Hector: 30
Nel Zelpher: 52

Namagomi
Hector and Nel stood at opposite ends of the battlefield, axe and knives drawn...knowing that the next move could result in something--and then Hector charged in, swinging his axe. At Nel Zelpher.

Who threw three Ice Daggers at him, freezing him solid before he fell to the floor, shattering.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Hitting things in the face with an axe really hard is one way to get ahead in life, but it's hard to argue with pseudo-ID status.

Fishin4pigeon
First, there's the obvious fact that Nel has the Weapon Triangle Advantage. Second, Hector's main weaknesses are his poor speed, movement, and resistance to magic. And third, he's facing an opponent who can capitalize beautifully on all of these weaknesses (as well as being beautiful in general). Nel can just stay out of his attack range, throwing out Flying Guillotine and Thunder Flare whenever she's far enough away. Even if Hector does manage to get close, Nel's fast enough to dodge most of the time and avoid taking critical blows.

Dunefar
Ninjas are awesome while axmen are a dime a dozen. Nel so shreds Hector.

T.G. Nevareh
Before this fight can be considered, first one needs to ask if Hector gets an automatic counter to every single one of Nel's attacks that come as part and parcel to her multi-hit specials. The second thing to ask is if Hector, being from a game where there is no such thing as magic points, usually something immaterial to one's defensive capabilities, can be MP killed by Nel's numerous MP attacks, who is from the only game to my knowledge where running out of MP results in death just as certainly as running out of HP. The THIRD thing one needs to ask is if Nel has to worry about Fury, and if Hector automatically breaks the 100% Fury shield that Nel gets if she is standing very still.

Nel has the upper hand in Hector's weapon triangle: Sword beats axe. Nel also falls prey to Hector's biggest strength: Nel's physicals, for her game, are so-so, and Hector has super-wonderful defense. If that's all there is to it, Nel loses- the best dodging won't always work, and Hector's no slouch when it comes to bashing people's faces in with axes, weapon triangle be damned, not to mention the Swordreaver axe. 1-0.

That said, Nel has symbology. Her spells kind of suck (Since everyone but Sophia's and maybe Adray's spells kind of suck), but the range and the hitting the defense stat Hector isn't as awesome with in addition to the fact that Hector can't possibly MP kill Nel, due to being from a game where MP killing isn't possible, means Nel can hit Hector from a distance and heal herself whenever necessary. And she's, like, a ninja, so moving isn't an issue. 1-1.

If Hector doesn't get a counter for every step of one of Nel's combos, Divine Wrath will CERTAINLY up Nel's chances- and Hector has a low-ish chance to hit Nel due to that self-same weapon triangle dealie. It doesn't matter if Hector attacks once for every once or even twice that Nel attacks- Nel doesn't do enough damage and he does more than enough to withstand an even grudge match, but it does if Hector attacks once for every sixteen to twenty times Nel attacks. 1-2.

If Nel can MP kill Hector, then she can just use a ranged MP-kill attack. Who cares what he can do or how high his defense is if his dodging isn't great and he's effectively OHKO'd the first time she hits? 1-3.

If Hector has to do something special to break Nel's fury shield, like execute an especially strong attack, then he has to critical to hit her, and if he doesn't she repels the damage and stuns him back... or worse. 1-4.

On a playing field that favors Hector, I'd put my bet on him- since special moves don't exist in his game and he outclasses Nel in terms of what Nel can do as a Fire Emblem character. Any grade of playing field that evenly favors both combatants makes me put my bet on Nel.

Dycedarg Beoulve vs Dehuai

Dycedarg Beoulve: 31
Dehuai: 49

Mathias
Dehuai needs only to summon the Seraphic Radiance to lay waste to Dycedarg. Not even Adramelk could save him from the angel's fury.

Elena vs Rosa Harvey
SageAcrin
Two pretty, prissy healers fighting it out in an arena.

There was no good way this could end.

---

"Heal, Elena! Heal more than her!" Ryudo called out.

"Rosa! I know you can do it! Heal! Heal with all your might!" Cecil yelled into the arena.

"Okay. That's it. This is the last time we let Jecht ref a match after getting stoned and watching the Pokemon anime." Ghaleon said, in disgust.

"You said that last time." Royce noted. "...I did, didn't I." Ghaleon sighed.

Ultimately, Rosa's superior magical reserves, as well as the fact that she was more willing to look completely ridiculous in the pursuit of healing mastery, made her the victor.

But the toll was heavy. About fifteen people killed Rosa and Elena some time during the following week.

You'd be amazed how few people like to sit through fourteen hour matches when they could have been avoided by a forfeit.

