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Warriors of Heaven and Hell: The Most Skilled on the Wiki!

I'm here to replace Sora with Marisa Kirisame under the miscellaneous category. Wall of text to follow, but the tl;dr is that Marisa's AD is much faster (happening in hours instead of months), her instinctive reaction is absurd (instinctively dodging Touhou-level danmaku while being subconsciously manipulated into thinking it isn't a threat and not even being able to perceive anything, and instinctively dodging attacks that are three degrees of blitzing faster than her), dodging rain and considering it "easy", and scaling above shit like copying a dice roll's angle/momentum/rotation/result 1-to-1, or learning a new fighting style in a couple seconds before beating 3 more experienced users of it at the same time. I'm not totally sure if she qualifies, since some of this borders on supernatural (like stealth that surpasses semi-cosmic awareness and entire hiveminds, or denying passive power null through sheer training), but I wasted like 4 hours on this gdi so I'm posting it anyways.
General Skill/Experience

Marisa has been fighting and exterminating youkai for decades at this point (nearly 30 games across over 25 years, including numerous manga and light novels), to the point where she's learned the smell of blood from experience on the battlefield alone. To her, a world without conflict is Hell, and she claims to be an experienced veteran. She regularly engages in image training (essentially playing out an entire battle in her head using mental images), winning 101 times out of 100. She's highly skilled in the art of danmaku, creating highly complex bullet hell patterns on the fly, and dodging whatever everyone else throws at her even when their attacks spawn from nowhere or remove her senses. In the former example, this is against Sakuya Izayoi, who can throw her knives so precisely that they bounce off the flat edge of her other knives dozens of times in succession, striking her opponent in every single reflection if she wants. In some cases, she's fought while her senses and perception of space were warped and she was forced to deal with reality and hallucinations dematerializing and rematerializing. Aside from that, she's an expert in improvised weaponry, using a regular broomstick as an improvised rifle, or stringing together melee combos while simultaneously using it for flight. During Unconnected Marketeers, she was able to master the use of ability cards so quickly that their creator outright mentioned her brilliance in using them. She possesses encyclopedic knowledge on hundreds of different of techniques, many of which she's only seen a single time (this sort of insane memory is consistent btw), detailing countless specific traits of these spell cards in the process. She's also highly skilled in copying magic, being able to do so after seeing a technique once, and magicians have a tendency to experiment with such techniques to improve it beyond what its original user can do (on top of mimicry like this being implied to be the norm).

Alongside Reimu, she can track down dangerous youkai across all of Gensokyo for days straight without any rest, or climb entire mountains that are being constantly battered by high winds without any equipment. During the events of LoLK, her canon ending involves getting a no-miss 1CC throughout the entire game (which basically just means doing a single flawless run in what is considered one of the most difficult Touhou games).

Her skill is so great that she has become one of the strongest known users of fire magic in Gensokyo in a short timeframe, despite her natural water affinity (something already noted to be "quite a feat"); This is specifically important because using magic that doesn't align with your elemental affinity can straight up nullify the spell you're using, which means Marisa has trained to overcome supernatural power null just by being that good at magic. She's also fought and defeated people who possess elemental affinities that should cancel out her own - Something that's noted to effectively decide a fight before it even begins. That's not to say she lacks skill in water magic; In fact, she's so good at it, that youkai whose entire existence revolves around the manipulation of water and have been controlling the waves for years consider Marisa highly skilled in water-based techniques. She's a savant in the field of magic in general, pushing forth new theories of magic and tackling pre-existing theories, such as elemental affinities being limited to five types, and the new spells she develops surprise even youkai. Her knowledge in magical theory is great enough that centuries old youkai like Suika admit her theories are spot-on; This includes breaking down the hidden power of the oni, which is inherently impossible to even fathom, as it is powered directly by remaining unknowable.

Getting a little more extreme, she can dodge weather like rain or snow, and in fact considers them easy to dodge. This is supported by how even fodder enemies like fairies train by dodging falling snowflakes, which if you didn't know, is physically impossible. She's also highly adaptable, going from being dumbfounded by the illusion obscuring the true moon in Imperishable Night, before later seeing through it in her bad ending (the game takes place over the course of about 5-6 hours lol). In IaMP, she's noted to have terrible martial arts skills, but within the course of a couple of fights, she's mastered CQC to the extent of matching and later even surpassing Meiling, a highly skilled martial artist who trains regularly and whose skills are a rarity among youkai.

