Hitting him is the hard part though, Adam's semblance works through his sword, he's going to be blocking as many attacks from her as he possibly can. Also Adam's senses actually counter the secondary effect of Darkstep as he can see and sense his opponents even while blindfolded because he can still fight while blindfolded.
I mean that's not too helpful when he's moving so slowly he can't counter anything she does, Dark Step is basically free hits for her.
I'm more interested in the feats than the scaling so I'll get into those- But rest assured she does upscale. Shinobu herself is far better than most assassins in this game, where even the absolute worst of them are able to clear low-level Assassination Gigs, which require them to kill dozens of people at once (in a single room, all of them armed and aware of the assassin) and she's easily above the level that could clear more difficult Assassination Gigs which see her facing a hundred people or more, same circumstances. Keep in mind that's a mid-late game mission in the first game and Shinobu is one of the stronger assassins in the second game.
So its dodge-based? That could indeed pose some problems for Adam...
Its probably easier to just show Adam's fights tbh:
Yeah, it's left very nebulous how exactly it activates, but it does have to be a close dodge, she can't just have an attack happen two meters away from her and make it work. But it is a very strong tool.
I don't mean to downplay him but there isn't much that necessarily stands out here- don't get me wrong he's good but I don't necessarily see much that puts him above Shinobu, although I only watched a bit.
Nah, I get the idea, he's good, one of the best in the series, right? What I'm arguing here is more that the general base level of No More Heroes 2 is higher than RWBY's because of (from what I'm seeing at the moment at least) superior feats- basically everyone that matters can pull off crazy shit like fight a hundred people at once or be superior to someone with accelerated development that makes you learn hundreds of times faster than you normally would, you've got Travis from the first game who literally just got most of his skill just by watching samurai videos on cassette and still became one of the world's best assassins, beating out people with much better formal training- and NMH2 Shinobu is superior to NMH1 Travis.
Hmm, that balances out then, Adam tends to play equal parts offense and defense, usually leading with defense against opponents who are equally strong, and he has ways to actually work around Darkstep like his clones
That kinda defeats the point of posting the videos lol
I mean not really? A lot of what you listed has also been done by RWBY characters. Literally everyone in the main cast can take on hordes of hundreds of grimm at once and win with ease (ruby did this Bos in the red trailer. Alone). Velvet does the same thing as Travis and Kimmy only it applies to entire fighting styles that took others their entire life to learn, and she can copy any number of fighting styles and replicate them in combat at will (note that Velvet is considered mid-tier in skill). Everyone in the verse can intercept automatic gunfire too, casually at that, Adam even has direct feats of it in the second video that was posted. Rwby's intelligents reasonings on their profiles is kinda outdated and needs updating like how dekus was updated
Eh, I don't really see how. Self-duplication doesn't get you that far in NMH and Shinobu has fought two comparable opponents at once already, plus if she activates Dark Step it doesn't matter where the clones are, they won't be able to intercept her attacks.
I don't mean any offense but i ain't gonna watch twenty-five minutes of RWBY just for a match
Aren't they just animalistic in intelligence and dangerous because of their stats? I wouldn't consider that as impressive. Plus, that's context-dependant, are all the Grimm in the same place, all able to attack at once? Cause if not the feat becomes way less impressive
Yeah, cause she does that with her Semblance, Kimmy is pure skill and she's kinda foddery for the verse.
Yeah, but from behind?
Fair.
I mean if youre looking for Adam's skill feats thats literally the entirety of his on-screen combat scenes, plus its rather unfair to say he's not skilled if you havent actually seen the full showcase of his abilities
Not all of them no, there are grimm that do stuff like spit acid, mind control, possess objects and people, sap willpower, etc. And yes, its all in the same place all attacking at once. Even the first ever video for the series had Ruby soloing a horde of several dozen beowolves all at once.
Semblances in RWBY are skill-based though...plus thats kinda like saying that Taskmaster isnt skilled since his fighting style mimicry is based on an ability.
Adam does it blindfolded so yeah, and he has blocked attack like that from behind his back at the same time as well.
I'd appreciate if you could timestamp the most egregious parts if that's the case.
