User blog comment:El Alamein/Venator vs. Giant Short-Faced Bear/@comment-5931345-20130805154454

Bulls' "MAN VS WILD!" Derrick Rose goes for three and SCORES! edges!!

Short: Bone crushing definately is. And if the crush wont kill you the sharp teeh will bleed you to death instead. It is a dangerous weapon. But the bear have to be really close and really fast to use it. The Whip and the net have the farther range, but it lack killing potential, especially against a powerful berserk bear. Its harmless against the GSFB, and using it might just piss the bear off. A really bad idea. Edge: Wild

Mid: Though the paws may be dangerous as both a sharp and blunt weapon, the spear has the longer range, and unlike the paw which is made of soft flesh, the spear is harder, and will keep the bear at bay by wounding it slowly to death or thrusting really hard deep and hope for the best. With spears at the front the men are safe, and this will prevent the bear from charging. And if it does charge, it makes a mistake of impaling itself. Edge:Man

Armor vs Abilities: The bear's physicality is an important and deadly weapon. It is physically stronger, faster, more durable, and more to endure than the men. They also have enhanced senses and that size would scare the men to sissiness. But the men have armor. The bronze and leather would protect them from the bear's claws and swipes, but not definately to its teeth. But still armor seems to be more important than power here. A good defense will always be the good offense. Edge: Man (slightly)

X FACTORS

PW: The bear's intimidating appearance gives it the edge slightly. But let's not forget that the collusium itself is psychologically scary for the bear. Edge:Wild

Strategy: Man is smarter than the bear. They can plan tactics and ways to kill it in the long run. Edge: Man

Combat experience: The bear has fought ever since he was born in the dark side of nature. But it lacks experience handling armored men. The venator n the other hand is trained to kill beasts since the day they became gladiators. So they know pretty much how to handle the situation once in the fight. Edge: Man

Endurance: The bear is built by nature as a tank IT'll take much much more spear thrusts to kill it. While one swipe or bite can kill a human easily (yum). Edge: Wild

Intelligence: Bear is bear, no education but pure instinct. Humans are far smarter. Edge: Man

Creativity: Humans are smarter and can think of something to fight an animal like that bear. Edge: Man

Weapon Use: Though the venators were trained in combat, the bear's has been utilizing its gifts ever since it was born. Edge: Wild

Brutality: Bears can maul, tear a body to shredds, and eat a human like lamb chops. But humans brutaliy are far more gruesome. They can utilize war to desrtroy its own species. And many animals such as the the Barbary or Atlas lions and the also large Atlas bears were extinguished becasue of this Roman Games. Edge: Man

Winner: Venator. In a battle between Man vs Wild, sometimes man wins. Venators have the better weapons, and though they are physically weaker, they are smarter. They also outnumber the bear by one, and that spear would be the game changer. If the short faced bear cannot destroy or remove those spears it'll have a hard time getting close. Spear is both a good offensve and defensive weapon. I see the venators circling the bear, taking turns poking it, and when the bear puts his attention to one venator, the other can fatally stab it, or kill it even.

Another thing I see is that if the batle takes place in an overcrowded collusium, there's highly a chance that the bear might nt attack. As the roaring crowd may confuse or scare it. It happens all the time in a gladiator battle where the animals don't attack and gets killed, and due to its lack of action the beast master/handler of the games is executed to make up for the show.