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Miraak VS Harkon

February 13, 2017March 9, 2017 Medic 0 Comments enemies, matchup, Skyrim

In Skyrim, there are a lot of enemies, but the majority of them are nameless. The average person could probably name Alduin as a bad guy, but Miraak and Harkon are the other two main bad guys, and you… don’t really see much of them, let alone see them together in one place fighting to the death. But who would win in a fight, Miraak or Harkon? Let’s size our two combatants up first. Miraak is known as the First Dragonborn. He could kill dragons before your Dragonborn’s great, great, great, great, great grandfather was a twinkle in his great,… [Continue Reading]

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Widowmaker Vs. TFClassic Sniper: Who Would Win?

February 2, 2017March 9, 2017 aabicus 0 Comments analysis, comparison, fun, matchup, overwatch, sniper, sniping, TFC, widowmaker

So I was talking with a friend about hypothetical cross-franchise class matchups, in the vein of Scout vs Tracer, Medic vs Sona, Engineer vs Nuparu, Heavy vs Braum, and Pyro vs Toa Vakama. It’s a pretty popular concept on our blog and I realized we hadn’t covered one of the most obvious, that of TF2’s favorite Kiwi versus Overwatch‘s favorite cheesecake. But after ruminating on the idea, I had trouble even starting due to the nature of TF2 Sniper’s unlocks. Do I treat TF2 Sniper as his stock class (which means Widow wins easily) or as an amalgamation of his unlocks, which turns him into a horrifying combination… [Continue Reading]

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TF2vOW: Scout versus Tracer

July 8, 2015January 25, 2017 Answers 0 Comments analysis, balance, class, comparison, Filler, fun, matchup, overwatch, theory

Welcome to the first-ever edition of the “TEAM FORTRESS 2 VERSUS OVERWATCH” series. Inspired by the ongoing flamewars between the two fandoms and Screwattacks own “Death Battle” series on Youtube, TF2 vs OW is where I theoretically pit one or more of your favorite TF2 classes against their counterparts from Blizzard’s upcoming TF2 rip-off (and revenge for Valve stealing DOTA): Overwatch! We’re probably never going to be able to see this in this reality, so doing it here will be the next best thing! I will try to go through each characters weapons and abilities as objectively as possible in order to decide who would win… [Continue Reading]

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Battle of the Firespitters: Pyro vs Toa Vakama

September 14, 2014January 25, 2017 Dekky 2 Comments analysis, fun, matchup, pyro

Hello again. Are we all sitting comfortably? Good. You might want to stand up again, because your chair has just burst into flames. Along with the floor. Grab your computer and run, because two of the most hotheaded combatants in the universe are duelling just across the street. On one side is our masked, gloved and asbestos-clad Pyro. He/she is a very familiar being to us SPUFers. Specializing in ambush and close-range combat, the Pyro is a formidable beastie that skulks in the shadows. We don’t know very much about Pyro and probably never will. What we do know is… [Continue Reading]

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Battle of the Builders: Dell Conagher vs Nuparu

August 5, 2014January 25, 2017 Dekky 0 Comments engineer, Filler, fun, matchup

Hopefully you’re all familiar with Mr. Conagher, the convivial Engineer from TF2. He’s the chap with an orange hardhat, a rusty wrench and a clichéd southern accent. He possesses the amazing ability to drop a toolbox on the ground, hit it repeatedly with said wrench and transform it into a Dispenser, a Teleporter or a stationary Terminator. These buildings, in conjunction with a wide selection of whack-things and shooty-things, make our Engie a formidable ally. Today we shall put him in the arena with another famous Engineer, he who they call Nuparu. This guy is a Matoran villager from the… [Continue Reading]

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Battle of the Healers – Medic VS Sona again

August 3, 2014January 25, 2017 Medic 0 Comments comparison, fun, matchup, medic

“Medic, what the hell are you doing?” Well, Sona got reworked, so I felt I ought to give her a chance and see if she fares better than Medic now or not. The Team Fortress Classic Medic will never change and chances are that the Team Fortress 2 Medic won’t change either, but since Sona has, maybe she does better now? Um, well, actually, no. Before we start, we ought to go over what happened to the poor mute musician. Before the 4.13 patch, Sona got by with equal cooldowns on her 3 main skills and her gimmick was that… [Continue Reading]

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Battle of the Tanks – Heavy Weapons Guy VS Braum

July 25, 2014January 25, 2017 Medic 0 Comments fun, heavy, matchup

You remember a while back I did those Battle of the Healers articles? Well, I recently spotted this week’s free hero rotation in League of Legends and saw a guy called Braum. And I played him. And he’s like our beloved Heavy. Since I had previously compared Sona, the mute healing song girl with no legs (seriously, she has no legs) to our beloved Medic, I thought it’d be amusing to compare the Heavy with this Braum fellow. So yeah, what are we looking at here? Two burly, strong men, with no hair on their heads and thick Russian accents,… [Continue Reading]

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A Battle of Healers: Medic VS Gorge

May 26, 2014January 25, 2017 Medic 0 Comments fun, matchup, medic

Quite often in a class-based game, Healers and Engineers are lumped in together and you’ll have the same person doing a couple of similar jobs. In that aspect, our Medic a bit of an odd one, as we have a whole other class, the Engineer, to do that. There’s a bit of an overlap between the two of them, as in they both heal, but Medics almost exclusively heal. This does make it tricky when it comes to these battles. Anyway, today’s enemy is a monster, literally, who acts as a defensive healing utility thingy who can heal both ‘buildings’… [Continue Reading]

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A Battle of Healers: Medic VS Sona

May 22, 2014January 25, 2017 Medic 0 Comments fun, matchup, medic

The Medic of the Team Fortress 2 world is wildly unique, somehow bringing together entire teams to the point that you can’t win if you don’t have one and the enemy has. So what happens when you compare our Medic with the healers from other games (and universes)? Who knows, since we don’t have inter-universal technology yet. Last time, Medic got his ass kicked by the TFC Medic, but this time, things may turn out differently. Of course, there are difficulties in comparing Healers from wildly different games, so we end up comparing based on mechanics and team work. Today’s… [Continue Reading]

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A Battle of Healers – The TF2 Medic VS The TFC Medic

May 15, 2014January 25, 2017 Medic 0 Comments fun, matchup, medic, TFC

Let us be frank here: The Medic we all love dearly is hugely different from the healing class in many, many other games. There are few places where the most important person on your team is the person healing you and your team and keeping everyone alive by making health bars go up instead of go down. So I decided to have a think about this. How would our Medic do fighting against other healers? Before we begin, a clarification. The Team Fortress 2 Medic was designed with teamwork in mind. He’s almost helpless on his own. That being said,… [Continue Reading]