Death Battle Fight Prediction Halloween Edition: Medusa Gorgon (Soul Eater) vs. Orochimaru (Naruto)

Special thanks to Casey Lapeyrouse

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Just to clarify, yes there's a theme for this particular prediction blog. Orochimaru's information will mostly be taken from the manga Naruto. Additional stuff for both characters will not be considered. I will mention them within the verdict to make a point. Also I put a lot of work into this one prediction blog recently.

Hi everyone happy early Halloween, just in case things started getting busy. I figured to deliver a particular Death Battle prediction I always wanted to do for years. Honestly it's one of many requests I see all the time. It so happens to be one of my personal favorites among them too. I am so happy I was able to finally pull this together with some help from Casey.

Medusa Gorgon


Medusa is the middle child of three witches. Her actions made everyone an enemy including fellow witches. Widely known for her hand in reviving the kishin Asura. Her last name is actually a reference to Greek mythology to Medusa & her sisters. She specializes in usage of black blood & madness based techniques.

Orochimaru


Orochimaru was a gifted shinobi trained by the man who eventually becomes the Third Hokage. His desire to master every jutsu including forbidden ones quickly made him an enemy of his own village. Orochimaru has done unspeakable things in his quest for immortality. He also started a network of shinobis that's well connected to work towards his goal.

Abilities

Medusa


+Magic
+Direct attack spells
+High-Level spells
+Demonic Energy (increases madness in a target)
+Wavelength Control (controlling her spiritual energy)
+High physical abilities
+Hand to hand combat
+Medical expertise
+Serpent commanding
+Master manipulator
+Portable Purple Clown (also meant to increase madness within a single target)

Orochimaru


+Sword of Kusanagi (a sword created from his own body)
+An enormous amount of chakra
+Superhuman strength
+Superhuman speed
+Superhuman durability
+Superhuman endurance
+Shedding (Similar to how snake shed their skins allows a new body complete to come out)
+Shapeshifting (due to several experiments on himself)
+Living Corpse Reincarnation (One of his methods to transfer his soul into another body)
+Ninjutsu
+All five element theme techniques
+Summons a lot of snakes as well as a couple giant ones
+Eight Branches Technique (He transforms into a eight headed & tailed giant snake)
+Senjutsu (could give those with his seal more power as well as altering their bodies)
+Genjutsu (he doesn't have many Genjutsu theme techniques)
+Yin Release
+Yang Release

Advantages

Medusa


+More overall experience
+Has methods of attacking souls
+Has an easier method of possessing
+Can posses an corpse
+If possessing a witch's body, could make her more powerful
+Faster
+Better strategist
+A witch's magic is said to be immeasurable
+Medusa could have Purple Clown to keep her madness in check
+Fought more deathscythes than those leading the villages Orochimaru fought
+Smarter
+Due to being a witch, she can fly
+Can split up her soul & reform it back together
+Can restrict her opponent's movements
+Has techniques to increase madness in people
+Can have Purple Clown fuse with some of her snakes to increase their attack power & speed
+Through Soul Protect can prevent being sense by chakra
+Also in Soul Protect can still use her snakes
+She can work around Vector's restricting movement technique
+More deceptive out of the two
+More unpredictable
+Mind manipulation

Orochimaru


+More confirmed combat experience
+A lot more chakra
+Can summon bigger snakes
+More battle techniques overall
+Can shed his skin to remove all damage and regain limbs
+Does use a powerful poison
+Through his seal can act as an alternate method of monitoring siutations
+Could use a stare to freak Medusa out
+Physically stronger
+Can survive techniques that can kill you among using
+Capable of manipulating all five elements
+Still capable of using jutsi within being restricted by Medusa
+Has a standard ninja arsenal while Medusa herself doesn't use a weapon
+Has proven to fight well without the usage of chakra
+More offensive techniques
+More confirmed training
+Can fight with Manda, one of his strongest snakes
+Does have methods to prevent being restricted in movements

Disadvantages

Medusa


-Doesn't have as many combat techniques
-More arrogant
-Not much confirmed combat experience
-Orochimaru has a stare that could freak Medusa out
-Doesn't use black blood on herself
-Her sister's body could start resisting her
-Doesn't have many options to heal herself
-It can take awhile for her magic to be refueled
-Shen can't sense souls
-Likely struggle with poison
-While in Soul Protect can't use other spells
-Possessing other beings than witches can limit her potential notably
-Purple Clown's madness wavelength can only affect one target at a time

