Originally posted by batdude123
I was SOOOOOOO much better with Taven than I was with Shujinko. Taven has better combos, and actually has specials (in Deception, Shujinko didn't have any special attacks). I'll go with Shujinko, but maybe I'm a little biased.
Um, Shujinko did have special attacks in Deception (the same special moves he had in Armageddon; the copied ones from other characters and what not). You just had to unlock 'em in that Krypt or whatever. 😛
But yeah. I see you point nonetheless. I kinda feel the same way 🙂, even though I was a little better with Taven. >.> Weird huh?
Taven, in a stomp.
Special moves: He can move at the speed of light, become intangible, teleport, summon and manipulate fire through a variety of applications, and freeze time. Shujinko may have more special moves, but he quite simply has nothing that would enable him to stand up against someone who can freeze time, move at speeds miles beyond his own, and if Taven were to choose to go immaterial, there would be nothing that Shujinko could use to physically affect him.
Fighting accomplishments: Defeating the likes of Dark Raiden, Fujin, Noob Saibot, Mileena, Goro, Rain, and Daegon, and fighting through entire armies of warriors and giant freakish monsters and forces of nature, all in the space of one day, and then going on to defeat Blaze, a being who's latent spirit energy would have been so powerful that it would have been capable of wiping out every combatant fighting their way up to the top of the pyramid (over 60 of some of the most powerful beings in the realms, including Shujinko) puts him well beyond Shujinko as a fighter, who was never able to defeat someone as powerful as Blaze, and certainly never able to defeat such a large amount of powerful warriors in such a short period of time.
Then of course, there's the fact that after defeating Blaze, he was able to absorb the Elemental's power, and literally skyrocketed in power, where he became a full God, Protector of the Realm of Edenia. While it's true that Shujinko also got powered up, it would have logically been nowhere near to the same degree as Taven's considering the fact that Blaze actually transformed Taven into a God, whereas Shujinko received the effects that were spread out over 60 other warriors.
As I said, Taven in a stomp. Nobody else can truly compete.