r/whowouldwin May 03 '20

Event Clash of Titans, Losers Round 3

Out of Tier Rules

For Out of Tier requests, Simply debate better than your opponents. The judges will judge the quality of both participants arguments into question and decide a winner based on that.

Battle Rules

Speed - movement speed and combat speed will be set at Mach 1, Combat and movement speed, with their reactions scaled down/up relatively. Speed boosts via abilities, however, are indeed allowed to make one surpass this base speed threshold.

Battleground:

Its SCP-3008. SCP 3008 is an huge space (Current measurements indicate an area of at least 10km2) designed to look like the inside of a regular Ikea store. The arena will be tall enough that the largest submitted character can fit comfortably inside. Combatants start 10 meters away from each other, and in a line spaced 2 meters apart from their allies. Every combatant starts each round being 'teleported' into the arena, knowing full well whomever they face down needs to die or be incapacitated in order for they themselves to advance and win and will do so, and with knowledge of their allies' weapons and abilities. All combatants begin without any weapons drawn or abilities active, hands idle at their sides, weapons holstered, and the moment they teleport in they can begin combat. All combatants are in-character for the tourney itself. No character can escape SCP-3008.

As a side note, the towns that have been set up as well as SCP-3008-2 are not present for the tourney.

Side side note, while combatants cannot exit the arena that does not preclude parts of the arena being torn off and used as weapons.

Combatants spawn in the very center of the Ikea.

Submission Rules

Tier:

Must be able to win an unlikely victory, draw/near draw, or likely victory against

Ben Grimm AKA The Thing

in the conditions outlined above; All entrants will be bloodlusted against The Thing, meaning they will act fully rationally and put down their opponent in the quickest, most efficient manner possible regardless of morality, utilizing any and all possible techniques/tactics/attacks if necessary.

For tier setter fights/OOT requests assume both Thing and your character are bloodlusted

Debate Rules

Rounds will last 5 days, hopefully from Tuesday until Sunday of each week of the tourney; there is a 48 hour time limit both on starting (we do not care who starts, you and your opponent can figure that out) AND on responses, AND ADDITIONALLY each user MUST get in two responses or else be disqualified. If one user waits until the very last minute to force this rule to DQ their opponent without any forewarning to their opponents or the tournament supervisors, they will be removed from this tournament, no exceptions.

Format for each round: both respondents get Intro + 1st Response, then 2nd response, then a 3rd response and closing statement individual of one another that can be posted any time after both 3rd responses are complete. EACH RESPONSE MUST BE NO LONGER THAN THREE REDDIT COMMENTS LONG WITH A HARD CAP OF 25,000 CHARACTERS SPLIT BETWEEN THE THREE.

Rounds will either be a full 3v3 Team Match, or 1v1 single matches. 1v1 matches are determined by randomization. Match format will switch every round, with Team Matches always followed by single matches, and vice versa. First Round will be determined by coin flip.

Brackets Here

Determined by coin flip, the third round shall be:

3v3 Team Melee

Round 3 Ends Saturday May 9th at 12 Pm EST

Format for each round: both respondents get Intro + 1st Response, then 2nd response, then a 3rd response and closing statement individual of one another that can be posted any time after both 3rd responses are complete. EACH RESPONSE MUST BE NO LONGER THAN THREE REDDIT COMMENTS LONG WITH A HARD CAP OF 25,000 CHARACTERS SPLIT BETWEEN THE THREE.

Rounds will either be a full 3v3 Team Match, or 1v1 single matches. 1v1 matches are randomized based on sign up order via an internet list randomizer. Match format will switch every round, with Team Matches always followed by single matches, and vice versa. First Round will be determined by coin flip, and as it is 3v3s, next shall be 1v1, and so on and so forth.

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u/EmbraceAllDeath May 08 '20

Clash Of Titans Round 5 Response 3 Part (3/3)

Scenario 3

Hulk still will have considerable delay to noticing Betty's demise. Yes, he does have an instinct of when they're in danger. But that means nothing in a fight where Hulk is facing multiple clones of Greninja and multiple projectiles. Even if there's a signal that his wife is in danger, that's being clouded by multiple other danger signals, to the point that it's like Spidey getting beaten up by the Sinister Six because his Spidey sense is on the fritz. Most of Wolf's examples come from contexts where Hulk is in no immediate danger, and can focus on saving his friend.

