Season 25, Week 4
Sephiroth
(Final Fantasy VII) 		 
Taking out the trash. It's an inglorious job, but one Sephiroth has sadly been assigned to do this season. After trashing a couple of fairly weak Godlikes, he gets... another weak Godlike to wipe the floor with! Celes's bevy of support and status options amount to squat against the power of Sephiroth's status attacks and Shadow Flare. The Perfect SOLDIER will only need to spend a few seconds of effort to dispose of his current opponent, getting a laughably easy path to the finals. Boring, but then the One Winged Angel's never one to turn down a quick win.

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 The Magitek General is on a roll this season. Already she has left Citan Uzuki and Rolf Landale in her wake, finally establishing a winning record in the DL's highest division. Now the pressure is off, as this once-derided "low Godlike" faces a two-time champion, the so-called "Perfect SOLDIER". She now has nothing to lose, but perhaps everything to gain. Flare will cut through Sephiroth's Wall, and Haste will let her match his speed. It would be an upset to shake the heavens, but if anyone can pull it off, it will be one who has battled through as much adversity as Celes Chere.

Lyndis
Celes knew she couldn't win this match nomrally. More likely she'll become pasted all over the arena walls as Sephiroth takes revenge for Celes using Knights of the Round on him during Behind the Scenes.

So what's a magitek General supposed to do?

The answer was obvious. Celes spent the entire week before the match painstakingly doing random battles with the Cursed Shield equipped. During that time, she also equipped every esper available, and learned every spell available.

So, when it came time for the match, Celes came in knowing all the DL-illegal spells, and wearing the Paladin Shield, Force Armor, Marvel Shoes, Ribbon, and wielding the Illumina sword. She has over 130% mblock, over-leveled, and absorbs or nulls everything, and has auto haste, shell, protect, and regen.

Sure, she was disqualified eventually, but the judges were nice enough to wait until Sephiroth had been beaten to a pulp (everyone loved watching that) as Sephiroth tried, without success, to land anything at all on Celes. Celes eventually Ultimas Sephiroth into submission.

Sephiroth: 94
Celes Chere: 34

Tide
Celes' holds multiple status options, high defense and elemental resistance thanks to the Minerva. These tricks combined make her quite a formidable force, proven by her two wins this season.

However, Sephiroth has better speed, better durability once Wall kicks in, status immunities, melee immunity by flying, non-elemental damage bypassing the Minerva, paralyzing physical attacks that hit pretty hard by themselves and the PC slaying Pale Horse. Then to add insult to injury, that's not ALL he has in his arsenal.

Is this a horrible one-sided mismatch? Probably.

Good run Celes, but the line stops here.

Lurking Registered User
Shadow Flare is useless vs. Runic. This gives Celes a huge advantage.

Runic is useless when you're a confused minature frog. Pale Horse gives Sephiroth the win.

FF6 Fan
The one thing Sephiroth never took into account is that Celes comes from a game where she is the main character for a good portion of the game. And what is Sephiroth?

Main villain.

And who's job is it to slay the main villain?

Main character.

Henceforth, an easy win.

(It should also be noted that none of this actually applies. Celes kicked his ass by using Shell and Protect on herself, then spamming Ultima until Sephiroth, faced with an attack that was weak in his game but somehow, coming from Celes, was destruction incarnate, choked and died on his own feathers. It should also be noted that Celes thought he was easier than Kefka- a spoken comment that got the mad clown rolling with laughter.)

Cinny
Come ON, man. Celes has fought a god and WON before. You think a bishi god is frightening? Try a bishi CLOWN god.

Shihali
I wonder if there should be a division for very high Heavies and low Godlikes. Because Celes doesn't have a chance with roadblocks like Sephiroth in the way.

lucofwind@gmail.com
Can't wait for Sephy to lose to Yuna in the Finals >.>

tribulator
I think Celes has too much on her mind lately to win this match.

Tethar
Sephiroth rules all.