User blog comment:Dargoo Faust/Mid Season Special! Saruhiko Fushimi vs. Kirei Kotomine/@comment-3189283-20180501082842

Let's see shall we

In terms of weapons there is no contest, the Black Keys are the superior choice. Fushimi's knives and Pleidas are just normal weapons, yes they can be charged with his Aura's, but at their base they are just normal weapons. The Black Keys are more supernatural in their make being able to pin shadows and bust through regenerative magic and that's without Kirei boosting them with command spells. Weapons however are not the most important thing here the actual powers in play here are and that's what will decide who wins.

Fushimi's Aura's give him a lot of variety in how he can go about a battle. His Red Aura gives him great destructive power with a wide AOE, making Kirei's attempts to avoid them much harder and his Green Aura gives him greater mobility and a quick means of escape should the situation get too hairy. He also has great defensive options with his Blue Aura to block most of what Kirei can throw at him as well as giving him a ranged option to compete with the Black Keys.

Kirei on the other hand is strictly a close range fighter when it comes to his magic. Kirei is obnoxiously fast even when he's not using his command spells, able to block and dodge bullets at a close range and cover short distances too fast for even someone as experienced as Kerry to predict so Fushimi will be in for a nasty shock. Furthermore Kirei only really needs to get one solid hit in to win due to the sheer amount of power he can put into his punches and with Fushimi not having a regenerative McGuffin like Kerry that one punch will crush his organs and kill him. All of this is without using his command spells, which make him even more powerful than he was already.

Most of the X Factors are really just too close to call. Experience and Training wise there isn't a big enough gap between the two to give either one a clear advantage, physicality is up in the air and while Kirei does take a big edge in brutality it's not as if Fushimi is going to be holding back. However where Fushimi shines is in his tactical ability and planning. He holds all the advantages in this scenario, he's picked and scouted out the battle location and has plenty of time to set up defences and traps. Kirei is going in blind here, he's already going up against magic he's not experienced before but also in a situation which disadvantages him so will suffer in the initial stages of the battle.

This is a close battle and the winner will come out with more than just a few bruises but the winner will be Saruhiko Fushimi no matter which way I look at it. I've mentioned about the how the scenario works in his favour but even taking that away his Aura's all work very well against how Kirei operates. His Red Aura has big AOE attacks which are hard to dodge, his Green Aura helps him match Kirei's insane speed and his Blue Aura stops him from getting close enough to use his Bajiquan in it's most effective form. That's Kirei's biggest weakness, his reliance on close quarters combat (yes he can and does use the Black Keys as throwing weapons but Fushimi can block/dodge them and he mostly uses them to help him close the distance at any rate) which Fushimi can exploit by simply staying out of his range. If Kirei decides to boost his magic to the fullest with the command spells he would win but he's not going to do that so the Juuni Taisen Champion retains his 100% record.