Partners in Crime: Tier 9-A Duo Tournament; Round 3 Match 1: Kim & Shego VS Lupin & Koichi (0-0-0)

[Catbowtie]

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Assumptions:​

Combatants start 30 meters away from each other and out of sight.
Speed Equalized
All Combatants are restricted to 9-A
All combatants have their Standard Equipment
The battle's location takes place in Crawford (There's no zombies)
Otherwise, Standard Battle Assumptions​

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Combatants	Votes
Kim & Shego
Lupin III & Koichi Zenigata
Inconclusive

 

[DimeUhDozen]

Okay, so the main asset here is Shego because Lupin would immediately fold for her and go awooga awooga.

 

[Detective_Blizzard]

So, an immediate thing to note on this fight is the social influence. With Hat Kid and Empress there was a bit of a possibility of it not happening but there are 0 timelines where Lupin sees Shego and doesn't immediately tried to seduce/convince her to give up. It's written in his DNA.

As for how effective it is, I'm not an expert on the series but from I can tell Shego is pretty easily swayed with people with high financial wealth and I don't see a reason why Lupin's tricks wouldn't work on her considering how willing he is to both brag and back up his words when it comes to his criminal history.

Kim on the other hand is a very different story when left alone with Zenigata, her recent class 100 upgrade means that the handcuffs aren't going to be effective which means he's going to have to rely on his guns. There's a 3x difference between the two in physical attack power and durability, but Zenigata is tricky enough that while he does lose considerably he can still do things like disabling Kim's jetpack with a masterful shot by forcing her to dodge.


Then it comes down to Lupin and Kim (or just him getting 2v1'd by the two) and to be blunt, Lupin's skill seems to be higher than what they can handle. While Kim and Shego have BS stealth, Lupin has the same level of it with vastly more experience with the added bonus of being the only one of the three to have senses good enough to counter it. Be it from knocking them out via smoke bombs or using Kim's own gear against her there isn't much room for error in Lupin's corner since Kim has nothing he doesn't have extensive experience with and while Shego has tricks up her sleeve, Lupin either counters it (sleep manip) or can just out-think/stealth it (energy blasts)

 

[Detective_Blizzard]

Okay, so the main asset here is Shego because Lupin would immediately fold for her and go awooga awooga.

While Lupin has a weakness for women, he's fully aware of it and often plays into it in order to fool them. Since his goal is to win this fight it's unlikely for him to give up like that, the man is stupidly prideful even for minor contests

 

[DimeUhDozen]

As for how effective it is, I'm not an expert on the series but from I can tell Shego is pretty easily swayed with people with high financial wealth and I don't see a reason why Lupin's tricks wouldn't work on her considering how willing he is to both brag and back up his words when it comes to his criminal history.

Yes, but not completely. Like in the Jeff Bezos episode during the mid-credits sequence, if there’s something that makes or breaks the deal, like Lupin’s personality or Zenigata being not cool with him bribing and letting a known criminal wanted in pretty much every country go free, she’s out. Zenigata’s with Interpol, so he should definitely not be okay with that option. Possibly some in-fighting to go off of there.

Kim on the other hand is a very different story when left alone with Zenigata, her recent class 100 upgrade means that the handcuffs aren't going to be effective which means he's going to have to rely on his guns. There's a 3x difference between the two in physical attack power and durability, but Zenigata is tricky enough that while he does lose considerably he can still do things like disabling Kim's jetpack with a masterful shot by forcing her to dodge.

Kim also does have her magnetic bracelet which she can use to disarm him and his weaponry, as seen with Duff’s golf club. On the account that she doesn’t even need to use the jetpack, her acrobatics combined with Shego’s are going to make it very difficult for him to hit her, even with his impressive precision. They’re basically constantly moving targets.

