I haven't watched the movie so Idk how in character is for her to BFR an enemy (specially after realizing her powers)
Wdym by skills?
Homelander can't fight for shit. Homelander would prob just try to spam heat vision in which Chavez would just resist with her Heat/Temp Manip resistance.
I invite you to rewatch his fight against Soldier Boy, Butcher and specially Maeve. Everyone say "oh, it's because he is stronger", but not by such a margin it would make the skill difference don't matter, specially when he does block and dodge attacks with good coordination and counter attacks this highly skilled fighter.
Soldier Boy resists heat and got burn too, so she needs very high heat resistance to actually tank it.
Simply going by her profile, there's no details on what her magic does (in fact it seems she was learning, but not that she already knows) and acausality doesn't matter here at all.
That's understandable, but she also seems to just leave the portals there and see what happens. So, Homelander could avoid falling in. Not forever of course, but if he escapes one he wouldn't fall twice, and if he keeps his distance, then he would be safe
The resistance to heat manipulation in question: Hi.
Soldier Boy tanking 3500°C fire and still getting burn by Heat Vision:
Can she do it at a distance? If she only does it with her punches, then Homelander keeping distance is all he needs. Sure, he can be stupid and get BFR if he gets too cocky up close, but also he could fly out before she closes the portals
Well yes. Her hands were bound here along with her not having a gesture of any sort to create one here, along with her creating a portal from her mind with enough anger here, albeit it being a dream. It appears that the portal has some sort of vacuum functionality which can suck in Strange. She can close the portal whenever she wishes as well. It's very vague how far she can create her portals (looks to be a few meters) but they seem to be very fast acting and she can prob create a portal very far from her position, which can just suck in Homelander and just... yeah.
So, those two (for what I see) is her being forced to do it like that, but her other scenes scenes have her doing it with physical contact or a gesture
So, possible, but not her go-to
How struck is the portal's suction? Is possible Homelander's LS would allow him to resist it?
Correct me if I'm wrong since I haven't watched the film, but from video, it seems her portals have that suction initially, but by the end, when she controls her powers, the portals open normally?
Maybe? At that point it feels like assumptions, though it goes both ways for the argument.
Probably not from the get go, given the starting distance and Homelander mostly using Heat Vision, but if he gets close for a finisher, like ripping her in half or some, he could maybe get caught off guard
I'll count it
What superior skills? Homelander is better in combat in this match up
Only a tad bit, and wouldn't even be enough to be relevant in this fight considering Homelander shrugs off the feat that he's scaling to
Only one would be relevant which are the portals, and its suction ability wouldn't pull Homelander due to his LS and wouldn't make sense for him to just jump into the portal either. Also he outranges with his heat vision and is literally his first move in 90% of the battles he's in
Nah. Chavez has like, nearly no skill combat feats. Homelander has fought superhumans since he was a child while being trained by Vought, and has fought guys with H2H combat skills like Soldier Boy and Butcher
Still an advantage
Equalized Speed. Chavez should be able to dodge.
Chavez has fought several monsters far above Homelander and picked up skills from all across the multiverse from heroes who fight actual threats. Homelander fought his dad, a brit, and a **** - a fight which he didn't even win.
And an extremely minor one. Like Im sure there's a bigger gap between your average joe and an MMA fighter than Homie and Chavez. It wont change much
The gap between them is 10 meters, nothing stops Homelander to just do this and cleave through the entire area that she is in, and he wouldn't give a f about collateral damage. And having equal speed doesn't change much, Chavez has never faced someone similar to Homelander who shoots laser beams like Homie and she lacks the mobility to idk, like jump above the laser or dodge for a long time since she lacks physical training.
Most monsters that she fought were overpowering her or where beaten by her using her portals, besides her skills aren't noteworthy and her going across the multiverse doesn't prove she has good fighting skills.
