BloodRain
Knight of Retribution
All true, only some tweeks for nuDante, namely how he's lesser than Dante in all ways besides having more strength than DMC3 Dante as he's able to landy dealing punches on building sized stone-like creatures while unhanced, where the previous was only in the low ton range. It's greater with demon gauntlets and DT.
Speed is only supersonic+, greater than beings who can casually bullet-time. Not great but it's still around double Cole's reactions. Though DT slows down speed by a factor of ten or so.
Regen is slow.. and he still feels penetrative wounds with immense pain, and then is momentarily weakened. Blunt and Ebert attacks wojuld be a different story.
All in all in still a good deal faster than Cole, us able to resist and recover from his attacks and has the means to dispatch of Cole with a single hit.
Only competition is from the Beasts temporarily suicidal AoE blast and granted regen. And Kessler's powers, mainly his moment speed. Tbh only the Beasts regen is a worry, and not a massive one as besides taking a while to perform, its proven that Cole's normal attacks can damage him and his lightning drop and knock him out for a bit.