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"Blocking properties"? It's made of metal, lad, it blocks fine. Fanged Deserter doesn't have a shield in his default arsenal.In a close combat fight it doesn't seem like a good weapon, because it has no proper blocking capabilities. And I have somewhat my doubts that he in-character would usually fight with the horseshoe.
Are you arguing that she is precognitive? Because I will note this is not on the profile, the thing you're arguing. That, or it's false and you're just tossing in unrelated abilities of other people to overplay. So does she need a CRT, and the profile's wrong?It is superhuman levels of skill by all means. She scales above the likes of Alberto S. Divinesmith in skill, who can predict the movements of 20 people 3 to 10 seconds in advance. Also above Kyousuke, whose skill I posted early, but, to mention some notable parts, can mid-battle calculate out how bullets ricochet and manipulate it to his advantage or also predict how the sound of guns spread through a room and focus its reflection from surfaces so that it takes out people. Lu herself is so skilled and precise that she can focus the shockwaves of her punch against an armoured vehicle to cause bubbles in the battery of it around the diode, to create resistance and diminish the flow of electricity. By a similar technique, she can create bubbles in lungs of opponents through their armour. Even her invisibility is in fact skill, not supernatural power.
Not to mention that she can kill top-ranked summoners, when any summoner summoning anything would be game over and many of them are pretty damn skilled in their own right.
I'm not claiming it won't help her. I'm just saying you're tremendously overestimating the difference. I get the notion that this is the only actual argument outside of pointing to other characters more impressive than the one you're left to argue for.That would mean invisibility by someone like Lu, that can additionally be stealthy, could be effective, though.
Isn't that with a 1 in 6 chance? Also: It being inclined to strike there doesn't mean it will manage. Lu will of course guard her vital areas, so other areas are easier to hit. It's not like it has a magical ability to ignore defensive technique. If it went just for the head, the actual difficulty of getting a hit in would be even higher.
Generally speaking, that's the game mechanics that determine it. And... yes, yes it does. "Defensive technique"... like dodging? Everybody dodges. The horseshoe has the objective supernatural tendency to strike the head.
Would it be apt to talk about "defensive techniques", here? FD dodges stuff, too. You're arguing Lu gets off all of these attacks before FD even gets one. It's just really odd, I think. The horseshoe returns to FD's hand, so it is in fact just... throwing weapon battle royale, I guess, based on your argument, except FD's thrown weapon has a very high chance of instant killing Lu. As for defense, I will ask, what does stop him from having a weapon in his other hand? Say, the scimitar? A horseshoe isn't really a two-handed weapon. Like your argument is already silly, because it would be far better to use cover and dodging than trying to deflect knives, but like... why are we assuming he's using just a horseshoe while, in this same scenario, Lu is using 1800 different weapons (1790 of which are, of course, throwing knives).So he would block Lu's initial barrage of thrown knives with the horseshoe and also the subsequent onslaught of close-ranged attacks? I'm fairly certain the sword is better suited for that. In fact, if he goes for the horseshoe for defense, I see him dying before doing much. How would he block multiple knives simultaneously thrown at him with that small and impractical of a weapon? I don't see it.
Yes, because combat know-how is not really indicative of intelligence. You can know martial arts and be dumb as a brick. In fact I believe we've stopped using combat skill as intelligence. FD is not unskilled. FD knows which of his weapons are good. He does not, however, know how to read. So it's a silly damn argument to harp on his intelligence when the fact is it has nothing to do with the actual argument. Again, it comes off as though there is no core argument, and rather a series of ideas you've had.Intelligence has plenty to do with a fight, because you claim he is taking the optimal course of action without giving any actual evidence that's what he does. If he were a tactical genius you could say "he's smart, so he will take smart actions", but he has less than average intelligence. Making what you think is his best choice is beyond any showings and indication he has.
Skill difference that I believe is less than you're saying. Again, she lacks precognition, and yet you're claiming she upscales from precognition levels of skill.And, nah, I don't think Deserter would pressure her much. For a start, skill difference. Yeah, it matters.
Then weaponry. If Fanged Deserter were to actually fight with the Horseshoe he would be outmatched. Lu has the surprise factor constantly producing new varied weapons from seemingly nowhere. Each is different and Deserter has to constantly adjust to that.
To that comes reach. Lu's weapons are either thrown or things like claws attached to ropes or metal chains which get swung around. If he uses the Horeshoe she can outspace while keeping up pressure from multiple angles and go in for close combat whenever she likes.
Are you actually claiming his arsenal is outdone lol? The horseshoe can instant kill, in addition to his standard weapons, in addition to the Brown Scimitar, and your argument is that she has the upper hand in terms of arsenal? Have you got a screw loose? If you're really arguing muh variety, then I'd be willing to wager a horseshoe is a lot more exotic than any standard weapon Lu has. Admittedly, "multiple hidden weapons" isn't particularly revealing. But perhaps that needs fixed in a CRT, too, if the page is really so inaccurate?
As for range, Fanged Deserter has both bows and crossbows in his standard equipment. He can also go in for close combat whenever he likes. Again, these arguments are very weak and assume the Fanged Deserter is simply helpless when nothing suggests this outside of a supposed skill gap that is not evident on the profile.