Yang Xiao Long (RWBY) vs Leone (Akame Ga Kill)

 
Greetings and welcome to my first ever blog post. And it is going to be none other than Yang Xiao Long from RWBY vs Leone from Akame Ga Kill.

In this blog I will go into the background of both Yang and Leone, go into base stats, their skills, weapons, trump cards and finally, who I personally think will win this amazing fight.


 Without further ado  let's get started.



Yang Xiao Long

Yang Xiao Long is the half sister of Ruby Rose and the daughter of Raven Branwen and Taiyang Xiao Long. An energetic, upbeat and cheerful girl since childhood, Yang always wanted to have the thrill of adventure which is the sole reason why she became a huntress. Since then, Yang is now a more matured teenager who loves nothing more than the protection of Ruby Rose and her friends.

That's a brief summary of Yang's backstory, now lets see what she can do.

Strength
Yang Xiao Long at her base strength is a very strong combatant. Here are some of Yang's best feats for Strength

 

Other strength feats for Yang include the following

• Punching Junior so hard he flew to the other side of the bar. Mind you this was when Yang didn't even use Ember Celica.
•  She is able to knock out 10 feet tall Grimm beasts, 
• Punch the floor of a bar so hard it created both a crater and a shock wave that sent everyone around it flying into the air.
• Has lifted a henchman wearing a teddy bear mask and not only did Yang blast the guy, his mask came off also
• Uppercutted Lie ren using Turkey gloves
• Has knocked out a team of guys who were facing Team RWBY in the Vale Tournament
• Overpowers groups of enemies without activating her semblance 
• Held up the mouth of a giant bird. 
• Stalemated Nora Valkyrie in a arm wrestling contest. Nora is strong enough to puncture a Giant Scorpion's carapace with Magnhild.

Speed
Yang Xiao Long is a particularly underrated character in terms of speed. She can scale to characters like Ruby Rose, Lie Ren, Mercury, Emerald and even Blake Belladonna, all of whom are hypersonic to massively hypersonic at best. Some of Yang's speed feats alone are:

•  Gaining momentum from using her Ember Celica for more power and speed to her attacks
• Reacted to Ruby Rose's attacks in a sparring contest
• Equalled or surpassed Lie Ren in hand to hand combat speed
• Matched Blake's speed when running
• Can easily dodge, deflect and even see the trajectory of bullets
• Can surpass Flynt Coal's Trumpet sound wave, resulting in Yang clapping her hands on Flynt's trumpet, knocking him out of the fight.
• Attack speed equals to the likes of Mercury, Emerald, Lie Ren and Pyrrha Nikos, Emerald in particular can dodge lighting. 

Durability 
Yang is surrounded by an aura that protects her from massive amounts of damage. This aura can heal minor wounds like scratch marks and bruises. It comes to no surprise that Yang Xiao Long is known to be one of the toughest characters of the RWBY universe. Her durability feats include

• Surviving multiple Grimm attacks, some Grimm are capable of breaking trees casually
• Endured heavy hits from Junior, who was carrying a rocket launcher and swung it at Yang multiple times
• Was uppercutted by Nora into the air. This also resulted in Yang falling from kilometers high later on, and when she landed, not only was Yang fine, she got back up like nothing happened.
  
•  Tanked a punch from a Paladin Mech piloted by Roman through a concrete pillar
• Endured Flynt's Sound wave
• Endured attacks from a 15 ft tall Grimm beast, even ended up getting chewed by it and wasn't even scratched. 

Skill set
Yang is a very skilled combatant, matching most of the characters in RWBY in terms of skill level. Her move set involves the use of boxing, kickboxing, brawling and high flying techniques. She is also a very skilled ranged combatant. 


Weapons
 











Yang's signature weapons are the Ember Celica. The Ember Celica are two yellow gauntlets that are very versatile in both close range and long ranged combat. In close range, the Ember Celica's power is so devastating that at base power, they have the power of a shotgun blast. At Long Range, Yang fires rockets from the gauntlets which are both powerful and very fast. 

 Some of the feats that Yang has when using the Ember Celica are

• Blasting 10 ft Grimm backwards
• While opening the Giant Birds mouth, she continuously fired rockets inside it's innards, severely damaging it.
• Stalemated Junior's Rockets, which were fired in rapid succession
• Knocked out Nyan with her rockets
• Used her Ember Celica to propel herself into the air for greater mobility and for flying techniques in combat
• By using the gauntlets she can land safely after flying for a couple of kilometers in the air.

Overall, Yang's Ember Celica are extremely dangerous weapons in any situation.


Semblance

Yang's Semblance is an ability that allows her to absorb all the damage she takes and redirect it back with greater force. While the ability is extremely powerful, it can result in Yang tanking too much damage, eventually hurting her if she is not careful. Some of Yang's best feats while using her semblance are.

