Round 2! Auron vs. Dante
 

Arena: Unhallowed Ground

In the Red Corner, the immortal vagabond, the boozehound samurai, from Final Fantasy 10: Auron!!!

And in the Blue Corner, the crimson-colored devil slayer, the half-demon master of carnage, from Devil May Cry: Dante!!!

The aging samurai perches atop a crumbled stone wall, waiting patiently for his prey to make his first wrong move. The demon-killer draws his sword, stalking through the harsh, upturned cemetary grounds, relentlessly searching for his newest enemy. The two stone-faced warriors catch glimpse of one another and freeze solid. One single twitch is all it could take to set this powder keg off. Who will be the first to make his move? Who will be the first to draw blood? Who will be the last man standing? Make your choices, and show no mercy...

Hmm, my prediction is the majority will go for Dante, although I myself believe Auron would win.

Well, any particular reason why? Honestly, I don't know much about either character, but I can safely say I know more about Dante, and I'm not entirely sure how Auron could win this one.

Well, Dante obviously has the speed advantage here. Dante has many more weapons also. They're both undead, I believe, I never got far enough in FFX to find out, but someone said Auron is undead.

Anyway, with Auron's power, it wouldn't take too many hits to kill Dante, but hitting him might be a problem. This battle would end up being a battle of luck.

Well, what do you think, in a battle of luck, would tip the scales in Auron's favor? They are both cool, calculating characters, therefore he couldn't rely on flustering Dante mentally. Is there any ability in particular that would be especially hazardous to Dante's approach?

The Auron's Bushido

Dragon Fang: You will have it at the beginning of the game

Down+Left+Up+Right+L1+R1+O+X is the combination to perform it.

Shooting Star: Really a good one, Auron runs at one enemy and strike it to
send it out of the battle field. You will have it when you find the Jecht
Sphere after beating Spherimorph in the Macalania Wood.

Triangle+Circle+Square+X+Left+Right+X and good bye to the victim.

Banishing Blade: Nice one here, not only that it deals nice damages but also
that when you use it correctly, Auron will inflict all the breaks(Power,
Armor, Mental and Magic break)to the enemy. You will learn it after finding
Three Jecht Spheres.

Up, L1, Down, R1, Right, Left+Triangle

Tornado: The last one, damages all enemies. You will obtain it by getting all
ten Jecth spheres.

X+Right+R1+Left+L1+Triangle


I'm particularly attracted to banishing blade for this battle. The execution isn't complicated, and it does a lot of damage and inflicts all of the breaks(not sure if you will count them for this battle.) The breaks would GREATLY increase Auron's chances of winning this battle.

I don't even know what you mean by "breaks." What exactly would this do to Dante?

Power, Armor, Mental and Magic break

These are regular abilities of Auron's. The limit break inflicts ALL of them though.

Power Break drasticly lowers the enemies attack power.

Armor Break drasticly lowers the enemies defence.

Mental Break I'm not sure about, but it must be bad.

Finally, Magic Break lowers magic and magic defense(I believe.)

Well, that would be pretty nasty. I'm interested to see what a Dante expert (read: Senesia) would have to say in response to that.

Someone could also back me up a bit on the breaks, since I was just telling what they do from memory(and my memory is horrible.)

You've been spooning with too many bards.

No, he's been forking with too many bards.

I'd spoon a bard if I knew one, but what does this have to do with anything?

First of all, in a response to K_A's comment, it is not true that they are both undead.

Auron is undead, but Dante is half-demon, half human. They are immortal in a different way.

Auron...being more superior in strength, short in words, cold in personality and he is the legendary guardian.

Had Dante encountered similar foe in the past?
In fact, yes. Nelo Angelo in DMC1. Wielding a even bigger sword, dexterous (Much more so than Auron), regining in both physical and magical strength...

Dante has the speed advantage, and has more variety of attacks. Being the calculating type of characters, having variety (in the attacks) is an important thing, because after the opponent has seen and dodged the attack once, it is hard to catch him with that same attack in the second use.

Also, Auron is not effective at attacking aerial or agile creatures. And what does that mean? Dante is always nimble, and when he triggers his devil mode in Alastor, he can use Air Raid and becomes nimble and aerial.

K_A has listed Auron's Overdrive (Bushido is his overdrives...if I remember correctly.) But overdrive is not something to be relied on.

I will leave it at that for now.

You can't even compare Auron to Nelo Angelo. Nelo Angelo was the pussiest boss I've EVER faught in the history of gaming. He was not only stupid, he rushed into things. He was arogant and over confident.

I was comparing the strength, and his abilities in combat. In Dante Must Die! mode, Nelo's combo is 1 hit kill for Dante. He rushes into things because he has an extremely high defense, and a superb reflex which enables him to counter the attack and deal more damage than his foe in the countering.

But... let's talk about Auron.

Well of course, anything in Dante Must Die! mode is gonna be better than in normal mode. If you're gonna compare them, you should compare Nelo Angelo in normal mode to Auron in normal mode, which is like comparing a cat to a mouse.

Ethereal Sword attacks are still deadly if Dante is not careful.

But, let's get back to Auron vs. Dante. I didn't base my argument on Nelo. vs. Dante, so there is no need to continue that.

I say Master Jinx would win....

*Bump*

Dante: Hey, old man with shades! Show me what you've got with that big sword of yours!

It is a bump, because... someone should defend for Auron... I think.