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One Punch Man vs Fist of the North Star, martial arts is the way of life for these two but what happens if their fate of life and death depends on this match

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92H3Mscg7QQ

<Cue: Invader Theme>

Toomi: Garou, the Hero Hunter,

Megumi: And Kenshiro, the Wandering Fist of the North Star,

Toomi: These two lived their lives learning the ways of martial arts,

Megumi: And it makes them more deadly when they have killed people with such techniques. She's Sachi, Toomi and I'm Megumi.

Sachi: And it's our job to analyse their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle

Garou Hero Hunts into What if Battles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-TbQnONe_w

<Cue: Bad Guy by Billie Eilish>

Toomi: When it comes to superhero cartoons, most kids will often times root for the heroes.

Megumi: But not Garou though, he's this one kid who always root for the villains, only to get disappointed every time they lose. Which is literally every time.

Sachi: Garou then spent years training under the martial arts master Silver Fang for years, honing his skills though that is not what he truly desire.

Toomi: After taking out most of the other members of the dojo and scaring off the rest, Garou goes on his infamous 'Hero hunt', looking for ranked heroes to fight and ultimately defeat in order to become an even more powerful monster

Megumi: And considering the many heroes he has defeated, ranging from C to B to A and even S Class, Garou became known as the most dangerous adversary to Saitama and the Hero Association.

Toomi: Prior to his hero hunt, Garou was Bang's best disciple and was able to defeat all of his fellow students before being expelled by Bang.

Megumi: Which is amazing considering how Silver Fang is the third strongest S Class Hero, only trumped by Tatsumaki and Blast.

Sachi:  Garou possesses immense durability. He was able to take multiple attacks from Tanktop Master and remain standing. And even after taking hits from Saitama and Watchdog Man, Garou is still able to get up and further adapt from their attacks even further.

Toomi:  One of Garou's defining traits and a factor that allows Garou to keep fighting, even when on the brink of death, is his sheer willpower. This will is evidenced throughout several battles between S-class heroes, such as during his battle against Genos, Bang, and Bomb where he held his own against them despite being injured, poisoned and outmatched in this fight.

Garou

Super Strength

Super Speed

Expert Martial Artist

Peak Level Durability

Adaptivity

Superhuman Physical Prowess

Supernatural Senses

Afterimage Creation

Accelerated Growth Rate

Indomitable Will

Technique Mimicry

Regeneration

Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist

Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist

Sachi: Garou's strength is superhuman and on the level of an S-Class hero, he is capable of defeating A-Class heroes with little to no effort. He was able to rip Blue Fire's arm off and break Heavy Tank Loincloth's arm without difficulty, knocking him out with a single strike

Toomi: He has bested eight heroes all at once, even while poisoned by Shooter's arrows, took out Tank Top Master and the other Tank Tops and survived several punches from Saitama all as a human

Megumi: And he was also able to beat down Superalloy Darkshine, a S Class Hero known for his unbreakable skin. Man, that's tough.

Toomi: But once he became a Monster, Garou is near unstoppable, being able to speedblitz Royal Ripper, deflect Orochi's attacks and even sent Puri Puri Prisoner flying with a single strike.

Feats

Became Bang's greatest student, then defeating many of the other disciples.

Beats a gang of thugs off-screen without a sweat.

Slaughters a bunch of heroes off-screen.

Beats Tank Top Vegetarian with ease.

Continues to beat the piss out of heroes he encounters.

Beats the piss out of the rest of his class after he feels he has learned all he can in Bang's class.

Is too fast for a bunch of heroes to keep up.

Dodges a hero's fire blast, then blitzing him, ripping off his arm.

Recovers mid tackle mid-air from Tank Top Master's attack.

Keeps up with Tank Top Master and then outspeeds him in CQC.

Stomps Mumen Rider, Charanko, and the Tank Top group.

Dodges Golden Ball's shots with minimal movement, countering his attacks. He is only cut once at the very beginning.

Dodges Sprin Mustachio's attacks, then countering his ultimate attack.

The early part of his fight with Metal Bat is in his favor.

Continues to beat up Metal Bat after he gets more pumped up, Metal Bat unable to hit him still.

Continues to outspeed Metal Bat in combat.

Metal Bat and Garou become somewhat even after Metal Bat is quite pumped up.

