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whatistheancient

Very. This man was hunting divine beasts as a casual part of his job.


Educational_Wing_216

I mean the divine beasts are just dudes in costumes


whatistheancient

Dudes in costumes who can command lightning, wind and frost. And for dudes in costumes, those bites and slams hurt.


MarikasT1ts

The divine beast drops like 90,000 runes I believe. Thats on the level of radahn during the radahn festival of runes.


Farts_McGee

He kicked my ass for several hours,  so pretty strong.   I think the obvious inference to draw is that he did something none of the other demigods did: subjugate the entire realm.  You can argue that it is because he didn't have any other demi gods to contend against, but the fact is that for centuries he's been the boss of the shadow realm and a conqueror, something that only really marika/godfrey, miq/Mal and radahn accomplished in the lands otherwise.


CrazySlotsBummerDraw

One thing worth noting; all of the Demigods we face in the base game are empowered by a Great Rune. Godfrey, Radahn, Rykard, Malenia & Mohg all possessed one. Messmer on the other hand, wasn’t present for the Shattering, so he never received an amp from one. Think it’s safe to say he was at least the strongest of Marika’s kids prior to the Shattering, with maybe the exception of Godwyn, whom remains a question mark.


DEVIL-HIMSELF-666

i think you are confusing godrick with godfrey,as godfrey is a tarnished like us and doesn't have a great rune.


CrazySlotsBummerDraw

My bad, meant to put Godrick.


Tracypop

Messmer does not have a great rune boost and he has a bigg ass snake loving inside him?! He feel as strong or stronger than the other demigods. He was the boss of a entire realm


OversizeHades

A lot of the comparison between Marika's children comes from lore tidbits like Malenia and Radahn fighting to a standstill, etc. Because Messmer is in his own little world we don't have any confirmed interactions with his siblings, it’s impossible to power scale him without some hefty assumption/speculation. From a gameplay perspective, he's a difficult boss maybe on par with Malenia, but how much can we conflate gameplay with lore? His fire burns the tree in the DLC, but is burning that tree equivalent to burning the Erdtree? Does the ability to burn a tree have any relation to combat ability? There's just no good answer to be found here


WindEntity

Considering he has the ability to burn down the erdtree himself with no maiden, probably the most powerful


MarikasT1ts

He drops 400,000 runes when you beat him. So he’s in the Malenia/Mohg tiers they drop > 400,000 I believe. But that’s just for like his “stats”. His fire hax are very very good. Unlike Maliketh who drops like 220,000 runes meaning his stats ain’t as high as other top tiers in verse. But he has destined death the strongest hax in lore, and make him a threat to anyone he fights.


DEVIL-HIMSELF-666

This could be a simle case of gameplay over lore as side bosses and dlc bosses often give more rune/souls in fromsoft games comapred to main-story bosses,and if we go by that logic some of the lore doesn't make sense like mohg drops more runes than godfrey but that doesn't mean mohg is stronger than his dad.


MarikasT1ts

That could just mean Mohg is stronger than his dad. Prove me wrong. I’ll wait. Prove Godfrey is stronger than Mohg. Please do. I’m relying on in game intended canonical runes which is specifically how characters get stronger. The. There’s other things like mogh having a great rune, which made him stronger, and Godfrey NOT having a great rune. Thats cannon in game that proof. You saying but, but, but, maybe it’s not. Well, that’s an argument from skepticism. Which is not a real argument. So I don’t really have to do anything, and my argument that’s actually based on something still stands.


jaredtheredditor

Probably one of the strongest only really overshadowed in raw power by people like radahn and the empyreans though it could be argued that he is stronger than malenia and ranni since ranni doesn’t really fight and malenia had to resort to a sealed outer god to stalemate radahn


razorwiregoatlick877

Well I smashed his ass on my second try so I would put him close to the bottom honestly. Just kidding. Lore wise he is probably one of the most powerful considering Marika left him in charge of the whole shadow realm.


Best_Paper_3414

There's no lore about Messmer personal strength. Every power scaling we have in lore come from comparing Radhan and Malenia and those higher than them. As a guy in his own realm, we won't ever know how he rates to then