Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-28644276-20180408192712/@comment-28644276-20180409014725

The anchor can't quite nope the web as at that point we would be entering the potency vs potency territory, which can't be argued as the scale of both are on that threshold that really doesn't allow for debating.

As we can't say that the OR > Your High  1-A or Vice-Versa, if the Anchor and the Web directly clashed, we couldn't even speculate on what happens Huge explosion, everyone dies??? . Hence why I decided to argue this thread on the mechanics of activation:

If the Anchor actually threw stuff back at Atlach Nacha, the resulting effects of that (i. e.: Atlach gets treated as prey?) would end up entangled in the Web. Since that stuff came from the web in the first place and the scale doesn't really change, needless to say that even if we were to assume and give priority on activation to the anchor, it would discarded all the same, putting the two in a loop of sorts that goes as follows:

Web effect >>> Codex Warps >>> Anchor filters >>> Anchor throws it back at Atlach >>> Web Filters >>> Web Discards >>> They both get out of it ultimately unscathed >>> Since it was thrown back to it, Anchor interacted with Web >>> Web effect... >>> Anchor... >>> Rinse and repeat.

This funny loop only happens if we actually give priority to one or another, but on potency alone, it's impossible to be arguing any actual clashing here.

It's an Inconclusive in my eyes, yes, due to one out of these possibilities:

1. They both activate. The potency of the hax clash. Impossible to determine which comes out on top.

2. They both activate but the anchor takes priority, the web counters, rinse and repeat the aforementioned loop.

3. The anchor does not respond. The web will only activate if "touched" by Taiyomu through any means as the anchor itself is not trying to interact with it. Extremely hard to call who comes out on top as one mistep on Taiyomu's end may get her caught and One-shotted, while similar mistake on Atlach's end can get her oneshotted by one or another of Taiyomu's negating hax, if she finds opening in the field.

4. They both activate and clash, everything explodes and both girls die.

5. They give up on figuring out and make a non-agression pact.

It's a bunch of speculative results and none of then can really be taken as the absolute end result here as far as I can see, but still.

Pretty interesting to argue hax mechanics and activation rather than simply potency like this!