The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy VS Strategy Guide

 

Halloween is less than 10 days away and you all came back for the 4th week of Monster Month! Today we got something special for you. Over the years there have been plenty of Horror Cartoons; Courage the Cowardly Dog, Edgar & Ellen, Beetlejuice, Making Fiends, Aaahh!! Real Monsters, Invader Zim, Ruby Gloom and Many More. But none of them are nearly as large, powerful or influential as The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy! Beginning as a Hybrid show with Evil Con Carne called Grim & Evil in 2001, Billy & Mandy was created by Maxwell Atoms and was easily one of Cartoon Network's best shows throughout the 00s, attaining 7 seasons of television, movies, 2 different spin-offs, crossover specials, comics and videogames. On top of all that it also is easily one of the strongest cartoons ever made from a VS perspective, possibly at the top! How does one become OP here? Well stay tuned and I’ll tell you!

Island Tier:

So this is the tier of the ‘normal’ human and low tier monster characters of Billy and Mandy, including Billy & Mandy themselves, humankind, the Evil Con Carne cast, and the majority of Episodic Villains. The Town of Endsville is a mysterious place where strange things happen, existing at the edge of the world, it is a hotspot for all sorts of supernatural mischief great and small. Characters in this tier are Large Island level, due to feats such as every human in Endsville effortlessly tanking Grim’s guitar solo that obliterated the city, causing a massive earthquake and vaporizing all the buildings. Similarly the Evil Con Carne cast has effortlessly tanked the entirety of Bunny Island exploding with them in the center, multiple times. These two series exist in the same universe, and the humans have shown to be at a similar tier. As far as speed goes, Mandy was super casually able to react to and process Nergal’s tentacles as they pulled her to the Earth’s core at speeds of over Mach 3,000, and later in the show Billy as able to dodge around Hoss Delgado’s electric lightning shock, which travels through the air at nearly Mach 300,000, which would put characters here at Relativistic speed.

Even total civilian characters in this series are intelligent enough to build advanced vehicles and invent an energy source that can power an entire city for 3 weeks using only a drop of water. The more intelligent scientist characters like Major Doctor Ghastly, can invent weapons capable of blowing up the moon and even Time Travel, technically making Billy & Mandy a Level 3 society on the Kardashev Scale. Beyond that civilians can (somewhat inconsistently) breathe and survive in the vacuum of Space, and everyone on Earth is capable of Possessing people or animals, just by jumping into their heads, including Billy. Billy is the least intelligent character in the series, and possibly any cartoon going by feats, as he was able to score a -5 on a test even inanimate objects could score a 17 on. This might sound like an enormous disadvantage, but Billy’s quite literal lack of a brain has allowed him to blissfully do some incredibly impressive things sheerly due to lack of awareness. He can hold his breath for literal days on end, achieved spiritual enlightenment, ate a Kaiju-sized candy monster, and was unable to be manipulated by the Goddess of Chaos, Eris, and in fact made her suffer a panic attack as a result. Billy can melt creatures alive with his burps, instantly regenerate from being sliced to pieces or having his head explode, and can even move through Metafictional Space, such as when he and Grim were talking on the phone on a split screen, and Grim hung up the phone making Billy’s side pan off screen, but Billy himself remained static and ended up being teleported to Grim's location. For an example of a more competent human, look no further than Hoss Delgado, the local Spectral Exterminator with a bionic arm, he's been Bitten by Ghosts, Haunted by MoleRats and Slapped by Vampires. Hoss is an incredibly skilled badass fighter who can track sources and levels of supernatural power and has a massive arsenal of weapons to pull from, including a shotgun, netgun, shuriken launcher, grenade launcher, a cannon, a lightsaber, laser beam, electrical shocker, tractor beam, ectoplasmic goo strong enough to restrain Grim, and a crossbow that shoots chainsaws! The Wizards of Toadblatt’s School of Sorcery have numerous useful spells, such as turning invisible, transmutating foes into animals, generating dragons, forcing people to fall in love, and summoning others to them through the toilet. The Dark Wizard, Lord Moldybutt also has a curse on his name where if anyone dare says it it will destroy everything around them and gets more potent every time it is said. But let’s talk monsters, even basic Imps are capable of interdimensional travel and entities like The Great Snake, Shnissugah and Daisy the Chupacabra can even use immersion and travel through cyberspace and Television signals. You’ve got Logia slime monsters, Brain Eating Alien Meteors and Voodoo style Zombies who can control and animate any small piece of themselves and even merge together into some Zombie Kaiju monster that would make a SICK Resident Evil Boss Fight. There are numerous intangible ghosts in this tier, including Mrs. Doolin who can cast insane illusions, The Duck who is invisible and inaudible to everyone but his current victim, and The Spirit of Pittsburg, who can haunt and control objects, regenerate, manipulate lightning, and create pocket dimensions. Skarr, after becoming one with his garden, can manipulate plant life and regenerate from being mulched, and Mindy is a powerful Witch who can induce sleep, bolster stats, and use numerous other spells. This tier also includes Pandora, an immortal girl who carries around the cursed box, if she can trick someone into opening it, it would end the world unleashing untold suffering and plagues on humanity, not to mention The Abominable Snowman, who is clearly the trickiest and most manipulative character in the entire show, able to cheat literal death for centuries. There are several other creatures in this tier, from traditional monsters like Werewolves, Giant Spiders and Phoenix’s which have all the classic powers you’d expect, to extremely unconventional ones like Snails with advanced Probability Manipulation good enough to make someone get struck by lightning 20 back to back times, a monster that has the power to ‘turn all other monsters into toast’ and Uncle Chokey’s Sentient Record Player, which can metafictionally change everything around it into a classic rubber hose cartoon with its music. But enough stalling, there is one Extreme threat in this tier we still have to address, terrifying beyond anything mentioned above, sits Mandy herself. Mandy is faster, stronger and Smarter than basically every other civilian character in the series, she is a master martial artist who can defeat entire armies of giant spiders in hand to hand combat, and bested Mrs. Doolin in fencing, and Mrs. Doolin was a world class Fencer who managed to defeat Grim and indefinitely delay her own death out of sheer skill. She was able to take control of the global spanning Kids Next Door organization and later escaped them by building rockets into her hair, and at the end of the series, took over as President of the Earth and in only a single Day led the world to defeat an Underworld invasion. But Mandy also possesses an unknown factor to her, her dark and mysterious powers. No one knows just where Mandy gets her dark powers from, but it has made her one of the most intimidating forces in the series, she was able to make General Skarr surrender Grim’s scythe to her with her mere presence, and with a mere glance, terrified a sentient mask designed by the top Underworld scientists to be so horrifying it would scare the life out of anyone who sees it in an instant. Mandy is able to control Minds on a planet wide scale, casually making everyone on Earth do her bidding with a thought, and was able to kill and assimilate the Brain Meteor when it stole her brain. Her resistance to Mind Manipulation is just as impressive, seen most famously when The Delightful Reaper was Assimilating everyone in Cartoon Network, with all of them being merged into its Hive Mind, and Mandy stopped it by allowing herself to be assimilated, where she instantaneously took complete mental control over the creature, making it an extension of her rather than the other way around. She once casually froze time for everyone on the entire planet and later was also able to tell when Billy was rewinding her in time and Stopped him, she even seems to have some manipulation of Space, as shown when she somehow ate an entire City Dump….don’t ask. Mandy can teleport, manipulate fire, levitate, use telekinesis, summon ghosts from her mouth, make dimensional portals, has a passive good luck aura and has extreme levels of Metafictional Manipulation, one time even literally climbing out of the cartoon and watching it from outside their universe when she didn’t like the plot. She wears a ring that allows her to summon and control vast and horrible armies of the undead, and stole Ms. Slithers Yardstick that allows her to create anything she can imagine. Mandy seems to draw all these powers from her Nerve, her dark rebellious aura of the unknown related to her extreme levels of Scorpio energy. This Nerve has some insane feats, like the time Mandy met herself from the Shadow Dimension, ones Shadow Self being everything that they are not, exactly the equal and opposite in every way, yet Mandy’s evil was still able to Break this shadow into being Exactly like Mandy. Mandy’s Nerve is so strong that one time Billy and Grim Removed her Nerve itself and had it become its own entity, yet Mandy was STILL able to beat her own Nerve with her Nerve. Her Nerve is so strong, she was able to use it to resist the Tooth Fairies Transmutation, which even Grim Feared, and resisted the Duck’s Humiliation abilities so thoroughly that it caused him to literally fade out of existence. But if all that fails there is one more thing to worry about with Mandy, you see, it is commonly pointed out in universe that Mandy Never Smiles. As it turns out, that is literally an absolute Law of reality, and Mandy breaking this is an ultimate Taboo. Should Mandy force herself to smile, it will literally Destroy and Rewrite Reality on a Multiversal Scale, as in this wouldn’t affect just The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy but ALL OF CARTOON NETWORK as a whole!

