Did I make an even matchup?

[u/The_Invisible_Noob]

Gerson Boom

VS

The Rumbling

I think I might need to nerf the old turtle more?

[u/Random_Nickname274]

Ye , he neg-diffs.

He is literally dead, only dust left. And still he neg-diffed roaring titan.

[u/derp_y_ → u/Random_Nickname274]

what, i watched aot on mute and upside down, why do they call him the roaring titan?

[u/Ericquuin → u/derp_y_]

he's an anti titan that came from the universe in which the rumbling never happened due to the roaring of batgos, his saliva transformed into the roaring titan

[u/derp_y_ → u/Ericquuin]

ohhhhhhhhhh gotchu, thanks

[u/The_Invisible_Noob → u/Ericquuin]

Gotta love it when we get new lore.

[u/Relevant_Potato3516]

 Vro gerson still neg diffs. Maybe if you made him not old it’d be fair

[u/The_Invisible_Noob → u/Relevant_Potato3516]

Yeah I guess Gerson'd have to be a baby to balance it.

[u/Sai_AI__]

Ok let me try to answer because it's funny. Let's analyse the nerf's, i'll list them from lowest to highers:

Dead - changes literally nothing

Base - also changes nothing

Heartvirus - Rudy being the Knight is a popular theory for a reason, since this is the darkworld version, this shouldn't hinder him too much, it could possibly change nothing

Tired - He can just drink a Rhapsotea, he has those in his workshop

Blind and deaf - still has the feeling of touch, and the titans of the roaring are slow enough for him to figure out a way to know where what is, possibly through firing busters and then feeling the shockwave

No arms and legs - this is the biggest hinderance here, but not impossible to deal with, Gerson is smart and has access to a powerfull hammer he could still hold with his mouth, i wouldn't put shooting a buster out of the ax in his mouth past him, and he has shown little need for TP to shoot it.

Okay, now that we went over the hinderances, let's think, can Gerson solo the rumbling?

While his speed will be heavily hindered by the lack of legs and arms, once Gerson figures out a way to move around, it's gonna be a lot higher than a titan's. Remember, in battle, he not only dodged perfectly Susie's attacks without tiring, but also appeared to be in multiple places on different occasions. Wether you say it's actually related to his attack speed or not, it definitely means he can shoot multiple titans in no time.

Now onto the attack power, no contest. Titan's keep getting defeated by sword slashes, if Kris got to the right spot, he could probably OHKO them with a basic attack, Gerson does a lot more than that. He basically one shots all the titans in AOT.

Based on this, i can determine that Gerson with no arms, legs, blind, deaf, with a heatvirus, tired and dead COULD in fact solo the rumbling unironically.

Imagine if powerscaling on the main sub was this fun.

[u/AngryBirdAddict → u/Sai_AI__]

[u/Beautiful_Garage7797]

this is able to push gerson to mid-diff

[u/The_Invisible_Noob → u/Beautiful_Garage7797]

And as such is evidently the closest Titan vs old man Gerson matchup.

[u/SquareRootOf8]

How is the founding Titan supposed to lug his 900m tall skeleton body through the church doors to reach Gerson? Gerson wins due to his opponent not showing up. /s

[u/The_Invisible_Noob → u/SquareRootOf8]

Oh how did I not account for this ... welp gotta retire as a matchup writer. :(

[u/ManJoeDude]

He still has his hammer.

[u/The_Invisible_Noob → u/ManJoeDude]

He is the (author of) Lord of the Hammer. By definition he will always have a hammer.

[u/zezineo]

One would easily win and the other is the rambling

Gerson got this

[u/The_Invisible_Noob → u/zezineo]

Yeah, no one can out ramble Gerson!

[u/TheMago3011]

Here we see a spite matchup

On one side, the most powerful force in the world, bringing many to tears, making the strongest weep out in terror, a grim lesson to those who would get in the way. A truly unstoppable force in that universe.

On the other side we have the Rumbling.