Raid [001] - Review

Scortio (1 action) shoot off a Fire Surge to which Xemnas (2 actions) uses Thunder Guard to block. He follows up with authority bolt. Scortio (3ish actions) takes the damage from Thunder Guard's shock. But, uses his keyblade to knock the authority bolt to the ground. He does a 4-5 hit combo with his axe ability before firing off a Triple Firaga. Xemnas(3 actions) summons weapons,
blocks combo, blocks firaga, then uses telekinesis to attack. Scortio (3ish) turns his axes back to a keyblade. Does a 6-8 hit combo, fires Ars Ignus, then Fire Raid. Xemnas (3) resummons his blades and attempts to block most of the combo, minus a kick. Sinks into the floor to avoid both fire attacks and appear behind Scortio, then casts Dance of Nothingness. Scortio (3) takes the 3/5 the attack, dodges the remaining bits. Uses Gatling Gun attack. Then heals a huge amount. Scortio taking the lead here with having more HP. Xemnas (3) gets hit by some of the bullet spray while attempting to block some, activates final form, then uses All End. Scortio (1) gets hit by the attack and uses Meteor. Xemnas (1) dodges most of the attack and summons his blades again. Scortio (2) manages to dash at Xemnas, cast Fire Raid and Firaga before falling and rolling to his knee. Overall, Xemnas won. Scortio had taken far more damage, even with the Curaga. Had he been able to heal, he might have been the winner. Rather close match for fighting a powerful canon. But, I believe Xemnas took the lead here.

Xemnas used his surroundings to his advantage with using the spires in the Alter of Naught. Scortio uses his keyblade to attempt a polevault to avoid an attack, failing because of his clothing getting caught on the spire. NO CAPES! Xemnas and Scortio both stayed VERY in-character. Xemnas keeping stiff and emotionless even though he feigned a good bit of anger at times. However, the way that Scortio is able to bounce off the ground and everything it pretty neat. I have to admit that his fighting style is really cool. Huge props to Xemnas using the Spires as it was really a great move, I think that Scortio won this section by a few inches with his fighting style and comments though I'm slightly sad no one called Xemnas a zebra.

Scortio had a 'combo' with his axes of 4-5 strikes, pushing the "one action" a bit in my opinion. That was a bit much in my opinion. But, Xemnas did block all attacks to count as one action. So, that cancelled each other out well. Xemnas certainly described his actions to a T. The description of how he moved to defend against the combo was easy to follow. I also loved how Xemnas explained how he would know about the casting magic, comparing it to sora's technique. Even though I think he described blocking a bit more of the Firage damage then he should have. But, he did take a bit of that hit. Scortio doing a REALLY good job of taking realistic damage by failing in his dodge of the spires, though not as descriptively as he could have. However, doing an almost 6-8 attack combo again bothers me a bit. (A slash, a kick, vertical swipe, headbutt, horizontal slash, faked kick, continuing the last slash, second horizontal slash, finishing with a diagonal slash.) Xemnas being VERY descriptive on how he blocked most of the combo, but getting hit. Scortio taking most of the sneak attack from Xemnas. Xemnas dodging most of the Meteor did bug me a little, but he did take some damage and it's not like meteor isn't avoidable. He was knocked back and hit the spires though. Overall, Xemnas dominates with his descriptive writing, explaining every little thing. His thoughts, his actions. Both showed amazing sportsmanship and balanced each other very well. But, Xemnas was very descriptive and explained everything including justifying his actions. Even stating that he went easy on the boy in the beginning in hopes of recruiting him, bringing his own personal plot into it. It got a little iffy at the end and it was really close on all fields to be honest.