Enhanced Senses/ESP

Marisa has a lot of these so I'll just list them all lol

She can sense spatial distortions, sources of magical energy, a person's aura, the pure energy possessed by Junko, someone's power level, or the amount of "spring" they possess. She's noted to have a good nose that lets her detect the smell of blood or youkai, the smell of death itself, treasure, or track down the Occult Balls across Gensokyo in a single day, something noted to be a ridiculous feat. This includes locations that are above the clouds, or even The Palace of Earth Spirits, a place within Former Hell, which is an Otherworld and therefore a completely separate dimension that can't be accessed normally. Her eyes and nose are so sensitive that it's actually extremely easy for her senses to overwhelm her. She can see through the disguise of experienced tanuki like Mamizou, something not even Reimu can do (see below). She's also fought in dark conditions totally fine, even when afflicted with Mystia's ability to induce night blindness. Her ESP can detect the magic power being manipulated by Okina Matara, something that jizo like Narumi are unable to do despite their innate ability to detect magic power. For some ungodly reason, her ESP also lets her detect if a player has continued. It should be noted that Marisa's ESP works perfectly fine on youkai, which possess "unreadable atmospheres", which also make them nigh-impossible to adapt to by extension.

Stealth

For starters, she's able to sneak into heavily guarded locations like Eientei, which was being guarded by a number of youkai rabbits. Youkai rabbits possess the already heightened senses of regular youkai (vision in pitch-black conditions, infrared vision, etc), on top of even sharper senses, which also includes the ability to see the souls of living beings, or possibly even the "pulse" of the moon. Not only that, but they can detect people's wavelengths, tap into the minds of those around them, and are inherently linked like a pseudo-hivemind. Marisa snuck past dozens of youkai rabbits with minimal effort.

This is somehow not her most absurd feat; While speaking with Reimu on one occasion, they were interrupted by Yuyuko and Satori. When Reimu mentions Marisa, she realizes she's just... gone. So despite being in two people's direct line of sight (and a third person's peripheral vision), Marisa practically just vanished into thin air. Already absurd, but let's look at the enhanced senses she'd have to bypass to do that:

-Reimu has an inherent intuition that lets her track down people and locations innately, quite literally a 6th sense. It is superior to other forms of ESP, and she's used it to track down locations like Eientei, which exists outside of time, history, and the world itself. She can pinpoint the locations of 18 separate beings at once just by focusing, easily see through illusions or disguises, detect people's auras, see nonexistent beings, follow trails of power to track people down, or detect the energy leaking from a person's body. Perhaps most notably though, is the aforementioned feat of navigating her way to Eientei. This is something characters like Aya cannot accomplish deliberately, and her senses are good enough to hear the sound generated by entire alternate dimensions (cosmic awareness lmao), be described as completely transcending the world that Marisa perceives, feel energy that is on the verge of disappearing from existence, hear rumors on the wind, or just... generally be really good. So, Marisa's stealth > Reimu's senses > Aya's enhanced senses bordering on cosmic fvcking awareness.

-Satori has some of those good youkai senses I mentioned before, in addition to her abilities as a telepath; Even when she doesn't intend to, she's constantly reading not just the thoughts of those around her, but the leftover traces of those thoughts that remain after a person has already disappeared... Which means Marisa's stealth isn't just evading physical detection, but also completely eliminating any traces of her own thoughts.

-Yuyuko admittedly doesn't have much in the way of bullshit feats, but she can detect a corpse under a tree from meters away and immediately deduce how long it had been decaying for.

She's also disappeared from the perception of Flandre, who can detect a person's disposition. So, in conclusion, her stealth borders on straight up invisibility.

Social Influencing

Idk if this really counts as skill, but eh, fvck it. She managed to trick Tewi Inaba into eating a poisonous leaf, and Tewi is someone whose knowledge on poison is superior to that of Medicine Melancholy, someone who is quite literally made of poison, was born as a result of poison, and has mastered the use of various poisons to a degree that nobody else has. She could talk Yorihime out of killing her and a handful of others despite being tied up, or make Utsuho, someone consumed by divine madness driving her to reduce the planet to ashes, completely submissive to her.

Intstinctive Reaction

Marisa has perhaps some of the most insane showings of this I've seen before. On two separate occasions, she dueled and won against Koishi Komeiji, who does not exist. The nature of her nonexistence makes her impossible to perceive (something Marisa herself notes), as is her danmaku. All traces of her existence are erased, and even in the case someone does detect her, her attacks are completely unreadable and they forget about her in a matter of seconds. Notably, due to lacking a conscious mind, every single action Koishi takes is subconscious, meaning she has 24/7 instinctive action. This is on top of her manipulation of the subconscious, wherein she is able to make people completely unaware of her attacks, basically perceiving them as if there's no threat at all.

There is, of course, also the time she casually dodged attacks from Youmu Konpaku while sitting down and drinking (and her sake not even drop!). Youmu is a master swordswoman in her own right, but in this scenario she was also being actively amplified by Clownpiece's torch, which brings out a person's full potential. Even without that, though, she's fast enough to casually blitz Aya Shameimaru, as well as fight entire danmaku battles and win without realizing it. Aya herself can also fight entire battles without realizing, and is so fast that Sakuya needs to use her time stop to track her movement... and Sakuya is able to keep up with beings who can move faster than Marisa can track (so Youmu's combat speed >>> Aya >>> Sakuya >>> Marisa). To recap, that's three degrees of blitzing and instinctive action being dodged by someone who's casually sitting down, enjoying a nice meal, and chatting with her friends.

