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Sep 4, 2022·edited Sep 4, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

I feel like teleportation is under-rated, especially combined with stealth (aka Nightcrawler). Unless a character can fly: grab, teleport somewhere high, let go, and teleport to safety.

Professor X and Cyclops are both under-rated at this stage. Cyclops is one of the most experienced fighters in superhuman combat in the MCU and knows the personnel on the X-Men backwards. Seems like he’d be a tougher draw than folks give him credit for.

Professor X is allegedly the most powerful telepath on the planet. Jean is tough draw for him, because she is both telepathic, telekinetic, and as experienced as Scott. Any other telepath should be a quick out.

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Sep 3, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

I was really surprised in the Magneto vs Jean Grey fight. This is Jean Grey without Phoenix powers, right? And Magneto has that helmet her psi-powers don’t work on him. She’s not the best at telekinesis from what I remember.

I don’t know. I think she’d get destroyed.

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Sep 3, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

This was the roughest one yet! Gambit Rogue n Jubilee all had such tough fights to vote on. Though Charles once again gets the easy vote against. Emma just goes diamond n Charles is a normal dude with a fish bowl on his head.

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Sep 3, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

Storm over Cyke, obvi.

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Sep 3, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

Oh yay another round of this! (A side note though Kelly, the poll for the Rogue v. Magik fight is mislabeled and the Storm vs. Cyclops poll is missing. I didn't notice any other issues though)

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Sep 5, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

Somehow I seem to have deleted my own comment!? 🤷‍♂️ we still need those results! Haha!

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Love these comments. My only head scratcher is why the Banshee vs Lilandra is so close! Y’all know he has super powers right?

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The only comment I have is that despite the clear paper advantage, y'all are REALLY underestimating Dazzler, lol.

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Sep 3, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

I'd kinda love to see a few of these played out in an actual comic book because they're such a coin toss! It'd be fun to see them each Erin a "round". But ultimately so much of it comes down to who plays fair and honorable and who is more willing to play dirty. 😁 My money is on the cheaters!

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Sep 3, 2022·edited Sep 3, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

War! War! War! Love it! Rogue vs Magik was the toughest for me and was surprised it's not a closer looking outcome! I went with Magik so I'm obviously not alone there. I'm ALWAYS going to vote for Psylocke because love conquers all and I am IN LOVE! With my new found appreciation for all things Jubilee she's definitely getting my vote! Good to see some tighter matches in there this time though poor old Cyclops is getting battered! Haha! Oh and my vote for Magneto is clearly not gonna save him! Ha!

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Sep 3, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

The way I like to imagine these playing out that definitely influences some of my outcomes, is that it's basically the dark phoenix trial by combat rules, where the two players are dropped into two sides of the blue area of the moon, don't know exactly what they're up against, and just have to figure things out and try to survive whatever's coming.

Also, did anybody else vote professor x over the white queen because I almost feel like he's the more ruthless character lol

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Oh this one was crazy! I did take a few homer picks, but this one was full of hard matchups! The slightest mistake from either side would’ve 100% altered the outcome in most of these.

Most. Not all. I think Colossus is def fucked lol

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Sep 3, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

Wow! Some tough matchups in this round. I continue with my fallback plan of (a) pick the female, because women are better, and (b) pick the one I know more about.

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Sep 3, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

I was JUST thinking about Domino vs Longshot! That's amazing! I watched Deadpool 2 for the first time this week and i love Zazie Beetz so much and it was cool to watch her as Domino. I gave Longshot the edge because of surviving Mojoworld so long, but it looks like that was not the popular pick

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Sep 3, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

Looks like there wasn’t a way to vote for Storm v Cyclops, but totally Storm

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Sep 3, 2022Liked by Kelly Thompson

Storm obviously

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