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Re:Zero - Reinhard van Astrea power scaling

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Hello. I have a question about power scaling in the RZverse.

This is about Reid Reinhard's scaling to Satella, instead of Puck. Right now Reinhard and Puck have the same AP and Durability being used in VS (even the same speed except for reactions).

The revision would be based on the Author's comment that Reinhard will stalemate Satella and that she will be unable to hurt him no matter how long they fight.

A discussion moderator in the RZ thread pointed out that Satella's AP would not count towards Reinhard's Durability, if her attack was a black hole. If that's the case, Reinhard can't scale to her (He did agree, however, that Durability would scale normally if it was not a black hole).

"Real blackholes don't give a durability rating since regardless of durability, without a higher power to protect an object, it gets spaghetti-fied as it's pulled inside."

However, as you probably agree as well, her attack is extremely unlikely to be a 'real' black hole, as was already dismissed for many other fictional depictions of 'black holes'. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Hole_feats_in_fictio

Therefore, I think Reinhard should still scale to Satella properly. I think this should also be the case because if Satella can destroy the world, Reinhard can heal the world at the same time. He is currently being scaled only to Puck, but the Author himself has already clarified that Reinhard equals the power of Satella.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Re_Zero/comments/50y0pa/wnspoiler_authors_various_answers_on_characters/

If he draws his own sword, Reinhard can fight against Volcanica(The Dragon), and makes stalemate on Satella.

http://pastebin.com/8QTMKVDx

Q: Among the characters that have appeared until now, what would the five people with high battle strength look like when they are lined up in sequence?


A: Reinhard, Ram(with horn), Regulus, Sekhmet, and Puck in his True form tied with Roswaal. Even though they are like dangos under Reinhard but these guys are capable of bringing down the white whale by themselves.

It also seems kinda counter-intuitive for Reinhard's Reid form to share the same AP and Durability as Puck, because he wrestled Puck down to the ground with his bare hands at the epicenter of Puck's power while sustaining no damage, before he drew Reid. And he is already like 'peanuts' comparison against Reinhard to the Author anyway, with a higher power-scale available.

So, given these information, what do you believe is more appropriate for power-scaling here - scale Reinhard to Puck, who is much weaker, or scale him to Satella instead, as pointed by the author? In my opinion, Satella's attack being a true black hole is the only thing that would make scaling Reinhard's AP/Durability to her attacks impossible. Puck is the strongest opponent Reinhard fought so far in one of the parallel timelines, but the author has already used WoG to simulate the eventual outcome of a Reinhard vs Satella battle (Satella and Reinhard would utterly obliterate Puck, but they would equal each other).

Any input is appreciated, mods. Thank you.
 
I'll post some quotes and translations to provide some info:


This is the quote where Reinhard defeated Puck without drawing Reid.


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That scene precedes this scene where he finally drew Reid to reverse Puck's damage across the landscape.
 
I agree with scaling reinhard with reid to satella as satella didn't use a literal blackhole as zero already pointed out to destroy half the world it was just a vortex of shadows that was absorbing everything. It's basically just ying magic in other words darkness evident by this quote from the summary of arc 4 when satella was absorbing everything while using someone as a vessel and this was still while being sealed:

"Once outside, he was shocked to see that the entire Sanctuary was enveloped in shadow, quickly coming face to face with the Witch of Envy's shadow. The witch tried to absorb him, though fortunately Garfiel saved him, explaining that everyone else had been swallowed by the shadows. The witch continued to try and absorb him, forcing Garfiel in his beastified form and the Lewes Meyers to try to fight her, however they were quickly killed by the shadow. The shadow then approached him, trying to absorb him once again, but this time a light shone from his chest, its source Petra's handkerchief that he had given Echidna earlier. As Echidna had modified it, the handkerchief hardened in accordance to his will, allowing him to use it as a weapon to cut away the shadows trying to absorb him."

So she doesn't use a real blackhole in which case reinhard should scale to her seeing has he is stated to be able to stalemate her and he himself has hax which allows he to fix the damage caused to the world like he did against puck where he repaired the damged world and made like flowers which were frozen and shattered grow again. Satella destroys while reinhard heals they are opposites and equal.
 
i think heinkel and Peasus are making fairpoint here i have no object on this seems very coolyeah i have no problem with it
 
I also have no problem with this, the reasoning seems sound to me, though one had to wonder if Satella destroying half the world can be seen as brute force or pure hax. It's also worth mentioning that maybe what destroyed the world was gradual. However, otherwise, I completely agree.

It's awesome that the author of Re:Zero is willing to answer all these questions though, it actually super helps us.
 
