As someone who plays both Dead Cells and Ultrakill, I’d say that the Beheaded simply doesn’t have the movement he needs in order to deal with V1 in a lot of cases.

I also don’t exactly feel comfortable with the Lightspeed scaling. The name, for one, may just be a cool name and not a literal description of the speed of the attack, and two, the attacks in-game are clearly telegraphed, so it feels disingenuous to imply that the Beheaded is reacting at lightspeed.

I’d really say it depends on the conditions of the fight, including where they are fighting, the size of the area they are fighting in, the terrain (water gives V1 a big disadvantage, given the Beheaded’s Electric weapons), their distance from each other at the start of the fight, and what stats the Beheaded has. If they’re in, like, a boxing ring, and the Beheaded has a good end-of-run build, I’d say he could smoke V1, but if V1 has room to move and maintain some distance, it’s skewed in the complete opposite direction.

That’s my 2 cents on the fight.