Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20170321230658/@comment-31481772-20170322085237

I think Percy will win this fight. I feel Frank is the better warrior. He has greater physical strength, less obvious weaknesses, ability to fight skillfully with many weapons and shapeshifting skills. But still Percy will win. By mind games.

Percy has been in a situation where he was almost all alone versus hundreds of pirates and a hardened thug called Chrysaor. But he "had the nous to play for time" (sorry 'Hobbit' reference). He made various tall claims and (with some luck) managed to scare the pirates off. Percy even managed to impress the ancient goddess Nyx with his tall tales and mind games. After Piper or Annabeth, Percy is one of the best 'charmspeakers'.

According to me, Frank is Percy's biggest fanboy in the books. That means Frank will always go to battle with a sense of awe for Percy. Percy could use this to his advantage by performing several flashy, impressive-looking, cheap tricks. Percy could keep boasting about his achievements. He could also remind Frank that Percy saved Frank's life once or twice. Frank will feel impressed, slightly scared and much less willing to fight Percy.

Now that Frank is mentally down and unfocused, Percy could knock Frank out with a few powerful attacks. But Percy wouldn't try to badly harm Frank - after all, he has saved Percy many times too.