#Ken vs Embrace

###Guts vs Carter

Carter's shield is durable enough that I don't think Guts folds it, but all her other stats are lackluster. She does not have feats that imply to me she can reliably avoid the sword while getting closer. The speed feats posted for Carter are less impressive to me than the feats intended to make Guts seem slow. I also don't buy Guts being undurable in relation to vehicle impacts. Pretty sure I couldn't drive my car through a pillar even at double the Carter truck speed.

"Carter blocks everything even remotely sharp with her shield. Bullets, Propellers, Tank rounds, Everything." honestly if one more person says bullets and tank rounds aren't sharp again i'm going to disembowel myself and mail you my shredded organs

Guts probably can get blocked at least once, but even with the low end of his argued speed in relation to medieval bows, the fact that he can kill Carter in a hit and she cannot do the same is going to have me giving Guts the majority here, in conjuction with the fact that Carter's speed advantage simply put does not exist.

##Ken wins



###Bradley vs Lo

Bradley is significantly faster than Lo and has the range advantage in his sword that is simply put almost infinitely more reliable than the TK sword. Wound endurance is also a big stat that Lo doesn't have, because even if he aims for the throat, not every strike is an ideal strike. Even Kuroki-Lolong-Batman is going to hit you in the stomach sometimes. Bradley is far, far better at his displayed sword fighting skill, with Lo's feats essentially being "why wouldn't he be good at sword fighting." He doesn't need his speed to carry him, but it does.

"[aim dodging](https://zippy.gfycat.com/IdenticalBasicGerbil.webm)" holy shit dude "so the distance between the first and 4th bullets is thousands of meters which discredits the visuals or implies the bullets travel only a couple of meters within 1.2 seconds."

https://i.imgur.com/pNTPbcB.png

Honestly my favorite argument was unironically that Bradley looks like a cop and thus won't be respected but he looks more like an admiral or officer or something and I don't think Lo has effective range.


##Ken Wins


###Arthur vs Kubera

Literally gonna cry rn if I have to do the kubera anti-magic shit again when Ken already wins 2/3. I'm ruling Arthur in tier.  Nuke is mostly plastic, electricity would have to be massive to hurt him. Nuke being super durable and endurable makes me think Arthur's piercing is in tier especially given that obsidian is very brittle. I think a crater you can sit in is massively smaller than Nuke's output, admittedly this is incredibly vague/opinion based, but I do not think you can reasonably interpret it as larger than Nuke's crater, and it was a notable blow to Arthur with no followup. Nuke is faster than Arthur. Arthur by word cannot dodge bullets though I'm not sure they hurt him much at all, though this point isn't super relevant.

Nuke in the timeframe of hours fighting Cap after an extended military engagement has received literally zero damage to his body. He can objectively fight for days by virtue of this, being a robot, and being organically superior to Cap. His only long term limits are vagaries that exist outside of tourney relevance.

Out of tiering someone by scaling them to a character Coco was arguing is definitely one of the arguments of all time.

"Nuke is skilled enough to maintain a 3-2 advantage in blows to someone who reacts and moves faster than he does."

Nitpick, but this is less outright skill and more "Nuke doesn't get staggered, but can stagger his opponents." in conjuction with moving about as fast in terms of hand speed, despite having a far, far inferior ability to do Wolverine's anime flips.

I think Arthur beats Kubera because I think Arthur's speeds, if vague, are immensely more conducive to a barrage of attacks and dodging than essentially the single speed feat being argued against. anti-magic hrggghhrh

##Ken Wins, Arthur In Tier