Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch-verse Strategy Guide

How to be OP in the Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch-verse

Local to City Scale Threat:

Deep down in the 7 Seas resides the 7 Kingdoms of Mermaids who are the residents of the ocean worlds. Their world is much larger then the human world, just as most of the Earth is covered in water, to the point that a young mermaid Lucia thought that the surface world, a world with stars, flowing blooming in the sky, couldn't exist.

The Mermaids are naturally superhuman able to swim across the seas quickly and able to tank the pressure at the ocean's floor. However their greatest power is their singing. The song of the mermaid is magical and commands the waves. The song of a mermaid is great enough to calm a storm and so sightings of them is considered fortunate by sailors.

Beyond this Mermaids have the ability to communicate with the creatures of the waters, and can take a humanoid form when on land. 

Also existing underwater are the Panthalassa Clan, a race of humanoid entities that were sealed away after attempting to take control over the seas and the surface, that can similarly survive underwater and at great depths without issue. They are known for having psionic abilities, able to telepathically communicate, telekinetically move things and project light from their foreheads. They also known for having a superhuman recovery rate from injury and disease though there isn't any notable feats for this so it most likely would just be regen (low)

The magical humanoid form given to some sea life would also be here, such as Hippo the Penguin whose magical barrier was relevant compared to the stronger tier of the verse, and also the Dark Lovers, the minions of Gackto in arc 1 who were originally sea life, who are the main threat of this tier. The Dark Lovers can control water like the mermaids with Izuru being stated to be able to create a storm that can drown a city. To create a large storm by itself would take city level energy, though to drown a city might require the energy of a hurricane, equivalent to island level energy. Thus the tier's power is city to island level. As Lucia without her pearl was able to easily survive an attack from Izuru this would scale to the durability of general Mermaids.

Also a nameless mermaid gave birth to twin sister mermaids on literally opposite sides of the Earth. The average time between the birth of twins is 17 minutes. To travel half the circumference of Earth in 17 minutes would require speeds exceeding Mach 57.7 and this is a highly casual lowballed feat. As such the tier would be hypersonic+, possibly MHS

The Dark Lovers have unique abilities as well. Izuru can create sharks out of water and attack with them. Eriru can shoot dark bolts of energy and create a small whirlwind by spinning. Yuuri can create brainwashing dark magic musical. Maria has ice manipulation and freezing.

There is one more strategic strength of the series that is also a weakness which is most of the fighters are used to fighting underwater, and seem to possibly be slower on land. As such luring them onto land would be helpful but generally to pursue a form of offense a character picked would need to be amphibious to some degree.

In terms of weaknesses, one of the more unique weaknesses is changing water's state of being. Most of the verse seems to be limited to manipulating liquid water, with Maria's ability to manipulate ice being her unique trait. Thus changing water to make it more dense and thus ice, or even more to make it less dense into a mist will take away the main form of offense.

More conventionally the tier lacks skill based builds, with most of the fighting of the verse being a highly stylized form of fighting that would not grant resistance to someone who is a more conventionally skilled fighter.

The biggest weakness of the tier, and most of the verse, is the verse's lack of stamina. Mermaids can only use their magic so long as they can sing which is a fairly limited timeframe. Panthalassa psionics can rise to very strong levels of power but this seems to be based on emotional outbursts and they can't maintain it for extended periods. The Dark Lovers have decent stamina but nothing that would outlast someone with any big feats of stamina.

Thus a highly defensive strategy of nullifying or dodging attacks, wearing down enemies before getting in close would be a really strong strategy in verse. This brings me to my first counter

Karin Miyoshi from Yuki Yuna is a Hero.

Karin can one-shot Vertexes made up of countless tiny stardust each able to tank the strongest nucleur weapons humanity had, meaning she should be equal or drastically stronger then the tier. Vertexes can also move faster then mach 25 missiles, showing she should be at least relative to the verse in speed.

Karin is an extremely skilled swordswoman, trained to do nothing but fight for the start of her life, suggesting she would have a large skill advantange. Her fairies also give her what amounts to completely immunity to any physical attack ranging from having a star thrown at her to surviving within a black hole via shields. As such she would be physically immune to any attacks or to going underwater. Her stamina is also superior to the tier, as Heroes can fight for hours at a time. 

