I don't care enough to write a bio, this is an unarmed fight - no batons, no red body armor. With that said:
This is probably going to be the most heated topic for the CaV and here I'll be arguing Matt has a solid and noticeable advantage. Some basic feats to start off:
These are to pretty low end feats Matt, personally I don't think there's anything suggesting that Daisy could replicate either of these showings, especially the second. Moving on, there's feats against established opposition and here I think the gap becomes pretty noticeable - I'll start with Matt's fight with Frank Castle aka the Punisher and will bring up other showings if they become necessary.
Here an enraged Frank isn't able to land a hit on Matt and is easily outfought, Matt easily sidesteps his attacks and wins their very brief wrestle cementing himself as being a tier above The Punisher overall. Frank in a previous episode demonstrated himself as good enough to defeat 9 hardened prison cell block after DD s2 he got his own spin off series where he kicked everyone's ass
Personally I'd argue Frank as a good fight for Daisy yet he is no match for Matt by the near end of Daredevil Season ii.
To showcase Matt's durability we have this fight with Nobu from Matt's first season, he gets hit somewhere around fifteen times by the guy and dragged on the floor by a chain stuck inside of his chest. Nobu in the same fight sequences is spinning Matt in the air and then punching him 10 feet and kicking him even larger distances, his striking is easily comparable to Daisy and even after this 3 and a half stomp Matt took a beatdown from Fisk and still stayed in above average fighting condition.
The gap here is pretty noticeable, nobody on Agents of Shield has feats of reacting to fast projectiles, Matt can deflect arrows spammed at him by 3 Archers while charging at them. He's also a consistent aim dodger and has even been able to evade the aim of particularly fast opponents like the Punisher. Daisy just doesn't have the feats to compete here, even visually Matt consistently fights at a faster pace than her.
You'll also see Matt doing heavy damage to Frank Castle with his attacks and one of his character traits is being a sponge to damage. I think that's enough to show Matt can both put Daisy down with his attacks and compete physically
Matt has a pretty glaring advantage in skill and is comparable/superior everywhere else, Daisy hasn't really done anything to suggest she could beat an opponent of his caliber in a fight.
You've shown some decent (albeit introductory) feats for Matt so far, so I'll respond with some of my own for Quake. Daisy Johnson is a fighting prodigy, having become one of the most dangerous unarmed combatants on Earth within only a few years of SHIELD training, directly under some of the most lethal agents SHIELD has ever seen - such as Grant Ward and Melinda May.
As such, I'm more than confident that she can keep up with Matt in terms of skill. To further prove that's the case, I'll show you some feats that I believe are far better than the ones you've currently brought up for Matt.
First of all, we can see how easily Daisy takes down 3 armed HYDRA STRIKE agents (who should be at least as good as, if not better than, Hand ninja) + another HYDRA agent within an enclosed space with not much room to maneuver.
Despite that, she's still able to get out of the encounter completely unhurt (and untagged from what we can see). I think this showing is clearly better than the first two feats you showed for Matt since she takes out more enemies, who are more skilled, and have more armor/durability in a far more enclosed space with less room to avoid attacks.
However, just to show how well Daisy can handle fighting in situations where her senses are failing her, I'll bring up another feat. While, in Daisy's words, "tripping balls" on some sort of alien LSD, she was able to take out a bunch of Chronicom Hunters - immortal robots with extremely advanced technology that have centuries (at least) of fighting experience and were casually able to take down Condederacy platoons as well as SHIELD bases.
Not only does she easily evade energy blasts from their futuristic weapons, she manages to take out two or three of them in combat despite hallucinating and being barely able to stand before the fight. For more details on how exactly the drugs were affecting her vision, you can watch this video - but for a summary, Daisy and Jemma were so high they could barely stand or even go down stairs, and were hallucinating various colors, shapes, and even objects/people. Considering the best feat Hand ninja have is like ambushing cops, I'd say Chronicom Hunters are implied and shown to be far more dangerous than ninja given how the squadron was able to take down an entire SHIELD base on their own. Taking them down so casually despite being barely able to stand is definitely better than anything you've shown for Matt.
