- screwball13
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Actually no, did you read Fall of Reach ?
Master Chief actually had more trouble defeating an elite then a brute in hand-to-hand combat. The energy shields of both of them, and in zero-gee gravity made the fight very hard. MC had to use the elite's own plasma pistol to take down it's shield before smashing it's face in.
In the books when MC fought a brute, however, the brute threw him around a bit, but he was mostly unharmed due to his energy shields reflecting most of the beating, and he eventually killed the brute with his bare hands.
EDIT: There isn't much evidence supporting that brutes do not have better or worse aim then elites/spartans. In fact, in Contact Harvest Tartar-sauce fended off a whole swarm of buggers (Yanme'e) using only his spiker, killing each one with precise shots.
And that was BEFORE he was teh chieften.
[Edited on 10.19.2009 11:47 AM PDT]