Acno would no sell that dagger blindsided or not. You think a dagger is stronger than Igneel's roar?!! Irene took a sword to the head by two time enchanted Erza to the head while completely defenseless.
No he wouldn't. I am talking about human Acnologia. Dragons have hardened skin which make daggers much less effective then they would be against regular human skin. Irene was battle ready.
Difference between Brandish and August was that Brandish was a gag feat, August wasn't.
Both feats were used to progress the plot and are valid, gag or not, if you don't expect to be stabbed you are getting stabbed.
August was scared of Acno. BFR or not Irene impressed Acno long before U1 while he didn't spare August a glance. If August was so battle oriented why didn't he do something on the caliber of U1 or intercepted Acno's blitz instead of getting blitzed past and scared?
Yeah, and Irene would be as well if she had no way of avoiding a prolonged fight with Acnologia. Plus, Irene is far more conceited. I think I made it clear that August was
NOT battle oriented, he had absolutely no intention of confronting Acno. And as I've said before, Universe One might as well be the most impressive spell in the verse from a technical stand point, that doesn't change the fact that its no more combat oriented/deadly then Arlocks barriers and thus you really get
nowhere by trying to use it to justify Irene being close to August in
combat. Why would August intercept Acnologias blitz when he does not want to make an enemy of Acnologia with no way of running away? Not to mention he had Jacob (another comrade) to worry about. You seem continuously overlook the fact that
Irene had a way of running away, August did not. Stop using the fact that August did not fight Acnologia as an argument.
Wendy no diffs Racer lol. Natsu probably dodges? You're kidding? Can you show one feat that puts him on Wendy's caliber in speed let alone Natsu's bcs last I checked Racer and Cobra together couldn't even land solid contact on BoS Erza.
Racer slows down perception of him, Erza wasn't looking at Racer, he attacked her normally. Racer was rofl blitzing Gray back in the OS arc (the hardest blitzing we have seen in the series), naturally he wouldn't have improved as much as Gray to the point that he would be capable of doing the same thing (due to different improvement rates and jail time) but he would have still improved after the time-skip. Racer rofl blitzes Pre-Ts Wendy and GMG Wendy all the same. DF gives Wendy the edge if we go with bare minimum estimates on improvement rates (i.e. low improvement) but DF Wendy is also one of the faster characters in the series. Base Wendy still gets blitzed. Natsu is probably around as fast as DF Wendy, maybe a little slower so he is on the same boat.
Those feats are still better than August attacks. August best move to date Melt was tanked by Mest and Happy. Guess Melt just sucks?!!
Nope. Melt was not tanked by anyone, Natsu offsetted the attack just like he did when Tempesta fired a large AoE on Gajeel and Juvia, even then he was only capable of offsetting most of it, and not all which speaks volumes of its power. He also decimated Jellal and the crew with a simple perfected refractor and you could bet that that was just a random (i.e. casual) spell that he decided to throw out due to Midnight having it. The same cannot be said for Irenes explosions used on Erza after telling her she's going to tear her to pieces. The perfected refractor is far more impressive then anything Irene has used offensively and the barrier he used to completely negate Laxuses spriggan KO'ing spell is far more impressive then anything Irene has shown defensively. August also has more versatility (obviously) and greater physical traits (speed, endurance, strength) aside from durability due to lack of feats in that department.
We'll wait and see but just going off her low end feats and then use August high end feats to decide a battle is bad. You guys are also dissing Acno since Acno was pushed back and impressed by Irene yet you guys think August low diffs her and she's going all out against Erza and Wendy.
Her "high end" feats are Universe One and enchanting
other characters, both are coincidentally not combat oriented and now that she entered Wendy's body its unlikely that we will see anything more impressive then what she has already shown. If anything we are comparing Irenes high end combat oriented feats with Augusts low end ones since unlike Irene, August has yet to have his buttons pushed (i.e. get a real fight), him steam rolling CS was casual.
Still, less than mid is a stretch though. You can't deny the obvious PiS happening in Irene's battle. Place those PiS odds in front of August and just guess what happens...
I actually do think PiS will happen with August, otherwise even a combo of Jellal/Laxus/Gildarts wouldn't beat him given just how effortlessly he defeated Jellal and the OS (I mean, he literally curbstomped them, even adding two more Jellal level characters shouldn't push it from a loosing curbstomp to a win). But thats the thing, even with PiS in his way it will likely take a combo of Ishgars top-tiers like Gildarts/Jellall/Laxus to defeat him, maybe even more, the same cannot be said for Irene. I could be wrong and Lucy ends up solo'ing but for now Irene isn't anymore impressive then Larcade in
direct combat.