So as one can see the addition of Mandy really made this verse step up its game, but what would some effective strategies be to dominate this tier? So ignoring Mandy for a second, the cast of Billy & Mandy is often portrayed as being pretty Naïve, despite their intelligence, managing to manipulate them or build up one’s forces behind their back was always presented as super easy for villains to accomplish and generally only Mandy and Grim know totally what’s going on. Similarly most of these characters are incompetent in some way and end up failing in their goals whether they are hero’s or villains due to the fact Billy & Mandy has such a heavy theme of Balance, so anyone who tries to shake things up seems almost destiny bound to fail. This can even be seen with Mandy, who claims she never loses or fails, and while that is technically true, Mandy doesn’t really try and take over the world much, being mostly apathetic to things she doesn’t like and doing normal day to day things, as if aware of this Balance and is simply biding her time until she figures out a way around it. But how do you Stop Mandy? Well Mandy has been bested before but normally by things Far outside of her Tier, like when Grim’s Scythe mind controlled her or when transmutated by Eris or the Mask of the Beast, or when Horror’s Hand fear haxed her, despite her having really good resistance to those things. But there Are various powers Mandy has no counter play to at all. Characters in Billy and Mandy are quite susceptible to Age Manipulation, with even Mandy being helpless to stop herself from being aged backwards into nothingness. Despite Mandy having extremely strong Mental Defenses, this has done nothing to protect her from Possession, with even Billy managing to possess Mandy for days. And one of the most consistent ways to stop Mandy is via sealing, Mandy’s only counterplay to being sealed in a dimension without Grim is to attempt to carve a dimensional portal, which is difficult to do without supplies. Probably the most damning thing about Mandy is that most of her powers require her to have the ability to move, stasis or bodily manipulation would also work wonders here. On character I think would go well here is,

Ashley:

The Great Ashley from WarioWare. Ashley was able to fly her broom all the way to the moon in just over a second and tank the kinetic energy of landing onto it, which should put her nearly on par with this tier in terms of stats, being slightly faster and weaker. Ashley is a very powerful witch who can use a lot of useful abilities against this tier, possessing hax like transmutation, which should allow her to take out the majority of characters in only one shot, disregarding their healing factors. Ashley has far superior movement options than the characters in this tier having flight, telekinesis, teleportation, dimensional travel and even immersion which would easily grant her a tremendous advantage in range that would allow her to snipe any of her opponents with her distance attacks while being able to counter their own. Ashley’s immersion allows her to travel into fictional media such as books or games and take others there, which could be used to effectively seal away any of the characters other than Daisy or Shishiga who don’t stand much of a chance against her anyway. Ashley is also Far more competent and experienced than most of the characters at this tier, having fought demons and other monster like characters innumerable times. Ashley’s by FAR biggest threat in this tier is Mandy, who despite being vulnerable to this same sealing certainly would have a fair deal of counterplay to Ashley, but something else that Ashley can use is Voodoo, which would heavily restrict Mandy’s movements preventing her from using much of her own abilities and even kill her, ntm it can work from other dimensions so the wise Ashley could simply get herself to safety before activating it. Even if Mandy went all in and tried to freeze Ashley in time or Control her mind right out the get go, Ashley could still potentially counter it with The Dark Zone which absolutely messes with an opponent by pelting them with random status effects, including messing with Time and Causing Confusion to throw off Mandy’s powers directly, not to mention do things like warp her underground, shrink her, make her own healing factor do damage to her and all sorts of other stuff that would enable Ashley to win a hax quickdraw with the demon girl. Other than that Ashley also has things like Purification, which I have to imagine would be really rough for Mandy to be exposed to, overall she would be a really difficult opponent for Mandy to beat. That said, Mandy could well take Ashley down if she was allotted some prep time, for a character who would be more consistent.

Mentor:

Mentor from Freedom Force should hypothetically be able to fight this tier as well. Mentor scales to the Greek God, Pan, who moved around his own floating island and his reaction speeds scale to the Domain's spaceships which travel at FTL speeds, more than allowing him to compete here in terms of power. Mentor is an incredibly powerful psychic alien hero, meant to pay homage to both Martian Manhunter and Professor X, so you can bet his mental manipulation powers are really good, more than likely superior to that of the Nazi Telepath Blitzkrieg, and could easily dominate the mind of almost anyone in this tier with his psychic powers. Now there is obviously a big asterisk next to anyone as Obviously Mandy’s Mind Control and Mind Control resistance have better feats than his own and should beat him out, however the real strength of Mentor’s mind powers isn’t its potency, but it’s versatility. For example, his Mind powers make him outright immune to Magic, nullifying the abilities of any of the sorcerers here. They allow him to manipulate time, including allowing time travel, or mind screw someone retroactively in the past, allowing him to likely avoid the time stop, as he was even able to create a Mental Seal that TimeMaster, the multiversal time manipulating deity, could not escape. Mentor can also read minds to see basically any kind of attack coming and use countermeasures to stop it before it happens, or throw people off his trail by causing them to experience delusions. Mentor can also create psychic barriers and use telekinesis which could allow him to prevent his foes from moving, which would stop them from using their metafictional powers. Another amazing power that Mentor has is his ability to move and exist on the Mental Plane such as when he entered Alchemiss’ Dream. Even Mandy cannot defend against someone entering into her mind, when Billy did so Mandy was unaware of his presence and while in there he managed to temporarily disable all of her powers, and Mentor would easily be able to do the same. Even Mandy’s ability to end the multiverse with her Smile may not be good enough to stop Mentor as he was able to hold himself in existence even when Entropy was erasing the multiverse. All that said, It is Possible Mandy with great difficulty could still affect him with her own mental powers, making this not 100% safe for him. For the safest possible option….

The Ghost Writer:

Someone I feel would absolutely be OP in this tier is none other than The Ghost Writer from Danny Phantom. The Ghost Writer is a powerful Ghost easily comparable to Ghosts that can create entire islands with their power, and he could keep up with Season 2 Danny who could outspeed Technis’ satellite lasers which could travel from orbit to surface in under a second, putting him well in the stat range. Naturally, The Ghost Writer is a Ghost and possesses the standard ghost abilities of the verse, including things like Intangibility, which would protect him from a majority of physical attacks, as well as the ability to Overshadow someone, which is possession, something the verse’s characters are specifically vulnerable to. But that’s nothing compared to his main ability, which is essentially the ability to trap people in the poems that he writes using his magic keyboard. What this does is give The Ghost Writer full control over the reality he is effecting, to a frankly unbelievable degree, and would be a similar effect to Grim’s Fairy Tales book which trapped both Billy and Mandy inside and left them no means of exit. The Ghost Writers manipulation over reality in this state allows him to bodily and even straight up mind control the entire involved cast of characters to fulfill his story needs, and it can affect an insane range, not only to actually take possession over the Moon, but he was able to control the Danny Phantom Earth with this while he was in The Ghost Zone, and extra dimensional flipside reality. This Range suggests his control of minds may even be superior to that of Mandy, as crazy as that may seem. On top of that The Ghost Writer can also summon a large variety of different ghost like monsters to fight these characters with until they eventually go down, and really conveniently, seems to gain immense knowledge of whoever he's writing about as seen when he trapped Danny in his story, after just meeting him and not even knowing his name, and suddenly knowing his secret identity and all of his personal relationships and stuff, meaning he would also immediately know every single potential threat this tier could throw at him and plan accordingly. With Mandy’s body being controlled she obviously couldn’t go after him, and since he tends to operate from another plane of existence, he’d be out of range from any retaliation she could do without moving like her time manipulation or mind control, basically meaning they are all screwed to live out his Nightmare Before Christmas.

