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Sunshine Against Ice! Escanor vs Esdeath (Concluded)

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To celebrate High 6-B Akame ga Kill (Bet you didn't see that coming) I will be doing this

Escanor

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In this realm... kings such as yourself are as numerous as grains of sand. But I am no such thing. I am unlike any other existence in the world, the Lion's Sin of Pride, Escanor.
~ Escanor introducing himself to Izraf​
Apologize to me, that you were born into my world.
~ Escanor taunting Izraf​
Summary
Escanor is the Lion's Sin of Pride of the Seven Deadly Sins. He was born into royalty but his magic power coupled with an unfortunate accident caused his family to fear and scorn him. He was smuggled to safety by a mysterious woman named Rosa and grew to adulthood coping with his unique circumstances on his own. His power changed both his body and his personality, making him timid, small, and weak at night but arrogant, large, and strong during the day. He was discovered by Meliodas and Merli and joined the Seven Deadly Sins. He considers the two of them his saviors, especially Merlin, who he fell deeply in love with.

It was later revealed that Escanor's unique power is actually one of the four Graces bestowed by the Supreme Deity of the Goddess Clan onto her Four Archangels. It is unknown how Escanor's Grace came to him, nor why he hasn't yet died from its power despite being only human.

Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-C | High 6-B, up to 6-A | At least 6-A

Name:
Escanor

Origin: Nanatsu No Taizai

Gender: Male

Age: 40

Classification: Human, Lion's Sin of Pride, Member of the Seven Deadly Sins, Former Holy Knight

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Magic, Extrasensory Perception, Expert Axe Wielder, Regenerationn (High-Low), Fire Manipulation (Can emit flames far hotter than natural fire), Heat Manipulation, Light Manipulation (Can emit intense light with the same properties as sunlight), Air Manipulation (Can generate air slashes), Flight (via riding on Cruel Sun), Statistics Amplification (His power steadily increases from dawn until it reaches its peak at noon), Empowerment (Can imbue Divine Axe Rhitta with Sunshine), Summoning (Can summon Rhitta from extremely far distances), Resistance to Fire Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, and Mind Manipulation (Unharmed by his own fire and heat. Warded off both Melascula's attempts to devour his soul and Gowther's attempts to destroy his mind)

Attack Potency: Street level (His strength level is five times less than Hawk's) | Large Country level (Unsealed Meliodas stated that Escanor is even more powerful than him. Overpowered Estarossa with Cruel Sun, who stated that without a darkness shield he would have taken serious damage. Casually cut Base Galand in half and scared Critical Over Galand into running away), up to Continent level when it is close to noon (Drew blood from Assault Mode Meliodas with a punch. Defeated Zeldris and put Estarossa into a coma with a single Cruel Sun. Far more powerful than Tarmiel) | At least Continent level (Easily defeated Assault Mode Meliodas with a casual air slash from his hand)

Speed: Massively Hypersonic (Dodged attacks from Izraf, surprising the latter with his speed) | Massively Hypersonic+ (Much faster than Base Galand. Comparable to Estarossa), far faster when it is close to noon (Faster than Estarossa could see. Kept up with Assault Mode Meliodas) | Massively Hypersonic+ (Capable of easily reacting to Assault Mode Meliodas)

Lifting Strength: Regular Human | At least Class G | At least Class G

Striking Strength:
Street Class | Large Country Class, up to Continent Class when it is close to noon | At least Continent Class

Durability:
Street level | Large Country level+ (Took only minor damage from double his own attack power when Estarossa used Full Counter on his slash. Took a full power hit from Critical Over Galand without defending and only received a small cut), up to Continent level when it is close to noon (Took several hits from Assault Mode Meliodas and kept fighting) | At least Continent level (Assault Mode Meliodas' Divine 1,000 Slices didn't even scratch him)

Stamina: Superhuman (Even in his night form he continually dodged Izraf's attacks for hours)

Range: Standard melee range, extended melee range with Rhitta, several hundreds of meters with Sunshine.

