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The speed I'm talking about has more to do with acceleration and momentum. Yes, it's very fast at the tip, but what if he misses? Then he's got all that weight dragging his swing past the striking point and leaving him open to counter-attack. Even being stronger than most humans, it'll take longer to recover from that than it would for David or Mordem to recover from a similar strike.

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True, but big heavy weapons are going to make Zakith slower, which is the trade off for more powerful strikes.

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To me, Meats was borderline. Too many advantages without any significant disadvantages to go with them, but since he's not blatantly more powerful than a peak human like Bane (without venom) then I was willing to accept him. But back to Zakith.

He can shatter stone with little difficulty, and often overpowers opponents much larger than himself (300 pounds).

Is that referring to the weight he can lift, or the weight of the opponents he can overpower? In comic-dom, 500-600 pounds is usually considered peak human, though personally I'd put someone like Bane at around 1,000-1,200, and your guy strikes me as being similar to him.

I'd also prefer he not have any kind of plate armor (apart from maybe a pair of bracers), since this is supposed to be skill vs skill and Zakith isn't lacking even slightly in that department (if he was less skilled than the others, I'd be willing to allow armor to make up for the deficit, but he's clearly not).

One last thing is the speed with which you say he can wield his sword. Just keep in mind that a 7 and a half foot sword that weighs 23 pounds is most definitely going to move slower than my tomahawks or Green's katana, simply due to the restrictions of physics.

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4 tons is 8 times what the strongest human alive can lift, and your guy can as much as double that.

What Green said was that Wanted and the first Matrix movie can be used as a reference, so taking the Wanted side into account, it can be reasonably deduced that he didn't mean Neo at the end of the Matrix, and he probably didn't mean the agents either. Even if he did, Zakith could cut down half a dozen agents without breaking a sweat.

And it's not just the strength that tips him over the edge. Right now, he's most definitely far stronger than any of the other three characters, but he's also just as skilled, just as fast (probably actually faster, given his ability to somehow use air as a cutting weapon) and far more durable. If the only advantage he had was his strength (and even at half the strength he currently has that would be a significant advantage), then he might be okay, but as it stands he's got every physical advantage possible over the others, AND he's wearing armor. This is supposed to be a 1 vs 1 vs 1 vs 1 fight. Not a 3 vs 1 fight.

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Also, this is a low tier fight, and zarkith is definitely intermediate.

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You'll have to excuse the typos. I'm working from my phone.

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Firstly, it was me who put Arthur in he high tier, not Skalla, and that was before I fully understood the capabilities of other high tier characters and what was allowed, so it's debatable if be even actually does belong in the high tier. And even if he does, he's at he very bottom of it in terms of power, and what powers he does have are primarily melee focused. So in essence, you picked the single worst character you could have to fight Erde, a top-end high tier character whose powers have a two mile range. Arty has literally nothing that can be used accurately at that range (yet). So again, worst possible mat neuro you could have picked, since it starts out heaving slanted in favor of Erde simply by virtue of the characters used.

Secondly, your setup makes no sense. They start out two miles apart, and Erde is unaware of Arthur. Ok, good so far. Then we find out that Erde is surrounded by a ten foot thick stone wall in addition to his "body", even though he believes he's alone. Umm... Why? Why would be be wasting the effort? And then he just randomly decides that he's going to spikeify the ground for two miles in every direction, even though he still believes he's alone. Again, why?

I'm not sure you understand the concept of an advantage, as your entire scenario is as much in Erde's favor as it is possible to be, barring Erde knowing of Arthur's presence beforehand (an "advantage" you nullified with a completely non-sensical first attack).

Pick a character who actually belongs in high tier and try again.

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GreivousKhan said
Would have preferred no powers or anything higher then tier one myself. But I'm interested.

According to Crapton in the previous Multiverse, tier 1's have no outstanding traits or skills at all. So a tier 1 melee fight would essentially be the equivalent of a bunch of rednecks slugging it out in a bar. Not my idea of a test of skill.

And I think we'll wait for Khan to submit his character before getting started. Assuming it doesn't take too long.

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What'll we be doing in the meantime?

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Melon! I missed ya buddy! Are things still going to happen in the wastes?