Welcome to the Semi-Finals of the 2015 LW Standard Tournament. We are down to four players left, which means it is time to start the Semi-Finals. The winners of these two matches will compete for the Championship!
Today's Matches
Emily Sivana's Team
Adam Warlock (Modern)- 50 points
Quentin Quire- 25 points
Magma- 30 points
Nightshade- 30 points
Stature- 15 points
VS
Invisible Brainiac's Team
Martian Manhunter- 50 points
Gates (Retro-Boot)- 40 points
Kinetix (Non-Terrorform)- 30 points
Kid Quantum II (Non-Time Traveler)- 30 points
And...
Thoth Lad's Team
Amazo - 50 points
Vanisher- 35 points
Ultra Boy- 35 points (with flight ring)
Ambrose Chase- 30 points
VS
Blacula's Team
Flash (Barry Allen) 45
Atom (Ray Palmer) 35
Deadman (Boston Brand) 20
Mento (Steve Dayton) 20
Celsius (Arani Caulder) 20
Karate Kid (Val Armor) 10
Emily Sivana's Strategy
My characters walk into the arena with uncertain expressions. Only Nightshade recognizes any of the other opponents, and once the match is called, she begins to direct her shadow constructs at Martian Manhunter. Fortunately, Quentin Quire prevents him from using any psychic attacks. Unfortunately, his other abilities make it difficult for her to do much damage. It is a perpetual stalemate as neither opponent can get very close to each other.
Meanwhile, Magma touches the ground and opens a crack of lava to separate the arena in half, so they have a defense. Adam Warlock senses the power in Kinetix and decides to disarm her. She tries to telekinetically keep him away, but his Quantum Magic is greater than her power and he easily knocks her out. Unfortunately, Gates sees that Adam Warlock is a threat and teleports him off the battlefield.
Magma sees that Gates took out Adam Warlock and flies to take out Gates. Now, Gates is insectsoid in nature, and we know that insects are weak to fire. I believe Magma could easily take out Gates. If Gates were to try to teleport away or teleport with her, he exits the match as well.
Kid Quantum may slow down the battles, but she is still vulnerable to physical attacks. Stature could turn into giant form and squash her before she becomes a true threat.
Stature and Magma (if she is still on the field) work together to help Nightshade deal with Martian Manhunter. Quentin Quire telepathically tells Stature to shrink down, shrink back up, and then insert a fist in Martian Manhunter.
Quentin Quire telepathically tells Martian Manhunter, If you resume corporal form, you will be severely injured.
The opponent sighed, I concede defeat
Invisible Brainiac's Strategy
Careful to clear their minds, the Martian Manhunter, Gates, Kinetix and Kid Quantum II link their minds and enter the arena. No prep time was given, so J'Onn quickly does a surface scan of his opponents - all he needs is information on powers, and he gets them fast. At the speed of thought, the team acts:
1) Martian Manhunter turns intangible to protect himself (especially from Magma!) while sending a telepathic bolt into Adam Warlock's mind, enough to stagger the powerful man. He then turns his attention to stalemating Quentin Quire.
2) Gates quickly buys time by sending the dazed Adam Warlock off the field to the other side of the planet. He then stalemates the other teleporter Nightshade; as Eve attacks, Gates slows her down with his own teleport disks by teleporting her shadows away.
3) Kid Quantum lets loose a barrage of quantum bubbles, slowing down Magma and Stature before either can reach her with their attacks. She ignores Magma for now as the latter has already started calling forth lava, and Stature for now as she has already started growing. She knows she will have a few more minutes.
4) Kinetix aids Gates. While Eve is starting to throw shadows at Gates, Kinetix uses her psychokinesis to keep Eve off-balance. Of course, Eve is a skilled fighter and she has probably already worn Gates down. She blasts him back even as Kinetix enters the fray.
