Board 8 > ~FIGHT!~ Armstrong, Wrex and Ellie vs. Yu Narukami and Bass.EXE

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Armstrong, Wrex and Eleonora Yumizuru have challenged Yu Narukami and Bass.EXE to a fight! Location of the fight: The Undernet - The Undernet is as it appears in Megaman Battle Network 2, with all the regular inhabitants cleared out and everything unlocked. It is a long series of floating walkways and platforms. Access to any other area is not allowed. Attackers will start at the entrance to Area 1, with defenders starting in the depths of Area 7.. Which side will win?


Guidelines

- The fight will occur in real-time (like an FMV sequence). Gameplay mechanics are less important than how the characters would function in a real-time environment.
- The members of each team are ideal teammates capable of a pre-selected plan of battle.
- "Broken" refers to a lot of things, including insta-death, auto-effects, a variety of status effects (e.g., Imp, Silence, Stop, *not* Poison), and revival. Unless stated otherwise, nobody has them, though do use your own discretion.
- There may be SPOILERS from all of the games the characters are from.


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Ellie is as she appears in the endgame of Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, equipped with the Pinaka and a Godly Emblem, with all Radiant skills other than Endless Act and Endless Song, and no Extra skills. Virion is an Assassin with the Command skills Grand Tack, Myriad Arrows, Thunder Strike, Inferno Strike, Overload, Power Charge and Stealth, as well as the Passive skills Bow Expertise EX, Elec Expertise, Fire Expertise, Absorb Elec, Shura's Soul, Dodge Feather and Pierce.

Senator Steven Armstrong is as seen in his boss fight in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, with access to all of his powers and abilities. He cannot access Metal Gear Excelsius. During this match, It Has To be This Way will play loudly all over the terrain.

Urdnot Wrex is as he appears in the Mass Effect series, with all of his available talents from Mass Effect 1 at maximum level. He comes to battle equipped with the M-300 Claymore Shotgun (with Shredder Mod V), the Graal Spike Thrower Shotgun (with Omni Blade V), and the Striker Assault Rifle (with Magazine Upgrade V), all as they appear in Mass Effect 3.

Tira is as she appears in Soul Calibur V, with access to all her moves, although she must charge her Critical Edge/Brave Edge moves before using them. She will swap loyalties 30s after the teams meet, and will continue to swap loyalties every 30s. Neither team will initially be aware of this.
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~VS~

Yu Narukami (MC) is as he appears in Persona 4. He has the persona Izanagi available, with all default skills from P4 learned in addition to all the moves from Persona 4 Arena, with the exception of his mortal blow or gameplay mechanics (invincibility frames, etc). He also can freely switch to his persona Thor, who only has their natural non-passive skills and elemental affinities. Null Physical is not available.

Bass.EXE is as he appears in the Megaman Battle Network series, with access to all the moves and properties of his Omega forms (including Bass Omega GS), though if any of his barriers/auras is destroyed, he loses access to all of them for the rest of the fight. He can operate here same as he does on the Net. He has also inhaled Link from Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask, gaining a set of moves fitting him. Thanks to the Triforce of Courage, his parameters have been doubled. He has also inhaled Bass.EXE from the Megaman Battle Network series, gaining a set of moves fitting him. He may freely switch to his persona Kohryu, as it appears in Persona 4, who only has their natural non-passive skills and elemental affinities. Samarecarm is not available. He will be unable to use magic for the first minute of battle.

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Staring across this barren wasted land, I feel new life will be born, beneath the blood stained...bits. FIGHT!
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So basically this match is a 3 vs 2. However, Wrex has a nice ability called Stasis, which stuns an enemy but makes them immune to damage. He can use this on Bass once the teams meet to make this a 3 vs 1 against Yu. Yu's offense is really good, but his defense is pretty suspect, especially against guns. He just doesn't have the beef to take on both Wrex and Armstrong. Tira's going to backstab my team at some point, but any of the three people on my team can deal with her.

