This thread is all kinds of fascinating.
If Sylvanas keeps her distance of course there's no contest but if Genn can close the gap and survive she'd get shredded
Both could have won. Both had painfully blatant chances to kill the other. None succeeded because both went full retard.
But if you refer specifically from the point where Genn got a freaking poisoned arrow in his chest in order to steal the Soul Cage right beneath Sylvanas' nose then no doubt Sylvanas would have won. It would have been outright retarded from Genn to even try of carrying the fight on.
So yeah, if the question is "what if Genn stayed and tried to fight Sylvanas after he got poisoned by an arrow" than I'll obviously go with Sylvanas.
Clearly they used their human racial to remove the need for one of those words, but still allow them to use it. So in this case 3 = 2.
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I don't know I beat him up pretty good on his boat. I certainly can't solo Sylvanas.
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
I stated earlier the whole point of the ambush wasn't for Genn to kill Sylvanas, no he just wanted to stop her. That is why he took the arrow, and maybe why he announced himself. Make her overconfident, dumb old wolf announcing himself like that this will be easy. But it was never about Genn killing Sylvanas in the cut scene, it was about stopping her plans.
sylvannas obviously, greymane was already wounded and it would have gotten only worse if he stayed
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It sucks, but Sylvanas would win just because she's more powerful. A dark ranger versus an aging worgen king? Yeah, even if Sylvanas is a karma houdini piece of shit nowadays, she would beat good ol' Genn.
Gotta go Sylvanas, experience, training, and extra powers is going to lead to the win here. She might be one of the most dangerous characters horde side outside Super OP Green Jesus. She was a pretty solid badass before becoming a Banshee. While Genn is a worgen I don't think that makes him exactly on her level. Especially with age against him.
He's too unpredictable is really the reason I list him outside. He's being all mopey now, but if he gets his mojo back, bam he's right back to insanity levels. You can never tell how they are going to portray him. He crushed Garrosh in WoD, a little easier than I would have liked to see using his Shaman powers. Essentially, you never can tell when he's just going to Super Saiyan it up.
Personally I believe both characters are relentless enough to the degree they would end-up killing each other, Genn would kill Sylvanas before also succumbing to his wounds or vice-versa.
Sylvanas has the advantage on every aspect. She has range. She is older, more experienced, her body has not aged and she has experience fighting bigger and stronger enemies(mostly trolls.) she can use magic. Greymane would need to pin her down to kill her, but all she needed was one cursed arrow anywhere in his body...which she did manage to do. Greymane is a king and a worgen, but Sylvannas's skills have been built up for a long time. I would say that she'd win 7 times out of 3. AndGreymane knew that. Thats why he went for the lantern, stopping her plans and then retreating.
He could've gone for her neck or tried to pin her down, problem is, on that moment Sylvanas was probably expecting that, thats why she didnt notice the lantern being stolen. Yeah, Greymane wanted revenge and probably wanted Sylvanas to suffer, but if he really had a good shot killing her, I don't see him not going for it.