VS Blog: Androxus vs Nix (Paladins vs Brawlhalla)

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"I am and have been the reaper of wayward souls for a long time." ― The Undertaker


Androxus, the Soul-Drained God Killer from Paladins. 


Nix, the Freelance Soul Reaper from Brawlhalla.


Death comes in many ways, as we all have a path to go when we die. Whether Death looks for your soul to harvest or to lead you to the skies above, there will always be someone you’ll witness after your death- and sometimes you’ll have to fight a reaper in the flesh. So what happens when you witness the power of the reaper in a world of Gods? Are you scared at the idea that even the strongest can be killed? Or are you scared of the end of your own life? 


Whichever you believe in, the greatest fear we all have comes in death which we will all eventually fall into. We might be able to prolong our death, but we will never be able to outrun death. After all, death doesn’t stop, it just waits. So, between these reapers who always come back to hunt for souls, who will come out on top to taste metaphysical victory? We’ll find that out when we get to who wins… in a DEATH BATTLE!

Before We Begin

Androxus and Nix will be sourcing from their original games, of course. As a side note, here isn’t much information regarding these characters story wise besides the game settings… We don’t want you to think we’re skipping out on stuff regarding these two in abilities and background– unfortunately, these games are pretty obscure with their character lore. 

Background

Androxus

Many years ago, the man we now know as Androxus was once a relentless lawman alongside his friend Lex, where the two fought many supernatural and serial criminals, works that the standard lawforce couldn’t fight against. However, taking such a high role in the law put Androxus and his fellow officers at risk- one that would eventually bring Androxus endless suffering. On one of his missions, Androxus would slay an Abyssal entity posing itself as a God that seemed to have granted Androxus power– however, upon finding out that the entity was not a God and bestowed on him instead a great sickness, he killed the entity and took its power. Due to the sickness brought upon the officer, his soul and mind were corrupted and broken, leaving him a shell of his former self that hid away in his armor. Now, Androxus wanders the world as a soulless reaper feeding on lost souls, trying to fix his past and reconcile for his actions while his former friend hunts him down for revenge.

Nix

When we all go, eventually we’ll ascend to the skies above– known as Valhalla, where all of the Gods of our world reside. With the land of Brawlhalla, all those who die reside in Valhalla and face combat forever. However, in order to bring those into combat, the people of Asgard have brought upon the seekers of lost souls. After all, many souls cling onto the troubles they left behind, so someone’s going to have to… reap them? Enter Nix, one of Brawlhalla’s grim reapers who’s come to Valhalla, seeking both a means to continue her job, and she’ll stop at nothing to make sure she gets paid– even if it means a lifetime of harsh combat.

Experience & Skill

Androxus

Androxus is an intelligent combatant who prior to his corruption was a high-ranking officer of the Magistrate that dealt with supernatural and high-ranking criminals in the name of the law. When he was corrupted by a goddess of the abyss, he was cursed to roam the land and kill to satiate his hunger for souls- bringing him on a neverending chase with his once-former partner Lex. He has fought other members of the Magistrate, such as Ash, as well as many other champions in the realm.

Nix

Nix is a reaper who’s been working for thousands of years, taking upon many jobs from various Gods tasked with getting souls or bad people out of their hair, being so experienced and skilled that she’s brought upon by the God of Death themselves when they need professional help in the sort of killing profession she has as a reaper. Plus, she’s a great Valkyrie too, and always fights in the Valhalla tournaments when she can ‘cuz both of those things are just fun. 

Equipment

Androxus

Androxus’ Armor

Granted to him likely after his corruption, Androxus wears armor that defends him physically and contains his abyssal disease. With this armor, he’s able to protect his body pretty well to cover what’s corroded under it, as it shows no visible skin making it practically impossible to get him sick… like in a pandemic? 

Revolver

Androxus’ big revolver which he wields in combat that he took from the Abyssal entity he slayed, a six-shot revolver that can deal extra headshot damage building more Ultimate charge. Speaking of which, Androxus’ Ultimate allows him to shift this revolver into an explosive, with each shot creating a big boom that deals a ton of damage. He used to have two of ‘em, until Lex took one, so now he’s only got this single peashooter.

