Well, our esteemed Overlord seems to have added a new batch of killers to her service.  That’s tragic, of course, and the fact that she can do so is disturbing on levels it would be too depressing to enunciate.  But there’s nothing we can do about any of that, so let’s indulge in the time honored pastime of speculating about which of our oppressors would win in a fight.

Vs. Sixth Fist:

Ultimately, this fight would be inconclusive.  Fader’s anchoring of Sixth Fist is literally legendary.  Prevailer failed to kill her.  Nothing that Fourth Fist could do would have any shot at putting so much as a wound on her.  But the same is true in reverse, as well.

Preventer is Ultra tough three, by all accounts.  Nobody in Sixth Fist can harm her, so there would ultimately end up being at least one survivor from each team, rendering the whole affair pointless.

Still, the question of which team would end up boxing up the other’s anchor is worth considering.

Fourth Fist’s wide area Ultra has to be Indulger.  He controls the land for miles around, which would mean that Sixth Fist’s members would be fighting the land as well as their opponents.

Sixth Fist, by contrast, has Blinder, meaning that Fourth Fist would be fighting literally blind.  A lot of Twister’s impressive Tally is due to the fact that her opponents can’t see.

These hindrances aren’t really equal, though.  Indulger can just bury his enemies and crush them, and he doesn’t really need to see in order to do it.  Reliable testimony says that he is aware of everything in contact with the ground, which means that Blinder’s schtick would be basically negated.

Charger and Consumer couldn’t survive this.  Charger’s power is dependent on momentum, and he couldn’t really build up any with Indulger working him over.  Consumer is just a human, as far as durability goes.  She’d be done from a rock spike or something.

Blinder would be another victim of the earth tomb.  The power that she draws from light wouldn’t avail her once she was buried.  So much for the ace of Sixth Fist.

That just leaves Twister, and here at last Indulger’s trump fails.  With her flexibility and strength she could burrow through anything he could drop on her, Fourth Fist would actually have to fight against her.

Fisher is something of a lightweight, as far as we can tell.  Twister would shred her like she has so many others.  One day there might be a fight there, but they are close enough to one another that Twister’s vastly greater experience would allow her to swiftly prevail.

Condemner, however, is where that would end.  Twister has no way to overcome an opponent of living flame.  It seems like she’d be burned up by Fourth Fist’s killer.

Sixth Fist vs. Fourth Fist: Fourth Fist wins, but cannot finish Fader off.

Vs 5th Fist:

Fifth Fist is weak.  No way to really get around that.  They are conspicuously the wimpiest of Her minions.  But their success rate is incredible, and we have to respect that.

Traditionally, the usual way to factor in Predictor’s power is to assume that they get the drop on their enemies.  So that’s what we’ll do here.

Figure they get Indulger off of the ground, in a building or something.  Tamer and Gardener have gathered every minion that could conveniently be found.  They suddenly jump Fourth Fist.

Ordinarily, I’d give this one to Fourth Fist anyway.  Condemner is a fire monster, Gardener has a tree army.  It doesn’t seem like this is a good matchup.  But we have experimental data, if KEM can be believed, that suggests that this fight has actually happened, and they trussed him up like a turkey.

Given that, and every other advantage that we can think up, Fourth Fist is pretty hosed.  Haunter’s army is made of fog people or something, and they die when touched.  Gardener and Tamer have armies of actual monsters.  Indulger and Condemner are nonentities, if off the ground and wet respectively.  Fisher is no match for Slicer.

I give this one to Predictor’s crew.  In an ambush, they take Fourth Fist apart.  They have no way to kill Preventer, but they could take the rest of them out in short order.

Fifth Fist vs. Fourth Fist: Fifth Fist wins but cannot finish Preventer off.

Vs. 3rd Fist:

Third Fist is massively more powerful than the new Fourth Fist, and they are also really well positioned against them.  This one would probably be over almost before it even begins.

Leveller hard counters Condemner, unless something incredibly counter intuitive happens.  Mover takes care of the Indulger problem, she can just lift her team away from the ground at the first sign of trouble.

If we factor out the wide ranging powers, then Blaster, Evolver and Killer are still better combatants than Fisher, Haunter and Preventer.  They’ve been a Fist for decades, have died and killed countless times.

This one goes to Third Fist, in a rout, so long as there isn’t something about Haunter’s powers that I am missing.

Third Fist vs Fourth Fist: Third Fist annihilates Fourth Fist but cannot finish Preventer off. (Probably.  The upper level of Killer’s powers have not been explored.)

Vs. 2nd Fist:

Our newcomers have a bit easier time here.  The Regime’s Ruling Fist is generally unsuited for direct combat.

Choker is the closest thing that Second Fist has to the range of Indulger, and it isn’t all that close.  They would fall under his tremor attack long before Choker’s fog would reach their enemies.

Bomber and Destroyer would likely both persist even after the ground turned against them.  Bomber flies, and Destroyer is just too tough to be stopped by mere matter.

Destroyer is fierce, to be sure, but Condemner is a problem that she doesn’t have a solution to.  Absent an X factor, she gets burned up.

Bomber would be difficult for Fourth Fist to deal with.  They can’t really reach her up in the sky, and she would have Refiner’s blessing on her outfit to protect her from Haunter’s minion’s bullets.

Eventually they could use Preventer’s barricades to pen her in or something similar, but far likelier is that Bomber would abscond, fleeing away to keep her team’s link alive.

So, a victory for Fourth Fist.  An important caveat is that we are assuming that Deceiver doesn’t give them the upper hand somehow.

Second Fist vs. Fourth Fist: Fourth Fist wins but probably can’t catch Bomber.

Vs First Fist:

First Fist are too powerful to be stopped by these measly newcomers, and are also merciful enough not to go after pamphlet writers who mention their names.

First Fist vs. Fourth Fist: Total victory.