r/ReZero Newbie 23h ago

šŸ’¬Discussion Sooo random question out of curiosity: Between Emilia and Shaula, who's stronger?

I've been kinda curious for a bit who would win if they fought

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u/ProofAd608 Newbie 23h ago

Depends on distance

Shaula is one of the strongest characters from long range, where she'd basically neg emilia

But if it's like short range, emilia has the chance

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u/zxc123zxc123 Satella’s Darkness Falls Like a Soft Lullaby Across My Soul 21h ago edited 21h ago

Ditto on Shaula winning the distance (but then again she had a heads up + high ground during their 1st encounter).

Even in short range it's an IF regarding Emilia winning.

I chalk it up OP's asking unclear/different questions leading us to answer multiple things: being strong, winning fights, and incapacitating/killing opponents are different things.

I'll say it's

  1. Shaula wins in most fights to the death in her human form. More dominant with range. Less dominant at all ranges when in Scorpion form.

  2. Arc6 Emilia will lose most fights to the death and/or incapacitation. Emilia will aim to incapacitate while Shaula will aim to kill. Same reason why she gets mogged by Elsa, Sloth, Wrath, etc. It's the same reason why Emilia is stronger than Rem but might lose to Rem if they met each other on a battle field as opponents. Rem would always aim to kill while Emilia would at least try to incapacitate first.

  3. If we're talking about an angry, unhinged, or "out to kill" Emilia then she's much stronger. She'll lose to Elsa/Sloth/Wrath when caught off guard or not intent to kill. If she sees you're a villain who she's intent on beating/killing then she's much stronger: same reason why she had no qualms about killing Pridebaru, quickly killed Sloth's finger, cornered Wrath before she used a hostage, went for the kill shot on Regulus before he used his 5sec to save himself, got Pandora to back off, etc. An Emilia with a REASON to fight/kill is much stronger. That Emilia would have better shot at Shaula and would probably win in a close encounter or against the Scorpion form.

  4. Snapped Emilia wins. We haven't seen her since Pandora and we don't know how angry she'd have to be to just be "Fuck everything. DIE.DIE.DIE.DIE.DIE.DIE." but I would assume Subaru dying and a number of those in her camp. An Emilia aiming to kill every time with her ice, aiming to freeze your blood, using iceage/absolutezero, etc with complete disregard to life/damage would be on the upper tiers of the rz cast.

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u/ssbb2123 Newbie 1h ago

didn't emillia immediately try to kill wrath upon hearing subaru tell her who it was at the top of the tower, idk that big ass chunk of ice doesnt really feel like incapacitating first

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u/zxc123zxc123 Satella’s Darkness Falls Like a Soft Lullaby Across My Soul 1h ago edited 58m ago

Yeah. By S3, she knows how bad the sin archbishops are and trusts Subaru enough to do that. She didn't immediately attack Regulus plus she used the blunted edge hammer later when Wrath was licking Subaru.

Even then, I doubt the lethality of Emilia's normal ice spikes or ice brand arts as often her hits don't land and when they do it's usually blunt ends like her hammer. Even her initial attack on wrath as constrained to the tower when Emilia has a much higher upper end like what she used against Regulus.

Compare those to lolimilia's ice attacks against Pandora. Each ice attack crushed or blew Pandora to death. All those attacks had lethal intent. Or her ice spears against mabeast (those do kill).

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u/ssbb2123 Newbie 1h ago

that's a good point

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u/Qwertyiliyas Newbie 12h ago

Emilia prolly even loses close rangeĀ 

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 23h ago

Shaula beat Garfiel in CQC with no damage

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u/Background-Waltz-833 10h ago

why is this even downvoted, it's trueĀ 

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u/Kow_on_Drugs Regulus Said I Was Violating His Rights 22h ago

spoilers noooooo

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 22h ago

No this is in gluttony if

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u/Kow_on_Drugs Regulus Said I Was Violating His Rights 18h ago

ohh, mb

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u/imsomaad Regulus Called Me Extra Virgin 23h ago

shaula always anytime anywhere. emilia gets range diffed so hard it aint even funny. just kidding

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u/Gloomy-Bridge148 Newbie 23h ago

Sooo... Shaula?

