inamilist
Unfortunatly lots of people seem to think that a character with high speed balances against a character with high str. or even an excellent fighting skill.
2 heroes while fighting eachother CAN be at differant levels of strength, energy projection or intellect
however, speed, and to a larger extent, mobility, trump most other physical augmentation skills (i know things like flight, TP and webslinging arent physical augmentation, but, ya)
Hulk vs Spiderman
this is probably the best example of what i am talking about because it is so blatant
nobody will argue about the stats in this fight
its a character that has massive strength vs a character with massive mobility (his agility and speed here arent necessarily even the trump abilities)
why?
well, with such an inbalance in mobility, spiderman can fight hulk for a little while, then if he really wanted, he could leave, get a coffee, come back, decide he wants to read the paper, go do that, and for the most part, hulk sits there (ya, he leaps, but, nothing compared to Spidey's mobility)
basically, spiderman gets to say "I want to fight you now, here" or "I dont want to fight here" or "I dont want to fight now". Hulk is at the MERCY of spiderman, because he HAS to wait for spidey to come to him
dictating the flow and momentum of a fight is incalculably valuable. I would say this ability alone would give the character with (it needs to be a signifigant differance in mobility) the higher mobility the advantage 7/10 times.
you cant put a character who depends on walking from one place to the next against a flyer. While they may have similar skills or stats (the flyers stats could be way less even) the one has almost NO defense against the other, and ESPECIALLY no way of finishing the fight.
my 2 cents :P
2 heroes while fighting eachother CAN be at differant levels of strength, energy projection or intellect
however, speed, and to a larger extent, mobility, trump most other physical augmentation skills (i know things like flight, TP and webslinging arent physical augmentation, but, ya)
Hulk vs Spiderman
this is probably the best example of what i am talking about because it is so blatant
nobody will argue about the stats in this fight
its a character that has massive strength vs a character with massive mobility (his agility and speed here arent necessarily even the trump abilities)
why?
well, with such an inbalance in mobility, spiderman can fight hulk for a little while, then if he really wanted, he could leave, get a coffee, come back, decide he wants to read the paper, go do that, and for the most part, hulk sits there (ya, he leaps, but, nothing compared to Spidey's mobility)
basically, spiderman gets to say "I want to fight you now, here" or "I dont want to fight here" or "I dont want to fight now". Hulk is at the MERCY of spiderman, because he HAS to wait for spidey to come to him
dictating the flow and momentum of a fight is incalculably valuable. I would say this ability alone would give the character with (it needs to be a signifigant differance in mobility) the higher mobility the advantage 7/10 times.
you cant put a character who depends on walking from one place to the next against a flyer. While they may have similar skills or stats (the flyers stats could be way less even) the one has almost NO defense against the other, and ESPECIALLY no way of finishing the fight.
my 2 cents :P