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Commander Ghost wrote: Possible Combatants so far, if you have one let me know now and i'll add a character(No Overpowered opponents)

Possible Opponents for Yang:

Yang vs. Kenichi? Somehow I think that fight would be super one-sided in Kenichi's favor. Death Battle's policy is for both combatants to be at their peak, but I still think that even if they only use Kenichi's peak power as in the end of the Anime, Kenichi would still win. We have all seen the supposed peak of Yang's power and fighting abilities so far, but Kenichi is a different story. If they end up using the Anime version of Kenichi, then I imagine the fight could be a fairly well balanced one in terms of each person's strength and speed, but if they decide to use the Manga version of Kenichi then I'm pretty sure he will win.
 * Agent Texas(Red VS Blue)
 * Leone(Akame Ga Kill)
 * Garnet(Steven Universe)
 * Tifa Lockhart(Final Fantasy 7)
 * Jacqui Briggs(Mortal Kombat X)
 * Little Mac(Punch-Out!!)
 * Kilik Rung(Soul Eater)
 * John Morgan(Dead Island: Riptide)
 * Kenichi Shirahama(History Strongest Disciple Kenichi)
 * Hitomi(Dead or Alive)

I hope you guys are ready to do some reading because this will be a long post.

Side Note: Some of you might know that Kenichi is a pacifist and doesn't like fighting unless it is for the direct purpose of protecting the weak, and besides that has taken an oath to never ever under any circumstances raise a hand to a girl, even if she is trying to kill him. I'll just assume that if death battle is making these two fight, Kenichi will have a good enough reason to fight Yang to the death, and leave it at that.

For those of you who haven't seen Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple, he is basically a super wimpy guy who joins a martial arts dojo looking to learn how to protect himself from bullies. Long story short, the dojo is run by six (yes, six) of the greatest and most powerful martial artists to ever live, and he is trained daily by all of them for YEARS before even the end of the Anime. This is why I think it would be a better decision for the fight to be between Anime Kenichi and Yang, because they are about the same strength and speed, but they both have certain advantages that could give either of them the chance for a winning move to be made.

Yang obviously has her gauntlets which can be used for ranged attacks, and her "super saiyan mode", which from what we've seen, gives her boosted speed/strength. Along with this she also has her Aura, which as stated by others on this thread, gives her a baseline protective shield that can protect her from most weaker attacks, as well as giving her a passive healing factor. Also, Kenichi is a huge perv, so her *ahem* "assets" will definitely be a distraction for him, and we know she has no problem using her appeal to her advantage in a fight.

I'll start with Anime Kenichi. By the end of the Anime, Kenichi has been living with and being trained (read: Tortured) by all six of Ryuzanpaku's Martial Arts Masters. His fighting style is a nice mixture of his Masters preferred styles (called the Shirahama style). His Masters have taught him various techniques in the styles of: Karate, Jujitsu, Chinese Kenpo, Muay Thai, All Weapon styles, and the Furinji style (which is an original fighting style used only by Kenichi, the Elder Master, and the Elder's daughter, Miu). By the end of the anime, he has mastered quite a lot of techniques from each of his Masters, and has even mixed some moves into new and unexpected techniques in the middle of battle (It should also be noted at this point that although Kenichi doesn't particularly like getting into fights, he has a TON of real world/underground fighting experience). He also has experience fighting opponents with a wide range of styles and abilities, such as boxing, judo, tae kwon do, wrestling, sumo, and other Mixed Martial Artists like himself. He also has the ability to take a beating that would normally kill someone else a few times over, and an unusually fast healing rate (this is mostly due to training, and he does need the downtime to heal so we probably wont see that), as well as the ability to perfectly imitate and execute the exact style and techniques of his Masters just from memory, meaning he can completely change from defense to offense or vice versa on a split second's notice, which usually throws off his opponents as he also takes on the personality of whoever he is mimicking. He also has a technique called Seikuken, which is similar to aura in the way that allows him to forsee and block/dodge nearly any incoming attack, though at the end of the Anime he can only use it to block, though he can still see attacks before they come.

Tl:Dr- Anime Kenichi's main advantages are his vastly superior knowledge of martial arts and the various techniques of many differing styles and how to counter them, some of which are similar to aura (although that particular technique requires lots of concentration at that point). He can also take a beating harder and longer than literally anyone else in the entire series, to the point where normal people would have been hospitalized. He has just as much if not more real world fighting experience as Yang, as well as the ability to perfectly mimick the exact style and techniques as his Masters, as well as other people he has battled, though usually not to the same effect as his Masters due to the difference in power and experience.

