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VARNTAE VS ANBU SENSEI

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Clash Summary

VARNTAE vs ANBU SENSEI took place at the **PenGame Christmas Special** in the dungeon. The host introduces it as a serious battle and sets the tone early with a warning that ANBU’s views are his own after ANBU starts taking the material into darker territory.

ANBU SENSEI goes first.

ANBU opens with a high-impact first round. He immediately attacks VARNTAE’s Academy status, claiming VARNTAE should never have been let out of Academy to battle a young veteran. He brings in Solo Leveling / Sung Jin-Woo references, OJ Simpson, Avatar: The Last Airbender, geography/sediment imagery, Bleach / Senbonzakura, infrared, sniper skulls, Blaze, Trappy fainting at finals, vinyl, lino and rhino wordplay. The round gets a major reaction and is stopped for a reload, which tells you how hard it lands in the room.

VARNTAE answers with a more personal first. He attacks ANBU for online ranting, begging for respect, painting his nails black, using anime aesthetics, being rejected by women, living like a simp, asking for advice, crying online about PenGame and trying to run back DAN DANNAH-style material. He also flips the Sensei title by saying he is the real one teaching ANBU. His round is direct and lands well, but ANBU’s opener has the bigger impact.

ANBU’s second is even darker and more intense. He says he surpasses death, flips flashlight / Marz’s head imagery, calls VARNTAE an Academy boy trying to come among veterans, attacks his relationship history, uses Dragon Ball / Final Flash, Whoopi Goldberg, Batarang, Chippendale, Isabel, Cerebral Assassin, TMNT, Chris Benoit, chemotherapy, G-Zone and chess-board imagery. The round gets stopped again because the room reacts heavily. It is the strongest round of the battle.

VARNTAE’s second is his best round. He attacks ANBU’s emo/goth image, white friend group, Dr. Martens, Moses / parting the sea, burning bush, losing to KANDI, anime sheets, karaoke, hentai links, dildos in a bag, dreadlocks, Babylon, Greebo image, cheap drinks, feminine image and Bonnie Black rejection angle. It is sharp and more opponent-specific than his first. This is the one round where VARNTAE has the strongest case.

ANBU’s third switches into a “Soldier” hook and continues with heavy war and death imagery. He uses Lee Rigby, Whitney Houston, Kobe Bryant, Tomb Raider / Lara Croft, Rey Mysterio / Sin Cara, Hatton, Jericho, Captain America, Fernando Torres and guillotine references. The round is dense, aggressive and keeps his momentum going.

VARNTAE closes with a full nose-angle round. He attacks ANBU’s nose with repeated jokes about smoke, spray, social security, blankets, gravitational pull, PPE, car wash, birth, shame, family embarrassment, shovels and cheese. He also adds simp/feminist/greebo/freeloading angles and ends by saying ANBU brings nothing good to the platform. It is funny and clear, but it is too repetitive compared with ANBU’s heavier closer.

There is no official judgement. The host asks viewers to get in the comments and say who won.

Based on the battle, ANBU SENSEI wins by Archive Judgement.

Performance Analysis

ANBU SENSEI

ANBU wins because he has the bigger reactions, the denser writing and the stronger first two rounds. His material is aggressive, reference-heavy and delivered with serious conviction. His first round sets the tone immediately. The “Academy boy versus young vet” angle is strong because it puts VARNTAE below him in the PenGame hierarchy. He mixes anime, gaming, weapons and battle-record material in a way that sounds dangerous and controlled. The room reaction proves the round lands. His second is the battle-winning round. It is darker, more technical and more layered than anything else in the battle. The Dragon Ball / Final Flash section, Batarang, Chris Benoit, chemo, G-Zone and chess-board ending show a lot of range. It is hostile, but as battle rap it is effective. His third is slightly less clean than his second but still strong. The Soldier hook gives it identity, and the references to Lee Rigby, Whitney Houston, Kobe Bryant, Lara Croft and Jericho keep the round full of imagery. He finishes with a strong sense of control. ANBU’s biggest strength is intensity. He sounds like he wants to leave damage every round.

Lyrical Themes: Academy status, young veteran, Solo Leveling, Sung Jin-Woo, OJ Simpson, Avatar, sediment, Senbonzakura, infrared, sniper skull, Trappy finals, Lazarus, Final Flash, Whoopi Goldberg, Batarang, Chippendale, Isabel, Cerebral Assassin, TMNT, Chris Benoit, chemo, G-Zone, Soldier hook, Lee Rigby, Whitney Houston, Kobe Bryant, Lara Croft, Jericho, Fernando Torres, guillotine.

