Artificial Human #17 would have likely defeated Piccolo if Cell hadn't arrived...

Greetings to my opponent and many thanks for hosting this debate. In today's case, I shall prove that Cyborg #17 would have probably lost to Piccolo had the duel between the two continued without interruption. ========== FIGHTING SKILL | ========== We should keep in mind that it was stated that Piccolo and #17 were evenly matched in terms of power (1). Naturally, my opponent is without a doubt going to rely on the fact that #17 had an limitless supply of stamina whereas Piccolo did not. However, this advantage would bear little to no meaning in terms of the outcome of that fight. Piccolo was the more skilled fighter between the two. Based on his comments about #17 not knowing how to throw an effective punch, my assertion is well warranted (2). With superior fighting skill, Piccolo has the better chance of ending the fight before he is out of stamina. Granted that 17 is easy to distract as we saw earlier on in the battle when the namekian Z warrior had nearly ensnared him in the technique which is colloquially referred to as the "Hell Zone grenade" (3). If Piccolo were to mount another assault which relied on 17's lowered guard, he would likely be successfully killing him with a devastating ki attack. ================== 2: What techniques to use?| ================== So with that being established, the question is what attack to use. 1) Piccolo could simply increase his size to a level which grants him far greater strength as he did in Dragon Ball (4). As my source indicates, even when doing this, his speed doesn't decrease at all. Thus, while being much larger, Piccolo will be much stronger and shall hence have a definite edge over 17. As long as he didn't become too big and kept his guard up, 17 would be unable to take advantage of his size as Goku did during their battle. 2) Piccolo could use the muliform technique to duplicate himself, followed by a special beam cannon. Although the duplication would divide his power in half, use of the special beam cannon would be 1.5x the power #17 has. As we see during the battle with Raditz, the special beam cannon multiplies Piccolo's fighting power three fold (5). The only problem would be powering the technique up long enough for it to be usable, hence the role the duplicate serves. If Piccolo used the multiform technique while out of #17's site (i.e. he could allow 17 to knock him into the sea of water nearby and perform the technique then), he can have his duplicate stall 17 for a little while. #17 would likely fall for this since he had already believed that Piccolo's finite amount of stamina would eventually weaken him. With #17 believing that he was only fighting one fighter, this would allow Piccolo ample opportunity to power up the special beam cannon and then to vanquish him with it while he was off guard. NOTE: The Special beam cannon increases Piccolo's power level three fold because his power level while using it was stated to be 1330 whereas his normal power level around that time was barely over 400. SOURCES: #1: http://www.mangafox.com... #2: http://www.mangafox.com... #3: http://www.mangafox.com... #4:http://www.mangafox.com... #5:http://www.mangafox.com...