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Does Dante have any weaknesses?

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Nero DAnte

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You know i just thought of something.Does Dante HAVE any weaknesses?Like how Vergil's weakness s his lust for power aaaaaannndddd etc etc.Any ideas?
 
combat wise it could be how reckless and sloppy some of his moves are, i mean old Dante span his sword like a madman, yes,but new Dante punches as if he were drunk with eryx whereas old Dante had an extreme level of control to be able to perform a rising dragon or the million kicks combo with beowulf/gilgamesh (and a bit of control with ifrit, not nearly as impressive as dem kicks)

soooo, i guess a clever opponent could exploit him the same way players are expected to exploit vergil, dodge him, and then beat the crap out of him.

emotional/mental/tactical advantage etc etc etc.

uh lemme seeee...

he has some connection to kat and humans in general, excellent (but kinda lame story-writing) bait.

he may not be fully in control when his power level increases.

he seems (i may be wrong here) but generally less intelligent overall then most people, he seems more interested in a "let's punch it and yell one-liners" approach then most people, granted, this is standard action hero stuff, but he never really has an understanding as clear as most people would of complex issues, after all, he did agree with vergils' "LETS TELL THE WORLD HORRIBLE CREATURES EXIST AND COULD KILL THEIR FACES OFF!" idea without much thinking through how, even if humans exterminated them the world as a whole would be affected, what is the economic effect of everyone suddenly wanting a gun? social and political effects of moving troops away to fight demons and leave allies to fend for themselves against either demons, their enemy, or both. how will the atheists react to the discovery of religious figures being proved real? what will other religions do? will the christians act smug? help people?

how does the media react to a new savior? will he become the jesus of the modern world? can he save everyone in time (of course he can't, he'd have to be everywhere at once.)

also, his hair makes him really easy to identify, along with his likely new celebrity status, maybe that can help the bad guys?'

also, olives.
 
Maybe his carefree attitude might force him to underestimate an enemy?Who might be a bit more powerful than expected.
And like Mrrandomlulz and seraph may cry said,Olives
Maybe pizza can make him submit
 
DMC and DmC Dante/Vergil have no real weaknesses. Dante is cocky, Vergil is hungry for power - these traits only work against them vs a superior enemy*, who would defeat them even if they didn't possess these traits. An example of a true weakness would be Nero's reaction to Yamato - an inferior opponent [although it'd have to be a VERY skilled opponent] could defeat Nero simply by using Yamato.

*Dante defeating Vergil is plot inspired dipshittery. Vergil is clearly the most skilled of the 2. You can see this by observing both Dante and Vergil fight in DMC3, and DmC:
DMC Vergil is a more skilled swordsmen, a more proficient magic user, less prone to showy moves that aren't necessary, more adept at controlling his DT/willing to use it, and overall more of an intimidating character. The fact that a Hell Vanguard blindly followed Vergil out of fear, but was willing to fight Dante speaks volumes.
DmC Vergil is the same as the above, but with the added bonus of his Dante being quite sloppy. DMC3 Dante has a much more polished moveset compared to DmC Dante - who kinda flops all over the place with Rebellion and looks like a moron with Eryx. DmC Vergil on the other hand appears just as skilled with a sword as DMC Vergil.
 
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InfernalOverkill said:
DMC and DmC Dante/Vergil have no real weaknesses. Dante is cocky, Vergil is hungry for power - these traits only work against them vs a superior enemy*, who would defeat them even if they didn't possess these traits. An example of a true weakness would be Nero's reaction to Yamato - an inferior opponent [although it'd have to be a VERY skilled opponent] could defeat Nero simply by using Yamato.

*Dante defeating Vergil is plot inspired dipshittery. Vergil is clearly the most skilled of the 2. You can see this by observing both Dante and Vergil fight in DMC3, and DmC:
DMC Vergil is a more skilled swordsmen, a more proficient magic user, less prone to showy moves that aren't necessary, more adept at controlling his DT/willing to use it, and overall more of an intimidating character. The fact that a Hell Vanguard blindly followed Vergil out of fear, but was willing to fight Dante speaks volumes.
DmC Vergil is the same as the above, but with the added bonus of his Dante being quite sloppy. DMC3 Dante has a much more polished moveset compared to DmC Dante - who kinda flops all over the place with Rebellion and looks like a moron with Eryx. DmC Vergil on the other hand appears just as skilled with a sword as DMC Vergil.
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I thought DmC Dante was a better fighter than Vergil since (apparently) he has been fighting demons since he was a little kid thus giving him more fighting experience. And plus, because he has many times more weapons than Vergil does.
And I don't get how Dante appears sloppy. I mean it must take a significant amount of hand eye coordination to swing a shot gun around like nunchucs while simultaneously firing it with seemingly very little effort or concentration.
 
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Malik Robinson said:
I thought DmC Dante was a better fighter than Vergil since (apparently) he has been fighting demons since he was a little kid thus giving him more fighting experience. And plus, because he has many times more weapons than Vergil does.
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Dante's moves are all out of control and sloppy. Vergil's are all totally under control and precise, just like DMC Vergil's. Besides, Vergil must have been fighting demons, why else would he have learned DT, summoned swords, angel dash, trick, etc.
 
InfernalOverkill said:
Dante's moves are all out of control and sloppy. Vergil's are all totally under control and precise, just like DMC Vergil's. Besides, Vergil must have been fighting demons, why else would he have learned DT, summoned swords, angel dash, trick, etc.
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How are they sloppy? From playing the game myself I know that when you learn how to use his moves efficiently you can pretty much dominate any situation the game throughs at you.
And I didn't say Vergil didn't fight demons I was just saying Dante has been fighting them for longer.
 
