Greetings and welcome to another edition of my Vs series. And it is going to be none other than Weiss Schnee from RWBY vs Esdeath from Akame Ga Kill. As usual I will be looking into the base stats for both Weiss and Esdeath but due to the nature of the fight, I will also go into their specific abilities, hax, and even Trump cards and resources.
To clarify, I will composite Esdeath here since she has done consistent feats between the anime and the manga. While both versions of Akame Ga Kill are different, Esdeath herself is one of the few characters who has a more consistent portrayal for both mediums. Without further ado, let's begin.
Weiss Schnee
Weiss Schnee was born into a wealthy family that run a very successful buisness called the Schnee Dust company. Due to the standards of her childhood, and was often feeling lonely, Weiss started off as a bratty girl who thought she was above everyone else in Haven. That was until she knew that the value of friendship was more important. Since then, Weiss has become a very friendly, often times cheerful and a very caring teenager who wants her friends to survive the coming conflict against Salem.
That's a brief summary of Weiss' backstory. Now lets she what she can do
Strength
In terms of strength,Weiss has a couple of strength feats. Though she may not be the strongest character in RWBY, Weiss has done a fair few of good strength feats. Some of these feats are:
- Parrying attacks from Armas Gigas, Nora Valkyrie and a White Fang Lieutenant
- She slashed at Armas Gigas with such force and precision, she destroyed it. Armas Gigas is a giant suit of armour.
- Slash attacks are strong enough to kill Grimm creatures
Speed
Weiss is one of the fastest characters in the RWBY universe. Her speed in both traveling and combat are almost unrivaled. Some of these speed feats are:
- Attacking the Armas Gigas with such speed, it couldn't touch her for a while
- Has dodged and danced around the White Fang Lieutenant
- Can reach Massively Hyper sonic speeds casually.
- Attack Speed exceeds Blake's. A character who casually parries bullets and attacks with hyper sonic speeds at least
- Is among the fastest sword wielders of the RWBY verse
Durability
Like all RWBY characters, Weiss is protected by an aura. This aura can protect Weiss from many means of attacks and even heal minor wounds. Weiss has some durability feats that reach building level at best. Some of these feats are
- Tanked a punch from Armas Gigas
- Took a small dust explosion at her face and was fine
- Has survives lava in the Vale tournament though this made her lose the fight and completely deplete her aura
- Knocked to the wall by Nora Valkyrie and while she was unconscious, she didn't suffer head injuries
Weiss' skillset revolves around dancing, graceful sword strikes. Even Weiss has been shown to use striking techniques that also involve multiple successive stabs similar to what Dante and Bayonetta can do with their swords.
Weapons
Myrtenaster is one of the most versatile weapons in the RWBY universe, and it is thanks to Weiss' skills and abilities that make it very powerful in terms of combat.
Semblance
Weiss' semblance is one of the most versatile powers in the RWBY universe (Seriously, Weiss herself is a Swiss army knife at this point). Her semblance allows her to create glyphs out of thin air, can teleport through glyphs for travel and even combat. She can create multiple glyphs at once to outspeed her opponents and increase her already amazing attack speed.
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| Weiss summoning Armas Gigas |
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| Weiss and the Queen Lancer |
The feats with her semblance include:
- Teleportation
- Increased speed for herself and those she works with. Ruby And Weiss teamed up to take down a Giant Bird.
- Summoned minions can attack enemies at hyper sonic speeds. Queen Lancer's attacks are capable of matching rocket speeds
- Can summon barriers that protect her from damage
- Can use her semblance to grapple opponents using glyphs for a finishing blow
- Used her semblance to launch Armas Gigas into the air.
Dust
Weiss is very versatile with her dust. However, she mainly uses her ice dust in combat. Although, she has been shown to use Fire and Lighting Dust in the past. The true extent of her powers are unknown but it is clear, she is very powerful with her Dust.
- Can create a large row of Ice Spikes
- Created an ice wall that protected Ruby from a Giant Scorpion's stinger.
- Can create a circle of ice surrounding her, killing all enemies around her
- Uses her iconic Ice Shards for long range attacks
- With Red dust, she can use it it amplify her cutting power and even create fire waves from Myrtenaster
- With Yellow Dust, she can enhance Myrtenaster with an electrical beam that increases it's cutting potential. She used this dust against Armas Gigas
Weaknesses
Despite her amazing abilities and power set, Weiss is one of, if not, the most fragile character in RWBY. She has lost in numerous fights that involved her even having the speed advantage. The White Fang Lieutenant defeated her despite Weiss dominating the majority of the fight. Even worse, Weiss' barriers, while durable, can easily be broken and completely shattered by sufficient force. Another weakness for Weiss is that her aura is not as durable as Yang's, Cinder Fall's, Nora, Mercury and even Ruby of all people. If her aura is depleted, Weiss is basically defenseless.