Additionally, the overwhelming nature of Pikachu's thunderbolt is such Harpy would be immediately vaporized if tagged. This action would be so swift that it would impossible to perceive it happening unless Hulk was looking at Betty the whole, which again, is unlikely. Banner will perceive Betty as in danger, but will be stupefied as to how it actually happened long enough for him to get tagged by a thunderbolt and die.

Hulk will not transform into Bronze Age (Classic) Savage Hulk

Let me try to summarize the debate. This is a representation of Banner and Hulk, in a chart. As we can see, Intelligent Hulk is informed by Banner's mind and Hulk's body. Wolf is attempting to prove that Betty's death will induce Banner's mind to shift into Savage Hulk's mind, and access their additional strength. I simply need to disprove that, and show that another shift is more likely. My core claims are:

  • Banner is high capable of repressing Savage Hulk

  • Even if Banner regresses to Savage Hulk, he'll further regress into Kluh because he's being attacked by a team composed of his friend Luke, which amounts to betrayal.

 

Now, my first argument is that Banner will keep Hulk under control at all times, and has options to redirect that anger when needed.

The Banner and the Hulk are separated in intelligent Hulk's mind, where he calmly analyzes the situations. This makes Banner's emotions disassociated with him, and allows Banner to cutoff Hulk if an external element triggers him.

Now, Professor Hulk is composed of Banner, Savage Hulk, and Joe Fixit (Banner's trauma). Professor Hulk being able to keep Savage Hulk in check is merely a reason why Banner can check back Savage Hulk in Intelligent Hulk, because both the Professor and Int Hulk use the same personality to check back Savage Hulk.

The main counterpoint Wolf posits is that Professor Hulk has additional experience from the trauma of losing control as Intelligent Hulk. This narrative of events is blatantly false.

  • In the scan Wolf linked, Intelligent Hulk doesn't disappear from a traumatic event. He willingly gives up control of his mind to become Savage Hulk (which quickly reverts to Mindless Hulk) in order to beat Hammer. At a later point he becomes Professor Hulk, but there's no intuitive reason that Professor Hulk would have more rigorous restraints vs accessing the Hulk

  • Banner is afraid enough of the Hulk in general from his background that it should overshadow any trauma he receives from being Int Hulk. Int Hulk doesn't really experience any traumatic events that cause him to transform, so the main evidence we can base what Int Hulk does is what Banner does under Professor Hulk. In multiple instances, Banner elects to a double switcharoo of the mind and body so that Banner still controls Hulk's body, which means Hulk will become Savage Banner in this fight and make this a 3v1.

 

My second argument is that if Banner turns into Savage Hulk, he'll subsequently turn into Kluh.

My thesis is that Hulk feeling sad in a context where Luke is fighting him and killing happens is what pushes Kluh to appear, because Kluh is a specific manifestation of sadness Hulk has to Luke betraying him, which Wolf's arguments don't address.

Wolf's Kluh arguments

This entire argument is asinine and mainly exists because Wolf doesn't want to accept that Kluh is a specific a manifestation of Hulk's sadness, which is why he calls it untraditional, incongruent, and other baseless names. If Xenmu wanted Hulk to conquer the planet then he wouldn't make Hulk weaker by turning him into Kluh. There's a reason why Kluh busts out of the tower after being attacked by Luke and doesn't fight back, because Kluh does not remotely belong in Thing tier.

 

Now my third argument, is that most of Wolf's scans don't apply to Banner's mind, and are irrelevant. Wolf's args, numbered

Argument 1

  • No, this is Devil Hulk, who is a manifestation of Banner's childhood trauma in the chart above. This doesn't indicate Banner becomes savage

  • This doesn't disprove Kluh coming out in this battle, because Banner is not being betrayed here, and hence doesn't feel the sadness of losing friends emotionally associated with Kluh.

Argument 2

  • This pertains to Savage Hulk's mind, and isn't relevant to Banner. Savage Hulk doesn't change into Intelligent Hulk until IH ~270 (as indicated by Int Hulk's RT), and this issue is from IH ~250.

