| Yamcha vs Kazuma Kuwabara
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| Season Bonus, Episode 5 | |
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| Written by | Nkstjoa SoMaShadow |
| Directed by | Nkstjoa |
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Yamcha vs Kazuma Kuwabara is a What-If? Episode of Death Battle. It features Yamcha from the Dragon Ball series against Kazuma Kuwabara from the YuYu Hakusho series.
Description[]
Dragon Ball vs YuYu Hakusho! It's a duel between two former rivals-turned steadfast allies! They may not be the strongest, but underestimating them may be the last thing you ever do. Showing their true capabilities in the ring with their lives on the line, who will come out on top?
Interlude[]
Boomstick: Not every hero in a Shōnen will always be the strongest. As they say, there's always a bigger fish, and sometimes you've just gotta leave the planet-saving to others and focus on helping out wherever you can. Making a difference in the world and lives of others with the skills you have.
Wiz: And with a big heart, these extraordinary and honourable warriors can still throw down with the best of them. From once-rivals to lifelong friends, they've more than made a name for themselves in their own right.
Boomstick: Yamcha, the former Desert Bandit turned baseball star from Dragon Ball.
Wiz: And Kazuma Kuwabara, the former delinquent turned spiritual hero of Earth from YuYu Hakusho.
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick!
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armour and skills, to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
Yamcha[]
Wiz: The Z-Fighters, a band composed of some of the most skilled and powerful martial artists in the Dragon Ball world.
Boomstick: They're basically Earth's unofficial defenders and it all started way back when Goku was a kid training with Master Roshi, soon followed by the young Orin monk Krillin... and Yamcha.
Wiz: Yamcha didn't start off as a hero. By the age of 16, he was a notorious and feared bandit, robbing any who entered Diablo Desert...
Boomstick: Which was filled to the brim with giant mushrooms. Also, his only companion was the shape-shifting cat... thing Puar, who, at the time Yamcha ran into Goku, had been friends with the guy for two years, one month, and three days. Speaking of Goku, he almost had a victory against the young hungry Saiyan... until he spotted Bulma and then fled.
Wiz: For years, Yamcha had been plagued by his timidness around girls and soon sought out the very Dragon Balls Goku and friends were after so that he could make a wish to overcome his phobia.
Boomstick: So he decided to help them out, gaining their trust before taking the wish for himself, but then he ended up saving the gang from Great Ape Goku, conquering his phobia, and having Bulma as a girlfriend all in one fell swoop.
Wiz: From then on, Yamcha changed, becoming a key ally in Goku's further adventures.
Boomstick: He was already a skilled martial artist, as training alone in the wilderness for a month honed his talents more than enough to get far in the World Martial Arts tournament, but he then trained under Master Roshi, and his prowess could only improve further.
Wiz: Speaking of training, he would follow in Goku's footsteps, eventually training under Korin, Kami, Popo, and King Kai...
Boomstick: Which was after his death by... you know...
Yamcha is shown being grabbed by a Saibaman, which self-destructs, killing him.
Boomstick: There's really nothing else that needs to be said about Yamcha, is there?
Wiz: Far from it! In spite of his infamous death by Saibamen, Yamcha is so much more than he appears.
Boomstick: Yeah, fair enough. Actually, he was one of the first Dragon Ball characters to use a ki technique, except instead of being a blast or projectile, it powered up his blows. This here's the Wolf Fang Fist, Yamcha's most iconic technique.
Wiz: This combination of punches, claw strikes, and a double palm strike can be devastating. In its first outing, it was strong enough to send Goku through stone pillars. Yamcha does all of this through the use of an animal totem... in his case, a wolf.
Boomstick: Sometimes, he even appears to take on the form of a wolf during its use.
Boomstick: And if this combo wasn't enough, he has several variations, including the Blinding Wolf Fang Fist, where after it lands, there's a good chance his opponent has a delayed reaction. And if they fall, Yamcha looks back and has himself a smirk.
Wiz: But perhaps his most powerful version of the Wolf Fang Fist is the Neo variant, which increases the power of his strikes even further and can even be concluded with a Kamehameha.
Boomstick: Oh yeah, he trained under Master Roshi. Like old man Roshi and kid Goku before him, Yamcha learned the Turtle Destruction Wave, allowing him to fire off the trademark ki beam.
Wiz: As well as its variant, the Super Kamehameha.
