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Kamekguy posted...

What are Josh and Estelle's durability feats? Like not counting buffs, just base durability.

Because like Alucard and Ancient Arrows...

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/11137/111371329/6748070-alucard%20feat%20speed%20%2815%29.gif

Like these are attacks that WILL land. I absolutely do not give credit for being able to tag Alucard with a debuff or status before he's in range, and this is him just punching; he could do that with a sword in SotN! Not to mention Daruk's Protection from Link nulling physical damage and repelling projectiles. Like, if this were a fair fight, absolutely, 100%, Estelle and Joshua would... still lose. But this isn't a fair fight; Alucard and Link I absolutely do not believe let themselves get tagged with the debuffs necessary to bring them down quickly and snowballing.

But I need to know, like, actual stuff the Brights do besides their list of spells. Which sound nice, but everything I have ever heard about Estelle involves a big stick or violence, so I am unsure if they go for optimal here (I THINK Joshua does but like. Alucard sounds like the perfect person to provoke Estelle).

Durability feats are tricky to quantify because, by and large, Estelle and Josh prefer to dodge rather than tank (Joshua in particular is pretty much a ninja, stylewise, down to having shadow clone techniques). At the same time, though, multiple battles that happen in the Trails series have enemies do the smart thing and lead off with their S-Crafts (limit breaks, p much). Here, for example, is the climax enemy of Josh and Estelle's last game as main protagonists, Leonhardt the Bladelord:

https://youtu.be/qOPQnh9MT3U?t=390

You either bring one specific character who can interject an invulnerability move anywhere in the turn order as a limit break or you have to facetank this, no other way to deal with it. The latter is easier said than done -- the damage you can see there is probably not representative of what happened storywise, because it's on the ultra-hard difficulty where enemy stats are all cranked up to infinity, but it gives an idea of the kind of stuff they've had to deal with.

Relatedly, this is Joshua's most notable combat feat, defeting Loewe in single combat after the entire party fought him:

https://youtu.be/4jXidODZnSM?t=51

He's got practice dealing with badass super fast swordsmen, fwiw (and with them being able to keep up with him). I'm not sure how I'd measure Loewe vs Alucard, but they should at the least be in a similar ballpark. He's a soloer of armies who repeatedly smacks the hell out of the party every step of the way, and even in the final confrontation it takes all you have to make him stand down, not actually kill him.