A Vampire meets their Hunter (Blade vs. Dio Brando; COMPLETE)

[The_Impress]

Blade (Marvel Comics) vs. Dio Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventures)

Daywalker Blade with Standard Equipment and Phantom Blood Dio used.

Speed Equalized, In-Character.

Battle takes place in a church cemetary.

 

[Chariot190]

Dio is like exactly baseline for AP and stuff (he may as well be the weakest High 8-C on the wiki) so Blade is about 2.5 stronger via Spiderman scaling, which isn't inherently a disadvantage as Dio's main gimmick is flash freezing, which ignores durability and he uses it constantly and in conjunction with every attack he does, and he has regen to mitigate taking heavy wounds and Dio himself laughs off things as heavy as being bisected (As you'd see below) and can even live as just a head.

A lot of Blade's weaponry is actually ineffective against Dio, he isn't weak to wooden stakes, impaling, holy weapons, and so on, so if Blade leads with that type of stuff and it does like **** all to Dio besides what you'd expect (like obviously stabbing a dude in the chest is gonna make a stab wound, but that's all it'd do), it could lead Blade to believe that Dio isn't typical or even truly a vampire, thus he might not use the actual shit he has that WOULD be lethal.

On the flipside, while a lot of Blade's stuff does **** all, some of it actually is incredibly dangerous, UV grenades for example? Would be like a instant win. Dio is weak to sunlight (UV light in particular), and the parts of him caught under potent enough UV light (like that of daylight), will cause the part to explode and turn to dust or vaporize.
As an example,



One of Dio's minions (who was turned), getting caught in sunlight (he wasn't aware he was turned in the first place though but not like that matters).

Or for a more relevant example,



Dio himself (his body is still alive here, he's just completely incapped), with his complete death, of them placing his body into the rising sun.

As you can tell UV light is very, very, dangerous to Dio.

Though, Dio's main gimmick, as mentioned, is flash freeze, in which on contact with something, Dio can freeze it solid, as such, if Blade isn't careful, if he touches Dio he could end up losing his limbs, or being frozen completely solid and then promptly shattered,

(Example).

and Dio has shown the ability to do this through weapons as well, Jonathan bisected Dio with his Hamon (sunlight energy basically) sword, and Dio froze Jonathan's arms through the blade, so Blade using knives and all that might not be helpful, it might even be detrimental.


Another thing Dio has in his arsenal that's quite decent is SRSE, which is basically eye beams that can one shot dudes on par woth him (Of course Blade is stronger, but I'd assume Blade would still take decent damage if hit by them as they have piercing damage, ohko dude's on Dio's caliber like a wet tissue).



An example of Dio's in motion (Ignore everything after the 6 second mark, notably the cloud split and multi km range, that's anime only, but the shit before that is legit).


Honestly, all Dio needs to win is one solid touch, maybe two, and he has a huge **** off attack in the back in case he gets pushed to the edge, but at the same time Blade has stuff that would instant kill Dio with zero issue with no way to avoid it. Honestly the most important part of the fight is simply what Blade decides to lead with, depending on what he opts to start with could change his whole game plan or decide if Dio is gonna be able to freeze his ass or die where he stands.

 

[Armorchompy]

Blade prob leads with guns and when he sees them not working (they are anti-vampire, have got holy water and wood and all in them) he will probably try to play it safe. IIRC if Dio believes he's under no threat he's relatively passive so he should be able to survive for a little, maybe dismember him with explosions for a few sec.

If he stabs Dio and the latter starts to freeze him he might legit chop his hand off to escape, he's done that in the past, had a prosthetic hand for a few years then the writers forgot lmao. SRSE would **** him up but Dio is relatively unwilling to use them compared to his other stuff.

Also, if Dio attempts to drink his blood he would turn into a Marvel vampire which means Blade can kill him with the usual methods. Very fringe ofc.

 

[Chariot190]

IIRC if Dio believes he's under no threat he's relatively passive so he should be able to survive for a little, maybe dismember him with explosions for a few sec.

