Arnaud vs. Lynx - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Garan - OKAY. So Garan's physical is evadable and Hyper'd Arnaud actually 2HKOs average with Paracelsus Dirk (...). Since Garan 3HKOs -before- factoring in Magic Blocker, um yeah. This completely fails. Suck less, Garan.
Arnaud vs. Lezard Valeth - Slow Down, block ID, spam Sleep, counter futile Reflect Sorcery attempts with Blast. Dark Savior being ITD would be nice if he didn't 3HKO and Arnaud wasn't above average on HP. Also, what form of Lezard has Meteor Swarm and Fire Storm that doesn't get OHKOed by Cristo and isn't Seraphic Gate?
Arnaud vs. Justin (G1) - Justin 2HKOs and ignores evade, but has to tank three Sleep shots. Nooooooooooope.
Arnaud vs.
Red - Wait wrong Red. Yeah, he just OHKOs. (Thought this was Nanaki at first. <____________________________<)
Arnaud vs. Clarissa - I've seen you before.
Arnaud vs. Serge - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Edge Eblan - Blocking Sleep makes Edge -fail-. His alternative is 4HKOing Arnaud, which, as usual, leads to endless lulz.
Arnaud vs. Sharon - Okay, deep breath. Sharon immunes Sleep here and her evade means Ge Ramtos is completely useless. So, Arnaud's best bet is Slow Down => Illusion => FRAGILE => Extension => spam Hi-Blast until Sharon runs out of healing. Since she has like three-four shots of it, that doesn't take very long. Arnaud running out of MP himself is met with DEFEND MP REGEN and Sharon's pressure on him fails hardcore while Arnaud immunes Sleep himself. Funeral Wind is turn never with MDef+Magic Blocker too. Wow.
Arnaud vs. Daos - Holy crap. Daos 2HKOs very easily, but, as above, Paracelsus+Hyper is a 2HKO to average and I suspect Slow Down'd Daos eats a -quinta-turn- off the bat after his first turn (if not, he risks getting insta-lapped and then quadra-turned). Four Hyper'd twhacks equal 237% PC HP. Do I see Daos going down to that much physical damage? ... I think I do. Jesus christ, what the flying -fuck-.
Arnaud vs.
Ho-Oh - So, Ho-oh is faster and 2HKOs with Sacred Fire, if -barely-. Between the possibility of Arnaud eating a Burn and possibly dying in the middle of the turn exchange and the fact he -needs- ID to win (landing Sleep against -that- MDef?), even with Magic Blocker factored in, I'm inclined to tiebreak for the bird. Hyper isn't really an option either, Arnaud may miss a tripleturn and he only 3HKOs Ho-oh with Hyper'd Paracelsus physicals.
Arnaud vs. Belcoot - <Belcoot> BELCOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - <Arnaud> :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Freyjadour Falenas - Hyping Yellow Scarf against Arnaud stat busting is kinda lol. Slow Down => gg ramtos, Frey parry doesn't work against non-melee, which I'm willing enough to consider Arnaud's physical as due to WA4 birdies.
Arnaud vs. Marsilio - I could get away with hyping Shut Out here and nobody would break a sweat.
Arnaud vs. Barubary - If Arnaud stole a win against fucking Daos, Barubary of the nearly a bar of PC HP below and not even 2HKOing the chaps has no hope of faring any better.
Arnaud vs.
Garai - lol ite physical 2hko
Arnaud vs. Zera Valmar - My respect for Valmar is nearly infinite. His only shot is hitting paralysis turn one, and if I don't see him pulling that off against -average-, I'm certainly not giving him the benefit of doubt when trying to inflict it with a spell that should by all rights ram into Magic Blocker.
Arnaud vs.
Demi - Physicals, ITE, mocking the busts, being faster. She just 2HKOs first.
Arnaud vs. Seed - Holy crap this fight fails so hard. Seed probably goes first (definitely does with SL), but he can't hit Arnaud -ever- with that accuracy. And, of course, not opening with Silent Lake leads to infinite :arnaud:. Jesus christ.
Arnaud vs. Nicole Mimi Tithel (Nikki) - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Rayquaza - :arnaud:. Use physicals less, 'quaza.
Arnaud vs. Suicune - :arnaud:. As NEB once said, Suicune isn't very good against Heavies with tricks. When those Heavies -resist- his damage, then...
Arnaud vs.
Kary - Hold me closer, Tony Danza~
Arnaud vs. Wakka - Ummm yeah. Illusion shuts Wakka down, Hi-Blast spamming takes care of the rest.
Arnaud vs.
Amon - Amon had high 2HKO magic, right? Don't think Arnaud can really answer to that too effectively with the speed difference. A bit of a spin on Ho-oh, but with less durability, more immunities and Amon's faster than the birdy to boot.
Arnaud vs. Odin - Moppy for Puny.