Nix

Reaper’s Robes

An outfit Nyx has worn for the lifetime she’s been fighting as a grim reaper-valkyrie, this outfit like herself can break apart into darkness so that she can fly around, and offers seemingly some sort of defense against attacks. It’s just light enough so that she can jump around really well and combo her enemies, too.

The Appointment

Nyx’s scythe which she brings into combat, it can rip out the soul right from your body when she spins it around. She usually combos this with her otherworldly chains or to dash forward with her form of darkness, making it a pretty agile weapon to use.

Death Throes

Normally, you wouldn’t expect a reaper to use guns- but this freelancer does. She can shoot out chains from her blasters as well as the usual explosive blasts, usually using these for deadly combos… if anyone actually used blasters on Nix.

Sidekick

A standard of all fighters in Valhalla, Nix has a Sidekick that can raise her up from defeat and fly into opponents, hurting them. It doesn’t do much besides this however, usually standing in the sidelines until it’s called upon.  

Bouncy Bombs

A cool little bomb that Nix can throw, it bounces off of surfaces and blows up on contact unless it loses momentum in travel. It can also be thrown around like a ball for a cool combo, maybe.

Pressure Mine

A mine which Nix can throw on the ground, digging into it. As it turns red, it will explode on contact, regardless of who presses it- including Nix herself.

Spike Ball

Nix has a big spiky ball she can throw at people which does a lot of damage and can bounce off the ground. So cool guys!! 

Sidekick Summoner

A horn which Nix can blow upon, calling her sidekick to charge through the arena wherever she is vertically. It can be used to make a clear line of damage that forces enemies to move, and I guess it’s good at making noise too. 

Homing Boomerang

A boomerang that Nix can throw around which can be thrown and returns back to her. It will return even faster- and with this, it means it can even hit enemies twice if they’re too slow to react. If Nix needs to, the boomerang can phase through her if she doesn’t grab it just so it doesn’t hit her– unless her enemy grabs it. 

Sticky Bomb


Nix can throw a sticky bomb at enemies which can attach to them or the floor, exploding after a short time. It can be reattached to Nix if she gets walked into, however, by who has the bomb. This means she’ll have to play keepaway for the three seconds it takes for this bomb to go off. 

Powers & Abilities

Androxus

Abyssal Disease

Due to Androxus’ interaction with the Abyss, Androxus has been physically cursed. Due to the disease in his body, he has been granted supernatural abilities as well as immortality at the cost of his soul and mind. He has gained many abilities as a result of this abyssal curse which he brings into combat. 

Defiance: Androxus punches forward, dealing 520 Area of Effect Damage to enemies.

Reversal: Androxus absorb all attacks done towards him into his hand- then, he launches the attacks back dealing 75% of the damage absorbed.

Nether Step: Androxus dashes forward three times rapidly until he needs to recharge. He can float in the air after using this.

Accursed Arm: Androxus’ revolvers become explosive handguns through embracing the full power of his disease, dealing 1000 explosive Area of Effect damage.


Item Cards

Androxus has access to various cards under four different types which allow him to amplify himself in special ways which he can always change depending upon a fight.


Reduces the effects of crowd control effects by up to 75%.

Gain up to +21% speed.

Reduces the effects of knockback and slow by up to 75%. Upon an elimination, Androxus gains 450 shield health.

Gain 10 Credits up to every 5 seconds. Each elimination gains 5 Credits. 

Reduces damage taken from abilities by up to 30%. 

Increases mount speed by up to 30%.

Increases the health of shields by up to 45%.

Increases Androxus’ ultimate charge rate by up to 30%. 

Reduces the damage taken by weapons by up to 18%.

Reduces the cooldown of all of Androxus’ abilities by up to 30%.


Androxus heals an additional (up to) 7.5% of max health when being 0.25 seconds out of combat.

Androxus’ shots deal up to 90% more damage to Deployables, Pets, and Illusions. 

Androxus’ shots gain up to +60% Lifesteal. 

Androxus’ jump height and speed is increased, up to 60% and 180% respectively, for 4 seconds.

Androxus’ healing output is increased up to 30%. 

Increases Androxus’ reload speed by up to 60%. 

