Who Would Canonically Win? Dark Pit vs Dark Samus | Fight Animation!

Who would win in a fight between Dark Pit from Kid Icarus and Dark Samus from Metroid? Today, we have an animated battle to determine the answer. Smash Bracket is an animated vs. battle series created by InkThinks dedicated to answering the question... Who is canonically the strongest character in Super Smash Bros. History?

CREDITS
Animator
ItsChidomonYT

Voice Acting
Dark Pit — Casey Goodson
Viridi — @IsabelleAmponin

Researchers
Reallemon
Robin
Someguy

Choreography
aircaves
SomeGuy
Anerdymous
Robin

Sound Design
Ink

[SmashBracket]

Hey all! Here is a rundown of the Dark Pit vs Dark Samus here before we get into the fight. These are their relevant feats, abilities, strategies, equipment, etc...
I hope you enjoy it!

DARK SAMUS


BACKGROUND: Dark Samus was born from the fusion of the Metroid Prime and Phazon with Samus Aran's suit on an alien planet, adopting a form with a relentless drive for power. While not a clone of Samus like the villain SA-X, Dark Samus does resemble her counterpart very closely. Unlike Samus, it harbored no regard for life, using its Phazon-enhanced abilities to control, attack, and absorb energy from others to grow stronger. Ultimately, despite its formidable power and regenerative capabilities, Samus Aran defeated Dark Samus, ending its reign of terror across the universe.

FEATS:
Speed: Dark Samus can move at high speeds—nearly 200 miles per hour in flight—allowing it to maneuver swiftly around the battlefield. Its agility and speed enable it to dodge attacks, launch rapid assaults, and effectively position itself to exploit its enemy's weaknesses.

Strength: Dark Samus has defeated Samus in a single shot. Although this was earlier in the timeline than Samus's most impressive feats we used in the Pit vs Samus episode, defeating her in one shot is still impressive.

Durability: It can withstand smart bombs from Samus, which were capable of damaging Ridley. Ridley was durable enough to withstand Samus's Volt Driver, which would match the output of a nuclear bomb in a few dozen strikes.

Skill: No super direct skill feats, but it can generally keep pace with Samus, a master of combat and strategy. Nothing incredibly measurable, though.

EQUIPMENT & ABILITIES

Phazon - Dark Samus is made 100% out of a parasite called Phazon, which might just be the most deadly substance I have personally seen in fiction. It is so dangerous and radioactive that it would kill just about anything that touches it within an instant. I can't overemphasize enough just how dangerous this stuff is. Pretty much any creature who makes physical contact with Dark Samus is dead with the first touch. Because Dark Samus knows how deadly it is, it frequently dive bombs its enemies or launches into them as a morph ball.

Pure Energy - Dark Samus is made of pure energy and is untouchable by anything but specific shots that are attuned with Samus's DNA. It is arguable that being who are capable of hitting pure energy would still be able to deal damage to Dark Samus, but otherwise it is completely untouchable.

Ice Blasts - These are the only non-phazon ability Dark Samus has
Phazon blasts - beams or shrapnel bursts of pure phazon energy.
Phazon missiles - Exactly what it sounds like
Energy Barriers - These deflect projectiles
Phazon spikes - These are spikes… made of phazon. What did you expect?
Flight
Invisibility
Intangibility
Teleport
Healing factor - Dark Samus was able to heal back from being almost entirely destroyed. It is likely that to keep it down for good, you would need to destroy it on a molecular level. This regeneration is not a quick process and can take hours on the absolute low end. Likely not relevant in a fight scenario unless the fight must end in an absolute death.

Weird interaction with stats - Alright, this isn't technically an ability, but I wanted to mention it. Unlike almost every other fight we have done, strength, speed, and durability don't factor in here like they would traditionally. Dark Samus can deflect nearly all weaponry that touches it and is impossible to hit by a huge majority of attacks, making lots of durability somewhat of a moot point. What DOES hit it needs to contend with Phazon. Any sort of physical contact is likely to kill just about any character out there.
For these same reasons, speed isn't really an issue. Dark Samus can't be hit by anything incapable of damaging pure energy. So eventually, when physical attacks come in, Dark Samus is capable of passively winning the fight.
Lastly, Attack Power doesn't matter very much when nothing it could output would be anything comparable to the deadliness of Phazon. Damage doesn't matter if things are already dead on contact.


Anyway, I felt that was relevant to mention. Let's get on to talking about Dark Pit.




DARK PIT
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BACKGROUND: Dark Pit, an unintended creation from Pit's encounter with the Mirror of Truth during a battle with Pandora, emerged as a dark counterpart to the original angel, Pit. Unlike Pit, who is devoted to the goddess Palutena, Dark Pit operates independently, guided only by his own moral compass, harboring the darker emotions and traits that Pit suppresses. Despite lacking some of Pit's acquired items, Dark Pit boasts an extensive arsenal of weapons and possesses abilities such as unlimited flight and combat enhancements, making him a formidable and highly skilled warrior in Angel Land, eventually becoming one of Pit's closest allies through shared trials and battles.