That said, one could argue that the fairies shielding counts as durability and so she couldn't be used as a counter. Plus technically Yuuri's brainwashing music would still work on her. For a counter that is the same basic strategy but a lot more fitted to the verse you could use

Percy Jackson from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Percy, as a son of one of the big three, scales to being stronger then Hazel who destroyed a small island and has numerous city to island showings such as withstanding the eruption of Mount St. Helens showing he would be relative to the verse in power. In speed he should compare to Jason Grace, the son of Jupiter who blocked lightning, moving at least mach 62 and likely mach 81 showing he would equal if not surpass the tier in terms of speed.

Due to the tier being magical creatures, Percy's sword Riptide should be able to affect them. Percy is said to be the skilled swordsman of the demigods as the leader of the Greek Demigods, matched only by Jason leader of the Roman Demigods. He's fought Gods inhabiting mortal bodies with thousands of years of combat experience. His stamina also massively excels over the tier as he fougth an unending armies of the dead for months at a time. However even this is lowballing his stamina in this scenario.

You see Percy is a son of Poseidon. He can breath and move about in water as normal, and control it. Also water naturally regenerates his body faster then the Panthalassa, and restores his stamina. Most of this tier attacks by throwing water at the enemy. This would only strengthen Percy. Percy's water manipulation allows him to transmute the state of matter of water which would allow him to change it into a state the tier can't use it. As a son of Poseidon he also has numerous other abilities including a whirlwind ability that would put Eriru's to shame, earth manipulation, ice manipulation greater then Maria's and more giving him a versatility advantage. He even has his own mind hax; the wolf stare learned from the Wolf Guardian Lupa which can make weak-willed individuals, like the Dark Lovers, run away.

The only threats the tier could even remotely pose are the brief bursts of energy of the Panthalassa and Yuuri's brainwashing. However there is a counter I think would work even better, that being

Juvia Lockser from Fairy Tail

Juvia upon her birth was able to create a rainstorm that simply passived followed her. She can match the water magic of Spirit Aquarius who can destroy cities with water manipulation and she's grown stronger since then suggesting she would be able to overpower the tier's water manipulation. 

Juvia scales in speed to beings that dodged the MHS lightning of Laxus. This suggests she would be around the speed of the tier's highballed speed, if not signifigantly faster. 

Juvia's water manipulation is vastly stronger then the tier, and she has shown she can use it for bindings which suggest she could use it to quickly constrict a mermaid's throat to keep them from singing. She is a much more skilled fighter with better stamina then the verse. She passively maintained magic equaling the most intense feat in the tier for most of her life and withstood massive blood loss to protect Gray. 

Juvia can turn into water during which their water attacks would simply go through her. But couldn't they control her when she is water? Actually no, as the verse was noted to not be able to control the living water making up Izuru's sharks meaning they would not be able to control the water making her up. Juvia was also able to break out of Invel's mind hax showing that even Yuuri's brainwashing wouldn't stop her. 

Planetary Scale Threat:

In ancient days before man, the Earth was ruled by a mysterious race of ancient beings, with the strongest of the mermaids and panthalassa being able to compete with these beings. This includes the Mermaid Princesses, the 7 princesses of the mermaid kingdoms each given a pearl that enhances their singing and gives them the ability to transform into her magical girl form. The rogue Mermaid Princess with just her henshin was able to destroy her kingdom stretching across the Indian Ocean which would be likely a petaton level event, consistent with her stating her intent to flood the human world, the 7 continents, with the waters of the "dark sea". From this most of the tier scales to the continental/multi-continental tier.  This is consistent with Gackto causing disasters in all 7 of the oceans. Speed is basically the same. 

The main threat of this tier is Mikeru. Mikeru as one of the ancient ones can casually travel between dream and reality. He had a wide and powerful variety of hax abilities including reality-warping, which he was going to fuse his world with the human world, replacing it. Mikeru was called a transcendental power compared to the verse, and his power was stated to be a threat to the "survival of the planet" suggesting he may be a planetary threat.

Mikeru also has power and memory absorption, summoning of monsters that can threaten the mermaid princesses, transmutation, planetary-sensing and implied planetary mind control, mind-reading and striking with divine lightning. 

