I’m off now, will be responding to anything worth responding to, and will try not to double back.
Reacting involves speed, I'm not arguing about Bayo being on Loptr's speed level, I agree that she's equal in that regard. We're talking about AP here. Struggling for 15 seconds is quite a lot against someone who people in this thread are portraying to be vastly inferior to Bayo.
Also might I add that this is Loptr at his weakest. He's been feeding off of human hatred to increase his strength for the following 500 years, so this is loptr at his worst.
Since a lot of these instances are left up to interpretation, I won’t automatically discredit anyone’s opinion. However, there are definitely some things that I suppose can be cleared up.
For one, there is no large power difference between any of the Aesir forms, until he gets both eyes. Loptr, Prophet, Aesir, they’re all the same being. To say that one is > the other, I feel is a bit baseless. You could argue that Prophet might have more experience than Loptr, or more hax from what he’s shown, sure. But there is no instance to site, where you could claim a boost in tier happened.
With that in mind, why does Bayonetta struggle? Well, I feel that it’s a bit obvious, to keep the plot moving. Bayonetta cannot beat Loptr in the past, because then he wouldn’t have killed Rosa. It has to progress a certain way. We also have to realize that Bayonetta isn’t fighting to kill all the time, in Bayonetta 1 her serious mode is when she’s going all out. In Bayonetta 2 when she activated her eye against Gomorrah, it shows that she’s being very serious.
Loptr claimed that he wanted to kill Bayonetta, but was ultimately unable to. All he managed to do was blow her back and destroy the tower. If you call that struggling, or him “beating” her, then we clearly have different definitions of beat. If he was blatantly stronger than her, there would be no back and forth. The prophet fight he blasted her and mindhaxxed, and Bayonettas focus was partially directed towards Loki as well. In the Prophet fight he destroyed summons and stole her eye, he didn’t beat her into the ground or anything like that.
Correct, but this performance against Aesir doesn't add up when he's performed better against her in encounters in his SIGNIFICANTLY weaker forms.
This would make sense if she and Balder didn’t perform extraordinarily well against two eyed Aesir. Bayonetta fought aesir by herself for some time as well. So in a situation where the fate of everything is at stake, and she actually understands what’s going on (Bayonetta had made it clear in her previous fights that she’s still out of the loop a bit) she did just fine.
I’m not going to be circular with this thread, so let’s all try not to keep debating how a fight went, when that’s all opinionated.
Prove that Weakened Jubileus > Loptr. Father Rodin scaling to Jubileus was determined to be iffy for scaling reasons and lack of insight on Jubileus' current state when Rodin resided in Paradiso. Alraune has no proof of being strong enough to match queen Sheba aside from her saying "I feel like I can become the queen of this realm." She has utterly no feats to back it up and her credibility is not very good considering that her entire character design is being ******* insane and mentally ill.
Weakened Jubileus was still capable of uniting the trinity, and was able to create multiple universes. That’s more than anything Loptr has shown. Also why was Rodin considered iffy again?
The two are of the exact same rank. I suppose some would have issue of Bayonetta 1 > Father Rodin = Full power Jubileus. But given the beat down that she gave one eyed jubileus, I don’t think it’s an issue.