Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26363797-20160302231018/@comment-25620113-20160304044711

CanCan967 wrote: It seems like a very close fight at first, but when looked deep into the characters the decision shouldn't be too hard. I'd say Bayo's fate is sealed due to many reasons:

1) We can't deny the fact that Dante's healing factor is like a cheat code. With no regerative abilities, Bayo will have difficulty fighting if she ever takes a wound.

2) Dante's arsenal has a lot more utility and diversity than Bayo's. Also, it is shown to be FAR bigger and deadlier than what Bayo has at her disposal. (Built as a giant hammer even though it has the same power as a normal sword ROFL)

3) Quicksilver is a hard counter for Witch Time. It's also worth mentioning that Quicksilver can be used at anytime while Witch Time is situational.

4) Dante has dealt with seductive witches like Bayo before, so seduction is ineffective.

5) Dante is used to fighing multiple large demons so being able to create demons with the suit won't give much of an edge to Bayo.

6) Defeating "The Creater" may sound impressive, but it was done by two witches' combined demon summon ritual. The teamwork is more evident in the second game. Also confirms that punching Jubelius to the sun is an outlier. (Queen Sheba did it, not Bayo.)

7) The demons Dante fights aren't much different that Bayo's. Also worth mentioning Dante prefers to fight all on is own.

8) Dante has fought many opponents with a similar style as he has while Bayo has little experience of it.

BONUS: Hideki Kamiya sided with Bayo because of bias towards women. He himself confirmed it.

1) True
 * EDIT* some grammatical mistakes

2) " a normal sword" Rakshasa has absorbed the demon god Rakshasa so that could be something against Dante. Also "a normal sword", really? That sounds like some bias there.

3) Yes Witch Time is situational in that if Bayonetta dodges or gets hit time slows down. She has also faced and defeated opponents with a counter to Witch Time like Jeanne and Balder.

4) Seduction is ineffective anyway. Bayonetta has made fun of her opponents. She's dealt with them in a sadistic and carefree manner but she has NEVER attemted to seduce her opponent. The only time she tried that was with Luka in the first game.

5) It normally doesn't. Unless fighting the final boss or her dad, Bayonetta usually saves her demons until the climax after she has pretty much defeated her opponent and just needs a way to dispose of them.

6) OK. I'll give that it's not as impressive as it sounds but she still held her on against a nigh-omnipotent being fairly well. Yes she may not have had a way to finish Jubelius off herself but she still fared fairly well formmost of the battle when she was alone. Also she faced off against Aesir herself who spammed time manipulation. Yes he also needed to be taken out by the combined power of two characters but Balder really didn't do shit apart from helping her with the finsihing move.

7) Also worth mentioning so does Bayo. The majority of the time she's playing bodyguard for a kid (Cereza her past self and Loki). Sure occasionally she fights with Jeanne but that's only the final boss and the prologue of Bayonetta 2.

8) Bayonetta actually has plenty of experience. She retains her memories of her time as an Umbra Witch and as we see in her memories, sparring amongst each other wasn't an irregular thing. She has faced Jeanne multiple times, Old Balder, Masked Lumen (young balder) multiple times. We could  count Rodin but we probably shouldn't due to him being a secret boss.