How to be OP in Cutey Honey
Let us define the general capabilities of the verse (original canon)
The protagonist is the titular Cutey Honey. The brilliant Doctor Kisaragi to save his dying daughter implanted her heart, and thus her soul into a android body creating the cyborg warrior of love, before he died against at the hands of the vile Organization Panther Claw wanting to steal his technology, beginning the war between Cutey Honey and Panther Claw. Cutey Honey is an invention of supertechnology, stronger then any conventional modern weapon, including weapons as strong as anti-tank weapons. Her greatest device, the target of Panther Claw's desires is the Airborne Element Fixing Device, a miraculous device capable of creating any technology or disguise (or any other simple object) for Honey out of thin air by manipulate subatomic particles. With this she has a vast of array of alternate forms and different abilities.
Her enemies are the Terrorist Organization Panther Claw, panthers from another dimension warped into humanoid forms by the Witch Zora, who steal and murder in her name. Not only do they have superhuman stats, they often use advanced technology they have stolen to advance their cause, including once stealing a scientist team to launch a nuke into a meteor to wipe all life from the Earth.
Even weaker Panther Claw Agents are highly end subsonic and wall level+ able to cut through any metal, tear through walls, and avoid gunfire. The Strongest Panther Claw Agents and Cutey Honey are lower end supersonic and in the building range as they can vaporize beings outright and outpace as Honey can move the speed of supersonic jet.
Panther Claw Agents often possess elemental manipulation, alternate forms of movement like web-swinging or flight, and one of them, Jellyfish Claw has psionic abilities.
The verse has lots of stealth so some form of anti-stealth would likely be important though actual stealth abilities would likely not be that helpful against all the verse's anti-stealth.
Limitations are supersonic and building level, and helpful abilities without even getting into counters is matter or mental manipulation resistance and some resistance to heavy 3-d movement.
The verse does have some weaknesses however. Cutey Honey herself has a weakness of stamina. The I-System that controls her requires lots of energy. Honey must consume a lot and not fight too long or she will run out of power. This means a stamina-based build would probably be helpful against her. Also while Honey is mentally far more advanced then a normal human due to being able to download information directly into her brain, she is an immature teenager, and prone to listening to her emotions more then reason.
Panther Claw Agents have the general weakness that as humanoid animals, they are prone to bestial instincts rather then rational thought, and can be outwit. They also tend to like to taunt enemies, which can give a charismatic opponent time to find ways to beat them.
The fighters of the verse also seem to lack a lot of highly long-range attacks, most of their attacks happening within a few meters, so a long range build could likely do very well. Interestingly, the inverse is also true. While Panther Claw Fighters are intense melee fighters, they're not very skilled and a very skilled hand to hand build could also do pretty well against all the non-Honey fighters.
So what are some proper builds? Valuable things are attacks from a good sized distance away, skill in melee combat, building level transonic stats, anti-stealth abilities, some resistance to at least mental manipulation, some skill in manipulation, and some anti-aerial skill.
In addition, there are two specific abilities that I also think would do really well as well, and as such I wanted to give an example of both each, as the two are rarely seen together especially at this level of power. The first one
Koji Koda, or Petting Hero Anima as he calls himself, has. Namely, this is the power to control animals. Because all of Panther Claw are humanoid animals this would give him direct and immediate control of most of the verse's fighters.
It helps that Anima's stats are pretty similar to most of the verse's fighters and he could also pretty fairly compete in a physical contest with any of them, albeit with less versatility. Because of his hero training, he is also likely to be more cool headed and skilled in combat, which should also be to his advantage.
The one downside to this strategy is that it doesn't provide much help against Honey herself. While Petting Hero Anima would do well, I do think there are a few better.
The other major ability
Nanomech from Ben 10 has. Namely technopathy. Given that Cutey Honey is technology and Panther Claw uses dangerous technology for their schemes, any ability with high technological manipulation will have massive potential, let alone one that can copy any machine ability after seeing it.
He can also shrink to sizes that nobody in the Cutey Honey verse can effectively counter. This would actively be an effective stealth ability in a verse full of stealth and anti-stealth abilities as he while he would theoretically appear in an x-ray or a heat vision scan, his signature would be too tiny to notice.
He even resists brainwashing in the case he goes up against Jellyfish Claw.
Another more conventional strategy would be using a fighter like Matoi the Sacred Slayer. Even without summons Matoi can fire energy bolts over a far longer distance then anyone in Cutey Honey has done so, and her shield would be able to take plenty of shots from anyone in the verse.
What really helps her though is her special ability Gate of Caelum which allows for transportation to another dimension, . This would allow her to teleport all around the Cutey Honey verse's fighters, which combined with her natural flight, agility and high tier equivalent speed, she would be impossible to pin down, agile more then even the most agile Panther Claw Agent while packing high tier power. And if she dimensional bfrs with it, not only can she stop any attack point blank, but she can one-shot anyone she hits.
She also has ESP which is probably the most potent anti-stealth ability as she can simply auto-perceive when a threat is incoming and maneuver to safety.
For a more unconventional counter, The Apathy from RWBY would do really well. The verse in general is very susceptible to emotional manipulation with the Panther Claw Agents being prone to bestial instinct and Cutey Honey being an emotional teenager.
The Apathy are tough enough it would take lots of concentrated strikes from even high tiers to kill one, yet their aura would cause almost irresistible apathy at a range far beyond what most of the verse is capable of beating. Their only counter would be using outside modern technology to hit them from even farther away. One on One in an arena, they're dead, they're just outright dead.
However I've got one more pick that is probably my favorite counter.
The Adam West Portrayal of Batman would be absolutely broken in the verse, and it would be great.
His stats are right in life with the verse, but where he would really shine are in equipment. Batman possesses a jamming device which can jam mechanical devices, which would not only be a one-shot against Honey, but against most Panther Claw Agents. He also has an anti-mechanical bat-ray that has the same purpose.
Against the devious Panther Claw Agents and the vile schemes, Batman would be able to deploy his genius detective intellect to know exactly where they were gonna strike next and be able to trap the wild beasts. Of course if he has to get into ol fisticuffs with one and she returns to true panther form, he is trained on how to deal with large cats, as he showed in battle with the tiger.
In combat in general, Batman not only is more skilled at melee but has greater range. He can also hit them with the Bat Knockout gas, something nobody in the verse save Honey would have resistance too. In fact since most of them are felines, sleeping agents are maybe even more effective as they would not know how to fight the effects. This "Batman" is even known to engage in good ol fashioned witty exchanges with his opponents giving his sleeping agent more time to work, while the Panther Claw are likely to take in their delight at taunting their enemies. Or he could use the time to plan the usage of one of his timed explosives, or to take ingenious usage of the environment, or really anything.
Batman can also use smoke pellets for stealth. But wouldn't they see through with an x-ray scan? Not so, old chum! For Batman has his trusty X-Ray Deflector capable of knocking it aside. On the other hand they would have no such luck against his infrared eye-goggles. Much like a Bat he will get the drop on those misbehaved malfactors!
Even if he runs across that fiendish Jellyfish Claw and her psychic powers, the Batman is prepared. Not only is he highly resistance to psionics already but with his Anti-Mesmerizing Bat Reflector he could turn the cowardly delinquent's powers back on her. Holy Karma Batman!
All in all Batman has gadgets and techniques from his long career crime-fighting to defeat anything in the verse and could clearly stay one step ahead the whole time.
And that's how to be OP in Cutey Honey.
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