It’s been a long road coming here.
So many franchises, so many abilities.
Now, it’s time to grab those with those certain powers, and put them against others
that share the same sub-category of abilities.
This is the explosive user tournament, and to have this is as something to start off…
It wasn’t easy, I can tell you that.
For being an explosive user tournament, I picked a total of 8 contenders with explosive
abilities.
These fighters were chosen due to mix of popularity and personal interest.
Let’s get down to the people.
[Character Introductions] Katsuki Bakugo, from My Hero Academia.
A student from U.A. with the quirk, Explosion.
Genthuru, from Hunter X Hunter (or Hunter X Hunter).
Leader of the Bomb Devils, with the ability to give his aura explosive properties.
Solf J. Kimblee from Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood.
A highly skilled former State Alchemist with the ability to use an explosion type of alchemy.
Deidara, from Naruto Shippuden.
Deidara is an S-Rank ninja from the Akatsuki.
He possesses the Explosion Release kekkei genkai.
Oyacomova, from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run.
Oyecomova is a terrorist with the stand Boku no Rhythm wo Kiitekure, that has the ability
of contact bombs.
Karasu from Yu Yu Hakusho.
A member of Team Toguro, Karasu is a B-Class demon with the ability to turn his demon energy
into bombs.
Robert Hunter, or Nitro from Marvel.
The catalyst for the famous Civil War in the comics!
He blows up.
And for our final contender, Yoshikage Kira from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.
A serial killer wanting to live a peaceful life, with the stand Killer Queen.
The stand with the ability to turn anything into a bomb.
[How the tournament will be done / Seeding] Now that we introduced all of our characters,
the only thing left is how we’re going about the fights.
How I’m approaching this is that if both characters posses more than two conditions,
then that will be involved in the speculation.
If only one character has more than two conditions, then they’ll only be used if the other character
with only conditions can beat the other modes.
Also, the seeding is done in a way that the strongest users out of all of this won’t
instantly go against each other, and the rest was random.
With that being said, let’s start round one off.
[Deidara Vs. Nitro] Now, this is a popular character vs. a character
should’ve been known massively.
I think that’s one thing I wish was implemented into the cinematic universe, but that would
have to do with a lot of x-men type deals and what marvel didn’t have access to at
that time, but that’s just a side-note.
Nitro is a reasonably well villain before the mutant growth hormone, but that hormone
makes him pushes the boundaries of his self-explosive ability.
The thing, I don’t believe he has anything that would be able to combat Deidara in terms
of range and speed.
At a potential max, Nitro could explode at the speed of around Mach 20 to Mach 25.
In terms of distance, with one explosion, he could get rid of an entire town.
Which was something I was debating on when looking at the comics, but when I referred
to a cinematic in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, it gives you a strong idea on how large
the explosion was.
So, while you have hypersonic town-level explosions, you have higher speed reactions going against
that.
Deidara is known for his artful explosions, but his ability to fly with his clay explosives
is something on it’s own in this fights.
There’s not much Nitro can do when it comes to that.
If you were to have regular Nitro without the mutant growth hormone, he would’ve been
demolished since he has no direct answer to Deidara’s clay.
While he can transform himself into a gaseous state after an explosion, once he’s back
in his human form he’s as vulnerable as any other human.
That goes for pre-hormone and post-hormone.
Also, if you were to continuously attack Nitro, he’s unable to use his explosions.
From how Wolverine describes it, it’s because you’re in the eye of the hurricane, so he’s
unable to do fight back against Wolverine.
If Deidara was to attack either forms with the large amount of clay to smother him, it
would be the end of Nitro.
Adding on to Nitro’s case, he can only explode so many times before he’s exhausted himself
or made himself slower due to fatigue.
Nitro being slower than Deidara from the beginning was bad, but Nitro making himself even more
tired without any strain on Deidara is even worse.
So that leave’s Deidara being the winner of the first fight.
[Karasu Vs. Genthru] The explosive works of Togashi, and I believe
this one makes it more interesting on the Yu Yu Hakusho side.
Yu Yu Hakusho is one of the franchises where certain important feats are made questionable
due to how anime timing makes it work.
Like how if you were to say a feat happened in the blink of an eye, but the anime slows
it down to show the effect of it for 5 seconds.
As a comparison, you have reason to believe Karasu is faster than Genthru.
The match with Kurama and being a B-Class demon gives credibility.
But, what if we were to just equal the speed and have it relied on abilities and strength.
Karasu outmatches Genthru if that’s the case.
Karasu would never have to make contact with Genthru, and along with that he wouldn’t
be able to see the bombs being used.
Plus, Genthru making contact is more of a disadvantage than an advantage.
If that’s supposed to be his focus in the battle (which it is), then he gets blindsided
easier than expected.
Getting rocked by Gon in the instance he blew his arms up had shown how vigilant he was.
And if he’s going to have Karasu near him, then that’s the end of Genthru.
Long range, Genthru loses.
Close range, Genthru loses.
Now, if you were to let him see the contact bombs with Gyo if that was possible, how would
that fair.
Long range, he still has his Trace-eyes and Deleterious bomb.
Close range he still has his explosive touch his other outputs of spirit energy.
He could even blow himself up if needed and it won’t affect him since it’s a discharge.
That’s even if he could get Karasu to power up, but it’s unlikely he’d be able to
get there.
(Add final thoughts on this one).
