User blog comment:Appelmonkey/A Noble Legacy: Richter Belmont vs. Joseph Joestar/@comment-3189283-20190905144955

Let’s see shall we

Equipment

This would at a glance appear to be a bit of a miss match. Joseph is bringing modern weaponry like the Thompson and Grenades against Richter’s whip and projectile weapons. Richter might have encountered firearms and explosives before but nothing as advanced as what Joseph is carrying and it’ll give him quite a shock when Joseph starts spitting rounds at him. That being said Richter’s own weapons are nothing to be scoffed at as having axes, knives and giant spinning crosses been thrown about will still do considerable damage to Joseph. He’s also bringing the only melee weapons in the battle in the form of Vampire Killer and it’ll be useful for keeping Joseph at bay where he can’t use his Hamon attacks. Still he’s not bringing anything that Joseph wouldn’t be able to think around and for all the projectiles he does have none of them are as effective as the Thompson.

Edge: Joseph Joestar

Abilities

Physically Richter wins easily. Joseph is no slouch in the physical department but at the end of the day he’s still a normal human he doesn’t have superhuman physicality like Richter does. In terms of magic, Richter pretty much just upgrades the power of his weapons. Nothing that creative admittedly but still it greatly increases the lethality and range of his weapons. Joseph meanwhile is a Hamon user a form of magic that is very versatile and whose usage is limited only the user’s imagination, something which Joseph has a ton of. However, Hamon also is specifically meant to be used against the undead and against living creatures and people it’s effectiveness is limited. Yes, it can be used to knock a person unconscious or give them an electrical type shock but this requires a high concentration of Hamon and this would surely be amplified even more considering Richter’s superhuman physicality. So, with that in mind I’m going to give the edge to Richter because of superior physicality and more damaging magic.

Edge: Richter Belmont

Final Verdict

TBC