Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20160820001629/@comment-35229543-20180406082309

ooh, tough question. But to be honest? I'd go with Nico.

Reasons? Well, if there was a fight between Percy and Nico, if it was near a body of water, Nico would obviously lose and be at a huge disadvantage. So, for the sake of a fair fight, I'll assume they're on dry ground.

No, Percy can't control the earth. Have any of you ever noticed that with the children of the big three, one kid controls one element, the other controls the other element? For example, Thalia has more control over lightning than Jason, but Jason can control the winds much better than Thalia. Nico controls the deathly side of Hades/Pluto's power, while Hazel controls the riches and earth. And seeing how powerful Percy is with his water element, I'd say he wouldn't be able to have his Earthshaker abilities.

Dear people saying that Nico would be drained: hi there! I'll just borrow your attention for a second and drag it over to when Nico says that he would be able to transport the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half Blood by himself in a few shadow-jumps if he wasn't drained. Yes, he almost died ghostifying Bryce, but that was after an unknown amount of time in Tartarus as the giants' prisoner, and a little over a week without air, food or water in the bronze jar. Not to mention the few thousand miles he had already shadow-travelled in the past few days, along with summoning zombies in Pompeii. So, at full power, I reckon Nico would be able to take on Percy, no problem.

The only factor that would count against Nico in the scenario I'm proposing is Percy's skill with a sword. Obviously we don't know how good Nico is, though we can infer that's he's pretty good from this quote in Hazel's chapters in SoN:

"This scrawny white boy was no fighter. She certainly hadn't believed they were related.

She'd changed her mind about that soon enough."

as well as the fact that Nico survived on his own for years.

I'd side with Nico for this one, though I'm sure it would be an insanely close match. Probably a tie, but I'm still leaning towards Nico.