Elena: 22
Rosa Harvey: 65

Karsh vs Beowulf Kadmus
Tide
Karsh had a game plan. It wasn't much, but hey, it worked for 3 matches out of 4! That's pretty impressive considering all it consisted was smashing axes to faces. No problem, he will only have to repeat this to claim victory.

The match began and Karsh wasted no time putting his brilliant plan into play. He ran down towards Beowulf who began readying a magic sword spell. He WILL get there before the Temple Knight is ready.

Beowulf, knowing that Karsh will strike him first before his spell resolves, panicked and did the only thing he could think of.

The entire male audience winced as Beowulf wounded up swinging his sword right into Karsh's nether regions.

MORAL OF THIS STORY: An axe to the face is a great way to get ahead in life, but its hard to argue when you just got a sword where the sun don't shine.

Karsh: 18
Beowulf Kadmus: 72

Lezard Valeth
Before Karsh can even swing his axe, Beowolf swung his sword in the air. This puzzled Karsh before realizing a smoke has risen around him and he metamorphose into a chicken which ran away squawking.

"Well that was easy", Beowolf said before being declare the winner.

Later Karsh decides to become a vegetarian after his chicken ordeal.

Leonhart4
Tonight Beowulf dines on chicken soup!

Kresnik Ahtreide vs Leon Magnus
Gatewalker
It’s an inescapable and, to most, unfathomable rule of RPGs. The angsty loner types, especially if they manage to be both badguys and goodguys and never really clear about what side they’re on, always have tons of fans. Make them bishie and it gets even worse. And if they have a single weak spot in their impenetrable emotional armor, preferably for a young girl, then you have a recipe for legions upon legions of screaming and drooling mindless fans.

Guess what Kresnik and Leon both are. Go on, guess. Yeah. The fan turnout for this single match of emo wankers was so great that it flooded out of the arena and into the streets, causing rioting and mass panic with their screaming fandom. With this mass of chaotic and highly emotional fans, all it took was one single person to shout “Kresnik’s a poser!” or “Leon sux lol!” for someone in the other camp to take offense and throw a punch. And there were plenty of people shouting variants on both phrases, of course.

Seeing their fans doing their best to kill eachother, Kresnik and Leon did the only intelligent thing they could do: stay the hell out of it. Agreeing that whoever had the most fans left standing by the time the massive brawl was over was the winner, the two just sat down and looked cool and angsty until it was done.

Kresnik won rather handily, of course. While Leon had more fans from the get go, it seems that a few of Kresnik’s fans, especially the ones who were cosplaying as him, brought guns. Yeah, there were a looooooot of dead fangirls at the end of the day.

Predictably, Leon said he didn’t care and then went home to angst about it. Kresnik just went to go tell Yulie and Jude the good news…and angst about it.

Kresnik Ahtreide: 32
Leon Magnus: 26

Isabel vs Nanaki
Monkeyfinger
Well, when a match between a strong, beautiful young redhead and a vigorous dog is booked, it goes without saying what sort of crowd is going to be drawn to it. Especially after the spectacle that was Seraphita vs. Gau.

And so, Isabel and Mathias both laughed excitedly as they waded through the band of sick, evil perverts lead by Zidane, Sten, and all those usual suspects, slashing with their swords, casting their spells, and all around having a great time ridding the duelling league of its more twisted, fetishist residents.

Nanaki, having won by ringout before Isabel even gave him a look, lazily kicked around a soccer ball while watching his would be opponent work. "Just like Costa Del Sol, only with some actual amusement to watch..." he mused to himself.

Isabel: 29
Nanaki: 44

Typhlosion vs Camus
Gatewalker
Adamantly standing his ground, Camus shook his head in refusal at his partner for the fifth time in one minute, “No, no, no and most importantly, no! I am NOT going in there. Matilda isn’t in any danger, my duties as a knight do not require me to fight animals for sport, and so I feel no obligation to enter that arena. I’ll lose nothing but some face for forfeiting, and I’ll lose considerably more if I go in!”

Miklotov sighed in frustration, “Come now, Camus. I know that this beast has the advantage over you, but how could losing to a fearsome firebreathing creature possibly be more humiliating than the brand of cowardice that comes with not fighting at all?”

Looking through the open arena door towards his opponent’s side of the ring, Camus points at a rather eager looking young boy in a cap, “That is who I’m worried about, not the beast. He’s been going on all morning about how he remembered to bring lots of those mystical balls that he uses to imprison and control all of those creatures. Apparently he thinks that I’m just another pokemon to be captured! I’m not going in there and getting stuffed in some little ball, bound to the will of a teenage boy and forced to say nothing but my own name ever again! It’s simply not happening!”

Eyes widening, Miklotov took a step back as he eyed the child wearily, “Can…can he really do that?”

“He seems to think he can.”

Nodding slowly, Miklotov turned away from the arena and gestured for Camus to follow, “Well, too bad about your match, partner. How about we go see if Alen and Grenseal want to grab some lunch?”