Star Tier:

This is the tier of big name threats of the Underworld and Beyond, it includes numerous of the most powerful and iconic monsters in the series and is also the Tier that Grim would occupy without access to his Scythe. Top tier underworld monsters can rearrange the planets like nothing and are stated to be capable of Destroying Stars, something which was directly proven when Nergal broke the Sun simply by accidentally hitting a baseball too hard. Speed wise, merely hitting a baseball all the way to the sun in under a second would already mean Nergal swung his arms over 500 times the speed of light, Mistress Pollywinkle on the other hand, was able to blitz Grim while he had his Scythe, which would require speeds of at least 90 Billion times the speed of light. One of the most well known monsters at this tier is Nergal, a dark demon from the center of the Earth. Nergal can produce tentacles and giant limbs from his back, which can stretch longer than the Radius of Earth and produce powerful electric shocks on contact. Nergal can fire massive blasts of energy, telekinetically pull an entire Circus through the Earth’s crust and most terrifyingly, use his tentacles to Transmutate others into Nerglings and mind control them to be his friends, this attack is so potent it can hit and effect Mandy, Grim and even hit the absolute plane and hit the shows viewer. Nergal’s half-human son Junior on the other hand is even more dangerous, having all his father’s powers and more. Junior can shapeshift his form and voice into anyone or anything, and can use this power to do things like turn his body into liquid, dramatically increase his stats by changing his muscle mass, fly through the air, turn parts of his body into weapons or consuming mouths, and even spawn henchmen from his biomass and break them off his body. On top of that, Junior’s true form is so horrible and terrifying that it can make people's heads Melt on sight. Junior can also turn completely intangible, shoot webs to restrain targets, and place people into a state of stasis where they cannot move or think. One of the most widely broken things in this tier is the large number of movement options the Characters have, being able to do things like teleport, travel to other dimensions and even overlap themselves with reality, like Lord Pain, who can hit and shatter the metafictional 4th wall. Pain can also drastically increase his size, speak in a forbidden language that deals spiritual damage to all mortals that hear it. Killing plants and animals and causing sickness and madness and phase matter into and out of existence. Several more characters such as the Tooth Fairy can transmutate foes, and the serpent teacher Ms. Slither is able to summon basically any type of matter she wants to her side, including both objects and sentient life. Other common powers here include Super Senses, Fire Manipulation, telekinesis, and energy manipulation. There's an army of alien Werewolves as well as the Martian Grim Reaper, who both independently have the ability to turn the entire human Population into Zombies, ntm you have intelligent characters such as The Creeper who can invent Time Travel. To get into some more Big name characters, The Boogeyman, one of Grim’s arch enemies can shapeshift into anything, possess objects or immersion himself into things, but by far his best power is his Nightmare Hypnosis Trap, where he puts someone to sleep and traps them in a series of infinite horrible Nightmares that just get worse and worse as they go until the victims will is completely broken and they serve him, not even Mandy could counter this. The Spiderqueen is a giant extra dimensional spider who can turn people into spiders, control all spiders with her singing, can trap the world in a giant web, use potent venom and has Knowledge of the fourth wall. There's also Headmistress Pollywinkle, an extremely powerful Dark Witch who has the ability to suck people’s souls out of their body and gain their skills. Even worse than this is Fromabular, a magical reality warping skull, who can do all sorts of things like levitate, manipulate time, create beings from scratch, make star sized explosions, change people's gender, answer any question, and generally change reality like a genie. However there IS one more character to talk about that many people may be surprised to see here, and that is none other than Irwin! Yeah despite being a wimpy and lame nerd for the entirety of the show, Irwin in reality is Half Mummy and Half Vampire, and thus has the powers of both and easily makes this tier. Irwin can regenerate from immense injuries like being broken to pieces or being turned to dust, use a power known as Mummy's Curse which lets him control insects and snakes and fire magical blasts, summon armies of Scarabes that turn everyone they touch into undead Mummy Minions, resist age manipulation with immortality, fly, manipulation his wrappings like snares, turn into a bat and open dimensional portals. 

So what strategies would allow someone to stop this tier? This tier has a lot of potent antagonist Characters who are meant to be taken quite seriously, and thus are much more competent and smart than the average from the previous tier, and their dimensional travel powers are actually really strong so the same strats from the last tier won’t work that well, so what will? Well this tier has a lot of powerhouses and potent offensive hax, having oneshot powers, the ability to create armies at will and decent versatility, but they don’t actually have a lot of defensive abilities other than some potent regen, many of their own powers have shown to be just as effective on them. The hax resistances in this tier simply are not as good as they are in the previous tier overall, meaning if you can find a tank like character who can defend against all of their stuff, with just a couple potent hax attacks, they could potentially outlast and defeat them. One character I think could do this,

Arakune:

The terrifying blob creature, Arakune from the Blazblue series. Since he's from the Blazblue series one should probably gather that he does in fact scale to around the level of Makoto, who can super casually destroy the moon at faster than light speed. While Arakune is unlikely to overpower the verse in raw stats, there's a lot more to it than that. Arakune’s body is composed entirely of Seither, the energy substance of Blazblue that has existed in all space on Earth since the death of the Black Beast. This grants him Logia abilities including shapeshifting into basically anything and regenerating from being splattered into small pieces, so those stats won’t have too much luck putting him down anyway. Seither also causes those near it to become poisoned, driven mad or have their powers drained away from them, which are all things that characters in this tier don’t have any particular defense against. Speaking of defenses, Arakune has a lot of those, including potent resistances to Transmutation, Mind Manipulation, Stasis and Spacetime Manipulation, nullifying the powers of The Tooth Fairy, both Nergal's and Lord Pain all at once. In addition to that Arakune’s soul is sealed within The Boundary, and thus isn’t available for Headmistress Pollywinkle to attempt to steal. Ararkune has massive super sense that would enable him to track down anyone in this tier through their levels of Dark Power, where he would try to absorb them. When Arakune absorbs someone, it consumes their soul, gives him all their memories and powers, and seals their body in The Boundary, meaning its extremely unlikely anyone in this tier would be able to survive that, and Arakune is only going to grow in danger the more he does this until eventually winning. Arakune also has power over Insects, which could allow him to hijack the armies of The Spider Queen, or turn the insects from Irwin’s Mummy Curses against the verse where they could turn everyone into zombies. Arakune can also do lots of recon by turning invisible or using his clairvoyance to spy on his targets if wanted to, and the fact that his attacks can nullify crazy high Regen only speed up the process of his victory. All that said, Arakune is extremely insane and potentially could be stopped by Boogey's Nightmare Hypnosis spell. Unlikely to happen, but if you are worried about that spell,

Charmcaster:

You can always use Charmcaster from the Ben 10 franchise. Charmcaster was able to overpower Anodite Gwen, who could wipe out the Highbreed warfleet which tanks the Dwarf Star levels of energy coming off of violently shattering planets, she can also keep up with Chromastone, who was able to fly halfway across the galaxy in only a short time, putting Charmcaster perfectly on par with this tier in terms of stats. Abilities wise, this is a whole different story! Charmcaster’s main ability is her connection to Ledgerdomain, the dimension that is the source of all magic power in the entire Ben 10 Multiverse. The only way to enter or exit Ledgerdomain is to know its True Name, which due to a spell that Charmcaster controls, changes every few seconds, making it virtually impossible for anyone in this tier to enter into her dimension, or escape from it once there without Charmcaster herself allowing it. This means that Charmcaster has the option to simply fight everyone in their tier in a series of one on one fights if she wants rather than everyone at once, and with her large arsenal it's unlikely anyone could defeat her in a 1v1. Charmcaster has vast super senses that allow her to spy on foes on Earth from her own dimension meaning she could also study and make strategies for how to deal with her foes before having to fight them. On top of that, the vast majority of threats contained within this tier simply will not work on Charmcaster due to the fact that ledgerdomain is her Territory, and magic cast from other sorcerers is unable to affect a sorcerer in their own territory. This would allow Charmcaster to shrug off even extremely potent spells like Boogey’s Nightmare Hypnosis, The Tooth Fairy’s Transmutation, Headmistress Pollywinkle’s Soul Steal, and Irwin’s various Curses, which are all expressly magic. Even against the other various characters, Charmcaster has a lot of potent spells including telekinesis, illusions, simulation summoning, animacy granting, various magical blasts and elemental manipulation to keep them on the back foot, and one of her greatest powers, Energy Draining, allows her to drain the lifeforce out of an entire dimension at once, up to even universal scale, as well as resist someone using similarly potent energy draining ON her, something that could one shot anything here from a great distance. Charmcaster’s greatest threat here is likely Junior and his Father using their tentacles to Mind Control/Transmutate her into one of the Nerglings, but Charmcaster ALSO has Mind Control and Transmutation which do not require physical contact to pull off, meaning she's far more likely to land this kind of attack on them. All that said, Charmcaster IS kinda insane, and if she had a major lapse in judgment it’s possible for one of this tiers characters to take her out, for the safest possible option.

