Ultimate Team War - Pandora

Thank you, tvellalot, for your response. First, my opponent equates the following three survival methods: * Forming a space helmet through the use of psionic barriers * Putting on a space helmet that contains clean air * Magically creating a bubble of clean air around the head The flaw in my opponent's plan should be obvious here: he doesn't actually get any clean air. The psionic helmet still contains poisonous air. Just because the air is now in a helmet, doesn't make it clean. As a backup plan, he wants his team to move into the human-built complex with breathable air. This has two problems: 1. There isn't enough time to get into the complex before everybody has taken a breath. 2. The complex is protected by a huge, extremely strong security fence [1] that would take minutes for Team CON to break through. It even has automatic defense turrets that would attack them as they tried to break in. Basically, Team CON would die before getting to that precious air. Finally, my opponent wishes to use a spaceship that his team travelled in as a source of air. However, there is no mention of any spaceship in the rules, and a spaceship would have been mentioned if it existed. By Occam's Razor, we conclude that the individual team members were teleported to their chosen locations on Pandora's surface from their own home planets. This is the simplest and fairest explanation, as a spaceship would require complicated specifications that could be abused by either side. To conclude that point, Team CON needs a more accessible source of fresh air that actually exists. I only go on for the sake of debate, and in case my opponent can, in Round 4, come up with an actually plausible survival plan. My opponent points out Sonic's supersonic speed, which allows him to avoid any attacks by Crobat. However, at this speed, there's no way Sonic would be able to see a hippo right next to him, and especially not an invisible, soundless bat in the sky, which would evade even the most skilled and stationary of scouters. Sonic will keep running until he crashes into Harry's Shield Charm, knocking him backwards, as the charm is impervious to physical assault. Harry would quickly cast Avada Kedavra before Sonic could get up, eliminating Sonic from the battle. Sue Storm's thin shield would be unable to protect Sonic from such a mighty attack. Tvellalot posits that there's a water supply on Pandora, but this water is in pipes and metal containers, out of reach for Aang. He also thinks that there must be water in the air because there are rainforests, but the Pandora Wiki disagrees [2]. Aang cannot create a mist. Finally, I pointed out that Venusaur could use Sunny Day to clear any mist that appeared, and my opponent ignored this point as well, conceding it. With Sonic gone, Crobat continues on his path, then destroys Carnage with SonicBoom. My opponent did not contest this in Round 3, so the point is forfeited. Meanwhile, Aang and Gray Fox are waiting for Crobat. My opponent plans for them to hear Crobat as it came, then team up on it. This would fail, as Crobat flies extremely silently [3], and would not be noticed by either Gray Fox or Aang. My opponent has not contested that Aang would be knocked unconscious in one blow from Crobat's SonicBoom, dropping the point, so Aang goes down rather quickly, leaving Gray Fox. However, my opponent's only plan here for disposing of Crobat involves Aang throwing boulders at him, which fails when Aang is already taken care of. Gray Fox alone has no plans, and will simply be defeated by some SonicBooms, as Crobat remains in constant, unpredictable motion, so that Gray Fox can never locate him for an attack. This again leaves Sue Storm alone. Crobat confuses Sue with a SuperSonic attack. As her concentration breaks, so do her shields, leaving her wide open to a number of SonicBooms, destroying her. If Crobat can't finish off Gray Fox and Sue Storm (the only two enemies who aren't easily disposed of through assassination/fumbling), the rest of the team joins him, and attacks with the various strategies that I've already mentioned in my opponent's proposed one-on-one battles, which I will now address just in case. My opponent contends that Harry Potter is NOT the most powerful Auror in the world. However, Harry is the head of the Ministry of Magic's Auror Department [4], and has been for thirteen years. He had mastered powerful magic at a relatively young age, and went on to become the best of the best. My opponent is probably thinking only of teenage Harry, but I specifically said in Round 2 that Harry was an Auror. Now, in the battle between Harry and Aang, already nullified by Crobat's stealthy SonicBoom, Harry has the advantage of a sneak attack, as he hides under the Invisibility Cloak, and any mist that may have existed has been cleared by Venusaur. Aang would not have a chance to defend from the Avada Kedavra curse unless he had a constant shield of stone around him, and that would make initiating any battle fairly difficult if not impossible. In the fight between Gray Fox and Venusaur, it is true that Solar Beam usually takes time to charge. However, Venusaur has already used Sunny Day, ensuring that the Alpha Centauri stars are both clear in the sky. The Alpha Centauri stars are one times and 1.304 times as bright as the sun [5], making Venusaur's Solar Beam over twice as powerful as normal. The blast would be both quicker and more powerful than usual, and the beam is way too fast for the Gray Fox to merely dodge it; Ash's Heracross stood no chance. And maybe Gray Fox could take some "punishment," but a Solar Beam from Spenser's Venusaur is in an entirely different league [Video 1; 0:04 - 0:37] from "punishment." http://www.youtube.com... Between Sonic and Paper Mario, Sonic will not "just dodge" Paper Mario's attacks, because of the way the attacks work. When Paper Mario uses an item, everything within the immediate vincity is frozen helpless as they are visciously attacked [Video 2; 3:20 - 3:43]. Once Sonic is in range, he will be hit, and with no rings, he will be defeated. Piece of cake. http://www.youtube.com... To demonstrate Kirby's inhalation power, view Video 3 (1:43 - 1:50). He eats everything. And anything that enters Kirby's mouth is rendered immoblie and helpless as Kirby decides its fate. He's swallowed gigantic stone statues and drill bits, but nothing has ever injured Kirby from the inside in the anime. http://www.youtube.com... Finally, my opponent states that Invisible Woman would trap Paper Mario in a shield during his Shooting Star attack. For one thing, Invisible Woman is frozen during the attack, as are everybody else, so she can't do anything about it. For another, the attack falls from the sky, not from Paper Mario himself, so shielding off Paper Mario wouldn't do any good. In conclusion, even if Team CON manages to survive Pandora's toxic atmosphere, which is highly doubtful: Sonic will crash into a magic wall and expose himself to a deadly curse. Carnage will be assassinated by a powerful sound wave delivered by an invisible, silent bat. Aang will be assassinated by a powerful sound wave delivered by that same bat. Sue Storm will be confused and rendered completely useless. Gray Fox will be surrounded and destroyed by powerful magic, sound waves, shooting stars, and beams of concentrated energy, if not eaten. Most of my strategies are not opponent-specific, and can be mismatched in any which way. I have strategy upon counter-strategy against my opponent's wishful best-case scenario. He stands no chance. Good luck anyway, tvellalot. 1. http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com... 2. http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com... 3. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net...(Pok%C3%A9mon)#Pok.C3.A9dex_entries_2 4. http://harrypotter.wikia.com... 5. http://en.wikipedia.org...