Filia Medici (Skullgirls)

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Filia Medici is one of the protagonists of Skullgirls and seen as the main character. After a hit was placed on her and her family, she awoke with Amnesia and Samson hosting her, A parasite who was originally hosting their pet dog. Filia would adventure to the Skullheart with samson in order to wish for her memories back.

Filia Medici
In-GamePoster Art “ Let's go, Samson!" Hell Yeah! „
Origin
Origin	Skullgirls
Creator	Alex Ahad and Mike Zaimont
First Appearance	Skullgirls
Actor	Christine Marie Cabanos (Eng), Ayana Taketatsu (JP)
Characteristics
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Status	Alive
Alignment	Neutral Good
Archetype	Reluctant Hero
Relationships
Enemies	Marie, Double

General Information

Name: Filia Medici

Origin: Skullgirls

First Appearance: Skullgirls

Latest Appearance: Skullgirls Mobile

Company: Lab Zero Games

Creator: Alex Ahad and Mike Zaimont

Gender: Female

Age: Unknown

Birthday: March 18th

Residence: Canopy Kingdom

Story Role: Protagonist

Classification: Femme Fetale

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid

Occupation: N/A

Enemies: Marie

Height: 5'4

Weight: 142 pounds

Status: Alive

Alignment: Neutral Good (Originally, Filia was going to use the skull heart to wish back her memories. After meeting Painwheel and remembering who she was, she used the skull heart to wish her a normal life. Had saved and helped Squiggly defeat Double)

Protection Level: Metropolitan (Stopped Marie before she could get corrupted with the Skull Hearts power, who was already destroying a part of the kingdom in her rage)

Potential

• Type of Potential: External Potential
• Level of Potential: Fixed Potential
• Description: Filia's Potential relies on her creativity on using Samson in battle
• Limitations: Standard Potential Limits

Archetype: Reluctant Hero

Codex Statistics

Tier: 8-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Building level (Is able to fight against Marie, who destroyed the cathedral they were inside before their fight, and lifted a building, throwing it at a blimp.)

Durability: Building Level (Can take attacks Marie and Cerebella)

Striking Strength: Building Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown, Class 5 with Samson (Can lift and throw Big Band, who weighs 5000 pounds)

Travel Speed: Athletic Human (Comparable to Parasoul,who as a captain of an elite military squad, should lend her this speed)

Attack Speed: Supersonic (Should be comparable to Parasoul, who's speed and precision can allow her too accurately let bullets fly through golden rings of her umbrella while spinning it.

Reaction Speed: Supersonic (Should be comparable to her attack speed. Should also be comparable to Valentine who dodged bullets casually)

Stamina: Athletic Human (Gets into many fights across her storyline, one even being against two people at once, with the final fight not happening too long after)

Range: Standard Human Range, Several meters with Samson (Some attacks can go a long distance)

Intelligence: Average Intelligence (Is in Highschool and has not displayed many feats)

Knowledge:

General KnowledgeCombat Knowledge

Journeyman level

Expert level (Has great knowledge on how to use Samson in battle. Able to perform various techniques with his shapeshifting as well as even attempting to psyche opponents out if they know Ringlet Spike. Despite her Amnesia, Filia became a formidable fighter using Samson in a seemingly short manner, able to fight against characters such as Parasoul, who's a military leader and Marie, a powerful necromancer)

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Powers and Techniques

BaseVariants

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Martial Arts, Fusionism (Is fused with Samson), Hair Manipulation and Transformation (Shapeshifting; Samson acts as Filia's hair and can shapeshift it into various forms and attacks), Penetration Damage (Many of her attacks penetrate), Natural Weaponry (Samson has sharp teeth), Statistics Boost (Can land critical hits), Counter (Can counter combo attacks if repeated. Can push opponents back while blocking), Limited Flight (Can Air dash), Healing (Samson managed to heal Filia's wounds, albeit over time after fusing)

Bad Hair dayHair ApparentRock StarBad Ms FrostyIdol ThreatCurl ScoutParasite WeaveDread LocksWindsweptDjinn FrizzClass CutterBlue Streak

