Im gonna be honest I think shikamaru would win my reasoning is that first you need to find the categories which really matter in this fight, so far what I can come up with are: Experience, Finese/training, physical strength/fitness, abilities, Intellect, equipment and resourcefulness. Lets start with the ones i think batman has an edge in. physical strength: absolutely, I think batman takes the edge he is physically stronger than shikamaru and is physically speaking out of his weight class, this does not however mean he hits harder, use of chakra in taijutsu can create a blurred line there, but lets just say batman hits harder, Equipment: with his billions of dollars and lifelong constructed arsenal, im going to say batman takes this one....duh, Experience: I think batman takes the edge, but not to the same degree as people seem to believe, while batman has more years of combat under his belt, those years were pent typically split between being the batman and being bruce wayne, not constantly fighting, with shikamaru, even lazy though he may be, fighting is all that his people due, its what he was raised to due, thats his job thats all he has to concern himself with is fighting its in his culture, so batman may have the edge against a 16 year old or less shikamaru but far more marginally than people think, Training: Contrary to popular belief I believe shikamaru takes the edge in this, even though batman has a considerable amount of training, the general consensus seems to be that he began his training at the age of 15 to the age of 25ish (give or take a year) shikamaru started his ninja training at around the age of 8 and has continued until the age of 16 and beyond, though there is a 2 year difference in batmans favor starting training in ANYTHING at a younger age especially 7 years younger provides a huge advantage this goes for learning a language, mathematics, technology and argueably most of all combat, the xiaolin monks, turkish janisarries and isreali commandos are sufficient evidence of this. How about his hand to hand combat? While batman is a VERY skilled hand to hand combatant, shikamaru is far from useless in melee combat. In the fight between shikamaru and hedan shikamaru holds his own against hedan capable of engaging in close quarters combat without sustaining so much as a scratch, to put that in perspective, Hedan was able to kill Asuma in melee combat while asuma was assisted by other well trained soldiers, asuma, being a close combat specialist and capable of immense spend finesse and most of all strength, in addition to his jutsu would at the bare minimum provide Batman with an immense challenge if not defeat him. So PERHAPS Batman has better melee skills but again only marginally. Intellect: once again in terms of sheer processing ability, shikamaru stands victorious, though as his IQ is considered equal to that of batmans (slightly over 200) on a test shikamaru had no interest in succeeding in and therefore his true mental potential was not even partially discovered, as is a proven fact, attempting to accomplish a mental task whle motivated bears far greater results than when unmotivated, Abilities: It should come as no surprise that I deem Shikamaru as the superior candidate in this category, All capabilities batman has, shikamaru also has and more, Manipulation of shadows to dictate enemy movement and alter the battle field seems to be a pretty useful ability, shikamaru also possesses an ability that batma has but to a much samller extent, which I call IITT (Immediate Intuitive Tactical Thinking) or to put it simply, he can think on his feet. Batman has this capability, but has typically shown it to be limited to a standard strategy finding a weak point or taking high ground etc. Most of his strategies are almost predetermined due to fighting similar foes repeatedly and fighting effective methods to defeat them. When faced with an opponent with unknown abilities or previously not experienced capabilities (Like shikamaru, lets be honest there aren't a whole lot of people with his abilities in the DC universe) he typically is defeated, retreats for a few days, thinks up a strategy and returns for victory. Shikamaru has shown on several occasions that he can think on his feet to devastating effect. The fight in the chunin exams against temari is an excellent example of this (the fight against kin also demonstrates his quick thinking creativity beautifully), but in the fight against temari (a clearly stronger fighter than him) he survives constant barrages of deafening lethal wind blasts while keeping the presence of mind to formulate a strategy to ensnare temari with his shadow possession justsu(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owt6LiM40nk full fight). This tells us a few things about shikamaru, even at the age of 14! he is clever, capable of using his mind to out wit much stronger opponents, opponents who are far from uninitellegent, he can remain very calm and collected even while facing a seemingly unbeatable opponent, and (leading into my next point) he is reasourceful, As far as being reasorceful goes there can be no question that shikamaru wins, simply because batman is among the least resourceful people in the DC universe. When batman fights a stronger enemy, his most common way to defeat them is to create a device that costs at LEAST thousands of dollars if not millions, the batmobile, Batwing, Bat mech suit etc etc etc shikamaru defeated temari with his jacket, a knife and a hole dug in the ground and an ability which she was already well aware of and was careful to monitor all throughout the fight. He defeated Kin (also at least as powerful as him) in a similar fashion with nothing but wit and a shuriken (and the shuriken was just for show, totally not needed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsGG0zIh-ko ) in a matter of seconds. In addition batman always carries around his utility belt, from which he can always pull the exact gadget or device he needs in any common scenario, shikamaru defeated an immortal ninja twice his age and experience with nothing but a syringe, explosives, acting chops and again... a hole in the ground, while SIMULTANEOUSLY providing an edge for his comrades off fighting in another battlefield miles away. As I understand this is a no prep fight which means mentally batman would be out matched against shikamaru, even in a fight with prep, shikamaru is one of the best tacticians around, i doubt batman would be able to out plan him regardless of time. What about stealth though? The fight as at night, batmans home turf, he most have an advantage. Not even slightly, first of all there has been no material that says shikamarus abilities are weakened at night, in fact in the fight between him and temari there is evidence to the contrary, as his shadow can present more of a threat as the shadow of the wall grows similar to the shadow the earth casts on itself when it turns away from the sun, but stealth, batman is REMARKABLY stealthy, for a super hero, but bare in mind he learned his stealth techniques from the league of shadows who are ninjas, EVERYONE in the naruto universe is a ninja, they all use stealth and the cover of night to their advantage, batmans stealthing abilities would be par at BEST, in fact i dare say shikamarus surpass his. in short batman has no advantage against shikamaru other than his physical strength and melee fighting (which again is questionable do to chakra and shikamarus melee training as a ninja) and his utility belt of plot convineince, winner shikamaru and at the age of 14 too, if he was older it would be a stomp, not to mention in shikamarus village and world for that matter, if you dont kill your enemy your doing something wrong, batman would at least have some regret about killing a 14 year old
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