Talk:Salamander/@comment-96.246.82.141-20160707164849/@comment-27950421-20160714165607

First off, I was not comparing a RL rat vs mythical salamander. I was comparing a RL rat vs a RL lizard because the Mythical salamander was a lizard not a RL salamander. You can't use a mythical salamander at all for this because mythical salamanders are so poisonous that touching them, or even eating a fruit out of a tree that they've been in, would instantly kill you. The only thing more poiso ous is the mythical basilisk. The Salamander wins because the rat can't touch it without insta dieing.

I am assuming a straight fight were both of them at approximately an approximately even level of training and experience and where they are using the type of fighting that they specialize in, Hinezumi using martial arts and the Salamander using her swordsmanship. A fight where both fighters can make full use of their skills. Pitting a swordsman in a hand to hand fight against a martial artist simply isn't a fair fight because that isn't where the swordsmans skills lie. It's like putting a carpenter and a brick layer in a brick laying competition and then saying the brick layer is better at construction because he's better at laying bricks. In hand to hand the Hinezumi wins. In a sword fight the salamander wins. If both can use what they specialize in then both have a shot.

DE does not render armor redundant. I have not read anywhere where it says that using DE makes wearing armor or having a natural armor like the salamanders scales KC isn't writing this for fights so I seriously doubt he put much thought into the armoring capabilities or armor piercing capabilities of DE beyond saying that the average Joe has no hope of beating a monster. I assume that DE can be used to reinforce the users flesh against attacks but reinforcing thick armored scales would be a hell of a lot more durable than reinforcing skin so the scale advantage remains. The same would go for increasing the power of a blow with DE, DE charged claws trump a DE charged fist. That bit about DE sounds like something that you came up with. Since we are comparing a races to each other for the sake of a non biased analysis things like on the fighters skill, talent, the length of marriage, mental fortitude and desire for winning must be assumed to be equal to remove any variables aside from the differences between the two species.

Yes, if the any of those things are lop sided the one with those things favor will win but this is a question of which one has a natural advantage, and given the physical properties and the skill set the two races specialize in I would say that the Salamander is at the advantage. Not because I liek teh leezards but because an analysis that equalizes all variables other than their race has the Salamander with better natural armaments.