User blog comment:Battlefan237/The Pursuit of Perfection: Professor Pyg vs. Herbert West/@comment-3189283-20190402124744

Let’s see shall we

Short Range

While a syringe full of tranquilliser will certainly put Pyg and his minions out of the fight, the problem comes with actually getting close enough to use it. Any attempt to do so would put West in prime range to be sliced up by the cleaver and he has a better weapon at this range anyway (but more on that later). The Cleaver isn’t great, but it does have more killing power than the syringe and Pyg’s skill in using it also factors in here.

Edge: Professor Pyg

Mid Range

A Buzzsaw will rip and tear through flesh but it’s also not the most conspicuous of weapons to use and is reliant on being connected to a power source in order to work. The Pipe is a much easier weapon to use and can be swung about much quicker, the downside being a lack of killing power unless you get a precise hit.

Edge: Even

Long Range

The Shovel takes it easily. Pitchfork isn’t a bad weapon per say but it’s very much restricted to a highly telegraphed stabbing attack and it’s only form of attack is with it’s prongs. The shovel can be used as a slashing, stabbing and bludgeoning weapon and being West’s most iconic weapon, he’ll be able to utilise it to the best of it’s abilities.

Edge: Herbert West

Firearm

The M1911 is packing the greater effective range and larger magazine but in the close confines of the local morgue the range advantage won’t matter. The sawn-off conversely is packing a much bigger punch with it’s shot and the short range it will be used in makes accuracy less of an issue. Granted having five less shots before needing to reload isn’t great but I don’t see either having a prolonged gunfight so the gun packing the bigger punch wins.

Edge: Professor Pyg

Special

The instakill chemical cloth wins this matchup because, well, the name kind of gives it away. The drill is a more portable Buzzsaw but also has a pathetically short range, close enough for West to just shove the cloth in Pyg’s stupid face.

Edge: Hebert West

Minions

The reanimators themselves are the better fighters by virtue of their greater intelligence which they can use to set traps for and generally work together better in a fight than the Dollotrons. Herein lies their weakness as well, they may be smart enough to overpower the Dollotrons, but this also makes them smart enough to decide to just rebel or ignore what West is telling them to do. The Dollotrons for all their mindless brutality are at least obedient to Pyg’s will and he won’t have to worry about them turning on him. The reanimators would win a straight fight but the Dollotrons are the better actual minions.

Edge: Even

Final Verdict

This is quite a close-run battle with neither having a big edge in terms of weaponry. I’d say the Shovel is probably the best melee weapon in the match but West himself is inferior to Pyg in a straight fight so he might have trouble actually bringing him down. The reanimators are going to be a big threat for Pyg to deal with but they might just as easily turn on West and Pyg doesn’t need to kill them, just West so he could just sick his Dollotrons on them and focus on the mad doctor himself. It’s a tough call but in the end, I’m going to narrowly side with West. While Pyg does have the greater overall experience, it is West who is better at thinking up plans on the fly which will be ideal in this random encounter where neither know anything about the other. He also has two ways to instantly disable Pyg, either killing him outright with the chemical cloth or sedating him for an easy kill with the syringe and while these are very very short range options, I can see him figuring out a way to get the drop on Pyg.

Herbert West: 2,700

Professor Pyg: 2,300