DTL Season 6-Week 5 (Set 2)

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The rules:
This is one of two threads containing matches.
These threads will be in use for 7 days. Days 1-4 (Dec 5-8) are strictly setup time for owners to post their battles, plead their cases, tell us their team’s strategies, breakdown the match ups, and do whatever else they can/want to do to try and convince you that their team would pull out a victory. Please, let the owners do this on their own with no help. Debating cannot begin until both owners post battles.

On Day 5 (Dec 9) I will post and tell everyone that voting may begin. Any votes cast before I open voting will not count. Look over the matchups and read the strategies, and take into consideration how in-character each character is. Afterwards, use your best judgment to decide who you think has the best chance to win the match. (Note: The length of a writeup is at the discretion of the owner. Do not punish owners just for having a shorter writeup.)

To vote, post the team names you think will prevail in each match. Remember to vote for all matches or your vote will not count! The teams with the highest vote total at the end of the 7th day (Dec 11) will get a W while the other will get an L. (Equal votes will result in a tie.)

The battleground for this week is: Mogo


The Spanish Inquisition
Superman Blue - Massive energy manipulation, superstrength, super senses
Silver Surfer - Power Cosmic, granting flight, energy and matter manipulation, invulnerability, super strength and speed
Ray "The Ray" Palmer (earth 16) - Pure light energy form, light manipulation, ability to shrink to subatomic size
Spiderman (What If? Spiderman vs Wolverine) - precognitive danger sense, enhanced speed, strength and agility, wrist-mounted weapons
Mother One - Cyborg with super strength and durability, technopathy, high tech weaponry

VS.

Yancy Street Gang
Dr. Doom (MU) Genius, Armor, Mage, Gadgets, Personal Force-Fields, Energy Blasts
Graviton (MU) Gravity Manipulation, Genius
Invisible Woman (Malice)(MM) Invisibility. Force Fields.
Empath (MR) Empathy.
Valkyrie (MR) speaks fluent Norse

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The Deadly Dozen
Green Lightning (DU) - Super-speed or the powers of a Green Lantern, able to use only one set of powers on any given day
Flash (Lia Nelson) (DU) - Light being capable of light manipulation
Flash (Jay West) (DM) - Super-speed
Captain Boomerang II (DR) - Super-speed in short bursts, trick boomerangs
Speed (MR) - Super-speed, the ability to increase the kinetic energy of objects to the point of explosion

VS.

The Polka Dot Fuchsia Lantern Corps
Captain Atom
Sersi
Byakko
Nemesis
Black Knight
 
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DTL Commish said:
Yancy Street Gang
Dr. Doom (MU) Genius, Armor, Mage, Gadgets, Personal Force-Fields, Energy Blasts
Graviton (MU) Gravity Manipulation, Genius
Invisible Woman (Malice)(MM) Invisibility. Force Fields.
Empath (MR) Empathy.
To reiterate my comment from the discussion thread, Franklin should be allowed to give himself a fifth character.

Just because he chose to do a four-man lineup last week doesn't mean his opponent should be allowed to leave him with a four-man lineup this week.

EDIT: Fixed it for him. Khell's team can thank me for the oh-so-helpful discription. ;)
 
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Prep Time
Green Lightning easily convinces Mogo to fight on the side of the Deadly Dozen, being as they are both members of the Green Lantern Corps.

Reg Fights
Speed advantage tips the balance of these fights in favor of the Deadly Dozen. Speed takes on Nemesis, attacking with superior speed and counterattacking her defensive measures by destroying her weapons with extreme kinetic energy manipulation. Captain Boomerang also has superior speed to Black Knight, and also has a superspeed ranged attack.

Med fight
Byakko's ability to increase density is all very well, but Flash has the speed to take her down before she's even aware of his presence.

Green Lightning vs. Sersi
This is a tough fight, but the battleground is against Sersi, and together, the two very formidable Green Lanterns take her down.

Lia Nelson vs. Captain Atom
This will also be a tough fight, but Lia can move far faster than Captain Atom can. She can also go invisible, or triplicate. She can go intangible while still affecting her opponent, which means that Cap's transmutation, often a formidable weapon, is useless here. He's simply outmatched.
 
Preptime

Empath makes Mogo and Valkyrie fall in love with Doom. Everyone's on the same page now. Synergy bonus.

