7-B [Path to the Throne] Tournament: Brook vs Gauche Adlai

[GoldenScorpions]

[Path to the Throne] 7-B tournament
Round 5​

Characters	Attack Potency	Votes
Brook (One Piece)	54.28 Megatons	8 (@DaReaperMan, @noninho, @Psychomaster35, @Popted2, @Kisaragi_Megumi, @Kachon123, @TheMonkeMan, @Ret_of_Guys
Gauche Adlai (Black Clover)	8.83 Megatons
Inconclusive

• The match takes place at Mont Saint-Michel, during high tide. A barrier seals the island 200 meters away.
• Starting distance is 10 meters, on the sandy part at the bottom of the island town.
• Speed is equalized
• Characters have their standard equipment.
• No knowledge of each other. No civilians or vehicles in the area.
• Stat amps cap at 100 Megatons. Stat reduction cap at 6.3 Megatons
• Victory is achieved under what is defined by SBA.
  • Matches have a time limit of 12 hours. Past that, any decisive immobilization or incapacitation for more than 10 seconds becomes a victory condition.

 

[DontTalkDT]

Does Mirrors Brigade have some sort of downside, limit or activation restriction? Can he summon things stronger than him? Do the copies create fight for him?
If he can just summon multiple full-power Brooks to fight against Brook, that sounds like an easy gg.

 

[Dragoonseraphim]

Gauche has never been shown to copy an enemy and make them fight the original. He always copies allies. Seeing as it’s a one on one Mirror brigade won’t be too big of a factor.

 

[DontTalkDT]

Ah, I see that makes him a lot more balanced.

So, both sound like good fighters.
Brook has decent stat advantage.
But Gauche can fight 2 vs 1, which somewhat makes up to that.

 

[Dragoonseraphim]

So Gauche is gonna keep his distance as his main method of fighting is raining down lasers on his opponent. He can rain them down from multiple angles and bounce them off his own mirrors to change their direction. Then there’s Real Double which can create a duplicate of himself with all his abilities and Mirror Shift which can teleport him to the location of one of his mirrors in an emergency.

 

[DaReaperMan]

Brook probably outskills and has some naaaaaasty blitz attacks

Also, Brook's sleep manip ain't magic so that could work to let him gat free hits

 

[Dragoonseraphim]

Brook doesn’t have any method of flight right?

 

[DaReaperMan]

Brook doesn’t have any method of flight right?

Jump good.

 

[GoldenScorpions]

Gauche's profile lists a resistance to sleep.
Though it seems Gauche will have to severely damage Brook enough so he can't really do anything anymore, due to Brook's immortality

 

[DaReaperMan]

Gauche's profile lists a resistance to sleep.
Though it seems Gauche will have to severely damage Brook enough so he can't really do anything anymore, due to Brook's immortality

Which is magic. Devil Fruit powers aren't magic. He doesn't resist

 

[Tatsumi504]

Which is magic. Devil Fruit powers aren't magic. He doesn't resist

Since when did we do this?

 

[DaReaperMan]

Since when did we do this?

Since always? If you resist a bunch of magic you don't resist things that aren't magic. This is just verse equalization

That's Why Warhammer being so all encompassing is useful,

 

[Tatsumi504]

So if you resist psychic based sleep manipulation we don't assume you can resist a magic based one? What if both work by affecting the mind?

 

[GoldenScorpions]

So your argument is that Gauche resists magic-induced sleep, but not other-ways-induced sleep?

 

[DaReaperMan]

So if you resist psychic based sleep manipulation we don't assume you can resist a magic based one? What if both work by affecting the mind?

If it's specifically effecting the mind, i think an argument could be made

So your argument is that Gauche resists magic-induced sleep, but not other-ways-induced sleep?

Basically

 

[Epiccheev]

It depends on if the resist comes from tanking the sleep effect itself or from resisting the magic who causes the effects itself.
And if the sleep manipulation is done by affecting the mind/soul or body.

 

[GoldenScorpions]

Gauche

Do you have an answer to provide for Epiccheev's above comment, about the sleep resistance?

 

[noninho]

I really think skillwise, Brook will make good use of that AP gap

Via that and sleep manip, think I can say Brook FRA

 

[Psychomaster35]

Brook FRA

 

[DaReaperMan]

Regardless, Brook is comparable, although inferior to Zoro, seeing as Zoro clashed pretty evenly with Ryuma while Brook also did but was clearly at a disadvantage. Though you could argue they're comparable because Ryuma had Brook's shadow which gives him Brook's skills.

