Rumblers League 3: TWO VERSUS TWO MINI-TOURNAMENT Match 4

[WyldCard4]

ESTRECCA'S CHALLENGE #1.

TWO VERSUS TWO MINI-TOURNAMENT

Premise: Sponsor, the mysterious entity who summoned the members of YOU WIN SOME, YOU LOSE SOME from their respective universes, has now managed to bring from a possible future another group of pawns sworn to his service, THE HEAVY METAL PEOPLE.

Sponsor, believing that the combined power of his champions -present and future- is enough to defeat any other group in the League, has openly challenged his peers to prove him wrong. A few have already stated a willingness to put the young upstart in his place with their own teams.

Challenged: Whoever wants to fight my present team in combination with the 'future' team I've designed. I'm willing to fight up to four matches/eight teams as part of this challenge.

The Heavy Metal People: This is the 'future' team that will be partnering with my current guys for these challenge fights.

Megatron (Transformers) 7 + Tactigon (6).
R. Daneel Olivaw (Foundation) 8 + Cosmic Cube (10), Sage's Cybershades (4), Thinking Cap (4), Ghost's Battlesuit (4) & Accelerator Unit (8).
R2-D2 (Star Wars) 1 + Megas XL (8) & Borg Nanoprobes (3).
Super 17 (DBZ) 9 + Cosmic Converter Belt (5) & Adamantium Cuirass (4).
Ultron (Marvel) 8 + Motherbox (10), Globe Of Ultimate Knowledge (7) & Nanogenes (7).
Vision (Marvel) 7 + Zodiac Key (5) & Lucy Liu-Bot Girlfriend (4) w/ Moguera (8).

Battlefield: The DCverse world of Biot, homeworld of the Manhunters. NPCs include the Cyborg Superman, about a zillion Manhunters and several Green Lanterns who have been declared MIA and that are used as batteries by the locals.

When? The different matches would happen during the final week of the current Knockout Tournament.

Victory Conditions: For the challenged parties, all works as normal. In my case, I get 0.5 credits per match won. In other words, if I win only one of the matches, I get 0 credits; if I win two or three, I get 1 credit; and I have to win all four, to get my 2 extra credits.

Minor notes about the tournament challenge matches:

*At least some people know, but I'll be using Ultron as leader of the Phalanx in the more recent form shown during the Annihilation: Conquest event. Meaning that his base form is larger than normal, but lacks the adamantium armour present in most of his previous incarnations.

*The items of my robotic team have been integrated in the characters whenever possible.

*Finally, to avoid overlap with the Knockout Final, we'll be having the challenge matches AFTER the KO final match. Match 1 on Thursday, Match 2 on Friday and so on. Hope this is relatively convenient for everyone.

Okay.

CHALLENGE SCHEDULE

MATCH 1 - Thursday

Captain Morgan, The Arbiter & Holacik + druiler001 & skullboy001

MATCH 2 - Friday

Darth Drizzle + Randy Mandy

MATCH 3 - Saturday

WyldCard4 + The MunchKING

MATCH 4 - Sunday

KJS1982 & fudgekp + Tusk

If the days are inconvenient for you, try to persuade other teams to exchange match days for you before Wednesday.

And that's that. Good luck, everyone.

[WyldCard4]

OPERATION "RUSHED STRAT FOR DELAYED CHALLENGE MATCH"

Daneel Olivaw & Rand al'Thor vs Cosmic Doom: Daneel activates his accelerator unit and starts using his cosmic cube to counter Doom's own. Doom may be more experienced with use of cosmic powers, but Daneel here is massively faster, and a struggle between beings with the power of cosmic cubes at their disposal isn't something that ends instantly even when one side is considerably stronger (see Kubik vs Beyonder and Molecule Man vs Beyonder for additional details). At the same time, Rand will be attacking Doom with most of the power he can use, amplified by both the One Ring and Archemus' staff. He'll be flying around a bit, keeping a modicum of shielding around himself and further hiding his position from other people who have OR with the Folding Light weave, but about 99% of his power output is going to be used to blast Doom with cosmic level balefire.

