User blog comment:AtheistUntoDeath/Which of these Champions would win? part 6/@comment-24946635-20140611212253

For the convenience of AtheistUntoDeath, I'm going to summarize what I think was the consensus of the discussion between Wandering Stranger and me.

1. This is a ridiculously hard call. Both champions have immense strength, immense skill, and lots of advantages in combat. Most noteworthy are Olaf's berserker rage and Pantheon's relic weaponry.

2. This is not going to be much of a long-range battle. Neither champion has much of a spammable long-range attack. Both have lethal long-range attacks, and both are totally capable of using them, but neither champion is suited or really capable of holding back and shooting, or shooting and trying to reclaim ammo to try and shoot again.

3. This battle will be primarily decided by how the battle initially unfolds and on the nature of Pantheon's armor (is it a relic also?) If Pantheon's armor is a relic (a dubious claim), then he has an advantage in all forms of combat and will win. If not, then Pantheon has an advantage at long-range and a disadvantage at close-range. The battle will then depend on Pantheon's ability to land a good spear throw before he closes with Olaf. A single hit will be sufficient, not necessarily to win outright, but to gain the edge needed to win.

4. There is a key question of the resistance of Olaf, in real life, to stunning or crippling blows. Most people accept at face value that Olaf can plow through any non-lethal injury, but I hold that extreme concussive blows to the head (from Pantheon's shield) or broken limbs will still restrict his motion or make Olaf black out momentarily.

On this basis, I say Pantheon, by a slim margin. But I think that many people would give Olaf point 4, and if you do give him point 4, then I think he'll win. Sry Atheist, but I can't give you much definitively.

If you like, we can have you flip a coin and post the video on youtube :)  On behalf of Pantheon, I call tails, since there's an eagle on the back of most quarters.