It would be both, Yuji doesn't actually seem to intentionally attack the soul he just does that naturally as he fights.
They start 50 meters apart. It's unlikely they'd ever get the opportunity for close quarters combat.
I was under the impression from this comment that he'd start with that instead of running in 50 meters to engage in close combat.
He’s good enough at fighting to keep up with Itadori, mainly due to his movements and predictions. Like when he judged the length of Stain’s sword swing to go between his legs then enter his blind spot with a jump when he only unlocked Full Cowl that day and having never seen the guy fight before. Deku isn’t some idiot that can’t fight and gets stomped if you know karate, his Gran Torino based “bounce off everything rapidly” fighting style is meant to keep him from getting hit easily.
I don't think Deku is some idiot who gets stomped because Yuji is a more skilled hand to hand fighter than him. There's a reason I point out in my original argument for all of this that I believe Deku will win. At the same time however, Deku very pointedly doesn't need to play the range game with Yuji to win this, nor would he. Deku does not fight like a skirmisher, he fights up close and personal for as much as he can and only works from a range when he's forced to work from a range. Looking at all of his fights after he aquires full-cowling and his air-blast he does not bother with trying for range. Hell, against Shigiraki, the guy who specifically we would imagine he wants to play the range game with, he instead focuses on relying on overwhelming with his greater AP instead. That's what he'll focus on his fight with Yuji. So even though he'll for sure eat some attacks because just as Yuji's own fighting style isn't anything special to Deku nor is Deku's fighting style anything special for Yuji. We literally have a canonical fight for this Yuji where he has to work around the fact his opponent wants to fight at mid-range and Yuji only really struggles the way he does because the attack themselves are treated as above his own speed. Deku doesn't have that, so his ranged option with air blast isn't anything special that Yuji can't overcome just by dodging even if Deku decided for some reason to try and play a ranged game.
My vote started grace, but do you want to change your vote to Yuji?
Deku fought as a “skirmisher” as much as he could against Nine, spamming Air Force blasts far more than his kicks when he realized his fisticuffs weren’t working. Anytime he goes in to fight and has a struggle, he falls back and uses Air Force, it’s just that everyone he fights has some ridiculous ability that keeps him from spamming them. Nine had better range on top of it being a 2v1 so he was doing anything he could to tire him out, and Flect bounced Air Force away. Gentle was faster than him on top of needing to keep the fight controlled + it being his first time using them.
I'll wait to see what others say first. I don't like flopping between votes like that
Yuji does have a win-con in the blackflash because he could pop it off at any point in this fight and if he did, he would take Deku down and actually in just wailing on him. It's just super difficult for Yuji to reach either win-con.
Do you think Yuji is certain to land at least one strike? If so, I would again like to bring up the potency of curses on people with no resistance.
I believe he will for sure land one punch, however, I do not at the moment agree with treating the cursed energy used by sorcerer's in their normal attacks the same as that of cursed spirits. The way that sorcerer's utilize cursed energy doesn't seem to have that same impact that the way that curses utilize cursed energy. Seen in the goodwill arc where Maki engages in battle with sorcerer's and is even hurt by the cursed energy of her sister but seems to suffer no adverse consequences from it.Do you think Yuji is certain to land at least one strike? If so, I would again like to bring up the potency of curses on people with no resistance.
Just a few pages after being cut, and Maki already collapsed nearly unconscious, and was at risk of dying.
If we're under the impression Itadori won't land a single hit, that's fine then. He won't have to worry about it. But if he can land one, or hell, even a few, his ability to fight back would become impaired extremely quick.
In character deku won't kill his opponents. Can deku control his power down to the point he won't kill Yuji?
Tbh I think curses overall seem a bit inconsistent...
Yuji's like known for his stamina. And having good resilience to physical injuries isn't the same as fighting through a curse that has effects like transmuting your body, causing exhaustion, and death in like a minute.
At this point, for sure.
Yuji has good stamina feats, Deku just has better. While I said above Yuji is probably more resilent, being able to fight through a fatal wound, Deku has shown far better stamina in the realm that he was able to force himself to keep fighting with two severly broken arms and dashing across the battlefield like a madman about three arcs before the Deku in this key. Deku can battle against the exhaustion incurred by a curse and still put up an effective fight against Yuji and get his win.
I think exhaustion from physical movement is different from a curse just draining you of your stamina. That said, it won't help much against the transmutation or the fact it's even just fatal akin to poison which will kill regardless of stamina. Don't think stamina will help much against sudden less of consciousness either.
