Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27255656-20170421195322/@comment-30530552-20170712222546

It's funny how these two characters are pretty much an even match-up despite or even because they're so different from one another.

Blake's Semblance is pretty spammable, which vastly improves her mobility and decreases her chances of getting hit while allowing for near instant recovery. And while Dust isn't a standard part of her loadout, she can wipe the floor with it if she catches them off-guard with it. Her weapon also has great versatility, if at a lower power rate than Sun's. The real issue is that her strength in comparison to Sun is lower, meaning she'd have to hit him additional times to do the same amount of damage. She also has to concentrate to use her weapon effectively, since she's got 3 to 4 different styles she can use it in, which would be very hard to coordinate. That, and she's usually on the defensive, meaning that she has a hard time actually pressing the attack effectively.

Sun's Semblance isn't very spammable, decreases his own mobility in favor of offensive power, and so increases his chances of getting hit. We also don't know if it has Dust interaction, because if it does, that gives him a HUGE advantage, assuming both could use the Dust during their fight, since his Semblance would pin her down and/or do major damage against her. His weapon also varies, and I think if he's defending against Blake's attacks, he'd use his staff to stonewall most of them, which decreases her effectiveness. To press offense, which he'd likely try multiple times, he would just work with the gunchuk-storm he did to Roman, which I don't think Blake would be able to keep up with, since Roman was able to weather and avoid every single one of those attacks Sun brought, and Roman was able to keep up with and counter Blake without really taking a hit himself, and even got the upper hand on her, as speedy and tricky as she is. His power rate with the weapon is much higher, and much more spammable than her weapon's power rate,  and he only has two styles to work with, which makes it easier on him.

Both know the other's Semblance since they've seen it in action before, which means that Sun would expect her to try and leap away, whereas Blake would likely try to attack when Sun uses his own Sebance, which Sun would probably expect, provided he has that kind of tactical strategy. I'm assuming he does possess some level of it, since A) he's a team leader, and B) when SSSN was fighting NDGO, Neptune mentions "a lockdown," implying its been discussed before, which Sun as the leader would likely coordinate. Sun also recognized the fact there was nothing to lock down in that instance, and seemed to also use Neptune to his advantage to take out the NDG trio, though that's up for interpretation since he didn't specifically ask Neptune to electrocute them, and Neptune told him to get out of the water without specifying what he was doing.

Overall, it's really about who can overpower or outsmart the other, and since I'm not sure who'd win, until we get more info on Sun's combat abilities, I'm going to call this a roughy 5-5 battle, with Sun winning moreso if the fight drags on, whereas Blake can win more easily early on.