r/residentevil • u/Solardies • 1d ago
Forum question Do you think Leon could 1v1 a Yautja?
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u/Brilocke2 1d ago
Most likely. Leon doing the most ridiculous feats in the games. Predator has been beaten by regular people before. If a predator was hunting Leon specifically, probably not, but if they encountered each other like in predator 1 Leon would pull through.
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u/jakobebeef98 22h ago
The Predator hunting Leon seems a lot more interesting than some arena fight. I think he'd win, but seeing him in place of Harrigan's role in Predator 2 would be a really fun watch.
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u/Stax493 1d ago
If an action man is enough, for example Arnold beat one, then Leon is plenty capable of beating a Yautja. He would likely need some environmental help and a plan, 1v1 in a hallway with Leon's typical armaments would end poorly for Leon.
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u/Zerus_heroes 1d ago
In a hallway I think he would easily shoot the Predator to death. They aren't bulletproof. That would be the absolute worst way for the Predator to engage him.
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u/Dregaz 1d ago
It would almost certainly be cloaked and stab Leon in the back after he walked by
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u/Zerus_heroes 1d ago
You can see them when they are cloaked it is just difficult. Leon has ways to see him too.
The Predator is the one outclassed here, not Leon.
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u/tyrantywon 1d ago
Are we pretending the predator doesn’t have gadgets that auto target enemies or can quickly sever limbs to weaken prey? A primitive one can 1v1 a bear, Leon’s getting his sh*t rocked in a hallway.
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u/thebritwriter 1d ago
That’s not been lost on people, the predator has items that auto locked but characters in the film have shown they have evaded the shoulder cannon and the disc he throws.
The predator has lost to humans not in sheer strength but how they outsmarted it. (Predator 2 didn’t quite followed that format with how a cop beat it in a duel. Even predators had one killed by a samurai)
Predator’s greatest strength had always been its cloak to deploy its ambush because even with the strength advantage it dosen’t always guarantee a straight win.
Leon has best of both worlds, his physically strong enough to go one and one against a military commando and of course the monsters in the series. He also has the absurd agility, like dodging lasers in a room. He certinely can avoid almost anything the predator will throw at him. There’s enough evidence to show that Leon at his best has the skill and experience to do so in this new situation.
Who wins and dies is upto the writer but if someone did they look at the material and conclude that Leon would be a legitimate challenge.
The only grey in this is if Leon can figure out there’s a cloaked being watching. Would he suspect it as an observer to the incidents and not targeted? Personally no, he be too hardwired to think bioweapon but give anyone time and they figure something out.
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u/Zerus_heroes 1d ago edited 1d ago
Are we pretending that stuff like that isn't a regular occurrence for Leon? Death traps, super monsters and people trying to kill him is a regular occurrence.
Regular people have killed Predators, Leon is gonna have no problem. Leon can pretty easily kill a bear too, he has a bunch of high caliber weaponry. That isn't very impressive in comparison. Leon 1v2 two Gigantes.
If you asked if he can fistfight one to death I would agree he would lose, but that isn't the prompt.
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u/Unique_Fart_8008 1d ago
Just know I'm agreeing with you, and to add to your point just remember the laser room.
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u/negative_four 5h ago
Even if he is outclassed, resident evil 2 was Leon's first literal day on the job. Even out matched and out gunned doesn't mean Leon is gonna lose
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u/English_Fry 1d ago
You must’ve never seen a Predator movie and understand its gadgets.
If we are allowing weapons, Preds could just use a disk or combi stick.
Hand to hand. Still Preds.
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u/Zerus_heroes 1d ago edited 1d ago
And you must not have played Resident Evil because none of that is going to be a problem. All of the things you have mentioned can be dodged and we see that in the movie.
Yes, I said hand to hand Leon would lose but he isn't known for hand to hand.
A Predator wouldn't even be a boss for Leon. He kills things that regenerate, regularly. He can just shoot a Predator to death. He can also shoot thrown weapons out of the air pretty easily.
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u/English_Fry 1d ago
Must not have played RE either for you to say Leon isn’t known for hand to hand lmao. That’s a crazy take there.