Tally:
MM and Quentin Quire stalemating each other;
Adam Warlock off the field for a few minutes;
Gates down;
Stature and Magma in stasis for a few minutes;
Nightshade vs. Kinetix
Kinetix is just managing to snag and distract Nightshade as Eve attempts to run through her portals. Suddenly, Eve stands frozen in time - Kid Quantum has her. "Go help J'Onn!" she tells Zoe. Kid Q quickly knocks Nightshade out.
"I'm stronger than you!" Quentin yells as he rages at J'Onn.
"Debatable. And you are not more experienced," J'Onn replies. Before Quentin can retort, Kinetix slams some debris into him, knocking him out.
"Good work. Now let's remove the other two before Adam Warlock returns." As Kid Quantum drops her quantum field, J'Onn quickly zaps Magma's mind while Kinetix slams Stature backwards.
"Nice try, but you still have me to deal with." Adam Warlock swoops down from the sky and tackles J'Onn, who manages to phase. Adam realizes what he's up against and slams into Kid Quantum - the next biggest threat - before her teammates can react. Before she gets knocked out though, she manages to trigger a last quantum bubble. With Kid Quantum falling unconscious, it only lasts a few seconds, but it is enough.
The Martian Manhunter quickly slams into Adam Warlock's mind while remaining intangible. He presses the attack with Martian vision, and Kinetix backs him up with her psychokinesis. It's a long fight, but eventually the two overpower Adam.
[color:#993399]Thoth Lad's Strategy[/color]
As the contest begins…
My team vanish.
A moment later, they appear high overhead, Jo’s Flash vision blasting the arena and Ambrose slowing time down across it too.
Amazo combines the strength of a Canary cry with Zatanna’s magic to make the opposing team fall asleep. The arena audience, also within earshot of a super cry, fall asleep too. Amazo’s Martian telepathy keeps them all that way.
It’s a simple strategy, with the critical thing being to keep out of Barry Allen’s way for just a moment.
The moment where the opposing team realise where the group have gone to, should be all the time it takes for Zatanna powers to finish things off. Her magic will handily work on Deadman too. If Boston can’t sleep, he’ll not be able to possess Amazo and a further Zatanna spell to make him forget he was ever Deadman should take care of him.
Jo’s flash vision at the start has the advantage of preventing some of the opponents immediately using their powers (possibly even taking them out of the contest), particularly Mento, but also really excites all those atoms Mr Palmer may have shrunk into, sending him all over the place.
Blacula's Strategy
The two teams enter the arena, each member eyeing their opponent warily. While Karate Kid stretches his limbs and Vanisher practices some vocal exercises, the Flash removes a telegram from his glove. He unfolds the piece of paper and begins to read aloud to the gathered combatants and spectators, "To the citizens of Earth: It is with great sadness I hereby disband the Justice League. Signed, Superman."
Amazo suddenly finds himself feeling weak as the powers he derives from members of the Justice League all drain out of him. As a powerless robot he is unable to contribute anything when the fight starts.
Which it does moments later. Team Blacula spreads quickly to prevent Vanisher from targeting more than one of them with his portals.
While the Flash keeps Vanisher busy, chasing him around the arena and leaving after-images of himself in his wake to confuse his opponent, Deadman invisibly floats himself over and into Ambrose Chase to take control of his body.
Meanwhile, Mento assaults Ultra Boy's mind, keeping him off-balance and forcing him to the ground where Karate Kid easily incapacitates his erstwhile teammate.
If Ambrose Chase is somehow able to overcome Deadman's control, I have another secret weapon supremely capable of handling a physics-using character - a trained physicist! The Atom uses his decades of professional training and genius in the field of physics to ignore or overcome his opponent's abilities and get close enough to land the knock-out punch.
And while all that's going on, I have still another character able to put out any spot fires that pop up - Celsius. If Batman accidentally reforms the Justice League somewhere while the fight is happening and reactivates Amazo, she's there to incapacitate him in an inferno of flames (which he is vulnerable to since he gains the weaknesses as well as abilities of the Justice League when he copies their powers, and Martian Manhunter is a perennial member).
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