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Top 10 Strongest Swordsmen

Is this dead, because i still dont agree with Sion being below Yasuo and SCP 076 (If 076 is really below Yasuo)
 
Sion

>Surpassed all earthly martial arts and fighting forms, mastered forms far in the future, can break down martial arts after a single glimps, apply experience with that martial art like she did it 10000 times already and mastered techniques from a single, lousy advice. When she was a kid

>Was regarded the greatest Sword Master in the history of humanity throughout the universe, her sword skill was unparralled to the point where her pupil, someone who trained since his youth (So around, 50 - 60 years) in the art of sword fighting, who got so good that he was considered the next Sword Saint, a title Sion held prior, was casually beaten by her. She did so in a physical state, where a sword clash nearly ripped her body apart. Her body was damaged beyond believe

>Later on, in that terrible physical state, faced Hyperion, a enemy who was stronger and faster than Sion. Hyperion passivly cutted Sions stats down to 20%, every touch with Mysteltein, its weapon, would have oneshotted Sion and it had a buttload of Danmaku and laser drones, who all replicated Mystelteins effect. In that fight Sion had nothing more than her sword to fight off Hyperion. She won in the end.
 
Hinestly 076 should probbaly be above Kojirou if thats how we're doing this, and Kojirou and Yasuo should be on the same level
 
Creaturemaster971 said:
I thought sword skill and experience is what this list was
You can only use sword skills, but what qualifies as sword skills varies from verse to verse.

No amount of experience or pure skill helps against Juuzou's concept cutting, and Sasaki's precog+Hiken: Tsubame Gaeshi.
 
Inverted Tempest said:
Obviously Kirito tbh
Afaik Kirito doesnt have any Skill feats that would put him above like anyone else on this list, at most with what I know hes like a max of number 10.
 
@Yung Precog isnt a sword skill tho? And Yasuo attained his wind blade skill through means identical to Sasaki's Hiken
 
If we talk with abilities like that then Sion throws cuts that erases themself from your perception, making them invisible in a way that speed cant attain. So Sion would slice up everyone with no counter against it, because they dont realise that Sion threw a cut.
 
Tsubami Gaeshi is a far more impressive technique than the Wind Blade, and Yasuo was taught by a previous master.

Sasaki simply had the basics of a swordsman's philosophy taught to him, never even learning the proper way to hold a sword, and learned Tsubami Gaeshi with a year of solo practice.
 
Oh really? I misunderstood his biography then.

It says that he caught Master Souma's attention, and was taken under his wing as an apprentice.
 
WeeklyBattles said:
@Yung Precog isnt a sword skill tho? And Yasuo attained his wind blade skill through means identical to Sasaki's Hike
Not a sword skill, but since it's something naturally attainable in the verse, it's allowed.
 
Not a sword skill, but since it's something naturally attainable in the verse, it's allowed.

Doesnt this open up like... alot of abilities?
 
Alrighty then, apologies for the misunderstanding.

I do still think that Swallow Cut is more impressive than the Wind Blade, due to its mechanics, but I'm not sure if that's what this list is about.

Sidenote for OP: Pretty sure the three Nasuverse Sword Saints, or at least Sasaki and Miyamoto Musashi should be grouped together, as they're all comparable and achieve similarly broken feats through sheer skill (though Sasaki is still superior to the others)
 
Just a quick headsup. Kurado Kurashiki may be in the list too (he ain't skilled, but BOI is he strong in a certain peculiar way) besides (obviously ikki) edelweiss and maybe some others when the revisions end on christmas maybe sometime next week.
 
It's literally just.

"If it's not considered magic/siritual/supernatural in-verse, it's allowed."

It's in the rules.
 
What about verses where "magic/siritual/supernatural" isn't an objective measure and things one faction considers those are just considered natural evolutions by others

Also, verses where those terms only really mean "we don't know how this works"
 
Wokistan said:
What about verses where "magic/siritual/supernatural" isn't an objective measure and things one faction considers those are just considered natural evolutions by others
Also, verses where those terms only really mean "we don't know how this works"
Im tempted to say this wouldn't count. As then we could just spam this with non humanoid octopuses that can just attack with 8 attacks at the same time.
 
KnightOfSunlight said:
Saber (Fate/stay night) might be able to get somewhere on the list, since she can at least trade with Assassin (Fate/stay night)
Saber couldnt tho, he literally let her get away and she feared for her life
 
KnightOfSunlight said:
Saber (Fate/stay night) might be able to get somewhere on the list, since she can at least trade with Assassin (Fate/stay night)
She stated that was only because she was stronger and faster. She was being overwhelmed in sheer swordsmanship.
 
@Knight

That may be true but she notes that her skill is far eclipsed by Sasaki, to the point that she noted that even though it was his only advantage against her, it was enough to completely give him the upper hand.
 
Despite having only C rank agi...

Well, she's good enough to skillstomp a fair chunk of the Nasuverse's other swordsmen, so I still think she at least has a case. Her instinct helps too.
 
Honestly, people downplay her a lot.

It's not her fault that literally every master she's ever had is complete garbo, and that the only good master she's ever gotten also conicides with her only getting one other fight.
 
Well alot of the fights she wins it isnt out of skill its generally cause she has greater fire power.

Thats not saying she isnt skilled its just she isnt generally considered top 10 in verse.
 
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