Palutena

“	And as the goddess of light, it's my duty to protect humanity from her	„
	~ Palutena

Background

Palutena, also known as "Lady Palutena," is the Goddess of Light, rightful ruler of Angel Land, and patron deity to Pit. She is kindhearted, benevolent, and cares deeply for the human race, as opposed to the cruel and malevolent Medusa,who despises humanity and wishes only for its destruction. It was for this reason that Palutena banished the Goddess of Darkness to the Underworld as punishment her for her evil deeds.

After Medusa was banished, she began an attack on Skyworld as revenge for what Palutena did, leading to the events of the original Kid Icarus agme. Despite this, Palutena managed to telepathically contact Pit and help him escape the Underworld. After Pit's escape, successful acquisition of the Three Sacred Treasures, and the defeat of Medusa, peace returned to Skyworld.

Later, Palutena had a vision of an unknown race, known as the Orcos, invading and bringing chaos to Skyworld. She tasks Pit once again to acquire the Three Scared Treasures and defeat the Orcos.

25 years later, Medusa is mysteriously resurrected and begins an attack on the surface world. Despite her eventual defeat, it is revealed to everyone who was behind all of the Underworld attacks, which lead to a massive scale war that later involved the Goddess of Nature's forces , an alien race known as the Aurum, and the Chaos Kin.

After the war's end and victory over the Underworld, Viridi and Palutena begin fighting once again over the existence of humans and whether they deserve the right to live. Despite this, they seem to have an alliance.

Powers and Stats

Tier: At least 6-B | At least 6-B, possibly higher

Origin: Kid Icarus

Gender: Female

Age: Physically 22-years-old, chronologically unknown (Gods consider centuries to be a short time)

Classification: Goddess, Goddess of Light, Protector of Humanity, Ruler of Angel Land

Attack Potency: At least Country level (Superior to Poseidon, who sank an entire country) | At least Country level, likely higher (Stronger than before. Should be relative to Hades who threatened to decimate a country or two)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Travel Speed At least MFTL+, likely Extra-Temporal (Hid the Three Sacred Treasures in the cosmos. Being one of the most powerful beings in the series, she should be comparable to The Lightning Chariot) | At least MFTL+, likely Extra-Temporal (Faster than before, should be comparable to Hades who can keep up with The Great Sacred Treasure while in pursuit mode)

Combat Speed: Extra-Temporal | Extra-Temporal

Reaction Speed: Extra-Temporal | Extra-Temporal

Lifting Strength: Unknown, at least Class E (Scales to Posiedon and was compared to him, who split the entire ocean in half) | Unknown, at least Class E (Stronger than before)

Striking Strength: At least Country Class | At least Country Class, likely Higher

Durability: At least Country level (Endured attacks from Medusa who is Palutena's rival and opposite) | At least Country level, likely Higher (Tougher than before. Should scale to Hades who fights even with the Great Sacred Treasure even while weakened)

Stamina: At least Very High, likely Limitless (Scales to lesser characters. Created the Tirelessness power and likely has its attributes naturally)

Range: At least Thousands of Kilometers (Can split the entire ocean down to the seafloor itself like Poseidon), Galactic to Low Macroversal with more potent powers and magic (Banished Medusa to the Underworld and can utilize her powers in the Chaos Vortex from a universe away)

Powers and Abilities:

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Levitation, Divine Magic, Power Bestowal (Can grant various characters different powers, weapons, blessings, and tools), Self-Sustenance (Can breathe in space and scales to Pit), Weapon Usage (While not as skilled as Pit, she does appear to know how to use Pit's weapons in combat), Breaking the Fourth Wall (Is aware of The Player and their world), Vehicular Mastery (Like Pit, she can pilot various vehicles), Information Analysis (Palutena can scan the enemies Pit fights and can analyze and expose their weakpoints by linking a vulnerable marker to the foe's eternal systems. Palutena's reticle can automatically lock on to foes and detect weakpoints in them), Light Manipulation, Telekinesis (Can telekinetically throw large objects with a wave of her hand. Can use Guardian Orbitars which are telekinetically operated), Astral Projection (More powerful gods can create a noncorporeal projections of themselves that can fight in the place of the physical body), Passive Power Nullification (All gods have the potential to cancel out the magical abilities of other gods even if they're stronger), Danmaku, Immortality (Type 1, 3, and 6. Palutena doesn't age and views one-hundred years as a short time. She instantly healed her body after being impaled through the chest by the Chaos Kin) Transformation and Size Manipulation (Gods such as Palutena and Viridi are implied to have true forms incomprehensible to the human imagination and are only acting in a humanoid form. Like Medusa, Palutena can increase her size), Regeneration (Low-Godly, possibly higher. Scales to Medusa who can regenerate her physical body from her soul. Gods like Pandora have shown the ability to regenerate from more than just her soul or consciousness), Sheer Will & Possession (Scales to Pit who can possess beings through willpower. Should be comparable to other gods who use their will to regenerate and resurrect after death), Telepathy (All Kid Icarus characters, besides humans, can speak, sense, and track others through telepathy), Possible Memory Manipulation (Palutena implies she and the other gods can restore Link's memory if they wanted to), Resurrection (Can resurrect Pit and the fighters even while she's completely drained of her strength and petrified. Should be comparable to Medusa who resurrected herself after death), Clairvoyance and Cosmic Awareness (Can see Pit through the heavens with a power like clairvoyance. Mentions having an "all-seeing eye". Viridi can see into the Chaos Vortex, which is another dimension governed by irregular laws and gods can sense the conversations of other divine beings), Purification and Status Removal (Can remove and nullify status effects from her and allies), Precognition (Type 1 and 3. Can foresee future events in her dreams. Likely scales to Viridi who can read fortunes), Immortality Negation and Soul Manipulation (Type 3, 6, and 7. Her death laser obliterated one of the Hewdraw heads and prevented it from regenerating. Can kill Underworld troops), Extrasensory Perception, Non-Physical Interaction, and Lower Dimensional Manipulation (Can create Grind Rails which only Pit can see. Can interact with Sinistews, which are beings who reside in a one-dimensional universe), Link Manipulation (She can create a weakpoint outside her opponent that links to an eternal source such as the heart or mind. Should be comparable to Pit and Dark Pit in this regard), Forcefield Creation (Creates adjustable barriers around her and the surrounding area), Time Manipulation and Time Travel (Can save and load to return at any previous events. Check notes for further elaboration), Possible One Hit Kill (She can fire a massive laser dubbed The Sacred Clobberlaser, that one-shots opponents as tough as the Hewdraw), BFR (Banished Medusa to the Underworld. She can teleport characters to different locations), Curse Manipulation, Transmutation (Transformed Medusa into a hideous monster that reflected her heart. Can change Pit's physical body depending on his performance), Sealing (Sealed Pit's conscious and soul inside a ring. Power of caging can trap massive amounts of opponents at once), Weather Manipulation (Can create a massive thunderstorm), Chain Manipulation and Movement Negation (She can chain down opponents, preventing them from moving), Summoning and Creation (She can summon a variety of troops, vehicles, rails, food, and weapons), Death Inducement (Her powers, albeit able to grant abilities and blessings to characters, are too strong to be used for long periods of time and will kill the user after long periods of exposure. Can use the Instant Death power), Possible Wish Granting (Although not stated how, gods are said to grant wishes), Statistics Amplification (Can amplify her stats with several powers. Powers can be further amplified in potency the greater rarity they are), Transformation (Can turn into an missile that explodes on impact with the Angelic Missile power), Transmutation (Can fire a shot that transforms enemies into idols. Palutena can turn opponents into Eggplants or Tempuras through their respective bombs or by modifying his attacks), Fire and Explosion Manipulation (Can summon a sphere of explosive flames with the Explosive Flame power), Black Hole Creation (Creates a miniature black hole that pulls foes in with the Black Hole power), Attack Reflection (The Reflective Barrier power creates a wall that bounces back any projectiles that hit it) Self-Destruction (The Spite power allows Palutena and others to explode and damage any nearby opponents), Power Modification (Palutena can enhance her base attacks in several ways), Power Nullification and Power Stealing (Palutena can steal one's power rendering them powerless for a short time and can plant a beacon that disrupts opponent's powers when they get near), Life Manipulation (Can make it to where any incoming damage heals Palutena instead with the Libra Sponge power), Vacuum Manipulation (Can use Item Vacuum to pull in items similarly to the Black Hole power), Perception Nullification (Can render an opponent completely blind for a short while with the Darkness power), Invulnerability (Can temporarily stay invulnerable with the Brief Invincibility power), Invisibility (Can turn completely invisible in the middle of combat), Resistance to Status Effect Inducement, Poison Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Electricity Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Petrification, Mind Manipulation, Size Manipulation, Statistics Reduction, and Limited Velocity Manipulation (The Aries Armor power boosts Palutena's durability a small amount and makes her completely immune to Status Effects. Being superior to angels, she should naturally resists these status ailments), Magic, Extreme Heats (Can fight in the Underworld and inside Volcanoes with the power of cooling), Extreme Colds, Transmutation and Petrification (Should be superior to Pit. Palutena can petrify her body when in danger on her own, furthering that she scales to Pit), Life Force Absorption and Paralysis Inducement (Is too divine to have her life force absorbed and is not paralyzed when hit by Monoeyes), Void Manipulation, Soul Manipulation (Superior to Pit whose soul can’t be stolen by Reapers. Hades can render a soul nonexistent when he eats it, which had no effect on Pit, who Palutena is superior to in this regard. Palutena survived and resisted three years of having her soul eaten away), Mind Manipulation (Foe's such as Cacaws attack with a piercing noise that damages the brain, which does minor damage to Palutena. The Aurum Brain was unable to take control over Palutena’s troops despite their close range to it, which hacked and mind controlled Pyrrhon), BFR (Type 2 and 3. Can escape the Sinistew's pot, which is a one-dimensional universe), Law Manipulation and Physics Manipulation (Despite the Chaos Vortex not being governed by the physical laws of the regular universe, Palutena is unaffected by the lack of those laws), Space-Time Manipulation and Immense Pain Tolerance (The Chomp Trap bends both space and time which everyone tanks like regular attacks), One Hit Kill (Before ever dying, Palutena, along with all other divine beings, can enter Crisis Mode, preventing them from being one-shot in the first place), and Black Hole Creation (Can survive inside a black hole with no negative effects)