VARNTAE

VARNTAE has a strong battle and does not get washed. His second round is genuinely dangerous, and his third is funny in places. However, he loses because ANBU’s first two rounds are more damaging and better received. His first round has a clear strategy: attack ANBU’s online behaviour, anime image, goth styling and relationship issues. The “Captain Save All The Hoes” angle gives him a personal frame, and the Bonnie Black material makes it feel scene-specific. His second round is his best. The Dr. Martens / Moses / burning bush section is sharp, and the “anime sheets” and “dildo in a bag” material gets reaction because it is specific and humiliating. He also makes a strong effort to attack ANBU’s image as a greebo/anime/simp figure. His third is easy to follow but over-focused. The nose jokes are funny, but spending most of the round on one physical feature makes it feel lighter than ANBU’s final. It works as comedy, but not enough as a closing battle round. VARNTAE’s biggest strength is direct personal attack. His weakness is that his third does not build enough beyond the nose angle.

Lyrical Themes: Captain Save All The Hoes, online ranting, goth nails, anime image, PenGame profit, asking for advice, friendzone, dominant women, Bonnie Black, Dr. Martens, Moses, burning bush, KANDI loss, anime sheets, hentai links, dildos in bag, dreads, Babylon, Greebo, cheap drinks, feminine image, ANBU’s nose, social security, gravitational pull, car wash, shovel, cheese.

Key Technical Highlights

ANBU SENSEI

Best round

Round two.

Strongest trait

Aggressive reference-heavy writing.

Best angle

VARNTAE is an Academy-level battler not ready for a young vet.

Best technical section

Final Flash / Batarang / Chris Benoit / chess-board run.

Battle-winning factor

Bigger reactions and heavier first two rounds.

VARNTAE

Best round

Round two.

Strongest trait

Direct personal angles.

Best angle

ANBU’s anime/goth/simp image.

Best technical section

Dr. Martens / Moses / burning bush section.

Battle-losing factor

Third round becomes too repetitive around the nose angle.

Indexed Bars & Breakdown

ANBU SENSEI

Confidence

"I’ve never been no sensei, I never rest."

ANBU opens by flipping his own name and presenting himself as constantly active.

Critique

"VARNTAE tries to say that he fucks up beats, that shit is a lie."

A direct attack on VARNTAE’s music/performance ability.

Reference

"Call me Sensei, Sung Jin-Woo, strapped with a rise like Solo Leveling."

A **Solo Leveling** reference. Sung Jin-Woo rises in power, matching ANBU’s “level up” image.

Reference

"Can’t enter the league like Aang when you’re out of your element."

An **Avatar: The Last Airbender** reference. Aang controls elements, while VARNTAE is outside his.

Wordplay

"Learn this shit in geography, if I rock George, you get left in sediments."

A geography/rock/sediment wordplay.

Violence

"It’s time for dividing your life when I find me a knife."

A division/cutting image. It is battle material.

Identity

"All that melanin might disappear when I bleach your skin."

A racialised bleach/skin line. It is hostile battle material.

Reference

"Senbonzakura."

A **Bleach** anime reference, used as weapon imagery.

Strategy

"Can’t call bully if you get bullied."

A reversal line. VARNTAE cannot play bully if he is the one being bullied.

Wordplay

"I don’t know about A-Rex, MSN, Nokia phones or infrared, but I know about Blaze that’s menacing."

A tech/old-school reference run, ending with menace.

Reference

"Faint like Trappy at finals."

A PenGame history reference. ANBU uses Trappy’s finals incident as an insult.

Wordplay

"Spin them like vinyl."

A music/violence image.

Wordplay

"Shit get messy like lino."

A lino/floor mess punch.

Wordplay

"Straight to the point like rhino."

A rhino/horn/directness punch.

Threat

"You against I? It’s hazardous."

A danger/status opener.

Reference

"Even PenGame can’t buy Lazarus."

A resurrection line. Lazarus was raised from the dead, but VARNTAE cannot be saved.

Status

"The platform’s lacking on challenges."

ANBU says VARNTAE is not enough of a challenge.

Status

"How can you let VARNTAE out of Academy?"

A strong PenGame hierarchy attack. VARNTAE is framed as not main-stage ready.

Status

"Having him clash with the youngest vet."

ANBU positions himself as young but already seasoned.

Status

"He crashes back to cadet."

A soldier/rank punch. VARNTAE is demoted.

Confidence

"None of my punches light."

A writing/violence claim.

Reference

"I’ll send your soul to the ark."

A biblical/flood-style image.

Reference

"Metal in her chest like Stark."

An **Iron Man / Tony Stark** reference.

