He'd also have to deal with the kokushibo's moon breathing while far from range,
Lad they start
10m apart. Stop acting like they're actually far apart.
and his breath of the moon forms takes no time, no stance or anything like that, he just swings and he could make a hundred meter wide blade attack with crescent shaped blades on top of them with change in size and speed.
He literally can't, his range is just tens of meters, not a hundred meter+, and most of his attacks are quite easily blocked by DS, he doesn't have any huge giga AOE attacked that could engulf not only the front of Guts, but also the back, at the same time, or well, not at range anyway from what I can see.
Guts can't close the gap easily if at all.
Literally can, just use his DS to block incoming attacks, it's not even out of character for Guts, he may as well be able to walk straight through it.
And even if he did, kokushibo makes a gap again, hits, guts closes the gap, koku creates one, hits and so on.
He's not hitting Guts unless he gets close to Guts where Guts decides to change tactics from "use shield, get close", to "attack him". And you're acting as if few stray hits will even do anything to Guts, ****, Guts has actual magic healing items on him to begin with, he can take quite a bit of punishment even without the armor due to Puck's dust that he keeps in a little bag.
Hell I'd argue Koku doing nothing but playing range would backfire even.
Not like kokushibo is gonna let him do that.
Not like Koku could stop him.
The cave is also 817 ft underground.
So? What's stopping Guts from leading him elsewhere? He does stuff like that all the time. Hell, that might not even be a good thing, Guts ain't no stranger to cave ins.
No he isn't almost 2x, The gap is less than 1.5x, Its somewhere like 1.2x and even then kokushibo massively upscales. and can I see his cannon blowing someone comparable to him in bloody chunks? That won't help unless that boosts his speed to like 5x or something because of STW.
A gap is a gap, Guts upscales quite a bit off the character who did that feat at this point in the story, then slap on a armor that allows him to shred those who were previously strong enough to beat him into the dirt, it's quite big, and I know Koku upscales off his value, but Guts at his best straight up pulvs those who scaled to his value. And maybe? I'll have to look through the manga as I don't know the chapter numbers off by hand, though I know where two scenes in particular are of the cannon blowing like, a human sized hole through a big ass monster if you want that? (Or at least close, pretty sure he blows a hole through some tentacle thing on the boat arc).
Like his whole body? Cause I doubt guts can blow his whole body to bits, Also no it doesn't take a second and even if it did its not like kokushibo has to stop when regenerating, he'd be able to run away from the sword whilst he's regenerating.
It blows holes the size of this dude through monsters that dwarf Guts. I'd be surprised if it wasn't his whole body. Hell, Guts Dragon Slayer also may as well be total body destruction, when he swings it it completely shreds those it hits. A second half a second, even 0.001 seconds, don't really care, my point stands, it's not truly instant. No, if he gets to the point he has to regenerate from a sword strike at all, he'd have already lost, because he isn't regenerating, he'd be ****** if Guts lands any solid hit with the Dragon Slayer, he'd be permanently wounded.
OP didn't say whether he starts in it or not, and SBA says the character is the strongest form they have meaning guts is in his berserk armor from the get go.
Op LITERALLY did say though, starts off as Black Swordsmen, but can go Berserker Armor. Literally in the OP lad.
I know guts sword is incredibly big, But Kokushibo's senses isn't gonna allow guts to just swing that,
Koku's senses don't have a choice in the matter, having good senses doesn't stop someone else from doing something.
Also kokushibo has to do is swing his blade which in itself can create a gap, or dodge guts slash and then jump back,
Lad, Guts sword is literally larger than Koku's entire body, I don't think you quite get how tall Guts is, he's like 7ft tall almost, and his blade just as long. And he jumps back, and Guts jumps forward, not really rocket science, especially given Guts extreme athletic and acrobatic ability.
he can also slice mid air, the slashes can push guts back or heavily damage him.
So can Guts though? That's not an advantage? They both have that.
guts regen isn't that potent, its low-mid plus he doesn't have an endless supply of what can make him regen so it wouldn't be much of a factor.
Guts healing shit is potent enough to heal heavy gashes, stab wounds, burns and more.
The armor itself makes it so unless he's basically mincemeat and not a single drop of blood is left, he'd still fight and the armor will pull his torn mangled body back together. And yes, low-mid, that's enough to survive and heal slashes, stab wounds and the like, which is what Koku does. It's a huge factor when your opponent's vast majority of attacks only deals damage on that caliber.
Also how can he attack with the sword whilst attacking with other stuff?
Because his other stuff is built into his hand? And he can swing his sword one handed? It's like asking why a dude with two guns in both hands could shoot twice at the same time.
And the sword is the only thing koku has to dodge, everything else doesn't matter, he can straight up tank them and just regen.
He could, though being blown in half, even if he can heal it, is still a fraction of a second wasted falling or healing.
A truck moves faster than a human and even then a human would be able to dodge a truck if the truck is far enough, Plus the STW doesn't just let you see attacks incoming, It lets you see them before the opponent initiates them and when they do initiate it you'll see the attack in slow motion.
