@supremegeneration:
Karnak usually stands there doing squat while figuring out what to do. He also has 0 knowledge on his opponents, so he doesn't have the luxury of waiting around while his team gets 3v2'd and he's trying to figure something out. Furthermore, there's 3 very skilled combatants he has to worry about, X-Factors like the Widow Bites, the billy club extensions, and the electric batons. I don't think he fought anyone exceptionally skilled in the show, though I might be forgetting some things.
I don't know how his power worked in the show, tbh. I think he jumps in a fight and sees if its going to go his way. If it doesn't, he tries again. He was able to walk around room while everything else was frozen. So he doesn't have to worry about his team. They won't start fighting until he does. And he'll only start fighting after he's sure he's going to win.
Karnak literally can't loose.
Karnak's power is one of the things I wanted to test in this battle. What does it take for him to lose? How skilled an opponent can he defeat with his powers, is there a ceiling? How much information does he need ahead of time to win? In this case, Black Widow's clubs glow, so he's going to be pretty aware of how they work from the start, I think. Bobbi's returnable ones less so. It's unclear to me at this time what the limit on his tactics/weakness-seeing is, but I think there must be one at some level. I don't think his power is literally to freeze time, I think that is just the show's way of showing that he thinks extremely fast, and can imagine a million possibilities in a split second. But still, he clearly was capable of seeing a lot of possibilities.
In terms of some other details--these are for those who haven't seen much of Inhumans--Karnak was also fast and accurate enough to deflect a bullet with his finger, almost exactly as he did in the comics in his recent solo volume.
Auran is a pretty skilled, tactical fighter, also very agile. Here are two fights with her against the superhumanly strong Gorgon, who is also supposed to be the best fighter in Atalan as the head of the guards. She also possesses regeneration, although it's not totally clear to me if she can heal during a fight, or only after (she came back from the dead a couple times); if she can regenerate mid-fight, that would be helpful vs the blunt weapons the human team has. First fight (starts about the 1 minute mark) with her fish-hooking his mouth and taking a kick from Gorgon among other things, second fight, does less well but some agile fighting. She had more fights but I don't see them online.
Triton came back in the last episode and had a pretty good blitzing feat against guards (near the end of the clip). He was clearly pretty skilled, and I would say superhumanly fast with his bullet dodging, which would match up with his obviously superhuman swimming speed. Excellent agility and good accuracy with thrown knives.
I'm not taking sides here by getting into detail on the Inhumans, I just know they're less well-known and want to give some feats.
Also, while everyone is probably very familiar with Widow, I ran across this last night, which is a great resource--all her fights in one video.
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