Board Thread:VS Debates/@comment-26488478-20160812160435/@comment-16919137-20160813021752

Balrog scales to/has beaten Birdie, who tanked a town level nuke, which would pretty much make Balrog stronger/tougher by default (Mac DEFINITELY doesn't scale to Expand Dong).

However, I would argue that Mac would hold a pretty firm speed and experience advantage.

The question here is if Mac can wear down Balrog before the latter cripples him with a few good hits?

My opinion?

Balrog wins, since, despite him being slower on foot, he's got the reactions to match Little Mac's speed, which would allow him to land multiple damaging hits on Little Mac. While Mac can outrun Balrog, most of his punches wouldn't do much to Balrog due to his superior durability.

Likewise in experience, Balrog isn't far behind, having participated in almost as many tournaments as Mac has. One could argue that experience would actually go to Balrog due to him facing a more broad variety of opponents, some of which are actually similar to the ones Mac has fought.

In the end, while I would root for Mac, I would overall bet on Balrog winning.