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This poll was born of my extreme Saturday midday boredom.
I was thinking about this (seriously and analytically, god knows why), and I think if all the alchemists in FMA could do alchemy without circles like Ed can, and if they were trained to fight in hand-to-hand combat like Ed and Al were, they'd be a better army than the ninjas. Primarily because they'd be more flexible and more adaptable-- you can transmute *anything* with alchemy as long as you have a good imagination to feed you ideas. The shinobi of Narutoverse have to learn individual techniques that, while powerful, are limited if you're not the Hokage or something.
But I think if you were to take all the state alchemists of FMAverse as they are right now (dependent on transmutation circles, and not all hand-to-hand fighters), and pit them against the ninjas, the ninjas would win cause they have Teh Stealth Powers that allow for espionage on a level the Amestris military could only dream about.
Then again there's the whole gun issue, which might seriously throw the shinobi for a loop, since projectile weapons don't exist in Narutoverse. Hmmmm.
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WARNING: when commenting, MARK ALL MANGA SPOILERS, for both Naruto and FMA. I've still seen only the anime for FMA, and don't wish to be manga-spoiled. Thank you!
WARNING #2: vague Naruto spoilers to about episode 100 or so, FMA spoilers for approximately the first 22 episodes of the series.
This poll was born of my extreme Saturday midday boredom.
I was thinking about this (seriously and analytically, god knows why), and I think if all the alchemists in FMA could do alchemy without circles like Ed can, and if they were trained to fight in hand-to-hand combat like Ed and Al were, they'd be a better army than the ninjas. Primarily because they'd be more flexible and more adaptable-- you can transmute *anything* with alchemy as long as you have a good imagination to feed you ideas. The shinobi of Narutoverse have to learn individual techniques that, while powerful, are limited if you're not the Hokage or something.
But I think if you were to take all the state alchemists of FMAverse as they are right now (dependent on transmutation circles, and not all hand-to-hand fighters), and pit them against the ninjas, the ninjas would win cause they have Teh Stealth Powers that allow for espionage on a level the Amestris military could only dream about.
Then again there's the whole gun issue, which might seriously throw the shinobi for a loop, since projectile weapons don't exist in Narutoverse. Hmmmm.
I cross-posted this to
fm_alchemist and chuunin. Heh heh hehh... let's see what people think.WARNING: when commenting, MARK ALL MANGA SPOILERS, for both Naruto and FMA. I've still seen only the anime for FMA, and don't wish to be manga-spoiled. Thank you!
WARNING #2: vague Naruto spoilers to about episode 100 or so, FMA spoilers for approximately the first 22 episodes of the series.
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Date: 2004-11-06 02:02 pm (UTC)Re: Ed v. Naruto
I think if you dropped them both into a ring with no advanced warning about each other's abilities, Ed would be able to trap Naruto somehow, because he's smarter than Naruto is and he's more battle-hardened, and older, and because Naruto tends to underestimate people and fight with strength rather than strategy in the early rounds of a battle. But if the fight when on for any lengthy period of time Naruto would win as soon as he figured out the limits of alchemy. But the shorter the fight would be, the higher chances Ed would win.
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Date: 2004-11-07 07:39 am (UTC)That would probably be a really good tactic, though, being a ninja, Naruto is all hands-on (save for a kunai or a shuriken).
So if Ed used his arm-knife how could Naruto defend himself?
But, with all his kage bunshins, Naruto would only have to wear Ed out, and then just attack with... well, I assume he'd use rasengan. ^^;
Could Ed possibly win against rasengan? ^^;
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Date: 2004-11-07 07:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 04:33 am (UTC)The thing is, alchemy offers endless possibilities. It's actually rather silly that Ed, with his amazing alchemic abilites, resorts to knife fighting of all things. He could transmute oxygen into a toxic gas. He could transmute poisons. He could solidify the air in someones lungs. He could transmute sound, creating shockwaves. He could - nevermind, I'll stop now, before I start getting sillier. (you can tell I've thought too much about it, can't you?)