User blog comment:Battlefan237/Collab:Arkham Asylum Patients (Me) vs. MMA Patients(Pygmy)/@comment-3189283-20190924104913

Let’s see shall we Poster Boy

Physically, Chris Walker easily dominates the Joker in close range combat, in fact he would probably dominate all of the Arkham Patients in close range because of his superhuman strength, durability and hand to hand skill. However the Joker ain’t going to be getting into fisty cuffs with Chris Walker, or anyone for that matter. He’s carrying two firearms (albeit the Taurus only has one shot) which he can use to attack from range not to mention his Joker Gas will make short work of Chris if he can get him to inhale it and I can see him luring Chris into a trap and spraying him with Joker Gas. The Joker is also considerably more intelligent and creative than Chris and he should have little trouble thinking his way around his fairly simple attacks. If Chris does manage to close the distance and corner the Joker then the fight will be heavily in his favour but the Joker ain’t going to let that happen and even if it does I’d expect him to have some sort of plan, probably involving a flower and a face full of Joker Gas.

Edge: Arkham Asylum Patients

Mad Doctor

This is almost a repeat of the last edge as Trager is the more physically capable of the two but Scarecrow being the more intelligent fighter. Except in this case Trager isn’t nearly as formidable in a fight and Scarecrow is even more intelligent and rational than the Joker, so it’s actually more in Scarecrow’s favour. He’s got several different methods of applying his fear gas and his skill at stealth means he’ll have little trouble sneaking up on Trager as well as the Twins and Eddie (Chris and Frank will be harder because of their superhuman senses mind). Trager is going to be left crawled up on the floor going insane from the fear gas for either Scarecrow or somebody else to finish off.

Edge: Arkham Asylum Patients

Serial Killer

This match-up is a bit of a weird one. Zsasz is clearly the superior fighter of the two but Eddie is the physically superior of the two so it going to take more effort from Zsasz to take him down. Eddie also has his sleeping gas which almost singlehandedly wins him the weapons comparison as it can put Zsasz, or any of the Arkham Patients for that matter, out of the fight immedietaly. However Eddie is also the most nuts out of anyone here to the point where he might not fully realise what is going on and he won’t be much help to his teammates. Eddie could end this battle very quickly if he remains lucid enough to use his sleeping gas but if he doesn’t then Zsasz’s greater fighting skill should give him the victory.

Edge: Even

Weirdo

This is a fairly simple win for Professor Pyg. While neither he nor Frank are wielding particularily good weapons, Pyg is at least a skilled hand to hand fighter and should be able to beat Frank in a one on one even with the latter’s superior physical atributes. He also has his Dollotron minions to back him up and while they’re not particularily good fighters they do at least act as something else for Frank and the other MMA patients to focus on. The only thing that let’s Pyg down is that he’s utterly batshit insane and might do something stupid but equally so might Frank so it’s not as big of a problem as it could’ve been.

Edge: Arkham Asylum Patients 

Duo

I’ll say right off the bat that Two-Face is easily the better fighter and is bringing the better weaponry with his Sphinxes and could take out the Twins before they get close enough to use their machetes. However he is severely hampered reliance on his coin flip, leaving him unable to finish off his opponents unless the coin toss falls that way. The act of flipping the coin itself also puts him in a compromising position, one that his opponent could take advantage of. The Twins being a duo also makes his job harder because he has to put down both and then do the coin toss and if they have the Variants with them he could find himself overwhelmed or possibly ambushed while he’s distracted by the coin toss. I would genuinely give this to Two-Face if it wasn’t for his coin obsession but it’s just too much of a disadvantage to overlook.

Edge: Mount Massive Asylum Patients

Final Verdict

They’ve taken most of the edges and unsurprisingly, the Arkham Asylum Patients will be walking away with the victory here. As a general rule they are the better fighters and are bringing the better arsenals to the battle but more importantly is that they seem to be a little bit more lucid. While there isn’t a single sane person in here the Arkham Patients aren’t usually as badly effected by their insanity and are able to form and execute plans. The MMA patients meanwhile seem to have little strategy besides chasing after their victims and trying to murder them.

Linked to this is their ability to work together. The Arkham Patients might not like each other and there are a number of rivalries in the group but they have worked together in the past and would likely again in order to combat a bunch of psychopaths trying to murder them.The MMA patients conversely have never interacted and even if they had can barely work together, only the Twins and their Variant minions can and even then only on a very basic level. Finally the Arkham Patients have many years of experience fighting against both law enforcement, Batman and each other whereas, besides Chris Walker’s service in Afghanistan, the MMA Patients experience is mostly against unarmed civilians not people who can fight back.

Arkham Asylum Patients: 4,000

Mount Massive Asylum Patients: 1,000