Orion/BRB is a great battle, one that I give Orion the edge in.
Nova vs Lightray is another great one, and tougher. Lightray has more raw power and at least equal if not greater combat speed, but Nova is better equipped for a battle situation with his far superior strength and durability. 50/50.
well the sun feat he blew up a field of drifting matter.. thats not even how a sun can form. just some weird stuff or "uneducated" writing. thats almost like magic.
and "heat equal to a few suns" is almost like hyperbole... meh....
Lightray has significant and expounded upon matter manipulation abilities as well. Presumably he used the drifting matter as the raw fuel, converting it into the correct balance of elements he needed and added the power needed to ignite the whole thing.
But it's hardly an indictment of GODS to say it was like magic. The end point is that he can bring that level of power to bear, regardless of the method, which puts him significantly above Nova's best raw power feats. Not combat feats, mind you, but raw power feats.
Of course, Lightray is also a brilliant strategist -- the ultimate strategist to Orion's ultimate tactician, is how I've always thought of him, and the flip side of Darkseid in that sense -- which is going to come into play, but he's not really a consummate, seasoned warrior, at least by the (admittedly high) standards of Kalibak and Orion.
yeah but exploded drifting matter? and within moments it's a sun? a star takes how many bajillions of years to form? it's like magic i tell ya!! anyways accepting this weird feat, it can be seen also that he started the formation of a sun and not powered it fully or created it since there were other components involved. it lessens the feat somewhat.
Haha, so first you try to discredit it by saying it's nonsensically impressive, then you try to discredit it by saying he had outside help so it's not impressive.
You see how desperate that sounds, right? It's bigger than anything Nova has ever done. Accept it, or don't, I don't care.