Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20160719232620/@comment-27799899-20170330175557

Storm7777 wrote: Ok.I say Team Grace.First,lightning moves at a speed of 220,000 miles and a human has a reaction speed of 0.25 secs so Hylla can't dodge a lightning bolt.Also,Reyna's cloak only protects her from physical things and winds are physical.The lightning can be blocked with the cloak but Reyna won't have time to block the lightning.And if Percy can't react to a lightning bolt,I doubt Reyna or Hylla can as Percy is much more ADHD than Reyna/Hylla.

While i agree with you, some of your numbers are a little off since we are looking at demigods not at humans, 0.25s is the reaction time of the average human, while 0.101s is the fastest reaction time ever recorded(thought theorized that it was 'jumping the gun' since they could not replicate it). Now demigods are much faster, lets take percy for example, for him to be able to deflect the bullet with his sword he would need to react in ~0.01 seconds, that is 10 times faster than the fastest human and just for reference 2 times faster than Spartans(Halo). But even if we assume that reyna and hylla are as fast or even moderately faster, this would still be to way too slow for them to dodge or even think of dodging lightning.