User blog comment:Jackythejack/Wander vs. Buck: Out of Their Element/@comment-11361577-20190817001257

''Appelmonkey's "Mice Among Elephants" Vote'

I am gonna vote by just summing up what the voters before me have said.

Buck a weasle from a shitty movie is going to beat the protagonist of a cult classic video game, not because Buck is just that great a warrior, but because Wander only knows how to fight giant beasts and very little else.

Wander's fighting style consists out of climbing onto his target's body and stabbing the weak spots, a tactic that won't work against a creature much smaller than himself. This is where some previous experience could come in handy but since we know nothing about Wander's life before SotC we are forced to assume that he has no prior fighting experience. Buck meanwhile has been surviving and fighting dinosaurs for most of his life and his gurrila-ish evasive maneuvers are suit for fighting enemies of all sizes, not just dinosaurs.

Wander does, of course, have a bow he can use to shoot at Buck from a distance, but again Wander has (as far as we know) only fought against Colossi who are pretty easy to hit even with basic archery skills, and the small, quick, smoke bomb-wielding Buck won't be as easy to hit.

I can't stress enough how much Wander is fucked by the lack of a backstory here. If we knew that he was a former soldier, a long-time adventurer, or even a farmer's boy who was forced to hunt every now and then, then he would've likely gotten the vote here. But with lack of experience comes a lack of skill, something Buck does poses and Wander doesn't.