Confidence

"You ain’t dying to come back, I am the one that’s surpassing death."

A resurrection/survival line.

Humour

"I’ll blind VARNTAE by holding a flashlight and reflect it off Marz’s head."

A Marz/bald-head reflection joke used as an attack.

Status

"Academy boy trying to come be among."

Another Academy/status punch.

Insult

"You watch a girl get fucked, you cuck."

A relationship/humiliation line. It is battle material.

Reference

"Final Flash him."

A **Dragon Ball Z** reference. Final Flash is Vegeta’s attack.

Appearance

"Looking like a young Whoopi Goldberg."

A celebrity appearance punch.

Reference

"Straight to the point like Batarang."

A Batman/Batarang reference.

Violence

"Chest get caved in."

A direct violence line.

Reference

"Get folded in half like Isabel."

An Animal Crossing / Isabelle-style name reference mixed with violence.

Reference

"Cerebral Assassin."

A Triple H wrestling nickname reference.

Wordplay

"If I’m rising up some TNT, it’s not TMNT."

A TNT/TMNT wordplay. Explosives versus Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Reference

"Chris Benoit, I’ll aim for the wife and kid as well."

A very dark wrestling reference. It is hostile battle material.

Violence

"Levi Jean slashed you in your neck, shave your hair like you’re doing up chemo."

A haircut/chemo attack. It is battle material.

Insult

"Caught my man in the next man’s G-Zone."

A G-Zone / relationship humiliation punch.

Status

"Binging terms, can’t be a vet on the board. Right now you’re only a rook."

A chess ranking line. VARNTAE is not a veteran or king; he is only a rook.

Wordplay

"You can’t be a king if your queen gets hooked."

A chess/relationship punch.

Performance

"Soldier, ANBU killing this soldier."

ANBU’s third-round hook. It turns VARNTAE into a cadet/soldier target.

Status

"Your record dead in the regiment, still not relevant."

A military/status punch. VARNTAE’s record does not give him relevance.

Violence

"When I’m in the scope of the shots, they miss me."

A sniper/soldier image.

Reference

"Lee Rigby."

A very dark UK reference. It is hostile battle material.

Reference

"I’ll send him to Houston singing part is Whitney."

A Whitney Houston reference.

Reference

"Think you can shoot like Kobe, Broski die with your chopper, G.D. Bryant."

A Kobe Bryant / helicopter reference. It is very dark battle material.

Reference

"Get buried in riches so I can raid that tomb like Lara."

A **Tomb Raider / Lara Croft** reference.

Reference

"619, get left in the state, that’s Rey or Sin Cara."

A wrestling reference to Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara.

Reference

"Walls of Jericho not gonna save y’all."

A Chris Jericho wrestling reference.

Reference

"Captain America trying to be a tourist."

A Marvel/reference punch.

Reference

"Can’t manage this shit like Fernando Torres."

A football reference to Fernando Torres.

Violence

"This one here came right from the guillotine."

A closing execution image.

VARNTAE

Insult

"Captain Save All The Hoes."

VARNTAE opens by calling ANBU a simp or saviour figure for women.

Insult

"You should walk around with an S on your chest plate."

A Superman-style “saviour” punch.

Critique

"Every day crying online about PenGame."

A direct attack on ANBU’s online behaviour.

Appearance

"Draw a line from the dot to the dot, connected, I’m not calling ANBU Sketch Face."

A face/skin/spot-drawing insult.

Appearance

"You paint your nails black."

A goth/emo image attack.

Family

"Your mum said, Elijah, what is this nonsense?"

A real-name/family line aimed at ANBU’s style.

Identity

"The Bible says that it is demonic."

A religious/family angle linked to ANBU’s goth/anime image.

Status

"You don’t make PenGame profit."

A platform-value attack.

Reference

"My name’s not DAN DANNAH, you can’t run back that cheeky event."

A battle-history reference to ANBU vs DAN DANNAH.

Status

"How many times have you called my line trying to ask for advice?"

A relationship/status angle. VARNTAE claims ANBU looks up to him.

Wordplay

"Let me teach you again."

A Sensei flip. VARNTAE claims he is the real teacher.

Insult

"You get friendzoned by openly dominant hoes."

A relationship humiliation line.

Critique

"Disrespectful anime flows, not viable tactics."

A direct critique of ANBU’s style.

Appearance

"That blue star on your face ain’t hiding your abscess."

A face/skin insult.

Status

"Go put time into practice, you might start climbing the rankings."

A work-rate and rank attack.

Status

"I’m speaking on Marz’s behalf and for all of the dogs, we’re all tired of your ranting."

A platform/community angle.

