No official source gives smth, but we can assume it's an hour or 2 at worst as the Harpies arrive instantly upon Kratos's death and by the time he escapes, Ares cleary as just gotten it given his dialogue (not sure what counts as a responsible time frame tho lowk).
I rewatched the entire scene, and first of all—that shit was peak. I got flashbacks to the first time I played GoW.
As for the matchup, yeah, Kratos was only dead for a couple of hours. However, I still think it counts as a win because after resurrecting, he'd have to physically travel back to the Summit of Sacrifice. He has no instant means of returning there instantly
Per the victory conditions, once death occurs, any applicable victory condition can then take effect. In this case, Kratos resurrecting somewhere else doesn't negate the fact that he'd need to make the journey back on his own.
Death of the opponent also qualifies as an immediate victory, as long as the resulting state of the opponent would, if the fight went on, eventually qualify for at least one of the three priorly listed conditions. The fighter which reaches a victory condition first wins the match.
There's no canonical travel time from Athens to Mount Olympus. If anything, using the real-world distance would be a low-end estimate, since the games consistently depict Greek locations on a much larger scale than their real-world counterparts, for eg. Mount Olympus is portrayed as a colossal mountain with entire regions built into it, and the overall geography is far more expansive than real Greece. So if Kratos had to make the journey conventionally by foot and ship, it'd realistically take days, likely around a week or more.
I'd say that safely qualifies as a win via...bfr. That's a new one for Reinhard, but I'll take it, I guess.
He very much doesn't need to, he just needs to get a hit in.
I love the glaze and all but how would his law manip probability affect any magic attack at all given their CM1 Info 2 based?
its not about affecting the magic, its about affecting kratos
Kratos's senses literally alter time, like, literally.
Cool, that's one way to do it, but the method isn't the important part; the resulting perception boost is still vastly below what Reinhard has.
Assuming the worst either way, he saw his entire life (and he's around 50 years at that moment lmao) as he threw a lightning bolt and it left his hands, so he matches it very well nonetheless.
Seeing flashes of your own life isn't remotely equivalent to instinctively processing combat information with virtually no delay between perception and action. Those are completely different phenomena. If you read novels you did be aware of how many times this happens to characters. In fact, its a real world thing that happens to people.
Heck, when he ascends to his throne he understands comabt across time and space in mere moments, and he can fight the god beforehand on equal footing who held that same throne.
Good for him, but that's knowledge within his own verse and doesn't mean much cross-verse. Mastering every combat style in one verse doesn't automatically translate into mastery against completely different mechanics and fighting styles, especially when the skill gap is this huge.
The fodder he sweeps through have this, to the point their instincts remain as they lost their mind and soul. He's fine there.
I can assure you, they do not. This is a calculated approach to combat where the gaps in your consciousness where you think and then attack are exploited. If you have seen baki, you did know of this as they have something similar however, ReZero characters take it one step further by completely negating any gap between thought and action and anybody who cannot do the same will be open to all forms of counter attacks whenever they move.
As Planck noted his info analysis and the Amulet, as well as his innate senses that tell him of how deadly a thing can be to him instantly.
You might have forgotten this but Reinhard is especially weak against him here, its not even close and he WILL know that. Even if Kratos assumes that he is a threat there is a great chance he did underestimate him although i think he did be aware of his weapon DSR as he specifically commented on learning from his past interactions with zeus about strange weapons.
All in all, this does not seem like something that is decisive enough for him to take Reinhard seriously
It just spawns on him.
I love how you ask him to read Reinhard's profile but you wouldn't read Kratos's standards tactics where he as a ****ing child outright says he uses whatever is appropriate for any advantage according to battlefield conditions, and even go on to call Kratos a "brute". Just lovely.
Calling Kratos a brute
in this key? hell yeah
Kratos' anger management issues make him prone to impulsive and violent behavior as well as severe judgment impairment.
And the standard tactics you claim where he uses "everything" is when he is up against legions of undead and he has to kill a ton of people. That isnt a 1v1 like here and its stated he "found" a better way to do it ie; he didnt start with it. Which leaves this to be up there
This is not exclusive to his weapons and physical combat approach, as Kratos will regularly use
all of his available magical abilities in battle one after the other.
I think you're conflating Kratos using all of his available options with him overtime, as him immediately opening with every tool he has. The scans don't actually support that interpretation like, at all.