Orochimaru


-Could temporary lose the ability to use his techniques a few possible ways
-Not as deceptive as Medusa
-His seal to act as a way to resurrect himself takes time to work
-Can't fly
-It is possible for the host to defeat Orochimaru while he attempts to take over
-Does have techniques requiring more chakra
-Relies more on help at times in comparison
-Has to keep up with more snakes being loose at a time
-Medusa's snakes inside of him can prevent him from fighting back or give information to her
-He can't sense magic since that doesn't exist in his universe
-Not as great of a strategist as Medusa
-Doesn't have access to techniques given through training in DWMA meant for witches
-Doesn't have counters to prevent from getting madness or stopping it altogether
-Has to still technically deal with aging to a degree
-Medusa's Vectors can tear him apart
-Using another method of resurrection like fusing with a white zetsu required help
-Soul Protect spell makes her soul invisible to being sense through chakra
-More likely to become predictable during a fight
-Can't transfer his soul to Medusa
-Could be jumping repeatedly during the fight
-Orochimaru-Style Body Replacement Techniques does require a lot of chakra to use
-If Orochimaru-Style Body Replacement Technique fails has to wait another three years
-Medusa can cause insanity through several methods
-It is possible to use a seal to prevent him from using Sword of Kusanagi
-Sadly lacks a counter for mind manipulation like what was done to Crona

Weaknesses

Medusa (Yes Medusa planned to be killed by her own child)


She is more arrogant out of the two. Her magic to some degree has limits. She lacks the ability to sense souls. Possessing a weaker creature limits her potential to a degree. For spells like that requires madness wavelength from others in order to work. It is possible for someone with enough madness for her madness techniques to not work. A mental attack could knock her out.

Orochimaru


He has techniques that has to be done in a particular way. Also some of his techniques do require a lot of chakra. It is possible to prevent him from using chakra. Out of these two relied more on help at times in comparison. Orochimaru sets a lot more snakes out making it more difficult to maintain them.

Verdict


Alright I know I done two recent prediction blogs where an Naruto character loss. Before you start saying stuff like you don't like Naruto, Well I don't actually. But for this I actually left my bias side away to making this a fair fight. I am not going to lie, some of the stuff that needs to be talked about will get confusing.

For example, Orochimaru does have a few methods to posses another living person. However among a closer look I did notice a few problems. Living Corpse Reincarnation can only be perform once every three years. Which increases the chances of it failing against Medusa. A slight chance the host he's possessing won't resist him in that time period to become officially his new body.

Sadly that never actually happened in the manga. He attempted to stealing Sasuke's body to end up being absorbed by him instead. This by itself means it is possible for the host to fight back against Orochimaru. Keep in mind, during this process Orochimaru was weakened also becoming more desperate in the process.

Also in his giant snake form the one with hair to clarify has to swallow you whole. Shortly aferwards, in a strange dimension he will attempt taking over your body. The problem is Medusa ends up being the very person that shouldn't be attempted on. She does have Purple Clown that can protect her from a several ways including madness.

Medusa herself has other methods of causing insanity like the time she caused an entire town to go insane. Keep in mind within Soul Eater universe, madness affects both the mind & soul whoever makes contact with it. In this particular case, Orochimaru simply doesn't have the needs to dealing with something like that.

He can't prevent it from increasing or stop it altogether which ends up being worse than his poison infecting her. It is not clear how Medusa could survive being poisoned since that never happened in the manga itself. Purple Clown itself can cause madness wavelength to work on a single target likely being Orochimaru himself this particular case.

Sure it could take awhile before succeeding into madness but it could actually happen during a fight. This occurred a few times within Soul Eater manga itself. Also Purple Clown can fuse with some of her snakes to increase their attack power as well as speed. Yes they quickly got destroyed by Justin Law a former deathscythe who became insane during the battle for brew event.

I should point out Medusa actually fought three deathscythes within the manga by herself. The first of these had Professor Stein whose second best meister under Lord Death himself with Spirit whose the most powerful deathscythe there is. Orochimaru officially fought the Third Hokage & the Fourth Kazekage aka Gaara's father.

I can't count battles with people who weren't technically hokages yet like Naruto or Tsunade. The only reason Justin Law still counts was because during that part in the manga, they weren't aware of his insanity yet. There was a time Medusa forced her hands down two witches' throats before they could even react.

It turns out Medusa implanted snakes inside both of their bodies. She killed one of them simply commanding the snakes to cause her body to explode. Keep in mind, both of those witches can transform into smaller animals. Orochimaru himself can become a bigger snake. Although he still has a few human traits allowing those snakes to do the same to him if given the chance.