Increases Androxus’ base health by up to 18%.

Increases Androxus’ weapon damage by up to 18% for 5 seconds after getting an elimination.

Getting an elimination true heals Androxus for up to 1080 health across 4 seconds. This can stack up to 2160 health after two back-to-back eliminations.

Androxus deals up to 90% increased damage to shields.

Talents

Androxus holds four special talents that he can wield in combat, amplifying one or two specific parts of his arsenal so that he can fight in a more special way. 




Defiant Fist

Landing hits with your revolver increase the damage of Androxus’ next Defiance blow by 20%, maxing out at 100% increased damage.



Godslayer

Reversal will always shoot at the attacker, dealing an extra 800 damage. 



Dark Stalker

Nether Step is given three separate charges that Androxus can use. Originally, this talent did 20% more weapon damage to enemies below 50% Health. 




Cursed Revolver

Androxus’ Revolver applies a bleed effect for 1 Second that deals damage every 0.1 Second which increases the longer it remains on an enemy, up to 20 Damage / 0.1 Second. Each hit refreshes this time active.

Personal Cards

Arsenals that Androxus can pick for a fight, they give him certain amplfiications to abilities strengthening him in various ways that he can use to make special loadouts through the certain buffs that his cards give him.


Abyss Walker

Nether Step heals Androxus up to 160 Health when he uses it.

Abyssal Toucher

Defiance reduces the cooldown of Nether Step by up to 1 Second every time it hits another Champion.

Buying Time

Reversal generates up to 12 Ammo.

Disrupt


Reduces the cooldown of Reversal up to 4 Seconds.

Elusive

Gain up to 40% Movement Speed for 2 Seconds after using Nether Step.

Equivalent Exchange

Androxus heals up to 40% of the Damage Done by Reversal.

Featherweight

Increases Androxus’ Air Control with Drift by up to 100%. 

Marksman

Defiance grants 4 Ammo if you land all three shots.

Power of the Abyss

Hitting a target with Reversal reduces the cooldown of Nether Step by 80%.

Quick Draw

Androxus gains up to 20% Reload Speed.

Seething Hatred

Hitting an enemy reduces the cooldown of Reversal by up to 2 seconds. 

Sleight of Hand

Using Nether Step refreshes 6 Ammo.

Spite

Defiance grants 12% Movement Speed for 2 seconds per shot hit. 

Through the Warp

Increase the distance of Nether Step’s dashes up to 40%.

Vengeance

Gain up to 20% Lifesteal on Defiance.

Watchful

Hitting an enemy in the head reveals them for up to 4 seconds even through stealth abilities.


Nix

Intangibility

As a reaper, Nix is able to shapeshift into darkness allowing her to travel around and disappear into the shadows. 

Energy Projection

Through her reaper powers, Nix is able to project energy through her scythe and guns to create damaging projectiles, cutting into her enemies and ripping their souls apart.

Chain Creation

Nix can project chains through her guns that can take your soul, grappling and being able to toss you around.


Soul Manipulation

As a reaper, Nix can blatantly hunt after and attack souls. Although she rarely reaps due to her current hunt, she can rip apart the souls of the dead- which is why she very often works for the many Gods of Death of the world. She can even grab you by your soul with a sort of telekinesis, allowing her to throw you around.

Statistic Manipulation

Nix is able to use various stances in order to change her statistics, amplifying her defense, attack speed, strength, or movement speed respectively at the cost of another statistic. 

Feats 

Androxus

Overall

  • Has wandered the world with an endless hunger for years on end after his abyssal corruption.

  • Took on and killed an Abyssal lord that was described to be undefeatable.

  • Has fought many champions including Lex and Ash. 

Power

  • Can take down champions with ease.

  • With his Ultimate, he busted through Ash’s barriers that can normally block off explosions and extensive enemy damage.

  • Defiance can allow him to deal extra physical damage to enemies, usually combo-ing into an elimination.

Speed

  • Able to dodge bullets from other Champions with his Nether Step.

  • Able to dodge shots from Lex by running away from him.

  • Reversal allows him to grab shots and throw them back, including lasers and electricity.

Durability

  • Withstood combat with Lex and has fought him many times in the past.

