CW Kapiushon Respect Thread
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Note: This respect thread was initially intended to be a sub section of the main Green Arrow respect thread, which will be released sometime in the not too distant future. Since the Kapiushon is used a lot on the battle forum as his own character, I've decided to release this as it's own separate thing. Kapiushon is the final form of Oliver's 5 year journey in hell, so this is essentially a Flashback respect thread.
Combat ability
When Oliver first arrived on Lian Yu, he was a completely incompetent fighter, but under the guidance of Yao Fei, Shado, Slade Wilson, Argus and Talia al Ghul, he was transformed into someone else, into something else.
His first real experience in close quarters training is with Slade Wilson, who teaches him escrima, or stick fighting. This goes to show just how incompetent and ill prepared Oliver was in the beginning, but it's also a nice measuring point for his growth over the course of the series.
Towards the end of his first year on Lian Yu, we can already see that he has picked up on Slade's teachings, as Oliver perfectly replicates a move that was taught to him by Slade in their first training session.
By his second year on the Island, he and Slade go through the very same stick fighting routine as they did last year. This time, we can see the tremendous growth in Oliver's performance.
Oliver's skill gradually improves during the course of his second year on Lian Yu:
- Beats two armed mercs while pretending to be drugged. Elbows the first one, hits the second one in the throat and uses an arm drag to completely dismantle the first one.
- Beats a merc, swiftly trapping his arm and dismantling him using swift elbow strikes.
- Beats an armed gunman.
- Is attacked with a knife by a drug dealer, he easily counters the attack and snaps his neck.
- Is held at gunpoint by a soldier, disarms him of his gun and kills him with his own knife.
On to the slightly more impressive showings. In his third year of his 5 year journey, he encounters a skilled individual in the streets of Hong Kong. This is a great display of skill from Oliver, even is the fight was inconclusive.
Defeats a much larger opponent in an underground fighting tournament in Russia.
It was later revealed that the fight was fixed, and not in Oliver's favor. He was intentionally mismatched against the Bratva top earner, and was expected to lose the fight.
In Oliver's ultimate test on his 5 year journey, he is faced off against Kovar, a super-humanly strong opponent. The first of his two fights with Kovar is probably the most impressive from a technical standpoint, as both opponents show of a variety of locks, traps and take downs.
The last fight is a great example to showcase Oliver's strength, determination and ruthlessness, as he finishes Kovar once and for all.
Something Oliver specializes in is melee fighting, whether it be with a knife or his bow. Slade's stick fighting arguably laid the foundation for Oliver's abilities as a melee fighter.
Great showcase of his skill with a knife as he beats Baron Reiter's right hand man, Conklin.
Takes down 3 men with a single rush, stabs one of them in the face, slits the throat of the next one and stabs the final one in the chest.
Uses his bow to easily beat 3 thugs in close quarters.
Similar situation but this time he gets the jump on three armed police officers.
Physicals
Oliver's durability is one of his main assets as a fighter. From the beginning he has been extremely hard to put down, and could therefore hang with opponents way above his class. Probably best demonstrated by how Oliver as a rookie was able to hang in there with Slade Wilson, who was enhanced by mirakuru.
He could also go toe to toe with totem enhanced Reiter and Tatiana due to his extraordinary durability. He could tank a barrage of punches, throws and telekinetic pushes, similar to this:
- Survives a beatdown from the Bratva.
- Survives being bit by a shark.
- Tanks being rag-dolled and beaten by enhanced Reiter.
- Tanks being hit by a missile.
Oliver can take an extreme amount of torture.
- Is tortured by Wintergreen. Fyers even comments on being impressed by him. "Amazing. You have resolve I didn't credit you for"
- Is beaten by a whip while still recovering from the shark bite.
- Experiences the pain of all his wounds due to a drug and doesn't break. Every man that previous had been injected with drug broke down. (20% of body in covered in scar tissues, 2nd degree burn and 12 factures at least. With Red Death, he felt it all at the same time)
- Is repeatedly cut in his back and barely flinches.
Speed
Catches an arrow fired from behind.
Strength
Shado teaches Oliver to slap water, which Oliver finds completely useless. It goes to show that he was taught that way of slapping water, to be prepared for drawing his bow, with a draw weight of 150 lbs.
Chokeslams a man against a wall:
Push kicks Kovar through a door that was closed with chains.
Sweeps the leg of a man to send him flying and launches another one to the roof with a toss.
Awareness
Senses a man coming from behind and quickly turns on him
Stealth
Marksman ability
Shado lays the foundation of Oliver's archery ability. He can't even hit a stationary target in the beginning.
At the end of the first year he has his first real archery showing. Shado's life depends on this being an accurate shot.
During the early half of the second season Oliver is developing into a very competent archer, capable of hitting bullseyes while being on the move.
He is now at this point also capable of hitting targets at great distances, even taking the wind into consideration.
Hits a couple of 30 meter shots. (average width of a hockey field)
Oliver is also a master of mixing archery into his close quarters fights, as he is fast enough on the draw to fire an arrow at almost any moment.
Fires an arrow while mid air to hit a merc, and fires another while landing.
Fast enough on the draw to fire 2 arrows in less than a second.
Outdraws Kovar's men after they are given the order to shoot, even if they have Oliver at gun point.
Fires 3 arrows in 1.5 seconds to take out 3 bratva members.
Gunplay
Oliver is extremely versatile, not only is he skilled with a bow, he is also incredibly skilled with a gun. He got most of his experience with guns during his ARGUS missions and in his time with the Bratva.
Disarms a high ranking Bratva member and kills another 3 members with his gun.
Goes completely John Wick, and takes out 13 (!) men. He even disarms a thug mid fight and continues to use his gun as he has more bullets in his clip.
Hits a lock on a cell door perfectly.
Torture/brutality
Coming soon
Misc
Coming soon
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