Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20160820001629/@comment-39953712-20191102173052

So the fights with Ares and Hades are probably the weirdest in the series. With Ares I’m less like “it’s a win for Percy” and more like “shows Percy’s ingenuity and enforces Are’s character”. In the Illad there’s a hero named diomedes and he runs into Ares when fighting of the battlefield. He stabs Ares, and instead of fighting back, he cowards out and goes back to Olympus. It’s practically the same thing that Percy does in his fight, showing Ares as a bully and a coward.

The fight with Hades... hooboy it’s just weird. Like you said earlier, he has thousands of ways of killing Percy, and goes in the fight with seemingly killer intent, but Percy just kinda... wins. He bodies the 100 troops that hades brings ( Argueably more powerful then the Nike auto manes that Percy loses to in BoO) the OVERPOWERS hades (deflects a blast from hades with riptide, also a nutty thing on riptide’s resume) the knocks him out of his chariot. Hades actually pleads with Percy not to slap him silly at this point and instead of popping his god form, just teleports out of the area. It’s extremely weird fight that I can’t explain, and since it’s back up pretty nice with other feats from COA Percy ( Hermes neglecting you fight him, the river gods claiming they can’t kill him, and throwing Hyperion and Kronos, who should be big threeish) I just kinda go “whatever COA Percy is nuts, at least it’s not as bad as the outlier that Jason vs Krios”

So I also that Percy is the strongest demigod alive and I still stand by that. He easily has the highest destructive power out of anyone, and in a multi man fight he would fare a lot better then nico. If he when all out on nico (Hurricanes, earth quakes, nuking) he would beat nico. But with his morality, and nico having formal training and a lot of one shot attacks is it’s such a up in the air fight slightly favoring Nico. Percy is the most powerful, while nico is the most skilled. Also to the fact that Percy is the most intelligent and adaptatable fighter in the verse really lends to my uncertainty. Again if Rick Ever wrote this fight it is literally whoever he wanted to win. If he wanted nico to win he would and if he wanted Percy go win he would.

Also COA Percy utterly slap nico, change my mind