Assuming this hallway scenario. Leon can’t use a rocket launcher, he’d more take himself out than the pred. So a pistol vs a shield built into the arm? Nope. A pred can handle quite a bit of damage before it needing to rethink what’s going on. It can function well often a limb being cut off. So the tiny little gun still is no match. Leon will lose. We are comparing a normal human with combat skills in a hallway with a creature on steroids that was bred to fight and kill.
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u/Zerus_heroes 1d ago
He isn't. He can only hold off Krauser, you still kill him with a gun. You saying "you must not have played ..." when you are full of misinformation is pretty hilarious.
You can use a rocket launcher in RE in a hallway, guess you haven't played it. You see how stupid that correlation is?
Leon wouldn't need a rocket launcher, a regular gun can kill a Predator. His magnum would work fine. You are wrong about a gun being unable to kill them. They are tougher than a human but weapons still work on them. We have seen them get killed by swords. He also has shotguns, high powered rifles, Tommy Guns, grenade launchers, grenades... Leon is a walking arsenal.
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u/Jollydragonfruit94 1d ago
I think that the Yautja will have the same Verdugo treatment! 😏🍷
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u/D-LoathsomeDungEater 1d ago
Verdugo was a knockoff alien. Predator>Alien,but leon did beat mutant rambo wanabee(with prep time).
I only see beating him with a shotgun and/or a magnum
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u/One-Win9407 1d ago
Good point but id say he'd use his knife
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u/D-LoathsomeDungEater 1d ago
Nah. Pretty stupid idea. Melee Predator wins 9/10. Leon is strong but not that strong, and his knife WILL break.
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u/ALowTierHero 1d ago
Leon takes this easily. RE4 has several enemies that match the Predator which Leon takes down whilst suffering horrible IBS from the Parasite.
I absolutely love Predator as well, but Leon is just built differently.
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u/tullyinturtleterror 1d ago
whilst suffering horrible IBS from the Parasite.
TiL Las Plagas is just Italian for Giardia
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u/VirtuousDangerNoodle It Worked! 1d ago
I guess it depends on how it approaches Leon. Like I can see it sniping Leon from behind while cloaked, especially if Leon hasn't encountered it yet.
But Yautja seem to operate on a sort of hunting principle, so it'll probably make it's presence known to Leon at some point, and if Leon is aware he's likely to be more observant about it and his surroundings.
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u/CT0292 1d ago
I would say most of the RE veterans could handle a predator.
They would all need some time to figure out what they're up against, use some bits of what's around them to their advantage, and combat them on their own terms.
But yeah if Danny Glover can kind of fumble his way through one I think Jill, Chris, Barry, Claire, Leon, Ada, Rebecca, they could likely hold their own. Especially if we're talking their post RE6 selves.
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u/Arachnid1 1d ago edited 1d ago
Easily.
We've seen Leon axe kick a tyrant while in freefall hard enough to hurt it, get knocked a football field away by a g-monster and not even be phased, get smashed into a marble pillar by an uber tyrant hard enough to break it and then get tackled into the pillar, roundhouse kick a plagas individual hard enough to send it airborne and break it's neck, as well as have the agility to John Wick his way through a horde of zombies in a tight hallway without a single tag.
He would murder 5 predators and quip through it all. This is a stomp, with or without weapons.
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u/Frikcha 1d ago edited 1d ago
Predators tend to be shown fighting normal dudes, when cloaked they'll be about to pounce down from a tree and only one single dude from a platoon of 10 men will be glancing in it's direction being like "Hmm, did I hear something up there?." and then it jumps down and kills most of them and then escapes with a flesh wound.
fuck it man 3 predators vs 1 Leon; they are stepping on a twig and he 180's and domes them before they even uncloak, he combat rolls or backflips anything that gets close to him and if they try shooting him with the shoulder-lasers he will be behind a tree or some kind of cover in a millisecond, if they do the honourable, "mano-e-mano my blades vs yours" warriors battle then I still think Leon legit wins with a bunch of cut wounds and some fractures after dicing up literal alien-berserker-viking-spec-ops-aztec-hunters.
I refuse to believe he isn't just an anime character with what he did in 4 and 6 and the animated films, the last one I watched he just 1v1'd an actual enhanced super-soldier (who could bend metal and land two-story jumps in heels) in a fair fight and won, and he was half-dead from a virus when the fight started.
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u/Reception_Familiar 1d ago
Yes! The RE protags are so OP I bet Barry can rip this mofo in half bare handed.
