Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20150930233157/@comment-16499189-20151222020542

8th Hero of Olympus wrote:

LaraFang wrote: I think that you should remember that Iapetus/Bob was the only Titan that did not crumble into ashes, unlike Krios and Hyperion, the Titans that are 'supposedly stronger' than Iapetus/Bob. So Bob/Iapetus is NOT the weakest Titan. But see, I could argue that Hyperion and Krios "crumbled into ashes" only because Tartarus had managed to catch them off-guard, not giving them the chance to face him in combat, where the possibility of them doing better against him than Iapetus did is high, as Tartarus uttered that statement while fighting Iapetus, implying that he knew that Krios, and definitely Hyperion, would have fared better against him in a straight-up physical fight. At the very least, however, I hope that we can still agree upon Iapetus being objectively weaker than Hyperion, as the latter has been confirmed by both Annabeth ("The Last Olympian") and Percy ("PJ's Greek Gods") to be the 3rd strongest Titan, after Kronos and Atlas, and therefore, by definition, more powerful than Iapetus. Hence, another reason why Hyperion crumbling to ashes from Tartarus' attack while Iapetus did not, is not a good argument. Regardless of your refusal to accept it, Iapetus is not all that powerful compared to some of his fellow Titans.

Hence, back to my original argument - Percy was only able to beat Hyperion because he was superhumanly enhanced and rendered invulnerable by the Curse of Achilles at the time, and without the curse, Percy was unable to defeat Iapetus, while Jason without the curse was able to defeat Krios, who has been confirmed to be more powerful and formidable an opponent than Iapetus. Hence, taking that into consideration, I think it stands to reason to say that Jason Grace would defeat Percy Jackson in a duel. First of all Jason had the whole roman army behind him when he attacked Krios. I mean Jason could of been camping at the back shooting weak bolts of lighting while Reyna did all the work and Jason stole Reyna's kill. Until there is more detail about that fight you can not assume Jason deserve all the credit until you know for sure what happened. Second, Just because one person said something in the past does not mean it's set in stone. Also just because you're in third place does not mean you are stuck there forever. I mean look at Ronda Rousey, She was number one undefeated champion until her butt was destroyed by newcomer Holly Holm. Also this is getting off topic. Please stay on topic.