Dhyer: I suspect that local game respect would cause a vastly varying guess at where their delay resistance should be taken in games that don't have Delay. P4 bosses just eat Debilitate with no resistance to it, while Cold Steel bosses often decently resist stat-downs.. certainly reason to respect P4 bosses less than CS ones. (Not to mention that in practice with non-DL-legal stuff, CS bosses have even worse Delay resistance.)
Ryu (Breath of Fire IV) vs. Apocrypha (Radiant Historia)
Actually not so sure here. It's gonna take Ryu awhile to slug down all the forms, but it's gonna take Apoc awhile to eat through Ryu's AP, and he can presumably Kaiserbreath down the first two forms while status immune, then use his remaining AP on one last dragon to finish things. Maybe.
EDIT: I'll buy Elf.
Ryu vs. Gilbert (Shadow Hearts 3)
I guess people see Gilbert as below average speed? Hard to tell from the topic. If so, one Dragon form has a bad day, but then Gilbert has blown his stock. (I'd add that SP Lowering, since it hits the resource used by fusions in SH3, might arguably mess with dragon form maintenance, but it barely matters.)
Ryu vs. Dark Knight (Bravely Default)
Blow'd up.
Ryu vs. Empyrea (DQ8)
Turn 1 KO, barely.
Ryu vs. Tir (S1)
Ryu vs. Orlandu (FFT)
Ryu vs. Terra (FF6)
Ryu vs. Miscreation (Wild Arms 4)
Ryu vs. Nailah (FE Radiant Dawn)
Nailah has worse than average threat range I assume?
EDIT: nah, was just thrown by the Ryu votes. Switched.
Ryu vs. Wakka (FFX)
Ryu vs. Alisa R. (Trails of Cold Steel)
Yeah, Alisa has trouble when she's getting constantly OHKOd. She probably does file off a reasonable amount of Kaiser's healthbar but not enough.
Alyssa L'Salle (Cosmic Star Heroine) vs. Apocrypha (Radiant Historia)
Has to run Excalibo, is at best heal-locked on some Heroine Aura / First Aid / Rally loop forever and never gets in damage.
Alyssa vs. Gilbert (Shadow Hearts 3)
Desperation.
Alyssa vs. Dark Knight (Bravely Default)
Desperation + poke, even non-Hyper'd Data Storm should dot he trick after DK beats himself up some. DK can try and slow roll with Life & Death, but I dunno if that goes anywhere.
Alyssa vs. Empyrea (DQ8)
Alyssa vs. Tir (S1)
Unlike these two cases, where Desperation doesn't really help.
Alyssa vs. Orlandu (FFT)
Alyssa vs. Terra (FF6)
Cunning is high enough to drive Break to turn 2?
Alyssa vs. Miscreation (Wild Arms 4)
Yeah, WA4 boss durability, but non-Hyper damage turns are really uninspiring.
Alyssa vs. Nailah (FE Radiant Dawn)
Gambles everything on Data Storm hitting, but if it does...
EDIT: Nm, will respect FE movement > CSH Sparke.
Alyssa vs. Wakka (FFX)
Excalibo.
Alyssa vs. Alisa R. (Trails of Cold Steel)
What a nice hyper turn that was. How would you like your Altair Cannon?
Rean Schwarzer (Trails of Cold Steel) vs. Apocrypha (Radiant Historia)
Rean vs. Gilbert (Shadow Hearts 3)
Rean vs. Dark Knight (Bravely Default)
Rean vs. Empyrea (DQ8)
Empyrea is the kind of boss I'd see having okay Delay resistance, but Valimar's damage is the kind of thing I'd see as good at cutting through Empy's defenses - her HP isn't that special, just she has good Def & elemental resistances, exactly what doesn't matter vs. Valimar in-game. A close one.... really comes down to respecting Valimar vs. respecting Empy's good in-game physical defense. Will kneejerk that Valimar doesn't quite make it, but could be argued.
Rean vs. Tir (S1)
Rean vs. Orlandu (FFT)
Rean vs. Terra (FF6)
Rean vs. Miscreation (Wild Arms 4)
Rean vs. Nailah (FE Radiant Dawn)
The Delay numbers are so busted that I think Rean can afford to miss the occasional Arc Slash and be fine, but Nailah's evade is better than "occasional".
Rean vs. Wakka (FFX)
Rean vs. Alisa R. (Trails of Cold Steel)
Delay immunity, and getting stomped by a giant robot hurts less than you'd think.
Ryu: 7-4
Alyssa: 4-7
Rean: 4-7
