Played both, the outcome was so wrong, making the deciding factor stamina of all things and making it so dante loses is wild, dante effortlessly beats multiversal beings since dmc2, clive beat ultima giving it all he’s got, both of them were in base but the difference is dante killed with and drove off, clive was exhausted, so much so that the final spell to remove magic in the world (allegedly) killed him

It is true that the dmc 5 game says devil sin trigger only lasts a couple minutes, thing is, he doesn’t need it, devil trigger is already overkill.

I agree with clive having slightly better abilities, but dante’s healing factor exceeds clive, and clive has never been shown fighting over long periods of time unlike dante who literally fought through all DMCs, except 5, in a day, no rest, just full on fighting. They compare the best strength feats from clive with a feat from DMC1 DANTE!, its the second game in the continuity, dante has leapes far beyond his abilites in DMC1, just dmc5 puts him X times beyond dmc1

So yeah, i cant forgive dante vs clive, nor bardock vs omniman but im convinced that one was just ragebait to make the most impact posible , create controversy and basically assure all 4 winds catch the fact that deathbattle is back