[Bakugo Vs. Kimblee] Now, this
is going to be one of the ones I was speaking previously about.
Since Bakugo technically has more than one form, we’re going to use the multiple forms
of Bakugo too.
Here’s an issue I faced in this match, durability.
It should be easy with me saying that Bakugo has extremely better durability than Kimblee
since he has the feats to back it up, but it feels like there’s an issue here.
This is the issue that I find with My Hero feats sometimes, because this happens to be
a common issue.
But, the durability in My Hero, is due to them not being like regular people in terms
of strength.
With alchemy, regular people become regular people with power.
But with Quirks, you become more stronger and more durable than the average human.
I feel that the explosions coming from Kimblee are more concentrated in power than Bakugo’s,
but in every other factor, I find Bakugo winning
the rest.
This is me referring to Kimblee with the stone, since Kimblee without it doesn’t stand a
chance.
Bakugo should be vigilante enough to notice that Kimblee requires his hands making contact
with something for his power to work.
I know there’s people thinking that Bakugo is the type to jump in a battle with no strategy,
but that’s just them not giving him credit.
The guy takes apart situations to where even if he knows that the odd are against him,
he’ll think out a way to where it’s him coming out of it.
It’s not someone using their power with no knowledge and just throwing out explosions.
With Kimblee, if he’s reliant on getting his hands on Bakugo, then it’s going to
be a difficult fight for him.
Trying to attack him with explosions that only can come from where he makes contact
can leave him with a disadvantage against Bakugo too.
Especially since Bakugo can propel himself into the air and completely avoid the ground.
I’d also like to approach this with the same Kimblee that had went against Alphonse,
and not the one against Scar since he lost
the fight.
I think the only issue I see now is with speed and the philosopher’s stone.
I believe that Kimblee could severely damage Bakugo when he has the philosopher’s stone,
but that’s if he’s making contact.
Attacking the ground under Bakugo is futile, and I don’t see Bakugo getting close enough
to Kimblee to where Kimblee makes contact.
Since Bakugo doesn’t require contact, and he only needs around the middle of short and
medium range.
Avoiding his ground attacks, and keeping being able to keep himself out of contact leaves
Bakugo with an advantage.
I haven’t even brought the Howitzer Impact in the equation, and with Kimblee being nowhere
as durable as Bakugo, it would destroy him.
Remember that everyone can comment their thoughts and how they feel like the fight goes in their
forms.
That goes with any fight mentioned, I’d like some information that supports certain
losing characters enough to the point where I’d change the outcome of a fight.
But when it comes to this fight, I’m on the side of Bakugo taking it.
His human but quirk based person makes a lot up for himself, and his technique along with
durability helps even further.
[Yoshikage Kira Vs. Oyecomova] A good old fashion stand battle.
The original vs. the not that bad other version.
Some might say the better version, not me though I like Killer Queen’s stand design
more, but I also do like Satana a lot so…
Alright, now these stands are similar in the aspect that anything that they touch becomes
a bomb, but the difference is quantity and quality.
While Kira has a total of 2 bombs that we can use in this fight, Como has 1 bomb that
can be attached all types of things.
I see it work as whatever is visible, have a bomb.
There was his skin which was a solid, the stream being liquid, and smoke being a gas.
He could kick up some dirt, and have bombs in the dust made.
These are potent bombs, only a few of these had blown up a whole building.
But, whatever Killer Queen makes into a bomb gets completely atomized so, there’s that.
So, against Killer Queen, how does this fair.
Having them distanced like how you would boxers to make it fair, and how would they approach.
Saying that both of their objectives is to end one another, and Como isn’t running
away.
So, Como would want to get his hands-on Kira as fast as possible since he doesn’t have
access to what he did in the first time he was shown, and running up on Kira his worst
possible decision.
Killer Queen blitzes Como immediately beats him down with no chance of him recovering
from it.
I feel Como, both the stand and the user do better when in an environment filled with
life and as many things as possible.
For example, imagine if there was a tree away from but between Kira and Como.
By touching a branch or large amount of leaves, he’s made a city block bomb that would blow
Kira up before he even notices the stand ability, but I’ve set these fights in a neutral setting,
so I’m not going to add in any special conditions that help benefit one fighter over the other.
Killer Queen wins in the hand to hand combat, speed, and use of a bomb.
If he was to punch Como, he can completely atomize him using the other hand so there’s
no recovery after the punch.
Sheer Heart Attack also easily decimates Como without chance, but I’m sure I don’t have
to bring that into the equation.
I know that there was some people thinking that the more bombs you have, the more powerful
you are.
That’s fine, but in the case of Como where you must have things to put bombs on, it doesn’t
work.
The stand is good, but the stand is made to use your surroundings which isn’t something
you want to rely on in these fights.
Though, if I was to count his horse into the fight, and he wants to turn his only horse
into a humongous bomb, then yeah that works.
But, as for all the possible fights in this 1v1, Kira wins the majority.
That’s going to be it for the first round, if you guys have any thoughts on possible
game changers be sure to comment.
This
series is
something that I want to do a good once in a while since there are so many characters
that share similar abilities or elements, and I want to see who’s the best out of
a select few.
The next video of this is going to be on the second, and possible final round.
Comment all your thoughts and even information about fights to happen or fights you see happening,
I’d like to see what you guys think.
I’ll see you guys in the next one.
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