Bayonetta-verse Strategy Guide

How to be OP in Bayonetta-verse.

I should note this is relevant as of Bayonetta 2 and the information contained MAY chance in Bayonetta 3.

Local Scale Threat:

The Angelic Armies of Paradiso in Bayonetta are divided into three spheres, themselves divided into 3 ranks each to create 9 ranks. The Local Scale Threats would then by those Angels of The Third Sphere and any that are comparable to them in power, including their Demonic Equivalents.

In terms of power, the strength of the Third Spheres is a bit undefined. Even the 9th Rank Angels, Lowest of the Third Angel however should be at least stronger then humans (As Demon Hideous is stronger then any normal human and it's considered an equivalent of a 9th Rank Angel) like Luka who survived being telekinetically thrown several stone pillars, requiring wall level power. The 8th Rank Archangels include the type known as Fidelity which can survive the depths of the ocean. Depending on area this would likely require tanking at least building level durability. Above even these are the Principalities who should scale easily to these Angels. 

In terms of speed, any Angel can move so fast that the human world seems frozen in comparison, 9th Rank Angels being able to have a fight with Bayonetta while a car just hung frozen in air. Speeds of this magnitude are generally hypersonic to massively hypersonic as a lowball. the Principality Type Irenic was capable of moving a distance thousands of times the size of the "human world" in a day. Taking the conservative estimate of the human world as Earth, this would require speeds over Mach 866. As such the power speed limit is MHS Building Level.

It's a common misconception that the Angels and Demons in Bayonneta "can turn invisible and intangible". This is not technically correct. Angels and Demons in Bayonneta naturally exist in Purgatorio, the transient reality or dimension between the trinity of Heaven, Hell, and Earth. From purgatory they can affect Earth but are not affected in turn. What this means pragmatically is that a different set of tactics are needed to fight them. 

Common counters to invisibility such as enhanced hearing (or other senses), special forms of vision (heat vision/x-ray vision/etc.) wouldn't work on an Angel or Demon from Bayonetta, as it's not that they are there but invisible, it's that they aren't "there" in the first place. Likewise normal forms of anti-intangibility like soul steal or brainwashing or just general ability to affect non-physical entities wouldn't work since they simply they aren't there to be affected. 

On the other hand inter-dimensional movement or range/sensory abilities WOULD be very effective since they don't seem invisible or intangible in the context of Purgatorio, as in to anyone there. As such inter-dimensional capacity is really important. It's not made clear which Angels or Demons actually can enter the Human Realm (IE travel dimensions) as they generally have no reason too though at the very least it's clear VERY powerful Demons can do so as Rodin was capable of being seen by normal human Enzo. Interestingly it's the weaker Angels that are stated to exist closer to the human world then the stronger ones.

It should be noted that Angels and Demons can be seen in reflective surfaces like mirrors/magical eyewear or by enlightened individuals, most notably the description for Enrapture stated that an enlightened monk caught a glimpse of Enrapture.

In terms of special abilities, Angels wield a wide variety of middle age era styled weaponry including swords, hammers, bows, whips etc. Dear and Decorations, 9th Rank Angels can imbue people with love with their cupid like bows. Also while the Angels don't have "normal" intangibility, intangibility is not a very good strategy as the Ardor and Allegiance of the Principality rank are both noted as defenders against evil spirits and implied to be able to slay them. The Demon rank include more weapons like scythes and shotguns, the Demon Fury has a petrifying eye beam, and Demon Malicious is a noted manipulator.

So what weaknesses does this tier have? Well a general weakness I've noted is that the verse is a reliance on weapons, so a strategy for destroying or stealing weapons (like telekinesis) would likely be a effective strategy.

Well the relatively low tier Angels and Demons actually seem to be relatively simple-minded and are defeated by high skill/dexterity builds. In addition as also demonstrated often by Bayonetta spacetime and dimension haxes seem to work very well, using it to bolster agility and dodging. The tier lacks any "direct" powers; everything is melee, projectiles or beams (IE has to go through space to hit target) meaning spacing, including literal manipulation of the space between them and opponent breaks their strategies.

This leads to my first counter, from another Spectacle Fighter Game

Gullveig from God of War.

Gullveig seems to be the strongest of the Revenants. It's difficult to get a scale for her stats as Kratos spends much of God of War 4 holding back his power, as showcased in the side material when Kratos lets a pack of wolves bite at him for hours, holding them off without killing a single one to set a good example for Atreus. However as a speed based enemy, Gullveig likely scales to be at least comparable to Harpies from the Greek World who are so relatively weak that normal humans can react to them. The Harpies themselves are fast enough to fly from the Underworld much of the way up Olympus in seconds (with Olympus being the size of a planetoid) as well as fly from the depths of Hades to deliver the Blades of Chaos to Ares when he made his deal with Kratos. This is consistent with her being relatively fast for the Norse World, which have enemies with lightning based attacks.

Gullveig as a Revenant has the ability to tear holes in reality, using this to teleport and avoid attacks. This could potentially BFR a Third Sphere Angel or Similar Demon and more importantly could use their own game against them by making her basically immune to the game. She also uses powerful poison, which the Tier does not have resistance too. She can also summon nightmares, little demons that can shoot fire, ice for freezing or MORE poison. Unless she gets swarmed, it's hard to imagine her losing to anyone on this tier.

However raw numbers might be a problem, especially given how plentiful the Local Tier is. For a character who can take on a larger number I would suggest

Haku from Naruto.

Haku's power was enough that he was considered a rival to Sasuke early on who in his Chapter 7 fight with Kakashi created a fire large enough that it was on the lower end of city block level. As Haku was considered rivaling him, that means his power would have had to be at least in the large building range. Haku was also go across an entire battlefield and stop Kakashi from hurting Zabuza, and Kakashi is fast enough to slice lightning in half giving him MHS speeds. It should be noted that Haku can technically travel from one ice mirror to another ice mirror at the speed of light, however this is not really his speed so much as it is a special technique that allows him to go from place to place at faster then his normal speed, similar to how other characters might use teleportation or "rocket jump".

Haku is a skilled and dexterous fighter, and moreover has good versatility via his elemental manipulation. Haku in particular is skilled in ice manipulation and his famous ice mirrors tricks which would allow him to see the Angels and Demons in their reflected surfaces and even hypothetically attack them. It's unknown if he could use pressure point combat on the local tier threats, as they likely do not have human pressure points however his raw power should be enough to hurt them.

The bigger problem for this is his sheer defensive ability which they would have almost no ability to get through. Not only is his base durability near the end of what would be allowed here, but he can create an even more durable dome to protect him in using his ice mirrors, he can avoid their attacks really easily using stealth, mirror-to-mirror movement, general dodging, etc. But he's also an Edo Tensei meaning that unless he is sealed or his soul is destroyed he can continually regenerate over and over. While it's unknown what the Stamina for the Angels and Demons are, being an Edo Tensei also gives unlimited chakra, and thus stamina.

However you could argue that Haku might have trouble hitting people in Limbo, and if he was hit out in the open a number of principalities might be able to destroy his body and attack his spirit. While this would be difficult, there's one more character whose power would actually be stronger due to the number of enemy forces.

Yami Bakura from Yu-Gi-Oh!