Status Effect Inducement and Status Nullification, (Gives Filia a 10% chance to inflict bleed on hit, which drains 1% max health each second and removes Regen and Heavy Regen on activation, for 3 seconds, up to 7 seconds), Statistics Boost (Gives a 10%, up to 15% bonus crit rate against opponents inflicted with bleed)

Statistics Boost and Status Nullification (Filia using a special move while equipped with this Variant gives her Haste for 10 seconds, later upgraded to 15 seconds, increasing meter gain by 100% and removing the slow effect), Restoration (Using a blockbuster has 50% chance, later upgraded to a 100% chance to reset the cooldown of all special moves)

Resistance to Mortality Manipulation and One Hit KO, Status Nullification, and Restoration (While Filia is alive, any teammate that tag in gets 1, up to 3 barriers which absorbs all form of physical damage for 10 seconds. When a teammate's barrier expires, they restore 10%, up to 20% meter for all blockbusters and gain Final Stand for 10 seconds, which prevents health to drop below 1% and blocks the death effect from doom.)

Attack Nullification (With this variant, Filia has a 50% chance on critical hits to disable blockbusters for 4, later upgraded to 6 seconds), Status Effect Inducement, Statistics Reduction and Status Nullification (It also inflicts armor break on an opponent, which causes them take up to 20% more damage and removes the armor effect upon activation)

Status Effect Inducement, Statistic Nullification, Statistics Amplification and Resistance to Mortality Manipulation and One Hit KO (Evading an attack with this variant grants Filia armor, which reduces damage taken by 20% and removes armor upon activation. It also gives Final Stand, which prevents health dropping below 1 and resists doom's death effect), Healing (When Filia attacks a dashing opponent, it inflicts Armor break onto the opponent. 100%, later upgraded to 200% of damage inflicted to the opponent is regained as health)

Status Nullification, Statistics Amplification, Status Effect Inducement and Restoration (While Filia has this Variant active, after every 5th hit in a combo she receives by an opponent, she gains multiple effects. It can remove up to 2 debuffs, give 2 stacks of armor which would give her 40% less damage taken and remove the armor break effect, and gain a 30% more blockbuster meter), Healing, (When benefitting from a buff, for every 6 seconds, down to 4 seconds, Filia gains 10% health and inflicts the wither status on the opponent, which removes 5% of the opponents blockbuster meter every 1 second for 6 seconds)

Status Effect Inducement, Paralysis Inducement, Status Nullification (While Filia has this variant active, each critical hit has a 50% chance to inflict both Slow for 10 seconds, which removes Haste on activation and decreases meter gain by 50%, and inflict stun from 2, up to 3 seconds, which prevents all actions until the effect expires. If the opponent is stunned, Bleed has a 5%, up to 15% chance to be inflicted on hit, which drains 1% max health each second and removes Regen and Heavy Regen on activation)

Attack Reflection (When Filia has this variant active, to 15%, later upgraded to 35% of the damage she receives by the opponent is reflected back on them), Status Effect Inducement and Status Nullification (If the opponent lands a critical hit, Heavy Bleed is Inflicted on them, which removes 2% health each second and removes both Regen and Super Regen on activation, for 5, later upgraded to 10 seconds)

Statistics Amplification, Status Nullification, Enhanced Evasiveness (When Filia has this variant equipped and hits an opponent that's attacking, Filia gains both Enraged, which will Increase her damage by 20% and remove Cripple on activation. as well as Evasion, which will have the next hit do no damage or hit reaction, from 5, up to 10 seconds), Power Nullification (After Evading an attack, Filia has a 50%, later upgraded to 100% to gain Permanent Precision. Precision guarantees the next hit is a critical hit, and the opponent Signature abilities aren't triggered)

Statistics Amplification and Nullification, Healing and Absorption, Attack Reflection, Invulnerability, Restoration, Super Armor, Instinctive Reaction, Enhanced Evasiveness, Resurrection and Resistance to Mortality Manipulation and One Hit KO (When Filia has this Variant on, every 15 seconds, which can be upgraded down to 10, will give 3 random buffs for 5 seconds. When using a blockbuster, there's a 33% chance you can turn 1 buff, which can be later upgraded to 3, into the Enraged buff. The buffs randomized can Include;

