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Posted by: RKOSNAKE
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Posted by: Clark 714
All spartans had some things they werent so great at. And in my opinion, John wasnt the best spartan. He may have not been that great at hand to hand combat compared to some other spartans, though he was certainly better than normal marines.
John was best at two things. Them being leadership and luck.Leadership is disputable.
Granted, he was a great leader, and one of the best, but not the best.
I prefer the Master Chief to most of the other Spartans, but I still have to say that Kurt clearly outshines him on the leadership front.
I disagree. Kurt was not chosen to lead the whole team of Spartan IIs, John was, and Mendez himself chose him.
That said, I assume you will say "but Kurt trained the Spartan IIIs..." or something along those lines. He was chosen to train the Spartan IIIs by Ackerson because John was the Spartan IIs leader. I'm sure Ackerson looked closely at John, and many other Spartans, including Kurt and Jerome. But he eventually came to Kurt because he was an exceptional leader, and because John was team leader of the Spartans.
Mendez always thought Kurt could be a better leader than John during training, even though Halsey didn't, cause you know, her favoritism.
and Ackerson chose Kurt because unlike the rest of the Spartan II's (John more so than the others) Kurt actually had a personality, he was the more humane Spartan II, even more so than Jorge in my opinion. He got along with other troopers unlike the rest of them who alienated themselves and thought of Kurt as an easily distracted soldier (even though he was the one that took more attention subliminally).
Perhaps this is true. I believe that, although John was not like Kurt, he was also quite humane. He hated killing rebels and he saved Johnson when there was a chance that Johnson's DNA could save the galaxy from the flood.
Also, I'm curious, where in Ghosts of Onyx does it say that Mendez thinks Kurt is a better leader than John? Page number would be appreciated. Thanks.