Valkyrie sets up traps and camoed pits with spears at the bottom. Sue fine tunes her light bending techniques.

Battle

Doom vs Superman Blue


Doom is going to use the Bad Guy Monologue method. He will lure out the good guys and attempt to convince them into aiding his team in defeating the powerful forces that have brought them all here. Only together can they end this conflict and bring their captors to justice.

So if Doom can get them together using this time honored tradition then that's when he uses his Mind Transference power to switch bodies with Superman Blue. Once the bodies are switched Doom will utter the command code that will freeze his armor and trap Superman Blue within his armor.

Doom in Superman Blue's body and Graviton vs. Silver Surfer

Pure overpower here. Graviton will strive to keep the Surfer on the turf. At the same time launching Mogo's debris at the Surfer. During this onslaught all Doom has to do is reach his armor where the imprisoned Blue's mind is and get his Power Drainer. While Graviton is all over the Surfer, Doom will use Blue's powers to reach the Surfer and drain his power.

The Invisible Woman and Empath vs. Ray and Spider-Man

This match is very tough. Sue also has the power to control light. Albeit in a specific manner. All Sue has to do is hinder the Ray with her forcefields that stop light. If he solidifies at any time, the she'll have him.

Sue and Empath are ready to switch dance partners if Ray can't be located. His empathic powers will locate Ray whether he's shrunk or not. Sue's costume can also help with simple scans.

Spider-Man will either be in love with Sue or suffocated and blind. Since this is the Malice version of Sue she can also grow a forcefield bubble in his chest and make him explode. Spidey sense is really tingling. BOOM!

Valkyrie vs. Mother One

This is a good ol' fashion slugfest. Wish I could hide and watch this one. I believe that Val will come out on top due to her superior fighting and strength. A winged horse helps too. Plus she's setup some rudimentary traps that might or might not be helpful.



Whoever finishes first will of course help mop up any of the slackers such as Ray.


Victory Yancy Street Gang.

ValFinis.jpg



:doom: :doom: :doom:
 
I could argue some stuff, but since Ari saddled me with my absolute worst team for dealing with super-speed, I'll just go ahead and concede this match.
 
So, no contested matchups this week? Lame.

The Deadly Dozen and Yancy Street Gang
 
Shame these went uncontested. I think both sides in each match could have been really good. Especially the potential combo of Sersi, Atom, and Byakko. But I also really liked Ari getting Mogo on his side.

Yancy Street Gang
The Deadly Dozen
 
Voting is now over.
Final Results


The Spanish Inquisition 0
Yancy Street Gang 3

The Deadly Dozen 3
The Polka Dot Fuchsia Lantern Corps 0
 
Shame these went uncontested. I think both sides in each match could have been really good. Especially the potential combo of Sersi, Atom, and Byakko.
Yeah, I don't really buy Corp's "I can't deal with superspeed" excuse. I mean, can't Byakko make his whole team intangible? That's got to buy you at least a little time.

Ah well. Maybe next week's matches will be better.
 
Could Byakko make the whole team intangible before the speedsters reach them? Her speed is only enhanced slightly above the normal human level. Ari's team could easily blitz mine and no one save Captain Atom and Sersi could do much about it, and even Atom and Sersi haven't been shown amping their own speed up to the level of uber speedsters. Like I said, there were a few things I could've argued effectively, but at the end of the day it's a hugely uphill battle when nobody on my team can hold a candle to the speed of the opposing team's characters.
 
Could Byakko make the whole team intangible before the speedsters reach them? Her speed is only enhanced slightly above the normal human level. Ari's team could easily blitz mine and no one save Captain Atom and Sersi could do much about it, and even Atom and Sersi haven't been shown amping their own speed up to the level of uber speedsters. Like I said, there were a few things I could've argued effectively, but at the end of the day it's a hugely uphill battle when nobody on my team can hold a candle to the speed of the opposing team's characters.
She's a medium, so she can make them intangible during prep-time, right?

I'm surprised we haven't seen more people taking advantage of the fact that it's only no uber powers during prep. There's a number of mediums who I'd think have a strong potential to screw up speedsters, at least long enough to let the slower ubers get their powers going.
 
Yeah, I suppose I do forget that it's only ubers who can't use powers during prep a lot...
 

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