Season 26, Week 4
Luca Blight
(Suikoden II) 		 
This pig likes to squeal quickly. Unusually quickly, even. A bevy of attacks at once? It might scare lesser, weaker godlikes, but certainly not the great Luca Blight. Tanking through a few puny spells from a Mystic Lord will be no problem for the vaunted Butcher of the Highlands. When the smoke clears and the OverDrive is over, Luca will still be standing... and laughing... and murdering. With his blood-wrenching swings, Luca Blight will merrily show his superiority to even the whimsical tides of time. With no pardon for the pun, it's time to die, pig.

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 The best of Godlike have fallen to his might, and now some overhyped whacko thinks he can defeat the master of time? TimeLord's opponent may have a reputation as a mad prince, but the fact remains that Luca is a creature living in time - thus, as susceptible to the Lord's whims as everyone else. With Time Eclipse reducing Luca's speed to nothing, Glass Shield to stop the Highland Butcher's attacks and Overdrive as a brutal finisher, this match will be over before he can utter a single pork-related punchline.

SageAcrin
Ah, Luca and Timelord.

In that most ultimate of man to man battles, a contest against one another and the elements, a truly fierce battle to win against the odds.

A kayaking contest!

Okay, so the judges, who happened to be Deis, Opera Vectra, and Angela, happened to want to see some nice healthy looking men in wet, tight fitting clothes. But really, who's counting?

Timelord's battle plan was simple. Do what he does in every other match. (Besides "Try to take over the world.", I mean.)

Unfortunately, it turns out that Overdrive works poorly on water. Namely, the water stops moving. (Or being movable with something as simple as a kayak, and using a pickaxe on water isn't exceedingly practical.)

TL had to get out and run, and it didn't last long enough. Oh well, better luck next time.

Luca just set his boat on fire the fifteenth time it didn't turn the way he wanted it to when he thumped it with his sword.

He got farther, though, so the match went to him.

Opera, Angela and Deis had a wonderful time drinking and commenting on the match, though, especially after Timelord attempted to wring out his clothes on a (theoretically) secluded and unviewable spot near the river after he climbed out.

Well, by commenting, I mean taking snapshots, but who's counting?

Maybe they had too much fun. Angela and Deis woke up together, and promptly swore to never tell anyone else this had happened.

Then Chisato burst in with the camera.

As for Opera, she woke up in bed with Grobyc.

She didn't have to swear not to remember this. She can't. Along with the last eight months. I guess it was traumatic for her.

Timelord, naturally, laughed a long time when he learned the reprecussions of a few simple actions after the three judges passed out from drinking in a bar. Just hire some people to pick them up and carry them home, or to Grobyc's room.

Sadly, he still hasn't found the photos, though.

As for Luca? Well, he's on a deserted island currently flambeing coconuts and swearing a lot. Turns out that river went a long way, and he's not a good swimmer. He'll probably be found in time for the finals, though.

Luca Blight: 66
TimeLord: 28

T.G. Nevareh
Timelord can fell pretty much anyone who doesn't have superior durability since he can act over and over and over again, hitting with reasonably good damage up to seven times in a row. If he has the right abilities, he can also throw on bad status or even instant death to his attacks.

Still, this is a trump card, as afterwards he is helpless in the extreme- with no JP or WP left, he can't do much except attack with either base mystic abilities, normal weapons, or 0-cost skills.

Well, Luca is renowned for his durability, and I doubt that Timelord will be able to exhaust Luca with basic damage. He COULD go the other route- attempting status attacks and instant death- except Luca is immune to even the most accurate of instant kills (if Deadly Fingertips doesn't work, what will?) and status problems are something few Suikoden bosses ever have to worry about.

Luca might not even have to worry about weathering Overdrive anyway since he triple-turns and his physicals (which are something most Mystics don't weather well due to low VIT scores that never get any better) aren't too shabby.

Finally, let's do some math: Timelord is one of the least fair possible boss battles in SaGa Frontier, as he can, if he so chooses, use Overdrive and then ChaosStream seven times to basically obliterate your party with seven hits of mediocre-to-low damage (which adds up), and thus he can if he so chooses defeat five heroes working in tandem without breaking much of a sweat.

Luca Blight ends up fighting eighteen heroes working in tandem, defeating at least twelve of them, and has to have half an army shoot him in order to weaken him enough to make a duel against him even remotely fair.

Timelord doesn't have the power to avoid making it a grudge match with Luca and he doesn't have the reserves to win it. He'd either need defensive abilities he doesn't have to make weathering a grudge match a better possibility or offensive abilities he by the rules cannot use to have a much higher chance of beating Luca with his Overdrive.

Luca, on the other hand, only has to do what he always does- hurt things and take unbelievable amounts of punishment.