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Hmm I see. But again, Mega Man has a long history of rock-paper-scissors strategy and general adaptability to what his opponent does. As soon as he sees Blades as an ice user, he'll pull out some fire or electrical attacks by default based on previous experience. Not saying they'll do massive damage or that Blades has the same weaknesses as the Robot Masters, but the fire weapons can increase the temperature of the air around them with flames or evaporate his water (assuming if the water works that way) to prevent Blades' boost. But then again, Mega Man can't do anything to AZ temperature when that's pulled out.By the fact that Blades kept RPL, why would his RPL suddenly stop working when he kept making more ice resulting in temperature going lower along with Nagare innate ability to conjure up more water to boost his AP even more. The sharper the blade, the stronger the Rider themselves.
Even then, this argument should be negligible considering that Mega Man one-shots with anything whereas Blades one-shots with AZ in general.
AoE includes acid rain (which was proven useless since Blades resists), gravity-enhanced rotating boulders, reflecting lasers, multiple crystal projectiles, etc. and homing attacks are missiles just to list them. Yeah Blades may null them, but at least the projectiles are there to provide distractions or cover to prevent Blades from landing a killing blow to Mega Man whereas Mega Man is given more time to dodge or counter with something of his own in the crossfire.What is the AoE homing attacks? Blades AoE is frankly massive, his sword swipe can constantly powernull through them or freeze them if he so desire.
In the context you gave me, Calibur's precog just seems to be the kind of precog that's not used for combat (in the sense of like immediate precog where he sees an attack beforehand and immediately counters) but the kind that's long term in the future where he sees something and tries to prevent it from happening throughout the course of a journey or something. It seems story-based and not definite because you said it yourself when you said how the world "could possibly" end or where Calibur "could fail". In a sudden fight against an opponent he's never seen before (like this one), I'm not sure if this will still apply. Again, I could be wrong since I know nothing about the series so kindly correct me on that.As seen in episode 26, Kento the next Calibur after the last one inherited Kurayami and went nuts due to his future visions where how the world could possibly ends. Every, single, future where he could fail and the world is doom because of it is presented to him.
This allowed Kento to completely know of everything in the future in advance, including where each characters would be going to where, what their attacks and defensive patterns will be like and even every words that they'll speak. Hell, Xross Saber basically get it's precog from Kurayami.
Durendal's Kaiji also have the ability to peer into the future where he can basically attacks from any possible angles via his causality hax yet he can't land a blow on Blades after he get Tategami Hyoujo Senki. Blades himself also have experience dealing with basically teleporting foe via Durendal. His precog would allowed Blades to pin point where Megaman would tp next, same as the way Blades was able to predict where Durendal would come out of his time erasure to attack him.
Blades' performance against Durendal's hax is impressive but is no different than what Mega Man has done more consistently and with more varied opponents that I listed previously, especially when Durendal's ability is like a glorified teleportation. And I see now, Blades has more so analytical prediction from his performance against Durendal. Well in that case, that's not going to help him against a time stop since Mega Man can still harm him as time is stopped whereas Durendal couldn't attack during Ocean History and needed to come out first. And even without time stop, Mega Man has the pressure and set-ups to land the killing blow, providing cover and escape while making it harder for Blades to hit him and possibly make it harder for him to predict him with his versatility.
I still think Mega Man can edge it out not just because of his versatile arsenal, experience and time stop but also because of the fact that virtually anything he attacks with is gonna kill Blades. Meanwhile, Blades needs to rely on AZ otherwise his other attacks and skills aren't going to do much. So in that regard, it's much easier for Mega Man here to get a kill.
I must leave for now, but I'll return once I have free time.