User blog comment:Tomahawk23/Wolverine Vs. Alex Mercer/@comment-143604-20121222000518

Wolverine should take this battle in a complete and total landslide for numerous reasons-


 * Important X-Factors- Wolverine is far more inteligent, experienced and trained, and Mercer's durability and strength are only superior when he's using specialized powers, many of which like his Muscle Mass leave him unable to use his other abilities which are far more important. Mercer has absorbed a lot of trained personnel yes, but having military memories is absolutley nothing compared to the decades upon decades upon decades of war and battle Wolverine has seen in his long life. Wolverine's mastery of numerous arts and strategies is honed through experience- not ripped from someone else.


 * Superior Healing Factor- So long as even the smallest trace of Wolverine still remains, he'll be able to bounce back and keep fighting. His skeleton being made of absolutely unbreakable Adamantium makes it near impossible, if totally so, for Mercer to reduce him to a state that Wolverine couldn't be back on his thoat in a viable period of time. Mercer's own healing factor is shown in-game to be rather poor and inconsistant- he can take explosions from tanks and rockets, but concentrated small arms fire can still kill him with ease if the player's not careful. Either way, Mercer is much more killable than Wolverine- especially since it's unlikely that Mercer could fully consume Wolverine to stop him.


 * More Practical Powers- Wolverine really only has one notable power- his iconic mutant knuckle bones. Completely indestructable and shredding through organic material like a hot knife through butter, all of Wolverine's agility, senses and strength exist to make his feral fighting style with his deadly blades all the more powerful- Mercer's own weapons are all organic and will easily crumble against the Adamantium blades, and won't do enough damage to slow down or stop Wolverine. His armor and shield will be ineffective, and while his diversity may have had an edge if he could easily combo into his various abilities, he can't really do so- the time required to shift his mass into alternate forms and his lack of creativity in his own fighting style leaves him with very little viable attacks that could keep an opponent on their toes.


 * Overall Skill- All in all, Mercer's not that great of a fighter. In all of his battles, he relies on his raw power and things he's seen in memories that he doesn't even fully understand half the time to power through basic enemies. The one time he fought a person who could truly compare to him in power, he was killed and consumed. The virus has no real skill or even the creativity to do much anything with his powers- he knows that this monster he ate has claws, and the basic military forces he battles won't have any defense against giant claws, but he has no grace or skill with those claws. Wolverine has been fighting all his life, and he's lived a LONG life. He can see through and immediately take advantage of Mercer's non-combat origins to exploit the holes in his style and tear him apart. It's going to be a long battle, no doubt, and both of these warriors will "die" multiple times throughout, but ultimately Wolverine is like a force of nature, and for all that Mercer throws at him, he's not equipt to outlast the storm.


 * Deadliest Warrior- Wolverine.