GoldenScorpions said:
Actually, wait a sec. It might not be a stomp.
If Alice's AP is 382 tons and Mercer's is 127 tons (from
this), then even if Mercer tangles Alice, she'll be able to break through. And since her body will automatically reject his virus thingies, he can't overwhelm her.
Where is the calculations that's says it's 382 tons? Based from the calc I've read from Cranberry's casual attack, she outputs roughly the same amount of joules of energy as the same explosion that Mercer tanked. And from what I can tell, Alice scales from a character that can
survive Cranberry's attack, I haven't seen anything from the profiles that suggest that the character can actually
tank it, so durability or AP from those characters and Alice being scaled to that shouldn't necessarily be as high as Cranberry's AP at the very least. There's also the fact that Mercer can use his Armour form to raise his durability even higher.
Her "immunity" to poisons and illnesses doesn't mean anything as she lacks resistance to biological manipulation, which is what Mercer's Blacklight Virus is all about. They're not ordinary viruses (The Redlight Virus is a virus made on the Prototype-verse ages ago, and has shown feats of being able to spread itself over inanimate objects and possible even infect them. Inanimate objects. And the Blacklight Virus was created to be
deadlier and
superior to that, where it has shown feats of being able to absorb clothes and replicate electronic devices. It can perform some kind of limited Matter Manipulation), so resistances to diseases alone wouldn't be enough to resist the kind of HAX that Mercer has. Mercer would ultimately still overwhelm her with his consume ability (which we don't even know the exact mechanics of how it absorbs stuff, but it's pretty effective for defeating foes with Regenerationn, based from what I've gathered about it).
Even if we're assuming Alice has the AP for this, there's also the fact that Alice's Class 1 lifting strength is absolutely dwarfed by Mercer's Class K or M lifting strength, which means that if Mercer manages to restrain her entire body (the movement of her arms, legs, and even head), she wouldn't be able to break out of it as she wouldn't even get the opportunity to land a strike once that happens (his Regenerationn, due to his stored reserves of biomass, means that his tendrils would manage to regenerate from Alice's physical strikes enough that it manages to completely more restrain her). When in that situation, striking strength isn't a factor for breaking out anymore, lifting strength is (which Alice lacks in comparison to Mercer).
Edit: Oops, my mistake. Mercer has only tanked one of the three explosions, which only gives roughly the same output as Cranberry's attack when all 3 of them combined together. But, it still doesn't change the fact that Mercer can raise his durability even further (as his Armour form raises his durability
heavily, based from what the profile said. Since I don't exactly know the extent of the multiplier, I'll be safe and stick with 2x the boost of his durability), and his tendrils should be as tough as his best durability, if his devastators says anything about that. Mercer can still physically restrain her with his tendrils due to his vastly superior lifting strength, and can take her out with his consume ability upon making physical contact with her.
