So Mera is a challenge to Superman now? Bullshit. You keep bringing up Superman jobbing to Mera like it's supposed to mean something, when all that it means is that he was holding back.
He never jobbed to Mera. She never beat him and he was never in danger at any point. The impressive thing about that showing is that Mera's water constructs are strong enough to hold CL100 beings like Superman and Wonder Woman for a minute or two. This may not seem like much but considering how WW has destroyed GL constructs like they were made of glass, it's damn impressive.
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I'm referring to her taking on the Justice League when she was trying to free Atlantis.
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I got ya. I don't know much about current Mera, but that is pretty impressive.
I've definitely thought about the High Meta/Herald divide too. I think part of the "problem" is that high meta's, cutting lose, can absolutely give trouble to heralds under the right circumstances. Especially the ones with more hax-y abilities.
Psylocke taking Magneto out recently is a good example. Mera and Storm do it. Iron Man does it. It can sometimes make the rankings a little murky.
Of course, someone needing to "cut loose" or have "circumstances" in their favor could be a dividing line, ultimately, between the tiers. Some on the current list could probably be moved up though.
Last edited by StyleTime on Aug 14th, 2018 at 07:44 PM
So if Superman went all out how well would she do? I understand that she can give legit Cl100's pause, but I feel as if she being upsold here as if she were in their league. What about Storm's past feats? I know how powerful Mera is. Without her Arthur would have never defeated Corum Rath recently, and he was beast, but again what about how powerful Storm has recently become? What about how powerful she was, even before getting her hands on Stormcaster?
Depends, can she desiccate him. If not, she lasts all of 30 seconds.
Oh for sure she can give Cl100's pause, if not outright kill them. Any being subject to desiccation is toast. Hell she might not even need to desiccate to kill, look what Awakened Hydroman did to Simon (Hydroman didn't kill him and Hawkeye because he wanted to use them as bait to lure in more Avengers). Mera can easily replicate that.
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If we want to say she's being upsold, then there should be lower showings of hers which gives this theory credence.
After all, Batman doesn't go around tanking blows from class 100s on the regular - he has many many showings of him being hurt by ordinary muggers and clowns etc.
So if Mera is out of her weight class here, what low showings does she have?
I'm not sure how powerful Mera is with the Trident (Haven't caught up since her JL introduction) or Storm is with Stormcaster since she got it back, but Mera vs. Storm without weapons is Storm's fight too lose.
Mera has a little momentum but the Wind-rider has been doing this since the Claremont era. Storm has too many feats under her belt both in terms of ridiculous power and precision usage. She's everything Mera is, with far superior potential power (And now with potential godhood after the recent Black Panther arc) but with human level stats. She's the clear favorite imo unless this gets in close.
Mera taking on the JL as well as she did is imo very impressive and far beyond the capabilities I'd have assigned her before, and is probably greater than anything I can think of Storm doing off the top of my head (Without some form of amp or above natural levels of power), but, to quote Lex Luthor "You think I'm scared of you because you beat up the JL? That happens once a week!"
I have no doubt Storm would replicate that and do even better. Storm isn't just a female. She's a female of color. That's like a double buff.
Also lol at this thread convo.
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Last edited by Rage.Of.Olympus on Aug 14th, 2018 at 09:31 PM
Mera (Rebirth) has fine control/precision over her powers, too. Storm isn't the only one. Plus, with Orm's Trident, she can basically do whatever Storm can, on top of Hydrokenisis.
Like Stoic and Zop said, whoever gets the first attack off wins.
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