Dodges Blam-Blam's gunfire and then Stinger's counterattack as he tries to attack Blam-Blam.

Dodges Shooter's arrow rain.

Dodges multiple attacks from the heroes, but not all of them.

Blocks some rocks a hero throws at him.

Outspeeds the heroes in their attack, setting up a counter attack to knock out 3 of them.

Outspeeds the last three heroes, surprising them so he can knock out three more of them.

Deflects a volley of ammo from a minigun, stopping them from being able to harm the kid in the barn.

Blitzes the last hero as he tries to prepare for CQC.

Keeps up with Genos in CQC, landing a few blows.

Gets behind Genos after copying Watchdog Man's fighting style.

Breaks a tree and dodges Genos' attack.

Even his eating is FTE.

Outspeeds Royal Ripper as it tries to attack him and Tareo.

Fights back Bug God and Royal Ripper.

Strength Feats:

Easily physically overpowers a bunch of heroes.

Rips a hero's arm off with ease.

Caves a hero's face in with a single blow.

Tanks more attacks from Tank Top Master.

Knocks Tank Top Master back into a wall, heavily damaging him.

Stomps Mumen Rider, Charanko, and the Tank Top group.

One-shots Spring Mustachio.

His chop sinks Saitama into the ground up to his knees.

Smacks Metal Bat around in the early part of their fight.

Cracks a the ground around him with a stomp, up heaving a manhole, and then tosses it at Metal Bat.

Manages to knock back Metal Bat during his barrage.

Knocks bat Metal Bat with a punch.

Pounds a goop monster apart with one shot.

Pierces a hole in the wall with his finger to spy on the heroes.

Continues to dodge attacks from the heroes.

Overpowers the heroes, breaking the Kendama, lifting one of them over his head, and knocking another one out with pebbles.

Pulls the roots of plants from the ground, staggering the heroes, then knocking three more of them out.

Deflects minigun fire with his bare fists.

Knocks out the last hero with a punch.

Keeps up with Genos in CQC and then kicks him into the ground.

Breaks a tree in half to avoid Genos' blast, then breaking the cables used to capture him.

Breaks the ground from his strike, then spinning a tree around so he can get some distance from the heroes.

Rips the blade off a knife and threatens a man with it.

Knocks away Royal Ripper with ease.

Fights back Bug God and Royal Ripper.

Begins his rampage by busting through a wall, proceeding to casually rip off Royal Ripper's blade and decapitate it with one blow, then destroying it's body.

Slams a monster into a wall hard enough to crack the wall, breaks another monster's face, and tears apart the last one's arm.

Smacks Overgrown Rover into the ground, cracking the ground below it.

Breaks the pieces of rubble Gyoro Gyoro tries to use to seal him in.

Deflects Orochi's attacks and then turns some monsters into slices.

Blocks an punch from Orochi that creates a large shockwave.

Megumi: Damn, that guy is a monster, literally!

Toomi: However, Garou is not that bad as a person as despite his evil nature, Garou has never really killed a hero, preferably beating up heroes to the point of unconsciousness rather than death.

Sachi: And he has a moral code against hurting children.

Megumi: And like every character in the show, he can never beat Saitama in an actual fight.

Weakness

Overconfident and cocky.

Morally against hurting children.

In character he does not kill other humans.

However when pushed he's shown to be serious about doing it.

While his reactive evolution and monster transformations are deadly, if the power gap is big enough between him and his opponent they can wear off.

Being defeated either mentally or physically in his Awakened form causes him to slowly lose his power and "shell" of a monster.

Toomi: While his reactive evolution and monster transformations are deadly, if the power gap is big enough between him and his opponent they can wear off. In fact, if he were to lose as a monster, he would lose his powers.

Sachi: Which can be noted as Saitama did mentioned that he is getting weaker

Megumi: But one thing's for sure, Garou is one threat that every hero in the world have to watch their backs for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8YPcx_N03E

Garou: Once I eliminate you guys, I've officially hunted over a hundred heroes!

Kenshiro ATAT-ATtacks into What if Battles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zth9zLdM8ow

<Cue: These Days by Kung Fu Vampire>

Toomi: Kenshiro is the Fist of the North Star, The Man with the Seven Scars, The Savior of the Century's End and the 64th Successor of Hokuto Shinken chosen by his master and adopted father: Ryuken.

