The N64 'Back to Basics' Tournament.

Mmm.... Hell's finest....

GR is the living exception to "two wrongs don't make a right". He's unashamedly high-tier, trading blows with the meanest SoBs in the metaverse. Quite often when a machiavellian ultra-villain seizes control of whole hordes of supers and uses them to inadvertently TAKE OVER TEH UNIVERSE and none of the supers make a concerted effort to clean their clock GR, able to sniff them out by instict, takes the field and has all the inhabitants of that universe, good and bad, flung at him by a terrified ultravillain in a futile attempt to stop him. And he curb-stomps them all. Single-handed.

This really should have been a shoe-in for Eliphas but he's been drawn against an utter monster; even with his defenses he's gone from shoe-in to taking a shoe-ing

Not that its going to be quick or easy, even for GR. GR's hellfire, while powerful, deals fire and vitality damage, and his Penance is purely Vitality-based. Eliphas is extremely resistant to all elements thanks to Tzeench and is totally immune to Vitality effects due to Slaanesh's Soulless perk. Hell, canonically trying to use Penance on a purely evil and/or soulless or deranged being can backfire and damage GR. But at his power level it no longer leaves him stunned and defenseless.

Meanwhile, Eliphas' Storm Bolter is primarily physical with a bit of Vitality imbued in them thanks to the Chaos Projectiles perk. The former is pretty useless against a being that is almost entirely energy-based when narked, and can use his rage and durability to survive their soul-sapping effect. Plasma could scramble him, but sword? Meet chain GR has no intent on letting that sword get anywhere near him and his constantly regenerating, shape-shifting chain is going to seriously mess Eliphas up as well as block his sword strikes pretty nicely. After that its simply a matter of GR's tremendous short-range physical/fire offensive wearing the hugely durable but not-quite-invincible Eliphas down just a bit too quick for his regen to catch up. The hellfire will slowly degrade his armor to a point where the chain, used in spear mode, punches some gurt great big holes in Eliphas' head and torso, bad enough even to take down a Nurgle-enhanced Termie.

Its gonna be slow, and its sure as hell gonna be messy, but Eliphas eventually falls to the incarnation of Vengeance. Just stay the hell outta the way of THAT battle 'cuz half of Hell is REALLY gonna burn bright tonight! :eek::D

Ghost Rider FT (narrow) W :cool:

Oh dear... Subbie, before or after his Noob days, could have taken Venom with his cryomancy, as heavy-gauge elemental attacks are one of the few ways to take out a Symbiote and Sub has that in spades. But Symbiotes are also hugely resistant to low-end elemental attacks, physical effects and are immune to Vitality damage. And Noob is all about Physical and Vitality damage. D'oh.

Noob will put up a spirited defense, wailing at Venom with high-speed kung-fu and a storm of shurikens after realising that his ranged Vitality-based attacks don't do a thing to a Symbiote, but Venom's incredible durability and regen will see him through, and while slightly less agile his superhuman strength ensures that even Noob will go down after a few well-placed and devastatingly strong hits. If Noob lived long enough he could make one last desperate gambit to try and trick Venom into an airlock and give him a taste of atmospheric re-entry but somehow I don't think that Sautéed Symbiote is on the menu tonight, folks

Venom FTW