Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Unless Millennium has their zeppelins. Then I could see them just blowing it up while it can't reach them : D
V1s won't exactly do jack to the Kyuubi shroud.
The entire minefield was, guess what, filled with mines, and they had to concentrate on jumping over tiny little sticks planted in the ground.
Yes. If they went mach 2-3, the fact that they were filled with mines would matter jack squat. They'd be gone before the mines detonated, they wouldn't have to jump on knife hilts in the ground. Nor would they be vulnerable to being shot while jumping on said hilts.
That they did on a very fast pace. : |
Definitely. Just not *that* fast.
In terms of pure movement speed, mebbe. Definately not reaction-wise though. I have seen nothing that suggests that the average jounin is a bullet timer.
In Naruto, people both use and block mach-speed attacks. An average jonin probably travels at near-mach speeds with a body flicker, considering how far we've seen them travel without apparent movement.
Jonin can blitz chunin can blitz genin can blitz normal chakra-less fighters.
Ninja have never dealt with guns, do you really think they're going to know how to react to them? Also, cover can jump off a duck, Panzerfausts >
Yes? Guns are not exactly complex- they point and make loud noise, people die. They're obviously a deadly jutsu.
Panzerfausts are a lot clumsier and more obvious than the automatic guns, not that hard to avoid, and won't work on all cover like earth-jutsu walls. They reduce the effect of cover a little, but they don't suddenly make cover not a good defense.
Explosive tags that the Vampires will easily dodge. Not that they'd do any real harm.
Explosives kill vampires dead all the time. See: Mines.
And Millennium is Waffen SS. As in, part of the Wehrmacht, inarguably one of the strongest armies in modern history. And this particular group of Nazis are utterly devoted to war, and are led by a genius who's intellect makes him look like he's right out of Death Note.
That's actually not too hard to argue... they were pretty good, but they also got all the best equipment.
Anyway, they aren't unique in being good at war in this fight is the point.
Iscariot Priests are people who, well, basically live to kill things like vampires =| Their bullets would have had to been blessed to actually harm the vampires.
The point is, humans were hitting vampires with guns.
The genin are fast enough to fight against them, and a human would not even be near fast enough to hit a jonin with a gun.
Ninja of rank have significantly better offense than guns too, fire works against vamps.
Not really. Seras in the second chapter, where Alucard considered her more of a half-human, half-undead creature then more of a vampire, was casually dodging bullets after they'd been fired. If anything, would say that the vampires, who had previously just been tanking bullets shot at them by others, weren't prepared for the Iscariot Priests.
Seras is far beyond the Millennium vamps even before she drinks Pip, she kills like 20 of 'em inside the headquarters.
An unblooded true vampire is still above any of the non-officers by a very noticeable amount.
All the Millennium vamps have drank blood, but they're also fakes, FREAK vampires. They don't get the same benefit a true vampire like Seras does, they don't have familiars.
Trying to stealth a vampire with the 3rd Eye is kinda funny.
Not really, it doesn't work on what it doesn't see, as Integra showed.
Uh, not really. I have seen few genjutsu outside of top-tiers that really surpasses Zorin, who has large area-of-effect attacks.
Kabuto, who's not a genjutsu specialist in the same sense Kurenai is (though admittedly still pretty good, rating of 4 out of 5), sent several hundred people to sleep.
We don't see genjutsu in use as commonly, but dealing with one genjutsu user like Zorin is hardly out of their experience and they do have several people here who are better.
Uh, no they won't dood. Except maybe for very powerful elemental jutsu, vampires will generally be able to tank most of their attacks. Only holy weapons are effective against them.
And un-blessed explosives. And fire. And water. And having their heads or bodies destroyed physically.
And, uh, they do this before a gai who slaps an Awakened Seras around like nothing rips them apart, how?
By having their own most uber people deal with him. Danzo, Kakashi, Jiraiya, etc..
Keep in mind, they outnumber the Vampires ten to one. They can get lots of people ripped up for awhile then have their own super elite take out the vampires super elite, and still win.
They have a lot more elite people. They have a lot more people period. They do have ways to hold up someone stronger than they are until help arrives, and they do have help capable of killing anyone on the vampire side.
Again, overestimating Ninja and underestimating vampires. Ninjas do not know how to fight against the awesome power of massed automatic gunfire and artillery.
They fight other ninja with far more power than a panzerfaust or anything else the vamps have. They fight people who shoot lightning, needles so fast they drill through steel, invisible bullets of air that can kill people without warning, Deidara's homing explosives (one of Konoha's arch enemies has a group called the "Blast Corps" who specially in explosion jutsu, so artillery is not exactly odd to them) etc. etc..
Rapid firing bullets, while nice, is only slightly different than what they've seen before, and it does have some obvious defenses, namely it only works in direct line-of-sight and can be blocked by thick cover, which the ninja both start with and can make more of, and telegraphs where it's going to fire by where the gun's pointed. Some ninja can also get so tough they can ignore gunfire completely..
Conversely, I could say "Vampires don't know how to fight against the awesome power of a huge variety of jutsu."
The ninja have fought against stuff more similar to what the vamps have than vice-versa. There's much more flexibility on the ninja side.
Keep in mind I'm not just assuming the ninja can handle that, I'm noted specific ways they can defend and similar things they've fought before, and comparing the ninja directly to foes the vampires have fought before.
Again, I am not denying that the vampires are very powerful, but it's easy to overlook just how powerful the Ninja are.
Against beings that each possess advanced regeneration and general immunity to most conventional weapons.
In the plot, right now, they are fighting people who can be blown away to the point only their feet remain and regenerate to total strength in seconds.
The vampire's damage resistance is not that impressive in comparison, especially when fire jutsu is one of the most common weapons of Konoha.
The Captain and the Dandy, now they're hard to kill, but as mentioned right now they're fighting foes with similar uber regeneration. And very powerful foes at that.
Kakashi has a move that is literally a space warp. Sucking them into a pseudo-black hole will work on anything Millennium has. Danzo has a move that only requires he touch a foe, then a seal covers them and immobilizes them completely. He also has an irresistible mind control that works even on those normally totally immune to control due to having additional beings in their head to save them.
Jiraiya has the Sage Frog Song that traps someone inside their own mind forever. He also has the "Toad Mouth Bind," wherein he summons someone into a pocket dimension of a toad's stomach and the only known way out involved flames that burn hotter than the sun.
So yes, they have ways of dealing with the Captain and the Dandy. That is five different techniques that'll work, and that's not even a complete list.
Not really dood. I demand chunin/jounin strength feats. Average Chunin/Jounin strength feats.
We don't see a ton of pure strength type feats, but here is *Genin* Sasuke one-shotting a 50 foot bear with a kick.
By the databooks, he has a strength rating of 2 at the time, though I suspect he *may* have been up near 2.5. Iruka has a 2.5. Obito, who was promoted to chunin only because it was war time, has a 2.
Genin Kiba's physical attacks can drill through stone (here, several feet deep and wider than he is), and he's a 2.5. Somewhat exceptional genin rather than chunin, but these aren't even the strongest genin, Sasuke is definitely not known for his brute strength.
Shizune, the *medic* Jonin, has a 2.5.
By the way, there's practically no such thing as an 'average' Jonin. Practically every single one we've seen has been a named character with major jutsu.
This is a jutsu done by a barely-shows-up enemy Jonin from Stone. That is, in case you can't tell, a hundred-foot pillar of rock erupting in an explosion.
What makes a Jonin jonin level varies, some are more obvious than others, but the mook jonin is something that very much doesn't exist in the anime, even the smaller scale ones are super-good at something, and many of them have mass destruction like that.