Following right along, Camus grinned, “Sounds like a plan.”

Typhlosion: 50
Camus: 17

Nicolus vs Tim Rhymeless
Sei
"Tremble and despair, mere mortal, for you are in the presence of Nicolus, one of the Ten Wise Men! With these eyes, I see everything! With this mind, I know everything! With these powers, I destroy everything! Gape in awe before the overflowing energies inherent within the destined rulers of this universe, stare in wonder like the insignificant insects you are! Learn the folly of tossing one of the Ten Wise Men in Light like tras-" SPLORT

Tim yawned while he kept his staff raised. "Wise Man, Schwise Man, I have Filgaia's Godzilla at my beck and call, yo."

Grudiev roared in agreement then used the arena edge to scrape Nicolus' bloody remains off his foot.

Nicolus: 22
Tim Rhymeless: 47

SageAcrin
Sometimes, a slap fight isn't enough.

You have to go to the next level.

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"Why are they beating each other with pillows and squealing girlishly...?" Kanon said, staring, in a vaguely horrified manner, as the match.

"...I think the better question is why Nicolus just died from it." Marivel stated, her jaw hanging open.

Gwyn vs Yang
SageAcrin
Beautiful women.

Warm sun.

A pina colada in hand.

Gwyn knows how to fight in style.

As it turns out, he expected the near-instant death at Yang's hands. So, rather than avoid the fight, as some would, he faced it like a man.

And abused the fact the little-known fact that you can run almost anything up on a Duelling League charge account if it's for a duel.

So Yang, eventually, had his disgust overcome his nobility and kicked the lounging-in-a-lawn-chair Gwyn into a wall.

But for Gwyn, it was worth it.

Especially when the girls he hired followed him into convalesence.

Of course, it was eventually noticed that he had hired five women on general retainer using a League charge account, but hey, getting beaten to a pulp again by the debitors(You'd be amazed how many DL mercs they hire for that.) was still worth it.

I think he's starting to like that, too.

Gwyn: 10
Yang: 75

Miluda Folles vs Shabon
Gatewalker
Cliché as it was, Miluda just couldn’t bring herself to hit a child. Especailly a common girl, forced to live performing on the street for enough money to eat. No, Shabon was not her enemy, and she would not benefit the cause at all by harming a little girl.

So, rather than fight, Miluda decided to take Shabon under her wing. It wasn’t hard to get the young performer excited about beating up corrupt nobles, considering that Miluda used Algus, Charmles and Euram Barrows as her examples of nobles that need punishing.

So, after a healthy amount of Charmles beatings, Miluda found herself quite impressed with her new protégé’s skills and devotion to beating up bad men and decided to step aside and allow Shabon to carry the cause further on into the season.

The fact that she quickly realized that she had no chance at winning after seeing Shabon beat the stuffing out of Charmles in record time, heal him, silence his incessant whining, and then do it all over again had nothing to do with her decision, of course.

Miluda Folles: 31
Shabon: 51

SageAcrin
And so, we have the only thing more humiliating than losing a slap fight.

Bringing a sword to a slap fight and losing.

Miluda was seen after the fight getting royally drunk and making out with Zidane.

Well, at least Zidane wins. No one else does, though.

Ard vs Jane Maxwell
SageAcrin
To properly describe this match, we have hired Ard himself to write this commentary.

Ard ard ard. Ard. Arrrrrd. Ard. Ard! Ardarar. Ard. Ard? Arrrrrrrd!

Ard! ARRRRRD! Arard. Ard. Ardardardardaradaradardardardard! Ard? Ard.

Ard!

Ard ard ardard ard arrrrd ard. Ard.

Ard!? Ardardard!

Ardard.

Thank you Ard, that was a a truly moving speech. It's easy to understand now why you are Vice-President of Shinra, and while it is a shame that your duties have prevented you from coming to this match, after those events, it's hard to argue with your decision.

Ard: 15
Jane Maxwell: 44

Super Equity Friends...IN SPACE!!!
~Meeplelard

Taishyr
In truth, neither side won.

You see, Etna took to... heavily upgrading her new space station that she acquired.

Her practice target just happened to be this grand, noble battleground.

And the Omega Trinity Hell Fusillade Wicked Sweet Prinny Fire Cannon hit dead center.

So you see, on the one hand, the evildoers were slain. So the SEF's purpose was achieved.

On the other hand, the entire galaxy went up with it, which will make resurrecting the SEF a bit more costly.

Etna and Nate Nanjo are currently in business negotiations regarding purchasing the OTHFWSPFC, as well as Etna's services, for use by Nanjo Corp..

Yes, that twinge you just felt was a sign of impending doom.

Super Equity Friends: 48
Villians: 24