Ultron vs Motherpod & Psimon: Ultron's motherbox is used to counter the boomtubes and other nastiness created by the enemy unit, while Ultron releases his transmode nanogenes (to deal with approaching Manhunters) and tries to take over the machine with his superhacking (using the knowledge of the Watchers). If this cannot be done, he just attacks the Tripod with his own beam weapons, trying to destroy the crew pod and the external weaponry as quickly as possible. Even if the enemy motherbox can repair the damage to the machine itself, this should be enough to kill Psimon.

Daneel Olivaw vs Absorbing Man: Doom's brain is "like an advanced computer" or so says one of KJS1982's scans. That's neat. Daneel's brain actually is a super-advanced futuretech computer that is now operating orders of magnitude faster than normal, thanks to the accelerator, so he spares a few nanoseconds of concentration to adjust Creel's mind to his liking. For the rest of the fight, Creel is going to be a upstanding citizen who will do his level best to help the cause of civilization by beating the crap out of the rest of psychos in his team (beginning with duplicating Doom's cosmic powers and taking him out via double-team). Note that Daneel's style of mind control does not disappear, even if Daneel is taken down.

Bender vs The Masked Chuckestro: Bender activates shields, amps himself and goes after Chucky. Since the doll is just yellow energy (that Bender can drain) and magic (the same), Bender should be able to "recruit" a scary doll for his Corps. At the very least, he'll be able to contain the little bastard.

Megatron vs Dracula & Sally: Finding Dracula (who is visible until he activates the Inviso-Belt), Megatron orders the Tactigon to become a freeze ray that he uses to trap dragon and rider inside a giant icicle. Then he makes the most corrosive chemical the Tactigon can duplicate and sprays the icicle until the ice and its contents have been turned into goo. This should destroy the Borg nanites that keep Sally in operative condition and melt Dracula beyond the regenerative powers of the Gem of Amara.

The Vision vs Rayne & Dalek Caan: The Vision teleports around, using intangibility to avoid attacks, and appears behind enemy lines to take out these two in a way he deems morally acceptable, either by knocking them out or sending them to another dimension with his inbuilt Zodiac Key.

MOGUERA vs Hercule Satan: The LucyLiubot pilot attacks Mr. Satan. A giant robot designed to fight Godzilla and other giant monsters should be an adequate match for the greatest fighter in the world, even if he manages to summon his zord.

Miss Martian I vs JuggerGoku: They have fought before (in my second match in the League) and once again the goal is containment, rather than victory. M'gann will be using her shape-shifting and invisibility to slow down Goku as much as she can. If she remembers enough from their previous fight, she will assume the form of ChiChi (and Goku isn't going to hit someone who looks like his wife, deal with Cyttorak or not) and talk sternly about how Gohan doesn't do his homework because his good-for-nothing father is always away looking for a fight.

Super 17 & Giselle Villard vs Piccolo: The Quantum Bands are mostly limited to energy manipulation and cannot protect against magic, so the plan is simple. Super 17 absorbs Piccolo's energy blasts and Giselle turns the namekian into a tree, right after making some cold rain to trigger Miss Martian's curse clone. After Piccolo is defeated (which shouldn't take very long), Aragorn will touch the Quantum Bands in an attempt to convince them of his worth. After this, if there are runaway enemies with Cube power around, Giselle will teleport behind them and hit them with a close range Spell of Scimitars (you know, the one who could turn near Herald level monsters into so much hamburger meat).

MEGAS XLR (& Miss Martian II) vs Maxima: R2-D2 attacks the Queen of Almerac with the full power of his giant combat robot, including repeated pressing of the Big Red Button in dramatically convenient moments. The supreme character shields of MEGAS should allow R2 to keep Maxima busy long enough for Giselle's rain to trigger Miss Martian's curse and give him the support of a near-Kryptonian level ally.