Then it comes down to Lupin and Kim (or just him getting 2v1'd by the two) and to be blunt, Lupin's skill seems to be higher than what they can handle. While Kim and Shego have BS stealth, Lupin has the same level of it with vastly more experience with the added bonus of being the only one of the three to have senses good enough to counter it. Be it from knocking them out via smoke bombs or using Kim's own gear against her there isn't much room for error in Lupin's corner since Kim has nothing he doesn't have extensive experience with

Lupin’s skill is impressive but Shego and Kim are still no slouches and could overwhelm him with the 2v1. Kim could snatch the smoke bombs from out of his reach with the magnetic bracelet, and the “using her own gear against her” thing is only for her Battle Suit which has gotten hacked before, but this is not standard equipment and everything else that she uses has served her just fine in the past.

and while Shego has tricks up her sleeve, Lupin either counters it (sleep manip) or can just out-think/stealth it (energy blasts)

Lupin’s sleep resistance is incredibly minor. He’s still affected by it, but he only wakes up in less time than a normal human would. For those hours, he’s still vulnerable and it only takes a moment to activate.

 

[Detective_Blizzard]

Yes, but not completely. Like in the Jeff Bezos episode during the mid-credits sequence, if there’s something that makes or breaks the deal, like Lupin’s personality or Zenigata being not cool with him bribing and letting a known criminal wanted in pretty much every country go free, she’s out. Zenigata’s with Interpol, so he should definitely not be okay with that option. Possibly some in-fighting to go off of there.

Zenigata 100% isn't going to be OK with it....... but he's not going to have much say in it since Kim beats him and if he's still in the fight when she's down, Lupin will just distract him to let Shego leave. It's practically routine for those two and Zenigata in character would list Lupin as a bigger concern than Shego if Lupin decides to call off the truce.

As for deal breakers, there aren't any with Lupin. He's incredibly good at seducing women being able to masterfully be both a handsome gentleman and a goofy guy that's hard to hate. His main concerns are things like his extensive list of exs and current flings but thats something that happens looooong after the fight. This man was able to convince a woman he just met into marrying him (granted, both had plans to use the other but so does Shego soooooo)

Kim also does have her magnetic bracelet which she can use to disarm him and his weaponry, as seen with Duff’s golf club. On the account that she doesn’t even need to use the jetpack, her acrobatics combined with Shego’s are going to make it very difficult for him to hit her, even with his impressive precision. They’re basically constantly moving targets.

Unironically the magnet would backfire against her, the man has so many handcuffs that she would get buried 3 times over (he often has enough to bury Lupin with them and still have more to throw). As for acrobatics it's unlikely to be effective due to Zenigata's masterful aim with a gun, the Lupin characters have acrobatics of their own and can sometimes just defy physics with it (Lupin's signature swimming in air). And Zenigata more than anyone is used to fighting moving targets on account of him constantly being the one having to chase him enemies.

Lupin’s skill is impressive but Shego and Kim are still no slouches and could overwhelm him with the 2v1. Kim could snatch the smoke bombs from out of his reach with the magnetic bracelet, and the “using her own gear against her” thing is only for her Battle Suit which has gotten hacked before, but this is not standard equipment and everything else that she uses has served her just fine in the past.

Magnetic bracelet isn't going to work and what I ment by use her own gear I ment her equipment. Lupin's monocle would be good enough to hack into her Kimmunicator in order to get info on her and her gear. With her gear just being standard stuff that Lupin has seen countless times already. Hell Lupin himself uses portable magnets from time to time. Plus if the magnet watch makes a sound he has feats to hear that and then prepare against it.

There is also just the added stealth factor where they can't see a thing he does whereas he's going to have them on lockdown all the way

Lupin’s sleep resistance is incredibly minor. He’s still affected by it, but he only wakes up in less time than a normal human would. For those hours, he’s still vulnerable and it only takes a moment to activate.

That resistance makes him recover several times faster than a normal human, but I was more reffering to his resistance to dream manipulation since it's more applicable here (supernatural force driving him to sleep rather than something actually entering his system) which he can just wake up from on demand.

 

[Detective_Blizzard]

Side question, is mind control restricted for these due to being too haxy or not, cause I just realized this battlefield unironically gives Lupin the option to use one of his forms of mind control that I'm aware of.

It's highly situational, but if Lupin gets his hands on a spoon and put a hole in it with a certain way, he can use the hole for sound based mind control by swinging the spoon around like a conductor. Granted it's far from the first thing he'd do and needs a bit of hiding and crafting, but it's an option for him if push comes to shove.

Edit: I misremembered, no crafting needed, the spoon he uses is just a strainer spoon lol. Which while not as common should still be somewhere in this setting