Originally posted by PhilBy far, actually. 👆
Ion put up a better fight against Prime than armies of heroes.
Never quite understood the logic that Yat was a shit Lantern/Ion, just because he lost to Prime of all people. Almost every single noteworthy hero(and villain) has also lost to Prime... And much easier than Yat did. This is a guy who even the ring intelligence itself fears, ffs:
...And also bear in mind that Yat was just a rookie GL when he obtained the Ion power, so he didn't even remotely have a handle on how to use all that power efficiently(which explains why threw fisticuffs with Prime for 99.9% of the fight instead of using his actual GL power) -- and he was also poisoned by lead very early in the fight, which further hindered him. It's like a kid with one leg who is just trying out Pop Warner football, all of the sudden being thrust into the NFL on their first game.
That being said, I *do* think Sodam was grossly underutilized as Ion later on(it should've just been a temp amp that he lost after SCW, imo), but that's neither here nor there.
Originally posted by Galan007👆
By far, actually. 👆Never quite understood the logic that Yat was a shit Lantern/Ion, just because he lost to Prime of all people. Almost every single noteworthy hero(and villain) has also lost to Prime... And much easier than Yat did. This is a guy who even the ring intelligence itself fears, ffs:
...And also bear in mind that Yat was just a rookie GL when he obtained the Ion power, so he didn't even remotely have a handle on how to use all that power efficiently(which explains why threw fisticuffs with Prime for 99.9% of the fight instead of using his actual GL power) -- and he was also poisoned by lead very early in the fight, which further hindered him. It's like a kid with one leg who is just trying out Pop Warner football, all of the sudden being thrust into the NFL on their first game.
That being said, I *do* think Sodam was grossly underutilized as Ion later on(it should've just been a temp amp that he lost after SCW, imo), but that's neither here nor there.
Besides the [overall] performance against Prime -- which many can't look past comparatively, as it's a loss -- he was also a noob with the kryptonian powerset, too -- but we see him going at it toe to toe with Prime and even taking his HV [which went through the rest like butter]
https://i.imgur.com/0trQEAo.jpg
By comparison:
http://i.imgur.com/n5eAzTJ.png