  • Can no-sell damage, catching it in his hands, and deflecting it through Reversal.

  • Could fight and withstand attacks from Ash.

Nix

Overall

  • She is a successful reaper who’s been hired by several Gods of the world, almost never failing on her missions.

  • Took on the role of a reaper-valkyrie to find lost souls and destroy the metaphysical beings who threaten nature. 

  • Looked highly upon the God of Death as a reaper due to her success and achievements.

  • Scythe user.

Power

  • Nix can kill people and has done so as a result of her job, killing many supernatural beings across her travels between realms.

  • She can physically drag people across realms, akin to a valkyrie… except forcefully.

  • She could ‘snatch the unmoveable Titan’ and bring him to the Underworld

Speed

Durability

  • Nix is able to withstand blows from other Legends in Brawlhalla.

  • She can withstand explosions via bombs.

  • She is able to survive gunfire and explosives from other combatants.

  • Keeps getting misgendered. 

Scaling

Androxus

Damage Champions

  • Viktor is able to call upon a barrage of artillery shells onto opponents.

  • The Bomb King overpowered and took down Betty La Bomb, who was a threat to all other lords due to her power. 

  • Drogoz had performed a ‘realm-wide rampage of destruction’ to amass his horde of treasures. 

  • Omen wields the power and wrath of a God, with his Ultimate allowing him to rip a ‘tear into the Abyss’ unleashing it’s power. 

  • Vivian wields one of the most advanced crystal weapons which is stated to shoot out light.

Front Line Champions

  • Ash can create a massive shockwave by slamming down her banner, making her immune to damage in the process.

  • Khan is a champion who’s greatest strength comes in physical combat where he can easily lift and toss around other champions, including larger ones like Atlas.

  • Raum is an immensely destructive champion having defeated anyone in his way, being able to create earthquaking shockwaves that can break through walls with his Ultimate.

  • Through his study of Crystal Magic, Atlas can control and shift time for himself as well as others, such as banishing them from time. 

  • Azaan was able to easily deal with Yagorath, taking her down casually with his physical power.

  • Azaan was responsible for summoning Dawnforge which he wields against the Abyss which maintains the ability to similarly destroy the realm if need be which he would be able to survive. 

  • Nyx is a former Pyre Lord comparable to Azaan while she is strengthened by the Abyss. 

Support Champions

  • Grohk can survive lightning strikes and channel the elemental power from storms wholly into his body.

  • Grohk is stated to channel and shoot out lightning, which is explicitly implied and shown to come from and match cloud-to-ground lightning (~Mach 804)

  • Furia is empowered by the same energy that the Pyre Lords are, calling upon it in combat with said power being stated to be beyond mortals. 

  • Grover is the ‘soul of the forest’ who can manipulate it through his power. 

  • Seris destroyed an entire village by using her magic of the abyss (137.77 Tons of TNT)

  • Seris can cause a ‘tear in the reality’ by bestowing her soul onto the field with her Ultimate.

  • Jenos could wipe out an entire army with a swipe of his hands.

  • Jenos can draw the stars from the sky into his attacks (133,802,565.507c), stated to channel the ‘power of the cosmos’. His Ultimate focuses and draws upon all of this power in question (At least 571 ExaFOE)

  • Io, before she was weakened and likely after, is implied to be comparable to Jenos.

  • Io draws her power from the Moon.

Flank Champions

  • Evie can create a small ice storm that hurts other Champions.

  • Maeve is a Champion renowned for her unnatural agility compared to others.

  • Vatu is able to dash at high speeds and constantly, shrowding himself in darkness.

  • Zhin’s Counter allows him to block and deflect attacks, protecting himself.

    • This includes the lightspeed projectile from Vivian and lightning attacks from Grohk.

  • Zhin is strong enough to incapacitate other champions in one fell swoop with his Ultimate.

Yagorath / The Darkness (Before the Verdict)

Nix

Mortal Legends

  • Bodvar was able to break into Brawlhalla by travelling to it from the world on a great adventure, which is a separate universe (At least 93,079,523,429c)

  • After being lost between worlds, Diana was able to follow a Valkyrie into Valhalla. 

