Pick your Power! Race edition

Originally posted by KingD19
So when Spidey exhausts his webs after swinging for so long, and has to eat, and find water, and sleep, and rest.
While Colossus and Wolverine are still going.....is it still easy?
Besides his powers, Spidey's a normal guy, and still needs food, water, and sleep on a normal basis.

Texas is only 900 K wide. Spidey can do that within 24 hours easy. Especially if it's all jungle.
He webzips the whole thing with bouts of Webswings. through ravines.
There is no way the others will catch up in time and Spidey's lead will just grow so the others will slow each other down not him.

Originally posted by KingD19
So when Spidey exhausts his webs after swinging for so long, and has to eat, and find water, and sleep, and rest.

While Colossus and Wolverine are still going.....is it still easy?

Besides his powers, Spidey's a normal guy, and still needs food, water, and sleep on a normal basis.

Webbing + 50ft leaps.
I have eaten bugs and leaves and would be willing to do so again in this scenario.
The little rest i require is irrelevant considering how big a lead I'll have from the start.

man.. you can easily tell ddude has a bias for wanting spidey to win..

colossus drops something incredibly heavy on all three.. they are pinned.
piotr walks out slowly and doesn't mind knowing that wolverine will probably eat the other two...

Originally posted by rotiart
man.. you can easily tell ddude has a bias for wanting spidey to win..

colossus drops something incredibly heavy on all three.. they are pinned.
piotr walks out slowly and doesn't mind knowing that wolverine will probably eat the other two...

We all have biases. 😛 It's more of my idea on how I would play it out. I DO think Spidey has the tools to get across better, IMO as he can cover more ground while high up in the trees and get a better orientation of the area.

Colossus leaping around would mess with his orientation and would get him lost more often that not. Plus his lumbering would prolly clue the others to his location to allow them (mostly Spiderman) to slow im down when needed.

I'd have to go with Spiderman's powers. I have an alarm if my opponents attempt to slow me down, and I have the easiest time slowing my opponents down if I want; however, I'd probably just ignore them and leap/swing my way out. I think I could get a sizable enough lead to eat and rest up periodically.

All the person with Colossus' powers would have to do in order to avoid getting lost is jump towards the sun in the morning and away from it in the afternoon.

Originally posted by D_Dude1210
We all have biases. 😛 It's more of my idea on how I would play it out. I DO think Spidey has the tools to get across better, IMO as he can cover more ground while high up in the trees and get a better orientation of the area.

Colossus leaping around would mess with his orientation and would get him lost more often that not. Plus his lumbering would prolly clue the others to his location to allow them (mostly Spiderman) to slow im down when needed.

You keep assuming that hes going to get lost... And keep trying to say the same one liner that he would get lost... Did spiderman really do so well at getting lost when he was in the savage land... Compare that to piotr or wolverine..

Originally posted by Silent Master
All the person with Colossus' powers would have to do in order to avoid getting lost is jump towards the sun in the morning and away from it in the afternoon.

Hard to tell time in the jungle. 🙂

Originally posted by D_Dude1210
Hard to tell time in the jungle. 🙂

hard to swing with no clearings and nothing but branches and vines.. and random snakes dropping from the canopy in your way...

Let's also remember that Spidey no longer has an unlimited supply of organic webbing. When he runs out he's gonna have to rely on jumps, and he and Toad will tire long before Wolverine, and Wolverine will tire before Colossus.

You guys are overplaying the endurance (and the webbing) factor. Spidey can slingshot himself a mile or so at a time and that takes very little energy to do.

Seriously, Spidey murders this challenge.

Wolverine powers. I have a feeling that the tracking abilities as well as the healing factor will obviously come in handy in such a situation. At the very least no one on the team can kill me.

Originally posted by rotiart
You keep assuming that hes going to get lost... And keep trying to say the same one liner that he would get lost... Did spiderman really do so well at getting lost when he was in the savage land... Compare that to piotr or wolverine..

Whoa! No need to get snippy. O_o

Chill brotha. This topic was made as more of an opinion poll of the best means to get across. It's to debate, share ideas and information as well as to trade opinions on what the best means of getting out of the jungle is and what ppl believe is the best way.

Like I said, snakes wont be a problem and being able to leap and stick to the top of the the canopy will do TONS on being able to keep your orientation. Don't care how strong Colossus is, he's not gonna be able to wade thru thick redwoods like they're just air. They're gonna slow him down as well as give out his position. Also, chaotic means of movement will always be a problematic venture. I did a lot of hunting in the jungle back when I was as a kid and keeping your heading is always a problem, even when you're slicing thru the vegetation (w/c DOES help in keeping track on where you've been but not so much in distinquinshing the direction you're going).

Even when Colossus topples trees, he won't be able to see above the canopy (w/c is many stories high) unless he starts knocking down trees (w/c takes time) and even then, unless you have an eidetic memory, you won't always be able to remember w/c tree went where and w/c direction u were facing as it happened.

