User blog comment:CainVulsore/Sylar vs. Alex Mercer/@comment-5189239-20120706052302

My edge goes to Mercer, because he's adaptable. Sylar's intuitive aptitude operates more like an addiction; he has to learn how the Blacklight works and he'll hold off on killing Alex just long enough to figure it out before cutting open Alex's brain and figuring out how to use it.

Alex's powers are viral based; it's not something Sylar can simply :learn and mimic", and Alex himself isn't just going to charge in and stabstabstab; he's going to use cars, people, trees, anything he can lift up and throw at Sylar, and then come in for the kill blow.