Before I end this section though, I want to address your (faulty) Punisher scaling. You claim that:
Here an enraged Frank isn't able to land a hit on Matt and is easily outfought
when that clearly isn't true if you see their full fight.
In the full fight, there's literally only a 10 second sequence where Matt dodges Frank's hits (0:45-0:55). Before that, Frank grabs Matt and overpowers him in a grapple, and then lands multiple hits. Matt is able to easily tank these hits because of his suit, which he doesn't have in this battle - so he easily recovers. After that 10 second sequence, Frank grabs Matt in another grapple, but this time Matt overpowers him. And then the fight ends.
I don't think a 10 second sequence in a fight, in which Matt dodges like 4 hits, is anywhere near enough to show that Matt is "a tier above The Punisher overall" - especially given the conditions of this fight (Frank being completely emotionally distraught after finding out that the dude on the boat wasn't actually the guy who ordered his family to be killed) and the results of their previous two fights in which Frank was able to keep up with Matt just fine despite being a bit less skilled.
Most importantly though, Frank isn't exactly a skilled opponent in the same way Daisy and Matt are. His entire fighting style revolves around taking hits and just walking through them. This is why he gets tagged by basically everyone he fights, and it isn't really impressive that Matt can do it as well. Even in the Punisher scaling gifs you posted, he clearly gets tagged extremely often and just fights through the pain. What makes Frank impressive as a fighter is his damage soak and endurance; his ability to keep fighting despite being stabbed, or shot, or punched in the face. Considering that Matt didn't even manage to knock Frank out, I don't see what's so impressive about dodging a few hits from a guy who basically fights like a brute.
Beyond that, there's also the fact that in all the scaling gifs you posted for Frank, he uses weapons to take out his opponents. Sure, he might not have started with the weapons in hand, but it's not really unarmed combat if you take a giant wooden stick from the second guy you fight and then use that (as well as other weapons) to take everyone else out. Considering he didn't have any weapon in the boat fight with Matt, Frank was further handicapped beyond his emotional state by the fact that he wasn't fighting the way he normally does.
Overall, now that I've debunked your Frank scaling, it's pretty clear that I've posted way better skill feats for Daisy than you have for Matt. I know Matt has better feats (as does Daisy), so I'm not going to definitively say that Daisy is more skilled (yet). However, I am going to say that you need to step it up with your next post if you want to show me that Matt can hang at this level.
Since you seem to be so confident that Matt is faster than Daisy, let's start there. Spoiler alert - he isn't. Arrow timing is nowhere close to what's needed to be faster than Daisy.
According to Google, a recurve bow fires arrows at around 225 feet per second, and longbow arrows are even slower than that. Based on your gif, I'd say that the Hand ninja were using longbows, which are basically the slowest type of bow. Even if we assume that they were using recurve bows, Daisy has way better casual reaction speed.
For example, she's been able to easily react to and deflect a grenade launcher mid-flight, as seen below:
After it was fired, Daisy had the speed to get out of cover, aim, and then deflect the grenade. The current grenade launcher used by the US Military is the M320 - which has a muzzle velocity of 76m/s or 250 feet per second. So Daisy was able to react to a faster projectile than Matt was, and did a lot more in that timespan as well (compared to just moving an arm).
Unfortunately for Matt, that's not even Daisy's best speed feat. Daisy was able to literally catch Sinara's metal orbs in mid air using her Quake powers!
Sinara's orbs actually have crazy feats - being able to shatter skulls and damage metal blocks enough to create shrapnel (in the latter gif, Daisy literally dodges them without even looking at them, showcasing just how easy she finds it to operate at such high levels of speed). While their speed is pretty unquantifiable since they're a futuristic alien weapon that doesn't exist on Earth, it's pretty clear that they move far quicker than arrows based on their much better destructive capacity despite having a far less efficient shape.
Anyways, I don't really think speed is going to be a decisive factor in this battle since both Daisy and Matt should have no trouble keeping up with one another in terms of speed. They've also both been tagged by slower people. So this battle is going to be more about skill, strength, and durability. All three of which Daisy's got in spades (and which you haven't shown much of for Matt).
When facing someone of Daisy's caliber, taking hits from and being ragdolled by Nobu isn't really anything impressive since Daisy hits a lot harder. If you think Nobu kicking Matt a few feet is impressive (after which he was on the ground for a few seconds), you should really enjoy the following feat for Daisy.