Albus Dumbledore, Agatha Heterodyne & Obelix vs Red Hulk: Agatha blasts Rulk with the Tactigon in Maximum Disintegration mode, while Dumbledore uses the summoning charm to take away the items (beginning with the Universal Weapon) and follows with a complete magical mindwipe. Obelix is just a meatshield who is supposed to slow Rulk down for the second that Dumbledore may need to teleport away with Agatha (and his cartoon durability should be good enough to withstand a couple of Rulk punches before going down, I reckon). If no other way of dealing with the Red Hulk becomes apparent, Dumbledore will summon away Rulk's flight ring, turn some random item into a portkey with destination a million kilometers away from Biot and turn it into a homing projectile with Rulk as the target.

Common sense disclaimer: All usual contingencies regarding dimension-dumps/healing/resurrection/dealing with hot water/helping allies when possible/fighting mind control... apply for this fight. The characters fight smart, trying to doubleteam enemies and don't stop fighting when their primary missions are over. They will also defend themselves to the best of their abilities when facing surprise attacks.

Priority list:
Doom. Doom. Doom.
Juggergoku.
Doom.
Masked Chuckestro.
Doom.
Piccolo.
Motherpod & Psimon.
Maxima.
Absorbing Man.
Sally & Dracula.
More Doom.
Red Hulk
Dalek Caan.
Rayne.
Have I mentioned Doom enough times?
Hercule Satan.
And that's that.

[WyldCard4]

Originally Posted by KJS1982

Strategy Theme Tune!

As always, The Powers of Reckon (a Two-Team Power Trip) will be using the whole of their abilities within reasonable means in matches. Anyone who is suddenly taken off the arena without any way of coming back by will of their own power will be brought back by a capable teammate immediately as they can be pending on the throes of battle. All of The Powers of Reckon’s efforts will be right from the bell as simultaneously as can be.

Doom of Watoomb: Cosmic Herald
Doom, invisible and epically shielded (with his own shielding and from the Motherpod), uses the Cosmic Cube to shut down all technology on the opposing team with a thought. While this probably won't shut down the Cosmic Cube held by R. Daneel Olivaw, it will shut him down, as he's a robot, so whatever he does with it is moot. Doom will win the "Cube Vs Cube" bout for a number of reasons:
1) His superior thought speed.
2) His past, canon experience of using the Cube in actual comics.
Out: All Technology on the Opposing Team (Characters: Megatron, Daneel, R2-D2 Super 17, Ultron, Vision. Items: Cybershades, Ghost's Battlesuit, Accelerator Unit, Megas XL, Nanoprobes, Motherbox, Nanogenes, Lucy Liu, Bender & Moguera).
Note: This move will work regardless of the opposition's whereabouts. It should prevent teleportation anyway, but even if a teleportation occurs, the teleporting tech-based characters/items will still be shut down.

Goku
At the opening bell, Goku (who will be maintaining consistent TP contact with Piccolo for combat intel and feedback) will be immediately gunning primarily after Ms. Martian, and any relating aspects of her. With Maxima’s assistance of some TP diversion on her side of things (hence to mess up the concentration of Ms. Martian's exotic abilities) Goku will use his whole myriad of abilities if need be to take her out whether she shapeshifts or not - she’s fighting a warrior who’s HTH is much, much, very much out of her arena of expertise with ki senses that should sense her presence equivalently whether she’s visible or not as well as her real purpose of motivation. Goku will then go and target the likes of Giselle and Rand and co. utilizing fierce-looking apparitions of himself (think back to Goku Vs Cell fight), surprising and faking out the enemy side for knock-out blows they wouldn't see coming until the last second--if you could call that lucky.
Out: Ms. Martian (then Giselle, Rand and co).

The Masked Chuckestro
The Masked Chuckestro grows giant (such as the time the Mask became King Kong) whilst flying forwards at the immense speeds provided by his ring. He will pummel Moguera, easily beating it into scrap, whilst stomping on the entire opposing team.
His proportionately giant construct Bride will concentrate solely on squashing the shit out the tiny opposing team members. A solid yellow energy construct doing this, in conjuction with Chucky himself, could conceivably knock out or kill every opponent in this fight.
Out: Possibly Everyone. Definitely Moguera.

