r/whowouldwin • u/Joseph_Stalin_ ​ • Aug 12 '15

[Death Battle #47]Knuckles Vs Donkey Kong

Round 1: Comics only Knuckles

Round 2: Games only

Round 4: Both

As per rules of Death battle, they're both going for the kill

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u/LittleMann ​ Aug 12 '15 edited Aug 12 '15

I appreciate how goofy this fight is. It's like the Three Stooges, except there are only two and they're both intelligent animals. Intelligent respective to their species, anyway.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '15

Definitely, seemed like it was a good opportunity for Mali to stretch the comedy muscles again ala the Hercule vs Dan OMM.
Little salty about the kill though. seemed a bit petty.
 
As for the actual question, I'd say something like this.
Round 1: Knuckles, he has many more super forms than just Hyper Knuckles in this one and quite a few stronger, With IIRC Enerjak being a literal god. Not to mention he's legitimately smart as opposed to Sonic Boom and sometimes the games. Chaos Knuckles or Enerjak stomp.
Round 2: DK has shown stronger moves than Knuckles. Unless we consider the Knocking the Super out of Sonic thing to not be an outlier, Knuckles ain't chuckling this time.
Round 3: Enerjak or Chaos Knuckles still stand too tall compared to DK.

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u/dothbadder ​ Aug 12 '15

I don't consider comics or Sonic X canon, so if we're talking canon, I'd say Donkey def. takes it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '15

Right, but the prompt Stalin laid out included Comics in two of them, so Thats my angle.
 
I'd point out also that Comics Knuckles in general ought not be included, Archie has run for a freaking long time, and as a result there have been numerous power boosts to up the ante leading to power creep past the scope of the games concept. Hell, I'm pretty sure Shadow vs Vegeta would have been tilted if the comics were added in.

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u/dothbadder ​ Aug 12 '15

Exactly, I was just adding my two cents, hahaha.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '15

Really? We see Knuckles keeping up with Sonic. He's been shown with much greater maneuverability than what we've seen from DK.

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u/dothbadder ​ Aug 12 '15

Yeah? He's still much stronger and much more durable. If we're keeping Newton's third law in mind, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, punching the moon hard enough to move it would have turned a normal person into bloody mush. Most of Knuckle's feats are building-level at best. He didn't break the moon with a punch, he broke the receiver, which in turn blew up that half of the moon. The volcano feat is non-canon. One good hit from DK would absolutely destroy Knuckles

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '15

I don't recall many durability feats from Donkey Kong.

Why is the moon feat not considered an outlier? In other fames we see him struggle to break free from rope, and after windong up, he knocks K. Rool out of a window. Not even that far out of the window. (I'm talking DKC2).

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u/dothbadder ​ Aug 13 '15

If anything, the rope thing is an outlier. He's always been shown to be incredibly strong, at least stronger than rope

Punching Lord Fredrick into the atmosphere

Lifting and throwing The Ghastly King, who is at the very least building-sized, if not larger, with absolutely no effort

Punching K. Rool out of the window is still impressive, considering #1: He's incredibly heavy and a few feet taller than DK and #2: DK punched upwards. The window K. Rool flies out of is at the top of the castle. He was punched near the bottom of the castle. This may be as impressive as punching Lord Fredrick

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '15

I guess it's fair to say he gets stronger as the years go on. Good links, I retract my statement about the moon.

Still not sure if he could take Knuckles. Imma do some reading and come back.

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u/dothbadder ​ Aug 13 '15

Okay, thanks for the compliment :)

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u/tom641 ​ Aug 13 '15

I just accept that they have a hard time deciding how to actually end it so at some point they just decide "this move kills" since the animations don't actually influence the result.