  • Wu Shang wandered across the spiritual plane until he was brought into Valhalla. 

  • Ulgrim used the core of a dying star for his forging purposes.

  • Thea can keep up with Thor and Mjolnir, including against his lightning strikes.

  • Red Raptor was able to fight off several kaiju that destroyed his homeworld, even though he succumbed to the one Darkheart kaiju.

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Alien Legends

Supernatural Legends

Godly Legends

  • Thor is destined to slay the world-circling serpent, based off of Norse Mythology’s own world serpent. 

  • Thor can control and bring down lightning from the clouds.

  • Brynn can travel to and from Asgard as a half-Valkyie which she does to bring people between the realms.

Cross-Scaling (Before the Verdict)

Ezio

Rayman

Weaknesses

Androxus

Androxus is a mindless beast who’s hungry, meaning he’ll do anything to feed. This normally wouldn’t mean much, however this likely keeps him out of the best mindset in combat when all he wants to do is kill someone. Granted he also has a limited ammo pool, he’ll need to make sure he gets the opportunity to constantly reload his primary since his other combat options come down to his opponent being taken advantage of. 

Nix

Her blasters are so mid. 

Before We Begin…

Brawlhalla Cross-Scaling

Although one that we had contentions with, we wanted to introduce the argument of general cross-scaling with Brawlhalla and what we considered to be fair game and… not fair game. For starters, Brawlhalla-wise I went strictly off of brawlers who were their own fleshed out legends as a source for scaling. Meshing between crossover skins and general cosmetic items was something I didn’t necessarily want to do here, since a lot of the crossovers don’t feature any literal lore besides a character appearance, or have a literal reason why the characters appear in Brawlhalla that could take away from their stats (Adventure Time, for example), so that closed down stuff like Ben 10 and Steven Universe as avenues for scaling… and unfortunately including even stuff like Castlevania and WWE. sigh. 


However, I do think that stuff like Rayman and Assassin’s Creed is fair for usage. In regards to Ezio, his past adventures are explicitly catalogued in Brawlhalla’s lore including his story and death, where once he dies he ascends to Valhalla and gracefully accepts the offer to come. Although Eivor themselves is a cosmetic, their official animation shows them meeting with Ezio after their lifetime ends, where Eivor drinks a brew to give them strength in Valhalla that cuts to them appearing up in there with it mirroring the original Assassin’s Creed artstyle hand-drawn until cutting to Brawlhalla. While I don’t think that Ezio would backscale Brawlhalla feats to the original Assassin’s Creed story in any way, it’s very apparent that the Ezio who appears in Brawlhalla alongside Eivor (who isn’t just a cosmetic but an entire character despite not being a new legend, given their appearance in an animation meeting Ezio) should retain feats he performed at his earlier prime in Assassin’s Creed, where he will retroactively scale to most notable feats performed in the series due to his home series’ scaling chain.


As for Rayman, it comes in a similar vain that I do think is a bit more debatable but nonetheless comes from his own lore. In Brawlhalla’s story, Rayman namedrops previous stories, and his adventure into Valhalla is explained as Rayman stumbling upon it when adventuring into a dark forest on his quest to stop Mr. Dark at the request of Polokus. This is generally really solid, however the one issue comes with explicitly backtracking every individual feat- since it’s not like every single feat is referenced, and unlike Ezio, Rayman can’t be stuck in Valhalla. I think it is a bit silly to argue that Rayman’s story can’t continue because he’s in Valhalla when we know his story progresses afterwards (thank you Ubisoft for nothing), however you could totally make the case for that with the right concepts in mind. The other problem that comes with this is the issue of an outlier.

