[quote=@Enki]
I mean, we can do it your way and then we could just compare sheets and mathematically figure out who would win each match and not even have to rp it out! Absolutely ridiculous.
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You must not participate in many tournaments, at least not at lower power levels, because you seem to be fundamentally mistaking the concept of limiting factors. An Arena fight involving meta-humans, and even ordinary people, comes down to a vast number of differing factors. How in the world would you compare two vastly different power sets and then 'mathematically' figure out who would win? This isn't BS Deadliest Warrior computer software, there's so many variables at play I'm not even sure how you could make this point with a straight face. That's not what I'm talking about at all.

All numbers do is limit you. They say 'well, I can create a fucking fireball out of my fingers, but it only burns so hot, it tires me out, and I can only throw it this far.' If someone brought a completely ordinary pistol into an Arena fight and then fired rockets with it you'd complain, because you know what a pistol can do, why is it so much to ask that people describe what their powers can do before a fight begins, so that they're not BS'ing rockets when the situation demands it? 

The fact is, people who refuse to properly articulate the full range of their powers, people who refuse to use any limiting factors numerical or otherwise, are simply afraid to place any hard-limits on themselves. They don't want to be up against the wall when they make a stupid mistake, they want full flexibility to pull out whatever they want when they want it. That's up to them, but that's not what I'm interested in and I think you're short-selling yourself for doing it. Fight with real limitations and you start thinking tactically, you don't have magic as a crutch all the time and you get better as a result at all levels.