Board Thread:Role Plays (AU)/@comment-24617443-20170624224213/@comment-30803571-20170707185949

well i can't really add much here, everyone has pretty much put allthere is to this fight on previous posts imho, one thing i'd like to take some time t oexplain though, is the whole experience factor, and how it IS indeed a very big one.

you see, while Sanuye does indeed have much more training and experience than the average student, she's still just a student, even factoring in all her accumulated experience she is still nowhere near as experienced as Egil, even if one assumed Egil had little to no training before attending signal he still would have started studies at age 14 (remmember ruby was 15 when recruited to beacon, and she had been in signal for a year already) this means Egil has an accumulated "training time" of 25 years, while Sanuye (having started training at age 5) has only 15. Not only that, but while starting combat training at an early eage would give someone an advanatge in the long run, the fact is someone that young simply doesn't have the psychomotricity to perfect their art, and while they will get some advancement it'll be slower and far more limited than an older student's would.

Now we must also take into account the time they have been working on their trade, Sanuye started properlly working for the Uroboros group before attending beacon, meaning she has over 6 years of work experience (while it doesn't say how long she's been working for the group, i'm guessing it can't be much more than that 'cus she'd be too young to be of any use), Egil on the other hand has been working his trade since he graduated from beacon, meaning 20 years of work experience, furthermore the last 13 have been spent dealing with the vale underground (as well as teaching at signal) so he's been fighting humans for at least that long.

last but not least on the experience front, is life experience. Egil has had a mostly normal life, and his overall "life experience" time can be summed up as his entire life. On the othr hand we have Sanuye who, while she may have been rigorously trained and educated from early life, doesn't seem to have had much exposure to the outside world at an early age, i'm taking this from this part of her profile:

"Sanuye attended primary combat school and joined the huntsmen academy in order to watch over the heiress. This ended up being the best thing for her, as she was exposed to a much wider world, causing her knowledge and experience to skyrocket"

The only way that would make sense would be that A) she grew up in an isolated environment, having little exposure to the outside world and thus had yet to adapt and properly learn how to function in human society; and B) her knowledge and combat experience was limited to familiar foes and subjects, meaning she hadn't faced that big a variety of situations.

this would mean Sanuye, while definetly a very skilled combatant, would still have limited experience in terms of dealing with other highly skilled and, most importantly, varied foes. to put it in perspective, if a dojo has a young and extremely talented black belt that has participated in a variety of tournaments, facing both his own and other combat styles, it'll be an extremely impressive fighter. but the much older Dan 5 that has participated in twice as many and twice as varied tournaments will still beat the unholy crap out of them, even if they weren't as "talented" back in the day.

just to illustrate this point, here's a similar situation to this fight.

a pretty talented but still mostly normal human soldier who has accumulated an enormous amounth of experience, vs a child soldier genetically engineered to be THE perfect soldier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR0ijNLgugo

as we can see, Liquid(Eli) easily dominates a normal soldier (average talent, average training, etc), but Ocelot isn't an average soldier, he's very talented himself and has much MUCH more experience than Liquid. meaning that while Liquid's "talent" factor is off the charts and vastly VASTLY outclasses Ocelot's, the later still easily overpowers him 'cus he simply knows what he's doing much better than Liquid.

this of course is an exageration, the match between Sanuye an Egil would be nowhere near as one-sided, Sanuye is a formidable opponent for Egil and it'd end up being a close fight, but in the end Egil is still the superior combatant