r/whowouldwin • u/Joseph_Stalin_ ​ • Dec 20 '17

Special [Death Battle]Sephiroth vs Vergil

Vergil Respect Thread by me

Sephiroth Respect Thread by /u/ShadowSphere

Round 1: Regular Versions

Round 2: Nelo Angelo vs Whatever Peak Sephiroth is.

As per rules of Death Battle, they're both going for the kill

https://youtu.be/8sdzSDKquiY

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u/x_Saturn Dec 20 '17

While I don't disagree with the outcome, I absolutely hate how they calculated Sephiroths strength. That was ridiculous, and made no sense.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '17

What are your grievances with how they calculated their strength? Could you elaborate?

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u/x_Saturn Dec 20 '17

They swapped from cutscene to in game stats, and I'm not sure how they calculated the force required for Zach slashing through the door, since that feat is pretty low end for the FFVII universe. Sephiroth was cutting through far more than that in his fight with Genesis, with far less effort. They could have used that calculation. Switching from cutscene to gameplay never works out accurately.

If you scale any low level character to high level character, you can't scale by multipliers. In game stats are used to show growth, but cutscenes stop making sense if they should be 50x stronger than they were 20 levels ago. Either use cutscenes only, or in game stats only. Crossing them doesn't work

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '17

They used the shear strength for a piece of steel the size of the door. Which, while a handy way to get a very precise figure, is entirely wrong since there's a big difference between ripping apart a slab of metal with your bare hands and cutting it in half with a sword.