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Person of Interest CRT: Intelligence, Stamina, Durability, etc upgrades (2024)

Harold Finch: 10-C 9-C with Tranquilizer gun
Powers and Abilities: Genius Intelligence, Master Hacking, Singing, Acting, Clairvoyance from The Machine, Social Influencing, High Pain Threshold, Stealth Mastery, Vehicle Mastery
Origin: Person of Interest
Gender: Male
Age: 58 years old
Attack Potency: Below Human Level
Speed: Average Human (Physically impaired)
Lifting Strength: Below Human Level
Durability: Human Level
Stamina: Average
Range: Below Standard Melee Range, higher with Tranquilizer gun
Standard Equipment: Computers
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Finch is a master of creating complex computer systems. Created a Multi-Billion Dollar company, was the first known hacker of the internet wanted for treason for hacking into the Department of Defense between the 1970's - 1980's can also hack into other clandestine systems. He single-handily created The Machine a sapient superartificial intelligence capable of feeling emotions and predicting terrorist attacks across the world. Is a master tactician capable of manipulating world powers, also planted a virus within a virus on a laptop which in turn allowed the machine to free itself so no one can find or control it.)

Root {Samantha Groves}: 10-A. 9-C with weapons
Powers and Abilities: Peak Human Physical Characteristics, High Pain Threshold, Genius Intelligence, Expert Hacking, Cooking, Dancing, Acting, Skilled Marksman and Martial Arts, Analog Interface allowing second hand Clairvoyance from The Machine, Stealth Mastery, Vehicle Mastery
Origin: Person of Interest
Gender: Female
Age: 36 years old
Attack Potency: Athlete Level (Comparable if not superior to Martine and can break her neck)
Speed: Athletic Human
Lifting Strength: Above Average Human
Durability: Athlete Level
Stamina: Peak Human
Range: Standard Melee Range, higher with weapons, Planetary as the Analog Interface
Standard Equipment: Various pistols, Cochlear Implant
Intelligence: Genius (Root displayed early mastery of a computer game she had beaten when she was younger. Managed to manipulate a drug lord's bank account, stealing $100,000 and framed her childhood friend's killer for the theft which effectively got him killed. Hacked Harold Finch's computer by allowing easy access in her own system pulling a considerable amount of data, also discovered the existence of the machine. Figured out the operating patterns of Harold Finch and John Reese successfully drawing them out by putting a hit on herself by creating a false identity managing to get her number sent to Team Machine. Created a loop that allows people to be paid with their own money which makes her untraceable to Team Machine forcing John to leverage the machine into helping him.)

Sameen Shaw: 9-C
Powers and Abilities: Peak Human Physical Characteristics, Stealth Mastery, High Pain Threshold, Basic Hacking, Acting, Expert Martial Artist, Surgeon, and Marksman
Origin: Person of Interest
Gender: Female
Age: 32 years old
Attack Potency: Street Level (Can take down multiple grown men in combat)
Speed: Peak Human (Comparable to John Reese)
Lifting Strength: Peak Human
Striking Strength: Peak Human
Durability: Street Level
Stamina: High
Range: Standard Melee Range, higher with weapons
Standard Equipment: Heckler & Koch USP Compact
Intelligence: Above Average (Shaw was a highly intelligent former ISA operative as well as a skilled physician she can quickly come up with strategies to subdue threats.)

John Reese: 9-C. 9-A with Grenade Launcher and Explosives
Powers and Abilities: Peak Human Physical Characteristics, Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant, Marksman, as well as other weapons he can use to his advantage like Nail Guns, Baseball Bats, Kitchen Knives, or anything else that can be used as a weapon, Basic Hacking, Acting, Skilled Pickpocket, Lock-Picking, Tactician, Indomitable Will, and Torturer, High Pain Threshold, Secondhand Clairvoyance from The Machine
Origins: Person of Interest
Gender: Male
Age: Mid to Late 40's
Attack Potency: Street Level (Superior to Shaw, Hersh, Fusco, Carter, and Root. Can take down highly trained hitmen and government operatives with ease, comparable but inferior to Zachery ultimately killed him albeit by surprise) Small Building Level with grenade Launcher and Explosives
Speed: Peak Human combat and reaction speed, Superhuman when guided by The Machine
Lifting Strength: Peak Human
Striking Strength: Peak Human
Durability: Street Level
Stamina: Very High
Range: Standard Melee Range, higher with weapons, Planetary with God Mode
Standard Equipment: SIG-Saucer P226R, Kriss Vector, Coharie Arms CA-415, Sniper Rifle, and Grenade Launcher
Intelligence: Above Average (Is a Highly Intelligent trained former CIA operative as well as a expert martial artist, and battle tactician to subdue his opponents can identify former military personnel and operatives by their tactics and weaponry. Managed to track down Root and Finch with The Machine and Carter's help but did the rest by himself.)

