User blog comment:CallMeKnuckles/DEATH BATTLE Prediction Blog: Natsu VS Ace/@comment-26449310-20170424023505

This matchup was very difficult to call for me.

Ace to me seems to be stronger and tougher, due to fighting Blackbeard, who destroyed islands. And Natsu seems to be faster and more versatile, due to having more abilities and running through 100,000 men without any of them noticing. Natsu has more experience due to being around longer(RIP Ace), but Ace has more destructive capacity, due to the aforementioned Blackbeard thing. Natsu COULD eat Ace but Ace has intangibility to get past all of Natsu's abilities. Ace has better H2H, but Natsu is no slouch either. And both of their fire abilities are completely useless. You can tell where this was hard for me.

This ultimately came down to 2 questions.

Question 1.) Can Natsu keep up with Ace's superior hand-to-hand? Because of how close of a category that is, I'll say yes.

Question 2.) Can Natsu hold Ace down long enough to eat him completely. This one was tougher. Natsu once fought a dragon with similar fire powers to Ace, he was able to eat him for a bit, but was shrugged off. Ace is DEFINITELY strong enough to shake him off, but even if he wasn't, he could turn to fire and zoom away. The issue I see there is that Ace isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. I don't know if he'd think to actually do that, but it's possible. What makes me say yes is that while Natsu is eating Ace slowly, he's getting WAY more powerful. Ace needs to shake him off quick enough to keep Natsu from doing it.

If Ace can keep Natsu from eating him long enough, then eventually Natsu will tire out, and Natsu will tire out before Ace, due to Ace once fighting non-stop for 5 whole days, then he wins. But if he gets devoured, then maybe he won't die(that's debatable), but he'll turn into fire energy for Natsu, making it a BFR tactic, and Natsu wins. And DEATH BATTLE! has had BFR endings before(Starscream VS Rainbow Dash, Thor VS Raiden, and MAYBE Kratos VS Spawn) so it's possible.

With all of this said, plus the alternate forms Natsu has that I didn't even mention, I'm going to give this fiery battle to the Dragon Slayer.

THE WINNER IS NATSU DRAGNEEL