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Okay Bentley, I'm gonna come clean.

You have quite the team.

But....

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It's game time baby.

I'm going to start this off by nuking the field

Right at the start of the fight, Osiris calls out "Black Adam!" and I will light up the entire field with a lightning storm capable of one shot killing Black Lantern Sobek.

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https://imgur.com/qTjGcOc
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Osiris was not enhanced physically by the rings just reanimated as confirmed in the comic and the bio:

bio: https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Lantern_Ring#Abilities

Comic: https://i.imgur.com/tK9OmQR.jpg

This is bad news for Superboy who has a weakness to magic just like big brother Kal-El.

DC bio: https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Kon-El_(Prime_Earth)#Weaknesses

and in practice: https://imgur.com/KRS4r0B

However, having the Black Lantern ring does of course vastly increase the ability regenerate, lobo style on part of the host.

Osiris destroyed the target in one of these storms.

I'm going to spam this attack for the entirety of the match

Osiris can already react to lightning as I showed:

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so he won't transforming back and forth, just nuking the field with lightning.

What does this mean? It means no reflective surfaces

I have essentially eliminated mirror masters usability as a character because once he teleports into the mirror dimension, he will no longer have an adequate means of returning to the battle field. Which will result in either a self BFR.

That will leave Superboy who if he manages to desperately react to the spam of Black Adam lightning, may find a considerable problem coming his way:

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Because you see, having been granted the power of black Adam, Osiris can use the wisdom of Zehut.

And through that wisdom and Osiris' connection to Black Adam, he will utter a simple spell should anyone come within range of him for a physical fight:

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"Aton Majhaar" And anyone near me who I target gets turned to stone.

That includes the magically weak Superboy, and any clones or reflective surface that comes near me.

As for the rest of my team? They will be playing defense.

Medusa and Atlas will be guarding Osiris so that if anything out of the ordinary, be they reflective surfaces popping up, or Kryptonians trying to navigate towards us come flying, they will be broken or intercepted:

Medusa with the speed to outreact Extremis iron man:

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and the strength to momentarily entagle Thanos:

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will be smashing anything that gets too close.

And Atlas will be ready to give the business:

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GG.

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The Mirror Boys are back

If you read my past fight you know that my team has mobility and versatility in spades, once again I'm facing off against a team mostly consisting of bricks and because of that, I'm able to dictate the pace of the match to my advantage. Let's just remind you of my general capabilities in this regard:

Circles the world several times in a few minutes:
https://imgur.com/joBz9vB

Mirror Master is a casual teleporter:
https://imgur.com/rByciBg

Additionally Superboy is a solid brick himself, able to stand physical punishment well beyond the regular outputs my opponents can bring:

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Given my speed edge and energy projection I could likely physically engage my opponents and give them hell, but that would be giving out the mobility and flexibility of my mirror abilities.

So as soon as the bell rings I'm surrounding Mirror Master and his equipement with my tactile telekinesis:

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And then I'm carrying him away underground at full speed. If my opponent knows what he's doing he tried to use Osiris's magical lightning against us as soon as the match starts, after all, it's a magical attack with good range, but unfortunately for him I won't be there by the time he unleashes it.

As soon as we get to safety we'll pull out a Mirror Teleport and move to Paris for the next part of my plan. He's not getting a drop on us since I have Super Hearing:

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[ NOTE from Phil: the scan above broke the page, so I re-uploaded it to imgbb as a thumbnail. It's not quite as splashy, but still works!]

And X-Ray vision:

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While he... Well, he just doesn't. As soon as I drop out of his line of view he'll never find me again, specially not when I start bombarding him with clones and illusions.

Quickly I'll hand my Mirror Gun to Superboy who in turn will cover it with tactile telekinesis. Scudder will use reflective surfaces in New York to start my distraction tactics while explaining Superboy how to use three specific functions of the gun. I'll teach him how to transmute people:

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How to open and close portals:

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And the weirdest win condition I've brought so far: the sphere of light that encases the opponent's head blinding him and cutting them off from oxygen:

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Scudder will carry out the part of my plan that I used last time: building illusions using light from satellites:

https://imgur.com/hDvpXGL

https://imgur.com/sUmQOkX

I'll add mirror constructs in the form of Conner and Mirror Master to make this all more believable:

https://imgur.com/tRAOUAa

There are a bunch of windows in New York city so making a small army will take no time:

https://imgur.com/xDu6g58

And these constructs are a threat, once they are shattered they became an entity capable of mirroring Flash's speed:

https://imgur.com/nJ0JiWW

They will be using Superboy's powers too, since mimicking powersets has been shown to be within the capabilities of my clones:

https://imgur.com/7eC35Le

They'll be not as skillful as the real deal but their Superspeed will give the enemy fits, these will be enough to separate and dismantle any collective offense the slower team of my opponent's could hope to muster.

In the confusion that insues I'll add Superboy to the mix and use the Mirror gun to deal with Osiris by sniping him from a distance with my blinding/souffocating attack. I have other sure fire kills available if for whatever reason this is not enough, but the very fact that he won't be able to see anything will make him a sitting duck for my offenses.

