» Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:13 am
The Courier.
I'll admit being ignorant to the Vault Dweller and the Chosen One and what exactly they're capable of, but I voted for the Courier because he has a tool or skill for literally every situation. He has the cunning to sneak through the Sierra Madre without getting his head blown off, he has the survival skills to survive Zion, the clever thinking neccesary to make it through the Big Empty, and he's tough enough to survive ALL of that and two bullets to the head at point-blank range. With an enemy like the Lone Wanderer and the MIRV in his hand, it's crucial to be able to dodge it OR to prevent him from ever firing a shot. The Courier has Turbo to provide him with time to either run the hell out of range of the mini-nukes or to shoot the MIRV out of TLW's hands before he fires the shot. The Courier is the only one with access to Turbo and also the only one that doesn't typically wear power armor. However, power armor has a weakness to impulse weapons, and the Courier has the pulse gun, not to mention any idiot can throw an impulse grenade, seeing as how there's no risk of the impulse grenade actually killing the Courier himself. He also has several melee weapons that ignore DT/DR in case an opponent's defense is just too much. Lastly, the Courier is kick ass in close-ranged combat. He can knock the opponent down, stun the opponent, immediately counter after a block etc. I'm pretty sure none of the others are as skill in CQC as the Courier, so he'd win that battle.
People may say TLW just because he potentially has a perfect SPECIAL and his Power Armor provides damage RESISTANCE. That's great, but look at the quality of his weapons. They're [censored]. TLW's available weapons don't do enough damage to stomp all over Damage threshold, so his Damage resistance, while nice, is basically the same as threshold in many cases, the only exceptions being that the Lone Wanderer could take multiple hits from an Alien Blaster or a Fatman.
Either way though, all of them have access to an Alien Blaster, but only the Courier has access to the tools neccesary to shoot someone else's alien blaster out of their hand before they shoot his. Speed is neccesary when everyone on the field is incredibly deadly, and the Courier has that.