In terms of power, Yami Bakura likely scales to the power of the High Priest of Darkness, as the High Priest was just given power by Zorc, while Yami Bakura is the human manifestation of Zorc. Meaning without his summons Bakura likely scales to High Priest of Darkness' dark lightning which destroyed a large portion of the ground, likely building level, which is consistent as Yami Yugi survived this lightning. Yami Bakura also scales to the Labyrinth Duel Duelists who reacted to electricity traveling through water, giving him MHS reactions.

There are a LOT of low levels Demons in Bayonetta, it's emphasized that the lower tier ones are numerous and roam in packs. There are some Second Sphere angels whose sole purpose is just to transport all the Third Sphere Angels. Bakura has the ability to sense and absorb evil energy, including the demonic power of the Demons to get MASSIVELY more powerful.

And this is only the START of his abilities. Bakura has inter-dimensional capacities as the final game of darkness was Yugi and Bakura using an entire dimension as a game, with them observing the dimension from without it. Bakura also has general clairvoyance with his millennium item meaning he could perceive distant events as well as precognition since the Millennium Ring told Aknadin of the future.

The Millennium Items also have the ability to block dark magic, which possibly would be able to protect demons. Beyond that it gives telekinesis, which he used to keep Yami Marik in place and telekinteically throw Aknadin, suggesting he could rip his enemies weapons away. 

Bakura also has soul manipulation, mind manipulation and sealing via the games of darkness as well as the Ring's primarily ability; the ability to divide the soul and seal it within anything else. These are things the Local Threats have no resistance too, and would not just be a one-shot but would actually bolster his own power by taking control of them.

Bakura is also a clever manipulator, more so then anyone on this tier where the best manipulator is Demon Malicious where Bakura has a lot better feats.

This is not including his summons, since obviously those are a lot stronger then him, and he did not initially have Diabound or obviously duel monster cards since this was Ancient Egypt.

City Scale Threat:

Here we find the Angels of the Second Sphere and their Demonic Equivalents. This is arguably the single largest power jump in the series outside of the final one as the other power jumps are billions of times stronger while this one is trillions of times stronger. 

The Angelic Ranks here include 7th Rank Powers, 6th Rank Virtues, and 5th Rank Dominions. A 7th Rank is strong enough to fodderize Third Spheres and the Urbane, which is a 6th rank, mid tier of the Second Sphere Angels can reduce an entire civilization to ash with a single swipe of it's arm. In terms of speed, they mostly just scale to Third Spheres, however 5th Rank Dominion Fearless controls nearly all lightning in the world, including the return stroke moving about 1/3rd the speed of light. As such it's likely the top tiers of this tier have relativistic reactions and attack speed.

At this scale, most fighters use elemental powers and attacks rather then magical weapons and so anti-weapon tactics and telekinesis are not as useful. Outside of that there isn't much more notable abilities outside of the characters becoming more spiritual and likely requiring some form of anti-intangibility as well as inter-dimensional capacity as well as Demon Sloth having mind manipulation.

So my first counter is someone who I think would be basically untouchable and unbeatable to this tier, though you could maybe argue it's against the rules, that being 

Pariah Dark from Danny Phantom.

Pariah even in his base form is a god tier for the verse, and he has two items the Ring of Rage and the Crown of Fire. Even in his base state he's stronger then his servant the Fright Knight who was able to create a planetary scale storm, requiring country level energy, as well as another powerful ghost Vortex who performed the same feat. This is consistent with island level feats from weaker ghosts such as how ghosts create their own lairs with their energy and Skulker's lair is a whole island, or how Spectra survived a weapon that could atomize a ghost. He's also faster then the ghost rays used by Technus in season 2 which moved at relativistic speeds. In other words while he's not technically not above the relativistic country level limit, he pragmatically is due to simply how much higher then baseline he is. He would be able to tank basically any strike from this tier and blitz any of the fighters.

However even ignoring that, his abilities are absolutely broken in this tier. Danny Phantom ghosts have full invisibility/anti-invisibility and intangibility/anti-intangibility interactions, more consistent then basically anyone in this tier. He also has insane dimension hax, as he was able to send a city and it's surrounding area into another dimension, and even more insane passively maintained it, keeping the city there every second as when he started to falter, the city briefly blinked back into the normal reality. This means that Pariah could not only send the verse's defenders to the ghost zone at will as a dimensional BFR, he can also passively keep them there, even if they tried to return.

Pariah also has a massive versatility advantage. Much weaker ghosts have shown regeneration, telekinesis, various form of energy projection, and other abilities that are not specific to that ghost suggesting that Pariah would also be able to do them. With both the ring and the crown Pariah was seen as basically undefeatable including by Ember McClain who has a lot stronger mindhax feats then Demon Sloth, meaning Sloth's power is highly unlikely to work against Pariah.

For a character who would also be op without a massive power advantage I would suggest

Tart (Second Version) from Puella Magi Madoka Magicka

Tart in her second form in terms of power was able to battle against even Isabeau, a Witch powerful enough to cover all of France with her barrier and threatened to send all of Europe back into the Dark Ages. In terms of speed a lot of people try to say that the Puella Magi are all over Mach 619 due to Homura massively outspeeding a bullet however this is unlikely this high as this was during a Time Stop when caused the bullets of Mami and Homura's fight earlier to rapidly slow to a complete stop. A better feat to scale from is Momoko's feat of jumping into space in seconds. Tart's speed should be at least somewhat comparable to this, which would give her MHS speed.

Tart like all magical girls has the ability to enter portals, which they generally use the ability to enter a witch's barrier. She has an advantage in versatility due to her light/dark manipulation, her telekinesis, portal creation, the fact that she can sense magic and imbue objects with magic etc.

Most notably is Tart's incredible skill, enough that she can fight beings with vastly more experience then her, and is a highly dexterous fighter, something the Angels/Demons have shown notable trouble fighting against versus Bayonetta. She also has a massive regen factor, so long as her soul gem remains intact she is functionally unkillable. This means the Angels and Demons would be fighting against a tiny swordswoman that doesn't at all seem threatening at first, who can sense their magic, can skillfully dodge their attacks and slice through them with her holy sword, can portal around, etc. and who even if they do hit her, she can just regenerate unless they hit her soul gem, something they have no way of even guessing to do.

Also a lesser known ability of hers, Tart actually also possesses time manipulation, as it's suggesting her despair can effect events in far distant times, hundreds of years removed even. 

For a character that would be even more hax against the verse I would suggest

Reinforce, formerly the Tome of the Night Sky, from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.

In Terms of Power, Reinforce was massively stronger then Chrono even back in As, as it was stated the TSAB could not stop the Tome of the Night Sky's power, and Chrono created a country level freezing effect. Her speed is also over Mach 1000 as she was able to intercept As Fate in her sonic form who could move fast enough that beings with mach 1000 reactions thought Fate was a teleporter because they couldn't even view her moment. As such Reinforce should easily be in the same power range as this tier.

Reinforce has the ability to see invisible entities and affect intangible entities uniquely for the Nanoha-verse as Reinforce was able to speak to and interact with beings made of pure data like the Wolkenritter and Hayate after she had absorbed them.

Reinforce also possess the many abilities generally possessed by high tier mages of the Nanoha verse, including magical barriers, inter-dimensional sealing and homing attacks, dimension manipulation, inter-dimensional scanning, psychic abilities and so on. Reinforce would be able to easily perceive the Angels and Demons in Limbo and seal them from far outside their perception, akin to an artillery with satellite  and drone information fighting basically a middle ages/renaissance army.... if that Artillery's attacks were also homing attacks that could seal them away in dimensions and was inside an advanced underground bunker.

