User blog comment:HaydenStudios/Master Chief vs. Nomad/@comment-4248317-20120121154557

Chief gets my vote, although it will be a very close fight. First, just about anything Nomad can bring to the table, Chief has already encountered and defeated, such as Brutes and Hunters for strength, and Elites for stealth. Cloaking won't help Nomad much; Chief's Motion Trackers will tell him where he is. Nomad's Gauss Rifle will probably be Chief's biggest challenge, but considering all that Chief has faced before, he can find some way around it; the guy survived falling from orbit for crying out loud! Plus, Chief was raised from age 6 to be a superhuman killing machine, and was altered to be stronger and faster then normal humans.

However, Chief's biggest advantage, in my opinion, is his armor. For one thing, it is much more durable than Nomad's Nanosuit. Also, the nanosuit has one major weakness; it can only do one thing at a time, whether it be armor, strength, speed, ect. Chief's armor, on the other hand, does everything at once, WITHOUT having to activate anything. Throughout the fight, Chief will have constant, increased speed, strength, ect, while Nomad will have to manually switch from one to the other. This lack of efficiency will cost Nomad the fight, and grant the Chief a hard-earned win. There's a reason he is feared throughout an entire alien empire as a Demon ;)