Master Chief (HALO) vs Samus Aran (METROID)

"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." The fact that she pilots a spaceship, which is much harder to do than jump into a vehicle, step on a pedal, and turn a wheel. "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." Chief would not have the advantage. Samus would, because it doesn't matter if Cheif knows wherever Samus could be hiding if he gets close to her to attack, or if she is behind him, zooming in on him to snipe. And the radar jamming arguement fails, due to the fact that vision exists and neither of the contenders in this battle are blind. "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." Actually, she just needs to remove her arm cannon, not the whole suit of armor. And the cloaking device won't work, seeing as how you have to stay in one area to use the device. Furthermore, Samus could easily get to the device before chief and use it before him. "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." The morph ball is quick, and when chief turns around she will simply move around or away from chief, in the form of a morph ball, and hide behind a rock or some other shield, thus making her safe from any long range weapons equipped by chief, unless he moves to where he can shoot at her, which in that case she shall shoot at him. "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." Wouldn't it be hard to snipe a rapidly moving target? Yes, yes it would. No matter what training anyone's recieved the sniper rifle relies on the target to be unaware that they are in danger. Samus is aware, seeing as how she is in a battle against Chief, and would know that he is planning something. Furthermore, she could just hide behind a rock that covers her on most or all sides, and if one is not avaliable, she could easily make one by moving the rocks she needed to shield her to one spot and ducking behind them. "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)." Ahh, now here is the problem: Most of your argument relies on AI programming faults, which does not affect their respective universes, only games. In truth, the 'bosses' are very intelligent, as are some of her regular enemies. Also, she need not strip her armor to pick up a useful weapon, as useful is a relative term. She always has one arm free, and could just as easily use that, or rely on her arm cannon, which she trusts not to blow up. "Already covered this." If you already covered it, then I most likely already refuted it. "Who says the Chief would be waiting?" You do. All the time. You keep stating that Chief would be able to take Samus down with a long range weapon, thus forcing him to wait in some tree with a sniper rifle while Samus runs around, thus making it very difficult for him to aim. " 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)." 1) She could always put it on again. 2) Samus has been out of her suit before, and survived just fine without it. 3) Useful is a relative term. And the Chief wouldn't have enough traps to cover all the weapons he considers 'useful', unless he only considers brute force 'useful', which is a dreadfully bad mistake to make. "First, Samus has no sniping weapons, so that's wrong." First, she does. The Imperailist, which is found in Metroid Prime: Hunters. Also, seeing as you haven't decided anything about the time of the battle, it shall take place after all of the games, books, etc. etc. "And I've already covered what will happen when she resorts to picking up any of the Chief's weapons." Already got this. "As for tactics, the Chief has been battling the covenent since the age of 6." All that proves is that he knows how to use a few guns. Battling since the age of six won't help you unless you learn from your experiences, which Cheif probably didn't do, otherwise he'd be able to wipe out the whole horde of aliens attacking his colony. "the Chief's are smarter than Samus's enemies in general." Already covered this. "So in terms of who is more likely smarter, this one goes to the Chief." Likely, smarter, not definately smarter. Remember, Samus can pilot a very complex space ship, has been using a very complex suit for a good while now, and has traveled to alien lands where the foreign technology is better than ours, and she has taken advantage of that. Cortana, also, cannot help Cheif as this is a battle between Cheif and Samus, not Chief and him and her against Samus at him and that. Just a battle between Cheif and Samus, only.