Depends really, he kills even if he doesn't think they're a threat as we see with Dire, but can he become passive when he thinks that killing the foe isn't even worth his time and thinks his minions can do it without him.
For example, against Will and Jonathan, he decided to just **** off, figured Bruford and Tarkus would make do and that he wasn't actually needed. (Though he later claims that he didn't want to kill Jonathan himself and that he was being sentimental, might be him bullshitting or it might not, though he also says him being nice and ******* off was a weakness so he'll actually aim for the kill now)

Other times, like against Dire, he straight ***** him despite thinking of him as not a threat.

I guess it depends on how much Blade is "considered" a threat yeah (Unless we think Dio got over that and just kills foes now like with Dire after he seen Jonathan come back alive, if we take Dio at his words of "recognizing that weakness"), if he's considered one, Dio isn't gonna **** around a whole lot, if he isn't, Dio would straight up leave and have zombies deal with it instead. Though if Dio leaving and leaving Blade to a horde of zombies isn't an option then he'd probably at least try to finish him off maybe?

As for explosions, that might work, but it wouldn't be a permanent solution, as we know that even vampires below Dio can reform from being blasted to pieces from explosives, though it will give Blade a precious bit of time to think of something, but he also has to catch Dio in the explosion in the first place which might be difficult to pull off, I guess if he pulls it off it'd lead to a notable advantage but pulling it off would be tricky I think.

If he stabs Dio and the latter starts to freeze him he might legit chop his hand off to escape, he's done that in the past, had a prosthetic hand for a few years then the writers forgot lmao. SRSE would **** him up but Dio is relatively unwilling to use them compared to his other stuff.

Probably, but he'd still lose that arm, putting him at a disadvantage and limiting his capabilities somewhat, and could very easily snowball from there.
Dio could also freeze his legs to prevent him from escaping much like he did with Jonathan. This is especially important to note because unlike Jonathan, Blade won't know that he's gonna get frozen, or that Dio is even capable of it. Blade might realize his arm got frozen and opt to cut it off, but if Dio is being serious, he might have also frozen something like a leg or even his other arm in the mean time before, or while, Blade is realizing what happened, crippling Blade quite a bit, and that's without factoring in Dio actually pulled his powers back against Jonathan (Dio actively opted not fully freeze Jonathan solid, as if he did, he wouldn't have been able to turn Jonathan into his minion, in contrast to Dire who Dio didn't care about and as such, froze him completely).

Playing range against Dio might not be the smartest option, at least, not for a prolonged length of time, if Dio can't get in close, he might just resort to SRSE, after all, Part 1 Dio might be up his own ass but he isn't THAT stupid. SRSE definitely isn't Dio's lead though (well, it's his lead as he's a head at least, as he learned to skip the bullshit but I don't think we're using post Jonathan Dio), but if his foe stays way out of CQC and Dio can't attack him under normal means (with very few exceptions that aren't useful at all, like veins and hair, and even then they don't have that big range), I'm not sure if Dio would still keep SRSE as a fallback, at that point that's about the only thing he could do?

Also, if Dio attempts to drink his blood he would turn into a Marvel vampire which means Blade can kill him with the usual methods. Very fringe ofc.

True, but the inverse is also true, if Dio tries to inject him with vampiric/zombie substance, Blade would become a minion to Dio. Which might be likely or unlikely? If Dio takes a liking to him, he'd try and turn him, as seen with Jack and Jonathan, who Dio took a shine to and proceeded to (attempt in Jonathan's case) turn them. Though if Dio does take a liking and wants to turn him, he'd also be forced to not freeze Blade solid as he can't inject his zombie shit into a frozen corpse so it's a double edged sword there (Freezing limbs and stuff is ok, he just can't freeze them solid, basically head+central mass is safe if he wants you on his side).

Honestly, a lot of this relies on how Blade engages or goes about things. UV weapons is an instant win, the moment he uses them, he's likely to win and if he doesn't win, he's likely ****** Dio hard enough to where he can easily follow up with a win. CQC is probably a hard loss on Blade's end, he definitely outskills and has the higher power, but mere contact is a issue and without knowing Dio can do it, and Dio actively uses flash freeze to lethal extents 99% of the time, the moment he realizes what's happening it could be very well to late or at the very least he'd be handicapped hard. If he leads with guns and they don't do much, what he does next might lead to his win or downfall, if he tries to CQC and see if he can outmuscle, tear apart, or just do something like destroy the head (Which is actually a win condition, Dio can regen brain and head damage, but complete head destruction is tough, like slicing his head in half or blowing it into large chunks is ok, but if you paste that shit, it's lethal) or heart or whatever, he'd probably lose, though continuing range might be good or bad, Dio does have a answer to long range via SRSE, but he won't whip it out right away but if Blade does nothing but try and do range it's gonna only be a matter of time till Dio says **** it and uses his beams, and when he does it'll be problematic for Blade given how dangerous they are (Plus they're spammable and can even deflect bullets as seen with Straizo), but if Blade can **** off and manage to lay traps for Dio and pull them off, like laying powerful explosives, UV stuff, etc, basically doing a Joseph, that could easily open Dio up to a killing blow if done right if not kill him outright depending on what he does.

