Pre-DMC. 18 years old beginner.
And even anime version, which is relatively unimpressive one (though anime takes place somewhere between DMC1 and DMC4) gets rid of handcuffs as if those are silk threads.
Also Dante doesn't have lifting feats (the best one is using a motorcycle for melee combat so he's no greater than class 5 in terms of weightlifting) but has plenty of feats related to force of hits and skills. Like destroying stone statue with a punch in the tower dive scene from DMC3 (he also makes it explode from inside by overloading it with his demonic energy, like chi overloads which are shown in some kung fu movies\mangas).
But that's not a weightlifting contest, I believe.
It goes through his heart, so by pulling himself out of him he rips his own heart into parts- that's why he is really weakned for a few seconds after that. His body has to deal with major damage. Being pinned through the chest, not through the heart, with electrified sword, also happened to Dante in DMC1 even earlier- during his encounter with Trish.
Kain starts as newly initiated, not as human, the human nobleman gets killed and then recuressted as a basic vampire.
not neccerily, also do you have a vid of the clib, i through it pierced his central ribcage joint, also not neccerily will he be ripping his heart into bits, it could of been a clean cut through which it looked like to me
you said we never see him as human, we see him assinated so technically thats his weakest showing and form, but how is this relevent to anything?
Technically we don't see that version of action. The vids are in Dante's RT.
The ribcage joint is pierced in the encounter with Trish, and heart being ripped into parts is a result of two deductions:
1. The shape of Alastor sword, all those batwings etc would have needed to go through his heart, so no clear cut as WHOLE sword including heavily decorated handgrip goes through the Dante's body.
2. He feels much weaker after that than in cases of simple "blade through the chest" (sand demons, Trish (Trish electrified a sword before pinning Dante to the wall with it and it did nothing)) so the damage was more serious.