Avengers League Playoffs: Hannah & Atom_basher v. Will.S

[Jessica Drew]

Welcome to the next playoff match of the Avengers League! If you haven't been following the league, it is a large scale series of battles where posters draft teams and pit their teams against that of other posters, and you vote to decide who wins. When voting, please consider the strategies the players have written, rather than just the team's roster.

Each match is taking place on an empty battlefield, 100 yards away, and each character (with few exceptions) depicted is in his/her most frequent incarnation (therefore, no Iron Spidey or Extremis Iron Man), and the characters have to act in character (meaning that the heroes cannot kill if they aren't normally wont to do so).

If you have any questions about the strategies, please feel free to post these questions here, and the players will answer. The match will last twenty-four hours. After that time period, the player with the largest number of votes wins.

!!! - For your vote to count, you must have a post count of no lower than fifty.

Hannah/Atom_basher's team: Moondragon, Giglamesh, Loki, Thunderstrike, Ringmaster, Vance Astro, Captain Mar-Vell, Shocker, Egghead

Will.S's team: Quicksilver, Vision, Justice, Hawkeye, Wonder Man, Black Knight (Whitman), Yellowjacket, She-Hulk

[Jessica Drew]

Hannah & Atom_basher's strategy:

Phase 1 (Simultaneously and instantly)

*Loki Creates a mystical [air tight] barrier around the opposing team, keeping anyone or any attacks trapped inside,
,due to to its mystical nature Vision should be unable to escape, once the shield, is around the opposing team, Loki
teleports Egghead's knockout gas gun in the middle of the barrier and Vance Astro Psychokinetcially breaks it,
allowing the knockout gas from the gun to fill the barrier, the gas should be more than enough to knockout, Justice, Hawkeye
Blacknight, and Yellowjacket.


*Moondragon does something she hasn't don't this whole tournament, and Throws up a Telekinettic barrier, the reason, were having
Moondragon throw up the barrier is because she has trained her body and mind to work at the peak of what a human ever can, her mind
reacts faster than your average human, so at HER speed of thought, the barrier should definitely be up before quicksilver
can cross the field (Which has been calculated at 1.2 seconds, more than enough time for MD to think "shield")


Phase 2

*Vance Astro takes over shielding duty and protects himself and Moondragon, Moondragon destroys quicksilver's mind
and effectively takes him out of the battle

*Loki Lets his shield down and sets his sight on Vision and transmutes him into Flowers.

*Gilgamesh and shocker set their sights on She Hulk, Gilgamesh on his own is MORE than enough to put She Hulk down
Using his cosmic blasts and superior strength to over power she hulk, for good measure Shocker sets his gauntlets
to their highest settings and focuses high powered vibrational blasts solely at She Hulks head, these blasts at their highest setting can
disintegrate concrete and turn bones to gelatin, these should be more than enough to throw she hulks focus off

*ThunderStrike and Captain Marvel Take on Wonderman, same as with Gil and Shocker, this tactic is basically a double team
and over power tactic, Wonderman will put up a good fight, but Will ultimately go down against the combined efforts of
Thunderstrike and captain marvel.

[Jessica Drew]

Will.S's strategy:

Phase 1, simultaneous actions: If Hannah/Atom_Basher's team teleports Loki and his manipulative crew into my ranks my team takes a defensive position. Hawkeye and the team are very aware of Loki's powers and trickery so it's time to make things a bit hectic


Justice creates a surrounding TK bubble around everyone and levitates Yellowjacket, Hawkeye and Black Knight a few feet from the ground
Quicksilver takes the ebony sword and zips around the team at super speed. Once Loki and his influence crew are teleported he super speeds right to Loki and runs him through with the ebony sword. The ebony sword pierces whatever mystical barrier he puts around himself and drinks the energy out of Loki effectively draining him of his mystical energies. He then speed blitz pummels him if he isn't taken out completely by the sword.
Vision goes intangible while Wonder Man/She-Hulk pound the ground making small range earthquakes which unstabilizes Moondragon/Ringmaster's balance even if for a short second. At the same time Vision intangible phases his hand through Moondragon and blasts Ringmaster with non-lethal solar energy taking him out.


The rest of Hannah/Atom_Basher's crew should be arriving on the scene by the time Loki, Moondragon and Ringmaster are taken out.

Phase 2: Gilgamesh, Thunderstrike, Vance Astro, Egghead, Captain Marvel and Shocker are left to fight my team. Captain Marvel and Gilgamesh are the fastest of that team so they're next followed by the stragglers.

She-Hulk and Wonder Man double team Gilgamesh while Vision deals with Captain Marvel. Justice fights Vance again, Quicksilver fights Egghead and Shocker and Yellowjacket, Hawkeye and Black Knight fight Thunderstrike.

Wonder Man is rockets towards Gilgamesh and connects with a passing punch to the head while She-Hulk already in mid jump slams down with both feet at Gilgamesh. In a daze Wonderman puts a headlock on Gil while She-Hulk runs towards him preparing to gut punch him. Gilgamesh overpowers Wonder Man and throws him at She-Hulk, flys straight at them and fires short range cosmic blasts. They narrowly dodge them and manuever into position. As Gilgamesh flies by, Wonder Man chucks She-Hulk at Gilgamesh and she brings him down with a flurry of punches to his back during flight.

This brings him down to ground level again. Wonder Man burrows out a huge chunk of rock from under the arena floor and smashes him with it with She-Hulk following up with pounding the rock on top of him (which smashes into pieces). Wonder Man finishes the fight by already being several hundred feet into the air and dive bombs Gilgamesh for the knockout.

