Well, I see the Marvel team working together. STorm can use her elemental powers to blind the JLA team with fog and batter them with elemental assaults of apacolyptic proportions. Emma Frost keeps the team in TP communication with each other so they can see through the weather via Ororo's vision and know where to use their powers. The JLA will be fighting blind.
Re: X-Men vs. JLA
Originally posted by Rutog98
Here is the scenerio:The X-Men are iin a fortress. JLA, 10 miles away, are coming to the fortress to overrun it and destroy the X-Men. The X-Men know that they JLA are coming so there is no advantage of surprise or time to set traps or anything. Both teams must rely on their powers alone in this fight. However, the teams can begin their attack while far away.
X-Men:
Xavier (with powers obviously)
Storm
Jean Grey (No Phoenix Force)
White Queen
Rogue (with absorption powers and
Magma
Cyclops
Nightcrawler
Wolverine
IcemanJLA:
Superman
Wonder Woman
Flash
Green Lantern
Batman
Martain Manhunter
Aquaman
Barda
Plastic Man
I like your team member selection, particularly the diversity of the X-men team. Good array of different power sets.
The only issue is the actual teams facing off. The JLA is, simply put, on a whole different plateau from any of the X-men teams (unless one starts adding the Phoenix). Succinctly put, it would be impossible (without PIS/CIS) for the X-men to defeat the JLA in a KMC-style matchup (where both sides are doing their utmost to win).
For that matter around 5 of the JLA members listed above (WonderWoman, Superman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, and the Flash) could defeat the X-men team SOLO. And they could do so with abundant ease, and in different ways (eg take MM and GL ....those two would have so many ways of taking down the X-men team that it would start looking silly).
Which is the thing about the JLA .....the setup and orientation of the team is very different from that of nigh any X-men team.
Think of it this way ....the X-men are a team comprised of individual members who bring some aspect or attribute to the team. Generally speaking each member of the X-men brings in one power or ability, and brings it at a certain level of intensity. If we were to use an analogy of a soccer team, there would be two strikers, a goalkeeper, a defender, etc etc etc.
The JLA on the other hand is more akin to a team made up of individuals who are teams AS OF THEMSELVES. Basically a team made up of people who really do not need to be in a team since they pack enough power to be a team all by themselves. By this I mean that arouond half the characters in the JLA bring so much diversity of power, and at such great intensity levels, that they are simply teams of one! Take MM, or GL, or Superman, or WW (and if I wanted to I could add more characters from the expanded JLA, some like Animal Man who are TRULY powerful). Any of those characters are simply teams of one. Take Superman .....he has top-tier strength, top-tier speed, heat powers, wind powers, ice powers, sonic powers, durability that is basically akin to invulnerability (unless you have Kryptonite, magic, or amazing strength and speed to wear down his solar reserves) ....godness, can even turn invisible by rapidly vibrating. Martian Manhunter has all of the above plus more (eg telepathy, phasing, etc).
Green Lantern is a walking plot device (properly written a GL can do nigh anything with that Oan ring). Now that guy would be a beast.
Hence matching up an X-men team with the JLA, and making the bout be under KMC rules, is in essence a mismatch.
The two teams have different orientations.
A crude analogy would be like comparing a cop car to a Main Battle Tank.
Both are used to get 'bad guys,' and both are made specifically for those objectives (eg the cop car is suped up with better suspension and a potent engine, while the tank is ....well ....a tank).
However, putting the cop car against the tank, and telling the two to do battle would be a mismatch. Because they have different orientations.
It would be more of a mismatch if the tank also has near-light speeds, can shoot laser beams from its main gun, can fly, can phase, create anything based on the tank driver's will power, has the powers of the gods and magically bestowed weapons, is telepathic, etc etc.
All the same, that was one of the best picked X-men teams I've seen in a while.
Originally posted by Rutog98
Well, I see the Marvel team working together. STorm can use her elemental powers to blind the JLA team with fog and batter them with elemental assaults of apacolyptic proportions. Emma Frost keeps the team in TP communication with each other so they can see through the weather via Ororo's vision and know where to use their powers. The JLA will be fighting blind.
The JLA team would also be working together.
Storm has elemental powers, but Superman, MartianManhunter and GL can also whip up a very strong wind. And anyways, there is no way Storm can bring up cold/wind strong enough to affect the JLA (apart from folks like Batman) without long ago affecting the X-men.
Emma Frost can use TP. As can Xavier and JG. However look at the JLA team .....Martian Manhunter is an extremely powerful telepath (some of his telepathic feats are legendary), Aquaman is also a very good telepath, and GLs can use their rings for high-level telepathy. Thus the Marvellites do not have a TP advantage.
The JLA wouldn't be fighting blind. To be honest they wouldn't even be fighting. They would be beating the X-men. The two teams are on different levels.