12:7 - Android 8 vs. Midnighter

[UMPIRE]

SEASON 12, ROUND 7

Android 8

Slot: The Team's Scrappy Fighter
Season Wins: 1
Season Losses: 0
Fantasy Team Page
Read more about Android 8 at this Wiki
Official Site: Funimation

Midnighter

Slot: The Team's Scrappy Fighter
Season Wins: 1
Season Losses: 0
Fantasy Team Page
Read more about Midnighter at this Wiki
Official Site: DC Comics

Battle Terrain
Battle Terrain: Frozen Lake

[Twogunkid]

As an Android, Eighter's brain works differently and might protect him from Midnighter's electrochemistry whatsit.

[DSkillz]

2 hours ago, Twogunkid said:

As an Android, Eighter's brain works differently and might protect him from Midnighter's electrochemistry whatsit.

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Midnighter's Battle Computer isn't a literal computer, lol. It's all genetic engineering. 

Between Midnighter's strength, speed, skill, and precog, I don't like Android 8's odds here. In fact, he may even opt to break the ice for the android to fall through. 

[Z451]

On 11/28/2021 at 3:08 PM, DSkillz said:

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Midnighter's Battle Computer isn't a literal computer, lol. It's all genetic engineering. 

Between Midnighter's strength, speed, skill, and precog, I don't like Android 8's odds here. In fact, he may even opt to break the ice for the android to fall through. 

Well for what it is worth, 8 is no slouch in strength  either, as his punches can send people over mountains and into the horizon, and his kicks can topple an enhanced Battle Jacket that managed to knock out and almost kill Goku as a kid, not as impressive, but still pretty significant. Speed wise, he was able to use his boosters to fly pretty fast and pretty effectively, so much so that he is faster than PTP Kid Goku who is comparable to post 21st Budokai Goku, pretty significant as a measuring stick there. Skill is where he lacks, as 8 wasn't designed as much of a great fighter, but rather as more of a living weapon, sentient, but with focus primarily on pummeling, beating down, or suffocating an enemy with both speed and power. Precognition is another weakness here for him as he won't be able to necessarily win through the most conventional of methods, but it can be said, that he can be beaten in this if his opponent is faster than him, inactive, or a very powerful psychic, as these factors can succeed in besting him.

Falling in isn't as much a factor for 8 either, as his flying capabilities will allow him to keep above the water if he needs to, and his body is actually insulated somehow, though it is never specified how, to be able to resist extremely cold temperatures, cold enough to freeze a living being in seconds, so I don't believe that the water as cold as it may be would freeze him, sink him yes, but that won't put him down for good either.

Based on what I can assume here, while 8 isn't nearly as skilled as Midnighter, he could still win by outrunning Midnighter with his speed, tough to estimate between them there, or by being inactive, as 8's personality doesn't initially lead him into a fight before an opponent would make a move, he's more of a pacifist, even more so than Android 16, until someone else throws the first punch, such as General White for example, but PTP might also work against me there in the same sense, so it is what it is.

[DSkillz]

Finally got me a new laptop. Now I just gotta figure out how to navigate Microsoft Edge ... 

2 hours ago, Z451 said:

Well for what it is worth, 8 is no slouch in strength  either, as his punches can send people over mountains and into the horizon, and his kicks can topple an enhanced Battle Jacket that managed to knock out and almost kill Goku as a kid, not as impressive, but still pretty significant.

Yeah, Android 8's strength is pretty impressive, but Midnighter finds ways to hurt powerhouses, such as when he hurt both Martian Manhunter and Etrigan with punches and when he made Apollo bleed out of his nose and ears by smacking his right ear. Between his skill and his Battle Computer, Midnighter's gonna know how to hit 8 in the right spot, and his striking strength should definitely be enough to do damage. 

And even if 8 gets a hit in, Midnighter can take some punishment, and he has something else that Goku doesn't: a strong healing factor. 

2 hours ago, Z451 said:

Speed wise, he was able to use his boosters to fly pretty fast and pretty effectively, so much so that he is faster than PTP Kid Goku who is comparable to post 21st Budokai Goku, pretty significant as a measuring stick there.

Eh, Midnighter's tagged a Flash expy in motion before. Likely due to a combo of his own speed and his precog. 

2 hours ago, Z451 said:

Precognition is another weakness here for him as he won't be able to necessarily win through the most conventional of methods, but it can be said, that he can be beaten in this if his opponent is faster than him, inactive, or a very powerful psychic, as these factors can succeed in besting him.

8 doesn't really seem to have any of those advantages here, though. His speed or strength doesn't really seem to be anything beyond what Midnighter's dealt with, so Midnighter's own abilities should be enough to win here. 

8 also has another weakness: he doesn't like to fight, and he only steps up when someone tries to harm someone he cares about. Midnighter's gonna discover this pretty quickly between his own precog and 8's (in)actions and act accordingly. Hell, 8 may even yield since fighting for fighting's sake is against his nature (something the Battle Computer would likely pick up on, BTW).

[UMPIRE]

Match Final Results

Android 8: 9
Midnighter: 3

[DSkillz]

3 hours ago, UMPIRE said:

Match Final Results

Android 8: 9
Midnighter: 3

What the hell, voters?

Android 8 is not Android 17 or 18. He's just street-level. Midnighter wipes the floor with these types.