The OP mentioned transformations beyond First Form aren't allowed
My bad, I misread because of the lack of the apostrophe.
However, the
VS Thread Rules forbid to restrict abilities that don't push you to another tier, so Frieza should technically be allowed to reach the third.
It wouldn't be a problem for me honestly, but this is how the game works.
Like I said before, Sigma could just reflect all his ki attacks. Plus, he can teleport. He may not be able to fly, but he should be able to keep up with that.
I wouldn't say all, his reflect is based on timing, he needs to parry every attack with precision to reflect them, it's far fro, guranteed, especially when confronting one who spams ki blasts and lasers with such precision.
Frieza can also cause localized explosion, throw stuff at him with telekinesis and overcome his reflect with larger and stronger attacks (since even in the game, Sigma's reflect doesn't reflect everything).
His teleport is also coutner-based and we don't know how good he is at maneuvering in the air, or at least we can say he isn't as good as Frieza.
Keeping up with a flying opponent also isn't as easy, especially if Sigma isn't used to it, while in the DB verse everyone on Frieza's level and well below is already well accostumed, and sees the inability to fly as a weakness.
Nah, it isn't just his beam saber, he could reflect with Advancing Guard too
It's the part that has no link, right?
I never played Infinite and I rarely saw Sigma being used, so I didn't remember how it is performed.
Would you have a video?
Sigma can survive in space as well, although like you said, he can't fly, so I can see a valid win-con there.
My point was more likely referred to the damage he would take, rather than the need of sustenance.
The narrative implies the explosion of Namek would have killed or greatly injured someone like SSJ Goku, and even final form Frieza was seriously afraid to have the planet explode below his ass, reason why he didn't nuke it right away.
This should mean that one of the level of Sigma should be killed or sustain extremely high damage, while Frieza is already more durable than him and could escape the planet beforehand.
He remained on Namek to kill Goku with his hands before of the huge grudge he had towards him, but he lacks such sentiment for Sigma.
good points but you only countered Sigma's normal abilities, still missing the abilities of the infinity stones, which is where his versatility comes from anyway,
Yes, I should have mentioned they give him greater versatility, but I don't see them as game changers.
He can use only one at a time and they have time limits.
The boons of the time gem are limited by Frieza's greater mobility and capacity to outrange Sigma, they would come actually in handy only in a CQC scenario (which is likely to happen, but not be everything).
The ranged attacks of the reality gem can be countered by other attacks, outranged and escaped through flying and mobility in general, with only the homing thunder being almost guaranteed.
The space gem is the most useful, but it also is sort of situation-based. Trapping Frieza in a cube is a good option, but aside from the fact it has a time limit, the extent to which Sigma can exploit it depends of where Frieza is when he gets trapped.
It might also be possible for Frieza to defend with localized attacks, from the "hand wave" explosion to telekinesis.
I don't remember it being said or implied anywhere that Sigma can't survive in space, he is a reploid superior to megaman who was already able to fight in several stages around the games that took place in space and the same goes for X and Zero
See my point above
can sigma reflection fail? Yes but is still a very useful power and also, right after reflecting the attack, Sigma teleports himself behind his opponent instantly, in the game it is like that at least, and this thing about the Sigma virus working only on robots is false, in Megaman X5 it is said that the virus is so potent that it can affect even biological beings.
Sigma does teleport behind the opponent, yes, but we don't know how far he can go and what could he do if he teleports in mid-air, other than fall down or be vulnerable to being juggled around.
As Isaiah said, we can't scale canon material to MvC. As far as we know, Sigma's base virus is the classic one that corrupts robots.
Sigma not being able to fly is a problem....but knowing how arrogant Frieza is....he definitely goes hand-to-hand against Sigma and the same being able to enjoy his abilities.
Not necessarily, he often tortured or got rid of enemies throgh ranged attacks, for example when he riddled Piccolo with death beams.
I'm not saying that Frieza would automatically or always be in the air, but he surely would have fun against an opponent who can't fly, can't reach him with his attacks and can't defend in mid-air.
over Range....is questionable since his dimensional rifts can reach kilometers and if Frieza flies away from these kilometers, Sigma can attack with the space and reality jewels that have a Range of a Low Multiversal
A dimensional rift is still different from all the other ranged attacks (I don't remember why the rifts have such range and the file doesn't clarify it, someone should).
The gems have low multiversal in terms of reality warping and fusionism, which doesn't necessarily apply to all their other abilities.
About the rest, nuking Namek took about 5 minutes and Frieza says a few times that he would have escaped the planet upon killing Goku, for whom he had a bitter grudge.
If pushed to the very limit, Frieza would activate the countdown on Namek and Sigma would have no way to prevent him from escaping. Likewise, Frieza wouldn't probably bother with Sigma too much.
The reason why he wanted to torture and terrorize the Z Figthers was to vent his accumulated frustration, from the loss of his best soldiers, to having his wish fro immortality denied.
Vegeta and Goku were also saiyans, which he deeply hates, and the latter was the SSJ against whom Frieza wanted to prove his superiority.