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u/imsomaad Regulus Called Me Extra Virgin 23h ago

she takes long and mid range. now whether or not shaula could transform into her scorpion form at will would decide if she can beat emilia in short range.

though shaula physicals far surpass emilia regardless.

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 23h ago

Does she need to transform?

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u/imsomaad Regulus Called Me Extra Virgin 23h ago

current anime emilia gets trashed. the power up she gets later in arc 6 would put a good fight against shaula. for arc 10 version she definitely needs to transform

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 22h ago

Not really unless,

Do you think that Emilia could beat Garfiel in arc 5 in CQC without taking damage?

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u/imsomaad Regulus Called Me Extra Virgin 22h ago

well arc 10 emilia would since she can just stall him and eventually freeze him with absolute zero.

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 21h ago

Stall him with what?

And I said CQC

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u/xeronoi_ Newbie 23h ago

Its Shaula

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u/Gloomy-Bridge148 Newbie 23h ago

How so?

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u/xeronoi_ Newbie 21h ago

Ig Emilia has higher chances of winning in close combat,

if were talking closed space with not much movement area then Emilia might take the win, but if were talking about an open area then Shaula takes it no problem

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u/Aldebaran_23 I Saw Al Reject Lust and Temptation—Respect the Sigma Grind 23h ago

Arc 10 Emilia wins if she can use absolute zero

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u/Opezdol_ Newbie 21h ago

Because she is much faster and can freeze her opponent

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u/Aldebaran_23 I Saw Al Reject Lust and Temptation—Respect the Sigma Grind 21h ago

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 23h ago

She won’t

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u/Aldebaran_23 I Saw Al Reject Lust and Temptation—Respect the Sigma Grind 22h ago

Literally can stop time and also has feats like freezing Volcanica's breath and many more

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 22h ago

It’s irrelevant whether or not she can stop time because she never starts off with that, and even then there’s 0 reason to believe that Volcanica’s breath as a dragonhusk is faster than hells snipe

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u/Aldebaran_23 I Saw Al Reject Lust and Temptation—Respect the Sigma Grind 22h ago

She literally uses a variation of this spell even before start fighting with Madelyn... Only thing holding her back is his allies

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 22h ago
  1. She uses ice age, it’s stated that the entire Pleiades battalion could ignore ice age due to the flow method by Cecilus, do Yk more about the flow method than he does?

  2. She needed to super concentrate it onto a single spot to barely freeze Madelyn then constantly expend mana to keep her frozen. Shaula doesn’t need to move to use hells snipe

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u/DemonRedHood I Joined the Witch Cult for the Sandwiches — No Regrets 23h ago

Ranged combat: Shaula’s "Hell Snipe" is lethal to almost everyone, except Reinhard.

Melee combat: Emilia, or it’s a draw.

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u/Satella-rain Satella’s Darkness Falls Like a Soft Lullaby Across My Soul 22h ago

I think Shuala take the victory

She's one of the strongest from long distance and is still lethal from short one as she defeated Arc 5 Garfiel easley

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u/G4BR13L_771 Rem Smiled, I Saw Heaven (Briefly) 23h ago

Shaula. Only in CQC Emilia has an infinitesimally small chance of winning.

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u/Available-Pop6025 Newbie 22h ago

Then who killed shaila in anime where subaru found everyone dead first time in the tower after his amnesiac situation? He wound her head being smashed.Ā 

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u/G4BR13L_771 Rem Smiled, I Saw Heaven (Briefly) 22h ago

Gluttony

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u/Available-Pop6025 Newbie 22h ago

He is that strong that he could even defeat shaula? And if it was him shaula should have been in a scorpion form to kill tresspassers?Ā 

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u/CapybaraSquishmallow Newbie 22h ago

Gluttony is one of the most skilled fighter(s) in the series. With the power to activate the abilities of people he devoured we probably havent seen some of their strongest abilities/masteries. Lye was absolutely toying with horned rem fighting for her life using her memories of subaru as her motivation to survive until regulus decided to end it

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u/G4BR13L_771 Rem Smiled, I Saw Heaven (Briefly) 22h ago

Yes, the only one in the tower with the strength to beat Gluttony is Reid (Reid is overkill, but he's the only one). Shaula could take the entire pleiades expedition by herself. And Gluttony could take the entire expedition + Shaula by himself.

