Actually most of you are wrong :
Smaug does have a chance.. Maybe not to kill (considering we knows too little about what could actually kill Godzilla) but to incapacitate him for a while (considering it takes a while for the regenerative powers to kick in)..
Here is my reasoning..
Smaug is 130 meters long (WETA digital's Joe Lettery interview on Smaug) which makes him a bit larger than the Male MUTO who is 61 meters tall..
Basically Smaug is longer than Godzilla is tall.. When all drawn on the same line up with accurate proportion we can see that Smaug is not as massive as the Female MUTO, clearly not as massive as Godzilla but a bit more massive than the Male MUTO..
I did the line up on paper a while ago but I don't have a scanner to share it with you.. BUt I think it is clear when you look at movie clips that a 130 meters long creature with Smaug's proportions is going to be a bit bigger than a 61 meter tall creature with the Male MUTO's "body" (quote because it's f**king weird)..
Then again if too many of you can't see it, I might oblige and make a digital version to share it with you..
So as we saw in the Legendary's Godzilla movie, a smaller creature that flies can give him a hard time and actually puts up a fight and be able to deal slight damage and cause pain to Godzilla (I invite you to watch the fight between the Male Muto and Godzilla again, check the reaction of Godzilla when he is bitten and when he got the MUTO's claws digging their way into his skin)
Now to compare his strength with the MUTOs..
Apparently, the Male MUTO was impaled by what seems to be Concrete pillars with reinforcement steel .. I postulate that Smaug wouldn't have been impaled in such a way... I postulate that the Pillars would have broke on contact with Smaug in the same way that they broke on contact with the Male MUTO but also that they wouldn't have managed to pierce Smaug's hide..
- Smaug is a Uruloki, designed to fight giant eagles (the biggest one in book cannon was 60 meters wide) and deflect magic arrows (the first elves are essentially god, period! they fought against armies of Balrogs and "fleet" of dragons, they had a fleet of flying boat of light!) in the war of wrath in the first age which means Smaug is extremly resistant to penetra.. ahem!.. piercing damage* (sorry about that x'D) Not only the scales are tougher than a simple hide but the shape of his body gives the scale a better ability to deflect piercing blows..
- Those pillars are not made to pierce.. there is a huge difference in piercing potential between something that is designed for it and something that isn't, concrete with reinforcement steel may be rather tough but we're talking about huge monsters, they should be tougher than our buildings and it shows when we see them destroy them easily yet struggle to kill each other.. Honestly I don't think the Male Muto should have died so easily but it's cannon, that's what they decided, they decided to make him fucking weak that he would be killed a building that was supposed to cushion Godzilla's tail slap.. Do you expect a Kaiju to destroy a destroy a building with a swipe only to have its paw/hand/whatever be impaled by a pillar.. NO it's lame, it shouldn't happen, that was completely stupid? I would love to blame the plot for that and not the Male MUTO but I am not as nice as to abandon this Gold mine for Smaug and i don't particularly like the MUTOs cuz design sucks!
- Smaug HEADBUTTED the gate to Erebor!! A dwarven gate! they managed to build Erebor, a city as big as Monaco INSIDE a mountain that is also a Gold mine in which there is as much Gold as in MOTHERFUCKING INDIA! Their pillars are MUCH MUCH tougher than the ones in our sky-crappers and the Gate to Erebor is fucking huge.. Smaug would be able to head butt one of our sky-crappers, that wouldn't even phase him.. Just look at the size of his neck, he shouldn't be able to headbutt something that tough like that, it should break his neck.. He's not supposed to be a brawler with such a thin Body.. If you really look at it in depth, you'll understand that Smaug is unnaturally strong like pretty much every old character in the Tolkien Universe, he is much stronger than what his body may show.. of course it's not to the point of Saitama or random skinny and weak looking shonen main characters but still it's freaky.. Remember when he took flight covered in tons of liquid Gold? Check it back, he's 130 meters long.. yup that's pretty much the speed of sound while taking flight! (the hardest part of flying) AND covered in tons of liquid gold!
As a bonus, Smaug has a lot of experience in fights because dragons are territorial and he hasn't always be supreme among his kind (keep in mind the uruloki were bred by Sauron and Morgoth 7000 years before the event in the Hobbit).
Alright, so he's stronger than the Male MUTO and wins him pretty much all of the times..
What about the female though?
Well that would certainly be much tougher, she can be quite vicious but no flight.. no ranged attack.. and also she has the same kind of skin than her mate just a bit tougher so pretty weak.. I don't think she would be able to do anything but I wouldn't say Smaug has her strength... and Even though that EMP weakening atomic breath is stupid AF, I'll still agree that Smaug would take more damage than her if struck by an atomic breath.. Also it would certainly ground him..
How I see the fight going..
Smaug would pretty much toy with Godzilla and be very cocky and arrogant.. he would attack from behind and gouge his eyes out with his claws
He would underestimate Godzilla and certainly be very surprised when he'd piss Big G enough to make him use his atomic breath, that wouldn't kill him though and Godzilla might have trouble to hit if he's blinded..
The thing here is that Godzilla is arrogant too and don't waste atomic breath on weaklings like that, it's not free to him like it is for an immortal magical being like Smaug.. Godzilla had to spend a lot of energy for his ranged attack which is why he "seems to be forgetting he can do it".. he doesn't forget, he's just trying to not waste.. So yeah Smaug wouldn't have a hard time blinding him.. Of course, Smaug might want to use the dragon spell (yes it's in the movie cannon too why do you think Bilbo removed the ring? Sauron is the father of dragons, he was a shapeshifter (original Norse God Loki anyone? fenrir, Jormungandr.. Tolkien took inspiration).. seeing the eye of Sauron hinted to this link there is between them)..
So yeah.. it's still rigged a bit in Godzilla's favor but I'd say 6/4 for Godzilla.. It's pretty much a matter of Plot cuz they both have their chance against the other..
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