Perk: Animus Device - Your team gets full knowledge of the opposing team.
Chris2kzombieki
Team:
Insomniac Spider-Man w/ Spider-Man 2 Base Suit (4)
Arkham Batman - No Tie-Ins (2)
Sponsor: OsCorp Industries
Perk: Spider-Sense Serum - One character on your team gets 616 Spider-Man's Spider Sense.
Tournament Rules
Video game and book characters get composite feats (as long as they remain the same point value).
Canon tie-in comics are allowed (as long as they remain the same point value).
Marvel characters are standard/base 616 versions. However, you can also choose characters from the Ultimate (Earth 1610) universe.
DC characters are Post-Crisis/Rebirth.
Everyone is in character and starts with their standard gear.
No character can be amped above a 4-point character.
Each team will get 1 full day of training together in order to get basic knowledge on each other and ensure decent teamwork. Every character on the team will also get an ear piece in order to stay in contact during the mission.
There will be 14 corporate sponsors, and each one can only be picked once. Once a sponsor has been chosen by a participant, it cannot be chosen by anyone else. Each sponsor will have 3 perk choices, and you may only choose one perk for each round. If you make it to the next round, you can change your perk.
Every battlefield will involve some amount of fodder, such as civilians and/or guards. They can be ignored, killed, manipulated, etc.
You must have completed a CaV/tournament or have over 500 posts in order to join. If you do not intend to see this tournament through to the end, please do not join.
Banned Powers/Abilities
Reality Warping
Time Manipulation
Space Manipulation
Luck Manipulation
Power Copying/Stealing
Speed Stealing
Precognition (things like Spider-Sense are fine)
Immortality
Instant-Kill attacks
Internal Attacks
Permanent Intangibility
Cloning
Any other types of powers/abilities that I deem as overpowered or unfair
Limits
BFR, intangibility, teleporting, and transmutation as offensive attacks cannot be used on the opposing team's characters but can be used against summons, fodder, and gear.
Teleportation/portals are limited to line of sight, and cannot be used to teleport within 50 feet of the mission's objective.
Telekinesis and similar abilities cannot be directly used on the bodies of the opposing team but can be used on their gear, or against summons and fodder. TK blasts against the opposing team are allowed.
Telekinesis and similar abilities are limited based on the lifting strength of each point value.
Telepathy: mind reading and telepathic communication are allowed on everyone on the battlefield. Mind control, illusions, and other psychic attacks can only be used on summons and fodder. This also applies to soul abilities, pheromones, gas, and magic-based telepathy as well.
Gear and hax must remain street-level.
Summons made by your own characters cannot be better than 1-point characters. You cannot have more than 5 summons for the entire mission.
Regeneration is limited to 616 Wolverine level, as in your character cannot have a healing factor that is better than Wolverine's and they must be able to be knocked out.
Invisibility is allowed but it can only affect the sense of sight.
Intangibility can only be used for 10 seconds at a time, with the user then being forced into a tangible state for 5 seconds before being able to go intangible again.
If you are unsure about any of the rules/limits, please ask! It is better to ask in advance than to risk being disqualified from going above the limits or breaking rules.
Characters
You have 6 points to spend on characters in order to form your team.
Essentially, 1-point characters are low-street, 2 and 3-point characters are mid-street, and 4-point characters are high street.
The criteria for each category is the maximum. If the criteria is wall level, then the character cannot exceed wall level but can be below wall level. If a character you want has the strength and durability of a 1-pointer, but the speed of a 3-pointer, they would cost 3 points.
Wall level refers to a standard brick wall. House level refers to a standard house. Small building level refers to a small building with 3-4 stories. Building level refers to a building with 5-8 stories, i.e. NOT a skyscraper.
Speed includes movement, reaction, combat, and attack speeds. A 4-pointer's speed cannot be hypersonic, i.e. higher than Mach 5.
For durability, a single strike that can destroy the object of that level should be enough to seriously harm your character. A 4-pointer must still be capable of being harmed by armour-piercing rounds or high-caliber rounds such as from long-range rifles, magnums, and heavy machine guns.
A bloodlusted Carnage should be able to solo your entire team in a random encounter under the limits/rules of this tournament, without taking any sponsor perks into consideration.
