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Dante's Immeasurable justifications

Your points would be valid if this was a case where they were argued to be moving at infinite speed all the time, with no amps involved, but that's not what's happening here.
I don't think demonic power is an amp in the way you're considering it. We don't rate Dante differently across all his styles, which are all different applications of the same power. As the scan says above, Fury's speed combines his physical body and demonic power. I'm not arguing that Fury is infinite in all states of existence. Obviously, he can stand still and prepare his attacks, which isn't infinite. Fury walking, standing still, and preparing to lunge into his next attacks are his only non-speedy movements. I would imagine characters are allowed to do that.

Demonic power is inherently present in demons, which enhances their physical abilities. It can be concentrated for a super-enhanced movement, but it's never not there.
Here we see how his reflexes, his agility and his speed are becoming slower, sloppier as he grows weaker by the second when he is being stripped of his demonic power
I don't think an instance of a character being dumb and letting an opponent power up means that we should dismiss all antifeats as them "trolling".

But hey, I don't think I'm gonna convince you on that, so I'll go back to a harder reason for them not scaling; that it's a movement ability Dante doesn't scale to rather than their ordinary state.
No, this is completely different from those cases. This is a character using a supposedly infinite speed amp, yet not getting blitzed without it.
Dante literally trolls everybody and maintains his lackadaisical demeanor. You would have to not know his character at all to argue this. Letting Urizen eat the fruit is clear PIS. Trolling Urizen before getting one shot twice is another example. But I said trolling regarding lesser demons and boss demons in general, not Urizen's PIS case.

Fury also doesn't have multiple states, as you seem to suggest. It has one form. And Dante intercepted it while his back was turned. It sounds like you're arguing that Dante has to blitz Fury if it's possible that he can, and that is an arbitrary requirement. I would also argue that Dante did know where Fury was the entire time. This is similar to the Blitz scene in DMC4.

And if we take the end-game cutscene in the demon world as evidence, Dante and Vergil were effortlessly one-tapping waves of demons after just finishing fighting multiple rounds against each other, and Fury is among those demons.
No, that's not what that means.
Both the English and Japanese suggest otherwise. There's no mention of or allusion to Fury needing to build up to his max speed anywhere.
What needs to be settled from that? Is there a particular part of the official translation you're suspicious of?
The teleportation part, but we seem to agree on speed now.
Killing someone who can temporarily move at very high speeds doesn't mean that you scale to those very high speeds. Especially if those movement abilities have drawbacks (not letting them maneuver arbitrarily, having a windup, having an indicator of where they'll appear).
Where is it stated that Fury's ability needs to be wound up and that there are restrictions on it moving freely? Even if I were to agree that Fury does dash around to build up speed before his final attack, reacting to Dante's response immediately after building up its speed would mean it has reaction/perception speeds equivalent to its top combat speed. And it still lost. I haven't seen direct indicators of where it would appear, though, in a 1 on 1 fight, it's obvious what Fury's intentions are.
Moving fast and not having the reactions to match would mean Fury would be reckless and uncontrolled, which is directly refuted since it throws feint dashes at Dante. These movements exemplify control and precision.
 
Dante literally trolls everybody and maintains his lackadaisical demeanor. You would have to not know his character at all to argue this. Letting Urizen eat the fruit is clear PIS. Trolling Urizen before getting one shot twice is another example. But I said trolling regarding lesser demons and boss demons in general, not Urizen's PIS case.
I don't know his character at all. If you think DMC knowledge would be an important part of resolving this thread, I can go to neutral and unfollow this thread.
 
I feel like we shouldn’t been deliberately going into circles again when this has enough staff agreements to pass and we might as well make a new thread just to avoid clutter this thread even further
 
I don't know his character at all. If you think DMC knowledge would be an important part of resolving this thread, I can go to neutral and unfollow this thread.
In answering "why doesn't Dante just blitz Fury then?" his character is 100% the reason why.
 
In answering "why doesn't Dante just blitz Fury then?" his character is 100% the reason why.
Based on what?

Even if we go by the whole “trolling” angle, that still doesn’t discount what happened in all the cutscenes of DMC 5.

I just find this insufficient to explain the other events that occurred during DMC5 or hell. Any of the other DMC games that involve Dante fighting Vergil every time.


Again, I don’t see how this will been appropriate for anything here.

