@Job said:
...sigh....Buffy has beaten angel every single time they have fought....he has lost to EVERY slayer he has ever fought.....buffy has killed thousands of vampires..some older and more powerful than Angel...people seem to be picking angel just because they like
I think you're just as guilty of slanting the truth as your opponents. In "Innocence", Buffy won after an extremely hard fight and because Angelus was more concerned with goading her than killing her; in "Passion", Buffy won because Angelus had just been thoroughly clobbered by a pissed off Giles and his Louisville slugger; in "Killed By Death", Angelus is about to kill a sick Buffy before Xander and company intervene; in "Go Fish", the fight is a stalemate-- Buffy kicks him in the head, Angel picks up Gage and throws him at her, knocking her down before retreating; in "Becoming, Part I", their fight is again a stalemate, with Angelus having the upper hand-- though neither of them is trying to kill the other. Buffy realizes this and retreats. In "Becoming, Part II", Angel wins the duel and has her on her ass before taunting her into rage.
Angel is more than capable of going toe-to-toe with Buffy and conceivably killing her; the problem is that Angelus likes to run his mouth. Since I assume we set such PIS aside in versus fights, this is a very close one indeed.
As far as the rest is concerned, Angel's defeat by Kendra is suspect when you consider the fact that she was trying to kill him whereas we don't know if he was trying to kill her; in fact, he only threatens her after she threatens Buffy, at which point the fight is already over.
With Faith, the first time they fight is in "Revelations" in which Angel is still weakened tremendously from his time in the hell dimension (Buffy comments on Angel's poor condition during the events of "Lover's Walk", one episode later). They clash again in "Enemies", and Faith throws Angel into the onrushing company of Xander, Willow, and others-- it isn't a fight at all. When they fight in "Five By Five", Angel restrains himself the entire time because he knows Faith is essentially trying to commit suicide by vampire. In "Orpheus", Angelus ultimately defeated Faith in their fight (again, due to taunting); but had both she and Wesley at his mercy early on and could have killed her with the shotgun before tossing it aside.
And Dana is the most silly example of them all; Angel spent the entire episode trying to persuade Spike that Dana should be captured and treated, not killed. When they fight at the end of "Damage", he ultimately overcomes her and has Wesley and the Wolfram & Hart strike team tranquilize her.
Trying to remove context from the duels is pointless. There is pretty much no encounter that I remember in which Angel lost to a Slayer by virtue of being completely outclassed; he either restrained himself because of moral concerns or, as Angelus, was preoccupied with tormenting them verbally.
Angel still loses, but it is (as it has always been between the two of them at full strength), extremely close.
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