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Okay, onto the analysis!
Both are melee fighters that take matters into their own hands. So, I'll try to go topic for topic, and also consider the intangible aspect of the fight, of how they'd interact with each other. In that regard, anyone who is more qualified about Mashle ought to correct me, I am a Baki fan first and foremost, and I am mostly depending on what is written about Mash on the profile, plus a little bit that I've read about.
AP: So, in a vacuum, Mash is likely stronger than Yujiro. He easily performed a feat roughly 2x what a considerably weaker Yujiro also did casually. However, Yujiro has so many ways to buff himself (Which, for the sake of consistency, I'll assume Demon Back only) that allow him to oneshot those who are otherwise equal to him, and so many specific attacks that hit far harder than his normal ones, that he can easily at least cover the difference between them, if not exceed. Honestly, I'd consider him as having a straight up advantage, but for the sake of the fight, I'll consider them to be relatively equal in sheer AP.
Durability: Finally something Mash can compete! So, comparing the two, their raw durability should be roughly equal to their AP, which I already covered. But what other abilities they have to support that? Well...
Agility & Reactions: This is a fun one. Mash can fly (sorta), is even more flexible and elastic than Yujiro, do some pretty sick acrobactics and masterfully use timing against even faster opponents. Both have instinctive reactions that allow each other to dodge things without even intending to or seeing them, they can both sense stuff to a superhuman degree (Although Yujiro's senses are far, far better, I don't think that would be relevant to the fight, at least not in this regard), they can both walk on water and create afterimages, and while both can have great stealth, I doubt they'd use it. Yujiro can amp his speed significantly and scale surfaces like a pro. All in all, I think Mash has better agility and mobility, but they can both react to things in a similar level, which favors Yujiro as he can speed amp and, as I will cover, is far, far more skilled. But yeah, I feel like that Mash takes the W here.
LS: Yujiro loses in raw LS, no doubt about it. Quite severely in fact, Class M VS Class T ain't pretty. However, Yujiro has plenty of ways to punish any attempt to wrestle him down or strong-arm him to submission. He can freely and easily redirect the flow of energy (The chat he had with Strydum about "fighters can only be called that if they can see and control the flow of energy of a battle", which allowed Baki to just ragdoll a guy around who had comparable strength to him), even of people stronger than he is (Yujiro V.S. Pickle, when they met and Yujiro used Aiki), his ultraflexibility and out of the box tactics. (When Baki managed to put him in the King Tiger, Yujiro just punched through the ground with an ltra-awkward angle and managed to get out of that) Would these work on Mash? I think so, at least judging from what's there in the profile.
Skill: Yeaaah, no. Yujiro wins here. Solidly. 100%. There is a good reason why Yujiro is one of the top contenders of most skilled characters in the wiki, except for those cosmic type fellows. Mash's feats are awesome, make no mistake - his reactive evolution and countering moves after seeing them once are both awesome. But that's... kid's play to people in Baki. Heck, Baki was beyond that back in the Arizona State Prison arc, when he did both of those things against Oliva, in the same fight. Yujiro can detect the weaknesses of anyone, from their stance to their individual cells. He can replicate styles refined over 4000 years of history and trained for more than a hundred years by a living legend, just by glancing at him. He made a life out of humiliating, even in sheer skill, the other top dogs in his universe.
P&A: Not much to say here, they both have powers that the other doesn't have, but sharing many similar ones. The thing is that, in my opinion, Yujiro has more useful abilities and, the ones that they both share, Yujiro has an usually better version.
Both would immediately see that the other is strong, and would fight/react accordingly. I can see Yujiro playing around without his Demon Back for a while, before getting serious, a bit injured after the initial scuffle. Mash would have the initial upper hand for most of the fight, but that would quickly change once Yujiro got serious.
So, unless Mash has some really sick healing powers, I can't see him winning this. Yujiro would win with medium difficulties.
Both are melee fighters that take matters into their own hands. So, I'll try to go topic for topic, and also consider the intangible aspect of the fight, of how they'd interact with each other. In that regard, anyone who is more qualified about Mashle ought to correct me, I am a Baki fan first and foremost, and I am mostly depending on what is written about Mash on the profile, plus a little bit that I've read about.
AP: So, in a vacuum, Mash is likely stronger than Yujiro. He easily performed a feat roughly 2x what a considerably weaker Yujiro also did casually. However, Yujiro has so many ways to buff himself (Which, for the sake of consistency, I'll assume Demon Back only) that allow him to oneshot those who are otherwise equal to him, and so many specific attacks that hit far harder than his normal ones, that he can easily at least cover the difference between them, if not exceed. Honestly, I'd consider him as having a straight up advantage, but for the sake of the fight, I'll consider them to be relatively equal in sheer AP.