The scariest part is they aren't actually powerful creatures. They don't require magic or additional wavelength at all. Her usage of snakes can easily get around Orochimaru's defense without him realizing it until it's too late. It is possible due to those being magical creatures that Orochimaru might not be able to actually sense them through chakra.

Sure Orochimaru could create a new body even taking a lot of damage that may or may not lose limbs. But Medusa is smart enough to carefully move the snakes into his newer body thus forcing him in the same boat he just left. Yes she can even communicate with them regardless of the distance even if they're inside someone's body.

Orochimaru doesn't communicate with his snakes nearly as long distances. Thus Orochimaru swallowing Medusa wholse could likely led to his own death. Obviously can her soul through chakra while she can't sense a soul. Although she does have a method to disable it that not even shinigamis like Lord Death himself can't sense.

In a special condition, she can break up her soul. Yes this required additional madness wavelength. It is possible since Orochimaru could be driven to madness enough to allow her to do this. Thus she could possess one of his snakes. Also by doing this will throw off Orochimaru who isn't used to dealing with such an ability.

Those who never got to read Soul Eater manga doesn't know this. Medusa can also summon giant snakes of her own during combat. Sure this only happened once but they did damage the location to some degree. So she could handle dealing with Orochimaru's bigger snakes. It is possible for them to defeat Manda, his strongest snake.

Orochimaru's trump card is Eight Branches Technique where he becomes even bigger than Manda with eight heads & eight tails. I swear I'm not making this up even if I tried. Medusa once used madness wavelength to posses the corpse of her older sister Aranche. Simply doing that made her even more powerful than she originally was.

Medusa has constantly shown to held up against top tier characters while Orochimaru is likely a little beyond Sasuke in the power scale. Orochimaru can tank more notable force as well as more destructive attacks. But destruction is in witches' nature as confirmed in the manga. Yes majority of them have this.

Unfortunately for him, Medusa has another advantage not a lot of people knows about. It is stated in the Soul Eater manga by a witch that a witch's magic is immeasurable. Yes there are limits with usage of magic but Medusa is very skilled in her witchcraft. Which clearly doesn't exist in Naruto universe. Medusa was able to do things Orochimaru had to alter himself to do.

Like her age, possessing other beings, summoning snakes, and keeping up with her skills. In fact, during a conversation with her sister Arachne. It confirms both of them are older than eight hundred years old. To clarify we don't know how exactly old both of them actually are but that given a clear idea how old.

Which trumps Orochimaru's fifty four years of experience by almost seven hundred fifty years. Orochimaru could attempt freaking out Medusa by doing a stare. The same stare that caused his victims to see horrifying images. But it took her sister's insanity form to knocking her out. She alone was holding onto over eight hundred years worth of insanity.

Clearly that stare wouldn't be enough to knock out Medusa or to throw her off her game either. Orochimaru's seals takes time to work. It is possible to remove them like Sasuke had done before. Although that was from those who rescued himself than he actually recovering it himself. Also by the rules of Death Battle, that ability is technically outside help.

Thus ends up being an unfair advantage. Probably the biggest surprise of all is Medusa ended up being a better strategist overall. In the manga version right up to her death by Crona, everything went exactly the way she planned it. Even Death the Kid stated this during a mission to take out her sister at the time.

In comparison, some of Orochimaru's plans didn't work. This by itself means, Medusa has proven to be the best manipulator. She played everyone & yes I do literately mean everyone getting exactly what she wants. Medusa's Vectors can rip right through a human's body like knife through butter I'm not kidding.

Hell Professor Stein whose has a few similarities with Orochimaru himself tanked a lot of deep cuts in his battle against her. Obviously this means she can easily take care of his smaller snakes. It is possible for Medusa to last long enough for Orochimaru to run low on chakra. Which is a difficult feat to do within Naruto universe.

She actually by that point can easily kill him to win the fight. The real question is how would she last that long? The answer is a bit surprising, very late in the manga some of the strongest characters are constantly fighting off insanity clowns. Professor Stein himself as well as Spirit were doing just fine even with some of the fellow deathscythes getting tired on the moon.

Both Professor Stein & Spirit have proven to have the tendency to that by facing Medusa. She was holding them off until the kishin Asura was resurrected. This was the longest fight in that particular story arc. She was fighting dirty forcing them to fight close range majority of the fight.

Shortly after being cut in half, Medusa was still able to bite Professor Stein prior to hiding herself inside a snake while her body died. Clearly this means Medusa is even crazier than Orochimaru in comparison. Yes she loss that fight technically on purpose but she held her own against those very powerful characters on her own.

