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[Doctor of Autism]

Going to be honest, this is a really underwhelming fight.

Asura winning would've been predictable

But Kratos winning in this fashion is predictable because it feels like Death Battle is pretty formulaic that whoever uses their ultimate trump card first would be the loser as it is set up for the person who does it second to be the winner.

The music didn't really help either.

I will commend them for this, I do like how recently they show alternate endings or scenarios, since it at least address other possibilities and shows how some matches can be a tossup.

Next battle is Ghost Rider vs Spawn

 

[umseriously]

KINGtos won.

 

[Lone Star]

Didn't seem like anything Asura did managed to even scratch Kratos. They could at least pretend not to be biased.

 

[cremechocolate]

The animation just wasn't doing it for me, this was easily their worst independent episode so far.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

The animation just wasn't doing it for me, this was easily their worst independent episode so far.

Honestly I felt the animation was fine but the fight just felt very tropey of

"Oh first character who uses their ultimate ability is going to lose" and Asura did it so lo and behold whose going to win.

The music doesn't really fit an epic fight especially if you don't really know these characters since it clearly is meant to make you think this fight is sad but uh it conflicts with Asura having all these super epic forms fighting Kratos in this bombastic style. Like I think the sad music could've been felt if during the fight it was more sad, but it really wasn't.

Best episodes were definitely Giorno vs Joker and Eggman vs Bowser.

Hopefully this is just a dud and the other episodes are better than this, like it isn't the worst episode of Death Battle, but weakest of the season

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Kratos vs Asura is premiering now!!!

EDIT:
WANKTOS MY BELOVED! Yeah Kratos won. Because of fucking course he did. Though they did show an alternative ending where Asura won (probably to quell the shitshow this episode might cause). Next time is Ghost Rider vs Spawn!
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Death Battle has a hardon for anything western and an extreme bias about jap shit. I knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that Kratos was going to win, because they're fatherless faggots who cried playing Dad of War.

But Kratos winning in this fashion is predictable because it feels like Death Battle is pretty formulaic that whoever uses their ultimate trump card first would be the loser as it is set up for the person who does it second to be the winner.

They have other tells too, if I didn't notice their biases I'd still have known Kratos was going to win because of the dialogue. Kratos was monologuing about Asura being consumed by rage and how he isn't anymore.

Didn't seem like anything Asura did managed to even scratch Kratos. They could at least pretend not to be biased.

No, they really can't, that's why Goku lost 3 times and is literally the only exception they've made to the "this character can do this feat because another one did it" type of scaling, and they prioritized a guidebook (I think it was even a fan guidebook lmao) over the actual canon.

And the weird way they calculated speed made no sense. Something about some dude's light and Kartos rowing a fucking boat or something? That is not how you calculate battle speed regardless of if his boat rowing speed or even running speed was superior.

 

[Scavenger]

The animation looks so janky in some parts.
Some parts looked good but some feels like babies first SFM/Blender animation
I feel like them being indie should of gave devilartimis some more time.

DB forgot that Capcom are fucking kikes that they literally left all their franchise to die for Monster Hunter and RE.
So their isn't gonna be an Asura's Wrath 2

 

[Lone Star]

Looking around various places, I see a lot of people calling bullshit on how they scaled Kratos, which surprises me. I just assumed the God of War fans would be too busy beating their chests over a web video to see the shoddy logic behind his scaling.

 

[Foolish Samurai Warrior]

Looking around various places, I see a lot of people calling bullshit on how they scaled Kratos, which surprises me. I just assumed the God of War fans would be too busy beating their chests over a web video to see the shoddy logic behind his scaling.

Yeah, because Asura IS. Kratos is just that weak.

 

[TheClorax]

Looking around various places, I see a lot of people calling bullshit on how they scaled Kratos, which surprises me. I just assumed the God of War fans would be too busy beating their chests over a web video to see the shoddy logic behind his scaling.

No duh, The entire analysis showed Kratos struggling against mundane giants, struggling opening doors, needing dogsleds to travel, and other relatively unimpressive shit all while Asura's footage had him flipping monster elements like a coin with just his thumb, dive-bombing into the center of the Earth, and launching himself into space just by punching the ground. The animation absolutely suffered from this difference in presentation. Asura does all this insane anime fighting that Kratos tanks and shugs off before countering with something far less impressive.

With an episode like Chosen Undead v Dragonborn for example, they're able to fuck around with their universal/multiversal autism because both parties have relatively similar grounded gameplay so they can go "lol muh lore" because the fight animation had both parties fight in a pretty grounded manner so people could just shrug and ignore their nonsensical "logic."

Ask the average person how many universes God of War has. The answer would most likely be one or two, maybe ten at the absolute MOST depending on what you count the Underworld and 9 Realms as. Nobody except the brainrotted faggots at Death Battle or VSBW would even guess 9 MILLION universes, much less declare that Kratos could destroy ALL of them. The stats they gave Kratos were so utterly nonsensical that it turns every God of War game into a bunch of anti-feats against Kratos. If Kratos really COULD destroy 9 million universes, or even just ONE, why did he need to go through a giant plan to start Ragnarok when he could have just destroyed Asgard himself?

A lot of Death Battles have this problem (If DIO can go thousands of times FTL, why would he ever bother using his Time Stop in the first place?), but this one was particularly egregious, and exposed to even casual viewers that Death Battle and their research have completely lost the plot.