This tier also has the twin Panthalassa Prince Twins with massively stronger telekinesis, able to lift whole castles and telepathy (able to telepathically give messages even after their death). They also have new abilities like teleportation, transmutation as Gackto did to the Dark Lovers. Gackto told his twin that the two of them have the power to control all the oceans. Even figuratively this would be an impressive feat to be stronger then everyone in the verse up to that point, consistent though with Gackto destroying all 7 mermaid kingdoms by himself. However if taken literally this would be planetoid levels of power, as the Earth's oceans is 1.4x the mass of Dwarf Planet Ceres. The other Panthalassa twin releasing their full power was able to save Lucia from Mikeru's divine lighting and repeled Mikeru suggesting that they scale to him as well.

The oceans are overseen by the Goddess of the Oceans, Aqua Regina. Despite weakening with age, her power was able to make Mikeru's dream world fade in and out of existence. As Mikeru was going to overlay it on the human world, this would be likely multi-continental, and possibly planetary as said merging would threaten the survival of the planet. Beyond that Aqua Regina is a metaphysical entity with her own bevy of hax. She was the one who sealed the Panthalassa tribe away when they attempted to conquer the Earth's seas and surface. She can see beyond the veil of spacetime, as she could see all people praying for her, and also at Lucia's birth appeared and foretold that she would be the light safeguarding the Earth. Aqua Regina can also teleport and granted the Mermaid Princesses their powers and is the one supposedly controlling all 7 seas. 

Mikeru's minions would also likely be here as they seem to be as strong as a single Mermaid Princess, outside maybe Fuku his small bird thing though even that is a skilled manipulator. Beyond that there is the Winged Ones, 3 flying villains that serve Mikeru. The crossdressing vampire Lady Bat uses hypnosis and transmutation, the chinese butterfly-woman Lanhua can split into a dozen of herself, and Alala...can give people nightmares. Also on Mikeru's side is the Great One, a living fire that created the Winged Ones and is another of the ancient ones. It's power is relative to the verse. All of them can fly.

Finally, the verse has it's ultimate weapon; the mermaid princesses and their song. To give an understanding; the song of all 7 summons Aqua Regina to their side and this is the lesser effect of the song. The primary purpose of the song is to cause beings of evil great pain and force them to run away or to purify them, removing all hostile intent. The song of the 7 Mermaid Princesses together were able to even reach Mikeru and purify him.

So yeah the verse is pretty hard to fight, partialy because the speed is so low compared to power but also because the sheer degree of hax. Offensively it's mostly matter hax, mind hax, and some power manipulation/reality-warping. They also have sensory abilites on a planetary beyond spacetime scale, and duplication. 

In terms of weaknesses, a lot of the characters have individual weaknesses such as Mikeru being weak to disruption to the ruin for plot reasons or Lucia for being emotionally sensitive. However there's a really innocous ability that I think would be really strong in the verse if on a high enough level, that being: freezing.

The verse is very prone towards sealing strategies, even basic physical sealing strategies and of those especially freezing. When Gackto was kidnapping the mermaid princesses to gain their power, he froze them to keep them trapped. Almost no one in the verse can manipulate water in the form of ice and this nullifies the main direct form of offense. Freezing should work on all physical entities. Now granted the metaphysical entities can attack in dreams so optimally a character that does not sleep or at least can outlast them and hit them metaphysically should be able to do well.

Outside that, stamina and skill are still weak points. The Mermaid Princesses still need to sing to use their powers and the verse is lacking stamina and skill feats. It's also of note the strongest entities in the verse as of now; those being Lucia and Mikeru are both prone to being manipulated, Mikeru in particular not wanting to destroy things that are beautiful and good. This wouldn't be foolproof as Aqua Regina can see across spacetime, some of the mermaid princesses are not prone to being manipulated like Rina and Caren and the verse also has it's own manipulator Fuku. That said it would be fairly helpful in general.

So those are the big strategies; freezing/sealing, stamina, skill and manipulation. That brings me to my first counter

Unalaq the Dark Avatar from Legend of Korra

Unalaq with Vaatu's power was going to cover the Avatar world in darkness, wiping all life from it and reshaping it showing his power should be beyond that of a Mermaid Princess and likely be similar in power to the Panthalassa Princes. In speed he scales to Avatar-verse lightning timing feats showing he wouldn't be blitzed.

