User blog comment:UnlimitedMoeWorks/Emma Millstein VS Lulua Frixell - An UnlimitedMoeWorks Fan Project/@comment-26558142-20200106192244/@comment-26558142-20200106220038

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Emma vs Lulua is an interesting matchup. Both rely more on magic and items than their pure physical power. So, after some digging, I think I can give a solid vote on who would win. It would be none other than Emma.

The biggest problem for Lulua was to find the highest feats I could use for her. Atelier was never a series based about showing power, but more about exploration and development. Which also meant that most Atelier games I know, even in their finishers, never really went too overboard. But then I watched at the Ultimate Skills these people posses and had to change my mind. There is one character who doesn't want to slow down, Sterkenburg. In his ultimate attack he simply cuts the moon in half. If we want to go a step further then you could also claim that he created multiple stars in his attack animation, so we have a potential Solar System attack potency here. And if enemies and bosses can withstand this attack, I will scale them. This means Lulua is to my knowledge around moon to solar system level at her best.

So, how does Emma fare? For this I have to mention the connection of all Trails games. All play in the same world with recurring characters. I will come back to this later. Regarding Emma's scaling, I would go with Ishmelga. In his knight form he posses an S-Craft, where he destroys the planet. While it is just an attack animation, we have seen multiple S-Crafts in use during cutscenes in multiple Trails games, hinting that all characters are actually capable of performing these feats. If we include Ishmelga at full power as he is fought later his power should be 10% of his attack potency doubled (since he absorbed other powers that rivaled him in the earlier fight). This is also consistent with the final boss of Trails in the Sky 3, who also destroys the planet in his S-Craft attack. At maximum potential she scales to Kurt Vander, who in his second S-Craft, also creates mutliple stars in the background. So Emma is in the range of planet level to solar system level.

So, in terms of power, Emma has an advantage without the star creation feats considered. With them, both girls should be equal. The same can be said for durability.

Next speed.

Unfortuanelty I was unable to find any good speed feats for Lulua. The young alchemist is at least MHS with all the lighning attacks that the series has, but I wouldn't be surprised if she also has FTL speed feats.

Thankfully Emma is a little easier to figure out. In the endgame of Cold Steel 2, Rean fights the protagonist of the Azure/Zero saga, Lloyd Bannings. In his third S-Craft Lloyd reaches the outer atmoshpere in around 2 second, giving him subreletavistic speed. Rean obviously scales and so should characters like Arianhood and McBurn, who still surpasses him in Cold Steel 3. And since Emma can hold her own against these two (with help), she can be scaled too. She also has FTL reaction, since we have multiple attacks that are described as beams of light that she can react to.

Basically the premise is the same as in strength. Emma outclasses Lulua with the lowest feats and they are equal with highest feats taken.

So, up till now the match is either in Emma's favour or pretty equal depending on which scaling you accept. But in the end, Emma also excells in most secondary categories as well.

She is better and longer trained, has much more experience under her belt than Lulua (4 games vs 1 game) and she also has the better tools to win a battle of attrition. Her Master Quartz regenerates her EP, her CP heal by damage taken and damage dealt, she has access to healing moves and can even protect herself with "Palace of Eregion".

While Lulua can match her in terms of regernating MP with "Tri Bloom", she lacks the healing quality of HP. And since all of her skills depend on one resource instead of two, it drains her much faster even with her recovery skill. The only category Lulua really beats Emma is in boosting herself. She has multiple skills increases her stats, closing the gaps between the two girls or even surpassing Emma (depending on scaling used).

But Emma can reset her with spells like "Albion Wold" (removes all buffs, standerd on her fully level Master quartz) and depened on which quartz she gets access to, she can inflict her with a random status ailments (Seventh Caliber), some of which would either leave Lulua vulnerable (faint, freeze, sleep, nightmare etc.) or can completly cost her the match (petrification). Especially the elemtal atttacks of the higher elements control stuff the Atelier series simply doesn't have, making any elemental protection weaker against them.

All in all, in my opinion Emma simply has to many advantages to counter much of Luluas arsenal and should be able to last long enough to win a drawn out fight.