Still, despite all of her flaws, Weiss is a very versatile, very fast and a very skilled combatant.
Esdeath
Esdeath was born in the Northern Frontier Lands. Her tribe was a hunting group that mainly hunted Danger beasts to survive. Esdeath herself learned that only the strong survive and that rule alone motivated her into one of the most sadistic, ambitious and determined figures of the world. At a young age, she witnessed the destruction of her village and the death of her father and vowed to become stronger because of it. As time went on, Esdeath eventually joined the Empire and climbed the ranks to become a General. During that time Esdeath eventually met Prime Minister Honest who gifted Esdeath with a Teigu of her choice. Esdeath knew the Demon's Extract called to her, thus chose to drink the blood of a demon that drives people insane. Somehow, Esdeath endured the effects and eventually gained the powers of the Demon's Extract.Eventually Esdeath was the commander of the Three Beasts and The Jaegers. Since then, Esdeath as become one of the most influential, charismatic and most powerful figures of the Empire
That's a brief summary of Esdeath's backstory. Lets see what she can do
Strength
Despite her looks, Esdeath is extremely strong. Some of her incredible feats for strength are
- As a child, she can casually lift heavy danger beasts over her shoulder.
- Casually kicked brain matter out of Numa Seika with just a small head kick
- Parries strong strikes from Akame, the same character who can break other Imperial Arms
- Parries Susanoo's attacks, the same guy who can hold back Dr Stylish's Giant Trump Card
In terms of Speed, Esdeath is possibly the fastest combatant in Akame Ga Kill, rivaling only Akame and above Kurome, Wave and Tatsumi. Some of her amazing speed feats include
- Sliced three Danger Beasts at once
- Has defeated the entire team of Jaegers by reacting to all of their attacks. Although, Kurome got a lucky blow on Esdeath by cracking Esdeath's mask.
- Has taken on Tatsumi, Leone, Susanoo and Najenda all at once and never got scratched.
- Surpassed Leone's combat speed, who also scales to Akame's speed. Esdeath even countered Leone's surprise attack from behind.
- Matched or even exceeded Akame's speed. Akame can slice three guys in nanoseconds.
- In the same fight with Akame, she even kept up after losing one arm (If that doesn't make Esdeath a god damn badass, then nothing is logical anymore hahaha). Mind you, this was after Akame activated her trump card, which vastly boosted her stats.
- Can jump in the air in quick succession. Even more impressive, she can jump so high very quickly that Akame was caught off guard for a moment
Esdeath's Durability is impressive despite not having an aura like Weiss has. These feats include:
- No sold Blaze Ball. An ability that vaporizes humans instantly
- Tanked a punch from Tatsumi who was in Incursio 2 armour. This was the same armour that sent a Mech which is bigger than the size of a mountain flying with a punch.
- Shrugged off Heavy Pressure's Trump Card, a sound based attack that pulverizes the bones of those it touches
- Can fight at full strength right after her amputation against Akame. (You deserve my love Esdeath).
Skillset
As a General, it comes to no surprise that Esdeath is a highly skilled combatant. Her skills surpasses 90% of the Akame universe, rivaled only by Akame, Susanoo, Najenda and Budo. She is incredibly skilled with her rapier and other weapons. Truly, Esdeath is someone who needs her own game.
Weapons
Esdeath's weapons are mainly swords. Her Rapier for instance may not look impressive, although it has cut three danger beasts at once, parried attacks from Akame, Susanoo and Tatsumi. She also conjures Ice Swords which are virtually identical to the rapier in terms of durability and usage.
Imperial Arms
Abilites
Esdeath exclusively uses Ice based attacks in combat. Her feats for these abilites are:
- Froze
an entire riverbed in a timespan of 8-10 seconds. Mind you, Esdeath
also froze the riverbed with such density that her entire army crossed it
without the ice cracking at all.
- Weissschnabel: An ability that allows Esdeath to create Icicles from thin air and are used for long ranged combat. These icicles are so powerful they held back a mountain sized Giant.
- Grauhorn: Esdeath creates a Giant horn of ice from thin air to pierce her opponents. Esdeath used this ability on Akame, who barely reacted to it.
- Hagelsprung: Esdeath creates an enormous pillar of Ice and lands it into the ground, crushing her enemies. This Giant Pillar of Ice is so powerful, it crushed a mountain sized Giant instantly. It also travels so fast Akame barely escaped it
- Can conjure Ice Swords and Daggers at will
- Can create Ice based Sword waves
- Creates Ice Barriers for added defenses
- Can create Ice Armor around her body for added Protection
- Can Freeze her opponents by touching the ground or by simply a hand gesture.