Reinforce also possess many other abilities including elemental manipulation, memory manipulation, illusions, soul manipulation and so that gives her many other abilities to mess with her opponents or one-shot them. She also has a low-godly regen factor as she can return from pure data, which makes him extremely difficult for the verse to deal with even if she did nothing. 

Reinforce also possesses the most famous ability of the Tome of the Night Sky, the ability to create dimensional disturbances, shockwaves that transcend dimensions that can hit the Angels/Demons far outside their perfection just as a side-effect of her power, that would cut or crush parts of them with force. 

Planet Scale Threat:

The Highest Ranking of Angels are the First Sphere Angels, Third Rank Thrones, Second Rank Cherubim and First Rank Seraphim. Transcending even these are the Cardinal Virtues, projections of the will of Jubileus who are able to challenge a "rusty" memory-less Bayonetta. The Thrones Rank Inspired, Cherubim Rank Valiance and Seraphim Rank Joy are all noted as wholly spiritual entities showing that First Sphere beings transcend physical existence completely. These do have demonic equivalents. In terms of power this tier has Resplendence, a Thrones rank Angel who is noted as being capable of turning night to day just be peeking over the horizon as well overturning the laws of nature, as well as Gracious and Glorious the Seraphim Ranked Angels who have such power that a mere taste is said to be able to destroy the world. In terms of speed, characters at this tier can keep up with an early Bayonetta who can dodge lightspeed attacks casually at close range, and are much stronger then Second Sphere Fearless who create nearly all natural lightning. This would suggest the tier would be in the FTL range. 

The Demons have equivalent beings to the First Sphere Angels, this ranking often making pacts with mortals, most notably the Umbra Witches whom they give their power too. Bayonetta used these demons as finishing blows against the Virtues showing their comparable power.  It is likely that most Umbra Witches and Lumen Sages are at this tier as well, as Jeanne before the timeskip was comparable of fighting evenly with Bayonetta and so they should likely scale to a memory-less rusty Bayonetta partially just playing around. 

In terms of notable abilities this tier possesses fully spiritual beings, in fact a good portion of the characters at this tier are spiritual plane beings. Resplendence is noted for it's ability to overturn the laws of nature which potentially suggest it has some form of reality-warping. The Demons possess soul manipulation and power granting/absorption. Alraune is also in particular noted for her poision and ability to induce insanity and the demon Resentment is known to change the ages of it's enemies. 

Umbra Witches and Lumen Sages, Watches of the Darkness and Light also grants more dangerous abilities including the dangerous time stop techniques witch time/light speed respectively. The degree of time slow is absolutely insane. This provides a major problem for countering in that anyone who is under the speed limit for the tier can get absolutely godly speedblitzed by being slowed down to a crawl. My first counter is designed to counter that just by sensory abilities and immediate direct kill before the threat is realized. That counter being

Mewtwo from Pokemon.

In terms of Power, Mewtwo contributed 1/3rd the energy to overpower the Tree of Life which provided the spin and rotation of the Earth around the Earth requiring over 11.66 times the Energy to destroy the Earth, putting Mewtwo as roughly comparable to the Tier. Mewtwo is also fast enough to blitz legendary Pokemon who themselves are much faster then Pokemon capable of reacting to and moving comparable to beams of solar light.

Mewtwo has a vast supergenius intellect capable of creating cloning machines and out-thinking supergenius Pokemon. He also has precognitive future sensing and via trap see can see the invisible, as well as just sense minds. He has previously connected his mind to every mind in the planet, which would be extremely dangerous combined with his ability to wipe memories or brainwash others.

He can most likely attack the spiritual entities as he can clearly affect ghost type pokemon who are intangible spirits. 

Mewtwo has a massive versatility advantage due to his absolutely massive powerset, though his most important ability is his vast sensory and intelligence abilities combined with his ability to immediately stop any resistance by insta-mindwiping, keeping any of his opponents from using witch time or light speed to blitz him.

Even if they do manage to detect the threat, it effectively becomes a quick-draw situation against any of them with Mewtwo having far greater effective range as well as ability to mind-read and see the future and sense the threat. Mewtwo also has cloning, even without machine assistance, as he did to Satoshi's Pokemon in Puzzle League.

Even if Mewtwo was blitzed and killed, he has his trump ability to resurrect himself as he did when he was first being created, resurrecting himself psychically after being terminated by the scientists who created him. 

The only disadvantage he would really have is his weakness to dark types which would likely work against him in a battle against the Demons and Umbra Witches. For a character who absolutely would NOT be at a disadvantage against them I would suggest

Wedding Peach from Wedding Peach.

Wedding Peach's power was enough to reach all the way from the human world to Angel World even mid-way through the series. Her love wave was compared to Aphrodite's whose power created a forcefield surrounding Angel World for many years. She bears one of the Sacred 4, whose power transmuted an area of 3 planets into love energy. In terms of speed, she scales to her own love wave which could travel between planets in seconds.

Wedding Peach would be absolutely insanely broken against the demons. Wedding Peach's love waves are a holy light that neutralize dark magic, dark energies, all malice, all attacks of hatred and anger etc. Her Purification Hax would turn any demon pretty much instantly into their angelic equivalent. If she fought for Jubileus she could single-handedly win the war for her.

And it's not like they could do much to her, her love waves neutralize attacks of malice and hatred, as well as dark energies. She can reflect attacks as well as sensing dark energies and attacks incoming, meaning she would easily see them coming.

Wedding Peach can also break through dimensions with just her attacks, and every single attack of hers can hit spirits of hatred (The Demons) showing she can hit on the spiritual plane. Even against the Angels much of her powers would still be effective as the Angels of Bayonetta use attacks of hatred against the demons, which Momoko could neutralize or reflect.

However there's a character I think would do even better, turning the verse's own nature against it. That counter would be

Debonair from Magic Knight Rayearth.

The Dark Pillar, Debonair scales to the Light Pillar Emeraude whose prayers maintained the world of Cephiro, including a giant barrier protecting the entire planet from inter-planetary invasion. In terms of speed, she easily scales to those ships the other worlds used to invade Cephiro, which can travel inter-planetary distance quickly likely requiring FTL speeds. This is consistent with just a single monster summoned by Emeraude's despair being a living ray of light. 

Debonair has reality-warping capacities, such that she even made Nova out of Hikaru's rejected side. As a being of Cephiro, she can use her will to shape reality to her will. Zagato with his will was able to create a spiritual entity and so it shows that Debonair should be able to affect spiritual entities. She should also be resistant to the verse's time manipulation as Season 1 Umi could act normally in a complete time stop.

Debonair would be resistance to the verse's best hax, and likely able to resist most of the rest via her Will, and she can destroy them with raw power of by reality-warping them.

However her true advantange comes from taking advantage of the verse's nature. The Human World in Bayonetta is formed of the chaos of light and dark. Debonair is the Darkness in the hearts of all people. As all of the Human World is comprised of light and dark this means Debonair could not be killed unless all of Earth was destroyed. Relatively immortal, Debonair could tear through the verse's fighters.

Stellar to Universal Scale Threat:

At this scale are the Eyes of the World, supreme weapons created by the God of Chaos Aesir, the treasures of the Lumen Sages and the Umbra Witches, as well as those who scale to them. At this level are those who can fight and defeat the sealed form of the God Tiers.