Status

"You wouldn’t need to beg if you had respect already established."

A status/respect punch.

Insult

"If you live a pussyhole lifestyle, ANBU, how is it that you never get none?"

A sexuality/status insult.

Insult

"You devoted your life to a hoe and it went wrong."

A relationship failure angle.

Insult

"She was joyriding with the next one, and the next one."

A cheating/relationship humiliation punch.

Insult

"Stop waiting in line for Bonnie Black."

A named relationship/scene angle.

Insult

"I heard she don’t like virgins, that’s why she airs your line of connection."

A virgin/rejection punch.

Identity

"All of your emo friends are white."

A race/subculture attack.

Insult

"You and your guys contracted verruca cause you all share Dr. Martens boots."

A Dr. Martens/verruca foot joke. Strong because it attacks the goth/emo style visually.

Reference

"I think Elijah thought it was Moses, begging the sea parting two."

A Moses/Bible reference linked to ANBU’s real name and religious imagery.

Reference

"That bush was burning."

A burning bush Bible reference.

Career

"You lost to KANDI, bitch bye."

A battle-record attack.

Confidence

"You chose to walk into war with VARNTAE to cause self-harm."

A battle-choice/self-destruction line.

Insult

"Stick to your karaoke with tusks."

A singing/style insult.

Insult

"Go share hentai links with your Gs."

An anime/sexual stereotype insult.

Reference

"GGG, Golovkin, measure unboxing."

A boxing reference to Gennady Golovkin.

Violence

"Put him in the dirt like heavy construction."

A burial/construction punch.

Insult

"You got rejected and you’re upset."

A simple relationship angle.

Insult

"She wouldn’t let you hit cause there’s anime sheets on your mum bed."

One of VARNTAE’s strongest opponent-specific jokes.

Insult

"ANBU’s holding a strap, it’s a dildo inside of a bag."

A crude prop/weapon flip. It is battle material.

Insult

"He looks at chebs and smiles in a clash."

A battle-observation/personal attack.

Identity

"All that pride but you’re hiding your flag."

A sexuality/pride angle. It is hostile battle material.

Insult

"You couldn’t score with a whore at Babylon."

A sex/club insult.

Identity

"You’re the first Black greebo that I met."

A race/subculture insult.

Insult

"LSP cans are 35 pence."

A cheap-drink/poverty angle.

Status

"After this you can’t cry to Marz."

A platform/protection line.

Appearance

"ANBU’s nose can smoke half of a brand new spray."

The start of the third-round nose angle.

Appearance

"ANBU’s nose is the only social security in the world."

A nose-size joke, implying the nose needs its own status.

Appearance

"ANBU’s nose has stories full, it’s got its own gravitational pull."

A size/exaggeration punch.

Appearance

"That cap nose is part of your PPE."

A PPE/protection joke.

Appearance

"Take your nose to the car wash man for a mini valet."

A hygiene/size punch.

Appearance

"During the birth, mum was in pain."

A birth/nose-size insult.

Family

"She took one long look at your face, said to the doctor, I give you my way."

A harsh mother/birth rejection joke.

Appearance

"Your nose is the end of the shovel."

A nose/shovel image.

Critique

"You’d be the richest person alive if being a bitch online was a hustle."

A strong online-behaviour attack.

Identity

"Gay Black feminist simp."

A hostile identity insult. It is battle material.

Insult

"Nemo trying to take chip into next man’s lava."

A cartoon/scene insult. The transcript is rough but functions as ridicule.

Status

"You’ll only win this clash if it’s knees."

A kneeling/submission line.

Appearance

"Nose is bigger than anime freeze."

A nose/anime insult.

Status

"You don’t bring nothing good to the platform."

A platform-value attack.

Insult

"You’re just a rat for the cheese."

A money/opportunist insult.

Threat

"After this clash with me, I hope you collapse in the street."

A final hostile closer. It is battle material.

Judgement Summary

anbu-sensei

Archive result: ANBU SENSEI wins. Archive score: ANBU SENSEI 3-0 VARNTAE. Suggested round split: Round 1: ANBU SENSEI, Round 2: ANBU SENSEI / close, Round 3: ANBU SENSEI. Reason: VARNTAE’s second is competitive and his third is funny, but ANBU’s first two rounds are too heavy. The room reaction, reloads and density of material give ANBU the clear archive win. Performance Grades - ANBU SENSEI: A, VARNTAE: B. Final Note: VARNTAE came with angles, but ANBU came with damage. This is one of ANBU’s stronger performances: dark, layered, aggressive and delivered like he wanted the body.

Battle Stats

Date17-12-2025

Views162K

LeagueSeason 2025 Christmas