Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-25603146-20191023021810/@comment-37173421-20191023114611

Low Godly is countered by just eating his soul or erasing him. Eating his soul, he’s most likely to do when Damian is weakened/damaged, before he regens, and erasure is slow but sure to work over a long battle.

Time Stop is less than 10 seconds at max, and he usually doesn’t chain it due to mana constraints, but Damian still has no counter for it.

Anyways, as I see it:

AP: Valev, via a downscaling chain from a 6-A. Close to a x3 advantage.

Speed: Equal, but Valev amps a lot.

Range: They both seem to need melee?

Versatility: While, admittedly, Valev hasn’t spammed clones as much in recent stories, that was different in this key. So yea, Valev has plenty of options to break Invulnerability, be it various dura-negating magic, or simply weapons that definitely did not come from Earth.

Intelligence: While I definitely need to update this section for Valev (the Cataclysm section is closer to what I imagine it; I updated it for the SOL battle), it seems Valev has that advantage. Damian is very smart, but The Collective’s backing will let Valev outmaneuver.

Individual abilities:

Damian’s Mind and Fire abilities don’t work, and neither will Fear. Those seem to be basically his only options here. Outside of that, I see no real way for Damian to reliably win; I guess he could, with lightning, but that’s still difficult. And Low-Godly is countered by Valev’s soul manipulation and existence erasure, since Low-Godly relies on him still having a soul. (Damian has soul resistance, but no feats about it linked- even if TIC users only attack the soul when their opponent is weakened, it still means once Damian is beat down, Valev simply ends the fight there.