Luckily, The Beheaded has MORE than enough defensive options to mitigate the usefulness of it.
The Beheaded can reflect some of the projectiles via Flashing Fans, & I think literally ANY of The Beheaded’s Shields should be doing the trick too. Albeit he can’t spam the two enough to defend himself against THREE HUNDRED ROUNDS A SECOND. But I THINK he should have some leeway to mess up here, given the notable AP advantage Beheaded has here. Also helps that Beheaded has affixes specifically tailored for making projectiles less effective against him.
Reduces the damage by up to 25%, and with
shields he can reduce a total of 95% of the damage.
Which really doesn't help unless he goes FULL defense, and at that point, he's vulnerable to the fact Ghazghkull is not atanding still.
Plus, Ghazzy has bodied psykers before. He's fought Astartes too. He knows what a ******* barrier is and how to deal with it.
He can also reduce the damage Ghazzy
deals by being near a deployable, which he can just drop right next to him whenever he wants.
So if Ghazghkull gets himself a lobotomy, Beheaded can reduce the damage he does by more then a single swing of the Klaw. Not much of something, eh?
1) Ghazzy is an Ork. Neither of those are doing Jack shit.
2) I need proof of this targeting the head specifically, else it's trying to make a machine bleed.
Not to mention, Beheaded also has stuff that’d actively punish Ghazzy for hitting him, such as Ice Armor. Given that the distance between the two is anything BUT big, there’s zero way for Ghazzy to get out of there once Beheaded pops Ice Armor, and auto-freezes him once he gets hit. And seeing how Beheaded is the stronger one here, Ghazzy’s gonna frozen for a little while. Now it’s not anything crazy like 2 minutes, but it’s at LEAST several seconds. It’d unironically take a lot longer than that because Beheaded has affixes specifically tailored to extending the time he’s frozen.
And it's moments like this I take one hand, make a pointer, and point to the Power Klaw, and ask how that works at all when conflicting with the Power claw, which will auto-nuke any and all ice.
Also did you know that some psykers can freeze things solid and Ghazzy bodies those?
There’s also the multitude of other affixes that could be applied to him in that instance, which would range from him becoming slower, to simultaneously buffing up Beheaded and debuffing Ghazzy. Given he resists NONE of what Beheaded can inflict him with here, everything seems fair game. Burning, Shocking, Freezing, Slowing, Poisoning, Rooting & Stunning. Not to mention things like Frostbite would actively hurting him WHILE he’s slowed down. (Which reduces his combat speed to around half of what it usually would be), so Beheaded has a bunch more chances to land hits on the opponent here.
And none of these actually work to even slow Ghazzy down because the guy got Decapitated and was fine.
And all those debuffs and buffs are funny... because Ghazghkull is an Ork. So no, his speed wasn't reduced, his stats weren't reduced, and Beheaded is not faster nor stronger than him. Why? Because he said so. He is the biggest, strongest, smartest, and has
divine backing to ensure this works, and is in fact the only Ork I can argue this with. Hell, you know those barriers? Ghazzy is going to assume they're as easy to destroy as the ones he's used to nuking, so they're going to just instantly pop!
And the funny thing is is that this doesn't help against Goro or any of Ghazzy's other opponents because they're straightforward, Ghazzy can't make assumptions about them.
As for all of the affix buffs, I’ll just let you read
this,
this,
this, and just the rest of that page not gunna lie.
I could go on and on about all the status effects and affixes Beheaded can place on this guy but my phone can only handle so much.
See above.
The Beheaded has more than enough experience with fighting off hordes of enemies and even bosses while being in situations where he’d auto-die in one hit. Plus with how acrobatic and stealthy he is, this shouldn’t be too hard to avoid. And even if he DOES land a lucky hit, once The Beheaded dies,
he can bring himself back to full HP once, and now he knows the consequences of letting that land.
Oh, from getting cut into three separate pieces? By someone who um... quoting myself from before...
"Ghazzy outmatches veritable demigods of war who entirely outmatch and mog Swordmasters of Hoeth, which are High Elves so skilled with a sword they make rivers of blood with armies of the last tier of units, which are highly trained Dark Elves whom can casually mog patrols of Norscan Raiders, AKA Vikings and have the skill of such... and those Swordmasters can reflect arrows/guns with such efficiency they're considered invulnerable to ranged weaponry, and also take into account the weight of their eyelashes when they swing. I don't know where to put this but those guys can also kill people with a normal unenchanted whistle by being skilled I guess."
Do you know how many ******* assassins that assumed this would work have been thrown at Ghazghkull? Thousands. Maybe even tens of thousands.
Given how the Beheaded is one of the more lethal combatants in this tournament, and how he tends to completely gore the opponent’s everything into paste, this shouldn’t be too much of a problem. He’s also done said goring to those like these times his size, so Ghazzy’s large size isn’t helping him here.
Ghazzy is also an extreme damage tank so... yeh.
R for the wincons of each side?