FWIW, she can also dodge attacks she can't perceive using her mind's eye, but that just supports what I've already said.

Scaling

Given the nature of Touhou, there are a lot of skill feats other characters have performed, and Marisa scales to a good number of them. Compared to youkai, it appears as though her dodging is like that of bits of paper floating through the air; Impressive, given youkai have the precision to roll dice in such a way that perfectly replicates the previous roll's angle, force, rotation, and result. Her danmaku is on the same level as gods like Suwako, who has lived for hundreds of years and was a noted leader in her own time. She's fought against and defeated enemies like Yuyuko, who can fight with her eyes closed and possesses an unreadable fighting style, Remilia, who is stated to be a spell card veteran and can fight her own afterimages, and Satori Komeiji, who can aimdodge attacks by reading an opponent's thoughts (to the point where tengu capable of blitzing her believe they need to turn their thoughts off in order to even take a picture of her), utilize any attack that her opponent has previously faced or even merely heard about, and experience premonitions of the future. She's superior to fodder enemies like moon rabbits, many of whom are war veterans, and can learn how to engage in spell card duels and even beat three separate, more experienced opponents mere seconds after their first exposure to the concept. This sort of fast learning is consistent among spell card users, as characters like Byakuren and the Tsukumo sisters could master their use mere seconds after being unsealed after centuries and born into existence, respectively. She's fought and defeated Tenshi Hinanawi, whose sword passively analyzes and adapts to the strengths and weaknesses of her opponent, and Eirin Yagokoro, who has quite literally existed for an infinite period of time. Finally, she was able to come up with a strategy to beat Okina Matara shortly after her initial defeat, as well as beat her the second time around despite Okina being able to react to and deflect surprise attacks while deafened.
Let this be a taste of the Touhou wank yet to come.
 
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I'm here to replace Sora with Marisa Kirisame under the miscellaneous category. Wall of text to follow, but the tl;dr is that Marisa's AD is much faster (happening in hours instead of months), her instinctive reaction is absurd (instinctively dodging Touhou-level danmaku while being subconsciously manipulated into thinking it isn't a threat and not even being able to perceive anything, and instinctively dodging attacks that are three degrees of blitzing faster than her), dodging rain and considering it "easy", and scaling above shit like copying a dice roll's angle/momentum/rotation/result 1-to-1, or learning a new fighting style in a couple seconds before beating 3 more experienced users of it at the same time. I'm not totally sure if she qualifies, since some of this borders on supernatural (like stealth that surpasses semi-cosmic awareness and entire hiveminds, or denying passive power null through sheer training), but I wasted like 4 hours on this gdi so I'm posting it anyways.
General Skill/Experience

Marisa has been fighting and exterminating youkai for decades at this point (nearly 30 games across over 25 years, including numerous manga and light novels), to the point where she's learned the smell of blood from experience on the battlefield alone. To her, a world without conflict is Hell, and she claims to be an experienced veteran. She regularly engages in image training (essentially playing out an entire battle in her head using mental images), winning 101 times out of 100. Not as impressively, she can also dodge near-point blank gunshots from characters comparable in speed. She's highly skilled in the art of danmaku, creating highly complex bullet hell patterns on the fly, and dodging whatever everyone else throws at her. Aside from that, she's an expert in improvised weaponry, using a regular broomstick as an improvised rifle, or stringing together melee combos while simultaneously using it for flight. During Unconnected Marketeers, she was able to master the use of ability cards so quickly that their creator outright mentioned her brilliance in using them. She possesses encyclopedic knowledge on hundreds of different of techniques, many of which she's only seen a single time (this sort of insane memory is consistent btw), detailing countless specific traits of these spell cards in the process. She's also highly skilled in copying magic, being able to do so after seeing a technique once, and magicians have a tendency to experiment with such techniques to improve it beyond what its original user can do (on top of mimicry like this being implied to be the norm).

Alongside Reimu, she can track down dangerous youkai across all of Gensokyo for days straight without any rest, or climb entire mountains that are being constantly battered by high winds without any equipment. During the events of LoLK, her canon ending involves getting a no-miss 1CC throughout the entire game (which basically just means doing a single flawless run in what is considered one of the most difficult Touhou games).

Her skill is so great that she has become one of the strongest known users of fire magic in Gensokyo in a short timeframe, despite her natural water affinity (something already noted to be "quite a feat"); This is specifically important because using magic that doesn't align with your elemental affinity can straight up nullify the spell you're using, which means Marisa has trained to overcome supernatural power null just by being that good at magic. Semi-relatedly, but she's a savant in the field of magic, pushing forth new theories of magic and tackling pre-existing theories, such as elemental affinities being limited to five types, and the new spells she develops surprise even youkai. Her knowledge in magical theory is great enough that centuries old youkai like Suika admit her theories are spot-on; This includes breaking down the hidden power of the oni, which is inherently impossible to even fathom, as it is powered directly by remaining unknowable.

