DEATH BATTLE

Who would make a good opponent for Priscilla from Claymore?

Don't know, but I do have a good fight for us:

Bullseye vs Deadshot.

Two evil bastards with the best aims in their respective universes (at least among the villains).

Hawk Eye vs Green Arrow is another good one.

He wasn't LITERALLY cut in half vertically. The Mantra-focused blow killed him, but did not cut him in half physically.

Ganondorf vs. Madara Uchiha

Madara Uchiha can summon meteors with his mind... not one meteor, not two meteors. He can summon at least ten or twelve of them at once and Colony Drop them.

And he has an invisible gang of shadows that beat up his opponents for him.

And part of his actual powerset is legit Mind Rape.

Ok... Not Ganon, then. What about Maddy vs. Sosuke Aizen?

Katniss Everdeen vs Kim Possible.

I'm gonna put my money on the one who is willing to kill, has done so in the past, and is finding it easier and easier to do it as time goes on.

So you'd give it to Kim, then?

Won't even hear the arrow with her name on it.

I'll admit I don't know much about either franchise, but doesn't Kim have a bunch of spy gadgets she can use, on top of whatever feats of acrobatics she can perform? And what does Katniss have, other than her archery skills and the fact that she was able to survive the Games? Because the way I remember it, she mostly won by hiding and letting the other kids kill each other, and by knowing how to manipulate the audience, neither of which would be useful in a Death Battle.

Hiding and sniping might be a reasonable strategy.

She'd have to escape to a hiding point first, of course.

Willingness to kill is a quality given to all participants in Death Battles. Up to and including characters whose personal taboo on killing is a major part of their characterization.

No takers on Madara vs. Aizen?

Aizen can cast nigh-unbreakable illusions if you see his sword, and Madara has eyes that see through illusions automatically.

So I don't know anything about Bleach characters, but it sounds like Aizen's trump card is... well, trumped.

Note that Aizen never used the illusion power against Ichigo, and was still the Big Bad of like, way too many arcs. He's also got godlike magical and physical abilities (stopped Ichigo's sword with a finger when they first meet) in addition to illusions.

edited 6th Aug '14 9:58:12 PM by Enlong

Add the Hogyoku to the mix, and the battle becomes a lot more interesting.

edited 6th Aug '14 10:29:21 PM by Arawn999

All the Hogyoku really gave him was raw power. Madara's got more than enough tricks up his sleeve to counteract that. Well- there's also the bit where he seems to be immortal now, but the limitations of that haven't been tested and we've seen Madara beat immortals.

Depends on if you use undead Madara or alive jinchuuriki madara, too.

Undead Madara is immortal but weaker than alive Madara despite possessing limitless chakra. Assuming we use Jinchuriki Madara with both Rinnegan, that gives him all the abilities he displayed as Edo Madara, plus Limbo: Border Jail, the Truth Seeking Balls, and the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Aizen's second-to-last form could make ordinary humans die just by being in their vicinity, but considering Madara has a massive amount of chakra -assuming it's comparable to reiatsu - even without being the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, he probably wouldn't be affected by it. The Truth Seeking Balls could pose a problem considering Aizen can't use anything comparable to senjutsu, but he's tanked enormously powerful techniques in the past and come out relatively unscathed.

Aizen would have the Hogyoku and Kyōka Suigetsu, which would work on Madara if he released it, at least for a short time: a Sharingan does not automatically see through illusions, as seen during Sasuke's fight with Itachi and Obito and Kakashi's duel in the Kamui Zone. Seeing how Aizen was able to overcome Shinji's mind-altering Shikai, even if Madara did hit him with a genjutsu he would probably be able to figure out he's in an illusion and break it or at least adapt to it. The Hogyoku enables him to regenerate from powerful attacks - Madara's Heavenly Obstacle Quaking Star or Perfect Susanoo, for instance - and metamorphose into a stronger form if he is in danger of being defeated. My question is: would Aizen be affected by the Infinite Tsukuyomi, being a spirit and all, or would he be immune like the Edo Hokage?

edited 7th Aug '14 9:27:54 AM by Arawn999

It's probably best to assume he'd be immune to it. But we shouldn't just gloss over the base Rinnegan powers; Preta Path nullifies up a lot of Aizen's attacks. The only form of offence he'd have left would be just hacking and slashing at Madara with his sword, and Madara's Healing Factor is enough to let him more or less ignore that. Aizen'd kind of get stuck just tanking hit after hit, hoping the Hogyoku gives him a form that can actually do something. If that even works; the Truth-Seeking Balls dealt unhealable damage to the Edo Hokages, so there's good chance they could shut down the Hogyoku.

That's assuming chakra and reiatsu are similar enough that Madara's Petra Path would let him absorb Aizen's kido. The Hogyoku is an object capable of warping reality in accordance with its wielder's will and desires, whereas the Truth-Seeking Balls are only capable of negating non-senjutsu enhanced ninjutsu - making them mutually exclusive.

edited 7th Aug '14 1:48:38 PM by Arawn999

We already assumed Chakra and Reiastsu are similar enough to make Madara not just boom from proximity; I think that falls until the same category.

And I guess that was poorly phrased- the balls wouldn't shut down the Hogyoku itself, but they might shut down Aizen's ability to benefit from it, if that makes sense.

I'm not entirely sure how that would work, given the nature of the Hogyoku and its bond to Aizen - even when Gin dealt him a fatal injury and took it from his corpse, Aizen's body reformed around it and he carved Gin up like a turkey as payback. I suppose my phrasing when I supposed Madara's chakra supply would protect him from Hogyoku!Aizen's reiatsu was poorly worded as well. Bleach's reiatsu, while functionally similar in several respects to Naruto's chakra, has a different source and different properties, so it would be incorrect to say they are the same thing.

edited 7th Aug '14 8:14:42 PM by Arawn999

Well, spiritual energy is part of what one blends together to make chakra, yes? (the other half being energy from the body) So reiatsu would probably be equivalent to that component energy.