Courage:

You simply cannot get much better than Cartoon Network's premier Monster Counter, Courage the Cowardly Dog from the series of the same name. Courage is powerful enough to shatter entire stars just by screaming, could keep up with The Shadow who could fly to other Star Systems in under a second, and pilot space ships that were even faster than that, meaning Courage should be able to compete here in stats pretty easily. Courage is extremely weary of all threats due to living in a place where absolutely terrifying monsters run rampant, and treats every creature extremely seriously, and he is superhumanly competent at stopping them through intelligence and various skills he has developed on the fly, including things as advanced as learning how to fly a plane, become a licensed therapist and master buddhist magic in a very short timeframe. This tier REALLY Doesn’t have anything that Courage hasn’t personally seen before, having dealt with King Ramses who has similar curses to Irwin, Stopped advanced Dream Manipulators and Soul Stealers, and was able to purge Muriel of a demon possessing her. Courage has a wide variety of Hax resistance, including the ability to reverse his own Transmutation with his shapeshifting powers, and use the power of Love to Shrug off Mind Control, including ones from the literal Gods of the series, meaning that even Nergel’s Nergling transformation power likely would NOT WORK on Courage. Courage also has his own hypnotism which likely could affect anyone in this tier, as well as the ability to Seal foes in fictional media with Immersion, which only Lord Pain and Boogey have the ability to come back from. And in terms of physical fights, not only is Courage a Master Martial Artist who was able to fight ancient chinese super warriors, but his Regeneration can allow him to come back from ashes which is superior to any Regen this tier’s characters possess and primes him to win a war of attrition. But if all that wasn’t enough, the fact is Courage is a small and cute pink dog, not only would the characters at this tier Not consider him any kind of serious threat, but they actually all LOVE Dogs and think they are adorable, which would more than give Courage the chance to pull whatever he wanted first.

Universal Tier:

The strongest tier in Billy & Mandy is a tier of Gods, Legends and Death itself, cosmic horror threats beyond mortal understanding that are always treated as a huge deal. Characters in this tier are repeatedly stated to be capable of wiping out the entire universe and ending time as we know it, and can easily travel intergalactic distances in no time flat, putting them at Universal+ and Billions of times the speed of light just in their base states. That being said, these characters also have the ability to bolster their own stats, such as the time Grim pumped Mandy full of so much power, she expanded infinitely at an infinite rate until she would eventually outgrow the multiverse, meaning any of these characters could raise their stats to Infinity if they so choose. A pretty obvious character to start with is Grim, who wields Jody an incredibly powerful Scythe with the cursed power that leaves any injury caused by its blade permanent, nullifying any ability that would otherwise fix the damage. This Scythe is one of the most powerful and versatile weapons in ALL of CN, able to casually warp reality and all of space and time on a Universal Scale. With this Grim can create dimensional portals to any plane of existence in the multiverse, travel through time and even persist after the end of time itself, teleport, fly, stop time, spatially sever objects, and even see and move through metafictional space. Grim can also regenerate from ashes, possess people, create matter, use telekinesis, shoot lasers, fuse things together, transmute matter, see the future, raise armies of the undead, animate objects, control minds at a high enough level to effect Mandy, shrug off Soul Hax and Existence Erasure, and manipulate Death, Fear, Magnetism, Memories, every single Element and much more. Beyond him this verse contains numerous Gods including the Greek Goddess of Chaos, Eris. Eris is the Platonic Concept of Chaos, and is passively responsible for all Chaos in the multiverse with merely her presence, not only does this mean her Chaos Manipulation is incredible and she can regen from her concept, but should she be destroyed than so would Chaos, which is really bad because without Chaos, Order cannot exist, and without Chaos or Order, nothing would exist at all. Eris can also use basically all the same powers Grim can, and has additional things like Clairvoyance, Duplication and the ability to send foes to The Puppet Dimension, which metafictionality changes the Animation style to Puppetshow so they lose all their powers. There is also Father Time, the God of Time who is Time itself. He has Complete control over time, able to manipulate time, including things like his foes aging, and can add or subtract time to cause or reverse people's deaths. He can even erase people permanently from time and memory completely. But Billy & Mandy doesn’t just have the Greek Pantheon running around on this tier, it also has the Lovecraftian Pantheon, and unlike Invader Zim, it is actually Very Reverent of them. Yog-Sothoth is an extremely powerful extra dimensional entity who can open portals that can only be sealed by his own power. He can possess any mortal through mere mentions or viewings of his work and raise their stats high enough to beat Grim, plus he can warp reality itself in the dimension he enters, corrupting it into his plane. There is also Cthulhu, a monster beyond space and time, which can drive anyone that gazes at him completely insane, pull anyone through intra-dimensional portals (except for their shoes), spawn miniature versions of himself, and can transform anyone that hears his voice into monsters and squid creatures. This verse also has a few gods of its own, such as Pinface, a Netherworld Entity that can only really be defeated by the solving of his puzzle box. He is outright immune to the supernatural energies of the scythe and has powers like banishing people to an eternity in the netherworld which even grim could not escape, as well as fire manipulation and control of vast armies. Horror, The Ancient, God of the Underworld was able to use Fear Manipulation to create Horror’s Hand, the most powerful Fear Manipulating Device in the entire series, able to terrify someone to such an insane degree they can literally Explode. But beyond all that, is none other than Future Mandy, Yes, Yes she's Back! You see in the Future of Billy & Mandy, Mandy turns herself into a powerful Wormlike creature who has all Mandy’s same powers, and was able to conquer all of reality due to being Immune to EVERYTHING in the series, so, that’s a thing. So how does one reasonably fight this verse? Well what if I told you that basically everyone in this tier shared one pretty glaring common weakness, and that is the fact that every single one of them relies at least somewhat on tools to pull off their abilities. Grim’s scythe is the source of the vast majority of his powers, Yog needs his Book, Cthulhu needs his Phone, Pinface needs his Puzzle, Horror needs his Hand, Father Time needs his Hourglass, seriously it's actually pretty comical how they balanced it so weaker characters could potentially score a win against them by stealing their stuff. Even the characters who do not rely on objects for their power, namely Eris, still have The Golden Apple of Discord, which can give someone who takes it a similar level of Chaos Manipulation to fight her with. Beyond that I believe that since this tier has a lot of reality warping and 4th Wall Manipulation abilities, having characters that can also do that as a way to match would be optimal, one example of what I’m talking about would be, 

Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo:

