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Who is the most skilled character in fiction?

JackJoyce

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Combat applicable skills only

Based on impressive skill feats and scaling from them. Experience statements & connceptual feats won't be accepted

Major candidates are

1. Edelweiss (Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry)

Ikki Kurogane

3. Sasaki Kojirou (Record of Ragnarok)

4. Mori Ji

Pray Mayer

Fugil Arcadia

7. Vash the Stampede

8. Taskmaster

9. SCP-076

10. Yujiro Hanma

11. Rimuru Tempest (Light Novel)

Hakurou (Light Novel)

13. Son Goku (Dragon Ball Super)

14. Garou

Eldrad Ulthra

Khârn the Betrayer

Karate Kid (Pre-Crisis)

Batma

Kenshiro (Hokuto no Ken)

Assassin (Fate/stay night)

Saber (Musashi Miyamoto)

Tommy Oliver

Future Warrior (Xenoverse 2)

Yuuki Kagurazaka (Web Novel)

Leo (Armed With Wings)

Sun Wukong (Myth)

Jax (League of Legends)

Protagonist (Mysteries of Baroque)

Xue Ying

Ahzek Ahrima

Oryx, the Taken King

Kars (JORGE JOESTAR)

Dry Leonhard

Phoenix Ikki

Twenty-Fifth Baam (Season 3)

Juuzou Shishimi

Han Jee-Ha

Nanami Yasuri

Officio Assassinorum

Byakuya Jougasaki

Johnny Joestar

The Chosen One (Animator vs. Animation)

Hammer (Regular Show)

Nanashi (Shin Megami Tensei)

Darth Sidious

Master Oogway

Agent 47

Composite Human
 
Vash the Stampede

His shooting aim is so good, he can shoot through a wire hanging from a space ship that's floating in the stratosphere, from a position on the ground. He's redirected missiles with his bullets, shot the fuses off several airborne pieces of dynamite before they could hit the ground, and shot thousands of rounds through the same exact spot on a target without missing at all.

If you're going by actual skill feats, this guy goofs most of the people here.
 
I don't think we can really say one single character to be the most skilled in fiction. There are different types of skill, like martial arts, swordsmanship, marksmanship, etc.
 
The best you can do in that regard is compare how one character's feats in their respective area of expertise stack up to another character's feats in theirs.

Flawed as the approach is, you're still going to have some skill feats that are patently ridiculous no matter what you compare them to.
 
Maybe we could make it one character or each area? Like having Vash the Stampede as the most skilled marksman, then someone else as the most skilled swordsman, then someone else as the most skilled martial artists, then someone else as the most skilled stealth user, etc?
 
Gonna post it here

Kojiro and Musashi in Fate.

Their blades clash, their power and skill are equal.

Both swords transcend time and space, yet their existence and concept are the exact opposite.

Ten of thousands, hundreds of millions of "possibilities" exist. Verify them all, crush them all, stop them all. A "finite" sword that strives to reach a single "correct answer". Until there is nothing left, cut everything until only "something" remains. That is Musashi's "zero". A sword that establishes a "conclusion" that not even the gods can escape from.

A sword of infinity that leads to multiplicity. A way to acknowledge "multiple possibilities". An "infinite" sword that gives birth to several "correct answers". That is Kojiro's "Tsubame Gaeshi". A sword that creates a "future" that not even the gods can escape from.

An infinite place. Or perhaps, an empty place. There is no time. There is no space. There is no karma. There is no good or evil. A situation only those two who put their very souls into their blades can reach.

Kojiro: MUSASHI!

Musashi: KOJIRO!

A single hit. Simultaneously, both of them surpass infinity. Both of them would continue to try to kill each other. Over and over, for all of eternity.

This is not the real world, this moment will never be recorded or stopped for anyone. This place lies between the real world and the world of dreams. An impossible place where infinity and zero can intersect. But. But. There is... one more person watching them.

You are here.

You can see it. A miraculous sword fight that is supposed to go on forever, never reaching its conclusion. But at the end of the dream there can only be one winner. Who do you see? Which swordsman is standing alive and smiling? Now, say it

With your own eyes, stare at the conclusion.

Now for Juuzou Shishimi

https://imgur.com/a/nLtMkGb

https://imgur.com/a/akQ4qm1
 
I'm just going to be blunt about the fact that most of that first bit just seems like flowery nonsense to me. I also don't see any direct "skill" being shown there at all. Just two characters with what looks like probability/causality manipulation stalemating each other, narrated with Nasu's usual brand of overly-verbose language.
 
You could exclude Xue Ying from the list as majority of his skills are thanks to his comprehasion which thanks to its supernatural abilities will be more magic or directly law manipulation. Like because he didn't find his spearmanship perfect and lacking he added the properties of variying laws (adding the softness and hardness of the water, the stability of the earth, the bursting power of the fire and the swiftness and mobility of the wind to his Art) creating his own Art - Extreme Piercing which you know pierce through matter, energy, souls, space and time. I could add more feats like this which within the verse its skill because through training and comprehasion of the laws but for this list it will be more or less supernatural.

If you add categories like Paulo said then its possible as his skills also lays in the creation of techiques (more or less supernatural ones).
 
There are multiple statement of Servant in the 5th holy grail war. That they dont want to fight him head on.

Only in that fight when he's fight his complete opposite that it happen.
 
John985 said:
There are multiple statement of Servant in the 5th holy grail war. That they dont want to fight him head on.
Only in that fight when he's fight his complete oppisite that it happen.
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And? How does that change what I said?
 
That is already a skill feat. Because inverse, it is treated as such.