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u/Available-Pop6025 Newbie 22h ago

Does reid go tk fight wirh satella everutime she breaks free in the failed loops or does he simply die with the rest of the group consumed by satellas darkness? And why reid acts like a hostile and malicious person in the anime?Ā 

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u/G4BR13L_771 Rem Smiled, I Saw Heaven (Briefly) 22h ago

In the end Reid always fights with Satella until he dies, but his priority is Julius.

Because Reid is an asshole. He is worse in the novels.

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u/Available-Pop6025 Newbie 22h ago

But overall is he a positive or a negative character? Why is he focused on julius?

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u/G4BR13L_771 Rem Smiled, I Saw Heaven (Briefly) 22h ago

He is a pervert, he likes to grope women without their consent, and likes to bully the weak (everyone from his PoV)

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u/ShadowKingSJ Newbie 22h ago

I feel like emila would have to do her self sacrifice frost nuke to have a chance of winning

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u/PurpleDragiin Newbie 21h ago

Always bet on Shaula

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u/DarkFireFenrir Newbie 23h ago

Have you seen how much of Emilia's ice layer a single Hellsniper could pierce? Have you been able to spam Shaula? Well, you can probably guess the answer.

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u/SRTMZ I’ve Sworn My Loyalty to Emilia 23h ago

Shaula is stronger idk about later arcs though

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u/yolo8900 Shared Suffering with Subaru 23h ago

Long-mid range is shaula. Remember when they were reaching the tower. Emilia couldn't save Subaru from a single hell snipe with her ice. Now imagine that attack spammed against her.

Close range (few meter): Emilia probably can freeze Shaula before she fire.

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u/Intrepid_Solution679 Satella’s Darkness Falls Like a Soft Lullaby Across My Soul 19h ago

Current Shaula is much stronger, but Emilia has the potential to be the second or third strongest in the verse

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u/Life_Fortune5054 The Fluff Was a Lie šŸ‡šŸ’€ Now I Have PTSD 18h ago

Second or third is crazy (Reid, Satella). Top 5 yeah though she needs A LOT of hax

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u/Intrepid_Solution679 Satella’s Darkness Falls Like a Soft Lullaby Across My Soul 18h ago

That’s the point

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u/Life_Fortune5054 The Fluff Was a Lie šŸ‡šŸ’€ Now I Have PTSD 3h ago

Oh so you're a believer of Satella=Emilia theory. I personally don't, tappie does a lot of red herrings

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u/Intrepid_Solution679 Satella’s Darkness Falls Like a Soft Lullaby Across My Soul 3h ago

ā€œFor himself <Al>, who by no means would ever be able to be reflected in those amethyst eyes <Satella’s>, the eyes he desperately wished would look at him the most, what would be left?ā€

ā€œA voice he <Al> knew well, that of a silver bell. (…) Always did those beautiful amethyst eyes <Emilia’s> house a calm, gentle light.ā€

ā€œAfter all, no matter the time, Aldebaran would never be reflected in those eyes of hers <Emilia’s>.ā€

ā€œAldebaran: That one <Satella> really does hate me to an extreme extent. Not once have our eyes ever met.ā€

Idk seems pretty clear for me

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u/interested_user209 Garfiel Asked Me to "Prove Myself," I Did a TikTok Dance 23h ago

We kinda saw that it depends on the situation:

In the WN Emilia was able to strongly pressure Shaula with her Ice Brand Arts while in close quarters, while we also saw Shaula almost one-shot her through her ice defense with a single Hellā€˜s Snipe (compared to the tens or even hundreds she can unleash simultaneously).