I think anyway, I haven't read much Blade since like 2002.

 

[Armorchompy]

I agree w your (very thorough) analysis, couple details

As for explosions, that might work, but it wouldn't be a permanent solution, as we know that even vampires below Dio can reform from being blasted to pieces from explosives, though it will give Blade a precious bit of time to think of something, but he also has to catch Dio in the explosion in the first place which might be difficult to pull off, I guess if he pulls it off it'd lead to a notable advantage but pulling it off would be tricky I think.

He can make his swords explode remotely. also he has flame stuff which might also slow Dio down too.

Which is actually a win condition, Dio can regen brain and head damage, but complete head destruction is tough, like slicing his head in half or blowing it into large chunks is ok, but if you paste that shit, it's lethal

Possible. He can do it but of course it varies among depictions, still headshots he does go for fairly often.

If Blade can **** off and manage to lay traps for Dio and pull them off, like laying powerful explosives, UV stuff, etc, basically doing a Joseph, that could easily open Dio up to a killing blow if done right if not kill him outright depending on what he does.

He's resourceful enough to possibly pull it off but on the other hand with how many wincons Dio has I think Incon is the best bet here, match relies a lot on subtle character details that we can't know for sure

 

[Popted2]

Damn Chariot those are very good and deep analysis

masive props

 

[Chariot190]

also he has flame stuff which might also slow Dio down too.

Depends how potent the flames are, Dio at his weakest wasn't slow down by being immolated at all. He had to be pinned down, skewered and have his torso blown out, weakened and located in the center of a huge fire at its hottest point before it became problematic, simply being lit on fire doesn't bother Dio.


Exploding swords might be a issue but he can also freeze swords solid so I'm not sure how that'd interact with the exploding mechanisms (if that's even how they work?).

Imgur ****** the order of the album up, pic 2 is actually the final.


Yeah, I guess I'll vote incon too.

 

[Armorchompy]

Depends how potent the flames are, Dio at his weakest wasn't slow down by being immolated at all. He had to be pinned down, skewered and have his torso blown out, weakened and located in the center of a huge fire at its hottest point before it became problematic, simply being lit on fire doesn't bother Dio.

magicky fire, hellfire (featless if you don't count unrelated statements from comics that are 60 years older) and normal fire that burns to the skeleton in seconds

Exploding swords might be a issue but he can also freeze swords solid so I'm not sure how that'd interact with the exploding mechanisms (if that's even how they work?).

Yeah mechanism. Idk if it'd reach the inside of the swords but it might

 

[The_Impress]

Counted incon

 

[Chariot190]

magicky fire, hellfire (featless if you don't count unrelated statements from comics that are 60 years older) and normal fire that burns to the skeleton in seconds

Could be an issue, though we know Dio can come back from being a smoldering charred skeletal-esque body at least at his weakest point, though it was a issue and took him a bit to heal (Though his capabilities have greatly enhanced beyond that point, I'd still assume it'd be something he'd need time to heal properly).

Mechanisms being frozen might work so there's that.

But that's minor stuff, I'd still go with incon, both can win under the right circumstances, and said circumstances are quite likely on both ends.

 

[Popted2]

Incon FRA

seriously tough good analysis Chariot

 

[Confluctor]

Incon fra

 

[The_Impress]

Counted as well :V

 

[SamanPatou]

I also vote incon, and great analysis!

 

[The_Impress]

Counted

 

[Armorchompy]

boomp

 

[Tllmbrg]

Incon FRA

 

[Vizer04]

Incon FRA

 

[The_Impress]

Grace begins

 

[The_Impress]

Grace basically reached, adding