Yes Orochimaru does have superior combat training with more confirmed techniques. Unfortunately for him, Medusa is widely known for being unpredictable. I still haven't gotten to a particular situation Medusa could enforce among Orochimaru during this fight. She has an technique where her vector arrows are surrounding the target.

Each arrow represents a particular direction. If touching will force the target to move in that direction. Thus could prevent Orochimaru from attempting his bigger techniques in the process. But Orochimaru has a few methods to prevent this from happening like shadow clone jutsu or standard Body Replacement Technique.

Early on Soul Eater, she was able to keep up with Maka whose one of the fastest character. Keep in mind, this was before Soul became a deathscythe. So Maka isn't that level of speed that would triumph someone else in particular when the times comes. Maka was able to dodge light meaning Medusa rivaling that level of speed makes her technically faster than anything Orochimaru has done.

By the way it was my friend Casey that pointed this feat out to me thanks man. Before anyone brings up "Oh Orochimaru can run on water." argument that wasn't actually a speed feat. Kakashi taught a technique to Naruto's group to walk on trees. Which includes matching your chakra with that of the tree that requires concentration.

In other words, he quickly knew how to do that while running on water while talking to other shinobis like Kabuto. It is also possible to remove his arms to prevent him from using his many chakra filled techniques. Likely a stronger possibility when he's low on chakra late in this fight. I do need to mention due to being a witch, Medusa can fly while Orochimaru can't.

So if she attempts increasing the distance upwards, he has to constantly jump or use one of his bigger snakes just to reach her. This also limits many techniques that would work. Of course it also depends how fly Medusa is willing to do during this fight. If this were a fight, there's more ways both characters could win.

To sum it up, Medusa can handle whatever Orochimaru can throw at her during this intense battle. To be honest for me this was one of the most difficult fight predictions I ever made I'm not kidding. Both of them really had great advantages over each other making this surprisingly a close fight. Even if we included additional stuff given to them from their respective anime versions.

This fight would simply wouldn't be fair for Orochimaru. He would be coming in with extra techniques as well as a pill designed to knock out characters like Naruto with tailed beasts inside them. But Medusa guarantees victory because she would use a spell where you must destroy her soul Suddenly this becomes one of those fights where you must kill them for good or you'll lose.

Orochimaru himself lacks techniques that can do that. He could attempt stealing her body even with several souls inside of him. Which implies to all canons of Naruto but the result wouldn't be much different. Medusa can easily come up with a plan to taking him down. After all, her advantages ends up being more useless in comparison anyway.

Winner: Medusa Gorgon


I should mention Medusa could have up to a thousand snakes. It isn't clear how many snakes Orochimaru could have at one time. Yes I am well aware his bigger snakes are mostly made out of smaller ones. Which is largely the reason Medusa's giant snakes would rip through them easily. It took beheading them all at the same time to take them down.

Honestly I went out of my way to finish reading Soul Eater manga for this prediction blog. I also finished my research on Maka and Soul whose confirmed to be facing Ruby Rose in a future episode. Don't worry when the time comes I will be predicting that fight. Despite not being a Naruto fan, Orochimaru is one of my favorite characters.

I'm obviously a huge fan of Soul Eater for so many reasons. Medusa is hands down one of my favorite Soul Eater characters. I am also a huge fan of snakes do is my wife. Which to me became clear this was the perfect choice for an Halloween Edition Death Battle blog. I am honored to be covering such a close fight.

Medusa's Vectors can do several things during a fight too. Which meant getting up close to her was a horrible idea to begin with. Medusa can also has access to mind manipulation that got used on her own child Crona. This led to his insanity to clarify so it is possible Medusa can manipulate Orochimaru when he loses it.


One more thing. there are clear differences between weekly manga series to those monthly manga series. Shonen Jump in particular doesn't take time to fully explain things that greatly get blown out of proportions. Most monthly series takes the time to explain everything to prevent confusing or that reaction altogether.

Also just imagine you have to put out an chapter in Japan every single week except for breaks. Now that's a lot of chapters within an year compared to a standard monthy series. You usually get one longer chapter per a month. But the story itself remains more constant in comparison. Let's be honest stuff like Naruto or Bleach had terrible endings.

Death Battle haven't used characters from both styles before. No Aang vs. Edward Elric doesn't count since Aang came from a cartoon that has some anime inspiration. My point is I already know those used to weekly mangas to those monthly mangas have a different general audience. Obviously we all have different takes but this fight really needs to happen soon.