Anyway, we already have enough agreement on the table to remove the Immeasurable speed justification and this is all I see right here
 
In answering "why doesn't Dante just blitz Fury then?" his character is 100% the reason why.
Then the evidence you've provided for that (a case of PIS, a case of shittalk before a fight, and a description of a form establishing it as stronger) is insufficient.
I don't think demonic power is an amp in the way you're considering it. We don't rate Dante differently across all his styles, which are all different applications of the same power.
If you want to derail this thread into the specifics of how a current profile operate you can, but I think that'd just bloat this thread way past the point that any new staff member would want to bother evaluating it.
As the scan says above, Fury's speed combines his physical body and demonic power.
Which specific scan are you talking about? There have been many posted in this thread, and I don't remember any that are obviously like that.
Demonic power is inherently present in demons, which enhances their physical abilities. It can be concentrated for a super-enhanced movement, but it's never not there.
If you use 100 energy to dash at 2,000x speed, that doesn't mean that the 5 energy/second you ambiently use makes you 2,000x faster. That's a basic aspect of how universal energy systems work.
Fury also doesn't have multiple states, as you seem to suggest. It has one form.
I was just talking about "using the ability" and "not using the ability", as there are distinct visuals for one and the other indicating when it's being used.
And Dante intercepted it while his back was turned.
He didn't intercept it, he intercepted Fury's attack after the dash ended, which took additional winding up.
And if we take the end-game cutscene in the demon world as evidence, Dante and Vergil were effortlessly one-tapping waves of demons after just finishing fighting multiple rounds against each other, and Fury is among those demons.
It's a bit hard to tell due to how quick it is, but I don't see them scaling to Fury's dash in there.
Both the English and Japanese suggest otherwise. There's no mention of or allusion to Fury needing to build up to his max speed anywhere.
I'm lost now, where did this argument come from? What claim of mine are you responding to?
Where is it stated that Fury's ability needs to be wound up and that there are restrictions on it moving freely?
It's not stated, but I see it in the gameplay visuals. It takes time to occur, and the final blows of attacks are only done outside of it.
Even if I were to agree that Fury does dash around to build up speed before his final attack
I find this hard to understand. I don't think that Fury needs to dash to get faster to launch an attack. And I don't know what I could've said to make you think I believe that.
reacting to Dante's response immediately after building up its speed would mean it has reaction/perception speeds equivalent to its top combat speed.
What scene are you talking about?
I haven't seen direct indicators of where it would appear
Watch the gameplay visuals I linked above or the cutscene. There's a black mist before Fury forms out of it.
Moving fast and not having the reactions to match would mean Fury would be reckless and uncontrolled, which is directly refuted since it throws feint dashes at Dante.
No. Reactions involve processing information about new obstacles that appear at that speed, and changing course in turn. Throwing feints does not require that.


Speaking of which, he fight off Vergil (His corrupted form) on two or three separate occasions in DMC 1

What is the point of you posting this? Please explain how this relates to the thread or I'll delete it.
 
If you guys really don't want immeasurable just chuck it as an outlier, seeing how the verse has more MHS-FTL feats than Immeasurable.
 
What is the point of you posting this? Please explain how this relates to the thread or I'll delete it.
I mostly proving the point that he still fights despite him “trolling” around to supplement the point that his character/personality shouldn’t been used when it comes to actual fights and speed feats.
 
I don't know his character at all. If you think DMC knowledge would be an important part of resolving this thread, I can go to neutral and unfollow this thread.
When it comes to lower level demons, which often includes most bosses, their performance relative to Dante or even Nero has no bearing on comparison of abilities unless we explicitly see the character struggling. Their gameplay performance has even less bearing.

Basically the seemingly superior speed of the lesser demon is typically because Dante deliberately moves slower. That's why he can clearly react to the Fury while it's dashing. Remember we see him troll the incoming Fury in the cutscene by pointing his finger instead of his gun.
 
If you guys really don't want immeasurable just chuck it as an outlier, seeing how the verse has more MHS-FTL feats than Immeasurable.
Outliers aren't determined by the number of feats, but by the presence of relevant anti-feats. Otherwise almost every verse would be wall level for all the incidental & casual wall-busts that occur.
That's why he can clearly react to the Fury while it's dashing.
Where? The cutscene only has him turning his head after Fury dashes through the area, or interrupting Fury after the dash ends and they're winding up an attack.
 
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