Originally posted by JakeTheBank
The thing about speed is that you don't often see a true speedblitz (at least the ones described in the forums as tactics) happen in the pages of comics. You will see things done via superspeed such as evacuating a city, building a city, or assembling tech in mere moments. Generally, proponents of speedblitzing/"speed kills" will argue that because those things are more complex and require more effort and thought than simply punching someone a billion times a second, it should be common sense that they could fight that fast. It's not wrong in theory, but it opens up a slippery slope if you base things on what could feasibly happen in comics based on what a specific power or ability can do.Superhuman speed is a power just like energy manipulation, super strength, telepathy, etc. It just seems to get a pass more often than not under the virtue if you're faster than your opponent, you simply can dominate them with ease. In reality, that would certainly hold true more often than not, but in the world of comics, not so much. I don't think speed isn't important at all concerning forum fights, but I don't subscribe to the theory than under a forum battle, speed suddenly trumps everything and any instance of it not doing so in a comic is automatically PIS. There's a healthy medium, I feel.
Concerning this fight, Majestic should get the majority due to his stats, but really, the idea of Bolt's voice not effecting him is ridiculous. I don't see Superman effortlessly beating down Bolt, either (though he'd get a decent majority as well).
I agree with much of what you said. We often talk about the argument of speed as a primary power (Flash, Quicksilver etc) vs speed as a tactic and part of a greater powerset (the Supermen et al). A character such as Majestros can and has displayed nano second speed before, so that's not the issue as for as I'm concerned. It's not a matter of if he could so much as it is a matter of if he [I]would[/] in a given situation. Supes for example, resorts to it as a tactic if the situation calls for it but it's typically not his first recourse of action. It's a tool that he breaks out as needed. Same with Majestros to a degree. He's not -in character- busting out the super speed during the onset of h2h. And I'll add that BB isn't likely to break out with the voice either.
This fight imo comes down to a mix of exotic powers, and h2h. I personally give the King the advantage in that situation. He just flat out knocks people the phuck out.