Durability: Finally something Mash can compete! So, comparing the two, their raw durability should be roughly equal to their AP, which I already covered. But what other abilities they have to support that? Well...
- Regeneration: On his profile, Mash has shown to implicitly regenerate from quite serious wounds in a short window of time. I... am not convinced that it is quick or applicable in combat, given that we only know that it was a somewhat short timeframe, certainly not in the time we would consider this fight to be, but hey, it's something!
- Damage Reduction: Okay, Mash's profile DR is... not impressive. That's what I meant a long time ago about to what degrees should a power be added to the P&A, if that is within the natural, not that significant levels that even normal people can achieve. That is just a solid stance to better anchor yourself to the ground and allow you to take more force easily, like a spring. It's something any volleyball player knows how to do. Compared to Yujiro, who, with Shaori alone, could take almost 100% of the energy of any attack done by the opponent and dissipate it, and has likely most of the techniques shown in Baki up until now, such as body hardening to take on more damage or skillful swaying with the attack, and I say Yujiro has far better damage reduction than Mash.
- Healing: I don't know exactly how that works or to what level he can heal, but Mash is said on the profile as able to heal. So yay to Mash!
- Pain and Injury Tolerance: Finally something Mash can clearly win! I mean, Yujiro has never been really tested in that front; the closest he was to really "need" to tolerate serious injury was against Baki, which is just slugging it out and managing to stay standing. Of course, he likely scales to people who has some insane feats, which would put him around Mash's tolerance level, but it isn't confirmed. What Yujiro does have going for him is the ability to contract his muscles violently to nullify pain. In any case, I'll consider that Mash is the winner here, if only slightly. Stamina would go the same.
- Attack Reflection: Yeah, Yujiro win this one too. Mash can redirect physical projectiles and can likely do the same to someone just whipping out a punch to him. Yujiro though, hoo boy. He has dozens of techniques that allow him to control the energy of attacks, to absorb their energy and redirect it as a strike of his, and many, many others.
Agility & Reactions: This is a fun one. Mash can fly (sorta), is even more flexible and elastic than Yujiro, do some pretty sick acrobactics and masterfully use timing against even faster opponents. Both have instinctive reactions that allow each other to dodge things without even intending to or seeing them, they can both sense stuff to a superhuman degree (Although Yujiro's senses are far, far better, I don't think that would be relevant to the fight, at least not in this regard), they can both walk on water and create afterimages, and while both can have great stealth, I doubt they'd use it. Yujiro can amp his speed significantly and scale surfaces like a pro. All in all, I think Mash has better agility and mobility, but they can both react to things in a similar level, which favors Yujiro as he can speed amp and, as I will cover, is far, far more skilled. But yeah, I feel like that Mash takes the W here.
LS: Yujiro loses in raw LS, no doubt about it. Quite severely in fact, Class M VS Class T ain't pretty. However, Yujiro has plenty of ways to punish any attempt to wrestle him down or strong-arm him to submission. He can freely and easily redirect the flow of energy (The chat he had with Strydum about "fighters can only be called that if they can see and control the flow of energy of a battle", which allowed Baki to just ragdoll a guy around who had comparable strength to him), even of people stronger than he is (Yujiro V.S. Pickle, when they met and Yujiro used Aiki), his ultraflexibility and out of the box tactics. (When Baki managed to put him in the King Tiger, Yujiro just punched through the ground with an ltra-awkward angle and managed to get out of that) Would these work on Mash? I think so, at least judging from what's there in the profile.
Skill: Yeaaah, no. Yujiro wins here. Solidly. 100%. There is a good reason why Yujiro is one of the top contenders of most skilled characters in the wiki, except for those cosmic type fellows. Mash's feats are awesome, make no mistake - his reactive evolution and countering moves after seeing them once are both awesome. But that's... kid's play to people in Baki. Heck, Baki was beyond that back in the Arizona State Prison arc, when he did both of those things against Oliva, in the same fight. Yujiro can detect the weaknesses of anyone, from their stance to their individual cells. He can replicate styles refined over 4000 years of history and trained for more than a hundred years by a living legend, just by glancing at him. He made a life out of humiliating, even in sheer skill, the other top dogs in his universe.
P&A: Not much to say here, they both have powers that the other doesn't have, but sharing many similar ones. The thing is that, in my opinion, Yujiro has more useful abilities and, the ones that they both share, Yujiro has an usually better version.
Both would immediately see that the other is strong, and would fight/react accordingly. I can see Yujiro playing around without his Demon Back for a while, before getting serious, a bit injured after the initial scuffle. Mash would have the initial upper hand for most of the fight, but that would quickly change once Yujiro got serious.
So, unless Mash has some really sick healing powers, I can't see him winning this. Yujiro would win with medium difficulties.
