The Contenders

Rattlers

• Who They Are: The Rattlers are a violent, survivalist and slaver group in The Last of Us Part II, known for their brutal tactics, territorial nature, and willingness to torture or kill without hesitation.

• Numbers & Structure: Typically a loosely organized gang, with 10–20 fighters in smaller groups, often using ambushes and guerrilla tactics for example.

• X-Factors: Fearlessness & brutality: They’ll fight dirty and aren’t afraid to exploit psychological warfare. Stealth & ambush tactics: Knowledge of terrain and traps gives them a huge advantage in urban or semi-rural environments. Survival-hardened: Living in a post-apocalyptic world, they’re resourceful and able to adapt quickly.

• Weapons & Equipment: Melee weapons: baseball bats, machetes, knives, improvised clubs Firearms: pistols, shotguns, sometimes rifles, often poorly maintained Traps and Molotov cocktails for area control

• Location: The Rattlers have established their stronghold in Santa Barbara, California, within a former luxury resort known as Hacienda Polanco. This sprawling seaside estate has been repurposed into a fortified compound and slave labor camp. They utilize the resort's structures and surrounding areas to house and control their captives

• Patrol Tactics and Surveillance: Rattler patrols are a constant presence around their base and in nearby areas. They employ a combination of human guards and infected creatures to maintain control and deter intruders. For instance, during one encounter, a Rattler patrol attempts to capture a runaway slave, only to fail as the man commits suicide to avoid capture.

American SWAT Team

• Who They Are: A trained, highly disciplined tactical unit deployed for high-risk law enforcement operations. Their training emphasizes precision, teamwork, and crisis management.

• Numbers & Structure: Teams typically consist of 6–12 members per entry team, with additional support in command and logistics.

• X-Factors: Tactical coordination: SWAT operates as a unit with clear roles—entry, breacher, marksman, medic. Advanced training: Extensive firearms proficiency, hand-to-hand combat, hostage rescue, and room clearing. High-grade equipment: Body armor, ballistic shields, and advanced communications.

• Weapons & Equipment: Primary: assault rifles (AR-15/M4 variants), submachine guns Secondary: pistols Specialty: breaching tools, flashbangs, tear gas, sniper rifles Personal protection: Kevlar body armor, helmets, tactical vests

Matchup Analysis

• Environment Matters: In urban close-quarters, Rattlers’ ambush tactics and improvised traps could level the playing field. In open environments or structured buildings, SWAT’s coordination, communication, and tactical training give them a clear advantage.

• Morale & Psychology: Rattlers may exploit fear, unpredictability, and surprise. SWAT relies on discipline and training to remain calm under pressure.

• Gear Advantage: SWAT has superior armor, firearms, and coordinated support. Rattlers’ advantage is versatility and creativity in weapon use, plus the willingness to take extreme risks.

Continuing to the discussion I want to address, the analogy is roughly like this: “Unfamiliarity” and “Familiarity” are one of the correlating bases that bridge the gap between Lower-Dimensional Beings and the entirety of Higher-Dimensional existence or Higher-Dimensional Beings. Like I said in the post before this one, Higher-Dimensional Beings are no longer confined by the structural system that binds Lower-Dimensional beings—where limited beings exist.

Higher-Dimensional Beings possess the power of being “Familiar,” as I’ve stated earlier. This is a clue that they have become “Familiar” with operating within the pure structure of their own dimensional system. This applies to both dimensional levels—Lower and Higher—because they certainly operate naturally within the structure of their own pure existence.

So what am I trying to say here? Simply, that being “Familiar” triggers their existence to be connectable, even though it may seem impossible. But rather than impossible, it’s more accurate to say it’s not impossible if Higher-Dimensional Beings “interfere” or come into contact with Lower-Dimensional Beings.

Such interaction will affect the energy within the existence of Lower-Dimensional Beings. Naturally, this kind of interaction will generate a sense of “Unfamiliarity” for the Lower-Dimensional Beings, because they themselves are not used to what Higher-Dimensional Beings are capable of. As mentioned above, Higher-Dimensional Beings can interact with the energy or even the physical laws within the existence of Lower-Dimensional Beings.

Once this interaction begins, it can cause the Lower-Dimensional realm to feel or become aware during the moment of interaction, as strange or foreign energies start to manifest within their existence—things that have never happened before can now be felt.

From here, we can begin to understand the true definition of “Unfamiliarity,” which becomes the trigger for the instincts and intuition of Lower-Dimensional Beings to operate beyond the structural system of their existence. Their subconscious may start operating across all levels of Higher Dimensions.

Why is that possible? Because the existence of Lower-Dimensional Beings cannot “explain” or comprehend the strange energies of the Higher-Dimensional Beings, as these energies do not align with the structural system of the Lower-Dimensional realm. That’s why sudden “fluctuations” in temperature or gravity—unnatural to their usual environment—could serve as triggers for their instincts and intuitions to respond across all Higher Dimensions.

Due to the presence of “Unfamiliarity” and the arrival of foreign energies, abnormalities manifest within their existence, which they’re not accustomed to—energies that only Higher-Dimensional Beings can generate. A sudden temperature fluctuation, for example, allows their “awareness” or “senses” to tap into what is being generated by the Higher-Dimensional Beings.

