Yes, I'm serious. Adamantiumless Wolverine has no-sold Walker's vibranium shield and one-shotted him, despite Falcon trying to stop him. Gone toe to toe with Winter Soldier, even caused him to flee in at least one confrontation. With adamantium he beat Bucky even though the latter had prep and managed to handcuff him.
Nuke as Scourge didn't really impress me. And as shown in Origins, he can't afford to take an adamantium claw swipe.
Steele is formidable indeed, but he lacks the fighting skill to compete here.
Steve doesn't have Giant Man backing him up here
Romulus took on Skaar and was doing really good.
Nord Maverick? Powerless? Guess he's the weak link, depending on his equipment.
Not familiar with Nomad, but "advanced super soldier strength" doesn't sound good enough to help him here.
Creed heals ridiculously fast and is very skilled despite the popular belief.
wow guess sabretooth got back to being a loser with no skills, been fun seeing him as bad ass for couple issues when he had the last weapon X upgrade, too bad he got back to being an oversized freddy krueger that gets his ass beat