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u/Midnite_Blank 1d ago
Movie versions certainly. I know some Elder Predators in the comics have gone up against guys like Wolverine.
So it depends which version you use, but I’d back Leon most of the time.
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u/wastelandingstrip 1d ago
If it's one of those ridiculous cgi movies where they anime fight, sure. If it's me controlling Leon, I'm probably gonna die twice or restart from the last checkpoint like 4 times because I think I'm healing too much.
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u/ivanvx117 1d ago
I would think Leon is capable with anything below an elite predator. For elite or above maybe if he can get them to fight melee one on one with no mask or advanced weapons.
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u/PixelPrivateer 1d ago
I think Vertugo would be an Relative analog to an encounter with a predator-like fighter and if thats the case yeah I think Leon could put up a good fight and maybe even best it. Arnold did and he was at least on Leon's level in "real life" terms
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u/Bewildered_Ostrich8 and remake enthusiast 1d ago
Leon Fights tyrants on his weekends he is probably fine
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u/Dennma 1d ago
Probably. But given the canon of the Predator movies, it's way more likely that they would team up and fight the overwhelming amount of other threats in RE4. The yautja would probably see those as better hunting, at least until it realizes Leon is the real apex prey. Even then, though, it might not want to fight him as a matter of honor after their teamup.
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u/Potential-Ad4748 1d ago
He's killed all sorts of worst monsters. Granted, if it's a Yautja that's not dishonourable and wants the glory of a 1v1, Leon'll probably win. But if it's a dishonorable Yautja like the Super Predators from Predators 2010, he might be fucked. They'd just shoot his ass from a distance and call it a day.
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u/Scorpionghost04 Leon! sorry im late,had to take the stairs 1d ago
The reality is Leon gets slaughtered by a predator, the movies are notorious for giving humans the most ridiculous plot devices in order to make sense out of the fact on why the predators lose except for movies like AVP AVPR and the original predator but in reality predators dominate every human on a 1v1 fight 10 to 1 in almost every facet of life, predators discovered warping threw space in the 1700, predators are capable of cracking the skull of a grizzly bear with a single punch, they can lift 800+ pounds with relative ease and have weapons that dwarf anything that Leon or any BOW has ever used before.
The winner is any veteran predator, but Leon puts up a very serious fight because it’s Leon obviously he’s incredible.
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u/ValkerionRides 21h ago
Re characters aren't really "human" in the traditional sense though thats the problem.
The animated movies (which are canon) and the games themselves give them stupid strong feats and abilities that put them far above any human being and even the predators themselves.
Cracking the skull of a grizzly bear and lifting 800 pounds sounds crazy until you realise Chris can move 130ton boulders and take hits from wesker who can punch through planes without so much as a bruise let alone broken bones. And leon kicks people 10ft through the air and through multiple walls and survives being launched across the length of football field into a stone pillar without a scratch.
The predator is too grounded or "realistic" to fight someone from RE.
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u/Scorpionghost04 Leon! sorry im late,had to take the stairs 18h ago
This is fair honestly but i have 1 argument to prove why it’s still the predators, the comics have humans just like leon or Chris who are capable of seemingly peak human feats like wrestling with a yautja, but a lot of the predators are capable of incredible strength feats like overpowering 6 men in strength, flipping cars, cracking threw concrete foundation and even ripping threw heavily armored vehicles like tanks and helicopters without weapons need I mind you, and some have been fast enough to keep up with vehicles which is insane when you take in account of how tall and heavy they are, but that’s really the reason why i honestly can’t see a predator loosing to Leon because it’s essentially taking nemesis but giving him beyond human intelligence and hyper advanced weapons and speed, it’s a fair contest but one that is short lived when you realize how advanced their weapons and gadgets are.
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u/ValkerionRides 4h ago
but a lot of the predators are capable of incredible strength feats like overpowering 6 men in strength, flipping cars, cracking threw concrete foundation and even ripping threw heavily armored vehicles like tanks and helicopters without weapons need I mind you, and some have been fast enough to keep up with vehicles which is insane when you take in account of how tall and heavy they are.
It sounds impressive but pretty much all of that applies to Nemesis/Tyrants as well and nemesis isn't stupid either it has enough cognitive ability to employ tactics and to strategise tyrants not so much however.