FEATS:
Speed: Dark Pit is statistically identical to Pit, who was able to move fast enough to pilot the Lightning Chariot. This had him moving Mach 700.

Strength: Dark Pit is powerful enough to take Pit out in a single strike.

Durability: Scales to Pit, who was tanky enough to survive being slammed into a barrier by the lightning chariot at max speeds… This thing is very, very fast.

Skill: Keeps pace with Pit, who is a master of combat. He can consistently hold his own and has done copious amounts of training. Dark Pit is an expert marksman who specializes in and favors ranged attacks so much so that he has a sniper staff named after him.

EQUIPMENT & ABILITIES

There is a lot to mention here.

Turn enemies into stone
Cut enemy's max HP by half
Automatically target an enemy's weak point
Instantly kill whatever his attack touches
Turn opponent into an eggplant or tempura shrimp
Increase speed
Automatically dodge attacks
Become invisible
Blind enemies
Automatically counter attacks
Heal from otherwise lethal attacks
Become intangible
Become invincible
Capable of deflecting and affecting Biota blasts, which are made out of energy.
Fake death
Blades
Staffs
Bows
Claws
Palms
Clubs
Arms
Orbitars
Cannons

And these are just some of Dark Pit's many, many abilities.

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Explanation for the victor in the replies!

[jag_rex]

Dark Samus ripping off dark pit's wing is actually kind of metal

[EyeOfArgus]

Congratulations on Kid Icarus for NOT getting the 0-3 everyone expected lmao.

[AlphaOblivion]

The voice actress for Viridi did a FANTASTIC job! She sounds 1:1 with the original VA

[DylanKatt]

This is premiering 20 days before the anniversary of Kid Icarus: Uprising! 😃 (Dark Pit's debut game)

[AndyDeleon-ixzr]

Wasn't expecting Pitto to win, but I sure as hell ain't complaining

[flameshock]

So glad Dark Pit brought redemption to the Kid Icarus cast. But with these fights over, I can't help but wonder who's going to avenge Palutena's death.

[finaldusk]

I'm putting my money on Dark Pit but I won't be too surprised if he loses despite all his advantages (better overall stats, actual training, prefers attacking at distance, far more versatility and hax, has Viridi's guidance for intel and a second-opinion etc).
Dark Samus only needs to land ONE phazon attack or touch him ONCE, and has plenty of hax of its own to create an opening or otherwise bait a melee attack from him.

[iblisdoomsong]

*sigh* This is what I'm going to miss most about this channel. I've never seen a versus or even a sprite battle channel have so much attention to detail especially regarding anything Metroid. The amount of love I have for the Metroid series is so perfectly reciprocated by these animations. Make a side channel where you just do Metroid animations!

[brandonwong]

I love how Samus is protecting Pichu just like how she saved Pikachu in Subspace

[thejester]

Can't wait to see these battle of these two "echoes" and whether dark samus will bring a "dark" fate on pittoo or will he cause an "uprising" against said fate

[PrinceEpic-rwdn]

No way! My man Real Pit won! Funny that Metroid and Kid Icarus both started with 3 contest's, and both are now only down too one. Also, it was need that rather than a full track, it was just some spooky ambiance. Also, short fight.

[illialidur]

Okay, honestly, this episode was kinda a banger. I was really rooting for the Kid Icarus crew for some reason so I'm happy to see Dark Pit actually lived this fight. Reading the analysis... man, I'm glad Dark Samus and Ridley both went down round one, because in a hypothetical longer bracket they could have seriously messed up some of our favorite characters.

[donovanhadley]

Spoilers below






Dark Pit won, but now he'll be called Pithiroth

[davidpescitelli]

Oh crap, he won!!! SWEET!!!! I honestly wasn't expecting it, but I am really happy to be proven wrong. Nice, to see Dark Pit give Kid Icarus a win for Smash Bracket.

Really liked the horror vibe this episode had. Really makes the episode stand out from the other episodes. Well done everyone!!!.

[brieanamcafee]

Woah, the voice for Dark Pit is good!!!

[benblueblade]

Honestly given Pit lost to Samus, I was ready for it to turn out that the same would happen with their Echoes. So I was surprised when DP actually won.

[marioalbertomoreno]

This is giving me real Link vs Ridley flashbacks, where Pitoo's better chance at winning is turning Dark Samus into something else entirely and his more analytical fighting style compared to both Pit and his opponent might give him the edge, using the Orbitars and cannons to intercept and block the Phazon, however, Dark Samus's chaotic nature might be problematic to any plan, and any mistake might prove lethal

[supermariogirl]

LET’S
FRICKING


I was actually scared, I’m so happy Dark Pit won! 🥹

[kingdomheartsfan]

Little on the short side, and surprised by results, but I enjoyed this