The Witcher Geralt vs. Talion from Shadow of Mordor
Geralt vs. Talion
Talion fights caragors, which eats wargs for breakfast. And yes, he's killed them, but you're acting as if this is his crowning achievement.
And from what I see, caragors are just slightly bigger, spiked wargs.
So...why should I be impressed by that? I'm not trying to downplay it, I'm just not impressed by it. I mean, Geralt has to deal with leshey in various forms. From humanoid to not-so-humanoid.
And those things're bigger and more dangerous than caragors. Especially since Leshey can use magic and control packs of wolves and flocks of crows. And a leshey in a forest is even more dangerous as a nature-aligned creature that draws power from totems it spreads around. The more totems it creates, the more power it has.
Then there are Bruxa, powerful and swift vampires, some of which can assume large batlike forms whose wails are a magical force that have broken even Geralt's defensive wards.
Good thing this isn't a dragon fighting competition.
Yeah. Talion would fail big time. Can't do this in Mordor.
They're actually far superior to wargs. Small groups of them can kill a graug and a single caragor can decimate hoards of Uruks. Talion both kills and rides these things.
Neither of which are anything to write home about either. A striga can rip through armor with its teeth and kill dozens of people. And they're created by people who've been cursed.
No?
Hopefully you're getting my meaning.
Did you forget the Sorcerers/Sorceresses, supernatural things and other Witchers who're all either very powerful with magic and/or master swordsman? Like Vilgefortz and Azar Javed. People who'd slaughter Talion. Geralt needed help from two other people to take on Vilgefortz, and with good reason. The guy shattered pillars with a staff reduced people to ash with spells, ripping through other sorcerers defenses with little effort.
I want to hear about why he can fight Talion.
You mean besides him being slightly super-human on a basic level and a master swordsman, and having magic on his own to use? And having a much broader character history, and having faced down bigger, tougher and more powerful enemies as part of his job description?
Geralt practices and hones his skills regularly when not killing monsters and bedding wenches. His senses are super-human and could tell when he was surrounded on the forest by a group of elven warriors, and could tell how many there were, as well as one of them being sick by his faint wheezing. Despite the fact that normal people could never have heard any of that.
He can see perfectly in near complete darkness. He can also channel the rage of the creature he's fighting and turn it back on itself in a mental attack. Which is different from his other ones. The Axii sign can be used to various effect, from mental attacks, to persuading others and even controlling minds to a degree. Geralt uses it to calm his horse, Roach, once in a while when its instincts tell it $hit is going down and it starts panicking.
Of course there is Aard, which is like Force Pushing an such. Igni, which is Pyrokinetic abilities, and Quen which is protective shields and barriers. There's also Yrden which is like Traps and binding abilities.
Geralt was also knocking crossbow bolts away midflight at close ranges. So arrows aren't even an issue. He also has a moderate healing factor. Nothing fancy. A normally fatal wound won't kill'im if he patches himself up quickly enough. And debilitating injuries that'd take months to heal for a normal person might take him only days or weeks. So nothing major, but still pretty good. And it can be amped, of course, using potions with his alchemy.
He's also the only person in the world to have ever injured, even killed, one of the Wild Huntsman, the Red Riders, who're elves from another realm/dimension, who couldn't he harmed while in this world. Yet Geralt had somehow managed to kill one of them, something that was entirely unprecedented. Something that led him to being MIA/Dead for 7yrs mysteriously before reappearing alive with no memory of what'd happened.
The final installment of the series will uncover all of Geralt's lost memories and uncover the truth behind the Wild Hunt.
Oh yeah, he's also immune to nearly all forms of poison due to his mutations, and the elixirs he carries with him that he can use to gain full control of his body and enhance his abilities, is pretty much toxic to anyone who isn't a Witcher and would kill them. Plus his medallion is enchanted and warns him of danger of the supernatural variety, whether it be akin to a striga, leshey, or some ghostly form. As well as curses and whatnot. Including seeing mystical energies imperceptible to anyone who hasn't studied the vocation or attuned enough to recognize it.
In other words he'd be fully aware that Talion is sharing space with a wraith.
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