Originally Posted by
chief12d
You're right, it makes more sense for me to say it depends. When T'Challa fought Iron Man at the XCon headquarters he had the massive advantage of terrain. Tony was within pouncing range and was indoors so he couldn't get any distance, which made it easy for T'Challa's energy daggers to make contact and make him vulnerable to close quarters. But if we're talking tournament style combat where they start a few dozen feet apart with few vantage points to hide or jump from I'm not sure T'Challa's equipment lets him get close enough to finish him off. But assuming prep is allowed T'Challa wins. I'm not arguing that T'Challa isn't deadlier and more versatile than Tony any day of the week, but in a straight up fight at a certain distance I think Tony wins due to flight and heavier weaponry.
Wolverine potentially wins due to his healing factor. They've fought a handful of times but in the most notable where T'Challa decisively won, it was when Wolverine was nerfed and couldn't soak damage the way he normally does. Under regular circumstances while I'm certain T'Challa would win the majority (especially with the force push in play) it comes down to whether he can do enough damage to kill him before Logan cuts deep enough into his armor. I'm not saying that Wolverine definitively wins every match, just that he has a fighting chance that someone like Elektra or Moonknight don't.
Iron Fist is much the same. In his case, he's received some upgrades since they last fought (and even in their Priest-era fight he was technically amped up lol). His chi manipulation abilities should allow him to go toe to toe with T'Challa physically so in some matchups I could see him straight up knocking/choking T'Challa out under the right circumstances. Once again, I'm not saying every fight between these two should end up with Iron Fist winning, just that out of 10 fights I could see him winning a handful. But like with Wolverine I expect it to be hard fought and respectful of each combatant.
I don't think the standard suit elevates T'Challa to Iron Man level nor should it. He's a martial artist first so he should be able to have convincing fights with other top tier martial artists under regular circumstances like Priest was able to demonstrate imo. So having that vulnerability to potentially lose to Iron Fist or Wolverine makes sense, otherwise he's truly being carried by tech and not skill.