I've watched that "Red" trailer. The Grimm clearly wait for their turn to attack, there's never more than three or four around her, and I'd hesitate to claim there's hundreds of them at all. Even considering the graphical limitations of a Wii game there's gonna be way more enemies surrounding you in assassination gigs in NMH. Also, they are absolutely just basic monsters that mindlessly run at her in that video, I'm sure there's stronger ones but are those the sort that they can fight dozens of?
"Semblance is the manifestation of one's innate and personal power, as an ability unique to each individual, with the effects varying greatly from user to user. Individuals possess their own unique Semblance that represents an aspect of their character. It is currently unknown if an individual's Semblance is related to their Aura. Those that use Semblance are able to manipulate certain physical phenomena according to the nature of their power. Some individuals, such as Weiss Schnee, are able to use their Semblance to create glyphs that generate some desired effect. Ruby Rose is able to move at incredible speeds, while Pyrrha Nikos can manipulate magnetic forces."
Fair enough, similar levels of dexterity then
1:25 - 4:11 for the first video
Dozens but fair point (they do also fight dozens of grimm simultaneously in the games but they are just the basic enemies), though the point is that both Adam and Shinobu scale absurdly above people who can casually clear hordes of fodder
Again he's very good I'm not taking away from this, he's clearly incredibly agile and experienced with his weapon, but I don't think it's necessarily superior to NMH stuff- admittedly it's a bit hard for me to prove that considering that battles happen in gameplay but Shinobu for example is very agile even in her NMH1 self, even if Travis manages to overpower her guard she can avoid his offense by jumping off the architecture and stuff which almost nobody else can do, even assassins superior to her at the time.
Yeah, true, but I still think Shinobu's fodder is a little less mindless, they'll try to keep their guard up and surround her instead of just rushing in.
... So, she needs help to do it, unlike Kimmy. The fact that Aura/Semblances need skill to manifest I'm not trying to downplay but it is separate from the accelerated development.
like i said, the explanation previously given that above that it was extremely condensed, RWBY as a verse extremely skilled, well beyond what was previously stated. At the bottom of the skill chain is aura users as a whole. While every living being in RWBY technically has Aura, actually being able to utilize it for things such as defense, regen, and senses requires years of training and a high enough degree of martial skill (and yes you actually need martial skill for it) that only a small percentage of the population of the entire planet ever become skilled enough to utilize their aura. Of that small percentage, an even smaller percentage ever become skilled enough to manifest/control a Semblance (yes semblances are also skill-based). To reach this small percentage comes to the second half of the bottom of the chain: Almost every character worth their salt in RWBY has spent their entire life training in combat and can fight hordes of Grimm with little issue (Almost because Jaune exists). The entirety of the main cast of RWBY was initially enrolled at Beacon Academy, one of the most prestigious combat schools in the world, with almost everyone who was accepted there having been trained for almost their entire life to fight monsters, and each one that was not professionally trained requiring a skill display overseen by Ozpin, who has the composite skill of several thousand professional huntsmen that he accumulated over his immortal lifetime.
Thats fair, sorry for the wall of text I just wanted to make sure Adam's skill chain was properly represented
It's a bit hard to tell. She downscales from the one who does it but it's a really casual feat done by what is probably a weak-ish form of him so I'd say she's roughly comparable to it, not that it really matters after aura is gone since piercing lol
Again Shinobu knows how to escape a losing blade clash through her acrobatics, she's literally the only boss in the whole NMH series that does this and that's back in the first game where she's much less skilled.
Eh, I think there's a difference between the glancing blows you'll be suffering from an opponent that's comparable in speed and the dead-on blows you'll be receiving from someone who basically sees you as frozen when she uses Dark Step, the latter. Plus if she wants to she can attack really fast and that'd really do a number on any health bar. Also I'll have to reiterate how effective her stamina is, considering she's able to pull off the same "running on willpower" trick as NMH2 Travis that kinda implies she's superior to NMH1 Travis, who can literally have his heart punched out and keep standing. Obviously she can't replicate that since no Regen but bringing her down is not easy, it's not equal to Aura but it is a good defensive tool anyway, especially coupled with Dark Step.