I'll encase Mirror Master in this kind of pyramid and it'll reflect the attacks of my opponents outwardly:

https://imgur.com/WP9PBqg

If they try to hit it then their punches and blasts are just getting reflected at them (think of having their arm aiming at their faces just like MM's is coming out of the mirror here):

https://imgur.com/nQ0CUXC

My opponent needs more than a magic trick to win this

Let's be honest, Osiris is the sole factor that is keeping Mirror Master for winning this by himself (and even there I'm pretty sure I could pull it off), not only because he has mobility and physical status but also because his magic ligthning should be a bad match up for Superboy. Here is the thing: his showings suck

Remember that showing where he got koed by gas?

https://imgur.com/LsgF6UF

You could say "Deathstroke has the number of several speedsters, he pulls off bs regularly" but the thing is... That's not even Deathstroke, that's just a shapeshifter that got tagged by the real DS and Tattooed Man at will. Also that's not even the only time he got manhandled by substances (note that dubious piercing durability):

https://imgur.com/tk9PRKL

Choking and poisoning Osiris won't be difficult at all and he lacks of all the cool super senses that would prevent me to sneak on him at super speed through illusions.

We know Osiris has some degree of super speed, but he never showed anything worth of note. Conner has just finer showings against actual speedsters, so we know he can handle that:

https://imgur.com/a/wr72ifE

You know Osiris's speed feats are inexistant because Damborg tried to pass this showing as some kind of proof of outracing lightning:

https://imgur.com/9adLWxZ

https://imgur.com/YfSyWBy

You can see them raising to the sky and dropping from it after getting koed while the sky looks the same (it's one continuous image from alll three panels), they did get hit by ligthning but if you read the panels you will realize Isis is trying to kill herself and his brother flew to protect her from the storm and was unable to outrace ligthning resulting in both getting koed. We don't know how fast Isis weather control works but we know Osiris wasn't able to go faster than the time of commanding and the thunder itself. It's like a bad aim dodging feat.

With those illusions dispelled, let my illusions rein supreme. Mirror clones will separate the team, likely taking out Atlas and Medusa, Osiris will get misdirected and sniped and after he's soundly defeated we will transmutate the other two, shatter them or overpower them with stength and numbers.

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Thanks again to the judges, Phil and Damborg for making this debate possible. It's been fun to read through these comicbooks and it's wild that the tourney is running this smooth.

I think most of the arguments have been covered already so I'll do a final recap on the points judges should consider:

- My speed feats went unchallenged while the ligthning feat of Osiris's is pretty murky and a straightline tackle, not anything to compete vs mine.

- By going underground I accounted for the wide attack Damborg tried to unleash effectively making me disappear from his line of sight forever.

- He spends energy sustaining an attack that killed his character on panel while he had enhanced stamina.

- I'm attacking from several angles and sneaking on them, New York is perfect for that and the storm only makes it easier.

- My superior senses makes it impossible for Damborg to hide from me while the whole planet is the playground. He, on the other hand, cannot find me at all.

- He's not using Black Adam.

- I have provided a plan that can adapt to the possibility of the mirrors being opaque.

He's consistently throwing ligthning and dodging it, but I can reflect it through mirrors back to Osiris and make him transform back, he's literally given me a silver bullet to blast him with it each second. Ultimately once I weasel out of the initial onslaught he has zero opportunity to catch up with me.

So I believe I have a pretty good handle on this situation and everything has been proven by scans. Speed and hax together are just really hard to resist. What a crazy thing to helm a guy like this into a tourney

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Do we need this vote?

There is no suspense, we all know the winner in this match. Dambo is a knowledgeable poster that has come to terms with the limitations of thor. For that i give him much respect.

Now onto the match, Dambo lost this match, no suspense there, he lost because
1 he misconstrued the rules.
2. Kills his guy and his team right off the bat or finally
3. he knew from the start that that he was in a no win situation and threw the match.

I should pull a dambo and just forfeit writing the rest of my response and declare Bentley the winner.

So while Dambo was busy going nuclear and killing/ko his entire team, Bentley had shields up, ported to a different place and then ports back to finish the job.

Good job guys. It was pure joy to read the creative ways you two used your guys in a battle that resulted in a one way beatdown.

Oh and if I haven't stated this already, my vote goes to Bentley. Sorry Dambo.

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So Damborg forfeited, but I will be judging what has been posted.

Damborg's plan is to spam the area with lightning, destroying all reflective surfaces and trying to dry MM and Superboy, while Medusa and Atlas are ready for anything near. Damborg also brought up using a spell to turn nearby opponents into stone, but Bently argued it being Black Adam it doesn't count for Osiris, and Damborg gave no counterargument, so I will not be factoring this.

Bently plans on leaving the area to safety of another city, flooding the area with mirror clones and illusion while teaching Superboy to use the mirror gun, then keep them busy with more clones and illusions while Superboy snipes Osiris with mirror gun making Osirs blind and cut off from air.

Damborg nuking the city did hinder Bentley's plan somewhat on initial clones and illusions, but not entirely, didn't stop Bently from escaping the storm(something Bently anticipated), and in some ways backfired, making it harder for him to find the enemy.

Damborg also made the mistake of thinking this was a self BFR, and ran with it, wasting a good chunk of his post, arguing Bently screwed himself over with all reflective surfaces destroyed so he couldn't return. In fact the only other thing he argued in his second post was addressing it wasn't actually Deathstroke that Osiris faced.

Bently however did not self BFR, and adapted his plan by using mirrors elsewhere and bringing the ones to NY. And this is the point Damborg's plan backfired, the worsened visibility. Which Bently took advantage of and made worse using TTK to bring clouds in. Bently showed Superboy's senses so he's not at this disadvantage.

Bently recapped things while Damborg forfeit his closing post. With the strong arguments Bently was making and no attempt to counter from Damborg, my vote goes to Bently.