Getting a little more extreme, she can dodge weather like rain or snow, and in fact considers them easy to dodge. This is supported by how even fodder enemies like fairies train by dodging falling snowflakes, which if you didn't know, is physically impossible. She's also highly adaptable, going from being dumbfounded by the illusion obscuring the true moon in Imperishable Night, before later seeing through it in her bad ending (the game takes place over the course of about 5-6 hours lol). In IaMP, she's noted to have terrible martial arts skills, but within the course of a couple of fights, she's mastered CQC to the extent of matching and later even surpassing Meiling, a highly skilled martial artist who trains regularly and whose skills are a rarity among youkai.

Enhanced Senses/ESP

Marisa has a lot of these so I'll just list them all lol

She can sense spatial distortions, sources of magical energy, a person's aura, the pure energy possessed by Junko, someone's power level, or the amount of "spring" they possess. She's noted to have a good nose that lets her detect the smell of blood or youkai, the smell of death itself, treasure, or track down the Occult Balls across Gensokyo in a single day, something noted to be a ridiculous feat. This includes locations that are above the clouds, or even The Palace of Earth Spirits, a place within Former Hell, which is an Otherworld and therefore a completely separate dimension that can't be accessed normally. Her eyes and nose are so sensitive that it's actually extremely easy for her senses to overwhelm her. She can see through the disguise of experienced tanuki like Mamizou, something not even Reimu can do (see below). She's also fought in dark conditions totally fine, even when afflicted with Mystia's ability to induce night blindness. Her ESP can detect the magic power being manipulated by Okina Matara, something that jizo like Narumi are unable to do despite their innate ability to detect magic power. For some ungodly reason, her ESP also lets her detect if a player has continued.

Stealth

For starters, she's able to sneak into heavily guarded locations like Eientei, which was being guarded by a number of youkai rabbits. Youkai rabbits possess the already heightened senses of regular youkai (vision in pitch-black conditions, infrared vision, etc), on top of even sharper senses, which also includes the ability to see the souls of living beings, or possibly even the "pulse" of the moon. Not only that, but they can detect people's wavelengths, tap into the minds of those around them, and are inherently linked like a pseudo-hivemind. Marisa snuck past dozens of youkai rabbits with minimal effort.

This is somehow not her most absurd feat; While speaking with Reimu on one occasion, they were interrupted by Yuyuko and Satori. When Reimu mentions Marisa, she realizes she's just... gone. So despite being in two people's direct line of sight (and a third person's peripheral vision), Marisa practically just vanished into thin air. Already absurd, but let's look at the enhanced senses she'd have to bypass to do that:

-Reimu has an inherent intuition that lets her track down people and locations innately, quite literally a 6th sense. It is superior to other forms of ESP, and she's used it to track down locations like Eientei, which exists outside of time, history, and the world itself. She can pinpoint the locations of 18 separate beings at once just by focusing, easily see through illusions or disguises, detect people's auras, see nonexistent beings, follow trails of power to track people down, or detect the energy leaking from a person's body. Perhaps most notably though, is the aforementioned feat of navigating her way to Eientei. This is something characters like Aya cannot accomplish deliberately, and her senses are good enough to hear the sound generated by entire alternate dimensions (cosmic awareness lmao), be described as completely transcending the world that Marisa perceives, feel energy that is on the verge of disappearing from existence, hear rumors on the wind, or just... generally be really good. So, Marisa's stealth > Reimu's senses > Aya's enhanced senses bordering on cosmic fvcking awareness.

-Satori has some of those good youkai senses I mentioned before, in addition to her abilities as a telepath; Even when she doesn't intend to, she's constantly reading not just the thoughts of those around her, but the leftover traces of those thoughts that remain after a person has already disappeared... Which means Marisa's stealth isn't just evading physical detection, but also completely eliminating any traces of her own thoughts.

-Yuyuko admittedly doesn't have much in the way of bullshit feats, but she can detect a corpse under a tree from meters away and immediately deduce how long it had been decaying for.

She's also disappeared from the perception of Flandre, who can detect a person's disposition. So, in conclusion, her stealth borders on straight up invisibility.

Social Influencing

Idk if this really counts as skill, but eh, fvck it. She managed to trick Tewi Inaba into eating a poisonous leaf, and Tewi is someone whose knowledge on poison is superior to that of Medicine Melancholy, someone who is quite literally made of poison, was born as a result of poison, and has mastered the use of various poisons to a degree that nobody else has. She could talk Yorihime out of killing her and a handful of others despite being tied up, or make Utsuho, someone consumed by divine madness driving her to reduce the planet to ashes, completely submissive to her.

