Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20160820001629/@comment-39116684-20190918022249

I agree on almost everything you said, except with the swords. If you take a stick and hit someone with it, the stick probably won't break. Even though you're using all you're strength in that stick, it won't snap (depending on the stick). Same with Percy's sword. If you channel energy through the sword, the sword won't really be damaged, just whatever the attack is aiming at. And as I said, a stick can break if it's a weak stick, because of thickness or the type of wood. Now if you take a metal that's stronger than steel, it's gonna be pretty darn strong. But if Percy hit Nico with his sword, it would cause harm to Nico, and you said if it was reversed, it would be the same. Except that Nico's sword absorbs the soul. It's a lot like Kronos's scythe in that case. So it would be more painful and a higher chance of fatality.

And on a different point, Nico actually does have healing powers. He can use shadows to heal himself. Says so on his page on this Fandom actually. Also, Nico was able to survive Tartarus, barely, and he was caught, but he survived. Percy and Annabeth couldn't have survived if not for help from a Titan (a god-like being) and a giant (which is basically a powerful monster breed on par with gods).

And as you said, it could go either way. True. But I feel like Nico would have a better chance at winning a Death Battle because his attacks are more fatal than the attacks of Percy. Percy's powers can kill, sure, but not as easily as Nico who can banish people to the Underworld with the barest hint of energy loss. It was the first magical attack he ever used, and he didn't lose any energy from it. He can turn people to ghosts, teleport, control shadows, bones, the dead, sleep, dreams, and the earth. Percy can explode and control and summon water (along with breath in it), and limited geokinesiss (and possibly ice and storms but this ability is limited to the point that he barely has it so I'm not going to put as a major power). Oh and talk to fish and horses. And that's about it. Compare those two. See who on base line is more powerful. We think Percy is practically a god because of all the things he can do with water. And that he beat Ares, but in mythology, everyone beat Ares at some point or another. And some people like to say that he beat Hades. H e really didn't. He got the jump on him while being invincible. Hades is the most powerful god at the moment, sorry, but Percy can't beat that. Hades could have killed Percy in thousands of ways.Percy is not as powerful as people make him seem. Also, the explosion knocked him out for days. Nico has never been knocked out for a few days except when, in an already weakened state mind you from shadow-traveling and being starved to death and fighting huge armies of monsters and you get the idea, did powerful feats like turning a person into a ghost.