such attack being prepared
I suppose, having to go through so much thoughts tho, when Julius can start spamming his moves - can still be lethal
would mana zone be able to pick up on someone without mana?
yes he should be able to sense any changes within his mana zone, like someone moving through it, as it allows to read
his opponent's next moves, and it would be combined with time magic too
but either way, my point is that it would be difficult to get close and stay near Shigaraki, because with his masses of hands
Shigaraki using the spread of his arms would be only detrimental to him, as it would slow him down, and
won't stop Julius's attacks
he can just keep spreading decay and make larger dust clouds if he wants to. sure, he could hold his breath, but close-range fighting will be incredibly risky.
Julius aint a close range fighter so it's nothing bad, he can clean out both arms and dust clouds with time acceleration, or if worst comes to worst
can reverse time, to the point where decay wasnt spread/shigaraki didnt grew out his hands/shigaraki didnt evolve (and before you ask, Julius can regulate the range of that, he doesn't have to cast it on thousands of kilometers of range, because that would exhaust him greatly)
by "strength" I just meant punching him or something. but as mentioned before, danger sense + search will be enough to understand which attacks should be dodged, blocked, intercepted, or even just tanked
Julius isn't gonna be punching, and trying to tank his attack would be fatal, same as blocking most of the times (also you can't just block chrono stasis due to mana zone)
more so he just needs to witness said attack, but that was only brought up as a counter for blitz moves. in the case of teleportation, it shouldn't be a problem.
I mean no, reading the physical strikes of your opponents is not nearly the same as predicting teleportation, insta time spells, magical beams that can be danmaku'd etc, that would all require more and better feats for his an. prediction
but can Chrono Stasis just be spawned on someone like that?
yes it can be,
especially with mana zone
if his future sight works by reading someone's flow of mana, would it even work on Shigaraki?
It works by reading the flow of the mana in the future, not specifically the person's mana he's fighting, so it should work. Even if it was, wouldn't the regular verse equal apply here, like when people are assumed to have a bit of CE for domain sure hits to work? After all, all living beings have mana in BC (minus you know who OK)
is there some rule where everyone fighting a BC character has mana or is his future sight just equalized with everything?
well i explained above
i agree, but it is something worth mentioning, on the off-chance they don't both immediately go for the kill.
As you said it's worth mentioning, even if it draws out Julius can use Chrono Anastasis too
Search would pick up the movement
Is teleportation, no movement is happening
and Danger Sense will pick up the intent to one-shot, which would just trigger Shigaraki's instincts to either dash away or explode with an EMP or something.
I mean, Julius can also tp and time stop, which would prevent Shiggy from doing either. And it also depends if his senses can work faster than Julius's blast up close reaches him
i mean, i guess? they're practically instant
hands growing out isnt exactly instant
it's not like Shigaraki needs to charge them.
Doesnt stuff like air canons usually charge up for a sec?
so a pre-fired interception is definitely on the table
unless it can stop an aging dura neg beam, or prevent chrono stasis it doesnt help
So overall i vote for Julius, as his wincons are also near instant, he has overall better access to them, he's in character to use them first, and is just more likely to happen with ways around everything shiggy can do (except perception blitz)
