User blog comment:HaydenStudios/Master Chief vs. Nomad/@comment-184.107.220.162-20120121044647/@comment-4555900-20120121161019

Actually, Spartans do not see Elites moving in slow motion. In The Fall of Reach, Master Chief get's into a hand to hand fight with an Elite, and Master Chief almost lost that battle. Elites generally have about the same attributes of a spartan, it's just that most of the spartans were equipped better. When Spartans actually fought elites, they had trouble, the only reason that you see otherwise in the Halo games is because it's for the sake of making you look more badass.

And no, Master Chief isn't really fast at all, he's actually pretty slow for the most part, whereas Nomad can get to a pretty decent speed.

Stronger, well, that depends, considering Nomad's suit has a strength mode, where I would say he gets stronger than Chief, but only while he is in that mode.

Smarter, I don't know, Master Chief doesn't really show all that much intelligence, and relies much more on Cortana for anything other than fighting, that's why he was pretty much lost without her in Halo 3.

Better trained? Sure I guess, but really, it's by so little that I really doubt it will make a difference. Personally, this seems to be a very close battle, so I don't really know the true victor, but I'm leaning towards Nomad on this one.