Arnaud vs.
Athos - Oh dear god.
Arnaud vs. Cecil Harvey - Cecil kinda sucks in Heavy.
Arnaud vs.
Renee Kearse - Renee pretty much sucks against Arnaud, but the Mana likely tides this around (that and she thanks the heavens she has -some- non-physical offense). Chaps takes a long time to set his game up against multiple enemies, and he kinda needs it in order to properly play against them.
Arnaud vs. Slust - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Neifirst - Neifirst is -pure evadable physical-. Have a fun.
Arnaud vs. Keith Valentine - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Chie Satonaka - :thearnaudening:
Arnaud vs. Ramladu - jesus christ why are you evadable physical fighters lining up to fail against arnaud
Arnaud vs.
Barbarossa (VP1) - Calamity Blast => yummy grilled chaps.
Arnaud vs. Ayla - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Elmdor Mesdoram - Elmdor isn't much happy about mages. Slow Down ensures Arnaud can handle the fight, you just -don't- want to go last and 3HKO Arnaud while being vulnerable to Slow Down.
Arnaud vs. Jerin - See Random.
Arnaud vs. Yuber - Really. Yuber's even accurate, but slower than Arnaud, and his magic takes -two turns- to go off. That's not working.
Arnaud vs. Cress Albane - Tales swordsmen and ITE, pick one.
Arnaud vs.
Rofel Wodring - mage with awful defense and needing to block multiple statuses against rofel oh boy
Arnaud vs. Zalbag Beoulve - Zalbag can make Arnaud's speed fail beyond all reason, but... what can he -do- with those turns? He can hardly touch Arnaud with his physicals. Failure.
Arnaud vs. Saki Inugami - Relying on evadable physicals against Arnaud is such a good idea.
Arnaud vs.
Reno - Pyramid strikes again. :reno:
Arnaud vs. Edea Kramer - ID immunity = Edea is :miang:.
Arnaud vs. Auron - Oh dear god.
Arnaud vs. Barbarossa - EDIT: wait Barbarossa is slowish and 3HKOs Arnaud with magic. Boot S1 Barbarossa anyway.
Arnaud vs.
Cameela - I'm assuming Blaze 3 is good enough. It needs to be, too!
Arnaud vs. Steiner - :arnaud:. Alternatively, :steiner:.
Arnaud vs. Lang - I suspect. Slow Down is very bad news, Illusion is worse. Lang also needs to block both Sleep and ID at once, which I'm not sure I allow even if he -can- do it. I guess my point is: if I saw -Sharon- falling to his game, I'm not sure Lang can do any better.
Arnaud vs. Maxim - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Neclord - I assume the physical is evadable and his best magic um 4HKOs Arnaud before Magic Blocker. That's not panning out.
Arnaud vs. Alena - Oh wow Alena's crit rate is shit? There goes her best shot against him.
Arnaud vs.
Gau - :chadarnook:
Arnaud vs. Alicia - Alicia has no way to block Sleep. :arnaud:
Arnaud vs.
Crono - Crono is considerably faster, Arnaud needs three turns to ID... Crono barely scores the 3HKO, so it basically depends on whether Arnaud scores enough turns here... which I don't think he does even with Slow Down... well, before Magic Blocker anyway. Honestly, this is a pretty coinflip match and I think I'll give Crono benefit of doubt here because I've been tiebreaking for Arnaud a lot lately.
Arnaud vs. Adel (FF8) - Adel fails to OHKO and is a slug along with being sub-PC HP. Say hello to quadraturning ownage.
Arnaud vs.
Alfina de Pamela - I suppose? Immuning both Sleep and ID means Arnaud is way too vulnerable to Paralysis => Armageddon fun.
Arnaud vs.
Groudon - Again, Ho-oh case. With the caveat Groudon can conceivably play the speed-busting game himself, which can cause headaches for Arnie.
Arnaud vs. Largo - pure physical tota boss against arnaud that is rich
Arnaud vs. Solo - Immunes Sleep and outraces Solo pretty badly. Fendspell is a complete waste of time.
Arnaud vs.
Delita Hyral - ITE 2HKO and Delita has evade himself.
Arnaud vs.
Kornell - Arnaud generally needs quadra-turns if he wants to outslug bosses with that Hyper strategy. No such luck here.
Arnaud vs.
Hect -
Behold! Optic Blast Armageddon.
Arnaud vs.
Dycedarg Beoulve - Pretty sure. Rofel case.
Arnaud vs. Alex - Alex 2HKOs and ignores evade! Too bad about being below average speed and sleep fodder.
Arnaud vs. Tristan Zenobia - :arnaud:. I'm not sure even -Fogel- can handle Arnaud, and if he can't, no other OB physical slugger has a shot.
Arnaud vs. Carlie - um
Arnaud vs. Popoi - Yeah, tripleturns are evil.