Standard Equipment: Divine Axe Rhitta and magic glasses that suppress his day transformation

Intelligence: Escanor is almost completely useless in combat during the night, being timid, submissive, and crumbling under pressure. However, he has shown a great deal of cunning at times, providing Gala and Merascylla with alcoholic drinks to distract them until sunrise. During the daytime, he is insufferably arrogant and somewhat flamboyant, spouting entire poems to Merli in the midst of combat and growing angered should one mistake them for an incantation of his ability. However, he is also an incredibly skilled and mighty combatant, so much so that he effortlessly overpowered and killed the Vampire King Izraf and two members of the Ten Commandments on top of being recognized as the strongest member of the Sins, which includes the likes of Meliodas (who helped to seal the Ten Commandments), King (who can ward off entire kingdoms of Holy Knights), and Ba (who has killed Demons in the past).

Weaknesses: Escanor has no control over his Sunlight ability, he will continue to grow in strength depending on what time of day it is and his power becomes completely unmanageable at its peak. At night he becomes weak, timid and submissive. Pseudo-Sun only gives Escanor a few seconds of constant power boost, which then gets him back to his weaker state. During the daytime he's rather arrogant, but this is mitigated somewhat by his combat skill and power in addition to his willingness to simply blitz targets. Escanor's Sunshine cannot display its full power during rainy or cloudy conditions. | His form as "The One" only lasts for as long as it is precisely high noon, fading the minute noon passes.

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

Escanor Midnight to Noon
Escanor at night on the left versus day on the right.

Grace
Sunshine: Escanor's Grace was originally bestowed by the Supreme Deity to the Archangel Mael, and eventually passed to Escanor through unknown means. Due to Sunshine, Escanor changes form throughout the day, spending the night as a weak, frail man and the day as a strong, muscular warrior. His personality changes along with his body, becoming extremely timid while weak but extremely prideful while strong. At dawn, Escanor undergoes a massive jump in power, and continues to get stronger every second until noon, at which point his power reaches its peak. After noon he gets gradually weaker until he shifts back into his frail form after sunset. While he spends most of the morning with an idealized musculature, when noon is near Escanor becomes grotesquely muscular, to the point of looking inhuman. At noon he turns into The One, who Merlin described as "the invincible incarnation of power."

In addition to granting him great power, Sunshine allows Escanor to produce enormous quantities of heat and light. He normally keeps the aura somewhat contained, but as noon gets closer he melts the ground around him and even his allies' metal armor. He can flare his aura at will to produce an immense burst of light and heat, seemingly melting Edinburgh even at dawn.

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Sunshine Aura
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Flares his aura
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and destroys Edinburgh

Notably, Sunshine-imbued attacks can prevent Regenerationn up to a certain extent. Though Izraf's wounds closed, the heat remained and continued to damage him. Melascula was unable to heal her burns even after she had recovered her energy. In addition, Escanor's soul itself is imbued with Sunshine and severely burns those who attempt to extract and absorb it, returning to his body on its own.

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Wounds Izraf
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and prevents healing

Also note that the heat and fire produced by Sunshine is superior to natural fire, as it was able to instantly vaporize Izraf's Black Full-Plate, which he said was impregnable even to the Demon Clan's purgatory fire. Purgatory fire burned down the Fairy King's Forest, which is immune to natural fire.

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Destroys Izraf's Armor

  • Cruel Sun: Escanor forms a miniature sun in his hand that radiates immense heat. He can control its movements, using it to strike enemies as well as standing on it and using it as a flying vehicle. He can greatly enlarge the sun by putting more power into it.


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Smacks Estarossa
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to Lake Penace

    • Pride Flare: Escanor causes the Cruel Sun to burst in an immense radiation of heat. When fighting Estarossa this technique vaporized a lake in an instant.


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Smashes Estarossa dow
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and detonates

  • Divine Sword Escanor: In his "The One" form, Escanor chops the air in the direction of his opponent with his bare hand. This technique instantly incapacitated even Assault Mode Meliodas.


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Weapon
Divine Axe Rhitta: An enormous one-handed axe so heavy that even Unsealed Base Meliodas and Base Galand have difficulty lifting it, much heavier than Diane's enormous war hammer Gideon. It is able to store the immense heat produced by Escanor during the day, allowing him to protect his surroundings and concentrate his attacks. He can call his axe to him from great distances by raising his hand in the air, causing the axe to fly to him. By saying "Sacred Treasure Release" Escanor can unleash an immense burst of heat and light, blinding his opponents.

