If that were true, the X-Men would all be dead already. Magneto doesn't just kill everyone who crosses him in a heartbeat or anything, so I don't see how "extreme tactics" make him any likelier to take out the Flash than the Flash's super-speed makes him likely to take out Magneto.
It all depends on who acts first. And that is a matter of circumstance which we cannot settle here.
That's a terrible analogy. Thoughts and reactions are two different things. Stepping out of a paintball's path is far different for a normal human than it is for someone who is subconsciously linked to the electromagnetic fields of everything around him. Magneto has deflected bullets away from himself that were fired at him from behind. He doesn't need to step out of something's way, nor does he have to react in the normal human sense in order to manipulate something.
No, he couldn't. Maybe Barry or Jay, but not Wally. Wally is directly connected to the Speed Force. Not even a speedster of Savitar's power and skill could cut him off from it, even though he cut off the rest of the speedsters.
Magneto and Phoenix, Phoenix especially, don't need to think like you or I. Both Phoenix and Magneto have "awarenesses" linked to their powers. In Phoenix case, a telepath of immense and immeasurable power, super speed is not very handy against an all powerful cosmic entity who can predict your every move in advance.
How can Flash hurt anyone whose shields stand up to class 100+ fighters.
By sucking the kinetic energy away from him, leaving him, for all intents and purposes, a living statue? You don't necessarily have to be able to touch someone to beat them.
He rarely does. We're talking about an 60-80 year old man who took a punch from Colossus and shook it off.
He sometimes doesn't. He's been shown to affect things on a grand scale before without moving
Why does Galactus, a reality warping, all powerful God, who can blink people out of existence ever lose. IT'S A COMIC
Concentration is different from thinking. He has concentrated for years. I don't have to concentrate to walk anymore, I used to. This stuff is second nature to him.
I'm pretty sure everyone reached the consensus that the Phoenix would own both the JLA and the X-Men before they could blink a while ago. We've just been going back and forth about Magneto, really.
Actually he doesn't. Deathstroke has been shown to think faster than Wally.
That was very early on in her development as the Phoenix. Even Xavier didn't understand what was going on with her powers at that point.
At their relative base speeds, possibly. But Wally's driven Gorilla Grodd out of his mind by speeding his brain up past what Grodd could handle, and he doesn't even have to consciously kick himself into that level of high-speed thought and perception; it happens automatically on at least some occasions.
Noooo. The flash thinks faster than the average human. But even Deathstroke, who has an augmented brain, was shown to have out thought the Flash (Wally). Wally thinks fast, but we also know his brain doesn't preceive all that he picks up at Super speed (as said in Teen Titans). He's fast, but it's not that huge of an advantage.
