- ROBERTO jh
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Posted by: Chelloz THE one
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: Chelloz THE one
He moves? That's what I think most of them would have done. How does a forerunner protect against a lightsaber being hurled towards them?
Hard light shields mixed with Forerunner adamantium. The Didact is not as slow as a human, by a long shot. He's been given gene augments far more advanced than the Chief's at least 5 times. Couple that with the suit and you have a lightning bruiser. He can also fly, and possesses a suit capable of allowing him to survive in involuntary slipspace (a place that can erase entire ships from history just for going a few degrees in the wrong direction). All of this mixed with the fact that if he waves his hands, you're completely useless.
He'd follow through by vaporizing him. People often conveniently forget that the only reason Didact lost to the Chief was because he was shackled by hard light, and was planted with a Forerunner grenade.
Of course Starkiller could also use some crazy Force powers and obliterate him--no one's doubting Starkiller is more powerful. But the Didact paralyzes his enemies before doing anything else. Starkiller's first instinct on the other hand is to use his lightsaber, or some overpowered Force Push, nothing devestating like Crush; I don't even know if he can use Crush.
He's more powerful, but Didact's more efficient, and that's the key. I'm sorry that you and I usually get into these debates and again sorry for my stubbornness but I don't see any possible way for the Didact to win. Galen will sense the fight before its even started.
I'm not doubting he could win, I'm merely saying that the Didact would be an enemy unlike anything he's faced before.
Consider his advantages:
--Superhuman strength an speed far beyond even a fully armored Spartan
--Considered the greatest tactician of the Forerunner military, a race of already supergeniuses.
--Paralyzing telekenesis
--Can evidently dissolve object just by looking at them, judging from John's cover in his first cutscene.
--He can fly.
--Has armor that is strong enough both in structure and shielding to survive slipspace, meaning his shields are as strong as a starship's.
--Has built-in energy weapons in his armor he fires out of his hands like Iron Man (cite: Crumptum). Since these are Light weapons, they'd ignore the plasma blade of a lightsaber. Since they're beam weapons, even if Starkiller dodges the initial blast, Didact needs only to sweep him and cut him in half from a distance.
^^Force Grapple and Choke both do not prevent movement, and since Didact can fly, he wouldn't find it difficult to manage under grapple. When have you ever seen Starkiller do that? Or any Jedi, really.
[Edited on 12.05.2012 1:25 PM PST]