Maxima
Maxima, whose cloaked in form will go for a quick but bludgeoning burst of AOE TK upon the whole enemy and then will use Ferrokinesis on the likes of Rand's Archimus' Staff and One Ring - jacking him of his added "exoticness" from the get go, along with, if possible, Rand's Ring of Mind Bank and Ms. Martian's (along with any varieties that somehow pop out) Ring of Universal Energy Immunity. Intermittently after she teleports Bender out, Maxima having her job made easier via Piccolo's side of things would otherwise crush her target's in Rand and Giselle with her combination TK and along with her strength if the opportunity arise for her go for HTH.
Out: Potentially Everyone (Specifically the likes of Giselle, Rand & Bender & the most important items).

Motherpod
With Psimon's permission, the Motherpod aims twin blasts (capable of cutting through Doomsday like butter) at Super 17 and Megatron. Given the speed that the Motherbox acts at, and given the power behind its energy blasts, this will ensure they are both out quickly - especially considering other moves on them.
Boomtubes will also be opening on all sides of the Motherpod, protecting all of our turtling team members from any physical attacks.
Out: Super 17 & Megatron.

Piccolo
Piccolo, a cunning warrior with multi-tasking needed for multiple individual ki attacks to hit single targets dead on (who'll be jacking his TP resistance evermore via Q-Bands) will meanwhile whilst looking for specific lifeforms hidden via invisibility or not - like Rand ‘al Thor and the rest of the enemy through both his own base abilities and Q-Bands (which should be of significant mutual help) will expose the daylights outta them and bind them in full-jacket body suits that will be very hard and quite dangerous to get out of - possibly even especially in Rand’s case should he try certain techniques when they’re within too close of a quarters near on his person.
As he seemlessly has a duplicate of himself through his own power (who will essentialy be just as armed to the teeth most likely in kind and will go off start draining the base enemy of their essences (Albus, Agatha, etc) - along with assisting whoever may getting the cheesier of things). Piccolo will then attempt to whip Rand like a baseball bat onto the rest of his team and acquaintances alike starting with Giselle, otherwise he’ll attempt to sunder them of their own essences via the Q-Bands.
Out/Immobilised: Everyone (Particulary Rand & Giselle).

Psimon
Psimon won't be mentally attacking anyone, but he'll be defending the team from mental attacks from our opponents. We've routinely shown you that he is capable of multi-tasking quite casually, so at the same time he will be using TK to unravel the insides of Ultron (who should already be taken out). This will ensure he either shuts down or starts misfiring and acting in a manner useless to his own team.
Out: Ultron.

Red Hulk
On Rhulk’s side of things, he’ll go invisible and intangible for needed periods of time and utilize his given ability of flight and use cripplingly temporal blasts to age the enemy by decades in seconds while mixing it up with AoE Absolute Zero blasts on the lot of Giselle and co. When the opportunity arises even - he’ll summon the “pink” and apply it on Rand - smashing him out of his coldly ice stasis if need be as carefully as he can in an effort to command him (as Rhulk coincides to rake away at them to take out the immediate members of his team remaining with the best of efforts that he can put out in most effiecient manner - Balefired Megatron and 'Botheads galore!).
Out/Aged: Everyone (Particularly Rand & 'Bots).

[WyldCard4]

Absorbing Ghost
Invisible (giving him the split second he needs), Creel absorbs the properties of the Motherpod's Apokaliptian energy shield and turns to pure energy. He proceeds to zap through the circuitry of the opposing team's mechanical-based characters and items at almost the speed of light. This will be no problem for Creel, as he has absorbed Odin's cosmic lightning bolt (on impact, which is an epic reaction feat).
The Apokaliptian energy created by the Motherpod has severely injured Doomsday. Creel blasting through the opponents in this energy form will be devastating - especially since they are tech-based.
Out: All Technology on the Opposing Team (Characters: Megatron, Daneel, R2-D2 Super 17, Ultron, Vision. Items: Cybershades, Ghost's Battlesuit, Accelerator Unit, Megas XL, Nanoprobes, Motherbox, Nanogenes, Lucy Liu, Bender & Moguera).