 

While Brawlhalla’s Legends are powerful, the cast is very, very consistently not able to contend with the Gods, to where Nix herself answers from the Gods and the closest we have to any sort of scaling comes from Thor and Loki– who are explicitly portrayed as being very powerful and overpowering your average Legend on the daily, having never once went fully out in a fight before with Thor seeing it as a game and  Gods have also achieved high-level reality warping that, while Champions can circumvent it, it is explicitly the case that they cannot do these sorts of feats. Rayman directly scales to his cosmology with Polokus, a verbatim reality warper to the same degree that the rest of the Gods are, so knowing that Legends need more egregious arguments like interpretations of the Darkheart to even scale to the Gods makes it very difficult in my eyes to place these characters as comparable and, knowing the power gap with characters like Red Raptor and the Darkheart Kaiju for example, even capable of downscaling. Granted Rayman is scaling to someone who would have created the cosmology of Brawlhalla if they truly exist in the same universe, there’s an obvious issue there. Even if you believe in it, though, you could maybe argue similar stats. However, for the sake of the verdict, I won’t be touching on it since I don’t necessarily want the entire debate to hinge on a crossover. I do want to really focus on the cool stat arguments these characters have ‘cuz I wasn’t expecting this many feats that are so high in scale. 

Universal Paladins?

At a first glance… what the freak? How is this stupid dumb Overwatch clone so strong… grrr…..


In Paladins exists the Darkness, a world-ending being that threatens the destruction of the world via consuming and ruining everything eventually expanding to the greater realm and cosmos. This darkness begins in the form of Yagorath, the Destroyer. Essentially, this evil worm guy… well, girl… threatens to consume the world constantly, as she’s done so many worlds before, spreading herself all across the universe out of her hunger. However, in order to take down the realm before her, she has to ascend even higher in power, done when she’s released from her original seal into this world by those who worship the Abyss. 


So… is this legit? The short answer is yes, Yagorath’s feats aren’t fraudulent. As shown in Atlas’ background, Yagorath’s realm devour feats are legitimate as she is the Darkness that forced Atlas to travel back in time, and if anything she would become even more powerful this time around when Atlas came back. She constantly echoes the fact that she’ll consume the world even in her lowest state as seen in her voicelines, and has travelled the universe many times before, which is what gave Yagorath this strength in the first place. However, Yagorath’s highest showing that reaches all the way up to Universal might have a few problems with her direct base scaling- knowing that she likely didn’t reach her full power before getting sealed again means that we don’t necessarily know if she now fully scales to the degree of where she’ll destroy the realm *and* the timeline. However, I would argue that Androxus would still scale.


As of right now in the story, we know that Azaan would be able to take on Yagorath at her highest power, as he himself has his own degree of universal power in the same regard, having summoned the Dawnforge to destroy the Realm and the Abyss (and likely the Dawnforge). While this isn’t as powerful as destroying the entire timeline, we know that Azaan should still be able to scale to Yagorath- as he’s regardless one of the strongest Pyre Lords and beings, a power level only matched by Nyx and as the name suggests Androxus himself. There’s no reason the beings that Azaan fights alongside in the What If? scenario would be so much stronger to where he can’t scale comparatively, and Androxus has reasons to directly scale to Azaan granted he has the whole God killer namesake for a reason and is empowered by the Abyss like Nyx, the one character who explicitly rivals Azaan in power. 

Verdict

Stats

To begin with this verdict regarding the simplest part, the strength and speed of these two are fairly important granted it’s a big part of their fighting styles. Paladins and Brawlhalla have a lot of absurd feats cosmic wise which we want to cover here.


For starters, both have overall similar low-ends, with Androxus and Nix both getting similar levels of speed reacting to lasers and cloud-to-ground electricity and the like, and having similar cosmic feats. Androxus’ lowest feat in this regard is scaling to Yagorath who, immediately after being unsealed (the state where she fights everyone), she cracked the Moon in half, weakening the Goddess Io in the process due to her connection with it. Comparatively, Nix gets scaling to feats such as Jiro pulling the moon with his chain. Both also get similarly planetary feats with the aforementioned Yagorath scaling who has devoured several planets in the past and Nix scaling to Thor who’s destiny is about him killing a world-circling serpent and scaling to Lord Vraxx who can vaporize planets. Thus, we can see that with the lower ends of feats, these characters should get in a similar ballpark of stats granted at least the visual and value similarities.


