Lalo Salamanca

==Summary==
Eduardo "Lalo" Salamanca is the main antagonist of the second half of the TV series Better Call Saul, serving as the primary antagonist of Season 5 and 6. He is the nephew of Hector Salamanca and a cousin of Tuco, Marco, and Leonel Salamanca, as well as a high-ranking member of the Juárez Cartel. Following Hector's stroke, Lalo came to New Mexico in-order to run his uncle's business for him and to protect his family's interests. He would soon slowly uncover Gustavo Fring's secret operation while sabotaging his profits in-order to turn the Cartel against Gus.
In contrast to his other family members, Lalo is charismatic, cheerful, and affable to those around him. Yet he also shares the same callousness, cruelty, and murderous traits that are characteristic with the rest of the Salamancas. His most dangerous weapon is his high intelligence, allowing him to go toe-to-toe and successfully strategize against Gus' planning. With all these traits combined, Lalo quickly became Gustavo's greatest and most prominent foe.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , higher with firearms
Name: Eduardo "Lalo" Salamanca, Don Eduardo, "Jorge de Guzman", "Ben"
Origin: Better Call Saul
Gender: Male
Age: Late 40s
Classification: Human, Cartel distributor
Powers and Abilities: Peak Human Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Weapon Mastery (Skilled in the use of various firearms), Vehicular Mastery, Martial Arts, Stealth Mastery and Acrobatics (Jumped through a loose ceiling panel in a span of a few seconds without attracting attentionBetter Call Saul Season 4 Episode 10, "Winner"), Social Influencing (Charmed and seduced Margarethe while extracting information out of herBetter Call Saul Season 6 Episode 5, "Black and Blue"), Preparation
Attack Potency: Street level (Demonstrated to be physically comparable to his cousins, such as Tuco Salamanca, who knocked out Mike Ehrmantraut and beat a street thug to death.Breaking Bad Season 2 Episode 1, "Seven Thirty-Seven" Burst through a ceiling panel. Sliced off Casper's foot with a single swing of an axe while being injured moments priorBetter Call Saul Season 6 Episode 6, "Axe and Grind"), higher with firearms
Speed: Athletic Human (Crawled through a tight underground passage tunnel under several secondsBetter Call Saul Season 5 Episode 10, "Something Unforgivable"), Transonic to Supersonic+ attack speed with firearms
Lifting Strength: Average Human 
Striking Strength: Street level
Durability: Street level (Withstood having the blunt end of an axe strike his ribs; Wasn't slowed or hindered after being shot in the leg .)
Stamina: Peak Human (Capable of fully functioning throughout the night with only an hour of sleep,Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 7, "Plan and Execution" and has claimed to sleep only an hour or two a day and still being able to function normally. Managed to travel to a different location under a few hours despite suffering a gunshot wound to the legBetter Call Saul Season 6 Episode 1, "Wine and Roses")
Range: Standard Melee Range; Hundreds of Meters with firearms
Standard Equipment: Kimber Ultra Carry II,Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 6, "Wexler v. Goodman" CZ-75B,Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 9, "Bad Choice Road" Ruger KP90, Glock 17, Heckler & Koch P7M8,Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 8, "Point and Shoot" Daniel Defense M4A1, razor blade, a pair of binoculars, and a camcorder
Intelligence: Genius (Lalo is a cunning and tactical genius, having matched and also outwitted Gustavo Fring on multiple occasions. He has shown to be a long-term planner, having stashed and hidden millions of dollars in-case he needs to bail himself out of prison, and has a local man arranged with identical dental records so that he can be used as a body double in the future. Lalo is also a perceptive investigator with an eye for details; He puts these skills to use by snooping around Gus' operations in New Mexico. This leads him to discovering Gus' major enforcer, Mike Ehrmantraut, and eventually unraveled the construction of the secret meth superlab. Lalo is quick-witted and is able to formulate multi-step gambits; After realizing that his phone call with Hector was wiretapped, he exploits this by tricking Gus into believing that he would be directly going after him. This resulted in Mike calling off his armed men that were originally protecting Jimmy and Kim, in-order to protect Gus' location. Lalo exploits this diversion he crafted by visiting both Jimmy and Kim, forcing either of them to head to Gus' location and attempt to assassinate him. This, of course, was simply another scheme that hid Lalo's true intention, which was to further investigate the soon-to-be underground meth lab and to gather more evidence in-order to finally turn the Cartel against Gus Fring for his secretive activities and treachery against them. Complimenting his cunning intellect is also his ability to handle himself in combat; He successfully ambushed a squad of hitmen sent after him by luring them into the underground passageway he had sneaked out from, only to immediately head back into his compound and shoot one of them, followed by him gunning down the rest of the hitmen that were crawling through the passageway. Lalo is also able to use his charisma and amiable personality to allure Margarethe Ziegler to get information out from her.)
Weaknesses: Standard human weaknesses. Somewhat cocky and overconfident when close to victory, which led to his defeat.
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Losses:
Barry Berkman (Barry) Barry's Profile (Both had a week of preparation time. The battle took place in the empty streets of Seligman, Arizona, in the middle of the night. Both opponents started the fight positioned on opposite sides of the town)
Inconclusive:
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