Celes Chere (FF6) vs. Jade (BoF1) - The Jade votes tell me that Jade must be faster? If not I suppose the longest runic/poke match ever could ensue, but yeah...
Hmm...didn't think about that...though the problem is this...
Celes has to use Haste to be faster; whatever Jade does turn 1 won't matter much, lets say he first the ID, misses. Celes counters by casting Haste, now she's faster, laps him, uses Runic.
Jade then uses a physical, hurts Celes. So...now what does Celes do?
She can either cast Cure, give Jade a free turn to cast Rub, then she attacks him with Flare. If she does that, she's just back to Square 1 of Rub out paces Celes' damage.
If she uses Runic again? Jade just wears her out with physical damage.
Basically, Celes is put on the defensive in this fight, and Jade has a way to EVENTUALLY get around that defensive strategy. Had Jade been an average boss instead of a sick BoF1 Endgame Freak who doesn't die, this would be a much closer fight, but that's just hypothetical thinking, since Jade *IS* a BoF1 Endgame Freak <_<
Also, do note that Jade's ID is 3% chance of *USING* it. And no, CK, its not 50%; that's Deis' version. Jade's is 33% or so. It out and out sucks, and it wouldn't even be considered if Jade wasn't as durable a freak as he is (hence my comment about why this fight could be interesting if this was most any other boss but Jade.)
...well, ok, 33% chance isn't *THAT* bad, but against Celes who has good M. Block lowering it to about 20%, and Magic Defense to lower it further...yeah. Its typically a move useful only against Lightning Immune Healers who don't have a lot of damage (so, for example, if we put Terra instead of Celes in, the fight kind of changes since suddenly that's a lot more damage Jade has to race against.)