- Can create multiple Ice Spikes at her opponents.
- Creates a wall of ice containing men, and, with just a thought, broke the entire wall of ice immediately.
Trump Cards
Unlike a lot of characters in Akame Ga Kill, Esdeath has multiple Trump cards. These include:
- Mahapadma "Makadooma": The first Trump Card in Esdeath's arsenal. This ability allows Esdeath to completely stop time. During this state, only Esdeath can move and attack her opponents. While this ability is legendary and incredibly powerful, it is very taxing and must only be used once a day. Despite it's flaws, Mahapadma remains Esdeath's best ability to date.
Esdeath using Mahapadma
- Ice Calvary: The Second Trump card in Esdeath's Arsenal. It allows Esdeath to create an army of ice centaurs. What's more, Esdeath's constructs are virtually unstoppable thanks to their self repair function that allows them to regenerate their entire bodies immediately
- Ice Storm Commander in Chief: Esdeath's Third Trump Card. This ability creates a "Russian Winter". The storm is so big it covered most of the Empire in ice and snow
Weaknesses
Esdeath doesn't have any exploitable weaknesses aside from a just a few ways to defeat her in combat. If an opponent can counter her abilities, theoretically she would be at a disadvantage. Also, despite her amazing power set and stats, Esdeath herself is just human. Akame even defeated her in combat and during that fight, Esdeath lost her arm in the process. Eventually, Esdeath is dead by the end of Akame Ga Kill so there really is not much else to gather from her after her duel with Akame.
Overall, Esdeath is one of the most badass, sexiest, coolest (No pun intended), determined, charismatic, cutest combatants ever. If I had the ideal wife, Esdeath has to be one of them :D!!!
Summary
Weiss Schnee
Advantages
- More versatile in terms of elemental control.
- Is protected by an aura which can tank damage.
Disadvantages
- Outright destroyed in terms of stats
- Her powers, while good, absolutely pale in comparison to Esdeath
- Her skills in combat are laughably outclassed by Esdeath
- Literally destroyed in terms of experience
- Her rack is nowhere near as sexy and as big as Esdeath's
- No counter to Mahapadma.
- Her summons cannot compete with Esdeath's Minions
Esdeath
Advantages
- Literally Destroys Weiss in terms of stats
- Her power level is far beyond Weiss'
- Her skills in combat is more than enough to kill Weiss
- Has leagues more experience than Weiss.
- Funny enough, she is stronger than Weiss as a child. Imagine the strength gap now that Esdeath is an adult
- Mahapadma literally ends the fight for Esdeath very easily.
- Her army is literally way more numerous than Weiss' summons
- Her rack is leagues better than Weiss'
- Much more beautiful than Weiss
Disadvantages
- Her Demon's Extract is exclusively ice based whereas Weiss' Myrtenaster is more versatile with more elements.
- Has yet to be a plush toy
- Too attached to Tatsumi.
Conclusion
I have analyzed alot of fictional fights. Some are extremely close, some are so one sided that it's laughable. Weiss Schnee vs Esdeath is an extremely personal fight for me since it has two of my favorite Ice users in fiction. Sadly, I may be the biggest RWBY Fan you can ever ask for, Esdeath annihilates Weiss in terms of.... well everything. However, Esdeath is still my ideal wife thanks to her badassness, her looks and oh my god her rack seals the deal!!!!
On a more serious note. Esdeath literally outclasses Weiss in terms of Strength, even as a child, the giant beast Esdeath was holding ontop of her shoulder weighed heavier than all of the stuff Weiss ever lifted during her time in RWBY. Like, it is laughable now that Esdeath has grown to an adult. Esdeath's casual kick to the Prince of the North surpasses Weiss' kicks by a large margin. And Esdeath alone isn't solely about Strength. We have to look at speed to see if Weiss stands any chance against Esdeath. Weiss is one of the fastest characters in RWBY. You would think she has a slight edge in speed against Esdeath then right? Unfortunately, that is not the case
Speed Wise, Weiss may be massively hypersonic at best, yet Esdeath DESTROYS HER HERE!!!! Esdeath is easily lightning level in terms of both travel and combat speed and what makes the speed gap even worse for Weiss, Esdeath has Mahapadma, a time stop A TIME STOP!!!!!.
Durability is also a joke. Weiss is literally crushed in terms of durability. Esdeath, while a human without an aura, has tanked attacks that vaporized human flesh, pulverized bones and even has way better defenses than Weiss.
So after mentioning the stats, Esdeath literally has no chance of losing here. Weiss, while putting up a fight.... is not gonna give Esdeath a worthy fight.
In short, Esdeath outclasses Weiss in every single way possible. If this fight is the perfect revenge on RWBY because of Yang vs Leone, then this would win a Medal.
The winner is Esdeath.
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