 

[lurker_fuck]

No duh, The entire analysis showed Kratos struggling against mundane giants, struggling opening doors, needing dogsleds to travel, and other relatively unimpressive shit all while Asura's footage had him flipping monster elements like a coin with just his thumb, dive-bombing into the center of the Earth, and launching himself into space just by punching the ground. The animation absolutely suffered from this difference in presentation. Asura does all this insane anime fighting that Kratos tanks and shugs off before countering with something far less impressive.

Yeah that's the complicated part about scaling Video Game characters is that there are obvious limitations in gameplay. Something the creators of God of War have talked about is that gameplay Kratos is not representative of his actual in lore power, which can make it feel cheap.

The animation suffered from Asura being on the backfoot for the entire fight. Kratos doesn't take any visible damage in the entire fight, meanwhile Asura is just burning through every transformation he has. Which, I get it that Kratos doesn't really have transformations like Asura but maybe if they had shown Kratos taking damage, healing himself and having to keep amping his rage to keep up, it would've felt less one sided.

The Powerscaling stuff doesn't bother me much. Characters being MFTL but still doing mundane activities comes with the territory.
Powerscaling literally only matters in VS debates and has zero bearing on the writing. From the perspective of a writer, Kratos just killed a Sun God. They're not thinking about the speed implications of Helios' light crossing into other universes and how that scales to Kratos. Or how Kratos beating Atlas or Cronos factors into his stats in hypothetical matchups.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Death Battle's biggest flaw is really having people who write on the show who clearly have an agenda for their favorite that it would clearly show who wins. For me the exposure was the DIO vs Alucard fight since the research person behind that is a massive Jojo fanboy and how blatantly nerfed Alucard was from not being able to use his third eye, not having access to some of his greatest weapons, and not having his full arsenal of familiars but just generic zombies.

I think the most acceptable one-sided matchup was Omni-man vs Homelander only because everyone really wanted Homelander's ass to get kicked from a moral standpoint and the fact Homelander is the biggest clown in the powerscaling community

 

[Valstrax]

I think the most acceptable one-sided matchup was Omni-man vs Homelander only because everyone really wanted Homelander's ass to get kicked from a moral standpoint and the fact Homelander is the biggest clown in the powerscaling community

I can attest to this.

 

[Lone Star]

Have there been other blatantly one-sided matchups where people generally agree it's accurate and correct?

 

[The Paleblood Vessel]

I knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that Kratos was going to win, because they're fatherless faggots who cried playing Dad of War.

Funny you mention this, considering Asura's motive for near literally everything he does in Asura's Wrath.

Even in a Best Dad contest Asura would dominate over Kratos.

 

[TheClorax]

Have there been other blatantly one-sided matchups where people generally agree it's accurate and correct?

Oh absolutely. Just off the top of my head there’s:

• Godzilla vs Gamera
• Thor vs Raiden
• Jason Voorhees vs Michael Myers
• Superfriends Aquaman vs Spongebob
• Shadow vs Ryuko
• Natsu vs Ace
• Bane vs Venom
• Megatron vs Frieza (But Frieza ducked out of the actual Megatron powerlevels)
• Korra vs Storm
• Magneto vs Tetsuo
• Weiss vs Mitsuru
• Flash vs Quicksilver
• Gundam vs Optimus
• Roshi vs Jaraiya

And probably a LOT more I’m missing.

 

[Hooligan Handgun]

Have there been other blatantly one-sided matchups where people generally agree it's accurate and correct?

Adding onto Clorax’s comment

• Spider-Man vs Batman
• Ragna vs Sol Badguy
• Jack vs Afro
• Popeye vs Saitama
• Cole vs Alex
• Rick vs The Doctor
• Joker vs Giorno

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

Have there been other blatantly one-sided matchups where people generally agree it's accurate and correct?

I think potentially the biggest stomp they ever had was Old Eu Luke Skywalker vs Harry Potter.
Just a complete fucking mismatch that because it was s1 tried to pretend it was fair.

S1 research is unironically better that nuresearch tbf.

 

[Hooligan Handgun]

I think potentially the biggest stomp they ever had was Old Eu Luke Skywalker vs Harry Potter.
Just a complete fucking mismatch that because it was s1 tried to pretend it was fair.

S1 research is unironically better that nuresearch tbf.

The best part is they only did that match because Ben thought their original idea, Aang vs Harry, was too one-sided.

 

[TheClorax]

S1 research is unironically better that nuresearch tbf.

Early research wasn't the greatest, mostly because it was just Ben and Chad spitballing their geek knowledge. It had charm, and it slowly improved as the show went on a few seasons. It wasn't perfect by any means with some real stinkers like the RWBY shill episode, but at least back in the S1-5/6 days they employed some level of scrutiny and sense rather than the nonsensical wankfests to make everyone leagues beyond what their actual settings are that we get every episode these days.

It just sucks the fun out of predicting and debating upcoming episodes, because now all that matters to them is, "how many gajillion universes is this character's setting worth?" instead of, "how will these characters' abilities and fighting styles interact with each other?"

The Early Death Battle Days weren't amazing, but it had a comfy garage-band feel that let them make edgy jokes like doing making Rebecca Black vs Justin Beiber because they found it funny, running Mai vs Chun-Li on the basis of "Tits vs Ass", having Felecia vs Taokaka just to have a catgirl fight, or making Bucky O’Hare vs Fox McCloud just because they thought it was cool.