Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20150821065646/@comment-15860919-20150827003253

Oceanhalo12 wrote: Poseidon because he has control over all realms, he can cause major earthquakes, obviously control water and there is water in the air, and storms. Hades may have the dead, but he cant use spirits from asphodel or Elysium, and most spirits from the field are close to dying a second time, so his numbers are lowered. Poseidon has all the Naids, Potami/mids, and Nereids if he bargains with Nereus. Then he has all his immortal children, along with every creature of the sea, most of which haven't been discovered, along with  every hippocampus, Pegasus and sea monster.He also has the Cyclopsi. and way more gods aligned with him than Zeus or Hades.

'''First off, the amount of gods Poseidon is aligned with is irrelevant, this is a fight between Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, nobody else. Second off, Hades army outclasses both of the others. You make it sound like the fact that Hades can't use ALL of the people who have died makes it unimpressive. He still has BILLIONS of undead people under his control. Poseidon has a big army and all, but it is nowhere near the strength of Hades'. And mentioning the types of creatures Poseidon has under his control is also useless. because Hades has undead versions of those creatures and much more. Also, when did it say Hades couldn't use Asphodel souls. I get not using Elysium, but I don't see why he couldn't use the Asphodel.'''

Zeus despite everything, is  literally the weakest of the big three, except the master bolt, which Poseidon can duplicate, since he has Cyclopsi and peanut butter!Storms don't work in the underworld or underwater. I'm sure there is some way (that only Rick Riordan could think of) to give Poseidon some defense  against electrocution if so Zeus is pretty much out of the battle.

'''The fact remains that Rick DIDN'T give Poseidon a defense against electrocution. That is fanon and nothing more. "Storms don't work underwater", water conducts electricity, so, Zeus' lightning is even MORE effective against Poseidon's domain than Earth.'''

Athena might side with Zeus, but Annabeth would go all "Mom, why do hate me" teenager crap, and they would have the ultimate stormy eyed mother-daughter staring contest, and the fight would be long over by the time one of them backed down.

 Yeah okie...

Ares / Mars would either be bought to a side or go neutral, Aphrodite/Venus would turn it into a twilightish love story, and Eros would be at home making love to Psyche.

'''Again, just a fight between Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, nobody else in involved. "Eros would be at home making love to Psyche." lmaooooooo (but it's still innapropriate.)'''

I don't thing Zeus would be able to harness the ever swift wing gods again( so mad there was no description of Eurus) so they're free to side with whomever.

He IS their boss, so I don't see why he can't harness them, but again, JUST ZEUS, POSEIDON AND HADES

Persephone might get mommy to side with Hades, but she'll probably just stay back because     A.She loathes Hades B.She is totally done with Zeus"s manipulation C.She loathes Hades.

See what I have repeated multiple times

Hades has the sword of course, but Styx would seek him for breaking his oath, so I'm just going to count that out. After this, Hades and Poseidon are very evenly matched, but Poseidon might have so copy-bolts, the infinitely strong cyclopsi, a hundred handed one, and a vast army of water spirits, plus with Zeus out of the way, he can't be electrocuted( his biggest weakness), plus corpses don't go with water, so a chunk of Hades army is removed.

'''Oaths don't matter in theoretical fights. I could say Superman couldn't beat Thor because Thor dies at Ragnarok to someone else, so Superman couldn't kill him. And skeletons aren't Hades' only asset, he can still shadow travel to Poseidon and slice/blast him up. And when does it say undead soldiers can't go into water? I can get Poseidon bashing them with waves until they fall apart, but they can still go into water. They should be more effective than humans because they wouldn't need oxygen to breath. To make copies of the master bolt, first Poseidon needs to take it from Zeus, and that won't be easy. And let's say Zeus isn't knocked out first, Poseidon can't go hide in water without being fried, so that's a huge disadvantage.'''

In conclusion, Poseidon for the win!

I put my counter arguments in bold. (I have nothing against Poseidon, in fact, I think he would win if Hades' weren't there).