Season 50, Week 1
Luther Lansfeld
(Star Ocean: Till the End of Time)
 
Luther has created many strange creatures in his Eternal Sphere, but he’s never created a birdman before! Of course, 4D space's most successful game designer is is always willing to learn…as long as the learning doesn’t involve lesser beings going against his will, of course. And programming is the only thing he has to worry about here; losing the fight isn't an issue, not with how well-equipped he is to prune this raven’s feathers. After all, the very deadly Perfect Symmetry is unlocked after Luther takes only 25% damage, and given that Naesala’s only tool for chipping is Vortex, the wind-halving scientist has little to fear. And should Naesala be unable to avoid Insanity Prelude, then they’ll still be picking his scattered feathers out of the arena's stonework months after the match.

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Normally a powerful executive like Luther has so many secrets, a perfect target for Naesala; pity there's not really anyone to sell them to. So denied his preferred course of action, Naesala will have to do things the boring way, swooping and clawing and rending his foe into submission. The mighty Raven King has many advantages in this fight, starting with his formidable evasion. Additionally, Luther's offense is split into many smaller hits, all of which can be dodged. Coupled with Luther's tendency to underestimate his opponents and not use his strongest moves from the start, Naesala should even be able to whittle him down with Vortex before getting serious himself. Boring, really. It's not nearly as much fun when your opponent doesn't have any enemies to work with.


Gatewalker
Bored Godlikes judging matches in lower divisions has long been a source of much chaos in the DL. But letting folks from the lower divisions judge in Godlike has it's fair share of wrong as well. Such as, say, when middles Noa and Meru were randomly grabbed to fill in for Jecht(who was apparently too drunk to judge...).

So how do a pair of obnoxiously chipper girls judge a fight in Godlike? Sticking to a good old fashioned slugfest? Not a chance. No, instead newcomer Naesala got to prove his worth for the first time in the arena...in a disco battle.

This went better then you might expect, though. Turns out both Luther and Naesala are pretty slick dancers. But the Raven King had one small advantage over the master programmer. He wasn't above flirting with the two judges to get a better score(there's actually very little that Naesala is above, but that's neither here nor there).

After collecting his win from the two very pleased young ladies, Naesala had only one question to ask of his opponent, "So, do things get that ridiculous around here often?"

Luther could only sigh, "You have NO idea..."

Luther Lansfeld: 23
Naesala: 24