who is the best swordsman in comics?

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Philosophía "The devil made me do it"
Originally posted by Sin I AM
It's depiction is a skill feat not a speed feat
Magnon Senior Member

Originally posted by Sin I AM
It's depiction is a skill feat not a speed feat

If you can move your sword and your hands fast enough to block bullets, that's a speed feat (both reaction and movement speed). No amount of skill would allow one to deflect bullets the way shown in DS's scans without superspeed.

Sin I AM Madame Mort

No. Its a skill feat. It's the mastery of swordplay at a superhuman level. Sheesh you'd think I was the only person who read comics around here.

ShadowFyre Senior Member

The initial blocking of the bullet is a speed feat as anyone with superseded can block a projectile. The returning it with accuracy/precision is a skill feat.

DarkSaint85 Bonified abstract

Even with all the time in the world, I honestly can't say that I'd be able to block a bullet with a sword - I'd be able to bat it away if I had superspeed, sure, but to time it just right like that? That's skill.

Superspeed obv helps of course. But it's comics - MA skill jumps one's stats up several levels.

No one says Hulk is the best h2h combatant, even though he fights with his bare hands in 99% of his fights, and wins.

Prof. T.C McAbe Kryptonian Scientist

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Even with all the time in the world, I honestly can't say that I'd be able to block a bullet with a sword - I'd be able to bat it away if I had superspeed, sure, but to time it just right like that? That's skill.

Superspeed obv helps of course. But it's comics - MA skill jumps one's stats up several levels.

No one says Hulk is the best h2h combatant, even though he fights with his bare hands in 99% of his fights, and wins.

A skilled comic MA probably reads the body language of his attackers, hears the click and is skilled enough to anticipate where the bullet goes so he can start the movement before the trigger is pulled completely.

Stoic Avenger

I'd think that anyone that does not possess super speed that is capable of deflecting machine gun bullets with a sword, would rate far higher than someone that possessed super speed with no former training in swordsmanship. Reason being, if you removed their super speed, would they possess the skill to deflect the barrage of bullets if they were never trained in swordsmanship? Probably not.

Sin I AM Madame Mort

It's like saint said. Being an ma ups your baseline stats. It's a skill based

StiltmanFTW CBvF
Originally posted by Sin I AM
It's like saint said. Being an ma ups your baseline stats. It's a skill based

Pretty much.

Strength - targeting weak spots or/and "knowing how to throw a really mean punch"

Durability - rolling with the blows, controlling one's body functions, including (but not limited to) adrenalin surges and blood loss

Speed, reflexes - conserving energy, moving in the most efficient way, predicting/reading attacks, always being a few steps ahead of the enemy

And so on...