Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-31165326-20180926021601/@comment-34993922-20180926040212

Assuming Muscular is baseline for tanking 100% like nothing, Stephen will initially have an issue with Muscular in terms of damaging him and tanking some blows. It would double his AP and will get easily wounded to the point he wouldn't be able to amp-regenerate with muscle fibers, but should do the job with regular muscular regeneration and liver cells.

Goliath Blow may do some damage to him, but it would just end like Izuku trying to 100% on Muscular.

But i see some things that Stephen can do and may render this inconclusive or fairly viable - Meat Shield and Nervous precognition.

Meat shield, in short, is indeed a Meat Shield. This thing makes Stephen offensive capabilities with his arms drop to 0, but his defensive output is amped to the point he could tank a 243 ton bomb IIRC from his profile, i may be missing the number, but it should be around there. Muscular has no way of countering that defense even if he gets somewhat slower with it.

The pseudo-precognition/Instinctive reactions (i don't know where would it fall into) works extremely well with the fact Muscular fights just H2H and with pummels or regulars blows, since it's no way stealth or any type of exotic attacks. The explanation of the precognition is on the profile.

Oh, and also, the Adrenal Rush. That thing may render Stephen be able to actually do some damage with regular attacks. I don't like using multipliers, but Adrenal Rush, as a reference, should be able of nearly doubling Stephen's regular toughness and overall strength alongside other things such as his senses, considering Goliath Blow is nearly three times stronger than Stephen's attacks for a reference, due to muscle accumulation, and, while not doing a lot of damage to being able to knock out Muscular like Izuku's 1,000,000% Delaware, it may be able to dish out great amouns of damage.

I'm not considering his bloodclot Danmaku if he is severely injured, since Muscular, while not being able to dodge it since he has not handled that much of projectiles, should be able to tank it all fairly easily.

So in short for all that wall of text, Stephen's main advantage here is his vast arsenal compared to Muscular's, which relies mostly in experience and sheer AP. I see Stephen at a disadvantage at first, but he could give huge struggle to Muscular in the long run.

I say it's inconclusive due to previously mentioned above reasons, or maybe, maybe a bit in Stephen's favour. But in my case ill say inconclusive, im inclined more there.