Nyssa Al'Ghul

Nyssa is the daughter of Ra's al Ghul and the heir to his world-wide criminal-empire. She has been known as the little sister of Talia Al'Ghul.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

**Peak of human physical condition:** As a highly skilled assassin, Nyssa is in top physical condition with fast reflexes. She is noticeably much faster than Oliver Queen and Malcolm Merlyn, despite Oliver being the same age as her. Nyssa was strong enough to break the neck of Isabel Rochev.[1]

* **Acrobatics/Free-running:** Nyssa is extremely agile and graceful, able to easily parkour on her surroundings during fights. Like Sara Lance, Nyssa can easily descend from large heights with a scarf.[1]
* **Honed senses:** As a trained assassin, Nyssa has highly developed senses, able to detect the presence of others before they approach her. For example, Nyssa deduced Oliver was watching her meeting with Sara without turning around

* **Master hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist:** Having trained with the League of Assassins since childhood, Nyssa is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist, having gone through the same training that all league members do, though being the daughter of Ra's al Ghul meant that she was subjected to a higher level of training. Her style seems to comprise of Boxing, Karate, Taekwondo, Kickboxing, Kung Fu, and Krav Maga. Nyssa was able to easily beat five armed security guards in a matter of seconds.
	+ **Master archer:** Nyssa demonstrated skills in archery that seemed to rival that of Oliver and Malcolm's. She was able to keep up with Oliver in their first one-on-one archery battle and almost won. Nyssa can also easily shoot arrows from a moving vehicle.
	+ **Master stick-fighter:** Nyssa has proven to be a very proficient stick-fighter, she was able to take down multiple armed guards with a police baton. Like Oliver, she offen uses her bow as a blunt weapon in close combat.[1]
	+ **Master swordswoman:** As a former member of the League of Assassins, Nyssa is an excellent swordswoman, she was able to overpower and capture Malcolm when she had a sword while he only had a stick. In their sparring sessions though, Malcolm had repeatedly defeated her, also, during the League civil war, Nyssa confirmed that she couldn't defeat Malcolm in a sword duel. Furthermore, in her sword duel against Oliver, who had greatly improved his swordsman skills, Nyssa was disarmed in seconds. Nyssa was able to defeat some assassins from the League using Oliver's sword by herself and proved able to fight on par with, even defeating her older half-sister, Talia al Ghul, despite the latter's much greater experience; though it's possible that she simply caught Talia off-guard. Nyssa was able to put up a good fight in her confrontation against Athena, but she was soon bested.[1]
	+ **Master knife welder/Knife thrower:** Nyssa is a highly proficient knife welder, as she was able to easily slit the throat of a League member and is also able to throw her darts with great accuracy.[1]
* **High-level intellect/Master tactician/Leader:** Nyssa is intelligent and well-trained in strategy and subterfuge. She devised a plan to poison Laurel and later kidnap Dinah Lance to force Sara Lance into returning to her and the League. She also kidnapped Thea Queen to lure out Malcolm. As the former heir to the Demon, Nyssa displayed leadership skills as she lead a team of assassins to battle Slade Wilson's Mirakuru army and retake the league from Malcolm. Nyssa was also able to infiltrate the Thanatos Guild and discover their endgame, even having devised a fail-safe to help her escape the guild if she was discovered.
	+ **Explosives expert:** Nyssa has become highly trained with the usage of plastic explosives, as she placed a network bombs in the base of the Thanatos Guild to cover her escape while she infiltrated the group.[4]
	+ **Expert medic:** Nyssa is highly trained in first aid. She nursed Sara, who was dying of starvation on Lian Yu, back to health, and treated a sword wound on Oliver's hand after his battle with Ra's.[1]
	+ **Toxicology:** Nyssa displayed a familiarity with poisons. She used a small amount of Tibetan viper venom to poison Laurel in a ruse to bring Sara back, and also immediately figured out that Sara had poisoned herself with said venom. Nyssa later used a dart laced with a sedative to make Roy Harper pass out.[1]
	+ **Multilingual:** Nyssa is capable of fluently speaking English, Arabic, Japanese, and Russian.
* **Meditation:** Nyssa is skilled in the art of meditation, which she used to stay calm while being held captive in a cell in the Arrowcave by Team Arrow.
* **Stealth/Infiltration/Escape artist:** Nyssa is highly experienced in entering and leaving buildings undetected, like Sara, she uses a scarf to quickly descend down from ceilings. Nyssa was able to break into the Arrowcave undetected and ambush Oliver and Roy. She also infiltrated the Thanatos Guild undetected long enough to learn of their plans.

## Equipment

* **Customized hunting arrows:** Nyssa carries a number of black arrows with her at all times. These arrows feature a special red fletching and tip.[1]
* **Customized PSE Chaos AD Compound bow:** Nyssa wields a personal compound bow, similar to that of Malcolm Merlyn. It is possible that this bow is the signature bow to the League of Assassins.[1]
* **Dagger:** Nyssa carries a personalized dagger at her right thigh. It features a gold trim and a marked blade. She drew this dagger upon seeing Sara and during her battle against the Arrow.[1]
* **League of Assassins suit:** Nyssa wears a protective suit of black robes, unique from the usual garb worn by League assassins. Her suit differs in that it features loose fitting garbs and a red shoulder pauldron.[1]
* **Sword:** Nyssa can proficiently wield a sword. It is unknown what type of sword it is.[1]
* **Trick arrows:** Shortly after her return to Starling City, Nyssa uses a bola arrow to save Laurel from a thug, who was about to use a second knife, after the former underestimated her opponent.[1]
* **Quiver:** Nyssa wears a black quiver to keep arrows on her back at all times.