Low Street Level (1 point)
Striking Strength: Wall Level (busting a wall in 1-2 strikes)
Lifting Strength: 1 Ton
Durability: Wall Level
Speed: Arrow-Timing or Aim-Dodging (subsonic, under Mach 1)
Energy Projection: Wall Level
If your character can bullet-time, even handgun bullets, they are too fast for 1 point.
Low-Mid Street Level (2 points)
Striking Strength: House Level (busting a house in a few strikes)
If you want to be tagged to vote at the end, comment "T4V"
Vote for whoever was the best debater, or who convinced you more, not for which team you think would win.
Make sure to provide reasoning for your vote.
Votes based on obvious character bias will not be counted.
Be respectful, honourable, and civil.
Posting Rules
3 posts each
7 days to post
If you need an extension, let me know before the 7 days are up and I will allow you a 3-day extension (for a total of 10 days). Only one extension per round will be allowed.
Failure to post on time will result in disqualification and an automatic victory for your opponent.
Mission: Escort the VIP
Team A (King) must escort a VIP to the delivery point ("C"). Team B (Chris) must intercept and bring the VIP to a different delivery point ("D"). The VIP is an unarmed civilian, immune to all damage/effects, must remain on foot, cannot be flown/teleported, and will go with whichever team is in direct physical contact with him.
There are 15 civilians and 20 guards spread throughout the map, with 5 additional guards positioned near the VIP's starting point. The guards are on high alert and will shoot either team on sight. Each guard is a trained Navy Seal equipped with an assault rifle and combat knife. Civilians will not attack, but they will scream and alert nearby guards if they feel threatened or are attacked. There are also five security cameras around the map, one of which is aimed at the VIP. Being caught in a hostile act by a security camera will alert all the guards. All the cameras are on street-level.
Team A Objective: Escort the VIP to Delivery Point C (escort VIP on foot or kill enemy team and then escort VIP)
Team B Objective: Intercept the VIP and bring them to Delivery Point D (escort VIP on foot or kill enemy team and then escort VIP)
Please PM me your perk choice. I'll update the thread once you both do so and then you can get started. If you don't care about your opponent seeing what perk you pick, you can just post it here instead.
Feel free to also post a collage of your team and I will add it to the OP.
This will focus on Insomniac's version of the web head and Rocksteady's version of The Dark Knight. Batman will be current, but will not have tie in comic feats. Insomniac Spider-Man will be as of Spider-Man 2 with no Symbiote.
Using Arkham Asylums character bios, we know Bruce is an expert in most known martial fields.
Further proven when Bruce in, whats essentially his year one, takes out Deathstroke as well as the other 7 assassins sent to kill him, which he does in a single night. Which I'd like to point out, is another thing.
Arkham Origins, Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight are, canonically, beaten in a single night. Which is a testament to Bruce's skill, as a majority of the time it's filled to the brim with assassins and other trained fighters.
Glue Grenade - Thrown at enemies to stuck in glue and can block steam vents. But the glue grenade was unstable that has been degraded into dust since Christmas Eve.
Web Shooters- Peters standard web shooters that can help restrain or blind enemies.
Ricochet webs- Webs that bounce off walls.
Upshot- A gadget that shoots enemies into the air, also stuns bigger enemies.
Sonic Burst- A blast that bounces enemies back and lets out a loud burst of sound.
Web Grabber- Pulls both enemies and objects to a specific space.
We of course have the spider arms that electrocute enemies as well.
Opening Thoughts and Strategy-
It’s sufficient to say, that Peter and Bruce won’t have a hard time here. I’m not aware of the enemy team, but the goal seems to fit well with these two. With Peter’s mobility, he and Bruce are more than capable of reaching the VIP early. since just one of them needs to be in physical contact with the VIP, Peter can hold off the team with his gadgets and physicals, while Bruce intercepts the ViP. Once the VIP is secured, he will use his fear toxin to get the surrounding guards and civilians riled up, which will create a big enough distraction for Peter to leave and help him escort the VIP. From there, as they escort the VIP, Bruce can continually lay traps that will slow down the other team, by the time they catch up, we’ll already be near the escort spot.
It is said that Choujin are bequeathed the form or power most becoming to them, and that for a human with the capability to become a Choujin, they require some kind of obsession or strong world-view in order to awaken. For Tokio, with his inferiority complex and over-reliance on his friend Azuma, he took the form of a vulture.
