Rex wins this. Even IF Wither gets his hands on him, I think that the withering thing isn't immediately effective. Rex can just shoot/slice/crush him before taking any life threatening damage.

The withering isn't instantaneous, but it is certainly immediate, dunno what you mean.

Yeah but the point is Rex can drop/reform his weapons, so if it is large enough, when it starts withering, he can discard it and form a new one, yes?

Either way, my old point stands. Rex wins this unless he is completely retarded and we assume that he engaged a completely unknown enemy THE EXACT SAME WAY that he engages a known enemy.

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Yeah but the point is Rex can drop/reform his weapons, so if it is large enough, when it starts withering, he can discard it and form a new one, yes?

Either way, my old point stands. Rex wins this unless he is completely retarded and we assume that he engaged a completely unknown enemy THE EXACT SAME WAY that he engages a known enemy.

He can drop/reform them, yes, but there's still a time between these that does connect with his mental state. And since he does engage unknown the exact same way he engages known enemies and he has been shown to prefer close range combat over long range while opting not to kill, going against an enemy who is "kill kill kill" exclusively gives Wither the initial advantage in confrontation. Within the first minutes of the engagement, either Wither will kill Rex, or Rex will get away and stick to trying to pick him off from a distance, a tactic that may or may not work.

I say that definitive advantage is Wither's, and will lead to a win or the switching of advantage to Rex, where the battle is then one of attrition.

Yeah the rules of the battle are set up in such a way that a mentally retarded guy with better powers will lose to Wither. I don't care enough about the battle to argue it through, but I definitely can't see Rex losing this battle unless he is legitimately mentally disabled, which he is what he would be to engage a totally unknown enemy hand-to-hand just because "he prefers it that way". I don't know if the PIS and CIS in the cartoons show him as someone who refuses to use the smallest bit of strategy, but if that is the case, then this battle isn't worth discussing at all, since under those circumstances, you or I could probably beat Rex with a regulation pistol.

This is him facing off against 3 unknown opponents and underestimating them because of his cockiness, allowing them to not only get close but also displaying that he easily allows opponents to get close to him. The videos provided by ErrorBlender also give us evidence that close range is his preferred style of combat. This video is also evidence of his pretty weak defenses. If we look at his damage potential against opponents who are of equal or lesser durability to the vampiric Wither, then we can see that both combatants stand a fair chance of victory and defeat, especially if we put their win conditions at "Kill Rex" for Wither, and "Incapacitate Wither" for Rex.



Also, note that as I said before, Rex is cocky initially or with opponents he knows about. He is like Batman in that regard, in that if he knows what he is up against, he'll be prepared for it. If you throw Batman into a situation with opponents of equal or greater strength and/or experience with no planning time, then he'll have a pretty rough time winning in the long run. If it helps to visualize, Rex is a Teenage Batman with a cocky stereotypical teenage attitude.

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If it helps to visualize, Rex is a Teenage Batman with a cocky stereotypical teenage attitude.

Basically Batman Beyond?

That's... a surprisingly accurate comparison, and I hate myself for not seeing the similarity sooner. =.=

Yes, my point is, in that case, he is mentally retarded. I'm sure he is cocky and brash, but I'm also sure that it is part of the plot of the story, because a cautious Rex would bulldoze through most people. However, if that is part of his CHARACTER rather than just something for the plot, then my original point stands. You and I could defeat him with a pistol because he would try to engage us head-on. So this isn't a battle at all, its basically Wither vs an autistic.

EDIT: Also, comparisons to Batman seem startling. There is no way Bruce Wayne or Terry McGinnis would engage an absolutely unknown enemy head first with NO information about them, or without trying to scope out the enemy's tactics, unless it is part of the plot.