SKILL
Asta is adept with 5 swordsmanship styles and abilities. He is also a dual wielder. And we all know about Asta's ability to mimic magic swordsmanship with his body.
Type of weapon≠skills
Copying swordsmanship is cool
1. He is capable of being unpredictable via Kiato's swordsmanship
Ok
2. He s capable of predicting moves and instinctively making moves before the opponent makes them via Yami's swordsmanship.
Pretty much an IR feat Which Zel and Mel have
3. He enhanced his dual swords play with Licht's swordsmanship.
K is it possible to give actual feats just saying He got better isn’t really good i don’t even know What to answer
Edit: it sounds rude sorry
I would like feats not Just « … got better »
Also AD feats are cool but you’ve already used so much
I understand the point tho
4. He also has fighting styles taken from Mars, and Fanzel who have years of experience, and one of them is a renowned swordsman teacher.
Ok so most of these are about copying
and adapting Which Meli does too copying a technique He just saw and upgrading it further (Trillion Dark)
Meli and Zel can adapt and cross swords with Arthur that has comp Excalibur wielders they can recognise and adapt to swordstyles parying surprise shots etc…
From what I see in this thread and the little i know, Meliodas and Zeldris completely dominate Asta's number 4.
Yeah
Are Meldris more skilled with swordplay? **** yes.
Yeah
Are Meldris more skilled than skilled dual swordsmen? Maybe, A high enough raw skill can counter this one.
They learned From a dual swordsman and would easily beat his ass
Are Meldris more skilled than a swordsman who predicts moves and instinctively react?
They do the same and are more skilled so yeah (I explained how Mel can predict entire mouvements patterns to trap opps and their IR earlier) + Excalibur contains a blind swordsman Soul that instinctively counter attacks yet they are stated to be so superior it wouldn’t be possible for the masters to cross swords with them
If not then that's Asta's advantage against their skill since he can simply predict their moves and act accordingly
He can predict ON as much as He wants it won’t change shit even bos base Mel could predict patterns of movements
Mel could predict movements and timings for every FC in NNT
Are Meldris more skilled with swordsmen that throw senses off with their moves? If not then Asta has an advantage in this skill department too.
Mel fought someone he couldn’t sense and predicted his whole patterns of movements
They have fought in purgatory where senses are irrelevant and doesn’t rely on their senses anymore so yeah They take this too throwing their senses wasn’t an handicap for them (Now they don’t rely at all they have 6th sense)
Note: Asta's accelerated development applies to his skills too. He already has layers with his prediction-based swordsmanship. He also has miscellaneous skills like Damage reduction from Kiato, who was capable of reducing the damage from an attack that can one-shot him.
Idk for this one someone Here said it wasn’t a skill feat
But Meldris has AD too and Mel copied an attack an upgraded it in seconds
They can adapt to opps far faster and stronger than them
And outskill opps in 3v1 situations
FC in themselves are precision/timing/adaptation feats
Also they have way more versatile kits and exprience
Then what the hell is ON?
ON is Sword skills litteraly
Can be enhanced by A non Natural force that ain’t magical either it’s a component of their bodies they can use in their attacks too Here in this case ON drags the opps and Full React cut them instinctively once they are in range said range can extend with Darkness
Which basically means Zel is untouchable magic can’t affect him Physicals are deflected instinctively
People are attracted into his Full React
And he can basically amp it several times
Which means skills aren’t relevant Precog isn’t either
Speed isn’t either
The use of magic isn’t either
They could eventually try to flee from ON and get out of range which isn’t what they do in character from what I remember anyway the Range is of tens of meters to hundreds of meters
And trying to flee triggers Piety
I really gotta go now I’m gonna die tomorrow morning