There's arash who can hit you accuretly with a bow 2500KM away. Unlike other people who use guns
 
MrKingOfNegativity said:
Vash the Stampede

His shooting aim is so good, he can shoot through a wire hanging from a space ship that's floating in the stratosphere, from a position on the ground. He's redirected missiles with his bullets, shot the fuses off several airborne pieces of dynamite before they could hit the ground, and shot thousands of rounds through the same exact spot on a target without missing at all.
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Dear lord the manga doesn't fork around does it

all he does in the anime is make it impossible for people to hit each other in a duel by throwing rocks
 
DMUA said:
Dear lord the manga doesn't fork around does it
all he does in the anime is make it impossible for people to hit each other in a duel by throwing rocks
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Not entirely true. He also redirects that one character's rocket-arm mid-flight by shooting it a few times, and later on he does things like shooting through and destroying Caine the Longshot's sniper rifle from a ridiculous distance away.

But yes, Vash in Trigun Maximum is definitely not the guy you want pointing a gun at you. He's much more skilled with a revolver than he was in the anime, and that takes some doing.
 
Yeah...no.

Explain why that's impressive. And explain exactly how did he kill the SCP's.

Low godly regen, 1-B resistances adaptation and evolution, and genius intelligence. All of them had that. He killed all of them
 
Maybe he's not making it into this list, but when it comes to pure skill, ACTUAL swordsmanship/hand to hand fighting and spirit then Jetstream Sam needs some respect. Dude is just a human in nanosuit, with only cyborgized hand (that only makes him WEAKER, by the way), can fight fully equipped Ripper Mode Raiden with his BARE HANDS for a good time (and Raiden's further cyborgizations were mainly meant to defeat Sam, because previously Sam stomped him with no difficulty), match him even though Raiden himself got far superior reactions, physical prowess and is overall a cyborg who was trained since day 1 by absolute monsters like Solidus Snake and was an extremely powerful soldier even BEFORE receiving his cyborg enhancements, he cut off Senator Armstrong's hand (who greatly resists effects of HF Blades due to nanomachines, son) and did way better than Raiden against him (Jack won only because he got Sam's sword, before that Senator was overwhelming him heavily), also Sam can casually cut through multiple bullets fired at him even without having enhanced reactions by cyborgization and easily destroys many armored cyborg men at once while also cutting through their bullets and blocking swords. This guy is a beast.
 
MrKingOfNegativity said:
Not entirely true. He also redirects that one character's rocket-arm mid-flight by shooting it a few times, and later on he does things like shooting through and destroying Caine the Longshot's sniper rifle from a ridiculous distance away.
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well it's been awhile

Either way, let me make my contribution

Taylor Hebert is a Thinker 1 under Worm's power system, which means she has a minor degree of superhuman intellect. Primarily it's just used for managing her swarms of bugs automatically, but that also might explain how she constantly gets out of completely absurd situations

Some of the things she gets up to:

  • Fights Mannequin, a nigh invunerable super robot, by fending them off with a baton for a few moments in hand to hand, deflecting and evading spinning blades, barely clawing her way out of a chokehold, and faking having her throat slit via exploiting the limiations on his heat sensors, then, after she stalled for long enough, bugs swarmed over to her base, got a bunch of miscellaneous art supplies, before proceeding to jam his various limbs and movements with a combination of silk lines and splashing them with paint, completely humiliating him and forcing him to retreat while pointing a nanothorn knife (Read: a Molecule destroying weapon that was able to do notable damage to one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet) at her
  • Once, she was half blind and got teleported directly into a building where she was shot in the chest, her armor stopping anything lethal but still leaving her hard of breathing and realizing that bullets are hot, before the building was lit on fire and there were basically no bugs for her to use. She proceeded to grit her teeth, pull out a gun she was carrying, and through her coughs and wheezes, shot off the boards blocking her exit, summoned enough bugs to create decoys to stop the many, many soldiers around the building from lighting her the fork up, crawled on her hands and knees out, used the bugs to start setting off smoke and regular grenades from the soldier's hip, then got into a car and drove off. Oh, and she did all this while the person orchestrating their death was actively using his fate manipulation to micromanage every single action on the soldier's part, allowing him to play everything out twice over to figure out the absolute best way to take her down.
And that's just some of the stuff they get to, trying to dodge spoilers

Go read Worm.
 
I don't really see why they need to explain how a guy with a sword kills an army, it's pretty straightforward

Less so with all the BS but
 
Just like last time Tactimo is a candidate.

Although, how does one determine the most skilled character in fiction without some arbitrary requirements?
 
DMUA said:
I don't really see why they need to explain how a guy with a sword kills an army, it's pretty straightforward
Less so with all the BS but
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They kind of need to explain how a dude with a sword can get past Low Godly.

The rest is rather easy, 1B resistances don't apply to a skilled dude, adaption doesn't help much etc.

How a dude can end Low Godly ppl though needs an explanation if it doesn't want to be called PIS.
 
Dragonmasterxyz said:
Just like last time Tactimo is a candidate.
Although, how does one determine the most skilled character in fiction without some arbitrary requirements?
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Just feats. Show what are the best feats Tactimon has in your opinion. And the feats need to be quantifiable so something like:

"Can copy martial arts this fast" "Can do this and this"

So use things that aren't:

1. Experience (lived for 1 trillion years, as that's not really a form of skill you can quantify)

2. Outskilling people who don't have skill feats.
 
Apparently being 68 forking 2 and having the ability to adapt to everything that should kill you isn't relevant in someone stabbing you and an army of your brothers
 
Oblivion Of The Endless said:
And you expect people to read through all of that? Just make a TLDR
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That is a TL;DR in itself though. It's literally just the summarized version of Ikki's skill, so you want TL;DR of a TL;DR?. Read the titles if you don't want to read all that.

Even though he has more skills than that, those are just most of his notable skill feats.
 
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