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Fight explanation time. MLA cheat sheet:

Fight Lineup:
Sunspot - Flight, superstrength, superspeed, concussive blasts, solar-absorption and redirection that makes all his other abilities stronger. Also absorbs light, heat, radiation, etc.
Sebastian Shaw - Extreme energy absorption and redirection. Every hit makes him stronger with little to no upper limit
Darwin - Hey another person that can survive pretty much every hit, as well as like any condition. His whole thing is being basically unkillable
Northstar - Light blasts and manipulation, flight, extreme superspeed
Cloak - Teleportation, darkness manipulation (pairs extremely well with northstar), intangibility, and most importantly can drag people into the dark realm, where they'll experience their worst nightmares and slowly drain their life force
Jimmy Hudson - Wolverine, but stronger and with shapeshifting

Fight Lineup:
Copycat - excellent shapeshifter, but ultimately doesn't contribute anything to this fight
Gateway - Cloak-level teleporter, but unlike Cloak doesn't have combat abilities beyond just teleporting
Sprite - Has wings, is physically strong
Wild Child - Healing factor. Kind of like Jimmy, but weaker in every other aspect
Longshot - Domino-like luck powers. We'll come back to him
Professor X - y'all know who this is

Ok, not to dismiss the enemy team, but the only real threat here is Professor X. Strength and ability-wise, they're completely outmatched, with Copycat and Gateway not particularly contributing much, and Sprite and Wild Child just being signficantly weaker versions of powersets already on my team.

The issue with Professor X is that it's all or nothing, and everyone on the team knows that, especially brilliant strategist Sebastian Shaw. Charles is the most well known person on the enemy team and doesn't exactly blend in among the others. Unfortunately for Charles, there is Cloak, someone who can instantaneously teleport close to him and literally drag him off the battlefield into the dark realm, where there are no mind games to be played. Charles' psychic powers are great but he has no physical way to defend himself, especially against a superspeedster and a teleporter.

Then there's Longshot, who is tricky primarily for his luck, but that only goes so far against extreme power like Sunspot, Northstar and Shaw. But in addition to that, there's an important thing to note in Longshot's power set: "should he give up hope, his powers will fail to function or even backfire, giving him bad luck." So what could make him give up hope? Perhaps Cloak, the man who can transport him into a realm where he will experience his worst fears while his life force is drained. If that's not the definition of hope-stealing, I don't know what is.

And at the end of the day, there's just not much way to hurt this team. Shaw, Darwin, Sunspot and Jimmy are all particularly notable for how damn hard they all to kill (especially Darwin, who has literally survived being touched by the god of death).

AND THEN there's friendly fire. Friendly fire on my team that is. Shaw's energy absorption is nothing to fuck with, and here we've got Sunspot, who can redirect the energy of the sun, and Northstar, who can move at almost light speed, and when that amount of solar and kinetic energy hits Sebastian fucking Shaw, you can consider the enemy team all but nuked.
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