  • Charge and Fire: Escanor can release the stored up heat in Rhitta in a powerful but concentrated attack.


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  • Super Slash: Escanor strikes his opponent with a powerful downward slash. Rhitta's blade appears to glow like the sun, signifying the immense power behind the slash. It is worth noting that the Japanese name "Mijingiri" translates to "Atom Slashing."


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Key: Night | Day | The One (High Noon)


Esdeath

Divine Gate Esdeath
I don't understand the feelings of the weak. The law of the world is survival of its fittest. It's how the weak are weeded out. It just means those people that died were too weak. It's only natural for the weak to perish.
~ Esdeath​
Summary

Esdeath is the primary antagonist of Akame ga Kill!.

A high-ranking general of the Empire and leader of the Jaegers, she is the Empire's most powerful asset, even beyond Shikoutazer, not only because her powers are capable of attacking the very world, but also because of her blood-thirst and an absolute belief in "Survival of the Fittest", honed since her childhood. She is feared as "a born reaper" and "a natural disaster with a wicked consciousness", a claim backed up by her strength and combat skills that clearly give off the image of sadism and ruthlessness.

Powers and Stats
Tier: At least 7-B, likely higher | At least High 6-B, likely higher

Name:
Esdeath, "Empire's Strongest", "Ice Queen"

Origin: Akame ga Kill!

Gender: Female

Age: Early 20s

Classification: Human, Assassin, General, Teigu User, Leader of the Jaegers

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Proficient Assassin, Ice Manipulation, Time Stop, Weather Manipulation (Ice storm via Ice Storm Commander-in-Chief), Danmaku, Summoning via Ice Cavalry, Master Swordswoma, Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant, Extrasensory Perception (Can sense the presence of her adversaries if they carry a shred of murderous intent and has a strong 6th sense), Pseudo-Flight, Aura (Fear, bloodlust), Afterimage Creation, Resistance (to Empathic Manipulation and Willpower Manipulation [Unaffected by Scream], Mind Manipulation [Drank the entire chalice of Demon's Extract and resisted the Danger Beast's attempt to break her mind / take control of her, while even of cup of the blood can destroy a human's psyche], Sound Manipulation [Unaffected by Heavy Pressure's Trump Card, Nasty Voice, comparing it to a mere fly buzzing at her ear], Illusion Creation [Broke through The Spectator's Illusion Sight ability with brute force alone], Heat Manipulation [Her ice can resist being melted by Tyrant's fire-breath, and completely unaffected by Die Leaguer's Fire Orb], and Ice Manipulation [Grew up in a snowy region, and could cover herself in her own ice without any sign of discomfort])

Attack Potency: At least City level, likely higher (Froze an entire river in a flashback shortly after obtaining her Teigu, when she was much weaker than her current state, treated Winged Incursio like a complete joke, who in his previous state, got stronger to the point of causing serious harm to Budo, consistently referred to as the Empire's strongest, which would put her above the likes of base Shikoutazer, and Third-Form Tatsumi, the latter was weary about fighting her) | At least Large Country level, likely higher (Stated by Najenda to be a greater threat than Shikoutazer while in this state. She effortlessly one-shotted Tyrant and was able to destroy Murasame after using Mahapdama, which weakens her)

Speed: At least Massively Hypersonic (Much faster than Akame who managed to evade lightning. Faster than Tatsumi, casually dodged a shot from Mine) | At least Massively Hypersonic (Should not be slower than before)

Lifting Strength: At least Class M (Casually lifts men larger than her and Tatsumi cannot escape her hold without Incursio) | At least Class M, likely higher (Far superior to Tatsumi in this state, who in his second form was capable of sending Shikoutazer flying with a punch)

Striking Strength: At least City Class, likely higher (Casually deflected Tatsumi's attacks on multiple occasions) | At least Large Country Class, likely higher (Effortlessly one-shotted Tyrant, traded strikes with Enoodzuno Akame)

Durability: At least City level, likely higher (Took only slight damage from one of Second-Form Tatsumi's strikes, though it should be noted that Esdeath's feelings distracted her, far superior to all the members of Night Raid who can withstand Budo's attacks) | At least Large Country level, likely higher (Able to take hits from Ennodzuno Akame)

Stamina: Extremely high, can fight against a whole army and continue to fight powerful Teigu like Susanoo even after using Mahapadma, much higher with Ice Storm Commander in Chief

Range: Extended melee range with her rapier, several kilometers with her Teigu.

