Nice fight, however I think Avengers take this 6 maybe 7 times out of 10.
Mainly because War Machine, Black Panther and Cap (with his shield) have amazing defense. The relatively long distance plays in Avengers advantage. Guardians have a chance to pull the win if they work as a team.
Let's analyse what the fighters can do:
For WM the only real threat is Groot. Keep the fair distance and he should tear him apart with his crazy fire power (WM's feats show that he's capable of doing that as he quickly destroyed the truck Giant Man threw at him during Civil War). Hawkeye should take cover and help by shooting arrows from distance or else he goes down. Cap's feats speak for himself – his combat skills (but not pure strenght) and acrobatics are superior to any of the present Guardians and his shield is perfect for distance and a powerful long-ranged weapon (long distance advantage again, around perfect for cap here). Black Panther with his new suit is as capable as Cap if not more. Black Widow besides her fighting skills has a whole line of weapons and gadgets so she can work as a good support (paralyse someone – so others can beat them). If Avengers focus firstly on taking down Groot they can basically chill for the rest of the battle.
Rocket...I saw him firing with some machine guns and other weapons but does he actually have any fighting abilities besides that? Groot is definitely the muscle of the Guardians, being able to pierce enemies with his rapidly-groving brunches, however people are overestimating him a lot – he's definitely not Hulk level, Groot got both of his armed ripped by Gamora in their first encounter. Quill has guts and is really good but has nothing that could seriously hurt WM or BP – he could still shortly paralyse them with his gravity mines while Groot would obliterate them. Gamora is also low-tier compared to the previously mentioned Avengers – Hawkeye and Widow (maybe Cap but I'm being very optimistic here) are the only ones she could be expected to defeat. And Drax is subpar – he was KOd by Ronan like a little bitch and taken down by Dr.Strange's coat. (okay, he's not completely irrelevant but I have no idea why people here say he's Cap level or actually above). For Guardians I suggest them to focus on taking down WM firstly, if they succeed, they have fair chance to win.
But since I like this fight, let's also go with situation they go divide and conquer strategy and fight one on one like this:
War Machine VS Groot
Hawkeye VS Rocket
Captain America VS Starlord
Black Widow VS Gamora
Black Panther VS Drax
(I think this is quite equal in the terms of choices)
War Machine gots this if he keeps his distance. Groot could give him a hard time and possibly even manage to destroy his suit if WM won't be careful but Rhodey is actually more level-headed in battle than Tony is.
Hawkeye is deffinitely more skilled in hand-to-hand combat than Rocket in the case this would be close range. Otherwise I believe his skill let him shoot an arrow through the racoon and win the battle. If Rocket wouldn't shoot him apart before Clint could do anything – not sure on this one.
Starlord has guts and likes a challenge, however Cap likes challenge too and has superior skills to Quill. Maybe Peter would be able to pull something out of the hat but I doupt Cap would let himself getting defeated here.
With the girl vs girl... people say Gamora is stronger 'cause reasons like her species is more powerful than humans, she was modified, she was trained by Thanos etc. However I would give this one to BW also – I didn't see any Gamora's feats that put her above BW's level. As I mentioned Natasha's got her toys and she's probably one of the strongest non-super humans to ever walk the realm of MCU.
And the final fight between close range specialists – both also have good defense. Drax has powerful skin, but BP now has a suit that freaking reflects damage. Drax would try to punch BP and end up hurting himself lol.
Bonus round
Adds interest but I'm too tired to do a in-depth analysis here so just few points:
If we're talking about Loki without his Chitauri scepter, he alone isn't too impressive. Ronan, which is pretty hardcore and actually felt like an OP villain, would give Avengers quite solid run for their money. But if it's Loki with scepter, Guardians are even more fucked.
Generally speaking this fight could go either way if it was for plot reason, however I'm saying that Avengers are more important so they'd probably win.
I'm looking forward for you hating me :D
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