User blog comment:Dargoo Faust/Dr. Kondraki vs The Spy/@comment-5795750-20160118062843

BG1's "In the Shadows" Edge:

Instead of giving edges and stuff like that, I'm just gonna give out a long paragraph detailing the winner. And having inspected the weapons and the X-Factors, I'm gonna call this a close match but in the end the win has to go to '"Dr Kondraki'' in spite of a) the Spy having superior combat experience; b) my admiration for TF2; and c) my disdain for the SCP Foundation

Here's why I think Kondraki might win - his weapons are more practical for the situation while the Spy's aren't really when you think about it. For starters, his disguise kit is not going to be of much help - who is he going to disguise himself as? Certainly not Kondraki if he is going to try to lure the SCPs away from him because I'm certain that at a glance, the SCPs can already figure out who is real and who is fake; and certainly not any member of the SCP Foundation at all for similar reasons - plus since Kondraki has been in the Foundation for some time and the Foundation's personnel are tight, he can easily tell if a member is really a member or a spy.

The sapper the Spy carries will be somewhat impractical - as you've already seen in the game, the sapper is used on sentries and dispensers which are INANIMATE objects while SCP-515-ARC is a little bit organic and quite small and always in someone's hands. It may be possible for the Spy to sap it as some people might say but as I point out with above reasons, it will be hard to do. The camera on the other hand cancels out the Spy's advantages of invisibility, disguise and possibly lethality - after all, the camera can help Kondraki see the spy underneath the disguise/invisibility cloak and with its burning and blinding capabilities, it's acts somewhat like the Pyro's flamethrower as being a tool to catch out the spies.

Should a straight-out melee emerge between the two, then Kondraki is definitely able to get out the first strike since unsheathing his rapier AND having the SCP butterflies defending him will be that bit quicker than the Spy unfurling his butterfly knife. If the Spy does get in range to use his revolver, then he may be in for a chance to take down Kondraki by surprise but it's unlikely this chance will come to pass - the Spy's ranged weapon is a revolver which may be double-action but its rate of fire of 1 bullet a second is not going to be enough to make the SCP butterflies dissipate quickly.

And that's all I have to say on the matter (and I think I've made my points quite clear).