MINDGAMES: Sabretooth is one of the few people in the world who can get a volatile reaction from Professor X by knowing just what buttons to push. He’s the king of trash talk.
INTERESTING NOTE: Sabretooth is stated to have been getting more powerful after he had recovered from Wolverine’s blow, a possible reference to this is made the next time Sabretooth fights Maverick.
INTO THE RED ZONE: CREED VS. THE X-MEN AND FRIENDS: One of the only times Sabretooth has been full on enraged had him pulling phenomenal amounts of featdom
MIND GAMES AND INTELLIGENCE: Here we see Sabretooth once again using mind games to force Magma into losing her cool and displays his intelligence in combat by tricking Caliban into being beaten with the environment insead of slugging it out with him.
SUPERHUMAN DURABILITY: She blasts Victor with an enormous amount of her power; enough to not only disintegrate Sabretooth’s restraints, but also punch a hole into the thick metal wall that had kept him captive behind him. Yet, Vic is able to walk out of this with a smile on his face and goes immediately into combat with Psylocke. He then takes everything from Caliban punches to Cyclops blasts and a blast so focused that it hits his head with the impact of a bullet and it still doesn’t put him away. His claws also prove able to rend through Archangels metallic wings.
HEALING FACTOR: Aside from the initial explosion Creed heals from punishment inflicted all over New York and from every member of the X-men and X-force teams he runs into along the way as well as being shot to hell by a swat team at the end and includes him getting up and sprinting at both Cyclops and Beasts almost immediately after having his leg broken.
SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH: Creed overpowers Beast and one shots him unconscious, and struggles so much and so hard that Jean Grey fails to hold him with her powers and casually destroys iceman’s grip with an extension of his fingers.
SUPERHUMAN SPEED: Sabretooth dodges multiple attacks from Scott Summers in close quarters, pounces on Iceman too fast for him to react, and pounces on Beast.
OVERALL PERFORMANCE: Sabretooth despite multiple fights and attacks is able to hold most of the X-Men he encounters at his mercy at one point or another, KOing Psylocke, Caliban, Archangel and Beast. Scaring Magma into a corner. Pouncing both Iceman and Cyclops who were saved through teamwork.
SABRETOOTH VS. MYSTIQUE:
OVERALL PERFORMANCE: Sabretooth easily handles Mystique in spite of having been engaged in combat with the Hound all day.
[B]SABRETOOTH VS. THE HOUND:
OVERALL PERFORMANCE: Sabretooth admittedly fights the hound all day which is incredible considering the Hound is a monster who’s powers included superhuman durability, energy projection, bioengineered claws, flight, super strength, enhanced speed and reflexes, a healing factor and the ability to adapt to other superhuman powers like he was Doomsday. Yikes.
Adapting:
All day:
INTERESTING NOTE: X-Factor refers to Sabretooth as one of their “heavy hitters ” while trying to deal with a Sentinel.
ENHANCED SENSES: Sabretooth can determine the difference in scent between AOA characters and 616 ones.
STRENGTH: Sabretooth caves in a brick wall with a punch.
STRENGTH: Sabretooth fends off and rips apart metallic tentacles all around him with his hands.
SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH/DURABILITY: Creed’s organic claws cause the metal wall next to him to coil, he then one shots a massive whole in the wall
SABRETOOTH VS. DARKBEAST:
OVERALL PERFORMANCE: Sabretooth and Darkbeast get into a scuffle. Initially Darkbeast nails Creed and sends him flying down some chasm after Sabretooth gets back to the fight, he pummels Darkbeast into the ground in several panels.
SPEED: Sabretooth disarms a man with a gun pointed at him before he can fire a round.
SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH: Sabretooth is casually holding up a massive blast door with a single hand
SABRETOOTH VS. AIM, HYDRA, PIRANNAS, GOONS, AND CYPHER:
HEALING FACTOR: Sabretooth takes damage from every party involved, is nearly eaten alive by pirannas, gassed and has several massive holes punched through him and still keeps coming.
OVERALL PERFORMANCE: Sabretooth fights through two armies, a moat filled with pirannas, more goons and still manages to scare the superhuman cyborg Cypher into giving up. He also shows his ability to scale sheer walls again.
SABRETOOTH VS. CONSTRICTOR, IRON FIST AND LUKE CAGE:
SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH: Creed is able to rip Constrictors coils from their holsters which are supposed to be forged from an Adamantium alloy.
DURABILITY/HEALING FACTOR: Creed gets shocked by his restraint collar which effectively attacks him on a neurological level, then gets electrocuted by Constrictor’s coils, then gets hit with an Iron Fist, THEN gets wailed on by Luke Cage, choked, and finally shot by tranqs created by Forge to knock Creed out. He’s STILL up and about almost immediately after all this finally manages to put him out.
OVERALL PERFORMANCE: Creed does a nice job of taking punishment and quickly obliterates Constrictor when Iron Fist failed to, Creed also manages to one shot Constrictor where as Rand failed to rend him unconscious with his Iron Fist as well and his organic claws easily dicing through Constrictor’s bulletproof armor. His intelligence appears pretty weak here however. He knows full well he can’t cut Cage but instead of relying on his speed, fists, agility and fighting ability he still tries to slash at Cage. For Sabretooth, who is so typically observant of his opponents’ weaknesses or strengths, it’s odd that he subjects himself to a fight like this. This CIS may be personal when it comes to Cage. I don’t know.
