User blog comment:Appelmonkey/Rematch: Wolverine vs. Naruto Uzamaki/@comment-26395956-20190125164004

MD 33's Vote: RAAAASENGAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN! Dear, I'm still confused at this point on appointing the winner, but here goes.

Weapons: Adamantium Skeleton vs Ninja Weapons

Yeah, no brainer, Wolverine takes this. As much as how limited Logan's option is in his weapons, Naruto's own weapons, on the other hand, are utterly useless seeing how the Adamantium skeleton basically renders him resistant to all forms of mundane damage. Indeed, Logan has been harmed by conventional weapons before, but the guy barely gets any real damage. The shuriken isn't supposed to be a real weapon anyway. It's supposed to be a distraction weapon... from what I heard from 'round these parts. As for the claws, they just outmatch the damage of the rest of Naruto's weapons. The claws can cut open the Hulk like a hot knife through butter and the Hulk has taken a crap ton of cosmic punishment beyond mere knives and guns. And remember that time when Thanos was surprised with the presence of an Angry Canadian sticking his claws on his chest? He was also with the Infinity Gauntlet at the time, and---ya get the point.

Powers and Abilities: Marvel's Meanest Mutant vs Anime's Greatest Ninja

Oh boy, here goes. Logan beats Naruto in terms of physicality and skill. Despite Naruto's amazing skill at utilizing his stunning powers and flashy (and practical) moves, Wolverine just has more combat knowledge and skill beneath his Adamantium skull. You do remember my notion that Wolverine may have lost some of his knowledge from the past, da, Appel? And you do remember as well of my counter-argument against it (if you can consider it that way, sure), da? But for the sake of other voters let me tell what's up: Years of heavy drinking and mind-wipes (thanks, Weapon X!) have impacted Wolverine's memories, and such acts have been implied (at least, by my memories) to also affect his more useful memories. Say, training from a century earlier or, his experience fighting with Cap and the Invaders. So MD, does that mean Wolvie is technically suckier than Naruto? Sorry, but nope. Wolvie's 'recent' memory compensates his memory loss in a way. He has trained hard in the Danger Room and with that training, he's also helped other heroes train. Heck, even Black Widow was at one point taught by Wolvie and look at her now. He still knows how to get to your pressure points and when he exploited Cap's own, he was TKO'd. He's skilled enough to tag someone as fast as Speed Demon, someone whose speed is comparable to Quicksilver, and beat people stronger than him.

Don't take Naruto as a weakling, though. Gotta give him props, he's actually stronger than he looks. Just like Wolverine. After I had sprawled through a respect thread of his, I stumbled upon his feat of doing THIS and THAT is just beyond Class 2! Does that mean Naruto is stronger than Wolverine though? Yes, he is stronger than him. However, I give the edge of physicality in this section with healing factor in mind. No matter how strong you are or how skilled you are, Logan will stay unconscious and weather through all the bloody attacks thrown at him. His healing factor has failed before, you say? Yeah, has a nuke drained his consciousness away? I don't think so. Can he be staggered though? Hell yes, and Naruto has all the right tools for staggering and knocking back.

Before going on Naruto's physicality (especially speed), let's jump to all his super moves whatnot. For once, the Wind Ball is going to be an impressive first strike on Logan due to its considerable power (it blew up a water tank once and busted a boulder), but it might as well be one of the few moves Wolverine can quickly recover from. What Naruto gains from this, however, is leverage. He staggered Wolverine and he can set him up for a few more of his tricks. That shadow clone jutsu of his? Oh, Logan's gonna have quite some time trying to take them all down. Use his senses? Nah, those clones are made of air. Go for a rasenshuriken perhaps, try to cut down Logan on a molecular level. Oh wait, healing factor alert! What about the summoning jutsu and Jinchuriki forms? Now those are gonna leave a dent. No, no, not on his skull; it's impossible.

That giant toad summon is all but a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thingie, but this is a battle where everything goes and there's quite a high chance that the giant toad may arrive. The moment that thing shows up, Wolverine has to work hard to beat it because of its size. He's beaten the Hulk, but he's never beaten Fin Fang Foom. You can say that he can just cut off that frog's intestines from below with his claws, which is possible, but quite hard the moment you consider the creature's endurance. And if Wolverine descended into Berserker Rage, Naruto's jinchuriki can counter him with his own version. With the jinchuriki, Naruto is just superior to Logan in many ways, now more resembling the likes of Wendigo. Why Wendigo, you ask? Let's dive in a bit to Naruto's strength... and see that he can shatter a freaking mountain. Wendigo doesn't have a feat like that, but his strength is immediately comparable to the likes of Hulk and the Thing. I have to note though, I don't know how strong Naruto is in such form so he should be still weaker than those three brutes I mentioned earlier.

