Season 3, Week 2
Luca Blight
(Suikoden II)
 
DIE, PIG, DIE!!!! Everyone knows Luca Blight's catchphrase, even the social outcast Gau. Luca's bringing a fairly simple mindset to this battle. Maul, maim, and kill Gau, and not in that order! Luca's attack patterns are fairly simple. He can either let loose a powerful triple slash, or use a 100% accurate flame slash to burn his opponent to a crisp. With monster defense, speed, and HP, Luca is the complete package. Seem good?

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The Wild Child from the Veldt isn't exactly overwhelmingly powerful, and would have no chance against many Heavies in a straight trading of blows. That said, whatever this kid lacks in power, he makes up with some of the most amazing versatility in the RPGDL. With no less than 252 different skills to draw upon, Gau has a chance in almost any fight. Add to that his excellent stats, especially his tankish defence, as well as good speed and evasion, and you have championship material. Against Luca, Gau had better settle down for a long fight with the Ing Rage, which will absorb Luca's fire attacks, and use Lifeshaver (Drain 2, essentially) to keep Gau going. It won't be a quick fight either way, but Gau does have what it takes to defeat the Prince of Slaughter.


Elfboy
"DIE! I'LL KILL YOU ALL, PIGS!" Luca's voice ran through the arena, furious that he a young boy was his opponent.

"Pigs? Gau have Rage like that! And Gau launched into a Rage, confident that he was being witty. Of course, he wasn't Raging 'PIGS', but 'PUGS' was close enough to be equivalent, right? Besides, it even had that lovely 8x physical attack as a special...

Gau then accessed the Rage. Or he thought he did. Unfortunately, the Pugs Rage caused him to access null data. As Luca watched in as much shock as he ever allowed himself, Gau suddenly started flashing different colours, had a Condemned of count -128 appear above his head, was suddenly buried under 255 AtmaWeapons, and then finally, morphed into General Leo.

"AMAZING!" said Locke from the stands, jumping up. "It took us nine years of sorting through false rumours, but someone finally found a way to resurrect Leo!"

"DIE, PIG!" came the cry, followed by a flurry of swordslashes.

"... Bah," said Locke as he sat down again. "Looks like we'll have to wait another nine years."

Luca Blight: 10
Gau: 7

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Ok, Luca Blight has 2 forms of Attacks: Fire Attacks and Physicals
Luca Blight also has Great defense. So what does Gau need to win? Obviously, Fire Protection, High Defense (and Magic Defense), and a GOod Defense Ignoring attack. Well, lets see what Gau has then...

High Defense: Only games 2nd highest (3rd if you count General Leo), gotta love that SNow Muffler

Fire Protection: 50% fire reduction thanks to, again, the Snow Muffler, and that's BEFORE raging. Some of his Rages will let him absorb/null fire :P

Defense Ignoring Attacks: Hmm...Luridan Rage uses Earth Slide, that nifty attack that makes Flare look not so good any more. Well, ok, he has a 50% chance of using that or a crappy fight command, but its better than Nothing.

Heck, we could just let this fight last forever, Gau being the Eventual Winner, by giving him Magic Pot Rage, forcing Luca Blight to use his Physicals, giving Gau random Cure3 castings.

Yeah, let this be a lesson that High Defense + Fire Protection + Healing or Defense Ignoring attacks tend to beat Luca Blight...maybe.

So...yeah, Gau has so many tricks up his sleeve, and being a Tank at the same time doesn't hurt...unless you happen to be his opponent that is :P