Deadshot V Punisher

[Crimson Knight]

Average Deadshot v Average Punisher.

Post-Crisis Deadshot, regular 616 Punisher.

Both armed with usual weaponry, average health, or togetherness.

Frank Castle comes to a near deserted 'town', with about 7, large-ish buildings, with a few shattered, broken windows.

Large enough to be smaller than warehouses, but not quite.

Floyd Lawton is stationed in one, hidden in a corner of a 'warehouse', right at the window, gun leaning out.

Frank Castle walks into the dusty town, wary of his target, this very man, an assassin and a criminal.

Before Lawton gets the shot off, Franks' head turns to the left, facing his direction.

What happens next, and who survives this encounter, and why?

[Jonathan]

In that scenario, Deadshot. With prep time, Punisher.

[Crimson Knight]

In that scenario, Deadshot. With prep time, Punisher.

Any particular reason, for the latter?

[big_adventure]

Any particular reason, for the latter?

Can't speak for Jonathan, but Frank is pretty crazy-good with prep. He will absolutely hide in a pile of junk for 3 weeks until he sees his target, whereupon he unloads a kill-shot. And he'll know that the target passes that spot precisely once every three weeks, since he always finds crap like that out. It's just basically what he does. He's got excellent stealth and infiltration, and a heavy arsenal that he's absolutely prepared to use, so that one shot, in case of a target who's going to no-sell a gunshot, will absolutely be a rocket launcher or a Skrull sniper rifle or whatever it takes.

Check out his (failed, but c'mon...) assassination attempt on Osborn in Dark Reign: He sets up 7 miles away (so, not even in Manhattan) with a Skrull sniper rifle. Crazypants starts talking in Times Square. Frank shoots, on target for a melon-smasher. Unfortunately for this awesome plan, Sentry shows and catches the bullet a few inches from Osborn's head. Sentry instantly shows up right in front of Frank (dude be fast and all that). Frank starts using his escape prep: a local distraction to get some distance, then tells Sentry about a bomb he's placed for this precise reason in a hospital on the other side of town. Sentry dashes off. Frank rabbits. Sentry discovers that the bomb is a decoy, but Frank's long gone when Sentry gets back, leaving nothing with which he can be tracked. He obviously didn't expect the Sentry to be there (he wasn't, until the shot was fired, in fact), yet had sufficient prep in place to escape the freaking Sentry just in case.

[Crimson Knight]

Can't speak for Jonathan, but Frank is pretty crazy-good with prep. He will absolutely hide in a pile of junk for 3 weeks until he sees his target, whereupon he unloads a kill-shot. And he'll know that the target passes that spot precisely once every three weeks, since he always finds crap like that out. It's just basically what he does. He's got excellent stealth and infiltration, and a heavy arsenal that he's absolutely prepared to use, so that one shot, in case of a target who's going to no-sell a gunshot, will absolutely be a rocket launcher or a Skrull sniper rifle or whatever it takes.

Check out his (failed, but c'mon...) assassination attempt on Osborn in Dark Reign: He sets up 7 miles away (so, not even in Manhattan) with a Skrull sniper rifle. Crazypants starts talking in Times Square. Frank shoots, on target for a melon-smasher. Unfortunately for this awesome plan, Sentry shows and catches the bullet a few inches from Osborn's head. Sentry instantly shows up right in front of Frank (dude be fast and all that). Frank starts using his escape prep: a local distraction to get some distance, then tells Sentry about a bomb he's placed for this precise reason in a hospital on the other side of town. Sentry dashes off. Frank rabbits. Sentry discovers that the bomb is a decoy, but Frank's long gone when Sentry gets back, leaving nothing with which he can be tracked. He obviously didn't expect the Sentry to be there (he wasn't, until the shot was fired, in fact), yet had sufficient prep in place to escape the freaking Sentry just in case.

That is indeed very very impressive.

Thought, from your description, he'd have no way out.

Anything significant in Lawtons' favour?

[Nalla_The_Black]

The fight starts with Frank already in Floyd's crosshairs. Unless Frank magically becomes a bullet timer, he's toast in this scenario.

[The Chou Lives]

Deadshot kills Frank.

But Frank with one sided prep would win though.


He is bat shit good with prep.