The Machine: 9-C. 7-C. Possibly High 6-A with Nuclear Weapons
Powers and Abilities: Genius Intelligence, Inorganic Physiology, Information Analysis, Clairvoyance, Technology Manipulation, Master Hacking, Precognition, Data Manipulation, Resistance to Hacking, and Duplication
Origin: Person of Interest
Gender: Genderless Female (Root) or Male (Reese)
Age: 10 years old
Attack Potency: Street Level. Town Level (can access cruise missiles), Multi-Continent Level (Can access nuclear weapons so it can possibly destroy entire countries all over the world with enough time)
Speed: Supersonic
Durability: Below Average Human Level
Range: Planetary
Standard Equipment: Inapplicable
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Developed abilities that were unexpected starting with it's sapience. Can predict and see premeditated deaths before they happen. It prevented a total of 54 terrorist attacks. Stated by it's creator to be significantly smarter than himself with not even an algorithm in the world that could stop its exponential growth, simulated entire alternate worlds where The Machine doesn't exist with 96.8% accuracy, can fool even its own human agents into doing it's bidding.)
 
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This thread is just absolutely terrible.

It is very difficult to understand what you are suggesting

You've added things that are already in their profile and it's unnecessary. Also you didn't add any scans.
 
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This thread is just absolutely terrible.

It is very difficult to understand what you are suggesting

You've added things that are already in their profile and it's unnecessary. Also you didn't add any scans.
Explain first of all please?
 
I will explain in more detail so that you can understand better

By the way, I'm talking about this CRT
okay explain

Well first of all no one's stamina is superhuman just high human because that would mean they aren't human and this show does not have superhuman feats just peak human not factoring in powers and abilities from the machine's god mode.
 
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Let's start with Harold.

Abilities Part​

These abilities are already in Harold's profile. And they have explanations and references. But you added it anyway

AP Part​

Harold is already at Bellow Human Level and you wrote it again in the OP. Why? This is already in his profile.

Speed Part​

Harold is a Below Average Human because he has a leg injury. But you say he has the same speed as an average human.

LF Part​

Harold is already at Bellow Human Level.

Durability Part​

Harold is already at Human Level

Staima Part​

Harold has superhuman stamina. And it's in his profile. But you're trying to bring him down to average without using any scans.

Intelligence Part​

Harold is already Extraordinary Genius. And his profile explains in much more detail why.

The others are the same way

You must have understood the main text. What you have written is already available in more detail in their profiles.

You say Root is weaker than Team Machine and the Samaritan agents. Even if she can fight them. Still no scan.

You say Reese was 9-A with a grenade launcher, but there's no calculation.
 
okay explain

Well first of all no one's stamina is superhuman just high human because that would mean they aren't human and this show does not have superhuman feats just peak human not factoring in powers and abilities from the machine's god mode.
This is not how it works. By this logic, we should downgrade almost all 9-B and 9-A level characters on the wiki because they are human.
 
Reese have superhuman speed because he is guided by the Machine

What? Are you serious?

That's not how it works
 
And The Machine is definitely not Supergenius. For Supergenius you need to develop a technology that can warp reality on the H 3-A scale. And the machine has never done anything at that level.
 
Let's start with Harold.

Abilities Part​

These abilities are already in Harold's profile. And they have explanations and references. But you added it anyway
Then why are they changing it now? Again if they have explanations and references it shouldn't be changed at all. I just added some additional information about these characters that their respective pages are lacking.

AP Part​

Harold is already at Bellow Human Level and you wrote it again in the OP. Why? This is already in his profile.
I just wanted to display all their characteristics before making some improvements

Speed Part​

Harold is a Below Average Human because he has a leg injury. But you say he has the same speed as an average human.
He is a stealth master despite walking with a limb that should slow him down Reese and Shaw have lost him at one point and appeared.

LF Part​

Harold is already at Bellow Human Level.
Again I'm just displaying his characteristics and showing some improvements

Durability Part​

Harold is already at Human Level
Displaying and showing improvements

Staima Part​

Harold has superhuman stamina. And it's in his profile. But you're trying to bring him down to average without using any scans.
Again no one is superhuman this is not a fantasy show they live and die as normal humans.

Intelligence Part​

Harold is already Extraordinary Genius. And his profile explains in much more detail why.
Yeah It just changed recently before he was at least a genius for his intelligence.
The others are the same way

You must have understood the main text. What you have written is already available in more detail in their profiles.