Sally
Sally, remaining behind the Motherpod's shielding, also casts a Prismatic Sphere around herself and Dracula. This means she is shielded by the Motherpod (which will also be opening boomtubes to prevent attacks even hitting the shielding), she will be protected by her Prismatic Sphere (which protects against "all forms of attack"), she is invisible and also has her 50% miss aura. The likelihood of her getting hit by anything here is reduced to pretty much zero.
Inside the sphere, she systematically casts Lightning Bolt on every opposing robotic character, starting with the weakest and working upwards.
Priority order: R2:D2, Megatron, Vision etc etc.
Out: All Robotic Characters, starting with the weakest.

Dracula
Shielded by the Motherpod, Sally's sphere, and his own Inviso-Belt shielding (which also renders him invisible), Dracula summons an electrical storm which aggressively and consistently sends rainwater and lightning blasting into the circuitry of the mechanical-based members of the opposing team.
Out (or at least interfered with, causing brief immobalisation): All Technology on the Opposing Team (Characters: Megatron, Daneel, R2-D2 Super 17, Ultron, Vision. Items: Cybershades, Ghost's Battlesuit, Accelerator Unit, Megas XL, Nanoprobes, Motherbox, Nanogenes, Lucy Liu, Bender & Moguera).

Dalek Caan
Caan stays behind the Motherpod shield (and shielded in his own special way) and waits. If any robotic characters manage to approach (which they shouldn't, given that they're all shut down), he will exterminate them. Daleks have a good knack of doing this in one hit - see Cybermen as an example.
Out: Any approaching robots.

Rayne
In her timeslow (Sandals of Hermes speed times 100), Rayne flies around cutting the heads off 3 of the humanoid robots. These robots should be taken out in other ways, but even if she finds them shut down, she will decapitate them to make sure (and obviously she will cut them up if they are still active).
Priority order: Vision, Daneel, Lucy Liu.
Out: Vision, Daneel, Lucy Liu (as if they weren't already!).

Hercule Satan
Hercule will meanwhile smash in at opportune moments at whoever seems to be reeling the most on the enemy team. He’ll use his MA schtick and allotted TF Red Ranger prowess along with putting whoever he gets his hands on into cryostasis.
Out: Anyone causing trouble.

Notes
- Consider the usual contingencies as being part of this strategy - particularly the likes of Doom and Chucky.
- Every opposing character is dealt with in countless ways here.

[Holacik]

Originally Posted by WyldCard4

as he's a robot, so whatever he does with it is moot. Doom will win the "Cube Vs Cube" bout for a number of reasons:
1) His superior thought speed.

Hold on. Did I just read that Doom has superior thought speed over a Computer?

[KJ Stewart]

Daneel's first move is to activate his accelerator - that takes a physical movement.

In that time, Doom has shut him down.

Doom makes no attempt to affect the Cosmic Cube - he simply puts his thought into shutting down machinery/robots, including the robot controlling the opposing Cosmic Cube.

[KJ Stewart]

Originally Posted by Holacik

Hold on. Did I just read that Doom has superior thought speed over a Computer?

Yes, you did. We've been showing the scan all season.

Not to mention what I've just said about said opponent's first move being a movement rather than a thought.

[Holacik]

Originally Posted by KJS1982

Yes, you did. We've been showing the scan all season.

Doom's thought speed isn't faster then a supercomputer. It's just not.

Originally Posted by KJS1982

Not to mention what I've just said about said opponent's first move being a movement rather than a thought.

That is true.

[KJ Stewart]

Originally Posted by Holacik

Doom's thought speed isn't faster then a supercomputer. It's just not.

We have a scan explicitly saying that it's "as fast" as one. And that's in Marvel. The Foundation series doesn't have tech anywhere near Marvel's level really.

Originally Posted by Holacik

That is true.

I'd also add that Doom is integrated with his Cosmic Cube.

I'd also add that Doom has much more experience with this level of power (and, more specifically, an actual Cosmic Cube, in canon).

