User blog comment:Thundrtri/Collab with Pach! Arsene Lupin III VS Batman/@comment-110.55.5.133-20130522142614

Seriously? Batman in five years was weak unless it is new 52 batman. Funny that none of you even gave thought of it.

Experience is the key factor of this battle especially because both characters are not on their prime. Nevertheless both characters differ from how strong where they before their prime. Batman's prime was 10 years after his first crusade ala Year one. Before that 10 years none of his greatest  batfeats were not yet established. He hasn't yet met most of the jla and darkseid in those years. And he fough his first battle with Joker three years after year one. He faced his first supernatural themed crime in the start of year 2. Let's face it, Batman wasn't that good before his 10 year prime. His batsuit wasn't yet that advanced. In Year One his suit was just a normal wetsuit that gave no protection at all, in Year Two and Three his suit has an little armor but just in the chest where the yellow emblem is used to draw fire while other parts where unprotected. In his early years getting shot was already fatal. Batman's gadgets were not on par with his 10 year after-prime. Probably hiis greatest gadget in those years was the bat emittor while much of his utility belt consisted of ordinary flash and smoke bombs which easily catches on fire when heated ala Year One. The Batmobile too was not that advanced. In year one till the mid part of the Man Who Laughs batman uses a motorcycle, it was till year three that he used a batmobile but it was just a fast car and the jet boost wasn't yet installed during his early five years. Lupin on the other hand even before just five years in his career was already a master thief. He trained in his teenage youth in stealing, marksmanship, disguises, and preps. he was already a champion athlete in middle school while batman was still mourning his parents. Most of all n his early years Lupin already know how to use rockets. Dangerous rockets that is way beyond any of batman's bombs can compare. Lupin was already an inventor in his youth. Lupin had the greater experience than Batman. many of you wrote edges on a seriously innacurate batman with nomex batsuit, tricking darkseid, batmobile being fast and shit. but seriously none of that hasn't existed before the 5 year career. Most of all Batman started crimefighting in his mid 30s while lupin in his 20s. Batman started training in his 20s while lupin because of his thief bloodline started training in a very young age. Age and trainign would matter.

Even though many of us here want Batman to win, but seriously the Batman we know isn't the young Batman in his early 5 year career. Lupin will escape a young Batman with ease.