Talk:Yang Xiao Long VS Tifa Lockhart/@comment-27028532-20151010190726/@comment-25172038-20151010192104

Well this is what my friend on Facebook told me and he's an expert on Final Fantasy.

"While Tifa is extremely powerful and fast, she still doesn't have any special powers or abilities. She's basically human, but depicted as pushing past the limits of what humans can regularly do, though with still pretty clear limits.

Yang on the other hand, has 2 advantages: a weapon (shotgun fists are OP) and much more importantly: her semblence. Not only can Yang take a serious beating, but taking said beating actually makes her stronger due to her semblence. In the words of her little sister in Volume 2 Chapter 4, "With each hit she gets stronger, and she uses that energy to fight back."

The fight would start off with Tifa using her speed and experience to deliver a pretty brutal punishment, but as the fight progresses, Tifa would be losing energy and power while Yang is gaining it, and eventually, without a solid way of defeating Yang, Tifa would be overwhelmed, regardless of her rather impressive endurance.

Tifa lost the fight to Loz when he used the machine on his arm to blast her through a pillar in the church in Final Fantasy Advent Children.

Yang got stronger after she was punched through a highway support pillar by the Atlesian Paladin piloted by Roman... an arguably more devastating blow.

If Tifa had piercing or cutting weapons, I could see it going the other way. That being said, Tifa does have access to something called Materia, which grants magical abilities to the user, but as that opens up far too many possibilities, I can see them leaving that out of the fight. (She could just summon Knights of the Round to defeat Yang for her, or have a Final Move materia paired with revive, to fully heal her in the event of her defeat, or cast any number of status effects, or call meteors, etc.)

Plus the fact that in Cloud's death battle, the only materia they had him use was a low-level fire spell, which he used once. It's doubtful they would bring in materia for Tifa's benefit."

"Also Tifa just doesn't have a way to get through Yang's tough defenses, and Yang would be getting stronger through the fight, with Yang's extreme durability trumping Tifa's experience."