All previous abilities. Statistics Amplification, Statistics Reduction, and Possible Law Manipulation (The Fiend's Cauldron changes the difficulty of a mission for Pit by manipulating the stats, numbers, rewards, and overall difficulty of a mission, which is referenced by Palutena in Pit's first mission and Hades post-credits), Fragrance Manipulation (Has a monster pheromone that Palutena can use which has a strong scent capable of attracting monsters and Underworld troops), Healing (Palutena can create and eat/drink food and other healables), Poison Manipulation (The Viper Blade and Scorpio Staff can inflict poisonous debuffs), Danmaku, Fire Manipulation (Through weapons such as the Wolf Claws), Water Manipulation and Ice Manipulation (Weapons such as the Aquarius Blade, she can mold water into sharp blades and freeze her opponents), Petrification (With the Stone Card, she can apply petrification through any of her weapons), Electricity Manipulation and Paralysis Inducement (The Electroshock Arm and Phosphora Bow have electrical properties that paralysis struck opponents), Can cause foes to shake uncontrollably with the Bluster, Mind Manipulation (The Fairy Orbitars confuse foe's when hit), Attack Nullification (Various weapons nullify incoming attacks from damaged foes), Light Manipulation (The Optical Blade has the uncanny ability to glow within the dark), Curse Manipulation and Corruption (The Gaol Blade is made from the same curse that corrupted Lord Gaol into a slave of evil), Animal Manipulation (Can summon bats with the Thanatos Staff), Enhanced Movement (Weapons such as the Brawler Claws slightly boost the wearer's movement speed), Barrier Creation (Palutena can backflip with the Pandora Claws to create a protective barrier), Durability Negation and Lifeforce Drain (The Great Reaper Palm cuts an opponent's life in half), Weather Manipulation and Air Manipulation (The Babel Club creates a violent storm to continuously hit enemies), Earth Manipulation (Can fire massive destructive rocks with the Cragalanche Cannon), Plant Manipulation (Throwing a Demon Vine bomb causes a small area of thorny vines to grow and trap the opponent), Space-Time Manipulation, Pain Manipulation, and BFR (The Chomp Trap traps the opponent in a dimension of pain that warps space and time),

Standard Equipment: Gold Staff and Mirror Shield

Intelligence: At least Extraordinary Genius, likely Supergenius (Is described as incredibly wise by other gods and has shown great knowledge of her verse from the enemies Pit fights to the history behind areas and characters. She has even shown great knowledge on universes that aren't even part of the main Kid Icarus series such as The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. along with their characters and lore. Palutena shows a great understanding in cosmology and the space-time continuum to the point she's made powers capable of warping space and time to access entirely separate temporal planes)

Weaknesses: Despite being an intelligent being with centuries of experience, she's oftentimes not taking the situation very seriously and acts very light-hearted in character. Rarely does Palutena directly fight herself and uses a lot of defensive measures before facing her foe head on

Note: Due to Sakurai being the prime developer for both Kid Icarus Uprising and Super Smash Bros., we can take Pit and co's abilities and dialogue as a secondary canon for Kid Icarus's lore since Palutena's guidance stays relative to Kid Icarus's story and even further fleshed it out.

Note 2: Saving and loading in Kid Icarus can be active once characters get a game over, or wish to return to prior points in the timeline. Saving has been mentioned by several major characters. If the game ends for the current playable character, they can simply come back. A "game over" doesn't only stop at a death. A game over can also be the characters making the wrong choices, getting trapped in a separate universe, possessed, and incapacitation (such as falling forever in an endless void or left completely helpless). This ability can be used passively and across multiple incarnations of the characters. Do also note that a player canonically exists, so saving and loading is not a stretch.

Note 3: Palutena notes in her smash reveal trailer that anything an angel can do, a goddess can do better. This is further proven by her being responsible for most of Pit's powers and abilities and regularly granting him new and unique powers.

Others

Notable Victories:

The Unmaker (Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast) - The Unmaker's profile

Notable Losses:

Inconclusive Matches:

Discussions (Link For Mobile Users):

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