Boomstick: While I seriously doubt he'll be destroying planets with it, it definitely lets Yamcha pack more punch. Speaking of packing more punch, he came up with a technique called the Ki Blast Thrust, which, despite having Blast in the name, is a close-range technique in which he focuses ki into one of his fists, then charges forward for a powerful punch.
Wiz: It's also capable of canceling out weaker ki blasts. Then there's his ultimate attack of his very own creation, the Spirit Ball.
Boomstick: Holy crap! Are you telling me that Yamcha invented the Spirit Bomb?!
Wiz: Not the Spirit Bomb: the Spirit Ball!
Boomstick: My bad. Had something in my ear.
Wiz: The Spirit BALL is a sphere of energy that Yamcha creates in one hand and controls with the other via his middle and index fingers.
Boomstick: I'd love to have a remote control ball to beat up my enemies with. After he's done beating them up, he can trigger it to explode on the last blow. Not enough for you? Well he can make it bigger with the Super Spirit Ball, which is as big as he is and can even be turned into a beam.
Wiz: Last, but not least, Yamcha somehow learned the Kaio-Ken technique, whether it be through King Kai or through some other means. This allows him to double his base stats, but at the cost of great strain on his body.
Boomstick: But come on, it's not going to last long for someone of Yamcha's durability, is it?
Wiz: You'd be surprised. Yamcha once snuck into the Capsule Corp shuttle, setting the gravity to 300 times Earth's to prove his strength...
Boomstick: Which was a poor decision that would have killed him.
Wiz: Would have, except he managed to survive for one minute, just long enough to lift himself up off the ground and deactivate it. Yamcha's weight is around 150 pounds. Under 300 times Earth's gravity, he weighed in at 45,000 pounds... or 22.5 tons.
Boomstick: Okay, screw making fun of this guy. That's impressive as hell for a human. Then there was the time he dodged machine gun fire from just a few feet away, and survived a run in with Tambourine... both of which were after Tien Shinhan broke his leg!
Boomstick: And after his training under King Kai, he managed to defeat the Ginyu Force member Recoome, who utterly thrashed Krillin, Gohan, and Vegeta...
Boomstick: ...as well as easily defeated two Other World fighters in a two-on-one fight, proving that his fighting skills are far from a joke!
Wiz: Yamcha can move fast enough to utilize the Afterimage technique, managed to deduce Great Ape Goku's weakness, is so adept in fighting that he could locate the invisible fighter See-Through just by hearing his footsteps, and once when the top of a building fell and threatened to crush Bulma, Puar, and Oolong, he destroyed it with the Spirit Ball, then moved the energy sphere fast enough to destroy any and all remaining debris.
Boomstick: While Dr. Gero and Android 19 were looking for Goku, whose power peaked at Kaio-Ken Times Four according to their calculations, Yamcha's power level was so high that they mistook him for the star character himself. He's also shown to be more than capable of sparring with his fellow human Z-Fighters Krillin and Tien.
Boomstick: Heck, he's straight up man enough to give Beerus, the God of freakin' Destruction, a friendly slap on the back.
Wiz: Unfortunately for Yamcha, while one of the original Z Fighters, he has since been far surpassed by Goku and passed by most of his fellow human allies. So much so that during the Z-Fighters' battle against Frieza's army, he and Chiaotzu were left out of the fighting for their own safety.
Boomstick: Probably because he's retired more times than Rocky Balboa, so his training's been all over the place in recent times. Also, he's a bit cocky to a fault.
Wiz: See, in his battle with the Saibamen, Yamcha proved to be the far superior fighter, winning with ease, but his pride caused him to turn his back to his downed opponent, allowing the creature to grab him for the self-destruct in the first place. And while strong enough to survive being impaled through the chest by Dr. Gero, he would have surely died if not for the intervention of his friends.
Boomstick: But by far the most crushing loss in his entire life was when he was finally ready to settle down with Bulma, who dumped him for Vegeta. Ouch.
Wiz: Desite this, Yamcha understands his situation and has befriended some of his former enemies, including Tien and even Vegeta. Even in the face of earth-threatening odds, he still keeps his turtle gi under his clothes, more than ready to aid his friends in defending the peace.
Boomstick: Let it be a lesson for you: call Yamcha a weakling and he'll knock you into next week.
Yamcha: I think it's time I show these thugs no one comes to Earth and pushes us around!
Kazuma Kuwabara[]
Kazuma Kuwabara: A mulberry is a tree, Kuwabara is a man. And I'll prove it. We all have to die when our time comes, but if we do our duty, we don't got regrets. So taste a little piece of my sword Toguro!
DEATH BATTLE![]
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