User blog comment:Lasifer/The Console Wars: Master Chief vs. Samus Aran/@comment-176.31.215.0-20130404051254

Edges:  Melee: The Grapple beam seams to be a superior weapon, with greater range and with the abilty ot throw Chief around. However, when you get down to it, it's not really a weapon, more of a tool to move Samus around, it lack killing down. While it may be able to throw chief around, this isn't gonne hurt him. The Didact threw him hard in Halo 4 and he got up right after words. Then there is the possabilty of it actully backfirng one Samus, the grapple beam is meant to pull her wieght, Cheif is much heavier and stronger, this presents a chance that if the beam is attached to Chief, he could in theroy, pull Samus and throw her around. The Knife however is meant to kill and can penrate armor. Edge: Master Chief  Close: The Pistol wins in the catergory, it was capable of shooting down a Banshee in Halo:Combat evolved, and can hit a target up to 120 meters away. The Power beam is actully quiet weak and only has a range of 10 metes, a much shorter range: Edge: Master Chief  Mid: This one is a dead even draw. The Wave Beam does much more damage per shot, but only has a range of 10 meters, where as the Assult Rifle has an effective range of 300 meter, 30 times the distant of the Wave beam, meaning it will be able to start landing hits much sooner than the wave beam. Edge: Even  Long: Sniper rifle wins this by a long shot, as it is actully a long range weapon. The Plasma beam has a range of 10 meters, which seems to be the range for almost all of Samus weapons, where as the sniper rifle has a range of 2300 meters, 230 times the range of the Plasma beam. In comparing these weapons a long range weapon, the Sniper rifle wins.Edge:Master Chief  Scatter: These two weapons work on pretty much the same idea, hitting with a spread shot. However one is solid projectiles one is energy, and the energy weapon wins this round as it works well against Chief's Sheilds: Edge: Samus Aran  Explosive: Both are high power explosive and each has a limited tracking ability. These are almost the exact same weapon, there are differences, but not enough to give one and advantage over the other: Edge:Even  Elemental: Both these weapons have increably short ranges, the Ice beam being 3 meters and the flamethrower 13 meters. This gives the flamethrower an advantage of an extra 10 meters, and even this is beyond the range of most of samus weapons. Again the superior range of the weapon give the edge to the Spartan: Edge:Master Chief  Special: In the battle of Laser vs Plasma, Lasers win do to speed and range. The Nova beam is noted to have a similar range to the plasma beam, which is increably short. Even with the charge time needed, the Lasers speed, power and accuracy win this round: Edge:Mater ChiefSpecial Vision:Promethean Vison wins, it does everything of Thermol Vison plus allowing the user to see through walls.Edge:Master Chief Air Power up: This one goes to Samus easy, the Jet Pack is usefull to getting to sniper spots, but the Screw attack give offensive capabilities to the user: Edge: Samus Aran  Bally Thing of Ballyness: This one is hard to judge, but in the end the Bubble sheild offers more advantages than the morph ball. The Morph ball means limites Samus abilty to attack, and the Bubble sheild will protect Chief from almost all of Samus attack, meaning she'd have to enter the sheild to attack him, and that puts her into melee range, a catergory I've already given to chief. Edge:Master Chief  Winner: Master Chief. I was surprised by one thing in this match, and that is the incredably short range of Samus weapons when I looked them up on the Metroid wiki, 10 meters being the longest range she can hit at, and this is the deciding factor in her defeat in my vote. Her inablity to hit anything beyond 10 meters is an increadbly short range, even the flamethrower has a longer range of 13 meters. Chief can sit outside the range of her weapon and hit her with his, and will eventully wear her down.