It's definetly not like satella literally blew up half the world she just absorbed it so it's not pure dc i don't think but i don't think it's hax. Like when satella showed in in echidna's dream world just showing up everything around her was being absorbed and it was just pure darkness. What i think is hax though is that when she absorbs you she gets all your powers. Anyway it doesn't really matter whether she did it with pure dc or not reinhard has hax that allows him to heal the world so he should logically be able to restore anything she destroys.

As for whether she did it over time i don't think it took too long considering even weaker characters like puck can already threaten to destroy the world albeit it's not instantaneous, also when satella showed up another time in arc 4, while most of her power was still sealed and using a vessel, she was quickly absorbing an entire forest and engulfing it in pure darkness. I think her absorbing half the world relatively quickly makes sense.

Yes i also appreciated tappei giving answer on power scaling and other stuff we already know how powerful a lot of the characters are. I am just curious as to the abilities of characters like the sage and dragon cause in case anyone hasn't noticed this verse is hax and they are top tiers they got to be hax as well when even mid tiers can erase people from existence, have matter manipulation, death manipulation etc. Though we know already know the dragon has soul manipulation.
 
For some sense scale, the Sanctuary and the forest in question that was snuffed out by Emilia was about 105-120 km in radius (travel for 7-8 hours at 15 km/hr to move through the forest). At this time Satella was about 8,000-12,000 km away from her.
 
So can we apply the changes? We have agreement here, this would scale base reinhard to puck and reinhard with reid to satella.
 
arc 6 ch 2 is out Here Polygamy is pretty much confirmed subaru truly have loyal harem lol screw you subaru have A+ tank waifus all around you

ROSWAAL GOT REKT !!!
 
I have a few questions.

1. Wasn't Satella's black hole thing over time?

2. Can't he avoid her attacks via the attack immunities? Just because he can stalemate her doesn't mean it's because of his AP/Dura, the same outcome can be produced this way
 
@LordAizen

1. Satella's blackhole thing was never stated to be overtime all that was said was that she destroyed half the world by draining it dry. Overtime was just an assumption as to how her power work cause the longer she is an area the more of it she absorbs and the more darkness surrounds the area, that is what's meant by draining it dry. Those instances though of her using her powers were with most of her power still being sealed so it doesn't apply to her at full power.

2. We don't know the mechanics of the attack immunities and quite frankly if he was truly immune to all attacks he wouldn't have to actively engage in attacks he could just stand in one place and nothing would touch him which as it turns out he always actively attacks. Also if he is immune to attacks why would he need reid in the first place against satella i mean none of her attacks would hit him right, but yet he needs reid to stalemate her so clearly he needs the power in order to match or damage satella.
 
1:Alright.

2. He would draw his sword because it's his best chance to win, If he simply did nothing every fight due to his attack immunity he would never defeat anyone, as this is not it's purpose. His attack immunity will prolong a fight but not win him it. He could simply be unable to harm Satella even with his raid, and Satella cannot defeat him due to his hax immunities.
 
The author specifically said that with reid he can stalemate satella why would he say with reid if reinhard could already stalemate satella in base because of his immunities?

I think it's far more likely he needs it in order to match satella in ap, i am not denying that satella's attacks won't work on reinhard just the fact that he can't damage satella. If satella with her magic can destroy half the world it makes sense for her to have comparable durability and if she does then reinhard would need comparable ap to damage her. He wouldn't be stated by the author to need reid if he could already stalemate her in base that doesn't make sense.

The battle would be a stalemate because yes satella can't hurt reinhard and there is also the fact that reinhard can ressurect possibly infinitely even if she does kills him, but he can't kill satella cause satella is immortal and no one in the verse can kill her. She is stated to never age, wither or die and her existence is said to be indestructible which is why the dragon, sage and sword saint had to seal her cause they couldn't kill her.
 
The problem with Reinhard's current power scaling is that you can pit Reinhard and Satella against the exact same opponent, yet will yield two very different results when they are both power equals.

For example, you can pit Reinhard and Satella against Anivia, who is mechanically no different from Puck, but the current Reinhard will lose horribly due to his lack of AP/Durability while Satella will totally stomp her.

This discrepancy results from the two's uneven tiering - people assume that Reinhard's defensive magic/hax, that allows him to completely endure the destruction of multi-continents, will not allow him to endure an attack that is Small Country or Country level. In short, at this moment his 'defensive hax' has no use in VS at all, it's just Durability that people are going to see and he'll just be taken down by any Country level attack.

Satella can defeat a Multi-Continent opponent but Reinhard loses to Small Country or Country level opponents. This seems somewhat counter-intuitive for two equally strong combatants.
 
You have a stronger case there as that would imply he needed it, but then you're saying that his immunities are not true immunities. just good resistance.

You bring up another interesting point though, why is Satella's AP scaled to her dura? just because you can produce that much ap doesn't mean you get that level of dura.
 
If another person than her in the Setting detroyed RZ' continents, she'll survive it. Satella can survive destruction at multi-continental scale. She can't survive the destruction of planets, yet.
 
