User blog comment:Samurai Santa Claus/Shadow Duel: Lo Wang vs Shadow the Hedgehog/@comment-3189283-20200127135520

Let’s see shall we Swords

In real life, a six foot long katana would be far too unwieldy to use but Shadow seems to use it without too much trouble. Granted he also doesn’t really sword fight with it as much as he does swing it about wildly. The Crimswords are about a third of the length but Lo Wang actually knows how to use them and given the huge size of the katana getting within a close enough range makes it impractical to use.

Edge: Lo Wang

Knives

This is largely the same as the last edge, Lo Wang is the better actual melee fighter but to boot his tomahawk has a further range than the survival knife. The Scalping Knife probably won’t be much help as it was meant for, well, scalping rather than as a combat weapon but the Tomahawk is still way better.

Edge: Lo Wang

Rifles

While both these rifles have identical stats in cartridge size and muzzle velocity, the AR-53 has a faster ROF, further range and double to the clip size.

Edge: Lo Wang

Handgun

Whelp the USP is completely fucked here. The Point Five-O has every single advantage you could want in a pistol, with the exception of being considerably heavier but that hardly matter when you fire a larger round, at a higher speed, at a further range and for a longer amount of time without having to reload.

Edge: Lo Wang

SMG

The Wang Touch ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), is pretty comfortably the better SMG, with a higher muzzle velocity and faster rate of fire being the key advantages.

Edge: Lo Wang

Heavy Machine Gun

The Browning has a slightly further range but it is severely crippled by it’s very low magazine size. 30 rounds will be in gone very quickly and considering Shadow does not carry around any spare mags he’ll quickly find his machine gun nothing more than dead weight. The M60 has a much more manageable clip size and even though it’s ROF is higher it won’t run out of bullets as quickly.

Edge: Lo Wang

Rocket Launcher

I thought Shadow was actually going to get an advantage here until I got to the ammo capacity. The AI-4 is actually the better launcher because of it’s higher muzzle velocity, ROF and lighter weight but the Last Kiss Goodbye having over five times the rounds is a a much more significant advantage. Edge: Lo Wang

Minigun

What is it with Shadow and having automatic weaponry with pathetically small magazine sizes. His 40 rounds will last him all of 2 seconds at best and again with no spare ammo on him it’s little more than an giant paperweight.

Edge: Lo Wang

Laser

There isn’t a whole lot to go off here but from what I can tell, the Feuerfaust has about double the capacity of the Laser Rifle but does not have the ability to ricochet off walls like the Laser Rifle does. While it is a neat feature and could allow from some more strategy in how it is used I’d rather have the weapon with more capacity.

Edge: Lo Wang

Powers

From the looks of it Lo Wang’s Chi Bending gives him significantly more options than what Shadow’s Chaos Control can. As well as a long list of offensive options it also gives him a healing ability, an ability to replenish his chi reserves, conditional buffs such as Killer Instinct and Shared Pain, invisibility and his ultimate move the Shadow Fury which boosts his physical attributes to be on par with Shadow. Shadow meanwhile has a much smaller pool of abilities but within them are some pretty potent ones. Teleportation is always handy and combined with his already high base speed makes him near impossible to hit. And of course let’s not forget that he can slow down or just flat out stop time at will, both incredibly strong abilities which help to counter Lo Wang’s own superhuman speed. Honestly I’m going to call this one even, Lo Wang has greater versatility in what his Chi can do but Shadow has some utterly broken abilities which more than make up for his smaller amount of them.

Edge Even

Final Verdict

It doesn’t take a genius to look at these edges and see that in terms of weaponry, Lo Wang absolutely wrecks it. There isn’t any range nor any weapon type that he does not have the better weapon/s in. Furthermore he is also a more seasoned warrior, having been fighting since childhood and being a much more highly skilled and trained warrior with the weapons he takes such a massive advantage in. So with that in mind that should make this battle pathetically easy for him right? Well not exactly. While he does have the better weaponry and is a more skilled warrior there is one area he severely lacks in compared to Shadow; Physicality. Shadow can run at speeds comparable to Sonic which puts him in the hyper-sonic category for speed which is far faster than Lo Wang, whose speed feats are all to do with dodging rather than actual movement speed. Actually landing a hit on Shadow is going to be very difficult and on top of that Shadow’s speed means he’s going to hit like a freight train and even when he’s not moving at those speeds, he’s still strong enough to flip over vehicles and slabs of concrete. That’s without mentioning the Chaos Control which give him teleportation and time manipulation powers which further amplify his already very strong evasive abilities. Lo Wang is no slouch in the physical ability department either mind you but he’s nowhere near as physically capable as Shadow.

So in actuality this is a very tough battle to decide because while Lo Wang is far and away the more skilled warrior actually hitting Shadow is going to be a tall order. Using Shadow Fury might put him on par with his speed but it requires a large amount of Chi and only lasts for 20 seconds, giving him only a small window of opportunity to do the damage required to put Shadow down. Shadow does have a bad habit of stopping to mock people during a battle which could give Lo Wang the opportunity he needs to attack but equally Lo Wang isn’t exactly the picture of humility either and his run in and see what happens attitude doesn’t exactly lend itself to patiently waiting for Shadow to stop so he can shoot him. You know what despite losing out in all the weapons edges and being the less skilled warrior I think Shadow is actually going to win this through sheer physical ability alone and if he does get in trouble he has Chaos Control to give him some busted abilities. Lo Wang is an impressive warrior no doubt and in most other battles he’d be walking away victorious but here he manages to lose out to an even bigger edgelord.

Shadow the Hedgehog: 3,000

Lo Wang: 2,000