• Armor, which will Reduce damage taken by 20% and remove the Armor Break Status upon Activation
• Auto Block, which has a 10% chance to automatically block the Next hit and removes Guard Block on activation
• Barrier, which absorbs damage equal to 10% of Filia's max health and blocks all types of damage
• Blessing, which will revive Felia with 10% health,
• Deadeye, which Causes Filia's attacks to ignore the Opponent's defense and ignores the effects of Auto-Block, Unflinching, Evasion and Thorns while active
• Enraged, which Increases damage by 20% and removes Cripple upon activation, Evasion, which prevents Damage and hit reaction on the next hit,
• Final Stand, which prevents health from going below 1% health and blocks Doom's Death effect while its active
• Haste, Which increases Meter gain rate by 100% and removes slow upon activation
• Regen and Heavy Regen, which heals 1% and 2% health each second per second respectively and removes the bleed effect upon activation
• Precision, Which will guarantees the next hit is critical while ignoring the enemies Signature abilities
• Immunity, which prevents new debuffs from being applied
• Invincible, which prevents damage taken by Hits, Bleed and Reflect Damage,
• Miasama, which will drain 1% of max health and meter from the nearby opponents and adding them both onto herself,
• Thorns, which will reflect 20% of the attacker's physical damage back onto them
• Unflinching which prevents Filia reacting to the opponents' attacks.)

Defense Nullification and Status Effect Inducement (While Filia has on this Variant, all hits from a special move or blockbuster have a 10% to be unblockable and inflict Death Mark, which increases damage taken by critical hits and blocking by 50%, for 10, up to 15 seconds), Regeneration Negation (When Filia Inflicts At least 10% damage in a single hit, which can be upgraded down to 5%, the opponent gets Inflicted with Heavy Bleed, which drains 2% health each second and removes Regen and Heavy Regen, as well as Heal Block, which stops the inflicted from healing from all sources.)

Defense Nullification, Restoration (While Filia has this variant active, she gets Granted Deadeye which ignores the opponents defense and ignores the auto-block effect. Unflinching, Evasion and Thorns effect. She also gains Haste which increases meter growth rate by 100% and removes the Slow effect on Activation), Super Armor, Status Nullification, Statistics Boost, andResistance to Mortality Manipulation and One Hit KO (When Filia uses a blockbuster while Under the effects of Deadeye, she will gain 4 effects. Immunity, which will prevent new debuffs from adding onto her, Final Stand, which prevents health from going below 1% health and blocks Doom's Death effect while its active, Unflinching which prevents Filia reacting to the opponents' attack and 3 stacks of Precision, Which will guarantees the next hit is critical while ignoring the enemies Signature abilities)

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Equipment

Standard

Samson is Filia's parasite fused to her hair that helps her on their journey, allowing her to use his shapeshifting in her attacks and general advice on her journey to the skull heart.

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Notable Techniques

NormalsSpecialsThrowsBlockbustersOther

Filia's Throws

Animation	Move Name	Description
	Samson Cuddle	Filia forms her hair to look like an octopus as Samson squeezes the opponent, before throwing them away.
	Widow’s Peak	While in the air, Samson forms into a widow spider to grab and slam the opponent down

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Other

Standard Tactics: Filia is a rushdown type fighter who will try and get into her opponents face, attempting to combo her opponents down with Samson. Will gain various effects with Variants that she can use to help herself in a pinch

Weaknesses: Relies on Samson for most of her attacks.

Gallery

Filia's Gallery

Filia's loading screen Filia's Model Sheet Filia and Samson Fusing Filia's poster art Filia promotional Art Filia's steam trading card art

Battle Records

These fights only consider Filia's Storyline in 2nd Encore

6-0-0

VictoriesLossesInconclusive

• Parasoul- Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Streets of New Meridian

• Cerebella- Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Maplecrest

• Painwheel- Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Little Innsmouth

• Ms Fortune- Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location Little Innsmouth

• Double and Valentine- Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Grand Cathedral

• Marie- Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Final Atrium

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Versus Threads

VictoriesLossesInconclusive

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