User blog comment:Bl02PIE/Corvo Attano vs Booker Dewitt/@comment-25253035-20191210153439

Weapons: Okay, I agree with the others below me in the notion that Corvo Attano has the better melee weapons, but Booker Dewitt has the superior ranged weapons. Corvo's sword (which is a love child between a switch blade and a rapier) is longer, double-edged and a more balanced and efficient weapon than a skyhook. Corvo can use it both as an offensive weapon (I remember being able to take 4 guys with this in melee), a stealth weapon (where he can air assassinate people and even mechs), and a defensive weapon (since he can block and parry attacks). The Skyhook is a piece of shit weapon, that although nasty, is crude and unbalanced. Booker can't even use it to defend himself. While the skyhook can be used to traverse the skyline, adding mobility to Booker's arsenal, Corvo's sword is still the superior weapon up close.

But things are different when it comes to range weapons. Corvo's arsenal is very limited comprising only of three things: pistols, crossbows and grenades, and while they have different types of ammunition which is nice, that is nothing compared to the advance tech Booker is carrying. We are talking about shotguns, machine guns, sniper rifles, and rocket launchers here. Corvo will be utterly wrekced the moment he becomes in sight of these guns.

However, what really seals the deal for me here is the consumables, and I think Booker's gears trump Corvo's bone charms. The charms can icnrease Corvo's stats like damage from supernatual attacks but these are not enough. Both items can enhance the user in a passive way, but the gears can actually damage someone and can also be active weapons. For example, the Shock Jacket can actually electricute enemies when they get closer to Booker, and some like the Sheltered Life offers him brief invulerability.

The Heart does give Corvo some advantage, but weapon from weapons, Booker dominates.

Edge: Booker Dewitt

Powers and Abilities: This is very hard to decide upon. Corvo only has a few significant powers that he can use but they are really powerful and Booker has no defense to many of them. While Booker on the other hand offer versatility and power. But still, let's take a deeper look. The thing about Booker is that its kind of awesome that he can do so many elemental attacks, with each having their own effects on an enemy. Bucking Bronco and Return to Sender seems to be the most useful and destructive in my opinion.

Corvo on the other hand may lack destructive magic, but he makes up for the pwoerful effects his magic causes. The blink is one way of taking control over the battlefield by teleporting everywhere and covering up large areas to attack and escape. The bend time on the other hand is the msot wicked, due to thef act that it can slow or utterly stop time. The rest of Corvo's abilities aren't really noteworthy but these two really gives Corvo and almost unfair advantage.

So its kind of hard to decide. Both characters can summon things to attack people, they can also possess each other, and their powers are limited to external elements (like potions and salt) in order to be used. In the end, I jhave to give this one a tie.

Edge: Even

X-Factors: Both are strong, fast and really well-trained and experienced. Booker is a disadvantage because he wasted a good couple of years of his life being a drunk, but he's still a beast when it comes to gunfights. Corvo's has a longer more more continous military career since he only stopped when he got framed.

Edge: Corvo Attano

Verdict: Yep this was a tough one but in the end I have to give it to the old Pinkerton. Okay hear me out Dishonored fans, but while Corvo is really tough, the only sure way he can win this is through his time bending abilities, while Booker has a shit ton of weapons he can use to destroy Corvo.

And that's all because of Booker's many many defensive weapons and abilities. Like seriously even if Corvo has explosive rounds and greandes I doubt they would be strong enough to get pass Booker's defenses that easily. And even if Corvo uses his pwoers like the wind blast and blink, they lack killing potential to put Booker down. Booker has his regenrating shield, and if those runs out, then he can add additonal defenses like his return to sender ability or his many invulnerability gears. Booker's weapons from the machine gun to the RPG on the other hand? Will rip Corvo so much that there won't be nothing left for Emily to bury.

The only sure fire way for Corvo to win is through bend time, and he can do this by basically stopping time, sticking a dozen of grenades into Booker, put him into the path of his own weapons, or basically just drop him from a cliff. But even if he does these its not yet sure if it would really kill Booker (if fully invulnerable, the guy can tank RPGs shot by the Motor Patrol). And the worst part is that Corvo doesn't have any intel or preps in this fight which is something that he was dependent upon in the first game. The moment Corvo is forced to use bend time, he'll be suprised to see that this initial attempts would fail to penetrate until the effects of bend time wore off. And before he can do that again, Booker would have seen this trick, add another invulnerability effect unto him, and blast Corvo as his bend time tries to recover.

And yes, the thing about bend time is that Dishonored fans have basically wanked this ability to near OPed status. But the truth is that it has its limitations, and Corvo cannot spam it like what other fans say because if so then that would have ended the game in a quarter of its original run. Bend time is the only thing Corvo has for him and even in that its not a sure-fire way to win. But Booker has a shit ton of arsenal to destroy Corvo without a sweat. Corvo can use stealth all he wants, but as long as he can't make a dent, and the moment Booker spots him, he is toast.

Winner: Booker Dewitt