Malik Robinson said:
How are they sloppy? From playing the game myself I know that when you learn how to use his moves efficiently you can pretty much dominate any situation the game throughs at you.
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Yes, you can. That doesn't change the fact that when he does a Rebellion combo the last hit is basically him throwing his entire bodyweight behind it. Look at the Eryx combos, do those look like the movements of a well trained fighter to you? Vergil is infinitely more in control of his movements.
 
InfernalOverkill said:
Yes, you can. That doesn't change the fact that when he does a Rebellion combo the last hit is basically him throwing his entire bodyweight behind it. Look at the Eryx combos, do those look like the movements of a well trained fighter to you? Vergil is infinitely more in control of his movements.
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Well then look at rebellions pause, now THAT does look like something only someone with ridiculous hand eye coordination, sense of balance, and skill with a sword could pull off.(And the same thing can be said about almost all of the Osiris combos)
And what's wrong with how he uses Eryx? If you look at his legs you can see he's using his body weight to put more power behind his punches.
 
Malik Robinson said:
Well then look at rebellions pause, now THAT does look like something only someone with ridiculous hand eye coordination, sense of balance, and skill with a sword could pull off.(And the same thing can be said about almost all of the Osiris combos)
And what's wrong with how he uses Eryx? If you look at his legs you can see he's using his body weight to put more power behind his punches.
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I'm saying compared to Virgil he's sloppy and clearly not as well trained. Hence my saying in a realistic fight, where Vergil isn't doomed by canon, he'd rip Dante apart. When I say "Dante is sloppy" it's in comparison to Vergil, DMC Vergil and DMC Dante. Obviously DmC Dante is far more skilled than any human is going to be.

Compare Eryx to Beowulf. Tell me which one looks more refined.
 
in regards to sloppiness, i did feel that,despite the skill required for pretty much an osiris move, he is sloppy in a way, he has lots of skill but he kinda flops around the place and leaves massive openings a regular human with rudimentary sword fighting skills would be able to use against him.

DMC Dante i don't really feel is very sloppy, his moves aren't the well co-ordinated thrusts of a fencing champion, but despite swinging rebellion around, he totally knows what he's doing, each attack is rather long on startup and recover frames, recovery in particular, even the nevan moves have only a bit of recovery, he doesn't throw himself with the scythe form swings.

realistically vergil has a an advantage though, until you consider how most of his power come from the limited devil triger resource he has, think about it, a man who can SS the game on DMD mode takes no more than two years to train, Dante had way more, so did Vergil, but he still cant use DT or summoned swords any more (or can he? SECRET PURPLE ORB FRAGMENTS!?) then a regular player, his taunts can't be spammed either, because even with the block, Dante would just walk over and force him to teleport away too often.

Vergil is way more precise and controlled then Dante is though, so he does have an advantage over the guy.
 
The realism part of the reboot is that New Vergil and New Dante are pretty much more vulnerable. For instance, that sword that impaled Vergil and had him go in a 90-minute trip just to heal it? Old Vergil would have pretty much shrugged it off like it was nothing. New Dante screaming like hell when Mundus tried to rip off his heart? The old one would have probably fartboosted himself up, kick Mundus in the face and release an inner dragon that would send him to Saturn.

Tactically though, I guess Dante's weakness is Kat. He was willing to ruin a carefully planned operation just to rescue her, and if it wasn't for Phineas' information, he would have went berserk and assault Mundus' lair without any direction whatsoever.
 
Teal said:
The realism part of the reboot is that New Vergil and New Dante are pretty much more vulnerable. For instance, that sword that impaled Vergil and had him go in a 90-minute trip just to heal it? Old Vergil would have pretty much shrugged it off like it was nothing. New Dante screaming like hell when Mundus tried to rip off his heart? The old one would have probably fartboosted himself up, kick Mundus in the face and release an inner dragon that would send him to Saturn.

Tactically though, I guess Dante's weakness is Kat. He was willing to ruin a carefully planned operation just to rescue her, and if it wasn't for Phineas' information, he would have went berserk and assault Mundus' lair without any direction whatsoever.
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ah, yes, old DMC never did like science, firing ebony and ivory for extra air is the most ridiculous design idea i have ever seen.

forgot about kat, while it would be a little lame for the villian to go "MWHAHAHA I AM EVIL AND I TOOK YOUR GIRLFREIND/LOVER/FRIEND/SIMILAR WORD HOSTAGE!" i'm pretty sure that it work, or you know, just attack so much Dante literally either has to let her die or spend eternity protecting her and doing nothing else, just, like, have a schedule and have his/her minions sleep at set times so the attackers are never tired, doubt the guy would last more then a day without a break.
 
I've said this before but...

In the old DMC and Blade series, the protagonists would age normally instead of being immortal like their demon/vampire brethren, therefore, suggesting that they would (slightly) get weaker in terms of strength and/or endurance.

Therefore, I think that Donte would probably not be as strong as either Angels nor demons due to the fact that:

1) he wasn't as physically strong as Mundus (or "fully-converted" Vergil (Vergita) for that matter) and...

2) There simply has to be some kind of tradeoff when there's that much magical energy involved. Yes, Dante had all those other weapons, but it took at least three hits just to get an enemy's shield down.
 
Honestly I'd expect original Dante's weakness to be the same as the new one.
I've always taken to DMC2 for Dante's weakness, and from the way I've interpreted it, it seems to be the same as Wolverine's. His weakness is the fact that he has none.
By the time DMC2 took place it would be rather safe to assume that Lady, Enzo, and Morrison were all out of the game, by this point in the continuity, the devil hunting WAS Dante's life, and judging by how well he ages he wouldn't be quitting anytime soon.
He will have to cope with the fact that he can't lead a normal life due to his abilities.
Personally, that would be a route I'd LOVE to see them take with the new guy
 
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