Intstinctive Reaction

Marisa has perhaps some of the most insane showings of this I've seen before. On two separate occasions, she dueled and won against Koishi Komeiji, who does not exist. The nature of her nonexistence makes her impossible to perceive (something Marisa herself notes), as is her danmaku. All traces of her existence are erased, and even in the case someone does detect her, her attacks are completely unreadable and they forget about her in a matter of seconds. Notably, due to lacking a conscious mind, every single action Koishi takes is subconscious, meaning she has 24/7 instinctive action. This is on top of her manipulation of the subconscious, wherein she is able to make people completely unaware of her attacks, basically perceiving them as if there's no threat at all.

There is, of course, also the time she casually dodged attacks from Youmu Konpaku while sitting down and drinking (and her sake not even drop!). Youmu is a master swordswoman in her own right, but in this scenario she was also being actively amplified by Clownpiece's torch, which brings out a person's full potential. Even without that, though, she's fast enough to casually blitz Aya Shameimaru, as well as fight entire danmaku battles and win without realizing it. Aya herself can also fight entire battles without realizing, and is so fast that Sakuya needs to use her time stop to track her movement... and Sakuya is able to keep up with beings who can move faster than Marisa can track (so Youmu's combat speed >>> Aya >>> Sakuya >>> Marisa). To recap, that's three degrees of blitzing and instinctive action being dodged by someone who's casually sitting down, enjoying a nice meal, and chatting with her friends.

FWIW, she can also dodge attacks she can't perceive using her mind's eye, but that just supports what I've already said.

Scaling

Given the nature of Touhou, there are a lot of skill feats other characters have performed, and Marisa scales to a good number of them. Compared to youkai, it appears as though her dodging is like that of bits of paper floating through the air; Impressive, given youkai have the precision to roll dice in such a way that perfectly replicates the previous roll's angle, force, rotation, and result. Her danmaku is on the same level as gods like Suwako, who has lived for hundreds of years and was a noted leader in her own time. She's fought against and defeated enemies like Yuyuko, who can fight with her eyes closed, or Remilia, who is stated to be a spell card veteran and can fight her own afterimages. She's superior to fodder enemies like moon rabbits, many of whom are war veterans, and can learn how to engage in spell card duels and even beat three separate, more experienced opponents mere seconds after their first exposure to the concept.
Let this be a taste of the Touhou wank yet to come.
WE MAKING IT OUT OF THE MAGICAL FOREST WITH THIS ONE 🗣️❗❗❗🔥🔥🔥
 
I'm here to replace Sora with Marisa Kirisame under the miscellaneous category. Wall of text to follow, but the tl;dr is that Marisa's AD is much faster (happening in hours instead of months), her instinctive reaction is absurd (instinctively dodging Touhou-level danmaku while being subconsciously manipulated into thinking it isn't a threat and not even being able to perceive anything, and instinctively dodging attacks that are three degrees of blitzing faster than her), dodging rain and considering it "easy", and scaling above shit like copying a dice roll's angle/momentum/rotation/result 1-to-1, or learning a new fighting style in a couple seconds before beating 3 more experienced users of it at the same time. I'm not totally sure if she qualifies, since some of this borders on supernatural (like stealth that surpasses semi-cosmic awareness and entire hiveminds, or denying passive power null through sheer training), but I wasted like 4 hours on this gdi so I'm posting it anyways.
General Skill/Experience

Marisa has been fighting and exterminating youkai for decades at this point (nearly 30 games across over 25 years, including numerous manga and light novels), to the point where she's learned the smell of blood from experience on the battlefield alone. To her, a world without conflict is Hell, and she claims to be an experienced veteran. She regularly engages in image training (essentially playing out an entire battle in her head using mental images), winning 101 times out of 100. Not as impressively, she can also dodge near-point blank gunshots from characters comparable in speed. She's highly skilled in the art of danmaku, creating highly complex bullet hell patterns on the fly, and dodging whatever everyone else throws at her. Aside from that, she's an expert in improvised weaponry, using a regular broomstick as an improvised rifle, or stringing together melee combos while simultaneously using it for flight. During Unconnected Marketeers, she was able to master the use of ability cards so quickly that their creator outright mentioned her brilliance in using them. She possesses encyclopedic knowledge on hundreds of different of techniques, many of which she's only seen a single time (this sort of insane memory is consistent btw), detailing countless specific traits of these spell cards in the process. She's also highly skilled in copying magic, being able to do so after seeing a technique once, and magicians have a tendency to experiment with such techniques to improve it beyond what its original user can do (on top of mimicry like this being implied to be the norm).

Alongside Reimu, she can track down dangerous youkai across all of Gensokyo for days straight without any rest, or climb entire mountains that are being constantly battered by high winds without any equipment. During the events of LoLK, her canon ending involves getting a no-miss 1CC throughout the entire game (which basically just means doing a single flawless run in what is considered one of the most difficult Touhou games).

