Master Chief (HALO) vs Samus Aran (METROID)

"Samus could also do this." What evidence is there to show that Samus would possess the knowledge needed to pilot either vehicle? Contrary to the Convenent and the Marines, there's no way we can determine that she had captured one of these vehicles in the past and conducted study. "Samus could then, instead of walking, bring out a zoomin weapon and snipe chief before he kills her. Now, you'll probably say that chief won't allow this, well, that argument fails due to chief being out in the open and Samus hiding." But my argument was that Chief would be the one hiding. Still, if you're saying that they'll both hide, Chief has the advantage, or have you forgotten that the Chief knows every nook and cranny of this map. Knowing all of the vantage points on Vahalla is advantageous. Chief would know every place Samus could hide, would have a means of disabling whatever tracking system she could use (radar jammer) (crouching works too). On the other hand, Samus possesses neither of these advantages. "Oh, and Samus could also use the Spartan Lazer." No, she couldn't unless she removed her armor (the spartan lazer requires two hands). And if she removes her armor, she'll lose any advantage that comes from having the armor. Specifically, you say she'd use the morph ball to get the Chief by surprise, but she wouldn't have this advantage. Furthermore, the Chief could simply put on the cloaking device located on Vahalla (the blue orbish thingy) as Samus wouldn't even have a chance of detecting him without her armor. "She'll sneak up on him using the morph ball. Therefore she becomes smaller than a tire. I'm pretty sure that anyone could sneak up on anything when they're smaller than a tire, if they catch the victim at the right time." While she thinks she is sneaking up on him via morph ball, the Chief will be chuckling to himself as he sees a red dot slowly approaching him on his radar. He will then turn around and dispose of Samus with a close range weapon (the gravity hammer would suffice). Of course, if she doesn't get close enough to him, it wouldn't matter as he'd still know where she was located and could quickly dispose of her with a long range weapon as well. "Plus, Samus needs to tracking device, seeing as she has eyes." I'll assume you meant "needs no tracking device", and no, eyes aren't good enough. The Chief knows where to get the stealth items and also knows of all the vantage points on the map. Eyes alone would be useless. While Samus strains out her eyeballs in search of the Chief, Chief could take her out via sniper rifle. "Oh, woop-dee-doo, he knows where some rocks are. Home field advantage is nothing, especially with Samus. She never has the home field advantage, and yet always overcomes her opponenets." Since most of Samus's enemies lack even a remote amount of intelligence, this doesn't say much. The regular enemies are comparable to the typical wild life's intelligence on our own planet. The bosses are even dumber as most of them follow the same strategy over and over again in attempt to kill Samus, thus making her fights extremely easy. On the other hand, Master Chief has fought nearly all of his battles without the home field advantage against extremely intelligent enemies (organized Covenent army and Brutes) and has come out on top. Bottomline, against the Chief, Samus not possessing any knowledge of the battlefield whereas the Chief possesses IMMENSE knowledge is very disadvantageous. Hell, Chief even knows where all the weapons are, so when (as the contender points out) Samus strips away her armor (hence making herself much weaker) and attempts to pick up any useful weapon, Chief will know just where she would have to go to do this and can set traps (waiting on her with the sniper rifle or spartan lazer is one of many potential tactics). "The arm cannon can be very useful. Oh, and if cheif were close enough to hit Samus with any kind of close-ranged weapon, Samus would simply just kill chief. Already covered this. "And while the chief is waiting for that to help him out, he'd be killed by Samus. Besides, she could easily just get out of the suit, grab some guns, and kill chief anyway." Who says the Chief would be waiting? He could fight Samus at the same time. And I've already covered what will happen if she gets out of her suit. 1) She won't be able to use it again. 2) The physical improvements the suit gave (speed, agility, aiming, etc) would be gone, thus making the battle the equivalent to a toddler fighting Muhammad Ali in his prime. 3) Chief knows the location of all the weapons and will therefore being to plan around Samus picking up any useful ones (like I said, from the safety of a vantage point, he could take her down as she picked up a weapon). "Super human strength is nothing when compared to tactics and far-ranged weapons, both of which Samus has." First, Samus has no sniping weapons, so that's wrong. And I've already covered what will happen when she resorts to picking up any of the Chief's weapons. As for tactics, the Chief has been battling the covenent since the age of 6. His experience makes him a tactical genius, not to mention that as I've pointed out, the Chief's are smarter than Samus's enemies in general. So in terms of who is more likely smarter, this one goes to the Chief. Oh, and once again, lets not forget that Cortanna would be helping him. And that's all for round 2.