User blog comment:MrPacheco101/Nightbringer: ShadowHawk & Skull-Man/@comment-3189283-20120127214210

Lets have a look at these two shall we.

Weapons: Shadowhawk brings a Grappling Hook, retractable claws and boomerang shurikins and Skull-man brings daggers, a sword, a duel bladed spear and a gun. Well right off the bat we can eliminate the gun because Hawk has bullet proof armour. Next out is the grapple hook because of it is not very lethal and is also desgined to be a long range weapon. The next two weapons that have too go are daggers and claws. For Skull-man the daggers are not going to do much against a guy who has a full suit of metal armour and will only bring him into hawk's spine breaking hand to hand combat skills which i belive far outclass his own. The Retractable claws won't do much for shadow hawk because skull will keep him at bay with his sword and spear and his armour should stop the claws getting through when it comes down to hand to hand combat. Tough call but the final weapon to go out is the Boomerangs. While they do seem deadly like all boomerangs and shurikins they are desgined to be used to attack from a range and once the distance is closed thier usage diminishes. The Spear and the Sword will dominate in weapons because of thier long reach, skull-man's skillfullness with a sword and his supeior agility means that not only can he dodge attacks easily but that he can also strike unexpectedly from different angles.

Powers/Abilities: These two seem pretty simular in this catergory except that skull-man has increased agility and shadowhawk has increased fighting skills. However with his suit inhancing his abilities shadowhawk wins out in speed and strength over skull. Skull's telepathy only gives him a link with his sister which wont really be that usefull in battle.

X Factors: Shadowhawks x factors conisist of having peak human phisical attributes, skilled in hand to hand combat, expertise in fighting SH opponents and is incredibly dedictaed to stopping criminals and Skull-man's consist of being a skilled swordsman, great at hand to hand combat, having an intelligent mind, being ruthless, expertise in fighting SH opponents, being a top notch marksman and an incredibly skilled acrobat. I my personal opinion from what i can gather from the information provided Shadowhawk seems to be the better of the two at hand to hand combat seening as how he can break spines with his bare hands something that few warriors on this wiki can do. He also has the advantage in strength and speed because he was already in top notch phisical condition before and with the suit inhancing him he is even more phisically powerful.With his determination in stoppping criminals he could be even more deadly if he sees skull as a threat he could give him a hard time. Skull-man on the other hand is the more agile and acrobatic of the two so will have an easier time dodging shadowhawks attacks than hawk will have dodging his. His skillfullness with a sword will also help greatly because he will be able to keep hawk at bay untill he breaks though his armour or breaks his sword. His ruthlessness and vengeful nature will make him a more passionate and possibly tougher opponent when fighting hawk if he feels like he is responisble for his parents deaths.

Despite what i origionally thought this battle is very very very close. It all comes down to 3 main factors.

1) Will having more weapons be more important than fighting in hand to hand combat.

2) Will the two warriors armour cancell out each others respective strengths.

3) Will the determination to stop crime overpower the ruthlessness of revenge.

Taking all these factors into consideration i am just going to have pick one. Its very hard but i will have too pick......

Shadowhawk. With his armour protecting him from skull-man's weapons and also enhancing his abilities he should be able to get past his weapons and beat him fair and square in a good old fashion punchout. I belive that his determination will be more of an advantage than Skull-man's ruthlessness brought on by his vengfullness because while skull-man seems very ruthless seeing as how Shadowhawk was not involved in Skull-man's parents deaths he is more likley to treat shadowhawk like a guy who stands his way and not as somone who could have been responsible for his parents death where as if Shadowhawk sees skull as a criminal then he will treat him with the same as other criminal with the same amount of determination and brutality.

Shadowhawk: 2,551

Skull-Man:2,549