Anime’s Greatest Hero, Bobob from the infamous Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo series! Bobobo is capable of creating and maintaining an entire universe with his own power, and flying to other galaxies in seconds, which means he's on par with the characters in this tier’s base stats. While these characters can rise above him in terms of stats, Bobobo has a Low Godly healing factor, which allowed him to regenerate after being turned into a skeleton….but in a completely different location meaning he did come back from nothing even though his skeleton was still there. Bobobo has immense Reality Warping abilities that work on the 4th wall, which technically gives him the means to affect whoever he wants in this tier. He’s got crazy powers that blatantly do not make sense including the ability to somehow hurt people by doing mundane tasks, and also use powers like Transmutation, Duplication and the Dreaded Bobobo world, where he generates his own dimension around his foes which drives anyone inside completely insane, which is something only really Eris can endure unscaved. Bobobo also has an alt version of this power called Bobobo Nightmare World which destroys anyone Evil that is trapped inside, which would be devastating against the Lovecraftian Gods and Pinface. He also has a crapton of random resistances that protect him from Transmutation, Mind Manipulation, Existence Erasure and use the “Hickey of Bobobo” to nullify a foes powers entirely. Bobobo’s best power is called Ganeme, the ability to assert his reality over another, rewriting the show however he wants. Bobobo’s Ganeme is so potent that it straight up gives him Math Manipulation, allowing him to make 3+3=8 and have it be correct. Math Manipulation gives the user abstract control over all reality beyond even normal concepts and could potentially be used to rewrite even Eris’ existence being tied to the universe, giving Bobobo the ability to defeat her. Of course, Bobobo is also a completely Insane person who is not the best at tactical thinking, meaning the potential for someone to take him way more seriously and find some way to stop him with their own power is totally there. For someone a bit more competent than him,

Zatanna:

Another character I think would be able to do exceptionally well is none other than the Great Zatanna Zatara from DC Comics. Despite not being anything special for this tier in terms of physical stats, just like the Billy & Mandy Gods, Zatanna’s magic can raise her power level to be absolutely mind bendingly strong and fast, to the point of casually effecting and traversing the multiverse and beating back monstrous entities like Pralaya, and she should casually be able to do the same here. Zatanna’s Magic is not only extremely powerful, but precise, being able to do basically anything the characters in this verse can, including traveling through and stopping time, controlling minds, traveling across dimensions, erasing foes from existence and stealing peoples powers. Doing something as simple as detecting the source of these characters' abilities and separating them from it would not exactly be that difficult for her. Zee is a much more competent and serious fighter than basically anyone in this tier, which would result in her taking them more seriously and likely winning any quickdraw with them as a result. Zatanna’s magic is actually so advanced it, just like the characters within this tier, is able to manipulate the Metafictional plane to some extent, as shown in her epic battle with Zor, where she began pulling the very comic panels down on top of him to best the dude, which means Zatana could potentially block attacks that are attempting to hit her on this plane as well. Her magic is described to work as asserting her own reality over that of the reality that currently exists, allowing her to alter the fabric of reality in a similar manner to the concept of Hermeticism, with this she could potentially rewrite the defenses of Eris, Father Time and even Pinface who could outright resist Grim’s Magic. With all that said, Zatanna is not naturally immune to all the various threats in this tier, and would have to keep on her toes at all times when fighting these characters or she could wind up getting haxed herself. While Zatanna is VERY used to fighting under those conditions, if that risk is still to great, then,

Kasen Ibaraki:

Yeah if you want a way to literally Break the Order-Chaos Balance of Billy & Mandy, look no further than Gensokyos Oni Sage of Nature, Kasen Ibaraki from Touhou Project. In her Oni Sage form, Kasen is literally the Strongest and Fastest character in the Entire Series, being so powerful that Gensokyo cannot handle her, and even the Infinite Hell will eventually implode from her passive presence, meaning she could easily compete with ANYONE here in stats. Kasen has a great deal of magical powers that would be considered broken in this tier, including her ability to manipulate shadow limbs such as her own false arm, which can phase into and out of reality in any location and take things with it, allowing her to effectively snatch objects from users no matter how securely they try and hold onto them. With that alone Kasen can easily depower the vast majority of characters here by taking their source of power, and she would easily be able to tell these are the source of their power due to her adherent ability to read an item's supernatural energy. As befitting a Sage, Kasen has an insane deal of powers and resistances that would allow her to counteract most of the things in this tier the characters tried on her, including Acausality, or the ability to exist outside of time, which shuts down any time related powers. She was also able to shrug off the advanced Mind Manipulation powers of Satori, soul manipulation from various ghosts, and should be able to Manipulate Space to a similar degree as fellow Hermit, Miko, and likely would be able to seal away anyone in this tier as a result. Kasen can literally destroy someone’s spirit and completely erase them from the cycle of death and rebirth to counteract any form of regeneration. Speaking of Which Kasen is SO Strong as an Oni that she was able to Render even Reimu’s Metafictional Sealing ability, Fantasy Seal, useless against her, which suggests that not even the Metafictional attacks in this tier like Eris’ Puppet Dimension would be able to stop her. Even when Kasen allowed herself to be defeated and had her entire body destroyed, she just regenerated back from nothing. But what about Eris? Since Eris is the Goddess of Chaos, Kasen cannot kill her without ending existence. Well Kasen is pretty used to dealing with the Chaos Sage, Yukari and unlike her, Eris doesn’t actually have defense against conceptual manipulation, something that Kasen has and could simply use to alter Eris’ Nature so that Chaos no longer depends on her, thus meaning Kasen CAN in fact permanently beat her without harming the universe. Beyond all of that, Kasen is the Nature Sage and has power over all animal life, since the Lovecraftian Gods in Billy and Mandy are similar to Beastial Yokai, it’s likely Kasen could simply control them and use them against the verse as her own army and, yeah they really aren’t going to be able to defend against that. Better yet, since Future Mandy turned herself into a WORM to gain her power, this Beastial Control ability would apply to her as well, as the level of intellect that the animal has does NOT matter.

Darkstalkers VS Strategy Guide

 

Well hello there, It’s the 3rd week of Monster Month, and my birthday is tomorrow so I’m pretty hyped for this! So far this month, we’ve seen horror movies, and horror cartoons, so it’s only natural to complete my trifecta and cover a horror fighting game! But not just any horror fighting game, the best one ever made, Darkstalkers! Known as Vampire in Japan, Darkstalkers is a 2D sprite based fighting game franchise made by Capcom in 1994. It takes place in a spooky, superstitious world in the process of merging with the demon world Makai, and sports a diverse and freakish cast of monsters from all across the world and beyond, inspired by folklore, Cryptids, classic monster movies, and more! While it hasn’t had an official game released since the turn of the century, it has been kept alive through crossover games, Comics, Manga, Anime, a terrible TV show we all agreed to never speak of again, and its loyal fan base! So here’s my contribution as I tell you how to be OP there!

City Tier:

The Low Tier of Darkstalkers features the most common monsters and creatures of the human world. These relatively lower tier Darkstalkers consist mostly of cryptids that coexist with man, humans who became Darkstalkers through magic or curses, and the Dark Hunters that hunt Darkstalkers for profit. The characters at this tier are in the low to high city level range, from feats such as Felicia and Jon Talbane defeating the basic Huitzil drones that could destroy entire cities with their blasts. With the most powerful character here being Anakaris, a powerful Mummy who could telekinetically sink the city-sized Ancient Egyptian kingdom into the earth. Speed wise, these characters have been able to fight with and out speed Lilith Aensland when she was early into unlocking her powers, but this same Lilith was still casually able to fly from London to New Orleans in a very short time, which would be well into the massively hypersonic range, beyond that of lightning. Darkstalkers often have dark magical powers and constantly produce corruptive, evil energies that can turn people evil or drive them Mad. Numerous characters in this tier can shapeshift their bodies in numerous ways for disguises or creative attacks, wield powerful claws and teeth that allow them to cling to walls, and have really impressive super senses, such that they can even sense things like another Darkstalkers power or the Intentions of others at a wide range based upon scent. Catwomen like Felicia can use crazy attacks including using Sonic’s Spin Dash and generating a Sand projectile. Sasquatch and his entire tribe of abominable snow creatures have advanced Cyrokinesis that allows them to freeze foes on contact and form Ice Weapons. These Snowmen can also generate portals from Earth to the Demon World Makai, and summon Makai animals like exploding penguins and sentient Snowmen to fight for them. One of the most skilled characters in this tier is everyone’s favorite martial artist werewolf, Jon Talbane, who combines his Kung Fu skills and Lycanthrope powers to dispatch foes. He can regenerate from bullet wounds and blasts, create a fighting shadow clone of himself, and use Ki techniques to fly and blast a powerful fire dragon projectile. Talbane’s main rival in the series is the devious, deceptive Dark Hunter, B.B. Hood, a monster hunter who wields a massive arsenal of anti monster weaponry. Bonnie is an incredibly skilled fighter with a Dark Soul that allows her to shrug off a lot of the negative status effects that monsters can have on others, such as Corruption, Mind Manipulation and Insanity. She's got a slew of dark powers that allow her to teleport, turn invisible, float through the air change the size of objects, and manipulate Water and Air, plus a large arsenal of hidden weapons including missiles, bombs, guns, flamethrowers and blades. But by far the most dangerous character one would have to face at this tier is the ancient Mummy, Anakaris. Anakaris is one of the weirdest characters to play in all of fighting games having one of the most random assortments of powers and animations i've ever seen in one, he can turn himself into anything, levitate, use a crap-ton of elemental attacks, change someone's gender, split himself into two different beings and summon anything from meteorites to giant sarcophagus.’ Anakaris also has a lot more traditional and broken powers on the other hand, including the ability to manipulate and ensnare people in wrappings, broken Spacetime Manipulation that lets him create pocket dimensions, open portals, teleport and time travel, mind control, attack reflection, telekinesis and the ability to transmutate others into animals or even Stone.

