Master Chief vs Doom Slayer: who wins and why it's no contest

Master Chief versus Doom Slayer pits two of the most powerful armored warriors against each other. One is focused on gunning down the aliens of the Covenant, and the other fights demons and all the forces of hell. If these two ever went at it, I don't think it would be close. Doom Slayer wins.

Master Chief's Spartan augmentations made him superhuman before the armor

Master Chief is a Spartan soldier and the hero of the war between humanity and the Covenant. He was raised to be a soldier from the age of six. He is fearless, loyal, resourceful and determined to succeed no matter what. Enhanced with the latest in biological augmentation technology and given the Mjolnir body armor, he has become a beacon of hope and resistance for his allies and the ultimate monster to be feared for his enemies.

His augmentation program turned him into a superhuman super soldier. His bones became virtually unbreakable. His muscles became significantly larger and stronger, and his reaction time was augmented as well. He can react within 20 milliseconds while resting and lift three times his body weight with ease. At only 14, he could kill people with his attacks and tear apart metal. He could dodge bullets with ease and even see the world in slow motion around him. All of that comes before he is put inside the Mjolnir armor.

Mjolnir armor boosts Master Chief's strength and toughness, and he's superhumanly fast

The armor makes him significantly more powerful. There have been several Mjolnir armors over the years, and each new version is significantly more powerful than the last. The armor increases his strength by a factor of five. That lets him wreck aliens and Elites, even killing them with one or two hits. He can flip over multiton vehicles with ease, throw around heavy objects and even bring down buildings with his physical strength. He can throw one heck of a punch.

The armor also makes him very tough. He is unfazed by huge explosions or energy attacks, and gunfire doesn't even faze him. Master Chief in his armor is so physically tough that he can survive falling from orbit, crash land on the planet and walk it off. Newer Mjolnir armors also come with an energy shield, which is very tough and adds to his already superhuman durability.

Lastly, Chief is superhumanly fast. He can react within 5 milliseconds while resting, and that only gets faster in the heat of battle. He has repeatedly dodged bullets, energy blasts, lasers and missiles. It is near impossible to hit him in a fight. All of this combines to make him one of the most powerful warriors in the universe.

Master Chief is a one-man army with a huge arsenal

Master Chief doesn't only rely on physical power. He is one of the best and most skilled fighters in the war. He can take down 40, 50, even 100 Covenant soldiers by himself. He is the best soldier in the universe, bar none.

He also carries an enormous arsenal. He has all sorts of guns and rifles, all with powerful rounds that pierce armor. He has explosives and frag grenades, rocket launchers and missiles. He is a one-man army and one of the best super soldiers out there.

How Doom Guy became the Doom Slayer after Doom 64

Doom Guy, also known as the Doom Marine or the Doom Slayer, is one of Earth's toughest and mightiest warriors, and he fights the armies of hell single-handedly. At the end of Doom 64, he entered hell and closed the gateway to the living world, hoping Earth would be saved at the cost of having to fight demons for all of eternity.

Countless centuries later, through serious levels of training and experience, he has grown much stronger. Even the strongest demons in existence fear him as the Doom Slayer.

Doom Slayer's strength and durability feats against hell's demons

The Doom Slayer is stronger, faster and tougher than any normal human, easily superhuman. He can tear demons apart with his bare hands, obliterating them with his punches, and he has done this to the toughest and strongest demons out there. Hell Knights, Cyberdemons and Barons of Hell are all said to be more powerful than anything on Earth and even invulnerable to harm, and he wrecks them with his bare hands.

It isn't only demons. He is strong enough to knock over bridges with one punch, shatter several tons of stone, obliterate steel doors, or send huge blocks of metal weighing dozens of tons flying across the room with a hit.

He is also nigh indestructible, especially in his armor and after the Divinity Machine enhanced him further by implanting a shard of the Dark Lord's soul inside him. He can take attacks from all sorts of demons, even ones powerful enough to create earthquakes by walking, and he is always mostly fine afterward. He has even survived huge explosions of Argent energy, which has been described as a boundless power source that gives out infinite energy. One explosion was seen as a category four dimensional event, and the Doom Slayer took it and was fine.

Doom Slayer's speed and endless stamina

The Doom Slayer is more than fast enough to dodge most every attack coming his way. He is fast enough to see the world moving in slow motion around him. Even traveling through hell might include some impressive speed feats, since it has been described as an infinite realm with no true bottom, an endless void.

Probably his greatest attribute is sheer stamina. He won't stop fighting, no matter what. Even before he became the Doom Slayer, Doom Guy was in nonstop action, fighting several demon wars back to back, holding back all the demons by himself. After he became the Doom Slayer, his stamina only grew more impressive. Now he can fight forever, rampaging across hell for all eternity, never stopping to eat, sleep or drink, never growing tired and never stopping the killing of demons.

Doom Slayer's weapons and Night Sentinel training

While the Doom Slayer can definitely kill demons with his bare hands, he prefers his many weapons. Thanks to his training with the Night Sentinels, it's safe to assume he is an expert with every weapon he carries and uses in a fight.

His go-to is probably his trusty Super Shotgun, but it doesn't stop there. He has powerful plasma rifles, chain guns and rocket launchers, or his chainsaw and the Sentinel Hammer when he decides to get up close and personal. Without a doubt, he is a one-man killing machine, one of the most powerful and deadliest warriors in all of existence.

What Master Chief and Doom Slayer have in common as fighters

Both of these men have experienced everything war has to offer, and it molded them into two of the most powerful soldiers to have ever lived. Both have impressive, powerful arsenals capable of obliterating any enemy that gets in their way. Both are excellent fighters.

I might say Master Chief is the more skilled, tactical and levelheaded fighter, but the Slayer isn't a mindless killing machine. He has serious skill, and his more brutal and bloodthirsty tactics might catch Chief off guard. They both even have powerful AI that can help them out and give them different battle strategies or tactics throughout the fight.

Why Doom Slayer's feats put him beyond Master Chief

Here's the thing: this fight was a lot closer when Doom Guy was only Doom Guy, before he became the Doom Slayer. The Doom Slayer is on a whole other power level from anything Master Chief has ever faced. He got there by training with the Night Sentinels, getting some serious upgrades, going through the Divinity Machine, becoming immortal and repelling the forces of hell for all eternity to save the universe. That itself might have made him even more powerful, because he gets more powerful the more demons he kills.

As the Doom Slayer, he has feats that put him far outside Master Chief's realm, like defeating the Icon of Sin and killing his creator, Davoth. He became stronger than all of hell's forces. He killed titans the size of mountains with his bare hands and then fought the Icon of Sin, the strongest servant of hell. The Icon of Sin is also known as the World Eater, able to consume planets, and the Doom Slayer killed him.

Davoth is the Dark Lord, the supreme ruler of hell itself. He is someone able to form new universes and realities, and powerful enough to tear apart creation itself. The Doom Slayer killed him too.

At the end of the day, this fight isn't close. Master Chief is great and able to take down a bunch of aliens, but the Doom Slayer is out there killing universal demon lords. Doom Slayer wins.