  • Even so, this is an anti-feat- it shows that Savage Hulk will cry and sit as a walking target instead of retaliate.

Argument 3

  • Still doesn't disprove Savage Hulk becoming Kluh specifically when betrayed by his friend. This sadness pertains to his friends dying.

Argument 4

  • Idk which issue this is, but I'm 99% sure this is Savage Hulk, so it doesn't disprove my claims of Banner repressing Hulk.

Argument 5

  • This is Mindless Hulk, who isn't remotely relevant to this debate, lacking Banner and Hulks' minds.

Other args

Toriko and Harpy

They get incapped to electricity or Greninja's ranged piercing before doing anything, regardless of how many times they revive. Harpy can't revive if she's vaporized.

Luke

Everything that I needed to say is in my second response. He's strong.

Pikachu and Greninja's physicals

Haven't really been refuted, they strike with enough force to beat Wolf's team, and can take any hit from Wolf's characters.

The surface area issue doesn't apply to air slashes, as they don't move past Pikachu's body and each individual air slash is fairly small.


/u/xWolfpaladin

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u/EmbraceAllDeath May 10 '20

Clash Of Titans Round 5 ConKluhsion

  • Pikachu shocking everyone with thunderbolt is the primary win con, and it works on Harpy, Toriko, Int Hulk, or any other Hulk because of its wattage/current and heat components, especially when Pikachu's foes will be wet from Greninja's clones' water shurikens tagging them.

  • Greninja tagging people with water shurikens at range is a secondary win con, and it works on Harpy or Toriko

  • Luke Cage hurting everyone with blunt force is a tertiary win con that works on Harpy, Toriko, or Hulk.

  • Wolf can't win with Hulk

    • Hulk dies to electricity, either before or after he transforms
    • Hulk's jumping is ineffective in the IKEA
    • Hulk can't transform into Savage Hulk
      • Banner's personality keeps Savage Hulk under control when Banner is in control, Wolf lacks scans proving otherwise
      • When confronted with a specific scenario where an antagonizing side including Luke Cage has pushed for killing and has hurt Hulk, Savage Hulk has turned into Kluh 100% of the time. Kluh is monumentally weaker than any Hulk form
      • Wolf has scans showing Hulk gets stronger when angrier, but not Banner (as a personality) transforming into Savage Hulk when saddened/angered
    • Int Hulk is just weak
  • Wolf can't win with Harpy or Toriko, as they get incapped by thunderbolts and shurikens at the start of the match.

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u/xWolfpaladin May 10 '20

As this entire debate has essentially always been the discussion of "Can Hulk get angry" and "Can Hulk hit", my final response will attempt to

  • Re-contextualize my previous claims in the context of the entire debate
  • Attempt to make my primary points clearer
  • Attempt to bypass the bias implicit in any given debate to not only directly address the judges, but to directly address the flaws my opponent has made.

Prelude

I'd like to start off with no, this isn't some Guy-esque distraction from the debate. I'll try to keep this brief.

I do not enjoy an attack of character. I think that they are generally irrelevant, and often detract from the points that the user is making. I think they annoy judges. I would attempt to avoid an attack of character even if only to avoid weakening my own points. In this case, however, I genuinely and truly believe that many of the claims on the specific nature of Hulk are so flawed that they can actually only be considered in the context of someone who does not know enough about a given subject to understand how wrong they are. The reason I address this directly and not the actual feats in the discussion is because while I believe that feats can be interpreted in much more of a variety of ways, there are canon facts that objectively exist about characters. The most relevant of these is timeline.

The other claims I consider to be a more acceptable misunderstanding in the context of general ignorance, so I will cover them in the tone of a normal response.

