Van's skill as a manipulator may be hard to upstage (even though he seems to struggle in actually engineering such chicanery into a coherent magnum opus), but his technique as a fighter in the vicious halls of Godlike leave much to be desired. His highly trigger-reliant Mystic Artes, as well as his middling staying power - particularly for a Godlike slugger - certainly couldn't stand up to the raw might of a true god. And Ryu, as a hallowed Endless, will hardly need to break a sweat to put the revenge-seeking general in his place. As soon as Ryu accesses his mighty Kaiser form on the arena floor, the near-invincibility to Van's blade and relentless Kaiser Breaths will send the miserable trickster six foot under.
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Van may be a master manipulator at heart, but he's no slouch at face to face combat, and what better way to prove that than by slaying a dragon? Van may not have the early punch to stop Ryu from transforming, but that's not a problem. This Ryu lacks the earth shattering power that most other incarnations have, so he'll need quite a few breaths to take down Van - and that means Van will be able to get off multiple mystic artes, which are an assault not even a dragon can withstand. Ryu lacks the stamina to transform multiple times into his most powerful forms and still attack a lot, so eventually he'll be caught in human form, then dismembered in sword to sword combat like the inferior being he is.
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