March Multimedia Multiverse Madness, Match 8: Lady Shiva vs. Ivy

Next Match: Lady Shiva from DC Comics Universe

Omar:Listen, Lady Shiva is the ‘92 Ryu with an attitude of DC Comics. Lemme tell you like Batgirl told me, “Her hobby is hunting down the best fighters in the world and beating them to death with her bare hands”. Ivy Valentine think she want that smoke? Listen, Ivy. Sweetie, you’re doing great in Soulcalibur but Lady Shiva ain’t come here for ring outs, she came to blow your spine out the hard way. Ivy’s Sword/whip is a great weapon for close and for long range fighting but Shiva doesn’t need a weapon, she is the weapon. There isn’t a weapon Shiva hasn’t squared off against. The woman can dodge bullet fire so dodging a sword, a sword-whip, taxes and death is nothing. Especially when she has the ability to know the attack her opponent is going to do before they do it just by reading their body language. Even if struck, Shiva has mastered her body so well that she can deaden her nervous system to physical pain and control the rate of bleeding. Ivy ain’t built for fighting in three dimensions either. She better keep that 2D shit on the console, homie. We’re talking best with the hands not best with the swordsmanship, bruh. Once Shiva neutralizes that weapon (and she will) then what Ivy got? How she goin escape Triangle Choke? How she goin escape an arm-bar? Ankle Lock? Kimura Lock? Scorpion Deathlock? Sheeeee noooot. Ivy against Lady Shiva is punching above her weight. She goin stop playing and start tapping out. Ain’t a “Do you wi…