I'm necro-ing hard here oof
So if I'm understanding correctly, Lightning and Thomas are in an infinitely long tunnel, and McQueen can only use his weapons once before needing an item box to use them again (which I'll assume he can't find)
McQueen is faster, allowing him to always keep a distance from Thomas, and even with the limitation of only being able to use each weapon once, he still has plenty in his arsenal. He's got:
- Green Missiles (Shoot straight)
- Red Missiles (These are guided)
- Blue Missiles (These ones work like the blue shell from Mario Kart... so I guess he ends up exploding himself? Maybe he shouldn't use them lol)
- The grenade launcher (can't remember the name exactly, shoots in an arc, explodes, it's a grenade launcher idfk)
- Mini guns
- Mines
- Probably more I'm forgetting about. Maybe the oil slick?
Anyways, point is, he's got all these weapons. Even with the AP gap, is Thomas really gonna be able to tank all this? 3.5x isn't that terrible a gap. I think that like, Human Level and Athlete Level are 3.5x apart.
BUT EVEN THEN, McQueen has an ace up his sleeve. I mean, tire. You see, just by making tricks like
driving backwards or on two wheels (5:40), he accumulates boost. And when he has full boost, he goes into the "In the zone" status which
makes him invulnerable and strong enough to send cars flying by just touching them (1:00). You can see that in that last video, as soon as he touches mater, he gets sent flying away, and the (unrelated) explosion, which would've normally knocked McQueen away, only makes him briefly lose balance for a second. So basically, if lightning runs out of weapons and Thomas is still standing, he can try accumulating boost and charging at Thomas while in the zone as a last resort.
So yeah. Voting McQueen mid/low diff