User blog comment:BeastMan14/Legion Finale Battle: David Haller vs Doctor Strange/@comment-17814994-20180615035806

Elgb's "Marvel vs Marvel" EDGES!!!

Offensive Attacks: Both warriors look and seems OP but their methods are quite different. Dr. Strange is an active fighter, jsut like your average sorcerer you see and watch in fiction. He waves his hand, blasts a couple of spells like Gandalf or Dumbledore or whatever, and create forcefields if he is attacked. This in itself is impressive, since it showed how well Dr. Strange can go toe-to-toe against more physically impsoing foes like Thanos. But it also kind of limits Strange capabilities, as even with his variety of limitless powers, he has to sometimes challenge himself in fighting his opponents face to face. I mean seriously, during his fight with "Squidward" there were aton of ways he could have defeat him like put him in a mirror dimension or take away his soul and yet he chose to go out fist to fist. You can also see such problems with OPed characters like Hal Jordan or Ghost Rider, they can finish the fight quickly but... doesn't... probably because of bad writing or being not creative enough. David on the other hand seems to be a more passive fighter. I'm not inversed in Legion lore but the dude is pretty powerful, and unlike Strange, he can do whatever he wants by thought alone. There seems to be no distance or energy limits to his power, he just thinks and it happens. While he too tends to limit his powers, unlike the less pragmatic Strange, he knows the importance of quickly ending the fight even if it means using his most brutal attacks.

In terms of the actual attacks they performed, I give a slight edge to Dr. Strange's matter manipulation being superior than David's because the dude did tank an attack from a very powerful Thanos. He too has the better flying skill. His dimensional warping and binding spell also helps keeping David Haller pinned down. But in terms of raw power, David seems to take it. The guy can create multiple realities (basically other universes) and that's pretty powerful. In terms of time manipulation, its hard to say since Dr. Strange has more variety (pause, rewind, fastforward) but needs a bit of concentration to do so while David's time manipulation is limited but he can do more so in a whim than Dr. Strange. Telepathy too would be a big problem since David's telepathy is only second to his father, and Dr. Strange has never come across a telepath before in the MCU. Simply put, David takes the edge due to his raw power and limitless capabilities to Strange's more direct magic. EDGE: David Haller

Defensive: This one, I have to give to Dr. Strange. The dude creates protection spells just as much as he walks and talks. He's got protection spell all over him, and can create protection spells the same size of a city block. David Haller's energy shield is meh compared to Strange, and he mostly protects himself with the use of his reality warping than actually creating protective barriers. EDGE: Dr. Strange

X-Factors: Again, very hard to decide. In terms of physical prowess, Dr. Strange's martial arts skills and finesse would beat David Haller. He too has a better control of his mind and pwoers than David. The young mutant does take the cake in experience and tactics, knowing that he's been using his pwoers since he was a kid while Strange only got his powers in his later years so his experience is rather slim. Dr. Strange, even with all his powers, still rely on other people to get him from A to B, while David Haller doesn't seem to need to as much, hence giving him tactcs. EDGE: Even

Deadliest Warrior?

I love comic book fights and this one was pretty damn interesting. Dr. Strange has more variety in his action-packed magic than David Haller. But Haller doesn't need to since his most favored weapon, his mind, is already pretty damn pwoerful itself. In the end, while Strange can do this and do that with his magic, create spells, draw magic circles and others, David can just take a glance and erase Strange from existence. His reality warping and telepathy is what gives him the victory here. Dr. Strange's stories is all about learning new tricks and magic to defend Earth, while Haller's story si all about the most powerful guy on Earth trying to suppress and adapt himself to his power.