Following a timeskip period in the story, Tokio relieved himself of the shackles of his own self-doubt under the tutelage of his Spartan-like mentor, Ichiro Sato. Fond of extreme and aggressive training methods, Sato steeled Tokio into a highly skilled combatant, one capable of abusing his then-fledgling abilities in combat.
Tokio’s fighting style is based on karate, kendo and judo, but altered to fit his unorthodox build and powerset. At range, he will often abuse his mobility via his flight, harassing and blinding his opponents using his sharper-than-steel feather storms, allowing for or forcing openings in CQC.
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We see an example against another mercenary, I.C, where Tokio uses his pinpoint accuracy to permanently wound him (more on that shortly), before closing the distance and utilising his grappling skills to land a flying arm-bar and restrain his opponent.
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In a contest of strikes (and even whilst sporting a broken leg), Tokio’s skill and dexterity makes him difficult to handle or defend against…
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…if the opponent manages to open up the distance, Tokio can immediately attack with his feathers again, forcing them to defend or dodge and breaking the line of sight, which he’ll use to his advantage.
His strength is such that with little-to-no leverage, he can punt Ume, who is decently strong in her own right, through a thick concrete wall and up into the night sky. Pair that with his skills and super-speed, on top of his monstrous regeneration, he is a force to be reckoned with, and is easily the most dangerous character in this match in a straight fight.
Tokio is my team’s “Spear”.
Ichiro Tanizaki - [The Armed Detective]
“In the end, hurting others is the only way we can save people.”
An agent for for a government funded special operations division called the Armed Detective Agency (ADA), Tanizaki is a human gifted with an ability known as “Light Snow”.
Light Snow gives him the the power to create physical illusions in space so it appears however he desires. He can use this ability to create “clones”, make objects invisible, or completely rearrange an environment as he sees fit. Basically, he’s MCU Mysterio without the need to rely on drones.
He has at times been shown to carry with him a standard issue pistol, and also a knife for personal defence, but his role in this match is not planned to be an offensive one.
Tanizaki is my team’s “Support”.
Qifrey - [The One-Eyed Witch]
“Since the day of the pact, it was decreed that no witch shall abet war or quarrel. Do you know why? It’s because when you’re up against a witch, it can hardly be called a fight.”
Qifrey is a master witch with a mysterious past. Supremely adept in a form of magic with almost limitless applications, he strikes a perfect balance between being a supporting character and a dangerous opponent in his own right.
Though he most commonly uses water magic, he can control all the elements, as well as use magic with various other effects, such as illusions and flight.
Though Qifrey is a “pointed-hat”, a type of witch who refuses to use forbidden magics, he is still exceedingly powerful when he is forced into combat. Qifrey’s abilities, amongst other things, allow him to essentially function like a water-bender (more like an avatar), except he can generate massive amounts of water from nothing.
His applications of water magic in combat can range from the physically destructive, such as this house-sized water dragon:
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Or the silently deadly, like the water spheres he can instantly summon and envelop his enemies in, drowning them:
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Qifrey is my team’s ”Specialist”.
Initial Plan
Similar to my opponent, I can repurpose much of my initial post for this fight, too. My plan isn’t a convoluted one, but it needn’t be, as my team are again quite suited to a task like this.
Using Qifrey’s and Tokio’s flight, with Qifrey carrying Tanizaki, my entire team can rapidly fly to the VIP, who is much, much closer to my team than Chris’ team.
Spidey’s own mobility will mean little here, given my team have similar (if not outright superior) mobility and Chris is spawning around five times the distance away. There is no scenario where we will not reach them first.
Upon nearing the vicinity of the VIP, Tanizaki can blanket the area with Light Snow, rendering my team and the VIP invisible. Qifrey will create a smoke clone of the VIP as a decoy and leave it at the original spawn point, whilst Tanizaki will make direct contact with the actual (now invisible) VIP, forcing him to go with them.
Whilst this is happening, Tokio will have flown directly past the VIP and will look to engage the enemy team. Given his vulture-vision allows him to spot targets up to 1km away, even in the dead of night and high in the night sky, he shouldn't have any issue spotting Spider-Man and Batman rapidly advancing on where they believe the VIP is.
Tokio can engage at range using his feathers to blind and obscure their vision, and draw his attention away from the “VIP”, further selling the deception. Tokio, with his flight, speed, strength and skill can keep the duo busy, but should one of them manage to sneak away to escort the “VIP”, they will simply be met with a smoke clone, whilst the rest of my team simply waltz to the extraction zone unencumbered.
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