Test of Skill: Experience vs Training

TEAM EXPERIENCE:

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-Bane
-Frank Castle
-Slade Wilson

TEAM TRAINING:

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-Lady Shiva
-Connor Hawke
-Shang Chi

Rules-

• Totally in character. Only stipulation is that teammates won't attack each other. Otherwise, teamwork and chemistry is a factor.
• Random encounter
• START WITH NO EQUIPMENT. EVERYONE IS BUTT NAKED.
• Fight breaks out in a seedy neighborhood at night. Fight can go anywhere, fighters can do anything, makeshift weapons, whatever.

Team 2 comfortably

Shiva is better than anyone on team experiance.

What's Frank doing here?

A good replacement for Frank is this guy who has EXPERIANCE written all over him.

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@apocofist: Don't underestimate Frank. He has a habit of getting himself out of some pretty narrow scrapes.

• START WITH NO EQUIPMENT. EVERYONE IS BUTT NAKED.

Ends in sex.

But seriously Team Training with very little difficulty, Frank gets one shotted.

Frank sucks with just his bare hands. And honestly I hate pure H2H fights, where's the fun in that. Bane and Slade might just have too high of physicals too beat with no weapons.

Naked Bane solos.

I see Punisher is being underestimated here....

Punisher is the least skilled and the weak link. Team 2.

I figured people would view Slade as the strongest fighter on either team and Frank can probably give someone like Connor pure hell just through sheer grit. I figured it evened out when I made the thread, but a lot of people are just going with Team 2 right off the bat.

I hope not, for Shiva's sake.

@nickzambuto: I guess I see more holes than you then.?

team 2 stomps.

Ends in an orgy

Things just got dark.

Unless... you're talking about the men...

Of course.

52 versions of bane and deathstroke ?

@nickzambuto: LOL, I'm talking about the men, I thought the emoji implied it clearly enough.

Frank is a weak link but Slade is the MVP and Bane should be fine fighting any of the other team. Team 1 should win.

@highaccuser: That's more like it.

I see Slade carrying his team.

@apocofist:Wolverine has the best of both worlds imo, he's been trained by Ogun, Master Po, Mabel, Cyber, Silver Samurai and even Stick, I think Thor or Cable would be a better example of someone with little training but alot of experience

Edit: Deadpool and his unique style would prob. be the best example of experience as I don't recall anyone training him, which is why his style tends to take people off guard

@detacude: It's been stated that he got military training from somewhere but it's never been revealed on who it is. I'm also sure that he got a few tricks from Taskmaster along the way.

But apart from those he's probably mostly self taught.

I was trying to choose characters who I believe exemplified the two sides of fighting skill; experience and training.

Although it's almost impossible to think of high-tier fighters who don't possess both, which is why I had to resort to Lady Shiva (who is very experienced) and Deathstroke (who is very highly trained). I think Bane is a good example of what I was going for though. The man is a badass because he possesses absolutely no martial arts training. There's no Leap of the Desert Lotus or Flying Cobra Strike from him. No weird pressure points, no showboating or fancy moves. Just a man who grew up in the most violent environment in the world, and figured out the best ways to hurt people...

He's pure brawn, pure grit, pure efficiency. Again, no showboating or fancy flips. Bane's goal is to break you, so he will go about doing that in the quickest and most efficient way possible, and oftentimes the most efficient way possible is obscenely brutal...

@nickzambuto: I agree. He admittedly is the weakest here as far has hand to hand combat goes but people are claiming he is outright bad and will be one shotted and junk. That is ridiculous