I suppose I vote for the match being inconclusive for the other voters' reasons.
This match seems pretty contentious at the moment because of the fighting style Lance has in gameplay. I haven't experienced
Epic Battle Fantasy, so I'm only going by what I've read. Psychomaster35's idea is that Lance's attacks are canonically random without the player's guidance because that's all we've been shown, and the other people's idea is that the randomness is non-canon due to only being a result of the game's programming and contradicting Lance's genius intelligence. Am I right?
One thing we should set straight with each other is that Lance isn't a combat expert according to his profile: "
Intelligence: Genius (Lance is an engineer proficient in building complex machinery. His two most notable creations are the Valkyrie Tank and the Scan Bot. He also appears to have deep knowledge in how Nuclear fusion works. Additionally, he can apparently learn the weakness of any enemy with his "Scan Bot". However, as an avatar of "The Player", Lance doesn't actually fight by himself, but rather follows the orders and does what the Player tells him, even if it goes against his own will)." Lance is an expert engineer and fusion energy scientist, and he is able to understand information gained against an opponent in a fight.
You might be tempted to think "going for the insta-win hax in a fight is the obvious option" or something like that, but this undermines how much skill it takes to fight adeptly. It's easy for us to stay comfortable watching fantastically competent fictional combatants fight to the death, but imagine
really being in a fight to the death where you must actively make quick choices and no mistakes or else you'll start to fail and undergo the stress of losing everything. It's a feat for someone to not be too mentally overwhelmed in a life or death situation to do anything to efficiently succeed in such a situation, let alone be capable of thinking quickly to use the exact combat technique for the exact situation it's needed in. A combatant using random techniques upon being forced into a fight to the death is not being "like random idiots" nor "entirely incapable of making conscious decisions."
Regardless of whether or not Lance's combat style is truly random, if we are only shown that it is random as a game mechanic, and otherwise, the character specializes in skills that aren't centered around combat and we know nothing about their canonical combat style other than using scanned information to their advantage, then it takes assumptions to narrow Lance's combat style down to something specific that would significantly benefit him in a versus match. Although it's not preferable due to using game mechanics as a basis, it takes no assumptions to conclude Lance's combat style is random, other than the assumption that the game mechanic reflects canon, which could potentially be justified by the notion that "it's how a realistically unskilled combatant would fight." However, with the player's guidance, Lance must have gained a lot of experience on what choices lead to good results in a fight, so his fighting style is probably not random in the most literal sense. Perhaps a good course of action would be to analyze the kinds of battles Lance participated in while being guided by the player, and try figuring out what Lance could've learned through observation. It's not as though Lance isn't awake and attentive when being controlled by the player, right?
