Thread:DealySinner28/@comment-26424118-20150530222629/@comment-26330785-20150530230229

Alright then, though:

1. You could also say that Esdeath can adapt to new situations.

2. Can ice shard reach hypersonic speeds? If not, then that priority move is pretty much meaningless.

3. Due to the fight beginning with Esdeath killing Solana's master, she would be able to sense her killing intent and deal with it accordingly.

4. You do know that she was able to easily identify the weakness of a recently created Danger Beast with no knowledge of it? And that was only by engaging one of them. Plus, she has dealt with human-sized Danger Beasts, if not, smaller.

5. True, ice against ice isn't exactly the best type matchup. However, even if she doesn't use the rapier, she can still rely on her superior hand-to-hand combat, which can be classed as either normal or fighting, which brings me to my next point.

6. Much like Pikachu vs Blanka, you're putting a Pokémon against a human, which means that typings aren't exactly the most reliable thing to apply to humans. This also links back to point 2, since Pikachu's Quick Attack states that it has increased priority, meaning that faster opponents or moves with higher priority can evade and counter them.

7. You say that Esdeath's weaknesses are: lack of empathy, remoarse and always been in a bloodlust state. However, being in a bloodlust state is actually more of a benefit, since she can go all out and the lack of empathy and remoarse just makes her a deadlier opponent. The only real weakness she has is that she tends to toy with weaker opponents.

I don't see how either of them would be pitted against the likes of Ryu, since in Death Battles, combatants must share some similarities in order to be pitted against each other.