Her skill is so great that she has become one of the strongest known users of fire magic in Gensokyo in a short timeframe, despite her natural water affinity (something already noted to be "quite a feat"); This is specifically important because using magic that doesn't align with your elemental affinity can straight up nullify the spell you're using, which means Marisa has trained to overcome supernatural power null just by being that good at magic. Semi-relatedly, but she's a savant in the field of magic, pushing forth new theories of magic and tackling pre-existing theories, such as elemental affinities being limited to five types, and the new spells she develops surprise even youkai. Her knowledge in magical theory is great enough that centuries old youkai like Suika admit her theories are spot-on; This includes breaking down the hidden power of the oni, which is inherently impossible to even fathom, as it is powered directly by remaining unknowable.

Getting a little more extreme, she can dodge weather like rain or snow, and in fact considers them easy to dodge. This is supported by how even fodder enemies like fairies train by dodging falling snowflakes, which if you didn't know, is physically impossible. She's also highly adaptable, going from being dumbfounded by the illusion obscuring the true moon in Imperishable Night, before later seeing through it in her bad ending (the game takes place over the course of about 5-6 hours lol). In IaMP, she's noted to have terrible martial arts skills, but within the course of a couple of fights, she's mastered CQC to the extent of matching and later even surpassing Meiling, a highly skilled martial artist who trains regularly and whose skills are a rarity among youkai.

Enhanced Senses/ESP

Marisa has a lot of these so I'll just list them all lol

She can sense spatial distortions, sources of magical energy, a person's aura, the pure energy possessed by Junko, someone's power level, or the amount of "spring" they possess. She's noted to have a good nose that lets her detect the smell of blood or youkai, the smell of death itself, treasure, or track down the Occult Balls across Gensokyo in a single day, something noted to be a ridiculous feat. This includes locations that are above the clouds, or even The Palace of Earth Spirits, a place within Former Hell, which is an Otherworld and therefore a completely separate dimension that can't be accessed normally. Her eyes and nose are so sensitive that it's actually extremely easy for her senses to overwhelm her. She can see through the disguise of experienced tanuki like Mamizou, something not even Reimu can do (see below). She's also fought in dark conditions totally fine, even when afflicted with Mystia's ability to induce night blindness. Her ESP can detect the magic power being manipulated by Okina Matara, something that jizo like Narumi are unable to do despite their innate ability to detect magic power. For some ungodly reason, her ESP also lets her detect if a player has continued.

Stealth

For starters, she's able to sneak into heavily guarded locations like Eientei, which was being guarded by a number of youkai rabbits. Youkai rabbits possess the already heightened senses of regular youkai (vision in pitch-black conditions, infrared vision, etc), on top of even sharper senses, which also includes the ability to see the souls of living beings, or possibly even the "pulse" of the moon. Not only that, but they can detect people's wavelengths, tap into the minds of those around them, and are inherently linked like a pseudo-hivemind. Marisa snuck past dozens of youkai rabbits with minimal effort.

This is somehow not her most absurd feat; While speaking with Reimu on one occasion, they were interrupted by Yuyuko and Satori. When Reimu mentions Marisa, she realizes she's just... gone. So despite being in two people's direct line of sight (and a third person's peripheral vision), Marisa practically just vanished into thin air. Already absurd, but let's look at the enhanced senses she'd have to bypass to do that:

-Reimu has an inherent intuition that lets her track down people and locations innately, quite literally a 6th sense. It is superior to other forms of ESP, and she's used it to track down locations like Eientei, which exists outside of time, history, and the world itself. She can pinpoint the locations of 18 separate beings at once just by focusing, easily see through illusions or disguises, detect people's auras, see nonexistent beings, follow trails of power to track people down, or detect the energy leaking from a person's body. Perhaps most notably though, is the aforementioned feat of navigating her way to Eientei. This is something characters like Aya cannot accomplish deliberately, and her senses are good enough to hear the sound generated by entire alternate dimensions (cosmic awareness lmao), be described as completely transcending the world that Marisa perceives, feel energy that is on the verge of disappearing from existence, hear rumors on the wind, or just... generally be really good. So, Marisa's stealth > Reimu's senses > Aya's enhanced senses bordering on cosmic fvcking awareness.

-Satori has some of those good youkai senses I mentioned before, in addition to her abilities as a telepath; Even when she doesn't intend to, she's constantly reading not just the thoughts of those around her, but the leftover traces of those thoughts that remain after a person has already disappeared... Which means Marisa's stealth isn't just evading physical detection, but also completely eliminating any traces of her own thoughts.

-Yuyuko admittedly doesn't have much in the way of bullshit feats, but she can detect a corpse under a tree from meters away and immediately deduce how long it had been decaying for.

She's also disappeared from the perception of Flandre, who can detect a person's disposition. So, in conclusion, her stealth borders on straight up invisibility.