You say Root is weaker than Team Machine and the Samaritan agents. Even if she can fight them. Still no scan.
Root is not a trained Ex-CIA or ISA operative and she has not served in the military like Shaw or Reese she's a hacker I'm not saying she can't learn any martial arts moves I'm saying she has no experience and her body has not been put through combat situations like those two.
You say Reese was 9-A with a grenade launcher, but there's no calculation.
grenade launcher and explosives.
 
Then why are they changing it now? Again if they have explanations and references it shouldn't be changed at all. I just added some additional information about these characters that their respective pages are lacking.
The only thing you add is things like singing. And that doesn't even need to be added.
I just wanted to display all their characteristics before making some improvements

He is a stealth master despite walking with a limb that should slow him down Reese and Shaw have lost him at one point and appeared.
As you said yourself, it is a limb that slows him down. And he was able to ditch not because he was fast but because he was a master of stealth.

Again no one is superhuman this is not a fantasy show they live and die as normal humans.
Just because you think so doesn't change anything.

Root is not a trained Ex-CIA or ISA operative and she has not served in the military like Shaw or Reese she's a hacker I'm not saying she can't learn any martial arts moves I'm saying she has no experience and her body has not been put through combat situations like those two.
It doesn't matter if she didn't join the army or didn't receive training by CIA or ISA. She can fight Samaritan agents who can fight Reese and Shawn.
grenade launcher and explosives.
Grenade launchers are classified as 9-B. Prove it's 9-A.
 
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Reese have superhuman speed because he is guided by the Machine

What? Are you serious?

That's not how it works
Yes because Shaw couldn't keep up with him and both of them are comparable in terms of speed hell even the Decima goons that get hit can't react to being shot by someone who knows where and when they'll come.
 
Yes because Shaw couldn't keep up with him and both of them are comparable in terms of speed hell even the Decima goons that get hit can't react to being shot by someone who knows where and when they'll come.
Shawn couldn't keep up because she didn't know where the agents were coming from. Also, the only thing the Machine did was to tell Reese in a normal conversation where the agents were going to come out, there's no speed boost.
 
The only thing you add is things like singing. And that doesn't even need to be added.
Why Harold can sing why not add something that he's good at besides computers?
As you said yourself, it is a limb that slows him down. And he was able to ditch not because he was fast but because he was a master of stealth.
I said despite walking with a limp that should slow him down but it doesn't.
Just because you think so doesn't change anything.
It should because if you're just adding superhuman to a show with normal humans then what is the point of pages like these it doesn't make sense?
It doesn't matter if he didn't join the army or didn't receive training by CIA or ISA. She can fight Samaritan agents who can fight Reese and Shawn.
you mean she and barely Root mostly uses a gun in hand not unarmed.
Grenade launchers are classified as 9-B. Prove it's 9-A.
Can't bombs, C-4, or other explosive weapons be used to destroy a room or small building?
 
Shawn couldn't keep up because she didn't know where the agents were coming from. Also, the only thing the Machine did was to tell Reese in a normal conversation where the agents were going to come out, there's no speed boost.
I never said there was but knowing where the agents are coming from before they can react and hit them is a type of superhuman feat albeit with help from the machine.
 
Again, you are breaking the discussion rules by not adding scans, video clips or quotes, so either add them or I will ask a staff member to close it
Your really going to go this far and do that?

I'm just trying to be realistic the pages of the characters of POI are bad.

you know what your right
 
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Why Harold can sing why not add something that he's good at besides computers?
Because it's nothing remarkable.
I said despite walking with a limp that should slow him down but it doesn't.
His leg was clearly slowing Harold down. This wouldn't be an obstacle if it didn't slow it down.
It should because if you're just adding superhuman to a show with normal humans then what is the point of pages like these it doesn't make sense?
It doesn't work that way. If you look at the human characters in the wiki, you can see that they are even at level 9-A.
you mean she and barely Root mostly uses a gun in hand not unarmed.


Can't bombs, C-4, or other explosive weapons be used to destroy a room or small building?
The weapon Reese uses is a grenade launcher, and not every grenade is level 9-A. And not every explosive is 9-A.
 
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And The Machine is definitely not Supergenius. For Supergenius you need to develop a technology that can warp reality on the H 3-A scale. And the machine has never done anything at that level.
I thought creating/warping a person's mind, making alternate simulated worlds in which an ASI does not exist, predicting/calculating dozens of premeditated crimes worldwide, and slowly changing humanity's current state into a better more efficient world was supergenius level?
 
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