Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6533159-20150930152159/@comment-11188061-20151022022045

Maki, let me put it this way.

This is a fight between martial artists, and they both use fists. In that sense Tifa has overwhelming advantage because:

1) She's at her level 99 prime here and Yang is like level 30 at best. Tifa's can shit on her with stats alone. To put it in metaphor, Tifa is sitting on a mountain on gold and Yang has 3 hundred dollars bill in her pocket. Tifa can crush her just by dumping the gold mountain on her head alone.

2) She's a master at close quarter combat and has a tonne of life-and-death experience on Yang. To put it on scale she's at Raven's level, except that she fist fights instead of using a katana. People also seem to forget that in martial arts victory is usually decided in a single blow, and since this a Death Battle Tifa has no ethic issues to use that experience on Yang. It should've been an absolute massacre.

The number 1 swordsman in the world isn't afraid of the number 2 swordsman, but he is afraid of a clueless farmer because he cannot predict how the complete newbie is going to fight. Unfortunately for Yang, this rule totally does not apply to her because they both train in the same fist fighting style.

3) Aura. As long as you have Aura it is shown that it can block any attack 100% no matter how powerful they are. On the other hand, there's a limit to how much Aura a person has. In Grimm Eclipse, Aura is like a shield and requires a long time to regenerate especially in combat. Once you take enough hits your Aura is gone and you start take direct damage to your HP.

Now tell me: How many times Yang have gotten hit by a woman whose fists alone can crush a truck? This should've been a 1, 2, 3, your shield's gone? Great! Cue explosion of gory matter on the floor. Their comparison of Yang surviving the Paladin's fist isn't accurate in the sense that the damage dealt is spread so that all the Aura in her body is used to survive the hit, then suffered another blow thankfully without a wall behind her back or she would have exploded into an ugly mess. On the other hand, we already saw how Neo can hurt Yang with sharp enough attacks to hit through a person's Aura, and Tifa is even better than her. Like I said earlier, Tifa can just throw her mountain of gold at Yang and she can't do anything to stop it. If she applies some skill to it then this is just a massacre.

In this Death Battle, both Yang's Aura and HP is fixed to highest setting so that she could survive long enough to deal a final, fatal blow, and that is bullshit. This is without even factoring the fact that Tifa is so much faster and skilled than Yang that dodging an obvious hit like that should never have been a problem. Life-and-death experience man, she's not an idiot to see a hit that can kill her and not dodge out of the way.

天时，地利，人和,the common conditions to win a war. In this particular case they will fit in the category of Experience, Geography and Overall Combat Strength (which is in general a combination of Surprise Factor, Power Level and Skill Level). Tifa has overwhelming experience on Yang. There's no real land to be taken advantage of in Death Battle (it's purely cosmetic and the animated characters did not take advantage of them) so they're equal. And finally, in terms of Overall Combat Strength Tifa is again overwhelmingly ahead of Yang, despite Yang having the better Surprise Factor.

No matter how you look at it there just isn't

In short, this is a Master versus Student battle. The Student has the potential to grow into a warrior that potentially surpasses her Master, but at her current level the Student at best can surprise the Master, but not beat her.