Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-933831-20160328041356/@comment-27389942-20160330210447

For me, I feel that Akiba and Viola have the advantage. This ruling lies signifigantly on the shoulders of Akiba. In a plains scenario, range holds little advantage and Viola's semblance may as well be nonexistant. However, while these two disadvantages may hold those two back they don't necessarily add to the other team either. For Viola, I'd say she's just about on par with both of her opponents. She is at a slight disadvantage due to choice of weapon as well as a lack of more formal training, but street tricks should never be discounted. Generally, I would asume Viola would fight Suika, and would most likely eventually lose, but not without putting up a significant fight. In that particular situation, Suika's ricochet runes would work well with the plains battlefield. However, this would then leave Sin in Akiba's hands where, judging mostly on experience, he would be absolutely destroyed. Furthermore, Akiba's highly restrictive semblance would prove difficult to destroy for Sin with his katana that traditionally needs a lot of room to wield. This would then leave us with a lightly fatiqued Akiba facing a much more heavily damaged Suika. Regardless of what they had been doing previously in the fight, Akiba comes out on top. Generally, in CQC the longer weapon wins. Ignoring this general principal however, Akiba still has a huge advantage in skill. Having trained in a dojo, having regualr combat experience at home, and having attended an Academy for one year longer he has a lot of practical experience. Suika on the other hand has only her basic schooling, and her training in Grimm Chance. Even the latter of those two won't prove effective in the long run because the style within Grimm Chance used by Suika (Narasimha Style) is described as needing significant skill in aura use, a skill in which Suika scores an F on in her profile.

In this instance, Akiba's muteness doesn't seem much of a disadvantage. In a perfectly open environment, like plains, there is little to no strategy involved and coordination is largely irrelevant. Therfore, to say it once again, I think the win goes to Akiba and Viola.