Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-37173421-20191122141731/@comment-37173421-20191122162332

Normally he’d spam it, but after leading with Mimicry/timeline precog, he’d figure out about Revival and his other stuff, and abstain from any and all time-based abilities (so Samael has no clue he has them) until he is absolutely sure he can get a clean kill.

After all, Samael (while holding back) is considerably less of a threat, and Samael has no reason to think of Valev as a threat if Valev seemingly has no abilities that can put him down (due to relying on stabs and stuff). Which is, admittedly, true! Samael would be right in predicting that Valev doesn’t have any secret conceptual 5-D mind control hax, and given Samael’s intelligence, he’d deduce that yes, Valev mostly relies on stabbing people, based on how all his magics focus around it.

He just won’t be prepared for when Valev takes out the big gun of ‘stabbing people’, time stop.

So, he’d only use any time abilities, at all, at the very moment he’s confident he can get a kill.