Arnaud vs. Arngrim - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs.
Margulis - Margulis evade makes Paracelsus physicals a very bad option and he starts faster. The mdur also speaks volumes against Arnaud to boot. I suspect Margie's mostly going for gauge boosting and then fweem. Durability and speed are sometimes weirdly more important than offense against Arnie.
Arnaud vs. Joshua (FE8) - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs.
Lenus - Magic triggers Lenus doubleacting evil instantly and she 3HKOs with Dark magic. That ain't working out so well, is it?
Arnaud vs.
Nash Latkje - Arnaud instadoubles if Nash opens with Silent Lake (SL running off a C endless lulz) and he drops Slow Down, and he's faster at base than all of Nash's actions. Instadoubling SL means Slow Down => Illusion and holy -crap- Silent Lake is a complete waste of time... yet it doesn't matter because Nash immunes Sleep, has tons of healing and Ge Ramtos is a horrible idea with that evade.
Arnaud vs. Lyn - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Sabin Rene Figaro - Being slower than Arnaud and vulnerable to Sleep, such a -great- idea. Sabin even 2HKOs, but christ.
Arnaud vs. Articuno - Wow, Arti, you so wish you weren't Ice-reliant.
Arnaud vs.
Alys Brangwin - Endless failure. Alys is faster, mocks Sleep with Psy Shield, mocks Slow Down with Saner and Twister mocks Arnaud evade. This is pretty telling of Arnaud's problems in a duel, but man, talk about someone tailor-made to screw him over.
Arnaud vs. Zerase - For chrissakes. Once again, he's -faster-. gg ramtos applies.
Arnaud vs. Fujin - Slow Down against Fujin is real bad news. Pure kneejerk, even though Pain can be an annoyance, I suspect it's not enough.
Arnaud vs. Debonair - See my rant about Arnaud and OB physical sluggers.
Arnaud vs.
Percival Fraulein - Percy is a lot more durable than Nash and his magic is a lot faster. So.
Arnaud vs.
Maya Schroedinger - :maya:
Arnaud vs.
Sasarai - Unlike Percy and Nash, Sasarai doesn't have good evade and he takes hits like a wet paper towel. HOWEVER, Arnaud can have a fun connecting Slow off the Magic Repel score and killing in time.
Arnaud vs. Richard (S5) - :arnaud:. Richard is barely faster and -is- accurate, but my respect for Swallow Rune OHKO hype is as infinite as usual.
Arnaud vs. Mario - Mario ranks among the many people who 2HKO Arnaud and -lose to him anyway-. gg ramtos is far better than it should be in the DL.
Arnaud vs. Tosh - Not feeling turn one Monji/paralysis hype today. gg ramtos.
Arnaud vs. Angelo - Suspect Arnaud is faster (by the way, he immunes ID) and Angelo really doesn't want him to get going, so he wants to open with Bounce because Sleep is instant gg... and that leads him to dying to Arnaud physicals either through gg ramtos or through Paracelsus. Angelo has some status options besides ID that could annoy the hell out of Arnaud, but they're turn three-level inaccurate. That's -not- working.
Arnaud vs.
Celia - Celia throws a wrench on Arnaud's head.
Arnaud vs.
Lenny Curtis - I don't think Lenny is -that- slow and ITE 2HKO works its magic. At least Arnaud doesn't die to the Stone!
Arnaud vs. Precis Neuman - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs.
Nina Wyndia - Nina4 immunes the Arnaudening and even Hyper physicals make a poor option running off that accuracy. Welp.
Arnaud vs.
Garland - Stop should get Arnaud before he gets Garland.
Arnaud vs. Antenora - Oh Antenora, 3HKOing Arnaud off that speed is -so- working out for you. The status even could get him, but Anty's likely not even getting a second turn, look at how sub-Brad speed worked out for Daos.
Arnaud vs.
Nina Wyndia - Hold/Idle games handle Arnaud pretty well.
Arnaud vs. Zemeckis - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Dias Flac - :arnaud:. AT LEAST DIAS CAN AIR SLASH THROUGH SHUT OUT!?!?!?!?!??!!!!!1111
Arnaud vs. Georg Prime - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Rei - :arnaud:. ID is right out and we all know how great an idea evadable physicals vs. Arnie are, even when Illusion is resisted.
Arnaud vs. Knight - :arnaud: ultra combo
Arnaud vs. Garnet til Alexandros - Garnet 3HKOs Arnaud and he's quite a bit faster. She could attempt berserking him, but gg ramtos and Paracelsus both mean she's asking for it if she does.
Arnaud vs. Ernst - Letting Arnaud get a free crack at you? Are you serious, Ernst?
Arnaud vs. Ramsus, Kahran - There aren't enough lols.
Arnaud vs.
