User blog comment:Cfp3157/The Warden's Party vs. Hawke's Party/@comment-3189283-20170809092157

Let's see shall we

Party Leader

We can pretty much discount both the Warden and Hawke's elemental abilities since both are wearing armour which is resistant to exactly that. Both use Blood Magic but the Warden has the extra ability of being able to control either Hawke or one of his Party into attacking their allies which takes one person out of the fight and acts as a possibly lethal distraction. However the biggest advantage for the Warden for me anyway is his Mana Drain abilities which are going to be very effective against Hawke and any of the other mages in his party as well. Hawke can always get around this by using Bloodlust but this obviously depletes his health and forces him to either use One Foot In or more worryingly Grim Sacrifice as he can't be healed by conventinal means. In short the Warden wins because he can cripple Hawke and his mages right from the start.

Edge: Warden's Party 

Caster

Once again these two share many of the same abilities mostly centered around causing status ailements such as putting an opponent to sleep, making their attacks more likely to miss as well as their own unique status afflictions. However Merrill's abilities just seem a lot more potent with the Walking Bomb tree turning opponents into a time bomb and Wrath of the Elven Tree allowing her to deal huge damage and heal herself at the same time. Morrigan does have her Shapeshifting powers to help compensate for her lack of actual damaging attacks but reduces her to close range attacks which Merrill will be able to exploit with her ranged spells. Morrigan really shines in terms of helping out her party but Merrill's more potent offensive spells make her devastating against a single opponent. If this was based purely on a one on one then Merrill would win hands down but as this is a group battle and Morrigan is the better team player (in regards to abilities anyway) it ties it up.

Edge: Even

Archer

TBC