In terms of power, this tier dwarfs the prior tiers, as Alraune believed with Jeanne's power, she could rule the entire Inferno. The power of this tier is likely in the stellar level as Single Eye Jubileus can tank being punched into any planet in the solar system to violently explode the planet, including Jupiter, causing stellar energy, and a greater degree of FTL as they can traverse the solar system much faster. 

This verse has many of the abilities of the prior as well as atomic scale matter destruction, more soul manipulation, attack reflection, duplication etc. as well as resistance to many common haxes. 

In terms of weaknesses, similar to the first scale, the tier seems to rely on weapons and so breaking or otherwise disarming them would seem to work. It's unclear EXACTLY how strong they are without weapons, though at the very least it is weaker then their actual weapons. 

In addition, the Umbra Witches Bayonetta and Jeanne are bound to their demon contractors Madama Butterfly and Madama Styx and should they not kill angels for them regularly their souls will be forfeit. This means a time manipulator that can progress them in time can relinquish their souls. This is not a very practical method however as their own time manipulation is very potent, and it doesn't work on everyone on this tier (it would not work on Father Baldr, Rodin, Loki...)

What does seem constant for this tier is a lack of range. Most of the fighters of this tier have a much lower range compared to their tier. Bayonetta for instance with her weapons only has attack range in the hundreds of meter range. Therefore it seems like a very effective strategy could be a sniper strategy attacking from far outside their attack range. My first counter would mostly rely on this, that being

Dark King from Pretty Cure.

Dark King's big advantage here is sheer range. Dark King is capable of casually destroying a star and nearby planets from an inter-stellar and inter-dimensional range. It's perfectly possible for him to just nuke a part of Purgatorio from the Dark Zone before anyone knows what's happening.

Even if they are aware of him, he is not defenseless. Parts of his power, The Dark Seeds traveled inter-planetary distance quickly, showing FTL speed. Dark King should absolutely scale, especially after re-absorbing them.

Dark King's power of darkness caused space and time to begin to break with his presence, distorting spacetime and causing massive cracks in spacetime to appear and bfr enemies. This could be a potential counter to Witch Time or Light Speed simply by distorting chaotically the time being slowed down.

And if they do get close to him, unless they stay at the hundreds of meters range, Dark King can simply absorb them into his being as he did to the Dark Seeds. Their strength is only comparable to his, so it's unlikely they would be able to resist this. 

For an enemy to actually get in close with them I would suggest

Super Buu from Dragon Ball. 

Super Buu casually scales well past Super Perfect Cell who famously declared himself having the power to destroy the Solar System. He is also many many many times faster then Raditz who casually dodged Piccolo's attack which was faster then his attack which reached the moon at nearly the speed of light. As such his power should be above normal for the verse while his speed would be about normal.

Super Buu at first glance seems like he would just get blitzed by time manipulation and destroyed with atomic scale or soul manipulation abilities. However it should be noted his regeneration ability, which would require either soul destruction or atomic scale attack would not be immediately known and that getting close to him would be extremely dangerous as anyone close to him he could simply absorb, and gain their abilities. Or just transmute them into candy. 

Super Buu also has a range advantage similar to Dark King for a distance fight, able to destroy on a solar system scale and can teleport across dimensions casually. The only difficulty would be intangible enemies but it's fairly likely he could simply absorb someone who would be able to harm intangible opponents.

It should be noted that if Super Buu was fighting tactically, he could also split into numerous Buu and just focus on spreading and absorbing before the verse can percieve the threat, and even if one dies the others would still be able to threaten the verse. 

It should also be noted that everything in the verse that can threaten him is a weapon of some sort. Buu by scaling has insane telekinesis, far more powerful then either Saiyan Saga Piccolo who lifted a pyramid with telekinesis or Freeza on Namek who lifted a mountain with telekinesis. It would hypothetically be child's play to telekinetically grab them from a distance or crush them. 

However if the verse is aware of him, they could hypothetically blitz him and kill him with a soul or atomic scale attack before he can do anything. For what I think is the best counter, a counter that would just absolutely not be fair, I would suggest

Death Phantom from Sailor Moon. 

A Living Black Hole, Death Phantom is the max power for what is allowed against the verse, given his ability to casually threaten stellar level entities nearby and ability to absorb the star system at will. His normal speed is only relative to the verse, but his reaction speed, capable of reacting to the light of the silver crystal which can cross the whole universe a single second, quintillions of times the speed of light, means everyone, even Witch Time and Light Speeds users would move at a snail's pace to him. 

Death Phantom absorbs all matter-energy and erases existence up to planetary scale passively. That alone would be make him impossible to beat for the tier as none of them would be able to get even remotely close to him to even attack him and any attacks thrown at him would simply be absorbed. 

But it gets so much worse. Death Phantom is a supergenius manipulator who can see all of spacetime and can create illustory copies of the verse as well as Avatars like Wiseman. He could manipulate the verse to simply give him the Eyes of the World. 

Death Phantom has planetary+ level mindwashing and mental resistance suggesting he would simply brainwash anyone he found remotely troublesome or dangerous. 

Oh and he can also affect spiritual things like King Endymion's spiritual projection as though they were made of matter. 

Multiversal Scale Threat:

At the apex of the verse are the Overseers of Reality. Overseer of Heaven, Creator Jubileus. Overseer of Hell, Queen Sheba. Overseer of the Human Realm, God of Chaos Aesir, creator of the eyes of the world.

These three are implied to be relative to each other, and thus the greatest being is the paradoxical being born of Paradiso and Inferno, Omne, fusion of the power of light and darkness. 

These beings at their full power are all at universal levels of power, based on Jubilieus being able to create a new reality by fusing the trinity of realms.

In terms of new abilities, Aesir adds new time manipulation abilities, as well as the ability to possess someone with just his spirit.

In terms of weaknesses, this tier is notably weak to having their power sealed, as happened when Jubilieus was resurrected but lost one of the Eyes of the World (One-Eyed Jubilieus) and or as happened when Aesir when the eyes were destroyed.

As such generally a good counter is a universal ftl being who possesses notably sealing abilities, as well as the ability to resist possession or in some way stop powerful spiritual beings. Also it would be helpful to destroy the immortal and non-physical, beings capable of resist the powers granted by various spacetime abilities the Overseers of Reality scale too.

My first counter I can say has basically exactly this and that would be 

Ashura-o from RG Veda/Clamp.

Ashura-o is a sealed god of war and destruction. Scaling from his child Ashura, Ashura-o should have the power to destroy "Heaven, Earth, and Hell" from RG Veda and RG Veda's Heaven supposedly contains endless land showing he should be at least universal level. As a God of the Clamp multiverse, Ashura-o should be faster then Larg who could send 100,000,000 texts in a second, a speed feat likely requiring speeds over 5 times the speed of light. While he might be at a bit of a speed disadvantage, Ashura-O has the general advantage.

He seems to be a powerful magic-users as one of his manifestation. Fai D Flowright was a universe tier magician, yet he was confirmed as comparable or weaker to Ashura-o suggesting that Ashura-o should scale to his level of magic resistance and spacetime resistance.

However even more notable was his ability to seal power. Ashura-O was able to seal Ashura's power as a god of war and destruction, vastly limiting his level of power and his true nature. This seal should likely be effective against any of the Overseers of Reality. 

