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Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
Posted by: RKOSNAKE
The Arbiter, the fact that Elites are as strong as Spartan II's who are augmented just tells you that an Elite would win in hand to hand.Missile pods are described as being capable of being lifted by "armoured SPARTANS or particularly strong elites."
Anyway, Thel 'Vadamee would be taller and stockier, with a longer reach. However, in his armour, 117 is much faster, stronger, heavier, and harder-hitting.
Even without his armour, I think that 117 would at least be in strong contention for the lead - S-III class SPARTANS with minimal armour power assistance and less-powerful augmentations can defeat Elites in hand-to-hand very easily in their SPI suits.
I think the reason for that is because Spartan-IIIs had better augmentations compared to Spartan-IIs because of advances in technology that included chemical cocktails with surgery that had also more, better side effects among them.
[Edited on 03.21.2011 2:31 PM PDT]