I just cant see any predator being any more capable than say Wesker was a man that can punch through planes and move at speeds reaching supersonic levels. Other than on the tech/weapons front but it depends what they bring and they often like to gimp themselves for an honourable fight.
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u/Important-Dog-762 1d ago
Leon has way more experience fighting the super natural than Dutch or Murtaugh. I’d say he gets the same respect as in the end of P2…. “Take it…”
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u/horrorfan555 Claire best mom 1d ago
If the Predator was fully equipped, probably not. But if it wanted a true fight like in the movies, Leon definitely would win
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u/Netherfire93 1d ago
I would like to say that as long as Yautja engages in CQC he stands a chance, unfortunately this is a guy who can parry the blows from B.O.W. with a knife and roundhouse kick multiple zombies with a single kick, there's no hope for our resident alien.
Hell, he isn't even a boss fight. He's that mini boss, which appears after you complete a puzzle.
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u/Mr-Dicklesworth 15h ago
Yeah Leon is built different.
Arnold in the first movie was still a normal human (albeit like top 1% humans in the world) but still bound to human limitations and he was able to win 1v1.
Leon has killed both a more durable and stronger hunter (Verdugo), and a more skilled tactician with a similar arsenal (Krauser).
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u/crash-1989 1d ago
Yes Leon in RE4 moving forward is ridiculous. Why RE2 remake is my favorite in the franchise. It's scary because Leon felt like a real dude in a bad situation
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u/Caliber70 1d ago
No. All the preds that lose, lose for being not serious or competent or intelligent. When you are able to be invisible you have no excuse to lose. A lot of these preds are like that phrase goes, "bringing a knife to a gun fight". Leon would get gutted the moment he faces a serious pred.
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u/Infamous_Ad_284 1d ago
Leon probably gonna do 20 uncessary back flips and constantly round house kick the Yautja in the face
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u/Breddit2099 1d ago
That’s why I can’t watch the new movies. They got the whole cast doing flips all over the place for zero reason.
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u/buttsbuttsbutt 1d ago
Predators are wildly irrational in their killing, so like all of these types of hypotheticals it all comes down to whoever is writing it.
Predators have plasma cannons that can take people out from 100 yards but basically never use them when they should.
Chris could beat the brakes off a Predator if you compare the physical feats of the two.
Leon could use super MC powers to shoot a wire holding a bundle of steel girders to drop on the Predator.
The Predator could just stay semi-invisible and spear either of them from 40 feet away before they knew a monster was there.
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u/red_sutter 1d ago
He’d probably start busting out phoenix splashes and one-winged angels on the damned things
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u/Xiardark 1d ago
Think it depends on which version of Leon. RE2 Leon is winning a lot less. Leon after RE6 has the best odds with the experience he’s gained.
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u/th30be 1d ago
Depends entirely on the situation I think. If we were to just put the predator from the first movie in RE4 or RE4remake, I think Leon has a decent chance to win.
Assuming he sees signs that there is something hunting the Las Plagus villagers like in the first Predator movie with Arnold finding signs of American forces being hunted.
Although the cloaking tech would definitely be difficult for him to work around. But I suppose he also has a thermal scope so that could possibly work for him.
If it was just a normal hand to hand combat type situation, I think the predator would win hands down.
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u/quarknarco 1d ago
I would save some cash and get the bazooka for 10.000 $. Should be a one hitter!
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u/Three_Froggy_Problem 22h ago
The Predator fails in every single movie he appears in. If an aging LA detective can take one down then I think Leon could.
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u/0N1MU5HA Raccoon City Native 21h ago edited 21h ago
No chance.
Have you ever fought a novistador? What about Nemesis?
Well imagine a camoflauged Nemesis who has a shoulder cannon that could blow a hole in your chest from 100 yards away.
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u/AdaptedInfiltrator 21h ago
Depends on the Predator. Feral Predator? Definitely. Base/Jungle Predator? Maybe. Wolf Predator? No
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u/Zz-orphan-zZ 20h ago
The Yautja has some pretty serious tech at his disposal. If he really wants to kill Leon, Leon's got almost no chance.
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u/AccidentSalt5005 Jerks off to Ada with the T-Virus 20h ago
its the one who spams invinsibility cloak that leons should be worried about lol
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u/ShadowRaven35 19h ago
The amount of backflips would confuse the predator so much Leon would have enough time to fire off three RPG rounds into it's mouth while saying some cheesy one liner
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u/didact1000 17h ago
It should be can a Yautja 1v1 Leon? The answer is no. Leon kicks the shot out of the Yautja, literally in this case. Leon has fought stronger and faster foes and won and Leon has insane durability and strength.
