Talk:Simba vs Shere Kahn/@comment-3463132-20171206183902

I'm actually taking back my previous stance on this battle- I think Simba could take it. My previous error was focusing too much on the Lion vs Tiger debate and not enough on the fictional characters themselves.

Simba's claws are sharp/powerful enough to dig into sheer stone even at close to vertical angles and can hold a full-grown lion in place in said stone. That's far more penetrating power than a lion would normally have.

Simba himself is strong enough to belt full-grown female lions half a dozen feet through the air- even when they're jumping directly at him. In the final battle he does this to several lionesses at once.

He took a fall onto the stone bottom of that ravine like a champ, he collapsed later but the force of that injury had to be pretty immense considering it was a fall of several stories.

Simba's rocking stats comparable or even exceeding those of Khan- despite being far smaller. And his claws via movie magic are far more deadly than they normally would be.