(Insert Imperial March Theme Here)

Why do I back Vader? Because I saw this fight back when it was called Obi-Wan vs Kakashi.

“Oh but these two are different.”

Dudes, come on, DB has been “Setting Battle” for a long, long time. Zatanna vs Scarlet Witch was high tier Marvel vs high tier DC. Apocalypse vs Black Adam was high tier Marvel vs upper-mid DC. Rocket vs Stitch was a check on Marvel street levels and Poo vs Iron Fist was a check on lower-mid Marvel.

CU vs Dragonborn was such a setting battle that the hosts straight up told the audience “ignore all gameplay, do not trust your eyes, trust only our interpretation of the lore” as if they were MSNBC asking you to ignore the footage of Ray Epps.

This fight won’t be Vader vs Obito. It will be Vader, with all his universal/multiversal Swank bullshit, against Obito. He’s getting star level telekinesis at minimum. MINIMUM.

I know a lot of you out there are going “Obito will win, because in the extra-long preview they showed, Obito as getting creamed, so he’s bound to make a comeback.” To that I got to say, remember Black Adam vs Apocalypse?

The preview showed that most of Obito’s win cons were already dropped. His fancy magic eyeball? Popped. His vortex thing? Resisted. His illusion thing? Powered through. His Shadowcat thing? Overpowered. His magic fan? Chopped down faster than Mike Pence’s political career. His big pokemon’s terra force attack thing? Literally compressed into a ball.

If the fight was just base Vader against base Obito, it would already be over. DB virtually said that Obito needs his funky albino transformation just to be competitive, and that’s not  good sign for Obito. Characters that need to henshin up into stronger forms during a fight rarely win–so much so I think I might add “has transformations” to the OPS system.

Look, what does Obito have left in his bag of tricks? The floating orbs of annihilations? If they already ruled that Vader’s tk could get over Obito’s Shadowcat powers, it’s likely they’ll say he can tk away the orbs. Even if they say he can’t, all they need to do to get Vader over is say his tk can ouptut around the same energy as the Night Guy kick that almost killed killed Obito’s buddy Madara. Night Guy level tk implosion means a dead Obito, and all Vader has to do to pull it off is think about doing it. That’s way faster than the orbs flying at Vader, and all they need to do to get Vader’s tk to that level is post some scans of Lit Eraly Wuh, the Jedi Master, pushing planets or whatever.

Vader’s got this in the bag–and don’t you move your marker, G1, I’m coming for that W.

OPS SCORES

Vader (5)

–Older Character

–Smarter Character

–Archive Advantage

–Midwit Advantage (Look at the EU! Jedis can blow up planets!)

–Is the invader in the fight scenario

Obito (2)

–Casual Advantage (Vader didn’t seem that strong in the movies and Obito has like a billion powers)

–Opponent had the better preview (and how!)