Additionally, I would also like to address the jokes I made in round 2. While these are jokes, intended to be read as jokes, to primarily illicit humor, I do not consider them fully irrelevant to my response. The claim that Xemnu created Axis Kluh is as much a waste of time as Classic Hulk turns into Kluh, and I in all honesty, as the user and not the debater, consider them equally valid. Additionally, the insect point was a vague complaint at the dissection of irrelevant points in the face of one overwhelming win condition. I largely argued with my opponent on issues like Luke Cage to expose a fundamental issue I had with the logic my opponent uses in relation to my own characters, not because I think Luke matters even a little bit, for example.


fuck formality all my homies hate formality

  • Banner/Hulk love Betty and become enraged upon her death, which makes him vastly stronger.
    • Intelligent Hulk does not have the mental blocks that caused him to block out his transformation in later appearances.
    • Kluh isn't real. "Hulk loses because he turns into Kluh" has as much validity as "Hulk loses because he farted and pissed and shitted and camed in his pants."
  • My opponent's claims about Hulk are misinformed and unreliable, and an attempt to re-contextualize them as a difference of interpretation can be showcased to be wrong even late into the third response, with additional objectively false claims.
  • Hulk is frequently betrayed and frequently sad.
  • My opponent lacks credibility on essentially every major point of contention.
  • There is not a single given example of Pikachu ever opening with electricity equivalent to his best feats with the intent to kill
    • Pikachu at full strength will not kill Classic Hulk regardless.
  • My opponent has generous definitions of antifeats and generous definitions of "no sell" or "take" for her own characters

Point 1 - Hulk vs Your Team

Pikachu vs Murdering People

  • My opponent's entire win condition unilaterally rests on the single factor of Pikachu murdering Hulk so quickly that he has no idea that Betty has been hurt. Despite this, my opponent has provided no example of the extremely specific wording they use of vaporizing skin, organs, or anything even vaguely immediately lethal. Pretty much every single instance of Pikachu using electricity ever shows zero characterization that implies his opening blast is anything even resembling full strength. Based on actual instances, it is extremely likely that Pikachu opens with the electricity to incap a tall person (Toriko and Harpy are in the range of 7 feet) and attempts to zap them into unconsciousness. This will put down Betty first, and trigger Hulk in every possible scenario, because he objectively has the most electricity resistance present by to attacks in the tier of "knocking out big humans".

  • Pikachu is overwhelmingly likely to attempt a KO before literal murder, which always leads to Betty being taken out first

    • Pikachu has never opened with an attack that vaporizes his enemies. The attacks he demonstrates versus actual opponents are sufficient to put down Betty, because even if you highballed her electrical resistance due to her size, Pikachu still opens with blasts capable of knocking out groups of people, but his blasts are consistently survivable by things with absolutely no feats indicating resistances whatsoever beyond a vague assertion of normal humans generally having super-durability.
  • Pikachu's "Thunderbolt" is so totally divorced from how lightning actually acts when it used as an attack I'm not sure it's even intended to deliver a charge to people beyond a vague cartoonish shock in the same line of Wil-E Coyote using dynamite or a taser, because again, literally every single instance of it interacting with enemies can only be defended with "Maybe they're secretly A-tier with no evidence"

    If Pikachu doesn't provably use enough energy to vaporize Hulk, it doesn't matter if he CAN generate that energy, what matters is IF he will, and he has never displayed this lethality against opponents. Pikachu has zero examples of opening on sentient targets with full power blasts that will literally vaporize them or outright murder them, and the primary example of it being used leaves normal humans completely fine and is accomplishing a secondary goal.

To support the previous points, Pikachu is literally being commanded by a 14 year old child.

Hulk doesn't even need to meaningfully withstand the electricity as he would in the context of a normal 1v1, he has to not be dead, Pikachu has repeated examples of his blasts taking enough time that Hulk can react to what is happening versus enemies who display the grand electrical resistance of approximately zero, unless these cops have sunglasses capable of """withstanding the heat capable of vaporizing stone""" it's more likely that Pikachu starts weak his blast weak and slowly gets stronger, because again

Any situation in which Hulk is dying has Betty dying first, and no feat provided shows that Pikachu will use his full energy so quickly that Hulk will not be able to even react to it, and you have never, ever, at all in this debate demonstrated any example of Pikachu instantly incapping or vaporizing anyone with meaningful electrical resistance. Like, if Pikachu or Ash do something like "start with the minimum amount of electricity and ramp up so as to take them out" or even just start with something that would killa big man like Toriko instead of trying to LITERALLY VAPORIZE them, Betty is literally always going to die first, Hulk will literally always get mad, Hulk's circumstance is something that will always turn him into Savage Hulk. Every single claim about my opponent's win condition directly lies on the presupposition that if a thunderbolt hits Hulk even a single time he dies instantly with 0 time to react, and they have not even once meaningfully addressed what will happen if it doesn't outright instantly kill Hulk, which it does not.

