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Past Results: Luke Skywalker's powerful Force abilities were no match for Yusuke Urameshi's superior speed and power. The half-demon spirit detective easily moves on to Round 3. Votals: 3-9
(1) Jack Rakan From Negima, Jack Rakan is a laidback yet powerful fighter. One of the few capable of taking on the legendary mage Nagi Springfield on equal footing, Rakan is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter with excellent physical durability and magical resistance, able to react to lightning-fast movements with years of experience; he is able to reverse the tide of battle while being pummeled simply by studying his opponent's attack. He can activate a defensive aura of magic that increases his durability, speed, and power; he can also dispel the defenses of a magical barrier with his hand.
Rakan's skill “The Man with a Thousand Faces” can create numerous bladed weapons that Rakan can instantly change on a whim, including a building-sized sword and numerous small blades; he can also charge energy into the weapons, use the weapons to parry attacks, and copy any type of weapon he wants. His Warship Breaker move charges up a building-sized sword with energy and hurls it at a target at hypersonic speeds. Rakan can also use his Hypersonic Halberd technique to create an explosion of roughly 300m. He can also exorcise spirits by attacking the soul directly.
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(4) Sarda From 8-Bit Theatre, Sarda is an extremely powerful reality warper. The self-proclaimed 'Wizard Who Did It', he is responsible for the events of the story behind the scenes. He is all-powerful and, among other abilities, can reverse and stop time, as well as manipulate reality itself. Sarda is tremendously arrogant and spiteful: he has often used his powers to affect the universe out of sheer boredom or just to irritate others, such as when he shortened the length of the days from 36 hours to 24, just to make everyone hurry up, as well as deleting an alternate timeline where the light warriors actually saved the world, which he then erased. He is nigh-omniscient and omnipotent: though mighty as few are, he has been taken by surprise before, and was overcome by the arrival of Chaos after absorbing an exorbitant amount of magic.
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From his looks Magus is Macho Man Randy Savage as an anime zombie. The black wind howls, and one of you will snap into a Slim Jim ooh yeeeah! -sonicblastpunch
Hey, Rakan is resistant to reality warping! Let's have some discussion >_>
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"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero." -Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick
He totally does, he came back from being removed from existence. Several times, actually.
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"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero." -Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick
He totally does, he came back from being removed from existence. Several times, actually.
like that matters considering in the Haku match it was said he was heavily injured from a battleship cannon thing. Sarda is more than capable of just nuking Rakan he doesn't need reality shenanigans.
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Actually, even though Sarda IS capable of nuking Rakan, he would never do so. It's totally against his personality.
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"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero." -Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick
Regular, no orbs Sarda (presumably the version being used here if the "no temporary power-ups" rule is still in place) is not that durable. Black Mage had enough firepower to kill him. ...I mean, Black Mage himself had a temporary power-up at the time, but still.
The issue is actually hitting Sarda, but even Bikke managed that, because Sarda just wasn't expecting anyone to try beaning him with an elemental orb. <_<
Dunno who wins here, but Sarda's not as dominant as people tend to assume.
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On the one hand, Sarda is a reality warper. On the other, Rakan has gone up against reality warpers before and has managed to either win or, against the really powerful ones, only get taken out of existence temporarily. So I suppose it depends on how long it would take for the match to be called. There was a pretty long stretch where the "erased from existence" thing stuck, even though in the end he got better of his own accord.
...Sarda wins this round, but a few rounds from now he ends up losing when Rakan reappears and takes his revenge. Because that is both entirely in-character for Jack Rakan and totally the type of joke that is prevalent in 8-Bit Theatre.
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From: Sceptilesolarbeam | #007 He totally does, he came back from being removed from existence. Several times, actually.
Sarda's never removed anyone except Bard from existence. Has Rakan come back from being in orbit around a point 1.3 seconds left of the future?
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From: Kenri | #012 Regular, no orbs Sarda (presumably the version being used here if the "no temporary power-ups" rule is still in place) is not that durable. Black Mage had enough firepower to kill him. ...I mean, Black Mage himself had a temporary power-up at the time, but still.
Black Mage had a temporary power up in the form of "absorb the power of the four fiends", at least one of whom is theoretically crazy powerful (Lich and his claim to be a master of tenth level magic in a setting where Ice 9 is universe ending) and another can destroy planets (Ur), that's not an insignificant boost.
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