User blog comment:SPARTAN 119/Kazuo Kiriyama (Battle Royale) vs Kousuke Kira (BTOOOM!)/@comment-5795750-20140311122340

BG1's "KABOOM!" Edges:

Melee Weapons: A club vs a sword? Obviously between the two, the sword is the superior weapon being able to cut through flesh with ease and actually perhaps break the staff

EDGE: Kazuo

Other Weapons: So a PPK with 16 rounds and 4 Frag Grenades vs 13 BIMs? Well on the face of it, because Kazuo has a gun, he can get the drop on Kousuke from further afield but all I happen to gather is that the PPK's effective range is somewhere between 20-40 meters which isn't that far when you think about it; when you compare grenades then you might find that because of Kousuke's variety of grenades, he gets the edge in that category; I would like to draw attention to the setting however - a forested island with abandoned buildings... bullets in the forest setting might work better than bombs since with the size of the BIMs (and conversely, the grenades), trying to locate targets is going to be hard and manoeuvrability is going to be an issue too (imagine Kousuke throwing a BIM only for it to a hit a tree and miss or worse backfire) as well put in the saying "its hard to see the wood for the trees"; the edge here is even because lots of things can play out - Kousuke misses his grenade, Kazuo shoots and injures or kills Kousuke, Kousuke uses the corrosive gas grenade or incendiary grenade to clear away the vegetation, shrapnel from the frag grenades is going to ricochet off a building or some trees... so many things could happen

EDGE: Even

X-Factors: Average of 65 for Kazuo; Average of 59 for Kousuke

EDGE: Kazuo

Overall Winner: With so many things going on, it may be hard to decide a winner here but for my money I would have to go with Kazuo Kiriyama as the winner here - sure he may be outbombed here with only 4 frags and he lacks strategic thinking but his time during the Battle Royale in Japan has given him perhaps more experience at being a survivalist dealing with crafty opponents like Kousuke and while the latter has a tonne of explosives at his fingertips, Kazuo (again while not strategic) is not dumb enough to not recognize the BIMs, grenades and mines as threats to his own wellbeing (and perhaps turn the tables on his foe) plus those weapons are more suited for indirect combat; also, Kazuo as an older teen compared to Kousuke is physically in better shape which means he can possibly outrun the blast radius of the explosive grenades, run further than 50m to avoid the homing BIMs and outrun the gas cloud stemming from the poison grenade