Now we get to the Manga version of Kenichi, and the reason Yang would realistically have little to no chance. To those of you who have seen the Anime, but not the Manga, I'll just say that the Anime only covers about a tenth of Kenichi's story/martial arts growth if that. Since the end of the Manga is when Kenichi is truly at his peak in power, I'll try to just list all the things he has learned since the end of the Anime. At the end of the Manga, he is vastly stronger and faster than he was at the end of the Anime. He is at the point where he can literally dodge punches nearly as fast as bullets, he can now take so much of a beating that he can get knocked out and then still keep fighting at full power while still being unconsious, has mastered an even greater number of techniques, can now mimick fighting styles and techniques after only seeing them used once (and in a few cases after only hearing vague descriptions), has even more fighting experience than before, with most of his fights after the end of the Anime being literally fights to the death (although he never kills anyone). He now also has such control over his Ki that he can use Ryuusei Seikuken, the perfected version of Seikuken, which allows him to perfectly tune his movements to be in sync with the person he is fighting, and thus to be able to counter nearly any attack. He can also use his Ki to neutralize the Ki of other fighters, effectively making them unable to move of their own accord. At the end of the Manga his Masters muse that he would probably be able to fight a weaker martial arts master on equal ground, which is saying something as even the weaker Masters are basically superhumans capable of taking on armies. His Masters also comment during the last battle of the Manga that he suddenly increased his control of his Ki from Moderate level to Master level, as in having perfect control over it.

Tl:Dr- Kenichi is basically a superhuman. He has completely mastered lirerally hundrededs of techniques, even ones he has only seen once or twice (sometimes even ones he has only heard described very vaguely once before), he can fight at full power even after being knocked out (as in being completely unconsious), which can only happen after he has taken on injuries that would have killed anyone else. He has such control over his Ki that he is at Master level, and can mimick/counter nearly any move regardless of whether he has seen it before, and can even temporarily paralize people with one touch. Because of his fighting experience, he can literally never be surprised by an attack because his body is always passively sensing the movements of others around him, and he has fought people with weapons so often that he can take on and defeat large groups of assailants with deadly weapons with ease. He is only a teen and his Masters say that he could take on a Master level opponent and win, although it would be challenging for him.

So, yeah that was a reaaaaaaly long post, but in case you didnt want to read all of that I put those Tl:Dr things in there, but if even that was too much, I'll just say this. I can see no way that Yang could win against Kenichi if they were in a Death Battle. If it was a normal fight she would definitely win just because he doesn't like fighting girls, or fighting in general, he just does it to protect the people he loves. But when it comes to an all-out fight to the death, Kenichi wins Every. Single. Time. Even at his peak condition in the Anime, he matches Yang or outclasses her in literally everything including strength, speed, combat experience, and creativity in the middle of a fight. As for the clear advantages, Yang has her gauntlets, so she has ranged attacks which Anime Kenichi can at best dodge, or she can use them close range to disorient him, and she also has her feminine appeal which would work on Anime Kenichi for a little bit. Her best advantage in this fight is her losing control and going "super saiyan", because of the power and speed increase. Anime Kenichi has a seriously vast knowledge of martial arts techniques, and based on seeing both their fighting styles up close, I can say that he would take her apart if it came to hand to hand combat. Anime Kenichi's other advantage comes from his crazy amount of endurance, and the fact that he can take a beating that would hospitalize even experienced martial artists, and then get back up and start fighting again. If Death Battles really wanted to make the fight one-sided, they would make Yang fight Manga Kenichi. Remember Yang's gauntlets being one of her advantages? Not anymore, at most she could use them to make her punches more powerful in close range, because Manga Kenichi has enough experience to know not to let someone just shoot him from a distance. Even if she went "super saiyan", and was able to use her aura to its full healing/shielding extent, her strength and speed (might) be enough to hold him off for a while, and even then, he has the endurance to outlast her, and the training to take advantage of the all-over-the-place attack method she uses when she goes berserk. Even her charms wouldn't work on him anymore because he passively senses whether someone is going to attack him, she can literally never surprise him.

I really hate to say it because Yang is by far one of my favorite characters in RWBY, but she has no chance in a fight against Kenichi Shirahama, whether it's him from the Anime or Manga, he is simply in a whole other league. Honestly, even though I haven't seen Akame Ga Kill, from what I've heard on this forum, it would be a much better match up between Yang and Leone just based on how similar they are. 'Rant. Over.'