Thread by @travisdon1981

@WhoWouldWin13 Both opponents are known for their abnormal agility. They are fast, well balanced and have amazing reflexes in a fight. Gambit's projectiles are going to be fare more damaging than Legolas' arrows, though his arrows will have far greater range and far greater penetrating power

@WhoWouldWin13 (he did shoot one right through a mumakil's head!). Its unclear what kind of H2H combat the Tolkien elves undergo, but Gambit has had training from other X-Men, some of whom (Like Wolverine and Cyclops) are well accomplished martial artists.

Coming from a physically harder

@WhoWouldWin13 upbringing, Legolas may have a physicality advantage over Gambit, who was brought up in the far more comfortable 20th century. Legolas used his body FAR more often as a child and teenager than Gambit did, due to his, for all intents and purposes, Dark Age upbringing. This would

@WhoWouldWin13 result in him having far greater physicality than any similar sized human of the modern world. True, Gambit is no normal human, but a mutant gifted with super agility, but while Gambit acquired those powers sometime during puberty, Legolas, being an elf, would have had such

@WhoWouldWin13 ability from earlier in childhood, and thus has more experience using that agility.

And let's remember, Legolas is FAR older than he looks, for elves don't die of old age....

@WhoWouldWin13 ...Thus, he will potentially have more combat experience than Gambit (though this can be debated, considering how many times Gambit has been in combat situations. Its almost like every few days or weeks, when one looks at X-Men comic books).

Gambit's explosive powers are

@WhoWouldWin13 a VERY seriouss advantage in this firefight, but...I think Legolas' superior range and physicality (as well as his seeming ability to overcome (to a certain extent) the laws of physics (as seen when he "leaps" onto a horse during a battle with war riders in the second LOTR film)

@WhoWouldWin13 gives him a greater edge here.

My verdict?

@WhoWouldWin13 GIMLI LOOKS AT GAMBIT'S CORPSE, THEN TELLS LEGOLAS "HE STILL ONLY COUNTS AS ONE!!!!!"

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