Gemmysaur said:
Blake is not that much faster than the rest, if anything, semblance'd Ruby is the fastest among them. Also, she is not faster than Akame, more like roughly equal.
Akame also does not simply cut and slash, she can grapple as well, which Blake has no experience fighting against.
Despite Blake's versatile weapon, her bullets are almost non-factor in a fight of this speed.
Blake also may have higher durability, but not so much that it would lead her to win since Akame is extremely skilled in swordsmanship that she can stand toe to toe with Esdeath.
Akame has enough strenght to dent Blake's aura, though not hard enough to do so in a few slashes, will still be hurting.
Lastly, mindset.
Blake never got to the point of killing anyone. How'd that affect the fight, is that I see her trying to incap Akame, not kill. She'd likely slow down or pull the punches when Akame gets injured enough since she doesn't have aura. What Akame does have is high pain tolerance and stamina.
I still stand by Akame winning.
Seems like we need a tiebreaker or something since we're not agreeing on anything.
Akame is more adaptive while Blake is more versatile.
I enjoy the fact that you left out that Blake could simply KO Akame. She has no qualms of knocking her opponents unconscious and has done it quite a few times.
"Akame can grapple, which Blake has no experience against" hah... she does, and if Akame grabs her, she will risk taking damage while her sword bounces off Blake's aura.
No, Akame does not have enough physical strength. Her swipes are only superior to peak human via feats in the manga. She could not dent any hard metal and relied on finding a target's weak point. When against Wave, she had to swipe at the same weak spot in his armor over and over again in order to find a mark to hit, which took quite a while. Blake's barrier refreshes until she runs out of aura, which she knows how to reserve the most out her team. When fighting in the tournament, she was brawling against a contender one-on-one and manged to defeat her via ring-out and lowering her aura levels while she herself remained at 70% of her original Aura capacity with Ruby and Weiss ahead (the two of them spent the whole time in the support role and were only seen fighting alongside one another... they were both below 90% while Blake was still at 70% despite fighting an opponent for an extended period of time even after they infused their weapon with Dust). As soon as her opponent started proving to be more challenging and was about to make Blake use up more stamina and aura, she used a completely different tactic to draw her in and quickly subdue her.
Her bullets being a non factor is not true. They can pose as a distraction and she uses the bullets to increase the speed of her gun-blade or change its direction when she is applying mid-ranged attacks.
Akame having higher Adaptability than Blake having Versatility? Ridiculous. That is completely biased. Blake is an expert in close, mid, long range combat, has a passive barrier that can take the brunt from Boulders, bullets, explosions, and blows from people who are around her power level, she has bullets, elemental mimicry, her semblance, and her own self-designed weapon that she can fuse her aura into in order to increase the force or range of her attacks. It should be mentioned that, as a long time member of the White Fang, she, along with Adam, has been trained to act like an assassin when doing missions. Her experience in that field would allow her to adapt more easily when fighting Akame who is a professional assassin.
Akame only stood toe-to-toe with Esdeath in the Anime. In the manga, Esdeath was pushing her back and Akame only had her speed to actually keep her from being killed.
Blake wins.