A mercenary is sent to kill The Monkey King (Taskmaster vs Mori Jin)

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

Taskmaster is hired to kill Mori Jin. Can he succeed?

Rules.

The Match With Gods Arc Mori.

Taskmaster has one day of preparation time, and access to recordings of Mori Jin's fights during the First GOH tournament.

Mori Jin has prior knowledge of Taskmaster.

Speed is equalized.

 

[azontr]

Following (you home).

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

So here are some of my initial thoughts on this match-up.

Taskmaster's wall-level durability means that a single clean strike to the chin from Mori would more than likely knock him out. By the same token, Taskmaster's large building-level equipment means a single well-placed arrow, sword slash, shield throw, baton toss, etc should be enough to slump Mori, or at least cripple him. This fight should, reasonably, end on whoever gets the first clean shot.

Taskmasters with preparation can study Mori's fighting style. While copying his martial arts won't give him any real advantage, seeing him in action would allow Taskmaster to anticipate and counter his fighting style. Basically knowing his "every move" like he often claims against many marvel heroes. This, in conjunction with his shield, would make it difficult to land a finishing blow on him.

That said, Mori has dealt with opponents who can neutralize his fighting style before, and has shown the ability to quickly make up techniques on the fly, so the chances of him catching Taskmaster off guard in a melee bout is decently high. On top of some of Mori's moves having a good amount of AOE, which likely couldn't be fully blocked by his shield alone.

Since Taskmaster has prep, and a sizeable ranged advantage, he would likely opt to camp out on a building at the starting distance, and try to snipe Mori with either a sniper rifle or his arrows. Meaning the onus would be on Mori to close the distance himself.

If the range is considered unfair, I can simply restrict the area to something like an arena.

 

[azontr]

Taskmaster having prep, as has already been said, isn't that much of an advantage. Having already successfully outskilled an opponent who quite literally did know his every move, had analytical prediction of his own, and knew Mori's fighting style better than even he did, he should be able to successfully adapt to Taskmaster's every move in turn and match him.

The equipment is an issue, but not only does Mori have IR to avoid and counter death blows, which functions not only on those who are tiers faster than he is, but function even faster than he himself can think, he should be able to avoid the attacks if they come close to killing him, especially any arrows or bullets. So the ranged game won't be that effective either, albeit it is a more solid strategy, since Mori cannot magically pinpoint Taskmaster's location.

I don't really know how this match goes down. In CQC, I'd say Mori's reactive evolution will give him the edge skill-wise, and he has the ability to one-shot with AoE moves at such a range. However, if Taskmaster is at a range where Mori cannot locate him, then he can just snipe Mori, and if Mori somehow figures out his location he isn't fast enough to intercept Taskmaster before he just moves to some other hiding spot and continues sniping him and eventually getting a hit in (and ending the fight).

I want to say inconclusive tbh, purely because of Taskmaster just having the ability to rangefuck, but also likely getting his shit mixed if he decides to try and go H2H with Mori.