Season 41, Week 1
Ryu
(Breath of Fire III)
 
The dragon kid is back for more after three Godlike championships, 17 wins, and victories over the DL’s most elite fighters! Much has changed since the sole survivor of the Brood last graced the Arena in Season 31, especially in Godlike. New champions, new fodder, new faces everywhere...and one of those is Ted, Suikoden IV’s very, very pretty, but not so fearsome, bearer of the Soul Eater Rune. He seems quite determined to end up a winner, and he's cursed with immortality to boot - which makes him somewhat hard to deal with. Well, the best way to put an end to that curse is some good old fashioned fire breath to the face, eh? Ryu would be more than happy to offer his services to that end, and use the weakling Heavy champ as a stepping stone to his next title.

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The cursed Soul Eater is far from sated, even after Ted's rightful return to Godlike. He's quite certainly up to dealing with the most powerful Brood - Ryu the Third. The dragon warrior is fearsome once he gets going - however, Ted has all he needs to stop Ryu from getting this far: being more agile than the just-barely-above-average dragon boy, and notably so as soon as he equips a Tai-Chi Garb, Ted needs but one casting of Judgment to obliterate Ryu's human form. That spell has felled far more durable beings in a single casting, and Ryu is not nearly strong enough to withstand the ultimate scream of hunger from the accursed True Rune. It won't be pretty, nor clean, but it will be clear-cut: Ted has all the right things to prove his worth in Godlike once again.


SageAcrin
The power of darkness.

Terrifying.

Magnificent.

And yet, there is something more flashy to be said of the power of the dragon, isn't there?

It's horrific flaming breath, it's massive, flashing fangs, it's terrifying stature.

No, there's no question who is the most impressive in this match.

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"...doesn't that beat all. I didn't think he'd hold his liquor that poorly." Rei sighed.

Ted, curiously, poked the small grub-like legless lizard in front of him.

No, there's no question who is the most impressive in this match, that's certain.

Ultimately, drunken Pygmy Ryu did score a bit of a moral victory, in that he set Ted's hair and clothes on fire as the curious Ted poked, prodded, and generally acted irrationally curious about him. But the match ended the same way it would have anyways, with an unhappy Ryu passed out on the floor.

The main difference is he probably wouldn't have vomitted the other way.

And he probably would have also been killed, too, instead of just passing out after his dragon form was killed.

Still, overall, it's not so bad. Ryu's pain was dulled, Ted was ogled by a bunch of girls before he realized just how much of his clothes had burned off, and Rei has learned to not subject his friend to chains of impossible-to-say-no-to questions except when it's exceptionally funny. It could have been far worse.

Ryu: 6
Ted: 48

Barubary
To long a hiatus but at long last we return

What a match Ryu III vs Ted... okay maybe not so much a match as a hey... look Ryu is bitch slapping Ted... poor Ted