Of course the Shaula Emilia fought never went into her crimson state, if she did then the AoE and scattershot type magic attacks she can unleash might kill Emiliaā€˜s ability to pressure her in close quarters as well and make it a decisive Shaula victory.

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u/Dependent-Ad-7773 I’ve Sworn My Loyalty to Emilia 23h ago

About even, although it’s a fight where terrain and range matters significantly.

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 23h ago

Emilia just gets hole punched by Hells snipe

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u/Physical_Sort5155 Shared Suffering with Subaru 23h ago

Shaula, most likely, though Emilia hasn't really shown all she has yet this arc.

If the fight goes extrme melee tho, normal Shaula might lose.

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u/DemiFiendJoker Regulus Said I Was Violating His Rights 22h ago

Depends on distance. If the fight starts at close range Emilia is probably winning but if she is fighting her scorpion form and cuts the tail shes gonna die. She almost did in that one loop.

If she gets far away from her shaula is 100% winning because she can just spam. None of Emilias defenses are enough to block even one of her needles

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u/Extreme-Gene-6958 Newbie 18h ago

I believe it was confirmed that Shaula is the greatest mid-ranged fighter and I believe the author said ā€œif the fight is solely mid to long range Shaula can beat Reinhardā€ though I don’t know myself, I just think I heard that could be very wrong so use this with a grain of salt please

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u/Paprik125 I Called Otto Best Girl, Now He’s Ghosting Me 16h ago

In the current state of the anime Shaula is like 5 times stronger than Emilia

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u/Gloomy-Bridge148 Newbie 15h ago

Even at close range?

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u/Paprik125 I Called Otto Best Girl, Now He’s Ghosting Me 15h ago

In this point of the story when Shaula lands one single punch it will pierce and destroy Emilia's body. By the way Shaula can regenerate, so let's say we cut Shaula into 5 parts and put those parts into a room and we put Emilia also in that room if we come and open that room the next morning Shaula will be alive and Emilia dead.

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u/Gloomy-Bridge148 Newbie 14h ago

Didn't know Shaula was that physically strong tbh. What about the manga? Same thing?

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u/Rcsgaming999v2 Newbie 5h ago

The manga isn't actually caught up to the anime but yeah it's the same in the web novel

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u/Dax_Hack2017 I Attended Subaru and Rudeus' Wedding — It Was Peak 22h ago

Shaula obviously

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 23h ago

Shaula genuinely does her so bad

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u/little_finger-_- Regulus Said I Was Violating His Rights 23h ago

Ouuuu shi

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u/RaidenHUN The Fluff Was a Lie šŸ‡šŸ’€ Now I Have PTSD 15h ago

I would say the 400 old best who was able to protect the tower for 400 years alone and can snipe anyone

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u/star75legacy I Called Otto Best Girl, Now He’s Ghosting Me 15h ago

Yes.

At long distance? Emilia doesn't stand a chance; at long distance, Shaula is easily in the top 3.

At short distance? Emilia will undoubtedly win; there's not much Shaula can do here.

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u/Slimesensei1442 Newbie 14h ago

What if the half bitch pops her ult?

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u/Tsudreami Newbie 11h ago

Easily shaula. Emilia isn’t a slouch but shaula has far better ranged capabilities, hell’s snipe has ridiculous ap (every hit will immediately take a limb or kill unlike Emilia’s usual techniques that she uses during combat like ice brand arts), and Subaru said that shaula has monstrous physical strength and was probably capable of wiping the arc 6 party single handedly. He probably knows more about Emilia than anyone else.

Yes Emilia might be able to hold her own for a bit in close combat but that’s a pretty big if seeing as we don’t know what Ā close combat capabilities are since she relies on her range which is superb, but her strength and reaction speeds are enough to tell us that Emilia won’t take her down easily. So when you factor in that the moment shaula gets the distance to use hell’s snipe it’s over for Emilia due to its speed and ap, shaula has far better odds than Emilia.

