Dude, Legendary Bloatfly. Duh.

Well that depends as there are diffrent deathclaws as their are dragons If it were a fight between Rawr the deathclaw from lonesome road and a elder dragon or higher then I think the dragon would win one it could just keep flying and breathing fire/frost till it dies or two it could just pick it just and throw it but if it were a ground fight the deathclaw would win it's just a how would the battle go down type of who would win.

Ever played Lonsome Road? :spotted owl:

Master level Cazador vs Master level Chaurus is what I wanna see.

NV Deathclaw any day. They are bad mofos :toughninja:

Deathclaw. Dragons in Skyrim are a joke. Even the lowliest of dragons should have been a tough 5 minute+ struggle in my opinion. The mere fact that Alduin, the supposed "baddest dragon" can be killed in 4 hits or less is an even bigger joke.

Let's consider a moment, while they seems to be quite dumb as in no strategy, if we take it that dragons are supposed to be intelligent, then they win, they will attack from the air taking down a deathclaws health then land to finish them off, of course this would mean they'd actually have to be intelligent, but in game that's a contradiction, Beth got that part wrong.

Standard Cazador vs. standard Chaurus...I'm going to have to say Chaurus, sense standard Cazadors aren't all that tough if you catch them alone.

OWB Cazador though pretty much murders everything in Skyrim.

Anybody else thinking of replacing their dragons with flying deathclaws? THAT'S something the people of Skyrim should fear.

A deathclaw is just a wingless, non-magical midget-dragon. :teehee:

A tougher, wingless, non-magical midget-dragon; with more dangerous attack and faster movement speed.

Deathclaw. They can jump, fast like crazy, long arms and they just won't die. That dragon has to land sometime.

Initially, I felt a deathclaw would win, but then I thought an Ancient Dragon might win. After really thinking about it, I realized that the focus of different combat styles makes a world of difference. Fallout was designed with ranged (and powerful) combat in mind, with melee a somewhat novel, but useful option. The deathclaws were designed with this in mind. When seeing a deathclaw in Fallout, unless you had tooled your char to be a melee tank, you wanted to back pedal and put as much lead into the beast as possible.

In Skyrim, the combat focus is melee, with two totally different types of ranged combat options, which while comparable to melee to an extent, are not as powerful as the ranged options in Fallout. When encountering a dragon in Skyrim, most folks are going to be able to close in on it and hack away at melee range. In other words, a dragon is designed to be approachable in melee combat, whereas deathclaws are not. Defeating a deathclaw with melee imparts a sense of achievement, unless your char is a higher level char. Defeating a dragon in any way is designed to feel more like an expectation. Sure, it might be a long battle, depending on your difficulty level setting, your level, and your play type, but it is meant to be accomplished.

I feel like if they had taken the same approach with dragons as they did with deathclaws, we'd all be cursing our screens, throwing mice/controllers, and feeling a lot more accomplished when we killed a dragon. To be honest, I've only been killed by a dragon once. I can't tell you how many times I've been killed by deathclaws.

To answer the question, as long as the dragon was an ancient, and stuck to the air for the most part, and the deathclaw wasn't anything other than a vanilla deathclaw (no alphas, mothers, or legendary deathclaws), the dragon would win. Otherwise, that would be one dead dragon. My question is this: what shout would the deathclaw unlock with that dragon soul?

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Elemental fury. *Is shot.*

Um If I am caught by surprise, I have a better chance of surviving the dragon because I can get away easier. When Deathclaws get the drop on me I am screwed 9/10 times. However if I see em coming, I don't have a problem with Deathclaws (Anti Materiel Rifle...) and I have had some seriously rough encounters with Frost Dragons....

It's a toss up for me. I definitely get more excited to fight Dragons though.

It depends.

Ancient Dragons would [censored] up any Deathclaw. For that matter, since the Deathclaw lacks any ranged attacks, the dragon could continuously strafe and kill the Deathclaw without taking a scratch. Any dragon could do that. But if it did land, then the Deathclaw is fast enough, and probably does enough damage, to tear the dragon up fast enough to prevent it from taking off and escaping.

If the dragon lands, and it isn't an Ancient, then it's most likely screwed.

This. I see a dragon, I prep myself for a quick one minute, one-sided fight before the dragon goes down. Maybe two minutes if there's two dragons attacking.

I see a deathclaw coming at me, I [censored]e myself and throw my companions at them hoping they'll provide enough distraction for me to get away.

On the ground sure. On the air though? Nah.

Besides Koopas would beat them both.

What kind of creature is this Deathclaw? I haven't seen any in Skyrim or in the any of previous TES. I also tried to find it through uesp.net but I was not able to find any information about it. Can anyone tell me what it is and in which hold you have faced them most commonly?

Except for the fact that dragons are idiots who for some reason feel the need to land most of the time, allowing a deathclaw to go nuts on them.

Deathclaws are faster, cause more damage and ignore armor completely.
Dragons may fly and blurt out fire or ice, but they are slow and are idiots for landing all the time.
Once they do land Deathclaws can sprint up to them in seconds and tear them apart.

Besides, if we go by Fallout 1, 2, Tactics and New Vegas: Deathclaws hunt in packs.

Deathclaws wins.




If we go by lore over gameplay then Deathclaws would sprint out of the fire and ice in milliseconds, they are fast as hell.
They wouldn't just stand there and take it.
And they can jump, so they'd climb up on rocks and if the dragon flies near they'd jump after it.
And even if that doesn't work: Deathclaws aren't stupid beasts, if they figure out they're screwed they'd run, or hide behind something to evade their attacks, and once they do cause the dragon to land then it's screwed.

Cause again, Deathclaws hunt in packs.

Oh and by the way, Goris, who is a Deathclaw, has a fire resistance of 30%.

Nobody plays on easy anymore... Nobody.

I had 100 to guns and the anti-materiel rifle was barely ever one punching unless I got a lucky critical sneak headshot.

Deathclaw, easily :fallout:

One look from a NV Deathclaw would make a dragon [censored] his pants and crashland and suicide.

They're from the Fallout universe.

Essentially, they're massive, hulking lizards with claws the size of a human's torso, and move faster than a wild cat. They can drop your health to half in a single swing, and take a few clips to drop.

ON NORMAL DIFFICULTY.

I say dragons.

Deathclaws like to attack in packs, as previously mentioned. They also lack any form of ranged attack.

Notice how you never fight more than 2 dragons at once in Skyrim, and even that is a rare occasion. Try to take on 5+ elder/ancient dragons simultaneously, and say they're a joke.

Dragons, because unless they are killed by a dovahkin they re-spawn.
Also, Frost breath=no power attacks, and no power attacks=just an ugly mofo