So what are the best tactics to use against a verse like this? So at a certain point the main goal of this tier is mostly trying to counter Anakaris, whose hax abilities are easily the biggest threat to your characters personal safety. The thing about Fighting Games though, is that most of the powers found within the verse are close range powers that only affect the enemy immediately in front of you. What you basically need is a character able to fight from a long distance who can resist some of Anakaris’ most potent spells such as time travel. One such character I think could do this is,

Homura Akemi:

I think one character who could do a great job here is Homura in her basic hero state from Madoka Magica. Homura can compete with other Magical Girls who can fight witches that can destroy cities and fire arrows across Japan in seconds, putting her on par in stats with this tier. As a Magical Girl, Homura’s Body is nothing more than a vessel controlled by a gem on her body that houses her soul. Said Gem is the source of Homura and therefore any attack that doesn’t destroy it will not Kill Homura and she will eventually come back, thus meaning she likely can resist attacks such as transmutation and take tons of beatings from characters here and still survive simply because foes are very unlikely to attack her gem cause they don’t know what it is. Homura is an acasual being that can hop between timelines, making it impossible for Anakaris to defeat her simply by traveling to the past. Even more awesome, Homura can flat out Stop Time, which gives her a free shot to take down anyone who attempts to attack her at this tier, potentially letting her blow them up with large arms fire if need be. With that in combination it seems like she has very favorable odds against any of the foes in this tier she'd need to go up against. That said, Homura is far from the most skilled Magical Girl in the show, if she gets a surprise attack from a Yedi that freezes her in place it would likely take her awhile to escape. While this is unlikely, for a character who can better defend rather than recover,

Ratchet & Clank:

The main duo from the franchise Ratchet & Clank would be OP in this tier. While Ratchet and Clank only really directly Scale to Building Level MHS, they more than make up for it with their absurd arsenal of gadgets, as they would put it, “Always Outnumbered, NEVER Outgunned.” Ratchet can personally resist numerous of Anakaris’s best powers, like manipulating his mind or using transmutation on him, like he was able to do against foes like the Biobliterator, and Clank is basically a descendant of multiple Time Deities that would let him counter Anakaris’s own time travel and even just freeze everyone so that he can score free hits on them with basically anything he wants to use. He can fly and protect himself with Tesla Shields, Freeze the foes past absolute 0, transmutate them in no less than 8 different ways, use attack reflection to bounce their own attacks back on them, and even use things like a disco ball that forces their bodies to helplessly dance for him, and thats in addition to the fact that some of his guns can legit destroy planets and stuff, which would allow this glass cannon to basically oneshot anyone here. Honestly the only character in this tier I think could stop Ratchet would be B.B. Hood, and even then that's only if she cautiously convinces him she's a helpless little girl and gets lucky with a surprise attack. As unlikely as it is, for the best option,

Ai Enma:

One could realistically use Ai Enma from the Hell Girl franchise. Ai is roughly 100 times slower and weaker than this tier, but the fact is her powers would be unbelievable here. Ai is a ghost whose job is to banish foes to Hell in the name of vengeance and retribution, and in the bleak and monster fueled world of Darkstalkers she is sure to find quick work. Ai has numerous of the Tier’s most powerful abilities including Mind Control, Time Travel and Astral Transmutation, which all should work against most of the characters in this tier as a method for victory, but would be unlikely to work against her if she simply turns intangible or fights remotely from the Realm of Eternal Twilight. The primary ability of Ai is to seal a foes Soul into the depths of Hell. As all the creatures in this tier have souls that they need to survive and cannot easily escape from being seal in other dimensions as seen when Jedah pulled them into his Majigen, this is basically a universal oneshot move against the tier. She can also use various powers to ensure she has time to do this, like how her perception manipulation can casually make someone believe they are living out days or weeks of their lives in seconds, where she could get them completely opened and unsuspected. Ai Enma could truely bring judgment to this tier.

Planet Tier:

Above these creatures are the powerhouse monsters of Earth, beings who are regarded less as simple monsters and more regarded as Gods and Demons who manipulated ancient mythology with their presence. This tier also includes the most powerful Dark Hunters in the series, the ones who are part monster themselves which give them abilities vastly beyond those pure humans could attain. Characters in this tier were able to do battle with The Mortal form of Pyron who could destroy the Earth with his power. Speedwise, the true Huitizl was able to fly across the galaxy in a short time, which would put him over 100 Million times faster than light.

Speaking of Huitizl, he is an ancient Mayan looking killer Robot who is responsible for the extinction of the Dinosaurs, and wields a wide arsenal of deadly robot powers. His arsenal includes Flight, energy shields, laser beams, a freeze ray, missile launchers, machine guns, the ability to shapeshift his body into weapons, manipulating Magnetism to draw in targets, and firing a projectile that causes confusion and makes foes hover motionless in the air. Another Sub-Boss of Darkstalkers is the queen of the Soul Bees, Q-Bee. Obviously, Q-Bee and other soul bees are able to take and consume Souls as their primary food source, but as their queen, she has a lot of additional stuff to pull out in her arsenal. Her Bug-like makeup grants her flight and numerous hidden insect body parts she can use for attacks, as well as the ability to create complex illusions to disguise other Soul Bees as her to throw her target off. She can also summon and control huge swarms of Soul Bees, fire giant Stingers, produce massive globs of Makai Honey which is so sticky and durable it restrains them on contact, and Definitely most Disturbing of all, impregnate her foe with her own reincarnation, dying and growing a fresh body for herself inside of them in seconds before bursting out Alien style. One will notice powers like Flight, Teleportation and Shapeshifting/Elasticity are fairly commonplace in this tier. Rikou, the amphibious gillman, is able enhance himself with traits from numerous sealife, in addition to being able to use wide ranging Hydrokinesis, blasting damaging sonic waves, shooting poison gas, and being able to summon and control sealife from across the world. You also have Victor, the large German Frankenmonster, who combines his brute force with powerful electric attacks and the ability to summon the intangible ghosts of his family to fight by his side. Speaking of ghosts, one of the most major villains at this tier is the Demon Samurai, Bishamon. Bishamon is essentially a cursed set of armor and sword that saw so much bloodshed they became a Tsukumogami and now possess warriors who dawn them and drive them to commit mass murder to feed their bloodlust. Bishamon can use telekinesis, summon torture devices, fire ectoplasmic projectiles that possess foes, shoot fireballs, create ectoplasmic constructs to attack and absorb the souls of those he wounds with his Katana. There are two more characters that exist in this tier specifically to combat Darkstalkers, the most powerful Dark Hunters in the series, the first of which being Donovan Baine. As a Dhampire, or Human Vampire Crossbreed, he has incredible power and the ability to turn into a flying vampire creature, however as he hates his half monster nature, his primary ability comes from Buddhist magic he learned to dispel darkness. Donovan can summon a variety of elemental gods to fight for him, and also uses a deadly living Sword that can fly, teleport, and be used as a vehicle of distance weapon. You would also need to deal with Hsien-Ko, a super powerful Jiangshi who can walk through the air, use powerful energy attacks, and summon a literal infinite amount of weaponry, ranging from grappling hooks, bladed weapons, throwing weapons, a gong that can reflect attacks back to sender, and a wave of enormous blades that pop up from the ground. Hsien-Ko’s power largely depends on the amount of energy she draws from her sister Meiling, who fights alongside her. While this tier is Hsien-Ko’s average, when drawing her Maximum power she can even match the likes of Lord Raptor, which would be far above this tier, however it also runs the risk of completely destroying her in the process.