Yes that's the extent of Brook skill scaling, he gets like 2 or 3 fights pre-timeskip and 2 of those are just Ryuma, so you kind of have to use his Post-Timeskip fights to figure out WTF he even does besides swordplay.

Outside of shit he does that he doesn't have in this key, Brook oftentimes just blitzed the opponent with attack speed amps three times i think and 2 of those were against Big Mom, put them to sleep once, and just did regular old swordplay until he decided to bust out his fancy new soul powers against the sweet dudes in WCI.

 

[DaReaperMan]

Honestly the more I think about it the more I realize Brook is probably Ozpin's only real competition besides fights that are just in his favor in this tourney which is hilarious to think about

 

[Popted2]

Brook FRA

 

[DaMonkeMan]

Jump good.

What was the context behind the scene where he falls from a big height and makes a joke?
Also this.

 

[DaReaperMan]

What was the context behind the scene where he falls from a big height and makes a joke?
Also this.

No that was literally the main scene I was talking about, also the time he used his sleep hax pre-time skip. Or when he blitzed BM the second time.

Basically Brook very consistently jumps good casually

 

[Kazuma_kuwabara]

3 things

First: Brook is this close of not being able to use blitzing as an argument, but he is 2 times faster than Gauche if speed is not equalized, so he can blitz, so no shenanigans about "blitzing is not allowed via speed rules"

Second: Gauche always starts the fights with taking a good position to attack his opponents, he is gonna fly away, Brook has to win before he abuse his range

Third: Brook probably would try to use sleep while Gauche is leaving, but I am waiting more arguments, I don´t see any BC fan here

 

[MonkeyOfLife]

I'm confused... How can Gauche defeat brook?

First: Brook is this close of not being able to use blitzing as an argument, but he is 2 times faster than Gauche if speed is not equalized, so he can blitz, so no shenanigans about "blitzing is not allowed via speed rules"

He can blitz via his speed amp

 

[Kazuma_kuwabara]

He can blitz via his speed amp

You did not understand what I said at all

 

[GoldenScorpions]

Speed is equalized but speed amps are allowed.

Gauche outranges Brook, but they start at 10 meters apart. It depends what Brook does in-character during fights.

 

[DaReaperMan]

3 things

First: Brook is this close of not being able to use blitzing as an argument, but he is 2 times faster than Gauche if speed is not equalized, so he can blitz, so no shenanigans about "blitzing is not allowed via speed rules"

Second: Gauche always starts the fights with taking a good position to attack his opponents, he is gonna fly away, Brook has to win before he abuse his range

Third: Brook probably would try to use sleep while Gauche is leaving, but I am waiting more arguments, I don´t see any BC fan here

Yep

Brook is pretty quick on the draw, though I'd ask when he's flied like 300 meters into the air

Correct

 

[DaReaperMan]

Speed is equalized but speed amps are allowed.

Gauche outranges Brook, but they start at 10 meters apart. It depends what Brook does in-character during fights.

At this range probably blitz or sleep

 

[Kazuma_kuwabara]

Brook is pretty quick on the draw, though I'd ask when he's flied like 300 meters into the air

Elf Gauche spammed from a distance

Gauche spammed against Dante with Asta being the close combat fighter

He always starts at a distance, the match favors Brook but that is the tournament ruleset, bringing a sniper to a sword fight is asking for problem

 

[DaReaperMan]

Elf Gauche spammed from a distance

Gauche spammed against Dante with Asta being the close combat fighter

He always starts at a distance, the match favors Brook but that is the tournament ruleset, bringing a sniper to a sword fight is asking for problem

Makes sense, thanks for the info

 

[Popted2]

bringing a sniper to a sword fight is asking for problem

tough it depends on anime

 

[Kisaragi_Megumi]

Brook FRA then

 

[Kachon123]

Brook FRA

 

[DaMonkeMan]

Ditto

 

[Ret_of_Guys]

Uhh Brook FRA I guess

 

[Popted2]

Grace

 

[MonkeyOfLife]

You did not understand what I said at all

Yee I didn't... I was was reading it like 5 times to understand what you were trying to say

 

[Kazuma_kuwabara]

Brook after one shotting