•  After seeing pieces of her hair in Junior's hand, Yang activated her semblance and resulted in Yang punching Junior so hard, the entire building exploded from the inside, which also resulted with glass shattering and Junior flying outside of the building
• After getting smashed through a concrete pillar, Yang got back up and activated her semblance and completely destroyed the Paladin Mech.
• Very rarely misses a punch once her semblance is activated.
• Her semblance also increases her base strength gargantually. Even reaching Multi Building to small town level

Weaknesses

Despite Yang's incredible skills and stats, her main weaknesses involve her being predictable in fights against an opponent who is clever enough to outsmart her at times. She also tends to be very overconfident with her abilities that can result in her getting into trouble.
Also, her moment with Adam resulted in Yang losing her arm by trying to save Blake without thinking.


Despite this however, Yang will eventually grow her skills and even become a more mature fighter.

In a nutshell, Yang Xiao Long is a very versatile, very powerful combatant who is suited to any sort of situation that comes at her. And also. She is essentially my fictional wife and my all time favorite character in fiction....... Tied with her opponent of course





Leone

Leone was born in the slums of the Empire. She is a very well known figure in that area and is said to even be famous for her back massages (I want one of those thanks). Aside from that, she has eventually worked with an elite group of assassins working with the Revolutionary Army, this group of assassins are known as Night Raid. What is interesting here is that Leone is the only member of Night Raid who has never even worked for the Empire. Talk about true devotion.




Strength
Leone is one of the strongest combatants in Akame Ga Kill. Her strength level should scale to Large building to multi building level. Some of Leone's incredible strength feats are:

• Punching men through walls
• Strangling people to death instantly
• Can knock back a group of guys at once using only a kick
• Knocked out a Tyrannosaurus sized Danger Beast. The Danger Beast should actually be heavier than a Tyrannosaurus since the sheer weight of it caused the ground to shatter after Leone knocked it down.

• Bit off the tip of Bols Flamethrower using only her teeth
•  Has punched pillars and even wielded them like baseball bats

• Punched a tower that was about to fall ontop of a neighboring district within the Empire. The size of the tower was very large, scaling the feat to at least Large building to multi building level
• Smashed Honest's face like it was nothing (Well deserved) 

Speed
Leone is a particularly fast character in Akame Ga Kill. She easily scales to Akame and Tatsumi who can easily dodge bullets, quick sword attacks, dodge Imperial Arms that are hyper sonic in speed, even lightning. Leone herself can dodge lightning from General Budo. Some of Leone's best speed feats are

• Scaling to Akame and Tatsumi
• Quick enough to catch Bols off guard
• Jumps from rooftop to rooftop while holding Tatsumi
• Can pounce at very far distances
• Dodges General Budo's attacks and his lightning.
  
  
   

Durability
Unlike Yang, Leone does not have any form of aura protecting her whole body. Instead, she makes up for it with an impressive healing factor. This healing factor is extremely powerful, capable of instantly healing wounds like body cuts, bruises and even partially removed flesh. However, despite its incredible power, the healing factor cannot heal severe wounds instantly. This can lead to Leone getting her healing factor overtaxed if she takes too much damage.Despite this, here are some of Leone's durability feats

•  Survived a knife stab to the face and regenerated from it. She even killed the same guy later on
• Her arm was cut off by Kurome, yet after that, Leone was still conscious and not only did she shrug off the amputation, she closed the wound and even continued fighting at full power. (What a badass)

• Endured a blast from Bols' exploding gasoline canister. Keep in mind, while the explosion is indeed city to multi city level in terms of power, Leone was holding a shield at the time which protected her and Akame from the blast. Still, the blast itself would have killed Leone and Akame yet they survived. However, Leone was eventually unconscious afterwards.
• (Manga)Was mutilated by Esdeath yet she survived but barely
• Was paralyzed by General Budo's lightning while trying to hold him for Mine to shoot him with Pumpkin. Leone was not trying to dodge the lightning, she just wanted to give Mine time to get a clear shot at Budo. Afterwards, Leone eventually regained her movement and started moving like normal
• (Spoiler) After her healing factor was removed, she took 9 bullets in the stomach and was still able to walk it off for a couple of hours like it was nothing before dying from her wounds. 

Weapons

Leone wears The King Of Beasts Transformation: Lionelle. An Imperial arms that grants the wearer bestial instincts and even claws. These claws are very good at strangling Leone's opponents and are also great for close quarters combat.

Abilities
 As said before, Leone has a regen but, with the help of Lionelle, Her appearance becomes more animalistic and even boosts her stats to greater heights. She is granted superior strength, speed, durability, reflexes and even greater senses, which allows her to smell her target and even sense things from kilometers away.

Weaknesses
Despite Leone's incredible stats and her impressive resume. Aside from her regen, she only has the same durability level of just a human. It is thanks to her regen that she survives all of the stuff that would have killed her in an instant. Also, as said before, if her regen takes too much damage, it will be overtaxed to the point that Leone will die if she is careless. And finally, should Lionelle be destroyed, Leone's regen is utterly removed, leaving her completely defenseless.





