Thread:ZMusok/@comment-27033016-20200108004718/@comment-26558142-20200112192434

No problem.

My personal reasoning for the victor of this battle didn't change: This battle is one of endurance and attrition. As long as Emma can keep her distance and exhaust Lulua's item usage, she wins.

Her abilities to pull this off are "Palace or Eregion" (total immunity for 1 or 2 turns, her S-Craft in Kiseki III), her EP regeneration via Master Quartz (with Cold Steel 3 she can set 2 Master Quartz, but only get the first effect of the second Master Quartz used while obtaining all spells and 1/2 of the boosts for HP,EP and speed as well as 1/5 of each other stat), her "Serene Blessing" craft (heals 80% of her HP and cures all ailments) and her CP regeneration via damage dealt and damage taken, as well as normal regeneration iirc.

Lulua trumps Emma with her hugh numbers of items, some of which could deal serious damage to the witch. She has skills to heal herself as well and she can buff herself.

Maybe Emma gets an advantage via being longer trained and having more combat experience due to experiencing two civil wars. She also has an advantage in the long range department, since her staff allows her to shoot energy balls (Lulua has to use items, reducing her staying power in the long run). She also could possible be faster with FTL reaction, but as I said in my Blog analysis, I couldn't find any high tier reaction speed for Lulua.

So, who wins? It's really close, mostly depended on how each of the girls play their strengths. Basically, the longer the fight goes, the better for Emma. Her regeneration abilities are passive, which is a good advantage over Lulua, who either has to use items or skills to get her regeneration going. And with the art "Albion Wolf" Emma is capable of removing all buffs, including HP and MP healing, with one attack.

Lulua on the other hand will find out about the casting time and that it will leave Emma vulnerable. If we go with the cutscene in the Inferanl Castle (Cold Steel 2) and scale her to Toval and Prince Olivert, the casting time for high level arts should be around 2 to 3 seconds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgEBwujnBdE, around 1:21:25, this is the most usefull scaling, since it isn't interrupted by a long speech during the casting time imo). So Emma will have openings, but these openings can be very small.

In short: For Lulua to win, she has to press Emma to use all of her CP quickly (to circumvent their automatic regeneration and prevent her from healing herself) and deal enough damage tot take her out before her CP regereates enough for healing.

It will be an uphill battle for the alchemist in my opinion. She actually has to do more strategic planning than Emma, has a more limited arsenal, which leaves her much more vulnarable if it runs out and Emma has ways to deal with the numbers of debuffs and status ailments.

I would say as a final prediction 60%:40% that Emma wins. Her ability to stay longer in the field via better regeneration abilities, better combat training gives her the advantages she needs since their other stats seems to be pretty close. If the young with is faster, then Lulua chances of winning bascially go down to 20-30%, since it would cost the alchemist more resources to hurt the witch. If they are equal in speed, then I would say, the chances are 55%/45% with a slight edge still for Emma for reasoning above. But a good combo can take her out, giving Lulua more chances to hit and potentailly kill Emma before the witch can heal herself.