Social Influencing

Idk if this really counts as skill, but eh, fvck it. She managed to trick Tewi Inaba into eating a poisonous leaf, and Tewi is someone whose knowledge on poison is superior to that of Medicine Melancholy, someone who is quite literally made of poison, was born as a result of poison, and has mastered the use of various poisons to a degree that nobody else has. She could talk Yorihime out of killing her and a handful of others despite being tied up, or make Utsuho, someone consumed by divine madness driving her to reduce the planet to ashes, completely submissive to her.

Intstinctive Reaction

Marisa has perhaps some of the most insane showings of this I've seen before. On two separate occasions, she dueled and won against Koishi Komeiji, who does not exist. The nature of her nonexistence makes her impossible to perceive (something Marisa herself notes), as is her danmaku. All traces of her existence are erased, and even in the case someone does detect her, her attacks are completely unreadable and they forget about her in a matter of seconds. Notably, due to lacking a conscious mind, every single action Koishi takes is subconscious, meaning she has 24/7 instinctive action. This is on top of her manipulation of the subconscious, wherein she is able to make people completely unaware of her attacks, basically perceiving them as if there's no threat at all.

There is, of course, also the time she casually dodged attacks from Youmu Konpaku while sitting down and drinking (and her sake not even drop!). Youmu is a master swordswoman in her own right, but in this scenario she was also being actively amplified by Clownpiece's torch, which brings out a person's full potential. Even without that, though, she's fast enough to casually blitz Aya Shameimaru, as well as fight entire danmaku battles and win without realizing it. Aya herself can also fight entire battles without realizing, and is so fast that Sakuya needs to use her time stop to track her movement... and Sakuya is able to keep up with beings who can move faster than Marisa can track (so Youmu's combat speed >>> Aya >>> Sakuya >>> Marisa). To recap, that's three degrees of blitzing and instinctive action being dodged by someone who's casually sitting down, enjoying a nice meal, and chatting with her friends.

FWIW, she can also dodge attacks she can't perceive using her mind's eye, but that just supports what I've already said.

Scaling

Given the nature of Touhou, there are a lot of skill feats other characters have performed, and Marisa scales to a good number of them. Compared to youkai, it appears as though her dodging is like that of bits of paper floating through the air; Impressive, given youkai have the precision to roll dice in such a way that perfectly replicates the previous roll's angle, force, rotation, and result. Her danmaku is on the same level as gods like Suwako, who has lived for hundreds of years and was a noted leader in her own time. She's fought against and defeated enemies like Yuyuko, who can fight with her eyes closed, or Remilia, who is stated to be a spell card veteran and can fight her own afterimages. She's superior to fodder enemies like moon rabbits, many of whom are war veterans, and can learn how to engage in spell card duels and even beat three separate, more experienced opponents mere seconds after their first exposure to the concept.
Let this be a taste of the Touhou wank yet to come.
Now this is a pleasant surprise. Good show, madam. Very good show.
 
I also want to add that spell card users like Byakuren or the Tsukumo sisters could learn how to fight using spell cards mere moments after being unsealed/created, so spell card users being able to master new techniques in seconds is very consistent.

That aside, it's nice to be back to making text walls lol, I'll make a F&G thread after work.
 
Ok so I’ll just nominate https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Pegasus_Seiya for 1st in traditional martial artist.
First of all, he he can weave through 100 million light speed attacks while moving at the exact same speed, with a broken leg.
Plus, he adapts attacks after seeing them once, allowing him to neg attacks or take less damage from them.
he’s beaten Dragon Shiryu, who was trained by Libra Dohko. Perseus Algol, who is shown to be over 100x stronger and said doubly as fast as a bronze saint, said this training makes a bronze saint a worthy match for himself.
Seiya has also repelled danmaku attacks which were compared to rain from tier two characters while his own level of power was low it could barely be felt.
Finally, Seiya has avoided lasers which multiply infinitely, and were surrounding him, and he dodged attacks that spawn on your location.
 
I just reached Skypiea, but I'm very tempted to go all the way back to the first chapter of One Piece and start gathering every skill feat that Zoro has shown. It's an absolute capital crime that the people who tried to nominate him either dipped or sucked at explaining how much of a skilled swordsman he is.
 
I just reached Skypiea, but I'm very tempted to go all the way back to the first chapter of One Piece and start gathering every skill feat that Zoro has shown. It's an absolute capital crime that the people who tried to nominate him either dipped or sucked at explaining how much of a skilled swordsman he is.
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I just reached Skypiea, but I'm very tempted to go all the way back to the first chapter of One Piece and start gathering every skill feat that Zoro has shown. It's an absolute capital crime that the people who tried to nominate him either dipped or sucked at explaining how much of a skilled swordsman he is.
I mean... Gin tried? Until... You know... He didnt anymore.
 
Taskmaster for the Misc Category. Above Bullseye.

Explanation.

Technique Mimicry profiency.

