Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20170817152125/@comment-29068459-20170828002951

Hercules would win for a variety of reasons. Firstly, Hercules dwarfs (and I mean DWARFS) Piper in terms of experience. Piper had a little less than a year of experience. Hercules has 3,000 years. And Piper quite frankly is not bringing anything to the table Hercules can't deal with. Hercules is high resistant (perhaps immune) to charmspeak. For those that will say: "But Piper charmspeaked Gaea!" I say this. 1) Gaea was separated from her domain, and apparently suffered a huge loss of power do to that. I mean, she was destroyed by an explosion that can't pack more than a nuke's worth of firepower. 2) Even if Piper's charmspeak is nigh omnipotent (which it isn't), she has to concentrate. Those are precious seconds where Hercules can stomp the ground and create an earthquake, hurl objects like missles, or do a simple Thunderclap.

By the way, the Cornocopia only worked in MoA because Hercules was taken by surprise. An all out Hercules would decimate Piper before she could blink.