Time to expose my opinion on the Ban battles I made:
- Ban (Post Purgatory) vs Sariel or Tarmiel (choose who you want)
- Ban (Post Purgatory) vs Chandler (True Form)
- Ban (Post Purgatory) vs 4C Mael
- Ban (Post Purgatory) vs Zeldris
- Ban (Post Purgatory) vs King (Fully Grown Wings)
- Ban (Post Purgatory) vs Escanor (The One)
Even though Ban is most likely not as strong as some of the characters that I listed here, his immortality (even stronger after purgatory) and the ability to suck/give strenght allows him to beat characters considerably above his weight-class in my opinion. That being said:
- Ban beats either Sariel or Tarmiel easy. I think his power is already above them without using Hunter Fest.
- Still Ban without too much trouble in my opinion. Chandler has nothing to put him down and he sooner or later will get his strenght stolen only to increase Ban's and get decimated.
- Ban wins at the moment he realizes that Zel's ability is the borrowed power of his Father. He probably will get overpowered at the start by Ominous Nebula and The Ruler since he doesn't know anything about it but he's going to survive. If over 6000 battles with the DK didn't kill him, ON isn't doing the work. Ban sooner or later will realize Zel's abilies and give him strenght just like he did with the DK. If he could make the DK kneel for sure it's going to do a lot of damage on Zeldris (probably enough for him to lose his concentration and deactive ON?). Anyway, Ban wins with probably high difficulty.
- This one is hard to choose because unlike the others King has a way to probably put him down, which is fossilization. Granted it could probably not work since Ban has adapted to the most dangerous environments of Purgatory, but Fossilization just like Guardian or Spirit Spear should have gotten far stronger as an ability also. Overall I think Ban wins this more times than not. The difficulty probably goes up to extreme though.
- This one is tricky. I think The One is clearly considerable stronger than him but I don't see him putting Ban down. Again, Ban survived and regenerated from the DK's attacks for 60 years so I have my doubts whether The One's attacks could bypass his regeneration or not. Even if he could, Ban still has Hunter Fest which would steal a lot of Escanor's strenght, making Ban stronger at the same time. So yeah I also see Ban taking it more times than not.
People will probably accuse me of wanking Ban, but I think he's really OP right now. His durability and regeneration allowed him to survive over 6000 battles with the DK (even if he wasn't going all out it is still an impressive feat), not only that but his capability of steal strenght should have gotten far stronger also (he was able to steal enough strenght to make the DK kneel). Not only this technique is hard to counter but it is also extremely OP as your opponent gets far weaker and you far stronger than before. Coupled that with the fact that his perfected immortality after Purgatory should make him almost impossible to kill and that he has other techiques like Zero Sign which allow him to completely nullify his presence... I think Ban is simply not fodder anymore, my boy is almost a demi-god now
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Since Ludoret's PL has been revealed Induras seem to be even stronger than we fought so:
- Indura Derrierie VS Zeldris.
- Indura Derrierie VS 142K AM Meliodas.
- Indura Monspiet and Derrierie VS The One.
- Indura Monspiet VS King.
- I see Zeldris winning. IMO, Derieri doesn't have enough physical strenght to bypass ON.
- Clearly Derieri. She was tanking attacks from a 201K Ludo without a scratch and made him look like a joke (even though to be fair Ludo wasn't going all out since he didn't even use his Grace).
- The One has this. The mindless Induras are probably going to attack him in close-range and in my opinion no one baring the Gods, 5C/10C Mel and probably the Induras of the Highest Ranked Demons stand a chance against Escanor in that form in a pure physical fight.
- I'd say King. He has way more versatility than him and he also is conscious about his actions. High difficulty at best.