Now we're gonna get to Naruto's speed. So, MD, Naruto's faster than Wolverine, right? Just as I may have surprised you with the fact that Naruto's stronger than Wolverine, I will tell you that Wolverine is actually faster. From what I've seen in his respect thread, Naruto moves faster than the eye can perceive. With something called the Nine-Tails Chakra, he still has such speed rating. Wolverine? Mock him of his weight, but the guy's dodged automatic firearms  (he's not a stupid man who seeks to show his manliness by constantly taking bullets, duh), kept up with Spider-Man (his speed's superior but he still kept up nevertheless), did exactly what was described of Naruto's speed rating, moved like a blur, and even moved so fast telepaths can't even register him as well. Still having a hard time believing these things? A horde of gunmen rained a hail of bullets on him while he's sitting down, and nobody knew how the heck did he avoid such catastrophic attack. Slower than the eye can track, I see. But I have to say a thing about Naruto's leaping thingie, and Wolvie's too. Naruto has jumped across a valley and intercepted the cool guy on the other side. Wolverine hasn't shown much about leaping but he has actually done it quite many times. I doubt leaping has any effect on this battle, though. Both of them can jump on trees whatnot equally.

All this big talk without substance, I think it's better for me to jump to the conclusion, alright? I can't deny that Naruto is more versatile due to his collection of jutsus, but Wolverine's powers are already tried and tested many many times against the fiercest the Marvel Universe can offer. Wolverine is strong, but his strength has only allowed him to keep up with stronger foes and Naruto has both the skill and strength to counter him. But then, Naruto's skills aren't exactly as polished as Wolvie's (unless his older version's used, which is an entirely different story). And that healing factor, jeez, Naruto can't beat it right? He can't, but he can hinder him with all those clones he has. In the end, I call this EVEN. Wolverine's powers may be lesser in variety, but they're just so good they can actually stand up to Naruto's many moves. I have to admit though, this tie actually tips a bit to Naruto. That jinchuriki form, oh Lord, can just trump the hell out of Wolverine if he's not in full focus.

X-Factors: The Best Ones There Are

Training is quickly snatched by Wolverine. Naruto was trained to hone his ninja skills and how to use his chakra correctly. Wolverine can't use chakra, but he compensates it with a crap ton of training that gives him a large variety of knowledge in fighting styles. He's not the brightest in combat as Gorgon, the Terrorist Mutant showed, but he too knows a lot of ninjutsu himself. Experience goes to Wolverine due to his earlier debut and the variety of foes he has faced over his long history. Have I mentioned of his experience in battling a Mephisto-level demon? No? Well, that one is better left forgotten, I say. Brutality has a weird spot here since it's important for both fighters to score a quick victory, but both of them are going to be in character so they're not gonna just go Freddy Krueger on one another. But still, Logan's more willing to kill as described so he gets the edge. Tactics? I can see that Logan's intellect is more defined here (sorry), and from what I can tell he's able to formulate counter-plans against Naruto's many tricks. Besides, it's as if he hasn't seen the likes of Naruto in the past. However, Naruto has his own plan of countering with unorthodox tactics such as using that sexy jutsu thingie and 'sacrificing' his clones for the sake of learning his enemy's abilities. For all his creativity, I say it's even in terms of tactics. Overall, Wolverine takes the edge in X-Factors.

WINNER: WOLVERINE

This will be a surprisingly close battle and one that is verily intense. Naruto is by no means a formidable fighter. His jinchuriki and summoning jutsu will overwhelm Wolverine in a matter of minutes, and even before going HAM, Naruto's more versatile array of powers can waylay Wolverine. However, Wolverine is just way too tough for Naruto to contend with. Say what you will about him being knocked unconscious by mundane means and how 'overrated' his healing factor is, but ultimately Logan's extreme endurance and adamantium claws will bring him to victory. He may be only able to stab and slash and rend Naruto apart with his claws, but the moment they sink into Naruto's body, it's gonna hurt a lot and even a glancing blow won't be so easily healed by his own type of healing. He is more willing to kill and the moment Naruto goes Super Saiyan (something like that), he'll have no qualms going for the killing blow to end him once and for all... provided he goes berserk. The main things Wolvie has to contend here are Naruto's strength and versatility. I believe with Logan's greater experience and variety of skills, he can defeat Naruto in this battle even through a knock-out. This one's a hard vote, I tell ya, no lie. Naruto's surprisingly stronger than I thought and he actually has a good chance of beating Wolverine, until you consider that Logan has contended with stronger beings and came up on top multiple times. He has to kill that giant frog first, you say? He doesn't have to, really, but that doesn't mean it'll still be easy for him to beat Naruto.