However, when we pull into higher and higher ends, this gets a bit less balanced. For starters, Nix scales to feats such as Artemis’ solar system extinguishing feat via ripping out the core of a star, and Ulgrim who has been able to wield dying stars in his forgery. These feats get pretty high, with this getting around a singular FOE at the highest. However, Androxus scales to characters like Jenos who withdraw their power from the cosmos and can call upon it in its entirety- getting up to hundreds of ExaFOES. This is even further supported when Androxus can scale to characters like Azaan and those who wield the powers of Gods, meaning they would be in a similar ballpark of these sorts of feats even disregarding stat-ends those characters scale to. Even regarding crossover feats from characters like Rayman, his KiloFOE feat is still very much dwarfed by Jenos’ star power. But, Nix isn’t completely overwhelmed, granted we look at speed. 


With the several ‘universal traversing’ speed feats Brawlhalla has, Nix could scale to tens of billions to even trillions of times the speed of light with speed rather consistently, with Bodvar’s travel to Asgard at an absolute lowball getting 93 billion times the speed of light too. Comparatively, Androxus gets scaling to Yagorath’s ‘constellation travel’ statement which could get around 13 to 130 million times the speed of light at its lowest– and if you took the statement literal assuming she wasn’t just travelling across stars but straight up across the cosmos granted Jenos’ nigh-omniscience she’s making fun of, she could get around 50 to 200 billion times the speed of light, although I do think it is a bit flawed. This is supported by Jenos himself, who can draw the stars from the sky in a miniscule time frame, getting around 133 billion times the speed of light. With this, we can see that Nix does compare pretty well in speed- with her highest speed end getting up to 1.1 trillion times the speed of light, while Androxus should scale around 133 billion times the speed of light, putting the speed gap around 8.3x give or take. 


While Nix might seem much weaker in stats, the potential of Rayman scaling could close the gap. With Rayman’s scaling to Polokus, he could scale to an entire space-time and maintaining three universes, putting him at least Universal+, but bare minimum High Universal. Comparatively, Androxus could scale to Polokus destroying the realm which threatens the timeline in her second reappearance, which Azaan similarly could scale to being able to destroy the realm which includes around three universes. This puts both at a similar Universal+ range, or at least Universal. This does even out the stat ends, however this is if you even buy scaling in this way for Nix, which I think has potential arguments in regards to outliers when focusing the lore. 


In total, both characters take similar stat ends. At their bare minimum, both get around FTL in speed, and scale to similar sorts of Moon feats with Androxus scaling to cracking the moon in half (61.532 Petatons) alongside Io who’s power comes from the Moon itself, and Nix scaling to pulling the Moon (in an unknown timeframe, up to 2.04 Exatons of TNT maybe). Androxus maintains a higher feat as we look more into their values with Jenos’ 571 ExaFOE feat and 133 billion times the speed of light, compared to Nix’s 1 FOE and 1.414 KiloFOE scaling to characters, with speed reaching up to 93 billion to 1.1 trillion times the speed of light. Both get similar universal arguments, with them scaling to an entire timeline in overall power at their absolute highest, although Androxus’ scaling is much more stable granted it’s very consistent and doesn’t require cross-scaling. 

Arsenal and Abilities

Between these two characters, they have rather unique arsenals and powers to play off of one another, with Androxus’ marksman fighting style against Nix’s close quarters combat being able to allow one another to take certain advantages. At a range, Androxus can take advantage even though he isn’t built for it too much, and at a close quarters range both fighters take special advantage, with Androxus being able to deal extra damage with his Defiance and Reversal abilities allowing him to deal extra close quarters damage and allowing him to block the burst fire from Nix’s Blasters. At this close distance, Nix can take advantage of her chains and energy projection to similarly take advantage of Androxus’ fighting style to prevent him from shooting or attack him back, despite her otherwise range disadvantage. This makes range a big difference maker which Nix will need to exploit, which her abilities should allow her to, while Androxus needs to focus on taking distance against Nix to avoid taking too much damage or getting in distance of her signature moves.


Looking into Androxus’ arsenal, he gets several advantages overall in the fight. Androxus can deal extra damage with his revolver against Nix with his Cursed Revolver talent, which he will be able to constantly refresh due to the close distance Nix needs to fight at, making it surprisingly much easier to deal damage. Combine this with his other Talents such as Defiant Fist which strengthens his Defiance blow the more shots he lands with his revolver and Godslayer which allows Androxus to always shoot out a projectile when he uses Defiance even if Nix doesn’t wield her revolvers. Combining this with his various cards allows Androxus to take many advantages, such as being able to heal extensive damage (Equivalent Exchange, Vengeance, Life Rip, etcetera.), quicken cooldowns, defensive abilities (most of his Item Cards, Seething Hatred, Power of the Abyss, Disrupt), and he can boost his speed and damage, giving him several routes to take in a fight against Nix.