Justice overpowers Vance Astro by using a TK bubble around him and constricting it around him and pulls him towards Justice. Vance tries to get out but notices a small opening in the torso area, this is for Justice to ram a TK sword through which doesn't cut Vance but knocks the wind out of him enough for Justice to TK slam him and hit him with another TK construct of a huge hammer which knocks him out.

Captain Marvel Zooms towards Vision and tries to blast him with his nega bands. Vision, intangible passes through the blasts and posseses Captain Marvel by slowly turning tangible enough to disrupt his synapses. Captain Marvel drops like a rock while Vision phases out of his body and follows up with a solar blast to the back of his head. If he still manages toget up, Vision turns up his density and hits him with his enhanced strength through the aid of higher density.

Quicksilver blitz punches Egghead using his momentum for a quick victory and avoids Shocker's blasts while disarming him of his vibro gauntlets and using a double fisted speed thrust at his stomach and head which knoks him out.

Yellowjacket blasts Thunderstrike with his stinger blasts at normal height and shrinks into a sub-atomic level. Hawkeye follows up with a smoke arrow and shoots an adamantium arrow at his hand making him drop his hammer. Black Knight comes in an shoots him with a volley of mystic blasts that were absorbed from Loki which stuns Thunderstrike. Hank is now behind Thunderstrike but at 60 foot growth and picks him up and slams him down into the ground with open palms.

If Thunderstrike gets up, Yellowjacket shoots out a repeat stinger blast while Black Knight continues to use up the last of his remaining Loki absorbed energy to stagger thunderstrike to his knees. Hawkeye uses a combo of arrows to finish off the job. First the pym particles arrows which shrink him down and then an explosive tipped arrow which already at his height is much bigger than the standard radius which burns Thunderstrike badly and renders him unconscious.

[Sean Whitmore]

Iiiiiinteresting....

Loki placing Will's team in a gas-filled shield was a fantastic opening move.

But...I believe it's effectively countered by Justice creating a smaller TK shield around his team, which would keep the gas out.

And since Black Knight's blade can get through Loki's barrier, that means Will has a lot more active people on his team than atom/Hannah actually deal with.

So unless I hear something to change my mind, I'm going with Will on this one.


SEAN

[Sean Whitmore]

Also, atom/hannah, I'm 90% sure Moondragon cannot perform telekinesis without the aid of the Mind Gem. Not unless her personal powers have grown since the Infinity Watch days.


SEAN

[Atom_basher]

meh, neither me and hannah really had time to get toghther and think or write a strategy due to both of us having crowded schedules latelt :( out strategy reflects that. next week we should be back in top form

[Sean Whitmore]

meh, neither me and hannah really had time to get toghther and think or write a strategy due to both of us having crowded schedules latelt :( out strategy reflects that. next week we should be back in top form


I thought your strategy would have worked fine, if not for Will's blind luck in putting up a TK shield (I call it luck simply because he was preparing for an entirely different method of attack)


SEAN

[unkiedev]

always fight harder for your votes, Atom/Hannah. I liked you opening move, too, But I do Think Quicksilver armed with the Ebony Sword is a strong attack against Loki.

-Just a question though Will S., you have She Hulk and Wonderman creating an Earthquake, but you Still have Quicksilver running around on the ground while it's happening? I guess he could, but that's kinda sloppy planning.

-HEY, here's another question: Why does Hannah/Atom only have one vote for themselves right now if there are two of you guys? Aren't you even going to vote for yer' own strategy?

[Sean Whitmore]

always fight harder for your votes, Atom/Hannah.


Yes, I learned this the hard way. :)


-HEY, here's another question: Why does Hannah/Atom only have one vote for themselves right now if there are two of you guys? Aren't you even going to vote for yer' own strategy?


Only one person from a team can vote in any fight. Surely DOOM knows this. DOOM know all!


SEAN

[Will.S]

I thought your strategy would have worked fine, if not for Will's blind luck in putting up a TK shield (I call it luck simply because he was preparing for an entirely different method of attack) Tis the luck o' the Irish!

http://www.hdbeat.com/images/2005/09/Fighting%20Irish%202.jpg

.....ok I'm not Irish but still.....

Just a question though Will S., you have She Hulk and Wonderman creating an Earthquake, but you Still have Quicksilver running around on the ground while it's happening? I guess he could, but that's kinda sloppy planning. I know what you're saying here but I figured he'd be unaffected by the mini earthquakes since once he gains momentum there shouldn't be much that gets in his way terrain-wise since he's been able to race across water as if it were solid ground.

[Sean Whitmore]

I know what you're saying here but I figured he'd be unaffected by the mini earthquakes since once he gains momentum there shouldn't be much that gets in his way terrain-wise since he's been able to race across water as if it were solid ground.


That's true, if he can run across water than shifting terrain can't be much different.

CAN he run across water, come to think of it? The only time I remember him doing that was when he had that temporary Isotope E power boost. I even recall him thinking: "I was never this fast before" or the like, while he was doing it.

Not that it affects this fight much, I'm just curious.


SEAN

[Will.S]

That's true, if he can run across water than shifting terrain can't be much different.

CAN he run across water, come to think of it? The only time I remember him doing that was when he had that temporary Isotope E power boost. I even recall him thinking: "I was never this fast before" or the like, while he was doing it.

Not that it affects this fight much, I'm just curious.


SEAN
Yeah, he could run across a body of water up to 1000 feet before sinking pre-Isotope E. With Isotope E, as you said, he made a transatlantic trip when he picked up Banner to deal with the "Hulk village" when the Avengers went more pro-active under Busiek.

Great Alan Davis art as well.