User blog comment:Dargoo Faust/Dargoo Faust's Fate Tourney: The Second Vote/@comment-5795750-20180303092515

BG1's "Fate War 2: Fate Harder" Edges

Well with the entrance of Bhishma into the mix, there goes my prediction for Samson vs Lucy vs Odysseus. Why? Well... 2 of them are about to go down of course.

 3 Points  -  The Phantom Don and Shaka Zulu 

After pretty much wiping the floor with the weaker servants and masters (save a couple *nudge nudge*), Shaka is now out of his element and found to be at the bottom of the current Servant food chain. His Phantasms may have been strong enough to kill someone like Amleth but they cannot possibly deal a great damage to someone like Bhishma let alone de Ruyter, Odysseus or Cao Cao (spoiler alert). And even if Shaka were to try to attack the Master, again his Phantasms are not as strong as he thinks they are.

The distrusting relationship between the two is also what's gonna make them lose out... and I think they will leave the battle either via Method B or (like I was trying to predict in my previous vote) Method C because I believe that Shaka's bloodlust will operate in some ways like Kelly's boisterous personality picking a random fight and leaving his fate (no pun intended) to chance - and even though the Don will not be there to protect him in person like Colleen, either Don will abandon Shaka to be killed or use up his last Command Seal to control him in battle.

 2 Points  -  Christian Cannavale and Lucifer 

And from one commanding Master I move up to the other one in this match leading an army. Sure Christian has a PMC backing him up instead of random thugs and he may have his diplomatic shtick with the others, but I doubt that he, his army and Servant are going to last very long in a fight with Risei and Bhishma - even with the help of the other Masters and Servants, Christian will most likely die first to Risei since a barrage of bullets can't stop Risei unless he and the PMC are very lucky and/or precise. Furthermore, if Christian is going to face Risei, he is perhaps gonna pull a Colleen with the other Masters and be on the forefront to protect the others - which, as the other voters down there have so rightly pointed out, will get him killed because he simply will try to go on the offense rather than a defence. And in this instance, offence isn't the best defence.

As for Lucy... well she is one of the more powerful servants so she will live for a while after her master's demise - heck since there is a bit of a bond between the two, I think her master's death will definitely power her up more both physically and mentally (i.e. "You just made this personal" or something to that effect according to what Cfp will want her to say). She will play a crucial role in the team effort to stop Bhishma (with her territorial/reality manipulation Phantasm being the real game changer in a fight like this) but once the fight is over, she will simply disappear into the void having no master to take comfort in.

 1 Point  - Rhoswen Lloyd and Samson 

While others tend to think of Lloyd's unwillingness to enter into the alliance will bring about his early doom, I think of this as more like a semi-smart move since he will not be killed by Bhishma and Risei in the team fight - to me it will be more like "A New Challenger Enters the Ring"-style type of fight since Samson, as a strong berserker, will be able to have at least the upper hand in the early stages of the fight... until Bhishma then gets rid of him and Risei also deals with Lloyd in the same lethal fashion i.e. I think Risei, in the middle of his melee with Tanis, Erwin and Marshall, he will seemingly attack thin air... only for Lloyd to come crashing down dead. Now I know Risei isn't telepathic or anything, I just think he has a hunch that someone is watching him from afar while the intruding Servant Samson tackles with Bhishma.

And furthermore, even if Lloyd were to face Risei directly, she can't outright hurt him with her weapons or magic. She can play games with him but that's it. No offensive potential really.

Actually the way I see it, two things can happen here:

a) the above occurrence of Risei taking Lloyd down just like that while fighting the other Masters; or

b) Lloyd directly appears to challenge Risei and plays games with him which she ultimately loses BUT provides the other Masters and Servants the perfect opportunity to strike at Risei and Bhishma whilst the latter duo are distracted and/or possibly weakened.