Not sure if it was his idea or Matt's. I think they left it to the reader to decide. Yeah, I gathered as much. The outcome of this fight is definitely in Val's favor.
She doesn't need her brother, and she's intellectually on par with her father in many respects.
Without cash behind him, Kade is just a ruthless little nutjob. All Val has to do (and she can do so much more) is stop the flow of his monetary resources. That's it. Really. You don't need to kill someone to destroy him/her. That said, Val takes this simply because she has the necessary means to outwit Kade; she has her vastly superior intellect.
Kade doesn't have any special abilities (powers); he's just ruthless and smart (but nowhere on par with Valeria's intellect). In battles of this nature, smarter people generally come out on top; and Val is just way way up there.
She retook control(or something of the sort) of the Baxter building after Pym(along with Cho) hacked into it . In doing so , she outsmarted(in his own words "pwned") Amadeus Cho , iirc .
Although , I am sure that that is far from her "best" hacking feat .
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And this she accomplished at the age of two. Owned. In addition, the fact that Cho himself, considered to be an expert hacker, was so easily outwitted speaks volumes in my opinion.
In the comic, Hercules actually added insult to injury by singing a ballad in reference to the incident:
"There was a boy named Cho
whose most amazing foe
had blonde tresses
and wore dresses
wrapped in a pink bow."