Master Chief would defeat Predator

Ell-osde' pauk! First your remarks as to the biological makeup of Johnny boy. Aside from being mildly racist, your basic argument seems to be that he is the absolute best that humanity has to offer, right? hoo boy. The Predators (Actually they're called Yautja, or rather that is their name for themselves) seen in Predator 1 and 2 were novices. Young Yautja who have not yet earned the right to carry full arsenals of weaponry, not yet earned any trophies, they are referred to as unblooded. They have literally never hunted before, never experienced combat, never used any of their limited arsenals in real-time combat. Arnie only managed to beat the Yautja more or less by accident. Harrigan killed the Yautja, as you said, by using it's own weapon against it. Both of them had the advantage of experience, plus they both had intimate knowledge of the areas in which the fighting took place, plus they both did so only after the Yautja had been hunting for several days, a period in which it would have become tired, weakened and wounded. However you're missing the key point, Harrigan killed it, at best, using dishonourable techniques. Dutch killed it in the fairest fight of the two, and he was a soldier, one of the best, he was both in command and the only one capable out of his entire unit, a unit that was able to out-guerrilla normal guerrillas, in the exact same environment they work with all the time. The Yautja whooped the lot of them, save for Dutch, not only on their home turf but in their own back garden. and this was an Unblooded Yautja. A rookie. A pawn. Two of these, just two, cut swathes through geurilla soldiers, gangs, and New York's finest. The Yautja in Aliens Vs Predator were Young Blood, just one up from Unblooded. They were on their first hunt as proven by the fact that they had to "earn" their plasma casters, by finding them inside the temple. The Plasma caster is a Yautja's ranged weapon of choice as it allows for total ranged accuracy regardless of wounds or fatigue and it allows the Yautja to remain armed with another weapon such as the combistaff while shooting, meaning that the Yautja can hold it's own against several opponents (or, as the opening to AVP showed, a few million) for periods of time usually impossible. in AVP2: Requiem, we see a Yautja that is at least a Warrior or Honoured rank, he could be Clan leader or Arbitrator or even Huntsmaster. This is a true experienced Yautja, who has been on many hunts and has slain many enemies including the Xenomorph "ultimate prey" Note that this Yautja doesn't go down until he faces a creature that is a mixture between his own breed and one of these Xenomorphs, in other words, he faces down a creature with all his strengths, plus the strengths of the ultimate prey, plus other Xenomorphs, plus superior numbers, and he's surrounded by us. Toys, feeble creatures that unblooded hunt. AND HE ONLY LOSES BECAUSE WE NUKE HIM. The ultimate point is that the best of the best of humanity ultimately pales in comparison to any truly experienced Yautja. Also, MC wouldn't be able to see them with thermal vision, they're cold blooded. They mainly hunt in hot, humid environments, the Yautja we see in AVP are wearing "heat netting" which keeps their body warm in the cold of the Antarctic, if you recall the origin of the temple, it was in what appeared to be a hot region. As for your reference to MC's running speed, that would be unhindered. MC seems to move pre-tty slowly once he actually puts his armour on, and if you examine his helmet (plus, actually, play the game) you can see that his vision isn't vertically peripheral. The "cap" protrusion at the front of his helmet would make it hard to see anything more than a few feet above him, which is going to be a major disadvantage against a creature that spends most of it's time in high places. As for the so-called resilience of MC's armour...if it's that good, why does he die so easily? As for the energy shield, I'm sure the shield is designed with human technology with anti-Covenant usage in mind, the Covenant being, as earlier stated, pants-on-head retarded. If the Predator can't overpower the shield, it will certainly be able to outsmart the person using it. Incidentally, Yautja have pretty much everything enhanced too, and their armour, like MC's, increases their physical attributes as well. It could possibly be said that MC and a single Blooded Yautja are an even match. Except there's an entire species of Bloodeds, and that's not even counting the Elders who are even stronger, faster, and more accomplished than the Blooded. As for a "cowardly attempt at self-detonation", my friend the Yautja live and die by the code of honour, failure without dying is the biggest dishonour there is, a Yautja can never quit a hunt without claiming it's prey and should always hunt to the death if it cannot claim it's prey's life and, naturally, should do everything it can to ensure that if it dies, it claims it's prey too. Look up the term "Kamikaze" because we aren't exactly beyond such acts ourselves, y'know. Your entire argument rests on MC automatically knowing everything about the Yautja, rests on him fighting an unblooded with no real experience, rests on the him being able to outrun a nuclear explosion, while wearing, how much was it? Oh yes, a thousand pounds worth of metal armour. That's 454 Kilograms. Plus weapons. Plus ammunition. Dutch only barely managed it, and he was half naked. Three hundred city blocks in what? 20 seconds? Oh yeah, female Yautja? Bigger, stronger, faster. Most of the elites are females who are younger and less experienced than the male elites and GOD HELP HIM if it's time of the month. Sources: MC's mug: http://www.mediabistro.com... Yautja physiology, society, etc: http://www.jokerdesigns.com... Yautja weaponry and equipment: http://www.jokerdesigns.com...