Board 8 > King of Fighters 2020 (NOT MERCS) R?D7: George/Toshiro vs Battler (Bonus)

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Didn't feel like having two separate days of off-kilter Battler matches so I'm combining them into one day. THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT MATCHES HAPPENING IN TWO DIFFERENT ARENAS

George Constanza (Seinfeld)


vs

Battler Ushiromiya (Umineko)


and

Toshiro Umezawa (Magic the Gathering)


vs

Battler Ushiromiya (Umineko)


FIGHT
FIGHT

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I don't know Toshiro at all, but here's how I think George/Battler goes down.

--If Battler explains the rules, then opens with a mystery scenario, George probably won't do so hot. He's pretty dim, and he's also easily vexed by other people's lies, like when the grifter tricked him into coming with her to a hotel to rob him. He's easily manipulated with appeals to his ego and sense of self-importance.

On the other hand, George is the perfect counter to the Umineko scenario. Battler would try to get George to admit that a series of murders are unable to be explained as anything other than the work of the supernatural. But George is so cynical that he'll always assume other humans committed the murders. The question is, does he have the deductive reasoning to solve the murders? He's the type to throw his hands in the air and scream "Useless, it's all useless!" at the first sign of stress.

Winner: Battler.

--If, however, Battler allows George to be the one to come up with a mystery scenario of his own for Battler to solve, things get a bit more interesting. George can lie and trick like the best witches and sorcerers. He'd be in his element. However...he gets caught. Like, a lot. He can BS his way through life sometimes, but there are so many examples of things backfiring in his face.

The likeliest outcome here is a logic error, where George is caught in a contradiction of his scenario and forced to replay it over and over, for all eternity. George can lie and bluff and cheat, but Battler is highly intelligent and skilled at solving mysteries. If normal people in the Seinfeld universe can see through George's lies, what hope does George have against Battler?

Winner: Battler.

--A third outcome, which is less interesting, is Battler engages George in an actual fight, which...well, we all know how that would go.

So Battler takes it in three different possible scenarios. George would give his all, but he's ultimately not up to the task. It would be very entertaining to watch though.

Nobody else?

i dunno anything about these characters for the purposes of this match.

@trdl23 requested one of them so he should probably weigh in

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Battler

and Battler

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Battler beats George

I need to know more about Toshiro to tell how he'd do tho. I recall him being called 'japanese batman' but that depends on how magic-y he is. The more supernatural he is the more likely it is that Battler claps him.

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Toshiro is, indeed, very magic-y. He's good with a blade, sure, but his extensive kanji magic is his forte, and it's what he prefers to use whenever he can. He also likes to have his magic enhance his melee and vice versa, especially if we presume he has the full blessing of the Myojin of Night's Reach and thus can duck and weave between shadows over far, far distances.

Normally this would be a boon for Battler... but Toshi is also a sneaky motherfucker, and he's clever. He is perfectly happy to use his silver tongue to bait people into doing things that are not in their best interest, such as when he manage to con the demon-binding ogre Hidetsugu into a blood oath that would make it such that neither could harm the other or incur mutually assured destruction. Toshi obviously wouldn't opt for that route here since he needs to kill Battler to win, but it shows the ability he has to think on his feet and employ his magic in creative, subtle ways.

Toshiro

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Battler beats Toshiro then. If Toshiro goes for magic, Battler will drag him into his own playground. I believe he's clever, but I don't believe he's clever enough to outargue Battler in a contest of proving magic is (not) real.

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