Unalaq is a very skilled water bender, which would give him skill greater then the verse, and it is very relevant that Avatar Water-Benders can transmute water freely between different states of being and still control it showing that he could trap any physical entity he can across in a frozen trap, stopping them.

As the Dark Avatar Unalaq has spirit bending which allows him to bend the energy or spirit itself suggesting he could attack on a metaphysical level and hit someone like Aqua Regina. And because the bonus chapter revealed the nature of Aqua Regina as a being of many incarnations, it's likely he would be able to destroy her past as he did to the Avatar, wiping out most of Aqua Regina's power. His darkness plan would likely destroy the ruins where Mikeru's weak point by accident. 

That said he could very easily get haxed or let his arrogance cost him. For an even stronger counter I would suggest

The Crystal Saint from Saint Seiya.

As a Silver Saint+ level entity, the Crystal Saint should scale to the nameless saint initiate who was gonna life-wipe the earth with his cosmo, would put him within the same power as the tier. He should also scale to double digit mach feats in early SS, and briefly rise to lightning timing speeds. 

As the master of Hyoga, Crystal Saint naturally specializes in icy cosmo moves and could freeze anyone in the verse. And I do many anyone, as cosmo's metaphysical properties has been shown to work on spiritual entities for even Bronze Saints and for stronger entities has worked on conceptual entities, as such there's no way Crystal Saint would not be able to freeze those he comes across. He also has the Sixth Sense which gives him a psychic sensing to not only compete with the verse's sensing but also know their weaknesses in general. 

The Crystal Saint is exceedingly noble and Mikeru would not want to kill him. Beyond that, Crystal Saint's cosmo should give him resistance to almost every hax in the verse, outside the strongest haxes of Mikeru who again would be hesistant to fight him or Aqua Regina's sealing.

The only real threats the verse would give him are if Aqua Regina instantly see the threat and attacks him immediatly, Mikeru acts ooc and instantly goes for kill, or the verse overwhelms him with humbers. For what I believe is the best counter to the verse, I would suggest

Mab from the Dresden Files.

Mab's full power not seen has been suggested to be able to cause a new ice again across the Earth and cause hideous things to happen to the planet. She also has control over one full hemisphere, suggesting she would be relative to the tier. While she is much slower it doesn't really matter.

Mab is an extremely powerful magic-user with a long list of abilities that her sheer versatility would likely give the win. Some of her most notable traits:

Mab passively controls winter law, all cold and her presence can cause such an intense cold. It is mentioned that in her dimension the laws of physics are mere suggestions, so it's not hard to imagine she could create a metaphysical cold that could freeze who could get near, which would be in character for her. Her dimensional manipulation is also strong enough that only Mikeru could attempt an offense against her. Either way she has a passive freezing aura that works metaphysically meaning almost no one could even get near her to try and do anything against her. 

Hopwever Mab as a fairy has such an intense glamor that Mikeru's love for beauty would cause him to be utterly mesmerized and she is a far better manipulator by feats then Fuku, even knowing secrets time has forgotten. It would be child's play for her to manipulate him and then attack his weak point killing the only real threat in the verse to her. 

Mab can summon her whole court, the winter court to aid her, which is millions and millions of fairies all of whom would likely have some level of freezing. She could launch an offense against the verse using it's big weakness remaining relatively un-attackable in her own dimension.

She also has her own regen and possession where she will always regen so long as death and destruction exist and can possess someone turning them into the new Mab overtime. This means that even if Mikeru acted ooc or the rest of the verse could lucky, she could simply return overtime with only Mikeru's power stealing being a permenant solution.

And she would know to do this as she has a planetary cosmic awareness better then even the ancient ones do. She also has a blanket magic resistance so strong that it would take the entire white council to defeat her that would mean the mermaids and aqua regina would have no capacity to affect her regardless. 

Overall Mab's overwhelming defenses and her extremely strong freezing, the weakness of the verse, along with her massive versaility means the verse would have almost no chance of beating her.

And that's how to be OP in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch