Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20160820001629/@comment-29744632-20160824114247

Kind of against the point but I think it would be 50-50 if those two fought. Also I think it would depend on where they fought. If they were on a boat or surrounded by water, where Nico can't pull skeletons from the ground and where Percy is surrounded by water, Percy would likely win. Alternatively, if there was a landlocked battle with no water supply anywhere (eg nothing underground, or no river anywhere etc), then Nico would have the upper hand to manipulate the ground or summon skeletons. Though even away from skeletons under his control, Nico can turn people into ghosts- suggesting that even in Percy's element, Nico would still have awesome amounts of power.

But bros don't fight so it's all okay haha ^.^

Another point- whilst I think it would be an even match, I think a frame of reference would be past demigods. Hazel described Pluto's appearance in SoN as "like that awful Adolph Hitler...He could've been Hitler's twin- or his father" (pg 74 in my edition). The promise of the Big Three not having more children was because they were too powerful and caused too many wars, so I always assumed that in the PJ universe, WWII was caused by two children of the Big Three ((nb- I don't mean to trivialise the World Wars because they were terrible and tragic events, but only to reference when the PJ/HoO books themselves mention the World Wars)). If Hades/Pluto lost there, they might lose again. But that was a war, and not hand to hand combat against two demigods.

And so again, I'd say it's an even match lol