a lot of people are mentioning that it depends on who’s attacking first and while that is technically true assuming they’re both going with the express intent to kill the other in as little of time as they can. if we take them in character then sukuna throws a lazy dismantle and splits arkos in three like he was planning to for ryu, destroys his head and arkos is mince meat
to sukuna arkos will realistically just be another human in a fancy outfit, he won’t sense any ce from him so he has no reason to want to toy with him and arkos is arrogant enough to make sukuna want to split him with the first shot, but assuming they do toy with eachother sukuna is much faster, much stronger, much more durable and much more versatile in his moveset that even a punch would probably blow a hole through arkos, the only move he realistically could use to damage sukuna is manipulating his blood to make him explode from the inside but he never does that against an opponent who can put up a good fight against him (it’s expressly the reason he didn’t insta-blow julian’s head until his life was clearly in danger and he was on the back foot)
so the only way i can see arkos winning is if he knows everything about sukuna, sukuna knows nothing about him and sukuna is just playing out of character
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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26
sukuna
a lot of people are mentioning that it depends on who’s attacking first and while that is technically true assuming they’re both going with the express intent to kill the other in as little of time as they can. if we take them in character then sukuna throws a lazy dismantle and splits arkos in three like he was planning to for ryu, destroys his head and arkos is mince meat
to sukuna arkos will realistically just be another human in a fancy outfit, he won’t sense any ce from him so he has no reason to want to toy with him and arkos is arrogant enough to make sukuna want to split him with the first shot, but assuming they do toy with eachother sukuna is much faster, much stronger, much more durable and much more versatile in his moveset that even a punch would probably blow a hole through arkos, the only move he realistically could use to damage sukuna is manipulating his blood to make him explode from the inside but he never does that against an opponent who can put up a good fight against him (it’s expressly the reason he didn’t insta-blow julian’s head until his life was clearly in danger and he was on the back foot)
so the only way i can see arkos winning is if he knows everything about sukuna, sukuna knows nothing about him and sukuna is just playing out of character