Ultimate Team War - Gateway Planet 2

With Pro's strategy in mind, I shall now present three counter strategies to ensure victory. 1. Hit 'em fast and hard. As soon as the bout begins, Charizard launches himself onto Bowser. The King of the Koopas is taken by surprise, and is unable to defend himself because all his concentration is spent using the Vacuum mushroom. Charizard grabs the Koopa, easily lifting him off the ground (Charizard has previously demonstrated ability to lift giant turtle-like objects in his battle with blastoise). The Koopa, with his arms bound, is helpless as Charizard flies up into the air and tosses him outside the arena. Bowser is disqualified. Sakura and Peach fall out of the air, having been partially lifted off the ground by Bowser's inhalation. Sakura uses this to her advantage, using the momentum of the fall to smash the ground with even more force than usual. The ground around the Mario brothers is ripped apart, sending them both flying. Even if they are not knocked out of the arena, they are stunned enough for Sakura, with her quick ninja speed and reflexes, to smash them out of the arena. Even if Mario and Luigi do manage to mount a counter attack, they are quickly dispatched from above by Charizard's flame attacks. Team Con wins. 2. Operation Shield. Charizard, who is immune to Bowser's inhalation, spreads his wings as wide as possible, shielding the two girls from Bowser, who then proceed to jump into a pipe bringing them to the other side of the planet. They then proceed to quickly move behind the Mario brothers and eliminate them from behind (Sakura, who can move extremely fast, would traverse the tiny planet in seconds at most, with Peach not far behind). The twin's jumping skills would be no match for Sakura's professional Taijutsu techniques, and with Sakura's immense strength they would be smashed from the arena, or left with broken necks in seconds. Even if they were to defeat Sakura somehow, Peach, who is not far behind could defeat them using her 'rage' technique. Meanwhile, Bowser faces off against an enraged dragon. The two would probably be fairly evenly matched, their flame attacks having little effect on each other, they would go in for close range bashing. Bowser has his large bulk and smashing attacks, while Charizard has his steel wing and skull bash attacks. Regardless of the final outcome, Sakura would eventually catch up with the two giants, and use her medical abilities to heal Charizard (Or, if peach won she could move close to Charizard and extend her 'Calm' bubble around Charizard). The newly healed Charizard would then have little trouble defeating the worn out Bowser. Team Con wins. Flaws in Pro's plans; 1. Bowser would be unable to inhale a pipe from the planet, since he can only inhale objects which are human sized or larger- pipes are obviously larger, since they require people to go inside them. Plus, they are fixed into the ground. With that is mind, even if Bowser were to inhale both Peach and Sakura, he would have to eliminate himself along with them, leaving two plumbers to face off with an enraged dragon. Charizard would easily win- all he would have to do is stay at a distance and blast them with wide range flame attacks like fire spin and overheat (which would be impossible to dodge), while the twins would have to rely on mighty meteor, an attack that doesn't even always work, and which Charizard could avoid using aerial acrobatics. 2. None of Pro's team would even consider attacking Peach. Let's look at he terms of the debate: 'All team members are still subjected to their own emotions, natures, or other psychological restrictions, however'. It is stated that all team members are absolutely loyal to the team leader- however, given their varying degrees of obsession, none of Pro's team would ever attack Peach. Mario is obvious- he is so in love with the damsel he constantly risks his life against lava, and all kinds of deadly creatures to save her. It is revealed that Bowser has a big crush on Peach in the Paper Mario Series, so he wouldn't. Luigi, while not quite as close to her as Mario, would hardly be likely to attack the benevolent queen of Mushroom Kingdom. Pointing out that they can fight in SSBB is irrelevant- it is a series outside of all cannons, in which characters who would never consider fighting one another do so. It should also be noted that in the actual story mode of SSBB Peach and Mario do not fight- that they can do so in multiplayer or other game modes proves nothing, because in these the actual natures of the characters are not taken into account, unlike in this debate. Given that all my strategies fail, therefore, the match would end in a stalemate, neither Team Pro or Peach willing to attack the other. Furthermore, team Pro would hesitate a lot during the match since they do not want to harm Peach, giving a decisive advantage to team Con. 3. Pro's team cannot use magic windows. (mistakenly called 'magic mirrors' in Pro's round) To quote the rules: 'There is no instant transportation of any kind' To quote Pro's wiki entry for the magic window: 'When using this special technique, Mario and Luigi jump into a window, which teleports them close to a random opponent' Pro must revise his plan of attack in order to avoid violating his own rules. ============================================================================ With that, I turn it back to Pro.