Originally posted by JakeTheBank
Cap can dodge and out race his own lightning. He has to stand still and allow the bolt to hit him to trigger the transformation to and from Billy Batson.Not to mention that he can unleash lightning in expansive areas outside of yelling Shazam such as when he amps his fist or makes lightning fueled tackles.
If Cap dodges his own lightning then it hits nothing so what's the use? He can't make the lightning go anywhere but where he was standing when he said Shazam.
Plus I feel a little desperation here for CM. You obviously have him fighting in ways he never really has shown in a one on one situation. But I'll accept it.
The only time Cap really looked inferior to Superman in a fight was that first Eclipso one. In the second, it was painfully obvious that Cap was holding back and even so, perfectly capable of holding his own against Eclipso Superman. Superman requiring three sucker punches of Cap's to go down is an extremely good and high showing of Superman's resistence to magic, no doubt about it. But considering how well Cap has fared against Superman without explicitly amping his punches (which is a fairly new power of Cap's all things considered) or without bombarding him with Shazam bolts or lightning fueled quakes, it says a lot.
Again, CM can't bombard Supes with Shazam bolts or lightning fueld quakes (since Superman could just stay in the air). His best chance is to physically strike Superman with an amped fist. But Superman can slow him with the freeze breath.
You can't cling to these claims of Cap's obvious inferiority (which really doesn't exist) and in the same breath ignore the multiple claims of Kal's concession that "we're too evenly matched" or "You're more equal in my every way" or "I had no idea what kind of power you possessed, Billy". The reality of the situation is that 9 times out of 10, Captain Marvel is going to stalemate or hold his own against Superman if and when they clash. That's just how it is. Agree with it or not, but them's the breaks.
Your philosophy is wrong. This is not a comic fight where characters are shown not to be fighting at their best most of the time. So of course Superman would be shown to stalemate CM often. But in a forum fight is a different story. And Supes will own CM due to his extra versatility of HV, freeze breath, and of course vibrate through attack ability.
Case in point, you may feel that Superman is >>> Cap, but, really, the majority of comics don't support that at all.
That's because Superman wasn't fighting at his best. We didn't see any of Supes freeze breath tactics, HV tactics, pressure point and martial art ability, vibrate through attacks, etc. when they faced. All we seen over 99% of the time was man to man physical fighting between the two. Get the point?