Blessing aren't perfect they can be overcomed by other blessings to say reinhard has immunity to all attacks is ridiculous and nlf, is he immune to reality warping on this logic then, what if someone nuked the entire planet would that still miss him? See what i am saying, even theresia the former sword saint had first attack immunity but guess what reinhard one shotted her despite that.

Whether it is because of the first attack immunity or cause of his magic resistance he has been shown to have hax resistance, like for example being unaffected when someone used death manipulation on him and it did nothing, this is something we can go by we don't know the mechanics of the miss all blessing. We know blessings come from od which may or may not be a person at the center of the world but we don't know anything else.

Why wouldn't satella's durability be scale to her ap, i thought it is the standard assumption that if you can destroy a wall you have wall level durability unless proven otherwise. Satella has enough power to destroy half the world why would we assume her durability to be lower? We have already proven that she didn't destroy half the world with a blackhole and it was just her magic power so her durability should scale to her ap, she didn't do it with hax.
 
@Third Paragraph Errr, it's definitely not standard assumption and incredibly fallacious, if that's what you based her dura off. only if it was physical strikes would that count, otherwise the term "glass cannon" would never have existed in the first place.
 
Satella was at the epicenter of the damage she caused, though. Glass cannons like those who throw around magical nukes usually aren't caught within their own AoE.

The ability to casually wipe out RZ's continental surface (and also intercontinental travel speeds within minutes), is not uncommon in the setting.

This is Minerva:

http://pastebin.com/GbgUPSKZ

Minerva, Witch of Wrath - Minerva has the power to "punch" people and heal them. Her powerful punches however destroys the world at the same time. Anytime she punches people back to health, catastrophe happens elsewhere in the world. Which causes more people to become injured, and she rushes there to punch them. This infinite cycle of destruction and healing caused more harm than good, but that never stopped her from continuing.


This is how the Author compares Minerva's strength to other characters:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Re_Zero/comments/50y0pa/wnspoiler_authors_various_answers_on_characters/


Strength Ranking among 7 Witches

Envy > Sloth > Pride > Gluttony > Greed = Lust>>>>>>>>>Wrath



As you can see, Minerva is considered a casual world destroyer within RZ's own setting (right now we have lowballed this to mean the surface only), to the point that it's considered a comical flaw of her own personailty. However, she's far below the strength of other Witches, the author taking care to emphasize this with >>>>>>>>>. She's the best waifu among the Witches but also the weakest.
 
Which is what i am saying it is assumed that ap would scale to durabilty unless they have been proven to be glass canons, which we have no proof that she is a glass canon here because she hasn't even fought yet she has but we don't have all the details we know she can destroy half the world while being in the center of her ability so we would assume she has durability to match her ap, otherwise we would have to put her durability at unknown and it wouldn't only apply to just satella alone there are alot of profiles that we would have to put their durability at unknown because we only known that they are capable of destroying something.
 
>Satella was at the epicenter of the damage she caused, though. Glass canons like those who throw around magical nukes usually aren't caught within their own AoE.

@Heinkel If she was within her own technique that seems fine, though if it's possible could you link the proof in her dura section? that'd be good.

@Celestial we do not accept scaling durability just because they can produce a certain level of ap and never have. All you had to say was she was in the centre of her own attacks and I would of agreed.

That being said though you guys can go ahead with the proposed changes it seems to check out ok, don't think to many others will respond.
 
Whatever the case she was at the center of her ability and that seems to be enough so i won't argue that point any further though it seems weird to me that we assume everyone is a glass canon when they aren't as prevalent in fiction as those who aren't glass canons unless i am missing something but lets drop that.

Yes she was at the center of her ability, don't think we could link proof for that though we don't have translations for it, we could post summaries or some google translations if necessary though. How her ability works basically is that it starts with her at the center of it and then continues going out further and further, which is why she would have consumed everything if she wasn't stopped.
 
Yup Satella's power is similar to Puck, in which their body sucks in the things around them by manifesting. Puck absorbs only energy, which causes objects to freeze and shatter into pieces, but Satella can directly absorb matter and objects. It's their body itself that deals those passive damages.

http://rezero.wikia.com/wiki/Pack
Star Beastification (µÿƒþìúÕîû Seijuuka): While normally staying in a small size, Pack's true form is a monstrous, 20 meter, golden eyed cat like beast which is dubbed "the Beast of the End". As he needs an incredible amount of mana to stay in this form, he forcibly drains it from his surroundings, causing his surroundings to freeze.

We just lack the English translation to link them directly in the WN, so we are waiting for them.

Anyway, thank you for your help, LordAizenSama!
 
Well then heinkel or someone else can add the changes then, the site is being a little slow for me plus i got class to go to so i can't do it.
 
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