Yu should be going down just as Stasis wears off, which turns this match into a 3v1 against Bass. Both Armstrong and Wrex are strong enough to take down the Life Aura. They've also got some pretty good defense against Bass's attacks. Armstrong shrugs off physical damage thanks to his nanomachines, and Wrex has Immunity and Barrier, which increases his damage resistance by 80% and give him a massive boost to his shields, respectively. Ellie isn't nearly as tanky as the other two, but she does have Power Charge and a bunch of strong physical skills, along with Stealth to keep the target off her back. She can get a decent amount of damage in.
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@Lopen
@Mewtwo59

The floor is yours.
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Tools Bass potentially gets from Link form:

Farore's Wind - Set a beacon, teleport back to it whenever you want for free. Bass can use this to get out of trouble at any time should he get cornered or employ a suboptimal strategy or what have you, as setting the beacon is what has the cast time much moreso than teleporting to it, so placing it at a good reset point will do a lot for him. And it's reusable. I don't think it's a stretch for him to have this as it's probably the most iconic Ocarina of Time ability that doesn't use an Ocarina.

Tools Bass gets from his persona:

Mind Charge increases his MAG by 250% for the next attack. When considering his persona already gives a pretty good magic stat and he has double parameters, combining this with Maziodyne does huge damage to all foes. Bass has all the ability to just keep kiting backwards through his dungeon, or flying, unleashing 350% potency Maziodynes whenever the enemy team gets back in range. Yumizuru & Tira probably get one shotted by the first one. Armstrong's magic resist is not to be trusted so he's not well after taking these either.
Mediarahan fully restores his and Yu's HP. Which is nice considering he's already tanky and has double parameters.

Tools Bass brings by himself:

He's already very quick with his teleporty movements. Doubled means he won't be caught easily at all if he doesn't want to be.
His flight is very good here as he can stay out of range of Armstrong completely, by keeping floating over bottomless voids and out of melee range, or just straight up floating to a higher level than he can hit as the ceilings are very high here, or both! He also doesn't need to respect the walkways of the Undernet due to his floaty movements, which have a lot of annoying things like movement hindering conveyor belts, random staircases all over the place, and narrow walkways.
Life Aura - Bass probably is straight up immune to the damage from Wrex, Ellie, and Tira. The former due to his armament being in the form of guns that do their damage in the form of a spray/buckshot of bullets, each individual bullet being insufficient to bring down Life Aura. The latter two due to not having sufficient offensive power. I would argue if Bass is flying Armstrong is going to have a ton of trouble generating enough power in his strikes to knock it down too-- as airborne strikes aren't his forte.
And of course he has all sorts of buster salvos he can use-- though I imagine magic will be more useful here overall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKn3wr54nY#t=7m51s

Here's a decent video I found giving an idea of what the terrain is like.

Yu can also help quite a lot. Thor gives him physical resist which makes him significantly harder to take down for the enemy team. And he has Thunder Reign, which is the strongest electrical spell in P4-- combined with Bass's Mind Charged Double Params Maziodyne they can generate substantial burst magic damage to start the battle, a type of offense I see being particularly useful against fighters like Armstrong and Wrex who have no particular affinity for Magical Defense. Izanagi also gives him some basic attack and defense buff options which could be used before skirmishing to give him and Bass a bit of an edge initially.

tl;dr - This is really a 2v2 as Tira and Yumizuru can't contribute much and are quickly killed with mind charged maziodyne with no effort made specifically towards them, and Armstrong gets mashed hard early with the opening magical salvo and can probably be taken out sooner than you'd expect here. Bass is hard to damage whatsoever for the enemy team as life aura cancels their anti-flying offense, and he can kite forever with flight, the stage layout, and Farore's Wind if needed, and has full heals.
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where is tira
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bass.exe

tira GANKS ellie first loyalty swap
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who can even stop bass
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bass.exe with his persona kohryu

Bass.exe
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Bass
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KanzarisKelshen posted...

He has also inhaled Bass.EXE

wait what

Mewtwo59 posted...

However, Wrex has a nice ability called Stasis, which stuns an enemy but makes them immune to damage. He can use this on Bass once the teams meet to make this a 3 vs 1 against Yu

Not until Bass's aura is down.
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Bassception

(He used Get Ability on Kirby to take Kirbys's Bass.EXE form)
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