In a war between Vampires and Werewolves, Vampires would win.

Alright, now I suspected this would come up, and you may be surprised to find that I think, in light of the time restrictions placed on werewolves, they would actually have a greater advantage than vampires. First, I think that we can all agree on this: werewolves are physically superior to vampires, at least to the extent that they are stronger and faster. But despite this fact, there are a few drawbacks to being a werewolf. For example, werewolves may be physically superior, but they only transform based on the phases of the moon. This means that they are only stronger than vampires for a short amount of time about once a month. The rest of the time they are plain old humans. How unfortunate, you might be thinking to yourself, because obviously this is a huge disadvantage. My opponent makes this case when he boasts that vampires are always vampires, and werewolves are only part-time werewolves. I respectfully disagree that this is a disadvantage. How can I say that? Well, to put it simply, every disadvantage my opponent wishes to apply to werewolves, cannot apply to humans. To clarify, I see two main points my opponent makes regarding the weaknesses of werewolves. The first point is this: Vampires have the upper hand, given that they are always endowed with their supernatural powers, whereas werewolves are weak little humans for the majority of their lives. Wrong. For one thing, werewolves in human form are indistinguishable from normal humans. While a werewolf can have a normal human life, or at least the appearance of one, vampires can't even go outside during the daytime. In fact, it is a widely accepted belief that sunlight is deadly for vampires, and burns them on contact. This means that for fully half of their lifetimes, vampires are basically immobile. So not only are vampires unable to cross any body of water, but they also must travel only to places that they can reach in one night. Now let's apply this to our war scenario. The two sides are locked in battle, in the dead of night. As the fight rages on, the sun begins to rise. Now, seeing as how the fight is far from over, the vampires are faced with a dilemma. They must either find a safe place to retreat to, where there is no sunlight (a difficult task, to be sure), or risk being wiped out by the sun. This is where the werewolves have the advantage. Though the werewolves will turn back into humans, they are still infinitely more powerful than the vampires in the light of day. To oversimplify my argument: Whereas vampires are completely useless during the daytime, werewolves at least have the ability to function, albeit in human form. My opponent's second main point has to do with the mental capacity of werewolves. Being that it is half wolf would make it less intelligent than a human. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that is what you mean. I won't disagree on this point, but since you brought it up, let's at least explore it further. Though it is less intelligent than a human, I hope you will concede that it is more intelligent than a wolf. Now consider a normal wolf's main talent: it is a master hunter, experienced at finding, tracking, and killing its prey. Though its skills are based more on instinct than intellect, surely the added brain power that comes with being human cannot hurt. My opponent wishes to say that since it is mostly an animal, the werewolf has an intellectual disadvantage. I contend that it is precisely this departure from human reason and empathy which makes the werewolf such an efficient killer. The werewolf does not kill people because it reasons to, it kills because of instinct. And it is the werewolf's instinct that makes it so good at killing. While the vampires are weighed down with reasoning things out, werewolves are just raw, untamed killing machines, never thinking twice about how to kill. While humans must spend their lifetimes learning how to efficiently kill, werewolves have the most efficient methods written in their DNA, manifest as their natural instinct. Thus, I contend that werewolves mental capacity gives them an advantage over the vampires! On the same note, if my opponent refuses to accept that the werewolves instinct to kill is greater than the vampires ability to reason (which I hope he does not), then it should still be obvious that werewolves are not always in werewolf form, as they are human most of the time. Thus they can reason just as easily as vampires, and even tailor their plans to fit their altered states accordingly. Moving on, my opponent asserts that werewolves are weak to silver. This is true. But what he doesn't mention is the scarcity of silver in the world. Now, let's say that the vampires get their hands on 100% of the world's silver (doubtful, but this is only hypothetical). They could either use them to make swords or bullets. Personally, I wouldn't want to face a werewolf up close, silver sword or not. And my opponent has already said that vampires don't like to use guns (this is further proof that vampires are liberals!). But even if these were effective, sooner or later the vampires would run out of silver to make weapons. Now I hope my opponent is not petty enough to make the same argument against me relating to the vampires' weaknesses. Vampires have several more weaknesses than werewolves, and all of them are more plentiful, and common, for that matter, than silver. I would think it obvious that there is more garlic, or crucifixes, than silver in the world. As for your vampires being immortal, and potentially having wise old vampires to guide them, I'll just say that having such an ancient, structured form of "government", if you will, could cause problems for the vampires, as certain vampires are bound to have "political" motivations for their actions, which may be counterproductive to the overall vampire cause. Since werewolves have only one motivation (kill everything), they would certainly be more focused, at least in their overall goal. I'm not exactly sure what my opponent means exactly by werewolf sleep cycles, but I'll just say that werewolves in human form sleep like humans, but as far as being actual werewolves, I think they just run around killing people (or vampires) until the moon changes. As for vampires, they are are sometimes described as being in a coma during the daytime. I'll compromise and say that they can be awake, but can't go into the sunlight. Even so, this is a huge obstacle for the vampires, and I hope you can explain how they would deal with this. I also look forward to your rebuttal of my frankly awesome arguments.