Originally posted by HumanMovieGuide
Why would the Predator be fighting like a speed demon if he wasn't taking the fight seriously? Does Cyclops strip off his visor against meager opponents? Predator made quick work of Hawkins, Dillon and Sonny in H2H when he was trying to kill them. Also later in the Schwarzenegger fight when we saw the fight through the Pred's eye, it was comboing Arnold pretty badly.The OP says they're fighting in Camp Crystal lake, so there's a large body of water here and Jason is stupid enough to follow them to the water. We've seen it all the time.
Though I doubt the Predator would even need the water. If we're allowed to reference other F13 films (don't see why not since it's the same character), then I can give examples of characters who definitely have human capabilities giving it to Jason. There's Tommy Jarvis in part 6 who went against Jason not once but twice at the beginning and the end. Both encounters started with Jason grabbing him from behind and the first encounter ended with Tommy easily breaking free than kicking Jason back down to his grave. The second had Tommy actually outmuscling Jason and knocking him off the boat.
Next character Steven in part 9 who took Jason's best beatings and got back up to deliver some of his own in a fight that Jason ultimately died in.
Then there's Freddy Krueger who really layed it to Jason and defeated him and was ultimately killed by teenagers.
So we have three examples of human level opponents each who managed something against Jason in his fights. Tommy managed to overpower, Steven managed to take all his best beatings and came back for more and Krueger managed to downright beat the crap out of him and defeat him. And the Predator is superior to these three.
Listen, either show something that proves the Predator is some amazingly fast H2H fighter, or he's little more than a brutish slugger, as shown on screen. Yeah, Predator knows how to throw a punch and beat the **** up of of people; that's not in dispute.
OP says they're fighting in the woods, so that's where it is, the woods. Predator wouldn't know that Jason has a weakness to water, so your implication that the Predator would lead him to the lake is stupid. No different than me trying to angle Jason coming prepared with cold mud all over his corpse, just be as stupid.
That doesn't take away from Jason's feats though, now does it. The Predator was beaten by a human as well, nice of you to ignore that. If you're going to bring up movies 7-9, then Jason can just uppercut the Predator's head off; might take a couple extra hits. He also has some pretty impressive feats in part 10, pre and post the nano-upgrade.
BTW, Tommy Jarvis is an emotional mess, he'd probably beat the piss out of Dutch in a H2H fight.