@algorhythm511 said:
- Batman gets prep times that are way outside of anything in the comics. (15000 Years to beat Galactus, come on. It is impossible to say what would happen considering how technology progresses.)
- Batman's intelligence and prep are both over and underrated at the same time.
- No, he is NOT on the scientific level as Doom or Reed.
- However, he has hacked and reversed engineered Kryptonian and Apokolyptian tech. He is one of 5 people that can rebuild Red Tornado. He built Brother Eye. When you think about it, his strongest feats are in electrical engineering and computer science.
- In Mechanical Engineering, Steel and Stark both beat him out.
- In Quantum Physics, which makes most of the more advanced tech possible (cosmic being defeating tech at least ;) ). Doom, Reed, Pym, etc >>>>> Bats
- In terms of Abductive Logic (the core of his detective skills, and is also the main driving force behind his strategy and tactics) he is the best in the comics.
- Green Arrow is the most underrated character on this board. His H2H, melee, resources, intelligence, and marksmanship are all definitely underrated.
- There are many instances where dodging or catching trick arrows will do any good.
I agree with your points about Batman no he isn't as smart as people like Reed, Doom and Stark but he's still very smart. He's built a teleporter and in Futures End he built a time machine along with other impressive tech feats. My unpopular opinion is that his intelligence is actually a little underrated. People are so obsessed with pointing out who's smarter than him that they don't focus on how smart he really is. People always go on about how overrated he is but how can you be overrated when the majority don't think highly of you? There are more Batman is overrated threads and posts than there are underrated ones.
I can't agree more. I have noticed that whenever Batman & intelligence are mentioned in the same sentence, people will go into wild tangents and lose focus on the actual battle. Even when Batman is a small part of the battle. :o
I remember one battle where it was a was a battle between teams of "prep masters". A lot of people had to go out of their way to point out that Batman was the "weakest link", lol. Usually, in a team battle you focus on the key players. So, that says to me that people can't focus on the actual task at hand when Batman is in the mix.
For me, OTOH, I recognized pretty quickly where he would add value to the team even if he wasn't a key player (namely Intel Analysis/Detective Work). Then I saw John Constantine's name and concluded that Constantine was all the team needed, lol. But seriously, I was able to place everyone into a role on both teams.
So, I think Batman's non-technical skills are definitely underrated--especially when it comes to a team.
But, people have an ax to grind. We all know how "popular" Chew's threads were, lol.
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