So what strategies would pair well with this tier? Well interestingly enough I have found the characters in this tier 1. Aren’t that crazy in terms of skill feats and 2. Don’t really have anything that prevents someone from just beating them to death. A character of a high skill tier is going to have a pretty fair fight against this tier as it is. That said there are still a great deal of haxy powers and projectiles they can throw at their opponent. Based on this one of the best things you can have is various kinds of Spacing abilities that can allow one to close the gap and remove the effectiveness of these non melee based attacks, such as super perception, force fields, telekinesis or attack reflection. One such character I think would do well is, 

Litchi Faye Ling:

Litchi Faye Ling from the Blazblue series. Litchi is capable of going head to head with Makoto Nanaya, who could violently shatter the moon and keep up with the largely Faster than Light Hazama. Litchi is an extremely skilled martial artist and genius who uses a staff she possesses telekinetic control over. She is more than capable of going head to head with any of the characters here in terms of straight up combat, and is able to see into the future and even learn an enemies entire arsenal just by touching them, which would allow her to be extra proficient at avoiding attacks. Litchi can physically interact with intangible beings, and extract and destroy the souls of others. With this power Litchi should be able to defeat anyone at this tier as Darkstalkers are somewhat vulnerable to Soul Manipulation, and it would enable her to block Bishamon’s soul projectiles, take on Victor’s ghostly family, attack the elementals that Donnovan summons and even combat Q-Bee’s own soul manipulation. Litchi has resistance to numerous of the powers found within this tier including Rikou’s Poison, Soul Manipulation and Corruption. Really Litchi can just physically battle and defeat anyone in their tier with her skill alone and her powers basically make it so they cannot just stop her from doing that somehow, and the fact she can nullify regeneration with her powers only speeds up that process. The biggest threat to Litchi is Hsien-Ko bolstering her stats which is unlikely given its adherent danger to her. But for an even better counter,

Obi-Wan Kenobi:

Surprisingly enough I think Master Obi-Wan Kenobi from the Star Wars Legends franchise would do extremely well here. Obi-Wan scales past Jedi who can hold entire planets together and move a blackhole singularity, and is capable of fighting Faster than Light and seeing into the future. His reaction speed should be far superior to that of Han Solo, who in Force Awakens, managed to get through the StarKiller Bases planet wide forcefield by flying into the planet's Atmosphere in hyperspace, the speed that allows ships to fly across the entire galaxy in a Day, and stopping the ship before it crashed into the planet, requiring speeds millions of times the speed of light. As a Master Jedi, Obi-Wan has extremely strong manipulation of The Force, the external life energy of the cosmos that connects everything in the Star Wars universe. Obi-Wan can use the force to sense the surrounding environment to detect threats before they happen, which would prevent him from being snuck up on or sniped from a long distance. Better yet, The Force grants Obi-Wan an advanced form of Telekinesis, which Obi-Wan can use to shield himself from or misdirect attacks. Through this, Obi-Wan can basically just stop or avoid literally whatever distance attack they try and throw at him, nullifying basically all of Hsien-Ko’s weapons, Donavan’s elemental attacks, Rikuo’s hydrokinesis and even Bishamon’s spirit flames. This would force them to try and fight Obi-Wan up close and personal where Obi-Wan has a huge advantage in terms of skill and cutting power with his lightsaber. Obi-Wan can also see through illusions, and use techniques like Shatterpoint to target and crush any weak points in his foes which would completely devastate Huitizel in particular. He’s also got the Jedi Mind Trick which can be used to mind control beings. One could argue that many of the monsters in this tier could likely resist the mind trick, but something that certainly cannot is the simple minded Soul Bees and if Obi-Wan takes control of those Soul Consuming insects in large numbers, he could easily use them to take out basically everyone in this tier such as Victors intangible ghost summons or Bishamon as a whole. Obi-Wan could also stop Hsien-Ko from raising her energy with force draining, or even redirect energy attacks into different directions. Heck, while he hasn’t directly shown it, it's likely Obi-Wan can also use more advanced Force Techniques like Force Judgment, which fries those with malicious intent to death, or force healing to protect himself from injury if he does get hurt. Obi-Wan’s only real worries are things he's well equipped to guard against so as long as he doesn’t make a major mistake he's got this. But for the safest possible option,

Karin Miyoshi:

Yeah Karin would absolutely tear this tier asunder with her abilities. Karin, especially with her Mankai Form, is more than capable of destroying entire planets and moving faster than the speed of light. This means that she has comparable power but lacking speed compared to the verse, however she doesn’t really need Speed to win this. As a Hero System user, Karin has a fairy that generates an all encompassing shield around Karin’s body that automatically stops any attack that would do her harm, which even includes immensely powerful stuff like Supernovas and Blackholes beyond that this tier is capable of, meaning she has all the time in the world to just wait out their stamina, as she has INSANE stamina of her very own. Karin is extremely skilled and well trained and just all around a huge flippin badass that can use abilities such as extrasensory perception and calling upon a large exploding blade danmaku that would enable her to destroy the characters in this tier with little difficulty while they only guessed at what they even could use to hit her back. Karin can also use a purify ability that allows her to seal souls away, which would easily stop Bishamon for good and even sever the connection from Hsien-Ko to her powersource. So overall, it seems that this verse doesn’t have any major counterplay to Karin.

Galaxy Tier:

Beyond the human world entirely, in the demon world Makai, there lies monsters whose powers eclipses what meager humans thought possible, the masters of the demon world and high nobles. This tier's characters include the Alien god Pyron, who is essentially a sentient Galaxy in and of himself, as well as the Lord of the Nether, Jedah Dohma, who created and maintained a large Galaxy sized dimension known as the Majigan, which would easily make them Galaxy busters. Speed wise, these characters are able to fly millions of light years in only mere seconds, allowing them to travel Billions to Trillions of times the speed of light depending on character.

The powers in this tier really do step up their game, as numerous characters in this tier have powerful spatial manipulation, able to casually teleport, open extra dimensional portals, create entire spatial dimensions, and even seal other’s abilities to do these things. Other common abilities include perception altering powers such as advanced illusions, shapeshifting powers good enough to turn their bodies into a variety of weapons, and various types of mental manipulation, the best example of which being from Jedah, who’s mental abilities let him mind screw a sentient galaxy, and even telepathically talk to Anakaris 5000 years in the past. Soul Manipulation is also super common in this tier, with many characters being able to consume or empower themselves with them, Jedah, who keeps coming up, was able to steal the souls of the entirety of Makai at once, he can also transmutate souls into dimensions and gain the knowledge and powers of souls he consumes. Characters in this tier also tend to have Flight, Energy Draining and Absorption up to a galaxy wide scale, various force fields and projectiles, Transmutation powers that can alter gender or turn beings into objects, and the power to regenerate from massive injuries, by far the most impressive being that of the Jedah, who can regenerate from the concept of Death Itself, allowing him to instantly come back from being reduced to nothingness or having his Soul shattered across space and time. The Succubus Morrigan Aensland wields dark magics that allow her to manipulate lust, duplicate herself, control bat constructs, and fire shadow energy. Her sister Lilith draws similar abilities but hers are Holy powers, the light produced from Lilith is able to match the universal power of the Soul Chamber, and was similarly able to completely destroy Jedah and nullify his Regen to the point it will take him centuries to return. Demetri Maximoff can use pyrokinetic attacks, and the zombie Lord Raptor can attack using Electricity and sonic blasts. As a Zombie, Raptor can also raise the dead, and control his severed limbs, and both he and Jedah can manipulate or create Matter. The Alien deity Pyron is a logia being who is made entirely of burning celestial energy, any normal physical attack will pass harmlessly through him, and both he and Jedah have incredibly good telekinesis. Speaking of Jedah, he's a Shinigami and the most Hax character in the entire series, in addition to everything I’ve already mentioned he can also break holes in spacetime, sense things in other dimensions and use extremely powerful Hemokinesis that lets him attack foes with Blood. All that said, surprisingly the most powerful character in the series is Anita, Donovan’s little traveling companion. Anita is INSANELY OP, even as a little girl she has easily defeated Bishamon, Pyron and Demitri after absorbing Pyron, ntm she was able to get into a direct fight with Jedah as well. Years later as a teenager, Anita is so strong that Jedah fears he doesn’t have any win condition against her, implying none of the powers in this tier would even affect her. She generally uses advanced Esper powers, allowing her to seal entities away, empower others, and wipe entities from existence at the spiritual plane.