However Ashura-o could be overwhelmed by fighting multiple of the Overseers of Reality if he is not given time to perform a seal. For a harder to stop counter I would suggest

The Narrator from the Stanley Parable.

The Narrator might be massively slower but they have no way of detecting him normally and if he wants to or is serious he could reality-warp and beat any member of the Overseers of Reality. 

The Narrator exists outside conventional spacetime, as he has knowledge of other timelines, and he is at least a universal entity as he can load and have complete control over copies of the Minecraft or Half-Life/Portal Universe. His reality warping in general is far more versatile then the Overseers's abilities given his plot manipulation.

He could just forcefully seal them away or say "the eyes of the world spontaneously exploded" and they would have no real counter to this. 

That's even ignoring his other methods of one-shot abilities such as existence erasure (which the Narrator did to all of Stanely's co-workers), inducing death and madness, or restructuring how the Overseers powers work. 

Of course he IS rather arrogant, and if he was perceived, he could theoretically be stopped. There are spiritual plane attacks which should hypothetically work on him. For a character who can go toe to toe with the overseers in a more conventional way I would suggest

Ultimecia from Final Fantasy.

Ultimecia is a casually universal being, being able to compress all of spacetime into her being and can move comparable to her own magic which can cover an AU rapidly, suggesting she would be comparable in raw power and speed to the Overseers of Reality.

Ultimecia is fairly comparable in most aspects to the Overseers, just a lot more versatile, being a highly skilled magic-user with many forms of element manipulation or energy-matter manipulation. 

Given her absorption, it's possible Ultimecia could absorb the Overseers into her being. Beyond that she has notable sealing abilities as she seals away the parties abilities immediatly after noticing them in her castle.

In a fight between Ultimecia and the Overseers of Reality, Ultimecia would fight them normally at first but absorb them when they got too close or seal away their abilities. She also has universe scale time manipulation, which is stronger then any time manipulation seen in Bayonetta

Beyond that Ultimecia has many more options. She can time travel more casually then Aesir via usage of the portal created by Time Compression and can mind warp well enough to simply rip thoughts out of the minds of others. She has other forms of mind hax like inducing insanity, or sending people to sleep thought how well those would work is questionable.

Ultimecia also has a possession ability like Aesir, though she can likely just do it when she wants without having to be reduced to a spirit. She also has the ability to hit intangible things so she could just hit spirit Aesir. 

Ultimecia overall is basically just like the Overseers but far more versatile with a larger variety of haxes that would suggest she can react to her opponents moves a lot better then they would be able to do the inverse. 

And that's how to be OP in the Bayonetta-verse

Favorite 10 Animaniacs Episode Sketches

...Time for something completely different to most of the stuff on here. I just completing watching Animaniacs with my online friend ThorGunderson1058 and given his love for the series I thought I'd commemorate this occasion with a list of my top 10 episode sketches done in the series.  This was REALLY hard, I went through the list and picked ones I thought were contenders and had 28 so just know there was a lot of good options to choose from. I think you'll probably notice my tastes tend towards the romantic, sentimental stuff over the strictly comedic. Regardless I hope you enjoy.

10: When Rita met Runt (7B)
Animaniacs seems to like dualities represented by their characters. The Elder Slappy and the Younger Skippy (you could say it's generation gap-y), The fearless carefree Mindy and the anxious beleaguered Buttons, The genius Brain and the insane Pinky and so forth. However the duality most resonated with me with this duality, and this episode sets them up beautifully.

Rita is a cynical misanthropic cat and Runt is a naive trusting dog. There's something classical beautiful in the notion that they become friends initially because they were placed in animal shelter cages next to each other; able to talk to each other but unable to see each other and their corresponding species that are supposed to be at conflict. The episode sets up Rita's history and pain of dealing with humans who rejected her as she grew from being a cute kitten to just a cat. In that sense, Runt could be seen as her own hope which she mentally separates from, but remains protective of.

9: Katie-Ka Boom: Call Waiting (63C)
People have told me that I take things too seriously. And.....yeah they're probably right. Right or not, I have a long history of insisting that things are very important and should be treated seriously. Despite my lack of an explosive anger, I found the Katie-Ka Boom segments to be very relatable as well as very funny. I have mentioned before that I find humor about a character acting more casual then expected to be un-funny but humor about a character acting more dramatic then expected to be funny and yeah this is VERY much a case of the latter humor.

This episode in particular however I found particularly not just funny but relatable. I've had cases where parental obligations meant having to cancel plans with friends and the like, I'm sure most of us have. Not quite the same but it's similar enough, and I certainly thought that socially it would be the death of our relationship. Obviously it didn't and I was overreacting, so I can relate to the experience of the titular character.

8: Alas Poor Skullhead (39B)
Animaniacs takes place in a universe where cartoon characters subsist on laughter and humor the way we humans subsist on food and water. The Warners translate part of Hamlet's speech to Yorick's skull in a way that's surprisingly....cogent within the metaphysics of their universe.

"Alas, Poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy:  He hath bore me on his back a thousand times; And now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment that were bound to set the table on a roar?"  Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing."

The famed Alas Poor Yorick speech is a speech about Hamlet's depressed state upon seeing the decay of humanity, the transition from a state of joy and merriment to inevitable death. Not something that translates to a children's cartoon....and yet the way it is translated it strangely fitting given their focus on humor and laughter as life. Particularly when Dot translates "where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment that were bound to set the table on a roar?" as "How come you're not funny now?" Which is a simplified translation yes, but also a reflection on how these cartoon characters would understand death, a cessation of laughter. Given Dot's sad expression saying this, in contrast to most of the sketch it can also be taken as how the Cartoon Beings understand dead members of their own kind; with confusion that they are "not funny now", that thinking of them makes them sad instead of laugh. It's not really expanded upon but it's a rather intriguing concept and a translation that works surprisingly well in the context of the series. 

7: A Very Very Very Very Special Episode (86A)

In-universe the concept of this episode is the Warners are trying to get a humanitarian cartoon award and so stuff their cartoon episode absolutely full of positive wholesome messages. Now I'm one of those old-fashioned people that completely 100% not only buy those positive wholesome messages (well mostly....they were saying that men finding a woman in a biking to be hot as "looking at women as objects" and Dot going to use violence as wrong since "violence didn't solve anything" but for the most part) but enjoy them being relayed to me. 

So in both a straightforward and ironic sense I enjoyed the episode. Technically the messages they are teaching are "supposed" to be not entertaining because they're clearly just preachy messages put it to get an award but not only do I not mind that, I was agreeing with it. And they do a really good job of stuffing them all in so (purposefully) unnaturally that it was also really funny in the way they intended. So yeah, the episode was entertaining me on the direct level they meant but also indirectly in the sense that I actually enjoy episodes teaching the messages they were parodying teaching.

6: Puttin' on the Blitz (31B)

Honestly I wish this episode was a full length episode. In the time it had, it had one of the most emotional moments in the series for me and showed immense thematic possibility. This episode has Rita and Runt in Poland during the Second World War during the German Invasion. The two reunite the little girl Katrina with her father as they escape the country and the hands of the Nazi.

Rita and Runt are opposed in their trust of others. If there was any historical events that would break one's truth in others, it would be the world wars. The episode indeed revolves around the worthwhile-ness of trusting of each other, which makes the climax all the more relevant. After Runt sacrifices his own chance at happiness to protect Rita, Katrina, and Katrina's father, Rita having just seen two examples of people failing to abandon their loved ones even at great personal expense (Katrina's father not abandoning her, and Runt not abandoning them) does the same and gives up her own chance of happiness to accompany Runt. 