Standard Equipment: Rapier, pet dragon.

Intelligence: Very high. Esdeath is an extremely skilled combatant renowned as the strongest soldier of the Empire, being a dangerously capable strategist and field commander who has led her forces to countless victories over the Revolutionary Army. Her skill is so great that Najenda believes only an army and ten Teigu users as skilled as Akame would stand a chance of defeating her if they all came at once. She prefers melee combat when not using her Teigu, easily taking on multiple foes in hand-to-hand combat at once and slicing through entire hordes of Danger Beasts with her rapier in a single movement. Her sadistic hobbies have given her a great understanding of human biology and is savvy enough to continually research and develop new abilities to use against her foes. However, for all her skill, Esdeath is still a bloodthirsty ****** who is more than willing to prolong a fight to savor it and her foe's suffering.

Weaknesses: Her trump card can be avoided by having a possible resistance to the cold (As Tatsumi's new Incursio showed in the manga, when his teigu evolved). Using Mahapadma drains Esdeath and she can only use it once a day, She requires a great deal of prep time to summon her Ice Cavalry in large numbers. Esdeath is a ****** to the core and will drag out a fight she's enjoying to savor it, which can distract her from her objective and keep her from finishing her foe off immediately.

Key: Base | With Ice Storm Commander in Chief active

Feats:

Physical Strength:


  • Kicked a man's face off
  • Kicked Wave across a room


Superhuman Speed and Agility:



Enhanced Durability:

  • Unaffected by the temperatures of her own ice


Enhanced Stamina:

  • Defeated nearly half of Night Raid without breaking a sweat
  • In a completely one sided battle, defeated Leone, Najenda, Susanoo and Tatsumi by herself
  • She has killed entire armies on her own


Enhanced Senses:



Immense Killing Aura:



Well Versed in Human Anatomy:



Skilled Hand-to-Hand Fighter:

  • Was capable of taking on both Base Incursio Tatsumi and Magatama Manifestation Susanoo at the same time with no trouble


Notable Attacks/Techniques:

  • Esdeath is considered the strongest soldier in the Empire's army and one of the strongest in the series. She possesses a powerful Teigu called Demon God's Manifestation: Demon's Extract that allows her to manipulate ice and create ice from nothing. She uses it to create icicles, freeze people to death and more. She has been able to freeze an entire lake within moments with her ability.
  • Esdeath usually carries a long rapier that she wields with her into combat. She has shown herself to be quite adept with this weapon even without having to resort to her Teigu
  • She is shown to be a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant as well, possessing great physical strength, such as when she sent Tatsumi crashing to the ground in one kick, or when she slammed Seryu through the ground in their first meeting. She was also able to slam Suzuka into a wall with relatively little effort.
  • She also has a strong sixth sense, being able to sense killing intent even at long distances. She was perfectly able to sense that someone was spying on her. Also, her sense of smell is strong as she conformed that it was Tatsumi after checking his scent when she reunited with him on top of Mt. Fake from one sniff.


  • Esdeath freezes a river
  • Esdeath kills multiple Danger Beasts
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This is the best match I have seen in a while

Allow me to give some points.

AP: Escanor by a decent margin, he's 378(?) Terratons vs Esdeath's vastly above 151 Terratons, so he's around 2x stronger or higher

Skill: Both are excellent

Mindset: Escanor doesn't particularly go all out immediately and Esdeath saves her trump cards for later points

Abilities: This is where it gets tricky, Escanor gets stronger as time goes on and that's going to wear Esdeath's projectiles out as time goes on. But Esdeath loves to play the range game and with ISCIC in play she's never going to run out on Ice Construvts to spam.

Now the big one, time Stop.

I am....Uncertain on if this works or not due to Escanor's heat, but if it dies work, Esdeath can finish him in a time Stop as he dies t have the Dura or regen to tank a fatal attack.
 