Sachi: However this didn't really sit well with Kenshiro's adopted brothers Jagi and Raoh who killed Ryuken. And then suddenly the world turned into post-apocalypse wasteland.

Megumi: In this new wasteland, Raoh became a self-proclaimed king along side his lackey Jagi, Kenshiro's fiancee Yuria got kidnapped by some asshole from a rival school and beat the shit out of Kenshiro giving him scars on his chest and left him for dead.

Toomi: That wasn't a great idea as Kenshiro unleashed a fury of fists of rage. And also for the fact that Kenshiro is superhuman which makes his senses superhuman as well. He can hear a whisper 2 km (1 mile) away, can see the aura of any living creature in pitch black darkness, sense a smell as good as a bloodhound, and his taste is sensitive enough to detect poisons.

Sachi:  Kenshiro can connect 50 punches in three seconds while performing the Hundred Crack Fist, intercept a quick arrow the moment it is shot and can repel the bullet of a small caliber gun when its strained with his muscles!

Kenshiro

Superhuman strength

Superhuman speed

Enhanced Senses

Chi manipulation

"Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken"

AKA the Hundred Crack Fist

Unleashes over 100 punches in seconds

"Tenryu Kokyu Ho"

Increases strength by 333%

"Muso Tensai"

Toomi:  Other aspects of his physique are unknown or unmeasurable such as his grip, arm & back strength, and walking ability. However, we do also know that he can jump 9 m (29 feet) in a single step, split a rock with 5 m (16 ft) thickness in half with a single punch and can send a 200 kg (440 lbs) man flying 25 m (82 ft) into the air with a single kick.

Sachi: But Kenshiro also has an insane knack for survivor skills: Kenshiro apparently can dive for 53 minutes, resist poisons five times the dose of Potassium Cyanide, can remain strong for three months without eating and can spend an entire week without sleeping

Megumi: Kenshiro is known for beating countless enemies with just his fists. Like Taskmaster he can remember and copy any martial arts he sees and use it against his opponents.

Feats

Can hear a whisper from 2km away.

Can see the aura of a living creature in pitch-black darkness.

Sense of Smell = About as good as a hound.

Can intercept a quick arrow the moment it is shot.

Sensitive enough to detect poisonous food and such.

Can mimic many sounds, including animal cries.

Can repel the bullet of a small caliber gun when its strained with his muscles.

Can move 100m in 9 seconds in steps.

Throws 50 punches in three seconds while performing the Hundred Crack Fist.

Grip = Unmeasurable.

Arm Strength = Unmeasurable.

Walking Ability = Unmeasurable.

Strength of His Back = Unmeasurable.

Jump Strength = 9m a step.

Punching Strength = Can split a rock that has 5m of thickness.

Kick Strength = Can send a 200kg man flying 25m into the air.

Diving Time = 53 minutes.

Resistance to Poison = Can endure five times the dose of Potassium Cyanide required to kill an ordinary man.

Fasting Resistance = Body can remain strong for three months without eating.

Sleep Resistance = Can spend an entire week without sleeping.

Toomi:  Aside from all of these insane feats, Kenshiro's greatest technique is the ultimate Hokuto Shinken technique: Musou Tensei in which Kenshiro essentially enters a state of nothingness becoming intangible to all physical attacks. Later, he also gained an afterimage so fast that it countered a martial art that can predict muscle movement, nearly collapsed an underground cavern with one flurry of punches, and destroyed an entire row of stone pillars after hitting a single pillar with a punch.

Megumi: This man must be the second coming of Jesus I swear, I mean have you seen him with a beard? He's like Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Jesus all rolled up into one big muscular masculine burrito!

Weakness

Still a mortal man

Has lost battles before

Sachi: With this kind of power, it's really hard to find some sort of weakness within Kenshiro. I mean, even his forgiving of his most heinous foes is only ever done after he's made sure to kill them, although Kenshiro is still a mortal man above all else.

Megumi: Kenshiro doesn't have a flawless victory record, it's true, but in this new world, the villains had better beware, because the moment the Fist of the North Star sets his focus on them, that's the true moment they're already dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLp2Ukv8YPE

Kenshiro: You're already dead.

Megumi: Holy shit!