5: Wild Blue Yonder (46B)

This episode is about a newly hatched bird who hatched while his mother was away, and so does not know who his mother is and eventually thinks a stealth fighter is his mother, on account of them both flying.

For a series usually not hugely pathos-based, there's a surprisingly......disturbing scene where the bird sees the fighter drop a large amount of missiles on an enemy base and assumes that they are his egg siblings, and attempts to save them, only to get almost blown up for his efforts. It is very sad however the ending is very sweet. After being reunited with his actual mother, his two actual siblings hatch and he prevents them from making the same mistake they did. It's a very sweet and emotional episode, touching on themes I like.

4: No Time for Love (89B)

This is a short episode about a cuckoo clock bird that falls in love with a real cuckoo bird. The cuckoo clock bird attempts to woo her but can only come out on the hour for seconds at a time. 

I love that this episode can be seen as a comedic romantic story with unusual characters, an interesting little fantasy story about a living cuckoo clock bird, and a metaphor for how our desires draw us together but extenuating circumstances (time/fate/inevitability) draw us apart. The ending is also really perfect for the story where the cuckoo bird goes inside the cuckoo clock, which if we're following the metaphor is in this case accepting and living within someone's limitations to be with them, which is part of the compromise of any relationship.

3: Baghdad Cafe (35E)

My first impression of this episode was different then my current opinion. It was humorous seeing Slappy replace Dot, and the confusion and awkwardness that causes. Going just off my first impression it would still have been one of the 28 I would have considered for this list but I don't know if it would have been in the top 10, let alone this high. However I then had the significance of this episode explained and it really made me appreciate it more. 

Slappy is an Elder Squirrel and represents the old way of the cartoons, using antiquated cartoon conventions and techniques as opposed to most of her cartoon contemporaries. The episode has her being pressured to do things the way Dot, and symbolically, most modern cartoons would but instead she ends up going off the rails and doing it the way she would have. The symbolic significance of this is a neo-classical statement, a reconstructionist statement in favor of the old ways. I really love the neo-classical philosophy, aesthetic and general temperament and so I have a massive fondness for this episode doing that, even if its part of an artistic tradition I am ignorant in. 

2: One Flew over the Cuckoo Clock (83)

This episode begins with the Elder Cartoon Squirrel Slappy going insane from her tv and losing track of reality. Her young nephew Skippy tries to put on a brave face and take care of her without letting anyone know what's going on. Eventually the authorities take Slappy away but Skippy still tries to bring her back to reality, visiting her everyday. Already the episode was so sweet, seeing the familial devotion that strong. Slappy didn't recognize her nephew but she is shown looking out the window shedding a single tear after he tells he'll "love you forever, Aunt Slappy".

Slappy is taken away and despite all his efforts, he can not keep going to see Slappy. Internally some of the other patients doubted Skippy's loyalty saying he would stop coming of his own accord. However despite her temporary insanity, despite the others trying to destroy her hope, Slappy notices Skippy not coming everyday, and the sheer realization that her nephew needs her is enough to bring her back to reality.

The episode is a really beautiful episode about the familial bonds of devotion that remain constant across time, that defy even madness. 

1: Smitten with Kittens (39A)

This episode features prominently three cute kittens so automatically it's 10/10 perfect episode :P beyond that though this episode prominently features maternal themes that really really got to me. Rita insists she doesn't want to look after the kittens or be anyone's mama citing first all the things being a mama requires, all the many things that she wouldn't want before adding in her song right after sadly "on the other hand, oh my mama, I love you mama, I'll never leave you mama..." which was just heart breaking coming from her. 

Despite her attachment to them, Rita in the end doesn't take them with her, but allows them to be taken to a better home then she could provide, simultaneously proving that she was completely wrong that she would not be a good mama by demonstrating the single most important quality of a good mama; putting their needs above your own. The episode really crushed my heart, it was amazingly emotional.

Yu Yu Hakusho-verse Strategy Guide

How to be OP in Yu Yu Hakusho

Local Scale Threat:

The characters in Yu Yu Hakusho, whether human, spirit or demon or some intermediary are designed in power by Spirit World in terms of Spirit Classes (S>A>B>C>D>E), each massively stronger then the prior spirit class.  

Local Scale Threats include the bottom two tiers. E Class beings include average inhabitants of the Human World and Spirit World, with some upper E tier beings include spiritually aware humans. E Class Demons are barely stronger then humans but are far more violent and uncontrolled. Due to how weak they are, E Class Demons are extremely rare as they would usually just be killed immediately by another demon. 

D Class Beings are superhuman beings, with even weaker ones able to easily tear through trees. Stronger ones like Saint Beasts Arc Kuwabara are able to act at speeds just exceeding the speed of sound. The weaker of the Saint Beasts, Genbu is at the top of this tier. Genbu is a Large Demon composed of rock. Genbu was nearly as strong as the very low C Class Byakko, the Tiger Demon, who could withstand being dipped in lava, and whose mere roar was capable of pulverzing enough stone that it would require energy over 1.3 tons of tnt. 

As such the power and speed limits are set at supersonic and building level.

Most beings of the verse are naturally invisible and intangible to non-spirits or spiritually aware beings which makes the very a bit tricky to fight. The invisibility itself is not a insurmountable challenge. Genbu himself was detectable by scent, usage of super senses or attacks with large area of effect should be able to counter the invisibility. The intangibility is harder, basically requiring some counter to intangibility or some level of spiritual awareness in order to counter. Should be noted that the verse itself has a lot of anti-invisiblity and anti-intangibility as well fittingly.

The humans of the verse use their spiritual energy "Reiki" and the demons use their energy "Youki" to accomplish their feats. This energy also allows for other abilities such as minor precognition, danger sense, energy aura and projection, and so on. Reiki also possess the ability to create spiritual weapons out of energy and Youki allows the user to infuse material objects with energy. 

The verse is dangerous not so much because it has one particular major strength (outside it's general intangibility and invisibility) but because of it's general lack of weaknesses. All the fighters in the verse are skilled to master martial artists. Their range is fairly standard for their tier, their stamina is relatively high, able to fight for hours even at this tier without problems. You'd think that energy-draining would be the go-to tactic to take their power source but they have vastly superhuman stamina and resistance to that form of attack meaning it's not really a weakness. The only thing notable at first is the lack of offensive haxes. Of course the way you'd want to exploit that is by using intangibility to take advantage of reliance on physical force, but of course the verse nulls that so that's not very helpful.

However watching the fight between Kurama and Genbu made me realize. There's another defensive hax. One that would work really well: regeneration. Kurama, only defeated Genbu by exploiting his weak point. Genbu's regen was almost unstoppable to this tier. A regen exceeding that, without a weak point, would be really broken. Which brings me to my first counter

Lust from Full Metal Alchemist. 

Lust was originally non-physical, being Father's Lust. While she was given physical form and is a physical being, her nature as a sin suggest she would be considered spiritually awoken and would be able to sense and affect the demons of YYH. 

Furthermore, Lust as the Ultimate Spear scales to the alchemical attack of Edward Elric which previously morphed an entire building but could not pierce the armor of Greed, while Lust could. She also scales to Edward casually dodging a bullet at close range. These two suggest she would have comparable to superior power and speed to this tier.

