User blog comment:Weew1213/Mr. Scratch vs Slender Man "Horrors in the Night"/@comment-4661256-20160131060621

El Alamein's Edges:

 Weapons:  As far as Mr. Scratch's knives are concerned, the razor and pocket knife will be pretty much useless thanks to their incredibly short reach. If you're close enough to Slender Man to be trying to fight him with a razor blade, you're screwed. The combat knife might be a little bit better, but in all honesty Mr. Scratch's best bet is to stick with them as ranged weapons. The problem with that, obviously, is that unless you land a seriously damaging shot you've lost that weapon. The hammer will be even less useful since it's improvised and not really designed for combat practicality--especially not against some malignant entity like Slender Man. The hatchet is the most useful here because of its longer reach and versatility as a thrown weapon. So here we see that Mr. Scratch is loaded to bear when it comes with physical weapons (some more useful than others, but still, the combat knife and hatchet are nice tools).

Slender Man, alternately, has only his tentacles to rely on as far as physical weapons go. However, the term "only" is misleading since Slender Man has multiple tentacles, and each one of them has the reach and damage potential to seriously injure or kill Mr. Scratch. Since they're obviously longer than Mr. Scratch's arm, Slender Man can strike Mr. Scratch well outside of the latter's melee distance. The Slender Man's tentacles can also grab Mr. Scratch and throw him around or restrain him physically or do other things like that, so he's not just limited to stabbing/impaling attacks when it comes to those appendages.

Ultimately, it comes down to the fact that Mr. Scratch is at a range disadvantage. He can throw his weapons but I don't think that will do enough damage to stop the Slender Man entirely. When it comes to melee fighting, Slender Man's tentacles can do way more damage per strike, they can strike from a further distance (discounting a thrown weapon), and they are more versatile. For these reasons Slender Man gets my edge here.

Edge: Slender Man

 Abilities:  Mr. Scratch's dark-based abilities really give him an advantage in terms of durability against the Slender Man. His teleportation, defensive capabilities and other darkness-based powers will let him shine in an element where Slender Man usually has an advantage. However, Slender Man does not possess the weakness to light that Mr. Scratch has, and as Slender Man can control the weather/time of day, he can easily scatter cloud cover or switch the darknest night to high noon if he feels it will serve his purposes. On top of this, Slender Man also has a lot of the abilities that Mr. Scratch has (like teleportation) so he has an equal (if not superior) control of the environment.

Edge: Slender Man

WINNER: SLENDER MAN

I really respect Milen's opinion because Mr. Scratch does have a startling amount of power over a dark battlefield. There is one oversight there, though, and that's the fact that Slender Man can just control the weather and make it flood with light. That aside, Slender Man's tentacles outrange Mr. Scratch's mostly improvised physical arsenal, while Slender Man's more varied set of abilities are able to match or surpass Mr. Scratch's more limited supernatural arsenal. Mr. Scratch will certainly be a difficult foe for the Slender Man who is used to preying primarily on unsuspecting victims, but Slender Man counters a lot of Mr. Scratch's powers way too hard for him to make effective use of them in a no-holds-barred fight to the death.