Rydia - Hyper-accurate froggie spells.
Arnaud vs. Zidane Tribal - Um yeah. Arnaud can answer to -any- status Zidane has, Mini is utterly useless and Zidane outslugs nothing with the silence weapon.
Arnaud vs. Rapp - I'm pretty sure.
Arnaud vs. Tony Eisler - Tony is SLEEP-VULNERABLE HOLY CRAP.
Arnaud vs. Kane - :arnaud:. I'm starting to see just why Arnaud champed Heavy and won a Godlike match at one point. Holy -crap-.
Arnaud vs. Tiamat - Oh wow, Arnaud 3HKOs Tiamat with Blast and gets 3HKOed back. If you're losing straight slugfests against Arnaud in -Heavy-, you should just give up.
Arnaud vs.
Izlude Tingel - You know, I'm willing to see someone Jumping as not affected by hex status. It's entirely possible Izlude doesn't -need- it anyway, he just 2HKOs Arnaud and mocks the evade..
Arnaud vs.
Dehuai - That's way too much HP for Arnaud to chop through when he's starting damaged. No dice.
Arnaud vs. Maria Traydor - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Claus F. Lester - :thearnaudening:
Arnaud vs. Beowulf Kadmus - I was willing to buy Sasarai MEvade hype versus Slow Down because that shit gets pretty much everything in-game. Aegis, which I don't even see as turn one MEvade? Not so much. Beo has some issues winning the fight once he connects a status to boot.
Arnaud vs. Lazlo - Immune ID, :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Liete - EDIT: Wait, Enclose fails so -hard- against that speed after Slow Down and Liete's magic offense is seven kinds of fail. That's not working out. The most absurd part is Arnaud could conceivably beat -Millenia- that way.
Arnaud vs. Hallec - INACCURATE AXEMAN AGAINST ARNAUD.
Arnaud vs. Rufus (VP2) - Rufus has more damage than Silmeria! Yay! It's ITD. Boo. :arnaud: ensues -once again-.
Arnaud vs. Nephenee - FE Physical PC Against Arnaud, the Graphic Novel.
Arnaud vs. Nicholai Conrad - :nicholai:
Arnaud vs.
Momo (BoF3) - Momo takes a page from Nina4's book and goes to town. She doesn't have the evade, but she has the million stat buffs.
Arnaud vs. Cloud Strife - If you're a FF7 PC and not named Cait Sith, you don't get to win against Arnaud pretty much ever.
Arnaud vs. Lundgren - FE Physical Boss Against Arnaud, the Musical.
Arnaud vs. Agrias Oaks - Agrias
fails to 2HKO Arnaud with ITE physicals. So much failure.
Arnaud vs. Cliff Fittir - :thearnaudery:
Arnaud vs. Lucian - :thearnaudism:
Arnaud vs. Augustine - :thearnaudation:
Arnaud vs.
Doel - Doel's invincibility is really good at handling Arnaud and he 3HKOs at worst. Straight slugging through Doel can be a pretty shaky proposition in Heavy, you really want piles of healing.
Arnaud vs. Gala - :arnaud:
Arnaud vs. Hahn Mahlay - This is a bit harder than Kyra, but ultimately it works out the same. Hahn isn't -that- much faster than Arnaud once Doran connects and he can't outrace gg ramtos with the speed and 4HKOing Arnaud combo.
Arnaud vs. Kevin (SD3) - :arnaudette:
Arnaud vs. Zalbard - Um. Zalbard quite possibly OHKOs - not one-turn - with his physical and he's viciously fast first strike. HOWEVER, hitting Arnaud first turn is like a 29% chance. And I think he freaking 5HKOs Arnaud with Bolt2 even before Magic Blocker, which means Illusion leads to endless failure. Yeah no, Illusion shuts down this fight.
Arnaud vs. Princess Toadstool - Block Sleep, :gg ramtos:
Arnaud vs. Stahn Aileron - If Heavy evadable physical sluggers fall like flies against Arnaud, how well a -Light- evadable physical slugger is bound to fare?
Arnaud vs.
Alhazad - Alhazad's own Slow Down is an adequate answer to Arnaud's, I suspect. I really wish I knew how slow he is, though.
Arnaud vs. Boomerang - :arnaudine:
Arnaud vs. Vayne Aurelius - :arnaudelius:
Arnaud vs. Ragnar Blitz Lebrett - RAGNAR ACCURACY AGAINST ARNAUD EVADE THIS IS WORKING OUT REAL WELL GUYS
Arnaud vs. Ershin - ID immunity means Ershin is stuck slugging it out. That's not working.
Arnaud vs. Eileen (Suikos) - Eileen is faster but misses the 2HKO on Arnaud by a -hair-. gg ramtos works its magic.
Arnaud vs. Flik - Flik misses the OHKO and is slower. :arnaud: once again applies.
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