Board 8 > ~FIGHT!~ 2B vs. Sol Badguy

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KamikazePotato posted...

How good is Sol's regeneration?

EDIT: Oh, his healing factor has been suppressed apparently

Extremely potent. Basically instaneous healing. It's active in his Dragon Install, so it acts as a full heal, but otherwise not allowed for the same reasons Dante didn't get his.

As for me, my thoughts are as follows:

-2B doesn't play the range game. I played Automata, I read drama CDs and I watched her work in Final Fantasy XIV where she had a collab. Shooty shit is 9S' game unless a flight unit is involved. She does close range work. The pod is support, not a main method of combat.
-If 2B goes in she'll expect her Overclock to do great work, and Sol can likely fight through that. This will be a big blindside, and I don't think Overclocking works inside Overclock for retroactive timestops.
-Sol has a huge power advantage vs 2B's durability. She's tough, but one big hit is all he needs, and the two points above make me think he can get it.

Sol Badguy. It's a clean win but with support I would flip I think. If anyone was around to interfere Sol's game this would be a bad look.

2B

Nah my dude. Pod gets a clean boss kill and I do not buy "time slow" and "time stop" immunity to mean the same thing, especially given that I don't entirely buy that Sol resisting the timestop wasn't Axl's doing so he could talk to his weird buff scientist alternate universe idol (especially since it's described as Axl consciously doing Time Kompression).

Sol dumpsters 2B if he gets a hit, and I think he can running this fight a bunch of times. But I also think 2B is adaptable enough to not be run clean through. I think Sol lands a hit, but I imagine it blowing off one of her arms rather than her head or torso. At that point, it's assessment time, and Sol... doesn't really have many tricks past that. Dragon Install and getting stronger, sure, but Sol is ALWAYS a wallbreaker. 2B is not a wall, she's a dodgy girl who has her very specific secret job because she's very, very good at being a dodgy girl. Gravity especially really screws with Sol's day, as he's been TK'd a LOT in his day. And I dunno about your playthroughs, but I never let go of that R1 button once during combat; that's constant damage plus some healing while dodging happens. Sol is just not good at taking that kind of pressure; Nago outright says due to his immortality, he sucks at actual dodging since he's not used to being unable to no-sell everything.

... funny enough I probably vote that Raiden solos 2B here as he matches speed before overclock comes into effect. But Sol smashes Raiden because yeah Raiden ain't parrying that punch.

I might be biased because I mostly used my pod combos for enemy CC, such as the aoe wave move

If I wanted to hit shit from afar I used Shockwave, since it hit ungodly hard compared to pod shots and racked up damage much quicker

Neat playstyle diffs tho! And yes, I agree that Raiden vs Sol would be an ugly mismatch IMO. 2B is at least much better equipped to fight him.

I used the pod abilities plenty, but whenever I wasn't, yeah the R1 button was constantly held down.

KanzarisKelshen posted...

Extremely potent. Basically instaneous healing. It's active in his Dragon Install, so it acts as a full heal, but otherwise not allowed for the same reasons Dante didn't get his.

As for me, my thoughts are as follows:

-2B doesn't play the range game. I played Automata, I read drama CDs and I watched her work in Final Fantasy XIV where she had a collab. Shooty shit is 9S' game unless a flight unit is involved. She does close range work. The pod is support, not a main method of combat.
-If 2B goes in she'll expect her Overclock to do great work, and Sol can likely fight through that. This will be a big blindside, and I don't think Overclocking works inside Overclock for retroactive timestops.
-Sol has a huge power advantage vs 2B's durability. She's tough, but one big hit is all he needs, and the two points above make me think he can get it.

Sol Badguy. It's a clean win but with support I would flip I think. If anyone was around to interfere Sol's game this would be a bad look.

his writeup should be more clear about the healing in that case imo

Pod was absolutely my main source of damage for 2B, Bomb program is busted vs melee damage.

Sol Badguy for me.