Intrude[]
Xenoblade Chronicles vs Persona! , two jrpg heroes , with the power to kill gods will face off! , but only one can come out the victor! .
Intro[]
The powers to defeat gods! , it’s pretty powerful , but these two are some of the most popular among jrpg fans ,Joker the phantom thief of hearts and Shulk the weirder of the Monado , he’s wiz and im boomstick and it’s our job to anylaze their armors , Weapons and skills To find out who would win a death battle!.
Joker[]
Wiz: Welp , high school years , this is gonna be tough , isn’t it.
Boomstick: Welp you could say that , especially for a troubled teenager named Akira Kurusu , otherwise known as Joker.
Wiz: he is the leader of the phantom thieves of hearts and apparently has demons , living inside him?.
Boomstick: wrong game , that’s shin megami tensei .
Wiz: oh , also when is shin megami tensei 5 coming out? , seriously Atlus I want this game already!!.
Boomstick:give them time and off topic , anyways , being the leader of the phantom thieves of hearts , Joker is capable of using demonic creatures known as personas.
Wiz:totally not a rip-off of Jojo or anything!.
Boomstick:Anyhow personas grant their user a great amount of power , let’s start with Arsene
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Wiz: oh boy , I already see comparisons between him and star platnuim! , anyways no more Jojo references .
Boomstick:Arsene is Akira’s first persona , Arsene gives joker many Superhuman powers , it powers his gun attacks , gives him healing , elemental manipulation and damage reduction , by using guard , he can block and then retaliate using a even stronger attack!.
Wiz: speaking of attacks , let’s talk about all out attack! , jokers strongest move , he teams up with all of his party members to do one massive attack.
Boomstick: but anyhow , let’s talk about some other cool stuff , like his strongest persona , satanell.
Wiz:oh Christ , that thing has to be strong .
Boomstick: it’s feats only include , one shooting literal god who keeps the universe alive , just by breathing and existing!.
Wiz:so how strong would this make joker?
Boomstick: with satanell, this easily puts joker around universe level+ , maybe even low multiverse , if you consider yalbalooth was merging both reality itself and the metaverse together.
Wiz: but boomstick, how do we know that the metaverse is a true universe and not the size of a galaxy or solar system?.
Boomstick:well in the official guide books for persona 5 , the metaverse is referenced as one with the universe and is seen as a universe , thus making joker’s universal feat legit.
Wiz:oh , I suppose that makes sense , joker also has a few other personas , 13 in total atacully, but we are only going to give him Arsene and Satanell , as those are his strongest and also so the battle doesn’t go on forever!.
Boomstick: However, his personas give him extreme power , but to a cost , for example , Arsene is weak to ice and electric and well satanell has no weakness and can absorb stat nullifying by being immune to curses.
Wiz: Joker also has other weapons , his trade mark gun , you all probably know from smash bros , his knife and is a genius fighter as well as a martial artist.
Boomstick: he’s also very fast on his feet , with Arsene , he is fast enough to dodge natural lightning, putting his speed at Massively Hypersonic and with Satanell , he can use moves like cosmic flare and morning star , which just by sheer speed alone , can Be calculated to move at Massively faster then light speeds and joker’s enemies being able to dodge such attacks and joker being able to dodge attacks from these foes , puts his attack speed and reaction speeds at Hypersonic with Arsene and Massively Faster Than Light with Satanell.
Wiz: that’s a lot of math for me , but what about Arsene and Satanell , how strong are they in terms of power.
Boomstick:with Arsene , we can calculate joker to be far stronger then Shadow Okumura, his palace contained a nigh infinite level of stars and Shadow Okumura could easily destroy his castle , with this infinite level of stars and Joker beat him , thus with Arsene this puts his Ap and Durabillty at Star Level , probably Solar System Level , as there was a infinite number of stars in the castle and joker with Satanell is Universe Level+ , due to scaling to yalbalooth who holds full control over both the metaverse and reality and Joker easily one shotted him.