Lust as a Homunculus can regenerate from being blown up so long as human life energy is in the Philosopher's Stone, suggesting that the YYH-verse would have to kill her many times in order to permanently kill her.

She also possess a superhuman level of beauty and evokes desire and lust in others. This combined with her intellect and manipulative abilities would be extremely potent. This is because the amount of Reiki and Youki available to a being at any time is dependent on their emotional state, hence why it spikes when they are angry. If she makes them not want to fight her, their levels will weaken and she can slice through them.

The one potential weakness is if it is determined that despite her true nature as a sin, that she would not be considered spiritually awoken. Given her intellect and nature I think it's likely she would be able too, but next counter does not rely on that. That would be

sans from Undertale.

sans was fast enough that Genocide Frisk could not tag him without a surprise attack, even when he started attacking while sans was SLEEPING. Genocide Frisk fought and defeated Undyne the Undying, a vastly superior form of Undyne then Base Undyne who ran a distance likely above a mile and can do so in only a few seconds requiring supersonic speeds, likely over 2 times the speed of the Kuwabara's feat in the Saint Beasts Arc.

Powerwise, sans can tank the heat of Hotland which can evaporate water and a styrofoam cup in seconds requiring at least wall+ levels of force. However his raw power isn't really his most famous trait even though he is at a disadvantage.

sans naturally sees and can attack the SOUL of his opponents, which is notable in that it completely nullifies the advantage of superior durability, invisibility and intangibility. sans also has spacetime manipulation, which gives him an uncontested control of the battlefield at this level. He could teleport opponents into the way of his Gaster Blasters which would destroy the soul of any of his opponents before they could react, or could teleport himself or his enemy away. Even ignoring that he has telekinesis capable of moving his opponents' enemies messing up their attacks which are mostly projectile based.

sans also possesses a genius intellect and clairvoyance, which would allow him to know where any potential threat is at any point and bring up his astral bones or gaster blaster to hit them when they didn't suspect it. And to top it off, sans is a goofy pun-making normally non-threatening skeleton. It would be hard to quickly muster up the rage to kill him for most in the verse.

Also if his attack truly does damage based on Level of Violence, then it would be extremely potent in the verse, as violence and fighting is very common among especially demons, to that point that very weak demons are rare just because they would be instantly killed.

However sans could theoretically still get hit by stealth, if unlikely. There's one character I think would be an even BETTER counter.

Madame Xanadu from DC Comics.

Madame Xanadu scales to Nightmare Nurse, the two being roughly comparable DC Magic-Users. As such she scales to New 52 Green Arrow's Mach 2-Mach 7.5 feats as well as Nightmare Nurse's shield protecting against Dragonflame that turned trees to ash. This would put her roughly in the same range of power as the YYH-verse though faster.

Madame Xanadu is clearly spiritually aware and can see spiritual entities. She also has incredibly strong sealing abilities. She regularly sealed powerful magical entities. This includes even Azazel which, if it's the same as the Azazel in The Sandman is insane. Demon Azazel from Sandman was vastly above Universal Entities, was suggested to potentially be able to threaten Dream of the Endless in certain domains and was one of the three strongest beings of Hell.

She can also teleport herself across dimensions at will, which would be impossible to be followed for basically anyone in the verse. She also has spiritual banishing which would be really powerful against the Demons, as it would send them back to Makai, the Demon World. She also has a high level of fortune-telling and would no when a threat was going to appear.

Oh and also she can time freeze on a cosmic scale, and is immortal. Due to her deal with death, she can't be killed. The lack of offensive hax really means there is no other way to beat her for the verse outside maybe the Psychics, though she has outright better psychic feats then the psychics. 

Overall while Madame Xanadu fits best in this tier, but she's basically an invulnerable immortal who can know exactly what's gonna happen, and can banish any demon at will or teleport herself to an area away from any threat, or freeze time on Earth and Makai at will.

City Scale Threat:

The Next Two Spirit Classes would be at this tier. The C Class beings, like most of the Spirit Beasts and the average power level of Demons. Seiryu, the C Class Being was able to punch 100 times in a single second before Hiei, also C Class at the time was able to slice him 16 times before he could react. The Upper C Class Suzaku in his clash with Yusuke destroyed the entire large metal dome that he and Yusuke were battling under. 

B Class are far stronger then even that, to the point that Upper Class B Younger Toguru was able to casually flick air at mach 25 with massive force. B-Class Yusuke while wearing restraints inhibiting his power was able to shoot his Spirit Gun high up into the air in a timeframe before people can react requiring triple digit mach. While Yusuke was Upper B Class his Spirit Gun was powerful enough to rip up many kilometers of forest and ocean just by flying over head, requiring power in the millions of tons of energy.

Thus the limit is MHS City Level.

At this tier, most things suggested above still apply, though the range of powers grows and becomes more dangerous. The Most dangerous ability would likely be Younger Toguro's ability to august his body with his own Reiki to massively boost himself above 100% his normal power, as well as absorb nearby souls into his being (though this can be resisted by raw power somewhat comparable to him).

What weaknesses does this tier have? Same as before, technically they need to use energy to use their abilities, the demons are vulnerable to banishment and exorcisim. Also a bit unusual for this level of ability, outside of the Wind Demon Jin, nobody has the ability to fly. As such it seems like a good strategy would be the ranged bombardment strategy. Also while there is a large variety of abilities the cast has collectively, most characters only have a few signature abilities, so a highly versatile character will have more options in general. Combining these two weaknesses, my first counter is

Spiritomb (Mikaruge) from Pokemon.

Spiritomb was considered a massive threat for a non-legendary Pokemon and so had to be sealed away. This means it would likely be at least comparable to Tyrannitar who in a weaker form was able to destroy an entire mountain. Beyond that, far weaker Pokemon have reacted to the attacks of electricity type Pokemon, which would put him at MHS speeds. 

As a Ghost/Dark Type, Spiritomb is at massive advantage against ghost types, which would likely translate to having a large advantage against the spirits of the YYH verse. Beyond that Spiritomb can naturally levitate above the battlefield and rain down attacks from a far more versatile attack pool then anyone in the verse. Particularly potent is using Pressure and Curse to drain the life energy of the YYH verse, life energy being a third type of energy that maintains the life of the being. Spiritomb could also arguably drain that with the combo of Hypnosis and Dream Eater.

That said, Spiritomb could arguably get overwhelmed by numbers. For a counter that can fight the YYH-verse on it's own terms and still win I would suggest

Iron Fist from Marvel Comics.

Iron Fist's punch was compared to a Hydrogen Bomb and he defeated Radion whose power was measured in the hundreds of megatons. He can also dodge bullets in microseconds requiring MHS speeds.

Iron Fist can essentially match all the natural abilities of the YYH-verse, with chi projection, spiritual sensing, energy projection. He can flow his chi into objects and mimic the effects of demon energy and can create things out of his chi life spirit energy, albeit no one in YYH has ever created anything out of spirit energy as impressive as a DRAGON. However his martial arts skills are even better, having mastered every single martial arts. 

Iron Fist's most notable ability is chi manipulation. He has used this as a soul to recreate his body, which likely wouldn't be too broken in this verse as they can attack intangible souls, but what's more notable is he can affect the chi of others, either via pressure points or just directly. If he can attack their life energy directly that this would be a one-shot kill against anyone in the verse, and even if not, it would SEVERELY weaken them with any strike. 