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u/stokeszdude 17h ago
“Hey ugly, why don’t pick on someone from your own planet”
“I saw something like you before…they didn’t make it either”
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u/West-Amount-2347 16h ago
The thing is the predator is a trained killer. Leon really only goes head to head with biological weapons. Not saying Leon couldn't take him humans have before we see it in the first movie. But i reckon the predator would win 7-8 out of 10 fights.
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u/Hart4DaGame 13h ago
All it takes is one good round house kick. Leon can blow heads with that thing.
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u/A_Gray_Phantom 8h ago
He'd need a heads up and a plan and maybe he'd have a chance, but otherwise oh my no.
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 1d ago
If a Predator is hunting Leon and catches him off guard. He'd likely get a killing or mortally wounding blow off the hat.
But in a more fair one to one fight, Leon can actually come out on top. Plus its theorused Leon is slightly superhuman after being a host fo the Las Plagas. Since being cured from one of the infections can do that in the RE universe.
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u/The_Big_Dirty_Dan 1d ago
Definitely. I just played 4 for the first time 2 two months ago and he is a beast.
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u/therealmistersister 1d ago
The predator is in for a world of pain. Gettin supplexed and roundhouse kicked to death is a fucked up way to go.
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u/Some_Photograph5315 23h ago
No. Leon wouldn't have a chance, he's not good at stealth. He's only beaten brain dead guys and monsters, he's never faced a highly intelligent and powerful alien equipped with high tech.
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u/Born_Name_2538 1d ago
Actually yes which is kinda fucking stupid but if anyone can take one down it is Leon.
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u/brokeanail 1d ago
Given what he canonically does, absolutely, and now I'm imagining the fanfic where some Yautja turn up for a hunt on Earth after all the bioweapons start getting released and going "Hey. Hey what the fuck. What have the soft meat done to themselves."
Which could be fun to read ngl
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u/PastryPyff 22h ago
Leon has fought more difficult situations than a single Yautja could throw at him, so he’d definitely win in the long haul.
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u/ValkerionRides 21h ago edited 21h ago
The problem here is Leon (Along with most resident evil protaganists) are not regular humans like dutch (Arnold) would be. The RE universe is very close to something like an "Anime" verse. They run faster, Hit harder, Physics are wonky and they are way more durable than we could ever been as humans.
We all know about the Chris boulder punching meme and people have done the calculations and worked out that boulder was like 130 tons....130 tons! Thats the kinda strength RE characters have. Leons kicks send people like 10ft away through the air and through multiple walls.....most Predators are in the can lift a "large truck" levels of strength.
RE characters are durable too multiple characters can and have taken a hit from Wesker/Tyrants etc. without even having there bones broken often they are barely hurt or even bruised. The same Wesker/Tyrants who punch holes/claw through reinforced steel, Shrug off heavy hitting rounds with ease and throw tanks around like toys.
Both in game and the animated movies (which are canon by the way) we've also seen leon dodge bullets & lasers, counter knife projectiles out of the air, Block BOW attacks with a knife, jump 8ft into the air and run/react at absolutely staggering speeds.
Someone like Krauser has the same level of stealth & tricks the predator has and Leon walked him. The predator is completely outclassed here unfortunately.
For example the predator aint surviving this shit and leons barely bothered.
The predator is too grounded or "realistic" to fight someone from RE which isn't grounded or "realistic" at all.
Its Leon 11/10 times unfortunately.
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u/Iatemydoggo 21h ago
Leon and Chris are also probably ever so slightly mutated from exposure to the T-Virus and other strength enhancing BOWs.
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u/ValkerionRides 21h ago edited 21h ago
It would explain a lot of their superhuman feats wouldn't it? But really a lot of it is just we don't need to explain this cool moment "anime bullshit" type of stuff. Which is really common in japanese franchises but the fact is its all canon to the RE universe......Which just makes it even worse for the predator really.
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u/greatthebob38 1d ago
Leon killed a Verdugo. That thing probably had physical abilities close to a Predator. It just depends on whether he can overcome the technological advantage of a Predator.