So what would be some good strategies to use? As one could probably deduce, this tier is fairly hax, it even has Jedah Dohma, one of the classic OBD Big 3 Broken ass characters from back in the day. Obviously one has to counter hax affecting spacetime and multiple planes of existence including physical, mental, astral and spiritual, but on top of that you need to have some way of killing a being that can come back so long as Death is a thing. But the good news is everyone of these characters does have some weaknesses. Lord Raptor needs a steady supply of souls to refuel his power, Succubus need to keep themselves stimulated to persist, and even Jedah can be destroyed by powerful enough Holy Light. A character who could manage to take advantage of these weaknesses or even turn their own powers against each other would do quite well here, one example I can think of,

Chakravartin:

We have another Capcom Classic, Chakravartin, the Creator, the main villain of Asura’s Wrath. Chakravartin was able to telekinetically pull the entire Milky Way galaxy towards him with only a fraction of his power, and scales well past the 6 armed Asura, who could fly to the center of the galaxy at speeds Billions of times the speed of light. As the God of Asura’s Wrath, Chakravartin is an incredibly skilled warrior with a manipulative mind. He's also the conceptual god of Mantra, which means it is very unlikely he's even vulnerable to trivial things like Soul and Mind Manipulation at all. Even if he is though, It wouldn’t do them that much good, as Chakravartin can stop time to allow him to basically get free attacks on anyone in this tier, or use his power of Possession to take over anyone in this tier, as Possession is blatantly different from Mind Manipulation it is unlikely they would be able to resist him doing this. Chakravartin can also break through dimensional barriers and forge pocket realities just like Jedah can to prevent anyone from BFRing him, or generate and manipulate energy to a similar degree as Pyron. He can also alter his own or others forms which serves as a counter to the matter manipulation. Chakravartin’s best power for dealing with this verse is the fact he Embodies and controls Saṃsāra, the cycle of life, death and rebirth in Hinduism. With this Chakravartin has advanced Life and Death Manipulation which could be used so permanently death hax the characters on this tier, and even potentially stop Jedah from ever coming back by stopping any future people from dying so that Death stops being a thing. That said that is more of a theoretical counter which is less of a direct permanent end to Jedah, and there are some powers in this tier that could possibly affect him, for a safer choice,

Amazo:

Someone who I think could well take down anyone in this tier is Amazo from DC Comics. Amazo is an advanced adaptable robot, whose body was originally an early Red Tornado Body, and thus should have the same stats. Red Tornado at the time could match a super early Hal Jordan, who was still capable of blocking Supernova’s and Black Holes with his force field and could keep up with Supergirl who could fly to the Source Wall in several hours, putting her Trillions of times the speed of light. With this Amazo could easily keep up with this tier in speed, but would still not be able to match them in raw power, that said, it still shouldn’t be a problem. Since Amazo is a robot, he’d already be able to resist lots of their most advanced abilities like Soul Manipulation and Mind Control, as he lacks either of those things and they have NO Technopathy abilities to compensate. But the greatest power at Amazon’s disposal is his ability to scan and copy others' superpowers. Just by looking at someone, Amazo is able to scan and flawlessly replicate their stats and abilities, which has even worked on countless Justice League members even more powerful than the characters found here such as Superman, Flash and Green Lantern. It doesn’t matter if their powers come from Biology, Magic, Science, Technology or from outside beings, Amazo can copy it. And a beauty of it is he doesn’t just copy one being's powers at a time, but all the people he’s ever copied at once, allowing him to wield the power, speed and arsenal of literally everyone he’s seen before. With this Amazo could quickly rise in power until he can basically stat stomp anyone in this tier, and use all their powers against them for some truly mind blowing counters. For example, Amazo could use Judah’s dimensional sealing to Trap Morrigan in a pocket dimension alone until she withers and dies from lack of stimulation, he could kill Jedah using Lilith’s holy light attacks, he could use Pyron’s absorption to stop Lilith from using that on him, and use Jedah’s batshit op Regen to survive anything else they try on him. Pyron may have very impressive Energy Draining, but he's not going to top the energy Draining of Green Lanterns that Amazo could still counter, and considering the only power in this tier that would allow them to effect Amazo back in time before he started gathering powers is Jedah’s transtime telepathy, which doesn’t effect Robots, they are forced to try and deal with him here and now. All this said, Amazo would be able to quickly take down every single character in this tier, the only real annoying thing is that he likely can’t kill Jedah permanently, only destroy him for centuries at a time. It seems like to perma kill a Shinigami, one might need a Shinigami. For someone who can truly stop everyone, check this out.

The Flying Dutchman:

Yup, The Flying Dutchman from SpongeBob SquarePants would be OP in Darkstalkers. The Dutchman is an incredibly powerful ghost pirate that haunts the people of Bikini Bottom, he also is the being tasked with collecting the immortal souls of those who die, essentially making him the series equivalent of a Shinigami or Grim Reaper. The Flying Dutchman scales significantly above SpongeBob, who was able to physically unravel the entire Milky Way Galaxy while traveling outside of it at speeds Billions of times lightspeed, so The Dutchman should be more than capable of fighting these characters. The Dutchman is an ancient ghost who is more than 10,000 years old and through this has developed an extremely hax arsenal of powers that make him one of the most dangerous characters in the entire verse. He’s got the standard Ghostly Kid of Flight, Intangibility and Possession that should allow him to avoid a lot of the more traditional attacks that this verse could throw at him, and Possession in particular is really powerful here as normal Mental Resistances do not protect from it, allowing him a way to take control of basically anyone he has to fight here, potentially letting him do the same strat that Amazo has of using the Verse’s characters against itself. But The Flying Dutchman's arsenal is far more advanced than just that, he can also Teleport, Shapeshift, use Telekinesis, breathe Fire, Shoot Lasers from his Eyes, turn his body into logia smoke, summon an army of ghost pirates and sense things from an interdimensional range, allowing him to see any attack coming before it happens. As a Grim Reaper figure, The Dutchmen is able to take the Souls of others and even destroy or seal them away. As seen through Jedah, basically everyone in this tier besides Jedah and Anita can be killed via Soul Hax, and the Dutchman’s is even more extreme. The Dutchman can control Matter completely, allowing him to Transmutate objects, resist transmutation from others, create matter and even Turn Spongebob and Patrick’s bodies into Astral plane Ghost bodies, making them into Souls and thus Giving the Dutchmen the ability to control them. One of the most Crazy Aspects of The Dutchman’s powerset is his deadly Spacetime manipulation, allowing him to travel through both Space AND Time completely untethered. He can Create portals to other dimensions and even entire Horrifying pocket dimensions like The Fly of Despair that he can seal foes in. His sealing is so strong that he was able to seal Spongebob in Davy Jones Locker indefinitely, and Spongebob is able to metafictionality travel on scene transitions so it's basically impossible for anyone in Darkstalkers to escape one of his seals with their own Spacetime powers. The Dutchmen is also able to escape his own sealing such as when he was trapped in Davy Jones’ Locker himself, and he too as shown the ability to Metafictionality move into the title cards of eps to jumpscare the audience, essentially giving him the option to move to a higher plane where any of their hax abilities will not be able to affect him. And even if none of that works, The Dutchman has shown Reality Warping abilities that make him capable of granting wishes like a Genie. He has used this to do things like turn himself into a Vegetarian, or make all Currency in the universe capable of speech. Potentially he could use this to just take away or alter the nature of anyone’s powerset, including even taking away Jedah’s regen powers altogether.