However, Nix herself has several arsenal advantages, too. Like Androxus, both of them have insane agility and mobility they can use in a fight, with Nix having the ability to go intangible and attack simultaneously when she jumps and flies around, while Androxus being able to hop through the air does prevent him from attacking until he fades back into the fight. She has several explosives which she can use to hit Androxus through various means, such as sticking onto him with the Sticky Bomb, or setting up traps that Androxus can set off if he’s not careful. She can also summon her Sidekick to her side, which can rush into Androxus and turn the fight into a quick two-on-one that Androxus might struggle with if he isn’t playing on defense or his cooldowns are active. 


Besides Androxus’ ability to reduce up to 30% of damage, and various angles of healing coverage or statistic amplifcication, neither character necessarily have direct counters to one another with their abilities, which means that it’s going to come down to sheer skill and power rather than the power of their abilities. This basically means we can go into our next section to cover that skill…

Tertiary Factors

Both characters are generally comparative in overall fighting, with them taking on several sorts of opponents with many different powers they can play around, so fighting one another isn’t going to be weird with the two wandering the realms for years on their goals to take souls. However, overall, Nix has much more combat skill and more experience as she has been working for seemingly hundreds of years and is distinctly far more notable of a fighter than Androxus, taking on thousands of targets in her years as a reaper. Plus, she does have more experience when you compare the times where they were stuck wandering the world, with Androxus simply wandering the Abyss for souls while Nix was hunting down a group of targets all across the realms. Simply put, no matter how you slice it, Nix is a more experienced fighter.

Conclusion

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Advantages:

  • Much stronger in most strength ends, comparative at worst.

  • Can strengthen himself and boost his speed.

  • Able to deal much more constant damage with various sources.

  • Can heal back damage with lifesteal when attacking Nix.

  • Greater range.   

Disadvantages:

  • Slower in most speed ends, comparative at best.

  • Less experienced and skilled at combat.

  • Smaller arsenal and numbers.

  • Less agile in combat.

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Advantages:

  • Much stronger in close combat.

  • Faster regardless of speed end, comparative at worst.

  • Far more experienced and skilled in combat.

  • Larger arsenal.

  • Can prevent Androxus from harming her with chains which can disable many of his passive abilities.

   Disadvantages:

  • Less versatile abilities.

  • Much weaker, comparative at best or stronger with one questionable value for a feat.

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  • Cannot match Androxus at longer ranges

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These two reapers are absolute powerhouses in every way, with very unique powers to play off of eachother overall. While Androxus was a much more prevalent fighter who could adapt and play off of Nix with his range and several ways to fight, Nix took the biggest advantage in close quarters combat with her close-range specific abilities and versatility, being able to prevent Androxus from accessing a huge number of advantages in combat by chaining him and disabling his combat when attacking him. However, these advantages came short for the simple factor that Androxus was far too powerful– even at their strongest, Androxus could buff himself and weaken Nix himself with his cards, and would eventually overpower the opposing reaper. 


This didn’t mean Nix was at a total disadvantage, as her greater speed and potential to match Androxus in stats meant she had the right means to win this fight. However, Androxus simply held a far greater edge with his defense and survivability, plus his Nether Step and ability to redirect damage right towards Nix through her Blasters could mean that Androxus had the means to at least land a hit once or twice– which without giving Nix a huge benefit with scaling. Regardless, Androxus was simply much too versatile and defensive for Nix to break through, and once the Accursed Arm came out, the valkyrie’s life was over before it even began.


Across all the nine realms, Nix was the greatest reaper,and no lost soul could escape the tip of her scythe. However, this match against Androxus was only going to leave her ruptured and reaped, forced to wander the abyss with the lost souls she once brought to Valhalla. The winner is Androxus, the Godslayer.

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