Paul Atreides vs Movie Ozymandias

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This is Paul Atreides from the novels. Only feats from the Frank Herbert novels and the miniseries based on them are counted.

This is a duel in the style of Dune. Each combatant is armed with a knife and the fight is to the death. Paul cannot use Voice.

FinalAnswer
Paul iirc has pretty impressive precog, but can't recall anything else from him.

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Besides his precog, he also has Mentat and Bene Gesserit training. A Mentat is basically a human super computer that can store and process vast amounts of information. This allows them to be master tacticians. Here is a list of Bene Gesserit powers from the Dune Wiki:

Oral Analysis: Upon tasting an item, a Bene Gesserit can break down the food into its ingredients, right down to its chemical composition;

Internal Organic-Chemical Control: Alteration of metabolism to render poisons harmless. This ability was used when potential Reverend Mothers took the Water of Life;

Prana Bindu: Alteration of blood flow, body temperature, heart rate, and level of consciousness, for the purposes of survival in harsh environments, or escaping from bonds;

Weirding Way: Superior hand-to-hand combat abilities; martial arts. Bene Gesserit trained men and women were unrivalled in their fighting abilities. Only Imperial Sardaukar and the Fremen of Arrakis could approach the abilities of a Bene Gesserit in regards to combat techniques, attack speed, and resourcefulness. Later, in the Age of The Tyrant, and even later, in the times after The Scattering, new abilities were developed in humans by means of genetic breeding, in extremis situations (see Miles Teg, a Bene Gesserit Bashar), or designed into ghola abilities (see "Heretics Of Dune" era Duncan Idaho).

The Voice: Ability to influence people directly by giving them orders with a certaon sound frequency. When a person is ordered to do something by the use of Voice it is almost irrestistable not to comply. A Bene Gesserit is trained to resist the Voice. The downside of it is the phenomenon of entire population becoming immune to it if The Voice is being overly used upon a population. Mentat can especially become immune to the Voice if he understands how it works.

Sensing the Truth: Truthsayer is trained to sense if someone is telling the truth or not, but the other Bene Gesserit can also spot if someone is holding something back. Example: When dr.Yueh was supposed to betray the duke Leto of the Atreides, he felt guilty and anxious about it. Jessica had conversations with him and sensed that he is holding something back. Being informend that Bene Gesserit can sense his guilt about what he was about to do he exploited/manipulated his own emotions (remembering his wife in the grasp of baron Harkonnen) and mentioning her every time he thought Jessica was studying him and searching for more reasons why he felt so disturbed.

Basically, Paul is the product of thousands of years of advanced eugenics, has complete control over his muscles, and has been trained in the most dangerous martial art in the universe. The books never quite make clear just how fast he is, but based on the miniseries he is a bullet-timer. He is not as strong as movie Ozy though.

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