Tanjiro (Blade of Demon Destruction) vs Guts (Berserk)

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Who wins in the battle of the two monster slayers.

Tanjiro is NOT with Nezuko and Guts is not wearing the Berserk armor.

[Nik Hasta]

Hmm... Guts is vastly more experienced and probably stronger. Tanjirou, when using his fire dance breath, is likely faster.

This will be a short match methinks. Not sure who wins it, both could one shot this.

[BitVyper]

Is Tanjirou fast enough to dodge the cannon?

[Nik Hasta]

Is Tanjirou fast enough to dodge the cannon?

Hnnggg...

I reckon he could probably aim dodge it if he saw it coming.

Is he fast enough to coldly dodge a cannonball...?

Maaaaaaaybe...? I don't know.

[Kuro]

I’d worry more about Guts auto crossbow more than his cannon.

[Lord Falcon]

So we know that Tanjirou is able to cut apart a boulder the size of a small house, and this was a few power ups ago. Is Guts capable of that sans berserker armor? Guts is probably outright stronger, but I'm not sure how his offensive ability with a sword stacks up against the weird things Tanjirou's breathing techniques do.

[Nik Hasta]

I mean, small house is a gross overstatement.

[BitVyper]

Hnnggg...

I reckon he could probably aim dodge it if he saw it coming.

Is he fast enough to coldly dodge a cannonball...?

Maaaaaaaybe...? I don't know.

How does his speed work? If he's not faster than Guts out of the gate, I feel like aim-dodging is less likely. Cannonballs ARE fairly quick; it's hard to find numbers on them, but a couple sources I've checked seemed to put them around 1400 fps and higher.

[Nik Hasta]

How does his speed work? If he's not faster than Guts out of the gate, I feel like aim-dodging is less likely. Cannonballs ARE fairly quick; it's hard to find numbers on them, but a couple sources I've checked seemed to put them around 1400 fps and higher.

Speaking broadly, Tanjirou at his base has some degree of enhanced speed. When he uses his breath techniques, he gets significantly faster. Water Breath, his standard breathing type makes him faster, Fire God Dance makes him considerably faster than that and if he manifests his mark (bloodline ability type thing) he gets faster again.

A good feat of showing the jump between the two breathing types, when fighting a demon, Tanjirou in his water breathing technique is able to keep up. The demon then absorbs parts of her body that are hidden elsewhere and goes back to her full power. She then is able to full on disappear and blitz Tanjirou. She uses these sash/tentacles that are whipping around so fast they are invisible.

Tanjirou then loses his shit and goes into Dance of the Fire God and notes that, as he's fighting her now, all of her sash attacks and movements seem to be in slow motion to him.

So it's a really big jump in terms of his speed.

Later he fights Akaza again and Akaza is notably faster than Fire God even with the amp of his birthmark. Tanjirou then got another boost in the form of completely mastering his battle spirit and entering the see-through world.

Idk if that makes him able to dodge a cannon ball but he's very quick at this punt in time in the manga.