Remember you don't have an easy sense of time here, the canopy covers most of the sky and w/o knowing w/c way is north/south you mind end up walking in circles.

My opinion can change on whether or not Spider powers are the best here. Just need to read enough opinions to change my mind. 😄

Originally posted by rotiart
You keep assuming that hes going to get lost... And keep trying to say the same one liner that he would get lost... Did spiderman really do so well at getting lost when he was in the savage land... Compare that to piotr or wolverine..

This isn't Spidey. It's you/me with Spidey's powers.

Originally posted by rotiart
hard to swing with no clearings and nothing but branches and vines.. and random snakes dropping from the canopy in your way...

Spider powers can just allow you to leap/stick to the top canopies. It certainly provides the agility and abilities needed for it.

Originally posted by KingD19
The thing about Colossus though is that despite no healing factor, his stamina is basically unlimited, and he doesn't need food, sleep, or water. And while you might usually walk in circles, this is circumvented by the literal path of destruction someone like him would leave in his wake. You leave a path of fallen trees behind you, it's pretty easy to realize you're still going in a straight line. A guy running 8-12mph at a dead run, nonstop for days on end will get out first. He'll even leave a nifty trail for the others to follow.

I'm choosing the tin man.

👆

but yeah, colossus.

My skills.. Knowledge but thimeir innate powers... Again the easy answer is colossus... You would be slingotting yourself into trees and branches and you cant sre where and what u would hit... Yes you coild climb to thw top of a tree and look for landmarks but so could anyone else!

And since its my skills i dont get wolverines years of tracking experinnce...

@ddude And despite your claims to the contrary im doubting most people in here have obviously your comic book level of awareness. Lol.

And you assume that while you as spiderman would find your way out... People picking colossus would walk in circles...

Of course depending on the area youncould simpky follow the moss on the trees...

Or as wolverine use your senses to sniff for a constant smell and head that way...

Of course slingshotting yourself upward from ground floor up into the trees canopy where branches await is the smartest idea... And doing it from the tops where the branches are thinnest and would have no hold on u isnt a great idea either...

Oh and the argument then is that you would get lost with other peoples powers but not with spidermans because it magically gives a betrer sense of direction?...

Originally posted by rotiart
My skills.. Knowledge but thimeir innate powers... Again the easy answer is colossus... You would be slingotting yourself into trees and branches and you cant sre where and what u would hit... Yes you coild climb to thw top of a tree and look for landmarks but so could anyone else!

And since its my skills i dont get wolverines years of tracking experinnce...

@ddude And despite your claims to the contrary im doubting most people in here have obviously your comic book level of awareness. Lol.

Whoa! What's with the attitude? Your tampon chaffing you or something?

Originally posted by rotiart
And you assume that while you as spiderman would find your way out... People picking colossus would walk in circles...

Of course depending on the area youncould simpky follow the moss on the trees...

Or as wolverine use your senses to sniff for a constant smell and head that way...

Of course slingshotting yourself upward from ground floor up into the trees canopy where branches await is the smartest idea... And doing it from the tops where the branches are thinnest and would have no hold on u isnt a great idea either...

Wow, nice strawman, I didn't say that at all. I was just saying that one would give you a higher chance of getting lost than the other.

Originally posted by rotiart
Oh and the argument then is that you would get lost with other peoples powers but not with spidermans because it magically gives a betrer sense of direction?...

Sigh. Being constantly above the canopy allows you to survey the area a lot more easily and allows you to consistently figure out your heading and orientation. I'm not saying it gives you a "magic sense of direction", I'm just saying that among the choices, it gives you the most time above the canopy.

Granted Wolverine can do the same, being as that he's almost as agile, he doesn't have Spiderman's ability to leap and cling to trees (w/c would make it easier to move around in that fashion) and Wolvie would lose if it came down to a race of jumping from tree to tree.

Colossus leaping from tree to tree would be clumsy (or at the very least not as nearly as nimble as spiderman) and him making huge leaps above the canopy (does he have any feats/showings of him leaping long distances?) would be just as clumsy/awkward.

Originally posted by KingD19
The thing about Colossus though is that despite no healing factor, his stamina is basically unlimited, and he doesn't need food, sleep, or water. And while you might usually walk in circles, this is circumvented by the literal path of destruction someone like him would leave in his wake. You leave a path of fallen trees behind you, it's pretty easy to realize you're still going in a straight line. A guy running 8-12mph at a dead run, nonstop for days on end will get out first. He'll even leave a nifty trail for the others to follow.

I'm choosing the tin man.

Hehe. What if I just follow Colossus and then web him in the face/trip him then web him just as he is about to reach the end? 😄

I pick Spidey and simply jump up really high whenever I don't know where I'm going, which won't happen, because I'm a man, and men don't admit to getting lost, ever.

Or I pick Colossus, and throw a tree really hard and grab onto it so it carries me to safety.