HEALING FACTOR/PAIN TOLERANCE/INTERESTING NOTE: This describes just how debilitating Sabes restraining collar can be.
HEALING FACTOR/DURABILITY: A Russian spook hopped up on pain killers and strength enhancing drugs tries to hit Sabretooth with a machete, the machete fails to go too far into Sabretooth’s head and Sabretooth continues to stand around talking trash.
SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH: Sabretooth bends a gun barrel with his thumb.
SABRETOOTH VS. X-FACTOR:
OVERALL PERFORMANCE: Creed systematically takes down the entire X-Factor team using a combination of sneak attacks and h2h fighting. He beats both Mystique and Wild Child (2nd portion) in straight fights.
SUPERHUMAN ATTRIBUTES: Creed’s claws are retractable, this representation shows Creed to be massive possibly indicating why his claws have been listed as 6inches in previous publications.
SABRETOOTH VS. MAVERICK AND ELENA IONOVA:
DURABILITY/HEALING FACTOR: Sabretooth takes massive amounts of punishment from both parties in this fight, he’s hit with multiple darts designed to continuously attack his nervous system and literally begins to dig them out as Mav stands there taking pot shots at him with energy blasting gauntlets, Sabretooth gets nailed with some of Maverick’s kenetic energy manipulating powers as the two stand off in h2h and then hit with multiple tazer blasts before being dropped 2 stories into a lower level of the sewer, he’s THEN hit with more tazer blasts, and attacked by a psionic projection of Elena Ianova, he resists that which causes a massive psionic backlash, gets up and begins to go after Maverick AGAIN only to be thwarted by the almighty plot device.
INTELLIGENCE: The impartial narrative explains that some of Sabretooth’s mental defenses are those which Sabretooth himself has actually created after his weakness to such attacks was exposed in his early X-villain career.
PLOT DEVICE FTW: Battle that leaves Sabretooth beaten by environment rather than his opponent. Time he’s been beaten by a being washed away by water.
OVERALL PERFORMANCE: Sabretooth once again shows off massive healing factor and damage soaking capabilities. He asserts an advantage over Maverick while his nervous system is being attacked. Maverick’s powers begin to fritz out on him going into overdrive, and he suffers from two seizures during the course of the fight, so it’s not entirely a good feat for Sabretooth against Maverick but one questions if the outcome would have changed much regardless.
SABRETOOTH VS. SUPERBOY: Feb 1998
HEALING FACTOR/DURABILITY: Sabretooth is plowed into a car by Supes and it doesn’t knock him out.
OVERALL PERFORMANCE: Sabretooth takes a head on attack from Superboy to no avail and then apparently has a fight where he didn’t get knocked out and was landing enough strikes to tear Superboy’s jacket up to shreds though he can’t cut him.
AGE OF APOCALYPSE: This timeline’s Sabretooth is so identical to his 616 counterpart that Psylocke couldn’t distinguish the two apart when they fought. He most likely resembles the power levels of Graydon Enhanced Creed and he’s now been imbued with an Adamantium skeleton.
(NON 616) SPEED/DURABILITY:[/B]
Sabretooth cleaves through gun barrels with his organic claws making clean cuts in one swipe and then kills all the men present before anyone can fire a shot off.
(NON 616) SABRETOOTH VS. WOLVERINE:
HEALING FACTOR:
Creed’s ignited by flames and continues on his merry.
PLOT DEVICE FTW:
Creed’s coming up on Logan when Logan has to resort to lighting him on fire to get away.
OVERALL PERFORMANCE:
Creed’s able to punch a hole into Logan’s stomach and forces him to plot device his way out of the fight. Not bad.
SABRETOOTH VS. WILDCHILD
SUPERHUMAN STAMINA: Sabretooth fights Wild Child for three days before fatigue takes its toll causing Creed to black out.
[B]OVERALL PERFORMANCE:
The feat is impressive in that Creed is able to deal with Wild Child for 3 days… but it’s poor in that Sabretooth can’t outright beat Wild Child in combat. It’s possible that Creed’s claws being sheathed in his gloves may account for this some.
SABRETOOTH VS. HOLOCAUST:
SUPERHUMAN DURABILITY:
Sabretooth takes some decent punishment from Holocaust without going down even though his healing factor’s pretty much shut down.
SUPERHUMAN SPEED:
Sabretooth evades Holocausts concussive energy blasts.
SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH:
Sabretooth hoists over his head and throws a massive chunk of rock debris almost as large as Holocaust himself, then proceeds to tear Holocaust’s shell off with his bare hands and no claws. Holocausts armor at this point was thought to be indestructible, it’s sustained blows from Thor, and also Rogues strongest punches to no effect. That Creed tore it apart is an incredible feat of strength on his part.
OVERALL PERFORMANCE:
Creed is put up against an opponents who is fairly uber across the board and given Holocaust’s powers was not only having energy drained from him in battle, but had his healing factor negated for the course of the confrontation. Having dropped Holocaust’s physical form however briefly is to this day an incredibly impressive feat on his part.
SABRETOOTH HERALD VS. SILVER SURFER
OVERALL PERFORMANCE:
This doesn’t really prove much of anything for Creed other than how powerful and daunting an opponent he might be were he to ever become a herald.
SABRETOOTH VS. BLINK:
OVERALL PERFORMANCE:
Sabretooth’s able to quickly subdue blink and react to her jumping back into space after blinking.