Wiz: that’s a lot of power , but let’s see if joker can steal the victory!.
Morgana: looking cool joker!.
Shulk[]
Wiz:14 years before the begining of the game, Shulk was a member of an expedition to retrieve the Monado in the Valak Mountain. Upon finding it, he is killed by Zanza like the other members of the expedition but unlike them, Zanza bring him back to life and becomes his life force. Shortly after, he is found by Dickson and brought back to Colony
Boomstick:After the first battle of Sword Valley, Dickson tasked him with researching the true nature of the Monado but one day, the Mechons army attack the colony and Dunban is forced to use the leggendary sword again. Not able to use the Monado for much longer, Dunban is extremely weakened and Shulk instinctively begins to wield the Monado and fence off the Mechons. However, Fiora, his childhood friend is killed by Metal Face in the attack
Wiz:How unfortunate , it lucky for Shulk the power of the Monado is strong enough right? , well more specifically the Monado 2 is strong enough to beat bionis and metal face.
Boomstick:is Fiora ever like revived? , well sorta , anyways this doesn’t really matter , Shulk with the Monado arts , grant him great power , god-like power to be more accurate , like buster , shield and other Monado arts , Like Cyclone and eater
Wiz:let’s discuss what these arts do , Monado Cyclone topples over his foes and Monado eater removes any possible stat buffs that the opponent may get , Monado Purge can also possibly put said foe into paralysis .
Boomstick:Now Shulk has the third or true Monado , which gives him enough power to keep up with Zanza , a god who created and destroyed the universe at will , What makes the true Monado so powerful , Alvis states that the true Monado can tear through the fabrics of exestiance and the Monado reseat all of space and time , which would give Shulk Universal/Multiversal Levels of Power!.
Wiz: Shulk is a power house and can change his stats to fix his weakness for example if he becomes faster he will lose Durabillty , if he becomes stronger he will lose speed.
Boomstick: right he’s basically like the Samson of nintendo , Monado Purge can also get rid of other effects and debuff his opponent .
Wiz:but I wouldn’t want to mess with him?
Shulk: I’m really feeling it!.
Prelude[]
Boomstick: Alright the Combatants are set , let’s end this debate once and for all!
Wiz: it’s time for a Death Battle!
Death Battle![]
Shulk is walking through mementos with Fiora , Dunban and Sharla , until a gun shot is heard from behind , fiora was shot in the back by a man with a black suit and black hair , Shulk looks behind him and sees joker .
Shulk: okay , now you’ve asked for it , hahhhhhhh!.
Shulk activates the Monado , as Joker Summons Arsene.
Shulk: Sharla , make sure fiora is okay!
Sharla: Right Shulk!
Shulk: you will pay for what you did to fiora!
Joker doesn’t respond , but instead points his gun at Shulk and prepares for a Fight!
Fight![]
Shulk rushes up to joker and uses his Monado Cyclone , Swinging the Monado Into Joker , Joker uses arsene and arsene uses ice age , Shulk uses his Monado shield , blocking the attack , Shulk then goes behind joker and uses his back slash , Shulk then follows up by using his Stream Edge , Joker uses his Eigaon on Shulk , Shulk sees a vision of joker using the move , Shulk uses his Monado Speed anencephaly dashes away from the attack.
Shulk:Buster!
Shulk activates his Buster art and uses his Monado buster on Joker , slashing him with the Monado Many Times , Joker uses his vacuum wave , firing wind at Shulk , Shulk dodges and uses his Monado Cyclone , spinning in a circle and causing joker to fall over on his knees , Shulk then uses his Monado Buster , before finishing up with his stream edge , joker gets up , Joker shoots bullets at Shulk , Joker then uses his one shot kill , firing a bullet that penetrates Shulks arm .
Shulk: dam , I’m losing it!
