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TL;DR: Huge buff advantage + numbers advantage + first strike + generally superior fighters + BIG LASER HYPE (TM) = clean win.

Hi everyone! Been a while since I did this. I hope you're all ready for a long and juicy hype package. Let's get right to business!

The first person I want to talk about is Paine, because there's a lot to say about her. First off, she's packing a Garment Grid with Haste (always a valuable buff), letting her do multiple transformations into different combat specialties that grant her the memories of an accomplished practitioner of the form she's assuming. Each of her Dresspheres, as the transformations are called, grants her a fancy magical girl-style transformation, and more importantly, a host of new abilities. Let's go over each one, shall we?

-Warrior: Grants every type of elemental strike under the sun (including % HP damage, notably), delaying strikes (likely causing stunning in an FMV setting), and debuffing Stat Break attacks. This is her default sphere, the mark of her prowess as a swordswoman.
-Dark Knight: Can sacrifice health to deal massive damage with Sacrifice, but more importantly, has access to status-inflicting attacks. She can't inflict Stone or instant death, but among other things, she can cause Confusion, Poison, Doom, and unleash Black Sky, a massive meteor shower that inflicts ten hits of damage upon all enemies.
-Songstress: This is a big one. Songstress has buffs to every stat under the sun (Strength, Magic, both types of defense, evasion, accuracy...), which last until the end of the battle once applied and can be stacked up to ten times (only once in the case of the last two buffs because they're applied all in one go). When maxed out, the buffs provide an 85% bonus to each of the boosted parameters. Additionally, if she's up for it, she can perform magical dances, which continually inflict one of Blind, Mute or Slow, or grant automatic critical hits to all allies.
-Gun Mage: Can Scan and detect enemy weaknesses (always valuable against Persona users), possesses special ammunition that inflicts quadruple damage against monsters (like say, Kirby), and most of all is her game's Blue Mage job. Among other moves, she can use White Wind to heal her party, Mighty Guard to slap down Shell and Protect, debuff every enemy's DEF and MDEF simultaneously...and oh yeah, use Bad Breath, which can Silence, Blind, Poison and Slow simultaneously with one cast, vs the entire enemy party.

It's easy to see just how big a buff advantage Paine grants her team. With 80% boosted defenses, Shell and Protect AND doubled HP on top via Rikku, everyone on her team is a tank (Evolved John Cena and Metabee especially), and Team Yu has no dispellers or debuffers. Tack on Bad Breath on top for an opening salvo and she really does make the fight comically lopsided on a big terrain with time to buff such as this one.

Next up is John Cena. This isn't your garden variety superstar, though - it's a superhero version of him! And because you can't see him, he's guaranteed first strike. Consider he can do things like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjN2JbfFSrw

Now, why might that matter...hang on, I think I'm remembering something...



'Oh'

Yu has no chance against an invisible superhero with his crippling weakness to suplexes. No chance in hell!
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Shine on, you crazy diamond.