White Haired Badasses Duel: Dante versus Geralt

[Dienomite22]

Volume 1 Dante is pretty cold blooded and goes for the kill pretty much at the start, he mostly uses guns and fire arms in the novel. I don't know how he would react to a swordsman standing 10 feat away from him tbh but there's maybe a chance of him trying to sword it out with Geralt.

 

[Lightning_XXI]

Dante actually usually opens with bullets, not swords

Geralt in the series never fights something with Class 5 Lifting Strength, not that I remember, and just like most of his signs, Geralt don't open with them, the only one that he'll use um the beggining is Aard

Yes Dante should have resistance to Mind Manipulation, dunno why it was removed, probably my mistake, sorry guys

My vote still on Dante

 

[DarkGrath]

I kind of assumed that it was more in character for Dante to attempt swordfighting against a swordsman opponent.

As much as I hate to admit it, if this depiction of Dante does open up with bullets instead of swords, then Dante completely stomps. Like, that means he'd instantly deconstruct Geralt.

 

[Lightning_XXI]

Against Swordsmans yeah, he'll likely open with swords

Like against Nelo, Baul, Modeus, Vergil, etc

 

[DarkGrath]

Hm. Well, Geralt is 100% a swordsman, no doubt. Especially at such close range. So would this depiction of Dante open with swords then?

 

[Lightning_XXI]

Yeah, in this case

 

[DarkGrath]

I see. Well, Dante does have pretty damn good regen, though it wouldn't be impossible for Geralt to bypass it. And I'd argue Geralt probably has a slight advantage across most other categories specifically related to swordfighting (like, I think he has a bit more experience/skill, probably slightly higher AP, more close-range options, etc).

I'm not voting since I'm the one who made the match, but I do think that Geralt probably has the close-range advantage.

 

[Lightning_XXI]

He can be a better Swordsman, no doubt

But Dante's Regen will give him a real hard time, as I explained, and Dante also have a huge advantage in physical strength, which is important here since we are talking about a close fight

Also, I know we can only use what is on the profiles, but Dante's lacking Mind Hax is something that is already accepted and was my mistake, I guess we can use here, right ?

 

[DarkGrath]

Yeah, mind hax resistance can probably be used here. I'm aware of what the reasoning is, and that it should 100% be on this key, and that it was just a mistake.

I'm curious why exactly Dante would have a physical strength advantage, though. As far as I'm aware, 9-B for Dante comes from being vastly superior to demons, who are vastly superior to peak humans. But Geralt has a very similar, and potentially even better scaling chain, as he scales from a Striga Adda, who's capable of one-shotting Witchers, who're vastly superior to peak humans. It would practically be negligible, but Geralt would have a slight AP advantage in that case.

 

[Lightning_XXI]

It's Lifting Strength, Class 5 Vs Superhuman

 

[DarkGrath]

Ohh, right. My bad, I misunderstood.

 

[SpookyShadow]

What class could be snapping few layers of chains?

 

[DarkGrath]

Between Class 1-5, probably. The feat itself was surely wayyyy beyond any reasonable deadlifting feats IRL, but it probably doesn't quite amount to lifting a small truck either. I honestly don't think the difference between Dante and Geralt would be so far off in that case, though Dante would still have an advantage.

 

[Lightning_XXI]

Yeah, the feat is higher than just Superhuman

 

[DarkGrath]

Well

Technically, "Superhuman" isn't actually quantifiable. All it really means is "Above Peak Human to an unknown extent" basically. It's borderline used as a placeholder until we can get proper calcs on lifting strength feats.

 

[Schnee_One]

Why do you do this to me

 

[DarkGrath]

because I'm deeply evil

 

[DarkGrath]

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