Sailor Neptune is one of the most interesting and most powerful of the Sailor Scouts in Sailor Moon. She’s the only Scout who was able to awaken herself, dreaming of her past as Sailor Neptune, and is the only one who has been able to wake another, Sailor Uranus, while the rest of the Scouts have been awoken by either Luna or Artemis.

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Between her psychic and magical abilities, she’s difficult to defeat in battle. But there are definitely some anime characters who would be able to pull it off. Here are five characters Sailor Neptune could defeat and five that she probably couldn’t.

10 Could Defeat: Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura)

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Sakura is a magical girl in her own right, but her abilities are somewhat limited compared to Neptune’s. While she’s able to use the Clow Cards to summon things to aid her in battle, she often hasn’t used these abilities before, and she’s not sure how they’re going to work in a given situation.

Plus, she’s much younger than Neptune, who has more experience and is more comfortable with her powers.

9 Would Lose To: Sango (Inuyasha)

Sango is a demon hunter. She’s spent her entire life training to fight creatures that are much more powerful than she is. Plus, many of them have their own abilities that give them a leg up in battle.

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Sango fights with a giant boomerang while riding on the back of Kirara, a demon that can fly and allows her to ride her. This would give Sango the upper hand in battle and would make it hard for Neptune to use her water-based powers on her.

8 Could Defeat: Hinata Hyuga (Naruto)

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Hinata is definitely not a character to be taken lightly, even by somebody as powerful as Sailor Neptune. Her ability to see chakras and close off their pathways would make her a pretty formidable opponent.

Still, while Hinata becomes more confident in her skills as she gets older, she ultimately would lose in the face of Neptune’s more powerful skills and magical abilities and due to the fact that she’s older and more comfortable with battle.

7 Would Lose To: Saber (Fate)

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Saber was literally King Arthur in a previous life, and there are few figures, historical or mythical, who are known for being successful in battle and at war like King Arthur. Artoria herself, in Fate, successfully leads her armies to victory over and over, and she fights at the forefront.

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In the Holy Grail Wars, she’s often up against creatures who use magic, so Neptune’s abilities wouldn’t catch her off-guard, and her excellent strategic skills would likely give her the win.

6 Could Defeat: Mikasa (Attack On Titan)

Mikasa is a soldier, and she fights opponents that are much, much larger than her. This means that she’s probably pretty decent in battle, considering she hasn’t died at the hands of a Titan, even if she doesn’t always win.

Still, Mikasa is short-tempered and easily distracted, plus she gets reckless and often puts herself in positions where she needs to be rescued by others. This lack of focus would give the always cool and collected Neptune a definite advantage.

5 Would Lose To: Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist)

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Riza exists in a world where she is always one of the least powerful people in the room. She’s a soldier who is excellent with a gun, hence her ultra-appropriate name, Hawkeye, but she’s not an alchemist in an army that relies heavily on the skills of alchemists to get jobs done.

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Still, she holds her own in every combat situation and saves Mustang, a very powerful alchemist, on any number of occasions. Neptune would be hard pressed to find a weak spot in Riza that she hasn’t already covered, and since she’s a sharpshooter, Neptune would be in real danger against her.

4 Could Defeat: Asuna (Sword Art Online)

Asuna’s combat skills all come from a virtual world. While she’s pretty decent in combat in Sword Art Online, she wouldn’t be able to bring those skills back to the real world.

If fighting Neptune in reality, there would barely be a fight; Neptune would win. But even fighting the virtual version of Asuna, Neptune’s magical abilities would likely overshadow Asuna’s combat skills; Neptune would probably be considered overpowered by the game’s standards.

3 Would Lose To: Utena Tenjou (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Utena is a lot like Sailor Uranus, in that they are both pretty masculine characters who have romantic relationships with female characters. This would probably make it hard for Neptune to fight her, since she is in love with Uranus.

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But more than that, Utena is a successful duelist with a lot of determination to win and to make sure she meets her goals. Neptune’s willpower would probably be less intense in battle against her, which would probably leave Utena in a good position to win against her, even against Neptune’s magical powers.

2 Could Defeat: Ichigo Momomiya (Tokyo Mew Mew)

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Ichigo and Neptune are both magical girls, though their powers are very different. Ichigo’s powers are more like Sailor Moon’s, being more like blasts of energy in the direction of her enemies.

Neptune would likely be able to overpower her, just through the sheer intensity of her abilities; since she’s able to actually use water as a weapon, it would likely be a devastating and debilitating attack against the notably weaker powers of Ichigo.

1 Would Lose To: Lum (Urusei Yatsura)

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Lum would be an interesting character to see in battle against Neptune. Since most of her abilities have to do with electricity, and Neptune’s are mostly water-based, the combination would be pretty interesting.

Neptune might end up harming herself by accident by using water attacks, since Lum could potentially electrify the water, electrocuting Neptune in the process. Lum can also store energy to make these electrical attacks even more powerful, collecting power in a way that Neptune cannot.

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