Shulk falls on his knees , before seeing a vision of joker stabbing him with his knife , Shulk gets up and uses his light heal , joker tries to stab Shulk with his knife , but Shulk dodges and uses his Monado Cyclone , But the attack misses , Shulk uses his shield , joker tries to punch through the shield , but the Monado shield doesn’t break , Shulk then uses his Monado Buster , Slashing joker with the Monado again , Joker goes back and Summons his strongest persona .
Joker:Satanell!
Shulk:What?
Shulk looks in suprise as a large demon with horns is behind joker and under his command , Shulk activates his Monado Buster and Tries to slash joker , but joker dodges and uses his Sinful Shell , Shulk sees a vision of the attack , Shulk uses his Monado Shield , But the explosion breaks through the shield and hits Shulk, Joker looks in the smoke to see if he had survived the explosion.
Joker: guess it’s over!
Joker walks away , but suddenly a light comes from the smoke , it was Shulk with the True Monado , Joker shoots multiple bullets at Shulk , but Shulk dodges , Shulk then uses his Monado Buster , slashing Joker and Satanell with the true Monado , Satanell uses Sinful Shell Again , hitting Shulk and causing another big explosion.
Shulk: Monado Cyclone!
Shulk comes out of the smoke and spins around the true Monado , but the attack misses , Shulk then uses his buster , but the attack misses again , Joker uses his cosmic flare , causing another big explosion, but Shulk uses his Monado Shield , Shulk then uses his Monado Purge, weakening Satanell , Shulk then rushes at Joker and starts slashing him with the sword , enforce slamming the Monado into his chest ending the fight , Satanell fades away , as Shulk puts away the Monado and runs over to fiora to see if she is okay.
Ko![]
Results[]
Wiz: well , there goes that!
Boomstick: well this one was a tricky one to decide , Joker and Shulk atacully countered each other in many ways , for example joker had things like the omnipotent orb to nullify damage and Shulk has Monado Purge to Nullify Damage and Stat Buffs , However Shulk edges out.
Wiz:the two major advantages joker had was speed and being a better tactician, other than that , Shulk was stronger , more durable , had better defenses and had more experience.
Boomstick: joker being able to keep up with yalbaloath , who was capable of fusing the metaverse with reailty , puts joker at a solid universe level+ , but Shulk was able to keep with Zanza and Zanza could destroy and recreate universes , he also wields the true Monado , which can tear through the fabrics of exesitance , plus the original Big Bang That Zanza created , resulted in multiple two different timelines , the Xenoblade 2 timeline and The Xenoblade 1 timeline and likely the Xenoblade X timeline , Shulk should likely scale far above that event that gave birth to multiple timelines , but even ignoring all that , Alvis stating that the Monado can Tear Through the Fabrics Of Existence, is enough to give Shulk Universe Level+ at least and Low Multiversal To Multiverse Level Stats , just going off what Alvis said .
Wiz: that is a pretty big gap for joker to go through ,but for the sake of arugement, let’s say both are universe level+
Boomstick: joker was many times , faster but Shulk has his visions , which he could use to counter jokers moves, he also had his shield and Monado Purge , which he can use to nullify jokers stat buffs and speed buffs or Shulk could have just erased him from existence.
Wiz: but boomstick doesn’t joker resist existence erasure , because Mementos-fused Shibuya?
Boomstick: well kinda yes and kinda no , he’s never survived anything close to Universal Exestiance erasure , so it’s kinda iffy if he could survive Shulk just restarting the universe and deleting him out of it?
Wiz: boomstick, doesn’t Joker resist fate manuplation , so what’s to say that Shulk could use his visions?
Boomstick: he only resists fate manuplation, not anything to do with Shulk being able to see visions , Shulk only can’t change his fate , but Shulk cannot do this anyway , so joker has not much to stop Shulk from seeing the future and while Joker was faster , Shulk had far better range , as joker could only attack up to ten meters away , while Shulk had Universal range , with his reality warping
Wiz: this was close , but you could say joker just wasn’t feeling it!
Boomstick: the winner is Shulk!.
Poll[]