User blog comment:123chaseyoung/Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson vs Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday/@comment-5795750-20140410044629

BG1's "Smart and Quick" Edge:

I won't actually go into too much detail here since I already know who the winner is going to be. As much as I love Holmes and Watson, there is no way I can see them winning against the two legendary sheriffs of the wild west Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Holmes and Watson generally perform best as a quasi-investigative pair aiding the police and not as down-and-dirty fighters - they like to use their smarts and solve crimes and only need to kill or injure when their life is threatened. Holmes's riding crop isn't generally a weapon and while bartitsu allows for Holmes to disarm the pistol holders and use every item available as a weapon, the pistol whip and Bowie Knife are in essence more likely to cause great injury.

Watson's weapons aren't bad for direct combat - the rifle will definitely outrange the pistols and the shotguns - but with Holmes out of the picture, Watson is essentially outnumbered. Yes he may have served in the British Army but only as a medic and while he may medical know-how, it's not going to be of much use in a fight.

Let's not forget that Earp and Doc are sheriffs and thus have to constantly face off against outlaws and miscreants almost every day and because of that, the American pair are more used to their weapons.

In short, Doc and Earp win out here because they are more street-smart in the ways of fighting and have tonnes of experience fighting people like their own with the same weapons (similar to how the Punisher is very much used to his weapons) thus granting them tactics, marksmanship and training to some degree. Watson and Holmes, on the balance of brain vs brawn, are more brain than brawn whereas Doc and Earp are more even.

PS Sorry to say but this match kinda borderlines on stupid if you ask me - not unfair, mind you, just not a brave idea