Toomi: Alright, the combatants are set, let's end this debate once and for all.

Sachi: Don't forget to vote, comment what you think of the fight.

Megumi: Yeah, but right now, it's time for a Death Battle!

Fight

Desert

In the middle of the desert, Garou pushes himself up, spitting on the ground as he stood over a defeated Allback Man.

Garou: Heh? Hero?

Garou held out his Hero Handbook, ripping out the page of Allback Man out as he scoffs.

Garou: Pathetic. I barely even broke a sweat.

Just then, Garou senses a presence behind him, causing him to turn around

It was there where he notices a very tall and muscular figure approaching him.

Garou: Hm?

Garou stares at the figure, and he scoffs.

Garou: Hey you a hero?

Before Kenshiro could reply, Garou simply interrupts by saying.

Garou: Hm, never mind. I'll just kill you myself.

Kenshiro: Pick a place, that's where you will die.

Announcer: Fight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g62i7Q2qKo

<Cue: Martial Arts Bang ost>

Both Garou and Kenshiro rushes towards each other where before their fists disappears in an eruption of fists.

THOOM!!! THOOM!!! THOOM!!!

Garou: HUARGHHHHHHH!!!

Kenshiro: ATATATATATATATAT!!!

Garou swings his leg out, only for Kenshiro to duck before throwing his fist up, striking Garou under the chin.

WHAM!!!

As Garou is sent flying upwards, Kenshiro attacks him with a flurry combination of punches.

WHAM!!! BAM!!! POW!!!

Garou grunts as the last punch sends him tumbling back, pushing himself up as he compliments the Fist of the North Star.

Garou: Heh, I'm impressed. But that won't be enough to stop me.

Garou's body envelops in a blue aura as he flows his hands around, launching himself right at Kenshiro.

Kenshiro dodges a punch from Garou, blocking and striking at the Hero Hunter with a flurry of punches.

WHAM!!! BAM!!! POW!!!

But as the fight drags on, Kenshiro began to notice something peculiar.

Garou is not only moving faster than before but his techniques are closely resembling Kenshiro's by the minute but luckily for Kenshiro, he has been learning Garou's techniques during their fight as well.

Both fighters continues exchanging blows amongst themselves except right as Kenshiro thrusts his hand out, Garou swings his hand to the side, parrying a blow from Kenshiro before slamming the back of his palm right into Kenshiro's chest.

THOOM!!!

The blow sends Kenshiro flying in the air as Garou jumps up, striking Kenshiro repeatly.

WHAM!!! BAM!!! POW!!!

Garou then grabs onto Kenshiro before throwing him right onto a nearby pyramid.

CRASH!!!

However, despite the damage he has sustained from the blows, Kenshiro pushes himself out, not flinching from the blows as he thrusts his hand out, firing a blast of energy right at Garou.

THOOM!!!

Garou jumps over the projectile, dashing forward only for Kenshiro to punch him square in the cheek.

BAM!!!

Kenshiro then swings his leg out, kicking Garou in the torso.

THOOM!!!

Kenshiro then began attacking Garou with a flurry of punches, striking at him repeatly.

WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!!

Kenshiro: ATATATATATATATATAT!!!

As Kenshiro continues attacking Garou, all of a sudden, Garou's eyes flashes as he catches Kenshiro by the fist, catching him off guard.

Kenshiro: What?

Garou then pulls Kenshiro close as he slams his forehead into Kenshiro's nose, sending him tumbling back.

THOOM!!!

Kenshiro wipes away the blood from his notice, looking up as he notices a massive change in Garou's appearance.

Garou has hardened, armor-like skin and hair, razor-sharp claws, and glowing veins running along his body.

Garou has reached his Half Monster form!

Now enhanced by his new power, Garou rushes towards Kenshiro at rapid speed, slamming straight into the warrior.

THOOM!!!

Kenshiro throws a punch, only for Garou to parry it before striking at him with a flurry of kicks.

WHAM!!! BAM!!! POW!!!

Garou then throws an uppercut, sending Kenshiro flying upwards.

WHAM!!!

As Kenshiro is up in the air, Garou suddenly reappears above him before throwing one more punch, sending him crashing down.

CRASH!!!

