User blog comment:Cfp3157/Creatures of the Night: Werewolf vs. Centaur/@comment-17814994-20160820172025

Elgb's "Awe... Would Be More Awesome If It Was Lycaon vs Chiron... or Werewolf vs Minotaur XD" EDGES!!!

Primary: Hmm... Human digits which offer dexterity vs canine claws which offers lethality? Both have its own strengths and weaknesses that works well each warrior's fighting style: dexterity for the centaur's intellect, and lethality for the werewolf's ferocity However, if I'm not mistaken a werewolf is technically a combination of human and canine anatomy, which means that it also has phalanges that offers dexterity as well as also having claws that offers lethality. Some of the earliest but most iconic examples of contemporary werewolf fiction depicts werewolves being able to  using their digits, however they still can't hold objects to use as weapons like the centaur. A centaur's primary mode of defense is through punching, and while a fist is deadly (average boxer punch is said to be as strong as a sledgehammer), it will get damaged if too much power is exerted (which is why boxers wear gloves so as to not suffer a fracture called a "boxer's break"). While the centaur can also use improvised weapons such as sticks and stones, it would still take precious time for them to scour their surroundings and find one, while also having to worry about a werewolf slashing and gnawing them to bits. The werewolves technically also have claws in their hind legs, and canines are known to use them too as weapons so that gives the werewolves 4 claw sets than 2. EDGE: Werewolf

Improvised: A kick from a centaur's hind legs are very powerful. Normal horsekicks have enough power to smash either smash a person's skull or even collapse the chest cavity. The big problem is that it's not entirely an offensive weapon. Horses normally uses them for self-defense, and are pretty much effective when their on the run, and the predators are at their backs wide open for them to kick. This is due to the fact that horsekicks take time to aim and pull off. In order for Equus animals to use their kicks as a weapon, they need to rotate their bodies to a specific degree, aim and fire. Like all blunt force weapons, a horsekick is also lethal only when it hits the head, chest or abdomen, besides that it can only cripple or disorient. The front legs on the other hand, while it lacks power, can push an opponent at bay and make the centaur bigger to discourage further assaults. On the werewolf's side, its teeth were obviously designed for lethality, and their jaws are are even stong enough to lift a full-grown human up with ease. The big problem with the jaws is that it lacks range. In order for a werewolf to use them on a centaur, it has to risk getting its head close and open enough to be vulnerable to kicks and punches from a centaur. Hard to say, but when those jaws get past through those innacurate kicks, the centaur will be having a hard time getting that werewolf off of him. EDGE: Even

Mental: I have to give this one straight to the centaur's intellect. An animal's pack mentality does offer some small amount of tactics to get their food, but cognitive intelligence offers not only small amounts of tactics, but a whole dose of strategies to overcome any obstacles in their way. The centaur's intelligence would allow it to create solutions and counterattacks that a werewolf with limited intelligence will not be expecting. Besides that, wolves aren't really that smart to begin with. The success rate of a wolf hunt is 14 %, which is nothing compared to the years and experience centaurs have fighting and raiding other way smarter foes, and even training and advicing mythological heroes in battle. EDGE: Centaurs

Physical X-Factor: Yeah well, this is an obvious edge to the centaurs. Like horses, centaurs are built for power and their muscles were designed for mass and compact strength. The wolves on the other hand were built for speed and endurance, hence why many canines are skinny and frail-built to better keep up with their prey. It takes a whole pack of wolves to take down just one mustang, but while the same can't be said with centaurs and werewolves, it does show the advantage that equus anatomy has over canines. The werewolves may have that advantage with "superior senses" but seriously when have you heard accounts of fighters using "better hearing and smelling" in a frigging one on one fightmatch to the death, and please a centaur's ability to use weapons is way more useful in a fight than that. Simply put, this is like pitting a powerbuild Dwayne Johnsons vs Usain Bolt. In a fight, the bigger guy mostly wins. EDGE: Centaurs

Deadliest Warrior?

The werewolf has the advantage of better and more practical weapons, but the centaurs are packing the better physicality and intellect in the fight. In the end however, I'm giving the edge to the centaurs and it's kinda too bad since the battle was actually in the favor of the werewolves. These canines are the ones who're getting the drop on the centaurs and that would cause psychological factors that may affect a centaur's intellect, as well as being able to draw first blood and kill. It also helps that this battle is taking place in a forest, which works well with the sleeker and more agile werewolf compared to the larger built centaurs whose bodies work better in open area grasslands.

However, there's still that fact that we're talking about a pack of wolves fighting a herd of mustangs. Its Basic Zoology 101: it takes a pack of wolves to take down prey larger than them and even in that they suck (14% success rate). To make matters worse is that the centaur will also be bringing intelligence and superior cognitive ability in a fight, which counters better wolf's instinctual animalistic ferocity very well. While the wolves will be able to ambush and rattle the centaurs temporarily, those big hulking centaurs (who're also trained warriors themselves) will probably be able to hold their own against the mauling of a werewolf, just long enough for them to think of a way to turn the battle to their favor and fight back. Once the werewolf's advantage in striking first is gone, then their basically toast.

P.S. Does the lycan's bite be able to infect the centaurs? If so are we going to see a werewolf-centaur hybrid cause that would be awesome! Pretty please CFP... XDXD