With a casual kick, she kicks an armed HYDRA agent a lot further than Nobu did with Matt - and he goes flying so hard that he literally goes straight through a door in HYDRA's top-secret and heavily armored bunker. Considering that Matt was actually down for a little while when Nobu kicked him, I'm not sure how long it would take him to recover from a far more powerful strike like this.
Her punches are equally powerful, as shown with how she was able to take down most Kree pretty casually, with just a few hits in quick succession.
On the other hand, the other humans weren't even able to hurt Kree - Deke actually hurt himself more than he hurt Sinara when he tried attacking her:
I see nothing to suggest Matt will be left standing after even a couple of punches or kicks from Daisy tbh. This is especially true since every time Nobu actually hit him hard with like a spinning kick or punched him while he was in the air, he needed a decent amount of time to recover (the video makes it clear that not all of Nobu's hits were equally strong). Since I've shown that Daisy's normal attacks are clearly stronger than Nobu's strongest attacks, he should be on the floor within a couple of hits unless you can come up with better durability feats for him.
Similarly, I don't think Matt has any hope of putting Daisy down given what she's endured. The feats you've shown for him are well within real life human tier. Based on the video, the pillar Matt cracked wasn't concrete but rather marble (the same material as the statue Dex breaks by just dropping it on the floor at 1:47) which is pretty fragile and susceptible to cracking from everyday activities. Similarly, both the table and those walls you showed Matt breaking were clearly ridiculously flimsy thin layers of wood which pretty much any fit person IRL should be able to damage. Kicking someone a few feet is probably slightly above real life level, but not far above. On the other hand, Quake's durability is far above human level.
She's been able to take a barrage of hits straight to the face from Sinara for over 20 seconds without showing any visible damage beyond a single cut which she already had (I had to cut some of it off at the end since gfycat was down so I had to use Giphy which has a 15 second limit).
For reference, in the same fight Sinara was able to casually, dismissively one-shot Deke when he interrupted her battle with Daisy.
Heck, in the same fight, Sinara showed that she was strong enough to push Daisy so hard that it completely broke a metal railing!
I've never seen Matt take out regular humans that easily, or even dent any sort of metal, and yet Daisy was able to absolutely tank 20 whole seconds of blows straight to the face from a superhuman that hits harder than Matt does. And that's not even her best durability feat!
You brought up Frank again to showcase Matt's striking, but as far as I can remember, Matt never actually knocked Frank out in any of their fights. It's not like just bloodying him is a feat, since he gets bloodied by fodder pretty often. What's actually impressive would be knocking him out, and Matt hasn't done that. So, once again, I find your Frank scaling quite dubious. There's also the fact that Frank isn't as durable as Daisy is, at least in terms of blunt force attacks, so that scaling is hardly useful anyways.
At this point, you haven't really shown any striking feats for Matt that warrant me posting anything else, since based on what we have so far, Daisy should be able to walk straight through Matt's attacks - or at the very least, I don't see anything to suggest Matt can put her down.
As of now, there doesn't appear to be too much left to say. To sum it up, Quake appears to be at least as skilled as Matt (if not moreso), but has a ridiculous advantage in terms of her physicals to the point I'd say she's even tankier and hits harder than Fisk, someone who already dwarfed Matt physically. I'm sure you have some more feats you haven't brought to the table yet (just as I do), so I'm not going to make any strong statements on what's likely to go down in this battle beyond what I've already said. For now though, let's just say that you really need to ramp it up a notch if you want to show Matt stands any chance against Quake in this battle.
With that said, I look forward to your next post. I hope this continues to be an entertaining and friendly debate!
There's really not much to say here IMO. I think Daisy holds significant advantages in every single area worth discussing, with her most notable advantages being in terms of durability and striking power. It's hard to see Matt putting her down within any reasonable timeframe, while I don't think Daisy would require more than a couple solid hits to take him out. Furthermore, she also holds solid skill and speed advantages that will ensure she lands more hits than he does. With what's been shown so far, I don't think Matt has any way to win this fight, but I'm interested to see what you'll bring up in your response. Good luck!
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