Van's skill as a manipulator may be hard to upstage (even though he seems to struggle in actually engineering such chicanery into a coherent magnum opus), but his technique as a fighter in the vicious halls of Godlike leave much to be desire. His highly trigger-reliant Mystic Artes, as well as his middling staying power - particularly for a Godlike slugger - certainly couldn't stand up to the raw might of a true god. And Ryu, as a hallowed Endless, will hardly need to break a sweat to put the revenge-seeking general in his place. As soon as Ryu accesses his mighty Kaiser form, the near-invincibility to Van's blade and relentless Kaiser Breaths will send the miserable trickster six foot under.