He can also read minds and can actually manipulate minds with his martial arts, which would be insane in the verse. Hiei's Jagen Eye is so infamous specifically for it's ability to manipulate minds, yet it can be resisted via raw power. Iron Fist's mental techniques do not have this weakness and could be yet another form of one-shot against anyone in the verse.

There's also the possibility that in a verse full of powerful chi manipulators, that he could grow much stronger since by absorbing their unique energies, he may gain their abilities or just learn them via his raw skill.

While Iron Fist would be very impressive, there's one fighter who I think would be not stronger but even more impressive as his powerset is even more uniquely suited to fight the verse at this tier. That character is

Drizzt Do'Urden from Dungeons and Dragons

Drizzt in power rivals the Legendary Dragons who can create storms at will and even the Elemental Prince Imix who can turn an area into a desert with his presence, requiring city level power. As a High Level Ranger he has the ability to dodge the spell Call Lightning which would give MHS speed.

Drizzt as an elf naturally has superhuman levels of senses and grace. Beyond that his sword Vidrinath glows when danger is nearby, increasing his defense further. Vidrinath also has vorpal properties, meaning it automatically cuts off the head of beings it hits, which would be an automatic kill against anyone save Elder Toguro due to his regeneration properties.

What is really notably about Drizzt though is the other sword he dual wields, which is actually a sentient object with a desire to slay specifically evil outsiders...including demons, which a huge amount of the verse is comprised off. Both of Drizzt's swords without any boost would be one-shots against anyone in the verse, aided by his naturally adept and graceful combat style which would equal the skill and agility of the verse. Meanwhile his mithril armor would mean that it would be hard to counterattack or hurt him, especially as due to his elven heritage and his level of power he's naturally resistant highly to all forms of hax the verses possesses.

Also Drizzt has a super form known as the Hunter, a psychological state in which his inner rage and determination takes over, which would boost his power and speed beyond anyone in this tier, nevermind that due to his actual spells and spell-like abilities he has a versatility advantage as well.

Planet Scale Threat:

Above the B Class Beings are the A Class, including the strongest beings of the Spirit World, beings whose power resemble the mythological gods, who can create country level volcanic eruptions and are vastly more powerful then the B Class beings.

S Class is vastly above this. They are the beings from the Makai that Spirit World has no chance of containing. Demons consider the Spirit Class Ranking insulting as S Class contains beings that Makai consider footsoldiers all the way up to the Three Kings waged in hundred-year long wars for control of Makai. Low-S Class Beings can fodderize A Classes yet their power is inconsequential compared to Upper S Class Beings.

Range at this tier is Planetary as Low S Class Sensui was shaking the entire Earth with his power. Stamina is....well Upper S Class Raizan deliberately starved himself for hundreds of years without dying or even losing much of his power. In fact on his deathbed he was still able to contend with S Class Yusuke. Even Besides the Three Kings, there are other Demons of Upper S Class Power, like the friends of Raizen from deep in Makai who attended Raizen's funeral and were said by the other 2 Kings, Yomi and Mukuro to be comparable to them in power.

Trying to contend with this tier in raw power is generally a really bad idea as they as vastly above the baseline level. Really the tactics are generally pretty simple at this level; sealing or some form of banishment/exorcism is the best bet. It would also probably be best to have some level of manipulation as the god tiers of the verse include really really good manipulators like Yomi, the three kings also having engaged in a war over hundreds of years without one ever gaining victory via their strategies. My first counter is definitely a manipulator...of sorts.....that being

Vlad the .... NOT Vampire from Magicka.

Vlad is an extremely skilled spellcaster, able to briefly take on the great Grimnir himself. He scales to lower tier wizards able to react to lightning, and can put up a planetary forcefield to protect himself.

Vlad has described himself as having wolflike senses and so should be easily able to detect his opponents and simple magicka can turn opponents corporeal. This leads to Vlad's signature spell "Portus" which can BFR enemies into other dimensions or other times. He could use this to send any of his opponents into the underworld at will, or to whatever dimension he wishes.

Vlad is also immune to any magicka used against him, meaning he should be immune to most of the YYH-verse's haxes. He also has life mana and death mana which can hurt the dead and ignore physical durability to hit the opponent with raw entropy, ripping apart causation, which should be able to hurt even the Three Kings. Even without that he can also freeze opponents to delay them for a "Portus". 

Vlad is also seemingly not very threatening at all as well as a fair manipulator, manipulating long-terms events to his goals and should be able to keep up in a game of manipulation, buffered by his ability to astral project across space and time.

That said Vlad could get overwhelmed by the verse. For a similar character that wouldn't apply too I would suggest

Sorin Markhov from Magic: The Gathering.

Sorin is a Black/White Planeswalker, the two types of mana that especially excel at banishing and exorcisims or controlling of demons, meaning he could likely use the verse's demonic fighters own nature against them. He was able to create his own pocket dimension, the Helvault from part of Innistrad's moon, which he could bfr them too, and they would have no way to get out from.

In terms of power, Sorin was powerful enough to casually erase Avaycn from existence, who herself was powerful enough to overwhelm Jace and Tamiyo, two lesser planeswalkers. Jace was powerful enough to transmute a whole sea requiring country levels of power and reacted to lightning, showing that Sorin much like the verse has Country+ and MHS+ stats. Sorin backs this up with numerous forms of one-hit kill like death manipulation, brainwashing, turning people to dust, existence erasure etc.

Sorin actually has a range advantage on the verse as he was able to affect Innistrad's moon from the planet's surface, a distance likely around 384,400 km, the distance to our moon. Conversely YYH's best range feat is affecting all of one planet, which has a diameter of 12,742 km (though admittingly it was a casual feat).

Sorin would also be able to keep up with the manipulation game, being an extremely intelligent mortal with thousands of years of experience of battling other similarly powered entities in a mental battle.

However for a very different character, there's another....less intimidating character I would recommend

that being Fate Testarossa Harlaown from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.

As an Adult, Fate is much stronger then she was as a kid, contributing to destroying Chrono's Eternal Coffin technique which had frozen a large section of ocean, calculated to requiring over 30 TERATONS of energy. She also the famously fast speedster of the verse to the point that beings with over Mach 1,000 reflexes thought she was a teleporter because they could not see her move.

Fate has a number of magical-auto shields that protect her from a number of magical abilities and raw force, up to and including the level and haxes used in YYH and even if they did get through that they auto-repair and she can heal herself.

She also has the ability to manipulate light and lighting energy in her magic to blind and shock her opponents with enough force to harm even the Upper S Class Beings.

However that's not getting into the really dangerous part. As a TSAB Officer, Fate has tracking and scanning capacities as well as sealing abilities that work on the dimensional level, allowing her to perceive past dimensions and launch homing inter-dimensional sealing spells that would absolutely counter anything in the YYH-verse. 

Even without that she has soul and spacetime manipulation capable of warping the battlefield and one shot-ing her opponents. She can also sense killing intent which Demons use to grow stronger as their Youki gets stronger via emotional state. While Fate isn't a genius level intellect, she is famously noble and would be hard to manipulate.

Fate would be at the level of an Upper S Class Demon, but can also one-shot seal beings with homing attacks from other dimensions, with a bevy of other helpful sensory and battlefield manipulation abilities so that even in an up close fight she would be able to trip up enemy plans and one-shot.

And that's how to be OP in Yu Yu Hakusho.