Kenshiro pushes himself up before he began multiplying, surrounding the monster with an army of himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbaaI5xf4y8

<Cue: Hokuto no Ken by Ai wo torimodose>

Each Kenshiro clones began dashing forward, attacking Garou as Garou easily destroy the clones with his claws and legs.

Right at that moment, Kenshiro leans in right at Garou, thrusting his hand out as he touches Garou square in the head.

Tap!

As Garou throws a punch, Kenshiro suddenly moves past the attack, his body now intangible as he began tapping Garou across various parts of his body.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

Annoyed, Garou simply swings his claw out, sending Kenshiro flying back with a single strike.

WHAM!!!

As Kenshiro gets up, Garou questions him mockingly.

Garou: Is this really your best? Your punch barely felt like a mosquito bite.

However, Kenshiro stood with his back facing the monster before saying to him.

Kenshiro: Omae wa mou shindeiru.

Garou: Nani?!

That was all Garou could say before he felt his entire head go off in an explosion of blood and gore.

SPLOCH!!

Kenshiro walks away as the rest of Garou's body went off in an explosion.

SPLOCH!!!
KO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHqXiXTZm20

<Cue: Love, Again by CHIHIRO>

Megumi: My God, what just happened?

Toomi: Garou's ferocity and his adaptive skills enable him to hold his own against Kenshiro, however he was no match for Kenshiro's pure strength, skills and experienced.

Megumi: Yeah, being older than Garou and having fought longer than him definitely gave Kenshiro an experience advantage over Garou beating up thugs, weaker heroes and weaker members of his dojo.

Sachi: But when Garou reaches his Half Monster form, that's where the tide of the battle really began to turn.

Toomi: With his enhanced speed, relentlessness and his ability to regenerate, it's almost impossible for Kenshiro to kill him with ordinary means, especially when Garou has taken blows from Saitama, a being stronger than Kenshiro without the need for regenerative factors.

Megumi: And his ability to break through Darkshine's tough skin would definitely enable him to break through Kenshiro's incredible pain tolerance and his ability to parry his master Silver Fang, who has deflected lightning certainly gave him a massive speed advantage over Kenshiro.

Sachi: With all that in factor, the fight certainly looks like an easy win for Monster Garou except that none of that really matters due to Kenshiro's intangibility which enables him to dodge everything Garou throws at him.

Toomi: Not only that but Kenshiro's ability to kill people with a touch is an instant kill move that literally no character can survive thanks to his knowledge of their pressure points. In fact, if he had used that move on Garou while he was still in his human form, he would have claimed an easy win since Garou has no defenses for pressure point attacks.

Sachi: In fact, along with the fact that any defeat in his monster form weakens Garou, all Kenshiro really needed to do is just keep touching him in his pressure points until he cannot regenerate anymore.

Toomi: Having the advantage in strength, skills, experience along with his pressure point knowledge and intangibility, Kenshiro just needs to hit Garou in the right spots and his opponent is already dead.

Megumi: Looks like this is one touchy win for Kenshiro

Sachi: The winner is Kenshiro

Kenshiro: Who's the next victim, show yourself.

Toomi: Hey guys, thank you so much for checking out our battle in What if Battles 2.

Sachi: If you want more content like this, don't forget to add this in your library and comment if you have any idea for a fight.

Megumi: Until then, next time on What if Battles...

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Trivia

* The connections between Garou and Kenshiro is that both combatants are skilled martial artists who have been through many near death situations, having been beaten up by their enemies, being ganged up and left for dead which awoke the killing instinct within them. The two have also fought a mass number of opponents, even killing many of them along the way

* Both fighters also have movesets that involves a large flurry of punches, Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist for Garou and Hundred Crack Fist for Kenshiro

* Both are also immune to poisons, capable of copying and adapting the movesets of their opponents and even moving fast enough to tag bullets and projectiles.

* This is the first time a One Punch Man character fights a Fist of the North Star character

* This is the first time a Fist of the North Star character wins a What if Battle

* This is the third time a One Punch Man character loses a What if Battle, the first being Superman vs Saitama and Frieza vs Boros

* In the start of the match, the hero Garou beaten up is Allback Man who only appeared in a brief moment during the Deep Sea King arc in One Punch Man season 1

* Despite the fight being written in English, both Garou and Kenshiro are actually speaking Japanese to each other, which makes this the first fight where both combatants speak a different language