Taskmaster, after seeing a physical motion done can perfectly mimic it, regardless of complexity, as long as it is within his physical abilities to do so.

further confirmation that he only needs to see a technique once to mimic it

This extends not only to normal moves, but also things such as acrobatic skills and stealth mastery.

This even extends to A fighting style specifically crafted by an alien race with a different body type than his own, which included having superior brain functions and a lighter skeleton than any normal human could. Basically, he can copy fighting styles while having a physiology vastly different than the user, as long as his body can physically perform it.

Even supernatural martial arts, such as Chi, with the user needing decades to master the art, Taskmaster could master in minutes

Once he copies a fighting style, he instantly masters it, and can counter it within moments. Supported by Captain America stating he analyzes and counters techniques in seconds.

He's also skilled enough to perfectly teach it to somebody else. (His main business is actually training people in the styles he copies)

He is skilled enough to even counter Spider-Man's Spider-sense with skill alone.

In combat, he can effortlessly transition from any of his mastered styles, be it armed or unarmed.

The skill of his copied movements improves with each use, allowing him to even rival Fendral, who is considered one of the best Asgardian swordsman (Asgardians being a race of immortals that can have centuries worth of experience in combat)

Skills.

As a 7th-level fighter in Marvel, Taskmaster is a master of all forms of combat. Both armed and unarmed.

Knows pressure points that can cause immediate unconscious, and can hit someone precisely enough to cause instant death.

With his skills alone, he can constantly keep up with characters who far outstrip him in stats, such as Iron Man.

Can fight perfectly fine with his eyes closed.

His aim with a bow is repeatedly stated to be comparable to Hawkeye and can match even someone as skilled as Bullseye shot for shot. You can refer to my earlier post on Bullseye to see how skilled he is.

I can provide more if needed.
 
You're the guy who added Bullseye so I'll trust your word and move Tasker above him.
 
first time in my life i've seen such BS feats is in this thread

mf be dodging rain and beating beings who lived an infinite time trought "pure skill"


i shall propose to authors to make a character so skilled they can make square circles and wooden doors with nothing but rocks, they shall be so overpowered they can beat beings who lived an infinite number of years learning martial arts the entire time without eating sleeping or resting as soon as they're born with no limbs trough pure skill

they can understand and comprehend as well as predict all of creation and everything to exist within it and what's beyond it as soon they're born trough pure skill

matter of fact, i'll make him myself, give me a day, his name shall be......bob!

perfect name

see you in 24 hours
 
So you don't like the skill feats on the thread? Well, listen. How about last night, when me and your mom-
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I'm tempted to enter Garou after Karate kid in the list for multi-faceted, but i know Mori jin/Metal gear fans will swooce in to rip his ass the moment he enters the list.
 
I'll have some characters to add to the list eventually, Arc's just being a silly billy and not doing his half of the work.

Koikawa supremacy will happen.
 
Taskmaster for the Misc Category. Above Bullseye.

Explanation.

Technique Mimicry profiency.

Taskmaster, after seeing a physical motion done can perfectly mimic it, regardless of complexity, as long as it is within his physical abilities to do so.

further confirmation that he only needs to see a technique once to mimic it

This extends not only to normal moves, but also things such as acrobatic skills and stealth mastery.

This even extends to A fighting style specifically crafted by an alien race with a different body type than his own, which included having superior brain functions and a lighter skeleton than any normal human could. Basically, he can copy fighting styles while having a physiology vastly different than the user, as long as his body can physically perform it.

Even supernatural martial arts, such as Chi, with the user needing decades to master the art, Taskmaster could master in minutes

Once he copies a fighting style, he instantly masters it, and can counter it within moments. Supported by Captain America stating he analyzes and counters techniques in seconds.

He's also skilled enough to perfectly teach it to somebody else. (His main business is actually training people in the styles he copies)

He is skilled enough to even counter Spider-Man's Spider-sense with skill alone.

In combat, he can effortlessly transition from any of his mastered styles, be it armed or unarmed.

The skill of his copied movements improves with each use, allowing him to even rival Fendral, who is considered one of the best Asgardian swordsman (Asgardians being a race of immortals that can have centuries worth of experience in combat)

Skills.

As a 7th-level fighter in Marvel, Taskmaster is a master of all forms of combat. Both armed and unarmed.

Knows pressure points that can cause immediate unconscious, and can hit someone precisely enough to cause instant death.

With his skills alone, he can constantly keep up with characters who far outstrip him in stats, such as Iron Man.

Can fight perfectly fine with his eyes closed.

His aim with a bow is repeatedly stated to be comparable to Hawkeye and can match even someone as skilled as Bullseye shot for shot. You can refer to my earlier post on Bullseye to see how skilled he is.

I can provide more if needed.
I suggest DD too(either at or above taskmaster, as far as I’m aware daredevil has won every time they fought, but because of his senses(I.e. detecting a car incoming to trick task to jumping into it), not because of his H2H skill, but, using your senses for combat purposes is a form of skill)
 
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