Rank the MCU female warriors in fighting skill.

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Juk3n
BW
Shuri
Hela
Valkyrie
Danvers
Okoye
Proxima
Nebula
Gamora

Bonus inclusions. Melinda May, Elektra, Mary (Walker), Colleen.

Josh_Alexander
Originally posted by Juk3n
BW
Shuri
Hela
Valkyrie
Danvers
Okoye
Proxima
Nebula
Gamora

Bonus inclusions. Melinda May, Elektra, Mary (Walker), Colleen.

Stats equalized, then Black Widow is arguable the best there is.

But, idk, Hela is top tier... But her magic and power would influence in that.

ShadowFyre
Originally posted by Josh_Alexander
Stats equalized, then Black Widow is arguable the best there is.

But, idk, Hela is top tier... But her magic and power would influence in that.

This, BW/Hela/Valkyrie
Sif/Gamora

The rest.

And they are all highly skilled, I would say more skilled than the men we have seen and by a decent margin

Josh_Alexander
Originally posted by ShadowFyre
This, BW/Hela/Valkyrie
Sif/Gamora

The rest.

And they are all highly skilled, I would say more skilled than the men we have seen and by a decent margin

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Impediment
Hela is unstoppable.

Literally, Ragnarok had to happen to stop her.

NotAllThatEvil
Based purely on skill

Bw
Okoye
Gamora
Valkyrie
Nebula
Hela
Proxima
danvers
Shuri

TheVaultDweller
Kind of hard to say with some of these, due to lack of onscreen feats. For example, based on behind the scenes comments and tie-in comics, Okoye is supposed to be one of the very best fighters out there. But you can't really make that claim just based on what was shown in the films.

ShadowFyre
No but if somebody posted those feats on here they could.

TheVaultDweller
Not necessarily. Even though some people ignore it, MvF rules exclude most things like behind-the-scenes comments, novelizations etc. Imp made a ruling about it a while back.

The Asgardians should logically be the most skilled here by simple virtue of having vastly more experience than the others because of being thousands of years older than anyone on the list. Though, if we're going by who has the best actual screen feats against people in their own weight category or better, it's actually probably one of the bonus inclusions, Melinda May.

FrothByte
I was originally going to say BW but I realized that she just mostly took out fodder. The single skilled opponent she ever defeated was Hawkeye and he doesn't exactly have that much h2h feats either.

If I base this on the caliber of opponents defeated, Valkyrie actually comes out first place due to how easily she defeated Loki. After that it's a wash. I'm tempted to say Hela based on how she handled Thor and how she took on the entire Asgardian army singlehandedly but then she accomplished those in no small part due to her powers.

I know Shuri is dead last. With Danvers just above her. There's also a question of whether we're talking about h2h skill or weapons skill

And to be honest it wouldn't be fair to include TV show characters like Melinda May and Elektra because they'll have a massive advantage in feats.

TheVaultDweller
I'd honestly put Proxima second last, just before Shuri. She seemed to rely heavily on her stats, and had a few hairy moments against opponents a lot smaller and weaker than her. I honestly think that if her stats were equalised against people like Black Widow and Okoye, she'd get worked.

FrothByte
Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
I'd honestly put Proxima second last, just before Shuri. She seemed to rely heavily on her stats, and had a few hairy moments against opponents a lot smaller and weaker than her. I honestly think that if her stats were equalised against people like Black Widow and Okoye, she'd get worked.

I forgot Proxima was there. Yeah, she's 2nd to the last, based on how even humans were giving her a fight.

So this gives me my top spot and my bottom 3.

1. Valkyrie
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7. Danvers
8. Proxima
9. Shuri

Now I just need to figure out the rest. I know that Gamora is better than Nebula by just a bit.

FrothByte
Ok, I've thought about this a bit more and here's my ranking:

1. Valkyrie
2. Hela
3. BW
4. Gamora
5. Nebula
6. Danvers
7. Okoye
8. Proxima
9. Shuri

Shuri is obviously last because she has almost zero h2h feats. Proxima follows because she keeps having trouble with regular humans despite a supposedly massive physical advantage on her part.

After that I originally had Danvers, but after reviewing fight scenes I have to put Okoye lower. Reason being that in every fight she had where she won, she had the advantage of superior weaponry. In the casino fight she was even beating up unarmed fodder with her spear. Danvers at least had a scene where she was stomping Skrulls without the ability to use her photon blasts. Danvers is still pretty low though because she hasn't defeated any notable opponent.

After that is Gamora and Nebula. Gamora has both feats of defeating fodder and a notable opponent (Nebula). So Gamora gets listed one step above Nebula.

Then it gets tricky because I consider Hela and BW very close. I eventually gave it to Hela because I thought defeating the entire Asgardian army more impressive than the standard 3-6 thugs that BW walks through. Sure, Hela managed this in no small part to her endless projectiles, but then I thought is that really that much different from BW defeating her enemies with her numerous gadgets?

Besides, Hela fought both Thor and Valkyrie at the same time. That's more impressive than a close fight against Hawkeye.

Top spot goes to Valkyrie because of the ease she defeated a skilled opponent in Loki, especially when you consider that she doesn't seem to have any physical advantage over him.

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