And I'd also question whether the Cosmic Cube is capable of reading the "thoughts" of a machine.

Doom is notorious for handling items of raw power and being very quick to adapt to new powers. The only instance of Daneel coming to terms with a new power that I have read about is when he received the power to read minds from Giskard - it took him ages to come to terms with this new power.

Plus, Juggergoku only being attacked by 1 Miss Martian, no matter what the circumstances, is suicide. Especially when the only idea is to slow him down, which is absolutely impossible.

[Holacik]

Originally Posted by KJS1982

We have a scan explicitly saying that it's "as fast" as one. And that's in Marvel. The Foundation series doesn't have tech anywhere near Marvel's level really.

To be fair this really doesn't affect the match, but if your talking about the Sentry feat, well I'd just as soon as SMvFL that. Doom has been tagged plenty of times, and caught off guard. While I agree and say that well his thought speed is faster then say Batman, there's no way it's faster then QS for example. Besides if that's the case Grodd would have the fastest thought process in the league considering he catches up with the Flash's mind. Yet we all know that really isn't the case.

[KJ Stewart]

Originally Posted by Holacik

To be fair this really doesn't affect the match, but if your talking about the Sentry feat, well I'd just as soon as SMvFL that. Doom has been tagged plenty of times, and caught off guard. While I agree and say that well his thought speed is faster then say Batman, there's no way it's faster then QS for example. Besides if that's the case Grodd would have the fastest thought process in the league considering he catches up with the Flash's mind. Yet we all know that really isn't the case.

I'm talking about a scan we've been using all season that - literally - says Doom thinks as fast as a sophisticated computer.

Not trying to use any other feats as a means to assume something, I'm talking about a scan of Doom thinking that says Doom is "thinking as fast as the most sophisticated of computers".

[Holacik]

Originally Posted by KJS1982

I'm talking about a scan we've been using all season that - literally - says Doom thinks as fast as a sophisticated computer.

Not trying to use any other feats as a means to assume something, I'm talking about a scan of Doom thinking that says Doom is "thinking as fast as the most sophisticated of computers".

That's kind of worse as it's extremely vague. I'm dropping this now as it really doesn't matter to this match, mainly as Daneel's first move hoses him/

[KJ Stewart]

Originally Posted by Holacik

That's kind of worse as it's extremely vague. I'm dropping this now as it really doesn't matter to this match, mainly as Daneel's first move hoses him/

Well, just so you know, it's here. No one can say I was making it up.

"Instantly assimilates raw data" etc.

[Holacik]

Originally Posted by KJS1982

Well, just so you know, it's here. No one can say I was making it up.

"Instantly assimilates raw data" etc.

I never said you made it up, for the record.

[Joe Prevost]

Originally Posted by KJS1982

Daneel's first move is to activate his accelerator - that takes a physical movement.

Usted esta equivocado, compadre.

Daneel activates his accelerator unit and starts using his cosmic cube to counter Doom's own.

the word "and" can be viewed as, in my a opinion as a person who has just set his eyes on this, as an certain word to intertwine an act that accompagnies the original action of activating the accelerator unit. In this case that would be negating the use of Doom's cosmic cube.

Originally Posted by KJS1982

Plus, Juggergoku only being attacked by 1 Miss Martian, no matter what the circumstances, is suicide. Especially when the only idea is to slow him down, which is absolutely impossible.

That would be true in any other tournament, however, your special brand of rumble tournaments incorporate what is known as Plot Induce Stupidity and Character induce stupidity, which could amount to any psychological factors. One of which is Goku's indominate fear of his compagnion, Chi Chi, who manages to be the only aspect of this universe. Remember, he fought Cell, Buu and Frieza!

Originally Posted by KJS1982

I'm talking about a scan we've been using all season that - literally - says Doom thinks as fast as a sophisticated computer.

Not trying to use any other feats as a means to assume something, I'm talking about a scan of Doom thinking that says Doom is "thinking as fast as the most sophisticated of computers".

If we go by that logic, then the Ten eyed man is the most dangerous person alive!