Hulk. Hulk is more well known and feared than Apocalypse. Thor, SS, FF, Doom, Avengers, X-Men, etc. view Hulk as a credible threat and give a damn. Apocalypse, well when was the last Thor, Doom, or the FF gave a f#ck who Nur was? Maybe if he'd stop sitting on his ass and atleast go on some rampage or whatelse; people might give a rats a$$ about his message.
Hulk's "Hulk is the strongest one there is" is more profound to heroes and villains than Apocalypse's "survival of the fittest." And it's funny isn't it, that a retard green monster can come up with his own credo, while the intellectual known as En Sabah Nur uses somebody else's words to live by.
In a fight, Apocalypse would get his nut's cracked by Hulk.
All fan favortism aside, Apocalypse wins. Physical 'strength' is basically a wash between these two, as is durability. Apocalypse can morph his right hand into a rail gun, blast a hole through Hulks chest, and though Hulk would keep coming, that gash in his chest would give Apoc a chance to use another of his abilities: The ability to increase his mass. He reaches into the gash and enlarges his hand to a point that makes Hulk's body bust at the seems from the inside.
With one hand.
Just like Gladiator, Apocalypse simply brings too much to the table in a logical, 'all powers at play' fight with Hulk. Apocalypse doesn't only have strength to rely on, he can grant himself ANY PHYSICAL ABILITY IMAGINABLE. Think about that.
Apocalypse wins.
Hulk doesn't possess any psychic or astral abilities that would harm Apocalypse, and Apocalypse can make himself invulnerable to any form of physical attack (which is well within his powers). ANY PHYSICAL ATTACK. All Hulk has are physical attacks.
Apocalypse wins.
Hulk is simply outmatched in terms of intellect, arsenal and versatility.
But Apocalypse cannot overwhelm, outfight or out attack Hulk in terms of full on assault. Hulk isn't gonna have any doubts, Apocalypse doesn't like it when he is faced with someone who can beat him or who doesn't get intimidated.
Apoc can win by all means but I think Hulk would pull more wins out of 10 than Apocalypse.
-AC
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Hulk is strongest one there is! Hulk PWNZ Poccy cuz Hulk is the best! PH33R HULK. yaaaaay!
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Hey, AC, I'm actually surprised that you ceded so much to Poccy. I would have thought that you'd think that Hulk could own Poccy.
I don't know who would win. Poccy has great defensive capabilities, and it would be pretty much impossible for Hulk to actually land a punch on Poccy. But Poccy's offensive might is questionable. When has he ever decisively put down a heavy hitting opponent? I mean...EVER? I don't think it's EVER happened. Here are Poccy's only real superfights:
Namor - draw
Stryfe - loss
Magneto (AOA) - loss
High Evolutionary - draw
Ikaris - draw (had the better of him)
Loki - draw
Calbain - draw
He's never decisively beaten anybody aside from members of teams. And members of teams are there to get beaten decisively, so it's not a feat.
Poccy's overrated.
"Hey, AC, I'm actually surprised that you ceded so much to Poccy. I would have thought that you'd think that Hulk could own Poccy. "
Hulk isn't actually my favourite character. I know when people can do shit against him, the fact is Hulk really is the shit. I don't think I've overhyped him one bit since I've been on this forum.
Surfer is my fav but he's not a fighter so it's pointless having him in threads.
-AC
All Apocalypse would really have to do is grab Hulk and morph his hands into a 10 foot thick adamantium vacuum chamber to suffocate Hulk. Sh*t, or just one of is hands. That's well within the realm of Apoc's abilities. I'd consider that 'overwhelming' Hulk. Hulk's been caged before, and unlike the greedy US government who would want Hulk alive to study his powers as a potential weapon, Apoc would trap Hulk to kill.
Apocalypse would win, and in a best of 10, I'd take Apocalypse's equal if not superior strength, superior durability and firepower to Hulk's "You don't want to see me when I'm pissed homie!!!! I can punch really, really hard and jump really, really far!!!!!".
Apocalypse could grab Hulk, morph his hands into a giant cannon, and shoot Hulk into space.
Or Apocalypse could grab Hulk, grow ridiculously big, and lift his hand into outer space with Hulk still grappled in it.
That's also well within Apocalypse's abilities.
It's really not fair. If it was just a fist fight, I'd give it to Hulk. I like Hulk more by far. But Apoc has too many ways of beating Hulk with all of his abilities at play, and all Hulk brings is strength and rage.
There's a term "Fool's rush in".
Hulk would rush in on some old "HULK SMASH EGYPTIAN X-TERNAL IN NEED OF SEVERE CHAPSTICK" and be overwhelmed by all that Apocalypse brings to the fight. I mean, Apoc could just stand there and let Hulk hit him without Hulk knowing that Apocalypse has adjusted his molecular structure to something similar to Sebatian Shaw and every punch Hulk hit's him with makes Apocalypse stronger and stronger. That too is well within Apocalypse's abilities.
It's really a one sided fight given everything Apocalypse is capable of.