Well, Lü Bu is incredible agile and his spear lets him easily outrange Atlas Gauntlets. (Even without using Sky Eater)
Seeing as she regularly spars with Jayce and his giant warhammer it wouldnt be the first time she has fought an opponent with a reach advantage, and would be all the more reason to attempt to disarm him the first chance she gets as she tends to do.
Also what are Vi's skill feats?
Lü Bu was also was also able to keep up with Thor, who once took on an army of 66 Giants all by himself
"Having been forced to hone her hand to hand combat skills since she was a child as a means of survival, and later having her skill tempered by Vander's training, Vi is a highly capable fighter, her combat style utilizing a blend of boxing, kickboxing, and muay thai that is further enhanced by her Atlas Gauntlets, amplifying her power and dexterity without weighing her down in the slightest. Even without the Atlas Gauntlets she is able skilled enough to use an opponent's weapons against them, such as catching and pulling a chain to bring an opponent closer to her while also knocking them off balance and leaving their guard down, or throwing a pipe-wielding opponent off-balance by redirecting their swings and adding to their momentum. Vi is equally skilled in analyzing her opponents, noticing every detail about her opponents from their posture to their health to their temperament, and in only a few seconds can glean if they are likely to run if confronted or are willing to fight or kill, which opponents have the most dangerous weapon relative to both the weapon itself and the wielder's skill."
Lu Bu starts with a sizeable AP/Dura advantage of exactly 4.4x Vi's AP/Dura, uses a piercing/stabbing weapon wich should have a higher extended melee range than her metal gauntlets normal punches and has a powerful cutting shockwave attack that can reach a few kilometers with Sky eater. Vi can still block his attacks with her big gauntlets, wich should double as a nice shield that's undamaged by unleashing her 36 megatons attack (might still get dented/worn out eventually) making him hit for less than 2.2x Vi's Gauntlet's durability
Vi also has a forcefield that recharges every few seconds and recharges faster the more attacks she lands on the opponent so that would also allow her to block attacks
Also of note, she is entirely capable of and willing to fight without the use of her gauntlets, she just loses access to the majority of her abilities outside of her stats and skill if she is pushed to that
Realistically, the fight depends on Vi being able to use her speed avantage to keep the fight at close quarters and overwhelm his defenses, as getting directly hit by his spear even once would be bad. Her Gauntlets also help her a lot defensively and should be able to last for a prolonged fight, specially since the speed boost lets her block more easily. Sky eater has much larger range, but it's a linear slashing shockwave with a fairly telegraphed buildup, so dodging it shouldn't be too hard. Vi also has a massive LS advantage, but i don't think she's much of a grappler. Knocking him away with shockwaves would also not help very much since he has his own ranged attack.
Guess it comes to Skill here.
She actually is entirely willing to use grapples alongside her physical strikes. Vi is basically just a really skilled superhuman MMA fighter, and she would be willing to go for a disarm against an opponent with a reach weapon like a spear.
Of note, this is a much, much weaker, slower, less experienced Vi wielding vastly inferior prototype versions of the Atlas Gauntlets
Waiting for Weekly to come with the LoL skill wank.
Funnily enough Vi is on the low end of the skill chain in LoL, which is hilarious when you take into consideration that by the analysis of multiple fight choreographers and actual martial artists she would be one of the best irl MMA fighters in the world
Really nice analysis. But what's Relentless Blow and where's the x2 from? I don't see it on the profile.
Relentless Force, the punch she throws deals 90% bonus damage on top of the power of her normal punch
My question is whether Vi can do anything in Lu Bu’s presence because fear manip. Also doing a bit of rereading, Lu Bu might actually be weirdly skilled. Far more so than I remembered.
"Instilled fear in Sun Jian Wentai and a few horses, without his presence being known"
How potent is this exactly? Is it just a general 'he is scary' aura or something actually supernatural? If its not, Vi spent years growing up in a dieselpunk nightmare where the air alone is toxic enough to kill normal people and any wrong turn could have you torn apart by cyborg gangsters drugged out on body augmenting chemicals or kidnapped and experimented on by rogue scientists, assuming you didnt fall into the cogwork of the city or a vat of chemicals or into the abyss in the city's heart, so just having an intimidating aura isnt likely to work on her.