Escanor is like>> 184 Teratons. Because he sliced Galand in half with ease, and scared away Critical Over Galand just by flaring his aura. And it was stated that each commandment has half the power of a grace.
 
He does... kinda. The other High 6-B's below the Achangels scale from a statement that a Grace holds the power of Two Commandments.
 
Escanor wakes up at dawn stronger than unsealed Base Meliodas and Galand. The former destroyed the latter
 
Well, his aura did vaporize a guy immune to Purgatory fire, witch burned down a forest immune to normal fire. But idk really
 
What stopping Esdeath from stopping time and chop off his head? Most of Esdeath fights in the manga were mostly one sided because the bitch was too OP and was holding back most of the time. If she feels Escanor may crush her she will just stop time I think
 
She isn't likely to use Time Stop unless she gets bored and wants to end things quickly. Just look at the final fight in the manga. She didn't use it once that I can remember. If Escanore provides her with a thrilling enough fight, she's unlikely to bring out her trump card untill the very end.

And dangit, ya stole this from me
 
I am sure Escanor's heat can likely protect him from the freezing temperatures honestly.

How many times has she gone Time Stop at the start of a fight?

Also "Escanor doesn't go all out imediately". His whole deal is his pride yes, but he still goes for the kill on his opponents.
 
Esdeath's range game won't mean much here as Escanor has Cruel Sun that can take care of. The simple fact is that this fight depends on if Esdeath decides to use her trump card before Escanor completely incinerates her, incapacitates her or cuts her in half as the longer the fight goes on, the stronger he gets and the more that AP gap with widen.

As I said, Escanor's heat should be enough to save him from the cold based Time Stop IMO. In all honesty, Escanor has my vote here.
 
Sheer heat should be enough to counter time stop. Even with time stop I think Esdeath would only use it when she's in a very fatal condition. And even then she might not be able to deal enough damage to harm Escanor since it seems his durability is higher than his DC or something. I recall Estarossa reflecting his attack back at him 2x the damage or so only wounded him.

Also the major issue of constant heat and the fact that he has a tendency to burn anything close by that doesn't have heat resistance. He might be proud, but for a good reason due to oneshotting many. And he still has Regenerationn to go with.
 
I mean

Assuming the time Stop doesn't work, (I concede it won't) Unless he was somehow so high up on High 6B that he straight up AP stomps, 7 seconds to slash at your enemy is killing them unless their Dura is high enough to where you can't do damage, which would make this a stomp
 
Yeah that's the thing. The barrage of attacks in a time stop might be enough. And Esdeath doesn't shy away from fatal blows. But if she doesn't go for a headshot or heartshot, which might be hard due to needing to attack more on higher durability, that leaves the Regenerationn issue. Escanor might be weakened but at that point Esdeath lost her trump card
 
Yup. Still gotta get through that defense. Personally I feel like Escanor won't at least let her stab him and can still whittle her down from afar with heat slowly. Time is against Esdeath after all.
 
We can't forget that Esdeath's Ice resists exterme heat. She can strengthen her own defences with Ice Armor too and she isn't going to just die if you remove a limb or two. She'll replace them with ice limbs in order to keep fighting. And even if she's dying, she'll keep fighting like a demon. Escanore's searing heat injuries also won't be much hinderence to her. That all being said, time is, as stated before, against Esdeath here. Escanore will just continue to get stronger and while Esdeath won't really tire, because of ISCIC, she has no form of regen to recover during the fight. I hate to say it, but Escanore take with High Difficulty. Esdeath won't go down easy, but she will likely go down.
 
Honestly yeah, Escanor's ridiculous heat output (and the fact that his heat is a special heat) and sheer durability makes him too tough of an opponent for Esdeath to put down.

Sun for All FRA
 
How does the heat stop the Time Stop? Esdeath explains in the volume extra that she doesn't freeze her targets, but she freezes time and space itself to freeze her targets.
 
Passive heat emission would naturally give a cold temperature resistance. Something in which is bited to be a weakness of her ability on her file.

Her trump card can be avoided by having a possible resistance to the cold (As Tatsumi's new Incursio showed in the manga, when his teigu evolved).
 
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