I hope to god you can see a truck lad, they ain't THAT fast. And yeah, if they're far enough, they start off 10 meters apart dude, not 100, Koku has very, very, little breathing room here. The match has to start and he must IMMEDIATELY do absolutely everything in his power to get the **** away, if he so much as decides to cqc Guts at the start, which I mean, he doesn't know about Guts super deadly shit right off the bat, he's bound to find out, but he ain't coming into this prepared, if he does that, he's already lost. Except Guts can just enclose the distance to so whatever.
I'm aware of what it does dude, knowing something is coming, even if it's slow motion doesn't always mean you can dodge it, if he knows like 10 bolts, a canon, and a handful of pocket bombs are incoming as well as a huge **** off sword, yeah, he'd know, but that doesn't mean he can just instantly avoid all of them, he still has to actually avoid them, and he might, and he might be able to a handful of times, but sooner or later, after all, all Guts needs is one solid hit and he wins this match.
I am aware just from reading the profiles but the same goes for kokushibo too, Every attack he lands is permanent damage and guts' regen is exhaustable and not that potent to begin with. And kokushibo also has an immense pain tolerance, he basically had a tree growing from inside his body and the tree grows by sucking his blood yet he wasn't fazed by it.
It isn't permanent though, Guts can take days worth of damage, as long as he lives to the end, he can use his dank stash of fairy dust to heal him back to at least survivable conditions, that's assuming Guts isn't cognizant either in his Armor, which he might be able to pull off, though without Schierke I doubt it so ignore that, either way.
And what's pain tolerance gotta do with anything? They both are very obviously not gonna give a **** about the damage they take? It's not even worth mentioning, though pain tolerance ain't gonna help if he gets bisected, or has his limbs cut off, and now he doesnt have any ever again.
Cause the sword ain't omnirdirectional. It'll block the attack of whatever he places the sword like infront of him or something but he'll still get hit from the back, also I thought this guts is berserk?
No, it's just super massive and can effectively cover the majority of Guts' body, so unless Koku is attacking Guts from behind for some reason, which he ain't, sword is gonna work just fine. And no he starts off in Blackswordsman here, but can go Berserk if needed, though Guts in his Berserk state isn't stupid anyway, he's smart still, he's just ******* insane if that makes any sense? Like he still has his intellect, but it's all directed to "kill everything", he can still whip out some pretty clever moves while in this state, he just isnt gonna take time to formulate huge plans or give a shit about consequences of actions.
Why would he go into the defensive? And his profile doesn't note that his swords durability is higher than his either, it not breaking could just be PiS unless its outright stated that his sword is like way more durable than anybody in the series
Because it's easy, smart and something he's done before?
It's not PIS, it's ******* stupid durable, they even used that to their advantage once by using it as a conduit for some fire spell to vaporize this water monster.
Also because Guts profile is pretty outdated but that ain't my problem, think it used to be rated anyway.
Also Can't the armor just break mid fight? His regen is for his skin right? Not his armor. So his armor will break eventually because the armor isn't that much stronger than kokushibo, Kokushibo can just spam his moon breathing blades and eventually break the armor which will lower guts' stats and make his stamina not as impressive
The armor has regen too lad, it's what pulls Guts body together in the first place, it's some weird black magic armor that can shapeshift. And no, it isn't breaking, if characters an absolutely fuckton stronger than Guts even in the armor have yet to even damage it to any meaningful extent, Koku sure as hell ain't destroying it. It's lucky as it is that Berserk actually follows logic and extreme impacts still damage Guts inside the armor even if the armor itself isn't even scratched. (The only damage I can even recall it ever having took is a puncture wound from a giant house sized whale thing).
Anyway to summarize. Guts starts off in base, but can go armor if needed or forced.
Armor does speed amp (though not sure by how much, he has a different rating for it on the profile anyway so at least we accept he's a bit faster).
Guts' sword works just fine as a makeshift shield, and nothing Koku has can actually damage it all, this allows Guts to safely close the distance and protect and cover himself with attacks.
Koku's range isnt even that large, it's only tens of meters max according to the profile.
A single direct hit defeats Koku, he cant get passed built in soul hax.
Guts has ample weaponry to at least distract him momentarily.
Guts won't stop fighting till the last drop of his blood is gone, and he can take such a ridiculous amount of damage it's not even funny, and while Koku could do the same too, that's only under normal circumstances, as mentioned, in this instance, one good hit is all that's needed and even the smallest damage from DS is permanent.
Guts has some pocket sand that can heal some wounds, fortunately, his opponent uses mostly slash and bladed attacks, things that fit within Guts paygrade, if Guts can survive to land just a single hard hit in, he can use that pocket sand to put him in at least stable condition post match.
Also acrobatics and huge leaps and shit, Guts goes hard when berserk, and pre Berserk, he's extremely cunning and well within the realm of playing dirty.