The hard analogy of “Familiarity” lies in this: Lower-Dimensional Beings operate within the structure of their pure existence, meaning they are “Familiar” with the systems present in their own dimension. This naturally contradicts any phenomenon they previously never encountered, creating awareness due to sudden changes in temperature or gravity, for instance. In this way, it is impossible for Lower-Dimensional Beings not to sense the effects of Higher-Dimensional interference.

In other words, the instincts or intuition of Lower-Dimensional Beings can operate entirely within higher-dimensional tiers. It's clear that all higher dimensions have the ability to manipulate the lower dimensions within them. Higher-Dimensional Beings that manipulate the structural system of Lower-Dimensional existence will inevitably allow those lower beings to sense what is being done.

One thing you must remember: the instincts and intuition—often referred to as the subconscious—of Lower-Dimensional Beings are not limited by the structural system of their own existence. Their instincts will still be able to hear, sense, and feel what Higher-Dimensional Beings are doing.

I possess a memory inscribed within my mind, or perhaps it still remains theoretical in nature.

I have come to the conviction that lower-dimensional beings inherently possess a potential or pure quality that enables interaction with higher-dimensional beings—this, precisely, due to the influence of the higher-dimensional entities themselves. It is for this reason that lower-dimensional beings bear a subordinate pure quality allowing them to engage with the higher dimensions.

This is caused by higher-dimensional beings, whose very existence contains an intrinsic subordinate purity. When they intervene within the realm of lower-dimensional beings, they simultaneously arrive at the existential plane of the lower dimension.

The existential presence of a higher-dimensional being induces fluctuations in temperature or gravity unlike any previously experienced. These disturbances arise from the manifestation of the higher-dimensional entity.

What I am asserting in this scheme is: how a lower-dimensional being instinctively senses an abnormality within its own existence as it once was. This forms the basis of the argument I present here.

Of course, higher-dimensional beings have the capacity to manipulate those of lower dimensions. Hence, within this schema, such beings bring about a state of uncertainty or existential abnormality upon the lower-dimensional entities.

As I have pointed out, the reality of what higher-dimensional beings are capable of includes their possession of subordinate potential or capacity—this very trait can provoke the emergence of “abnormal instincts” within the lower-dimensional entities, as though it were a natural part of their existence.

Surely, one would agree that lower-dimensional beings are fundamentally incapable of trusting the laws of physics—or more precisely, if there existed something that could erase or manipulate those laws. That is the core of what you must understand here: the usual "abnormality" in their being has now become the explicit revelation of bizarre phenomena, perceived as absurd within the framework of lower-dimensional perception.

You must also be aware that higher-dimensional beings possess the very potential I previously described: the ability to emit fluctuations in temperature and energy—this is due to the superior energy of higher-dimensional existence when compared to the existential state of beings in lower dimensions.

Naturally, this carries the potential to instill in the lower-dimensional being a sense of premonition that is proven to be true—not merely a theoretical instinct, but a tangible reality. It is through this that they can perceive phenomena considered absurd, for it is the very potential of higher-dimensional beings to impose such effects upon their existence.

Hey guys. How are you all. Just dropping by to share this thing I found out about us in Wikipedia, spexifically on the Battleboarding edit history.

Far from the truth. Lol.

Ok so I am new here (I'm also reading the battle policy while typing this down). And I have a battle idea in mind for the Goliath Bird Eating Spider (the biggest spider in the world.). But I don't know who to pit it against...

I've never really seen a battle with arachnids and insects before that was a valid and relevant battle on this wiki. So I decided to change that. I do have some ideas for possible opponents but I am not sure if it would be fair or not.

Possible opponents I had on mind:

• Death stalker Scorpion

• Hercules Beetle

• Emperor Scorpion

• Vinegarroon

• Brazilian Wandering Spider

I honestly don't know yet. So I decided to post my plight here. If anyone has suggestions for opponents. Please tell me.

The motorgeschütz wouldhave been a good idea the Germans and Austro-Hungarians would have had an upper hand in WW1 they might‘ve even won but sadly it‘s a what if. Not the Central Powers winning WW1 but the motorgeschütz going into production. It‘s a good tank it was smartly designed but it was just too advanced for it‘s time.

Premise: Palkia and Dialga just finished another round of their never ending fight. Taking advantage of Arceus cleaning up the after mess of their tantrum, Giratina begins to corrupt the living world with anti-matter from distortion world. Xerneas and Zygarde resist Giratina while waiting for Arceus to come bail them out.

Title. And I have no idea what this Wiki is for, and I can't find any main pages or anything. (Edit: nvm i found the main page.)

Does it make a difference if it is a well known fanon vs a less well known one?

So some battles on warrior pages don't have their conclusions explained either with phrases like 'TBW' or 'Please write an explanation why X person won'. So should explanations be added? I would think if it's the 'Please write an explanation...' scenario write a conclusion based on the voter concensus but what do YOU all think?

I've narrowed down my choices of Deadliest Warrior rematch and decided on Knight vs Pirate since my other 'most wanted choice' Spartan vs Samurai seemed too one sided. So I went with the icons of Medieval age Epic fantasy and the Age of Sail genres. The original episode did some things right but didn't have X-factors and the knight's own gunpowder weapons were excluded despite the knight coming from an era when gunpowder was used(Late medieval.)