Talk:Alucard (Hellsing) vs. Vincent Valentine/@comment-28876270-20161123044347/@comment-28862119-20171112013735

Disagreed.

First off, the metric you are using is false. Whilst it's always tempting to just compare the biggest attack a character can produce and declare the stronger the winner, that really doesn't work if you're trying to perform any feat of accurate analysis. Especially because people seem to equate "defeated x buster" with "is at least x buster." That isn't how power scaling works. Someone defeating a planet buster doesn't mean they are a planet buster. They only get that distinction if their attack equals or surpasses the attack of a known planet buster, such as in Saitama vs. Boros. Similarly, Deathstroke has managed to get a hit on the Flash, but that doesn't mean he can travel at lightspeeds. That's the logic you are trying to apply.

Second, you need to take into account character invulnerabilities. If a character is unaffected by physical force, physical force won't kill them, for example. Alucard goes into this category in a big way: the only thing we've seen do any form of lasting damage is 'holy power' (power of the nail of the true cross). Without that, it's highly doubtful that any enemy, even one that could be considered stronger then him, like Vincent, or Dio, or D, would be able to damage him.

Third, this isn't a fight, it's a Death Battle. The ability to kill the opponent is what is being measured, and in that metric, a character like Alucard, or heavens forbid Schrodinger Alucard is pretty much unbeatable without pulling an artifact of Christ out of your ass. Meanwhile, while Alucard may lack the ability to outright destroy these entities through a physical attack, his ability to absorb souls gives him an easy workaround, especially for characters who don't have a history of spiritual defense.

So yeah, gonna have to disagree.