User blog:Savage Samurai/Analyzing Ben 10 matchups

Recently I calculated the total amount of powers Ben 10 has in his arsenal, everntually reaching a total of 226. Of course with Alien X, that number is as good as 1. I mean if we're being completely serious Alien X, stomps almost any opponent Ben could face so hard that none of his other transformations even matter. But what if we removed Alien X from the equation? What if SA pulls a Link VS Cloud and directly nerfs Ben by not giving him his strongest transformation. Surely he would be much easier to kill, right? Or would he? The point of this blog is to analyse Ben's different matchups and to see how well his opponents do without bringing Alien X into the equation.

Ben 10 VS Beast Boy
Starting things off we have Ben's most popular matchup and for good reason. Both are teenage heroes whose powers revolve around shapeshifting into different forms and adapting to the situation. There's probaby a lot more but I'm too lazy to look it up. Now contrary to popular belief Beast Boy actually can turn into animals that are outside of the Earthly Animal Kingdom. He's been able to turn into dragons, centaurs, phoenixes and can even combine his transformations to make a mulit-form of sorts. He's even able to make entirely new creatures up. The respect threads I've come across only detail what transformations he has so I had to resort to... VS Battles Wiki.

Now apparently his reaction time allows him to "casually dodge lightning" which would put him at massively hypersonic speeds. For reference lightning bolts move at speeds of 353,055 kmph meaning that Beast Boy would've been reacting at a speed of Mach 285 at bare minimum. While impressive, unfortunately it doesn't compare to Ben. Those numbers that I got were part of my blog for XLR8 who has also easily dodged lightning strikes and saved people while doing it and XLR8 isn't even Ben's fastest alien. Jetray has not only dodged close proximity lightning strikes but also gone faster than the speed of light. Simply moving at the speed of light is moving at Mach 873,825. Furthermore Ben can widen the speed gap even more because he has Clockwork, an alien that can control time.

As for the other stats Beast Boy seems to lie in the Building-City Block for his strength and durbility. Unfortunately this is overshadowed by most of Ben's aliens. Four Arms in the original series was able to create a shockwave powerful enough to make a weather monster 100 times Four Arms' size flinch. Beast Boy could potentially prolong the fight with his smaller forms such as the parasite and the bacteria but Ben also has an alien that can shrink to microscopic levels, Nanomech. And Nanomech has access to two abilities that could easily turn the tide in his favor. The first is bio-electricity which is strong enough to knock over a full grown man and the second is his adaptability which allows him to copy attacks seconds after being hit with them.

This isn't even covering Ben's more haxier aliens such as Swampfire and Goop (superhuman strength and the ability to regenerte from virtually any wounds), Ghostfreak (intangibility, invisibility and possession), Whampire (Mind control), Gravattack (gravity manipulation) and many others. The fact is that even without Alien X, Ben still stomps Beast Boy.