User blog comment:Battlefan237/Battlefan's Season 1 Finale : Vampires vs. Chiang-Shih/@comment-17814994-20170509154815

Elgb's "Should Have Added the Arabian Ghoul... That Would Have Made This Battle MAWR Badass XD" EDGES!!!

Teeth: I give the edge to the Ghoul here simply ebcause all of his teeth seems to be sharpened as opposed to the vampire who only has his/her two elongated pointy fangs as weapons. Wass made a good point that the vampire may not be affected by posion because its an undead, but I'm not sure. Bologically speaking and setting aside magic and myth, a vampire still needs to eat and suck so its got to have some sort of bloodstream to transport all these nutrients that can be affected by poison (hence why it was vulnerable to the zombie virus in DW's last episode). Its also magically augmented too. In the end the Chiang's bite seems to eb deadlier for me. EDGE: Chiang Shih

Limbs: I'm not really sure, some variants of the Chiang Shi story depicts the hopping vampire with elongated sharpened nails or claws that they can use as weapons. The vampires have calws too, but they're shorter and designed for tearing. Hard tod ecide but I'm giving it to the vampire because he's probably more maneuverable with his limbs. EDGE: Vampire

Special: Going to give this to the Chiang. The vampires can shapeshift into a wolf or bats, but as DB pointed below me, Chiang's special makes it more agile and can even fly. That's far better than having to change form as insignificant as a bat to attack your opponent. There are aslo other forms of attacks for the chiang shi to use that was not mentioned like plague-spreading, corrosive liquid spitting, has a long tongue for strangling, and some even has dark magic with them. EDGE: Chiang Shi

Psychological Features: The Chiang Shi is probably more immune to psychological attacks because its emotionless than the vampire who's been depicted much in modern culture as depressed sad romantics and the like. Still, I don;t think both won't be able to scare each other away, but when things go tough, I think that the vampire will probably be the first to lose cool, panic and bolt out of the battle. EDGE: Chiang SHi

'Deadliest Warrior? '

The Vampires maybe smarter but the Chiang Shi seems to be stronger, tougher, more agile, stealthier and emotionless, and the latter's got the deadlier and more varied ways of attacking the animalistic vampire. Intellect is and will always will be a powerful tool, but when you're in a random battle against someone who can dash through you and rip you to shred with little time to think, then you end up being dead (re-dead?).

But what gives the Chiang Shi the edge here in this battle because the Chiang can be imagined as a reanimated weapon while the vampire was nothing more than a predator. The vampire kills unsuspecting and sometimes unarmed victims. While they have to occasionally fight vampire slayers or village mobs, they mostly target easy prey and keep away from anyone that can put up a fight. In many folk stories about the Chiang Shi has them fighting soldiers, Chinese heroes, sorcerers and fellow Chiang Shi. Some legend also said that a thousand year old Jiang Shi can even cause trouble for Chinese dieties due to their godlike status (a Ba or drought demon). This obviously gives them better combat skills and a variety of weapons. Unless a vampire will fight a newly reanimated Chiang Shi which it can just push to the ground without sweat, against a long-lived Chiang Shi and an actual living weapon will beat any oppurnistic animal-like predator every time,.