Thread by @travisdon1981

@WhoWouldWin13 Heck yes!!

First thing we have to consider here is the Emperor Sea Strider's weaponry. Its a giant bipedal animal that stands 620 feet tall (the documentary version is a whole lot shorter, but the image above is from the book, so I'll base this on the bigger book version).

@WhoWouldWin13 It walks perpetually on the Amoebic "Sea", a giant collection of micro-organisms that now and again reached out to grab the flying young of the Emperor Sea Strider (among other flying creatures). The Emperor Sea Strider pays it back with each stomp, for its mouths are located

@WhoWouldWin13 on its feet, and they can take a big chomp out of the sea with each footfall. Now one reason why it can get so big, and yet not sink into the "sea" is because the Emperor Sea Strider is an alien animal from Darwin IV, a planet much smaller than earth. With less gravity, there's

@WhoWouldWin13 less restrictions on how big life can get.

However, this doesn't fully explain why the Emperor Sea Strider gets so big. You see, when scientists re-examined the book "Expedition" by Wayne Douglas Barlowe, they realized that, even on a planet with as little gravity as Darwin IV,

@WhoWouldWin13 no animal could grow that size, thus why they made it only 7 stories (70 feet) high for the documentary "Alien Planet".

After all, it would have to be smaller...unless it was made out of stronger than normal biological material.

Just like Mothra and Godzilla are made out of.

@WhoWouldWin13 Now some may cry foul, saying that Skewers (huge flying predators on Darwin IV) have on 1 occasion taken down a Emperor Sea Strider, and they are not likewise made out of a super strong form of flesh.

However, this assumes that the Skewers didn't find a soft spot or

@WhoWouldWin13 vulnerable area on the Emperor Sea Strider, and thus take it out.

Hence, there is no objection to the idea that the Emperor Sea Strider has developed stronger than normal biological material, and thus has become far larger than what is normally biologically possible, just like

@WhoWouldWin13 Kaiju like Mothra.

So, given this, could the Emperor Sea Strider take on Mothra?

Well, for starters, Mothra can fly around, and is pretty intelligent, while the Emperor Sea Strider is not the brightest or fastest monster around. Indeed, its mouths, which could potentially

@WhoWouldWin13 bite Mothra, are on its feet, and I doubt it could kick fast enough t catch Mothra. Along with this, Mothra could fire silk (in some films, she can do this as an adult!), and can fire lighting from her wings. However, Emperor Sea Striders don't even feel lighting, and I doubt

@WhoWouldWin13 that the webbing would stop one.

However, the Emperor Sea Strider may have one potentially powerful weapon:

Sonar.

@WhoWouldWin13 You see, all the animals on Darwin IV are blind. Though some probably had eyes ages ago, they all see their world through highly advanced sonar. They use that sonar to ping their surroundings. Emperor Sea Striders are no different, and the bigger the animal...the bigger the

@WhoWouldWin13 ping.

Sonar can damage animals. Indeed, submarines have been known to deafen whales with their sonar pings. Whales see through sonar, so to be deafened like this would mean certain death. Thus the Sea Strider, if threatened, may unleash a mighty sonar ping that could rattle

@WhoWouldWin13 Mothra's ancestors.

Then again...,maybe not.

You see, skewers did on one recorded occasion take down an Emperor Sea Strider, and though they are big, they are nowhere NEAR as big as a Sea Strider. If a Strider could use such sonar as a weapon, why didn't it do so then?

@WhoWouldWin13 Indeed, since Sea Striders usually travel in groups, why didn't they all use their sonar pings at the same time to kill or drive off the Skewers?

Either its because they were incapable of using sonar as a weapon, the Skewers had developed an immunity to sonar-based attacks

@WhoWouldWin13 (not impossible, considering the amount of time that sonar had been evolving on Darwin IV. There obviously had to have been animals in its past as well as present who could use sonar as a weapon, and others that had developed defenses against it. Both would be well suited for a

@WhoWouldWin13 predator to have), or it was afraid of harming its much, much smaller young with such pings (remember, the babies and young Emperor Sea Striders fly around their adults).

@WhoWouldWin13 However, since this is a 1 on 1, its possible that no babies will be around, thus freeing the Sea Strider to unleash absolute sonar.

And since Mothra has no experience with such attacks, the Emperor Sea Strider could rattle it.

Still, Mothra is freaking tough, and like the

@WhoWouldWin13 Skewers of Darwin IV, its fly in and land serious wounds on her prey. She is far more damaging and far more terrifying. Plus, though the Emperor Sea Strider may be able to use sonar as a weapon, most of the time it relies on its size alone to defend itself, while Mothra, though

@WhoWouldWin13 also massive, comes from an era where animals the size of the Emperor Sea Strider were common. Thus, Mothra didn't rely on her size to protect it during the original time period that it roamed in; it relied on ferocity and amazing natural weaponry.

Thus, I must conclude...

@WhoWouldWin13 #MOTHRA SENDS #EMPERORSEASTRIDER BACK TO #KAIJU SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!

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