Originally posted by Lord Feron
interesting point 🙂
But inaccurate, as this isn't a discussion about reality. Lest we're discussing the reality of 616. Wolverine's been shot by heat bearing lazers before and NEVER have his wounds been cauterized so cleary the HF isn't going to be effected in such a regard.
As for the fight. Hmmm well first off, Predator's stronger. Predators have been seen overtunring jeeps/hummers, and one even tossed over a tank. I think the general concensus is that Preds are at least in the 5 ton range.
Predator holds no advantage in his vertical leap though as Wolverine has an extremely impressive leaping ability himself.
In terms of Wolverine's ability to pin point him by scent. Shouldn't be a problem. Wolverine's sense of smell is familiar to the point that he could detect something Rogue had picked up in flight wasn't from their continent. He's had plenty of other "sense" feats but I think some of the most important to discuss here is his ability to fight while blinded. He's done it half a dozen times, once against a highly skilled telepath and has always had positive results. Predator on the other hand while having a handy cloaking device can be seen by the human eye, I think Daredevil may have even stated that Wolverine has enhanced night vision and a simple food for thought that may or may not mean anything here, Sabretooth has proven to have thermo vision.
In terms of dodging, Wolverine should be able to dodge at the very LEAST 6-7/10 of predators cannons and everytime he gets shot at it completely sells out predators position.
The effectiveness of the plasma cannon I feel is slightly up for debate considering that while it does cause xenomorphs to explode it's pretty much failed against the dense musculature of both Arnold in the movie, and I believe Shaffer in the comics.
And it's the comics that really make me hesitate to give predator the benefit of any doubt here. A police detective has repeatedily given preds all hell left and right, a brown belt in Tai Kwon Do has effectively beat the crap out of a pred in h2h, and I think even a blind martial artist was causing a predator problems. There's historical accounts of preds losing in droves to samurai. In crossovers they've had their butts handed to them by Batman, and Tarzan.
I think pred does have at least a decent shot at trying to keep this fight at a distance and wearing Logan down. But 8 times out of 10, (maybe even 9?) I'd say it's far more likely that Wolverine turns the hunt around on the pred and closes the distance before that becomes a problem.