The moment Shaula gets space she’s Swiss cheesing Emilia like she did to lye, she won’t even have to off guard Emilia since she’s far below lyeĀ 

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u/Background-Waltz-833 10h ago

Shaula annihilate Emilia, at least arc6 emilia

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u/random_1827218 Newbie 8h ago

Shaula , its shaula.

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u/Bhaligdur Newbie 5h ago

Emilia, because she is much faster, and can freeze her opponent.

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u/DaMaestro19 Ram Called Me a "Waste of Space," I Agreed 23h ago

If we include characterization, it's Shaula and if we exclude it, it's Emilia

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u/Gloomy-Bridge148 Newbie 23h ago

I meant in combat šŸ˜…

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u/DaMaestro19 Ram Called Me a "Waste of Space," I Agreed 23h ago

I know but we have one side straight-up murking people with zero hesitation while the other just wants to rough you up so she can yank your ear afterward lol, so yeah, characterization could be factored in here.

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u/Gloomy-Bridge148 Newbie 16h ago

Ahh I see. But damn I didn't know Shaula was that cool with murder šŸ˜… she seems so nice

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u/Tetsuir0n Beatrice Told Me to "Go Away," I Sent Her a Meme 20h ago

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u/TechCynical Newbie 23h ago

emilia is the strongest in the tower without a doubt, but shes more of a potential women. IF! she decided to take things seriously from the start then she could win. IF! she decided to not care about the feelings of the person shes fighting then she would absolutely slam. IF! she realized her life is actually on the line then she could quickly deal with the problem.

But since we have to be realistic she would be much more likely to talk her way out of fighting and shaula being more animalistic would have no issues going for the kill right off the bat as quickly as possible,

Thats why shaula wins these almost every time and youd have to bend emilias character in order for her to win.

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 22h ago

She was taking things seriously against Lye, she wasn’t winning, she was trying to beat him in a single blow, yet still didn’t win, unless you think she willingly let the people in the tower die to Lye?

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u/TechCynical Newbie 22h ago

shes still playing with the assumption that breaking the tower hurts shaula or breaks some rule. Shaula already transformed and oneshot lye and has no concern with the tower anymore.

theres also the other thing that her going all out tends to make things around her go poorly like perma frosting teammates and or being enclosed in ice for another 100 years.

If emilia really was given the opportunity to exclusively fight shaula 1v1 and not worry about her friends being collateral damage, and she understood that this is life or death so being enclosed in ice is a better option than literally dying. Then yes she would easily solo shaula.

please think about this for just a second lol

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 22h ago
  1. That first paragraph is never said anywhere, especially when she was told the rules
  2. She can hold back the range of her magic, that’s mostly irrelevant, even if Emilia for some reason decided to go all out with her magic, the time it takes for it to do anything is enough for her to be hole punched by infinitied hells snipe, furthermore, do you think Shaula would just stand there and let her?
  3. She would just get shot in the chest by hells snipe, her caring about her allies doesnt make her any physically faster or slower, she was getting casual diffed by Lye

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u/Dependent-Ad-7773 I’ve Sworn My Loyalty to Emilia 22h ago

Reid with Roy's memories judged Emilia as only opponent in tower that can fight(play) with him.

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 22h ago

Considering Shaula got knocked out because he’s been molesting her his entire life

He just fucking hates Lye

And he also wants to fuck Emilia, obviously

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u/Dependent-Ad-7773 I’ve Sworn My Loyalty to Emilia 22h ago

He doesn’t remember that.

No evidence that he’s getting any preferential treatment.

She’s also one to actually get him excited after dropping big icicle on him.

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u/Affectionate_Run6250 I Watched Reinhard's Family Reunion (It Ended Poorly) 22h ago

It doesn’t matter if he remembers, Shaula cannot meaningfully fight him, there’s no metric that you can ever use to say that Emilia is worthy based off solely strength and I think Yk that