r/whowouldwin • u/KenfromDiscord • 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
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.
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.
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.
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