 















Overall. Leone is simply one of the coolest badasses ever. Her stats are extremely impressive and even her personality makes her a charming and endearing character to love. She is easily tied with Yang as my all time favorite character :D

Errrrrrr ok then XD!!!!




Summary
 Yang Xiao Long

Advantages

• Superior Durability
• Way more versatile in terms of close ranged and long ranged combat
• Her Ember Celica gauntlets pack the firepower of a shotgun when not activated with her semblance, should she activate the semblance, the gauntlets pack the firepower of a multi building level blast
• Can surpass Leone in terms of a long drawn fight
• Once her semblance is activated, she very rarely misses a punch, so if she lands the punch on Leone, it will either incapacitate Leone or even kill her instantly
• Can bypass Leone's Regen overtime.
• Her semblance will overpower Leone once activated 
• Is a plush toy that I sleep with 
• Rides a bike called Bumblebee. (Not to be confused with the Autobot from Transformers)

Disadvantages

• Slightly slower than Leone
• Not as strong as Leone in base strength, though this will be removed overtime when Leone keeps attacking Yang 
• Can be very predictable to Leone if Leone can see the pattern of her attacks.
• Leone's craftiness can tire out Yang if Yang expends too much energy
• Despite her aura being incredibly durable, if it takes too much damage, it will be gone if Yang tanks too much for the aura to handle.
• Not as skilled as Leone, who is a trained assassin.
• Leone's neck snap will kill Yang even if the aura is at full power. 

Leone

Advantages

• Is stronger than Yang earlier on in the fight
• Is faster than Yang in both travel and combat speed
• Regen is very useful in the fight unless Leone gets careless
• Her mindset allows her to keep her cool despite the mere pressure of the fight. 
• Way more skilled than Yang and can even outsmart Yang if Yang gets too predictable.
•  Even when she is missing a limb, Leone can keep fighting at full power, giving her better resilience and determination over Yang, who actually was knocked out completely when Adam sliced her arm off.
•  Makes Catwoman, Black Cat and Blake Belladonna look like pussies.........
• Voiced by Alison Keith. A Texan who makes Leone sound sexy

Disadvantages

•  Nowhere near as durable
• Her claws, while very powerful, lack the versatility of Yang's Ember Celica
• Once Yang activates her semblance, Leone is dead
• Leone's attacks will feed Yang's semblance, rendering them useless
• Her only way of killing Yang has to result in Yang getting knocked out completely.
• Leone's Regen will be overtaxed if she takes serious injuries.  

Conclusion

Yang Xiao Long vs Leone is easily one of the closest fights I ever had to analyze. This is also both a dream match up of mine and I am very personal about this fight because I love both Yang and Leone evenly. These are two of my favorite badass blondes ever so choosing a winner for me makes me both very happy but also very sad. In a very close fight, I have to choose Yang to win this.


The reasons why Yang wins this fight are two reasons

1.


Yang's Ember Celica allows her greater versatility over Leone's Claws. The Claws, while very powerful and very good at what they can do, simply cannot compete with Yang's ranged capabilites. Leone is at a huge disadvantage once she is bombarded by Yang's rockets. But, you may be thinking that Leone could just reach Yang in melee range after dodging those rockets. That is very likely yes. But the catch here is that while Leone will be stronger than Yang at the initial moments of the fight, the one factor here that tips the whole fight into Yang's favor is her aura. Yang's aura has endured way more punishment than Leone's body and since it took a punch from Roman's Paladin through a pillar, that alone puts Yang's durability at a much higher level than Leone's. Now, Leone's regen will help her against Yang but then. We get into:

 
2.

Yang's semblance allows her to absorb the attacks from Leone and eventually she will overtax her healing factor while getting stronger overtime. Leone's healing factor, while impressive, cannot heal severe wounds quickly, so if Yang basically punched Leone in the stomach, Leone will feel it like a normal human would. She will eventually keep fighting like a real badass she is but sadly, she cannot keep up against someone who packs the fire power of a shotgun blast at base strength. Imagine getting shot by a shotgun right? Leone is feeling that.





Overall. While Leone will without a doubt put up a fight against Yang, her chances get lower by the time her regen is eventually overtaxed by Yang's sheer power. Leone's method of strangling her opponent will work however, but the thing is, Yang will blast off Leone's arm, resulting in Leone either losing the arm or having it broken. However, Leone will still keep going but eventually, will succumb to Yang in the long run. Leone, I love you. But you cannot compete with Yang, who is too durable, too versatile and has better trump cards in terms of overpowering the opponent.

Here is my devil's advocate. Leone will win if she is cautious with Yang, uses hit and run tactics to wear Yang down, even out speed Yang to the point that she could possible dodge Yang easily until Yang gets worn out. And finally, knock out Yang to finish her off with a neck snap.


Overall. The winner is Yang Xiao Long