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u/xWolfpaladin May 10 '20

Hulk jumps good

Hulk can also jump straight

Most of the "anti-feats" here are Pikachu incapping as opposed to killing other beings with his electricity. These feats do not disprove Pikachu's strength, because humans and Pokémon are ridiculously durable and normal, and hence the electricity doesn't vaporize them or fry their organs

It is far more likely here that Pikachu doesn't open literally every fight with energy sufficient to vaporize someone with electric durability far above a normal human.

The supposed instances of maximum energy are insufficient to defeat Classic Hulk.

Hulk cares more about Betty than anything else

"Telepathy, empathic rapport, instinct... words. Only words. They mean nothing to Hulk... He knows now that Betty is in great danger, how he knows is irrelevant."

Hulk Smashes Your Team

https://i.imgur.com/a7ZktNN.png

https://i.imgur.com/l39oRSY.png

Point 2 - Hulk is Hulk

Kluh doesn't exist

Intelligent Hulk doesn't turn into Savage Banner

I used the Professor Hulk quote because it is widely the most iconic Betty death, but Betty dying in the same arc didn't cause a regression into Savage Banner, because they were still in the old dynamic, such as in the Hulk I am using now, what you are using doesn't matter and is overly specific.

  • Banner thought that Hulk had killed his wife and he still didn't turn into Kluh

Professor Hulk has his own fears, own experiences, and own mental breakdown that caused him to turn into Savage Banner. Professor Hulk is who Bruce wishes he could be, and seeing Betty died caused that to shatter into pieces, and the fear that Samson had instilled caused Savage Banner, and due to being unable to stop the mental transformation, Professor Hulk caused his body to change physically. Bruce won't try to stop the transformation here; he wants to win, and he's really going to want to murder you. * Savage Hulk when confronting Abomination, who had killed Betty, fucking destroys him

Because Intelligent-Hulk is not a merged personality, he is simply Banner, his severe anger will turn him into Hulk.

Normal Johnny does, and it's a massive anti-feat because Asbestos is ridiculously easy to affect compared to what Johnny does regularly.

We don't know how strong Asbestsos is in Marvel, Human Torch is stronger or equal to Tier!Torch and his nuclear tier nova blast could incinerate Tier-Thing.

Pikachu feat 8 isn't a valid anti-feat. We don't know how strong lightning is in Pokémon

So it defaults to normal lightning. Thankfully, Marvel lightning is strong enough to vaporize a mountain of meat taller than the Hulk, so essentially every instance of Hulk vs lightning such as Thor by your own logic is much better.

While I only half-consider this point, I think it's clear that Pikachu's bolt in actuality acts completely different from lighting, but the actual wattage is intended to be comparable to normal lightning by the statement, pretty much every single Character Rant my opponent linked had people complaining about pokedex statements being too strong, Hulk can provably tank normal lightnin.

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u/xWolfpaladin May 10 '20 edited May 10 '20

Rebuttals that I struggled to include but needed to

No, this is Devil Hulk, who is a manifestation of Banner's childhood trauma in the chart above. This doesn't indicate Banner becomes savage

This is Savage Hulk. Previous comics explain this. You are ignorant.

This pertains to Savage Hulk's mind, and isn't relevant to Banner.

Hulk is Banner and Banner is Hulk. Or is he both?

  • I deleted this point I'm sorry but yes it's savage hulk that's my point savage hulk kills people who hurt those he loves

This is Mindless Hulk, who isn't remotely relevant to this debate, lacking Banner and Hulks' minds.

.... this is intelligent Hulk from #289. No it isn't. Stop lying. Stop being ignorant. free mefdssdf

In Conclusion

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u/xWolfpaladin May 10 '20 edited May 10 '20

In Conclusion

Hulk can't and won't turn into Kluh

Hulk can't and won't turn into Savage Banner

Hulk can and will one shot your team

My opponent shouldn't be trusted on anything and this probably includes their own characters

also the smoke is probably closer to pink than red i have flux on sorry pls no bully