Who would win? Zerg, Xenomorph or the Flood?

[Collegeguy]

The way I see it, in order to have a discussion on whether or not Xenomorphs would win against Zerg, then Xenomorphs have to exist. If Xenomorphs exist that means they are replicating the enemy. In which case they must already be winning because they are successful at snatching a grabbing zerg to reproduce from.

[OrcsRLame]

Sad to see the Flood losing the poll to the Zerg, I guess having the physical strength to rip a Zerg hive out of the ground and throw it doesn't count for anything. There's a reason the forerunners couldn't beat the Flood with technology more than 7 times as advanced as the covenant.

[Tya]

Sad to see the Flood losing the poll to the Zerg, I guess having the physical strength to rip a Zerg hive out of the ground and throw it doesn't count for anything. There's a reason the forerunners couldn't beat the Flood with technology more than 7 times as advanced as the covenant.

I suppose getting wiped out by a lone bloke with a pistol and a rifle probably also has something to do with it.

[OrcsRLame]

I suppose getting wiped out by a lone bloke with a pistol and a rifle probably also has something to do with it.

Sure, a lone bloke with ridiculous levels of super strength, speed, agility, reflexes, the military strength of two separate species, a weapon of mass destruction, who is also the self admitted luckiest son of a bitch in the universe. You also have to understand that the Master Chief is way stronger in lore than he's portrayed as in the games. He can outrun a Warthog on foot, dodge bullets, lift 200k pounds, and survive orbital reentry without so much as a parachute.

Also, it's worth pointing out that the amount of Flood he faced is NOTHING compared to how large their species was in their war with the Forerunners. Their numbers easily reached into the gintillions. It was nothing for the Flood to throw away 100 quintillion soldiers in a single battle.

[The Ogdru Jahad]

Xenomorph. Easily.

[MusikDisaster]

"I am a monument to all your sins."

Blade Queen don't hold a candle to the master Overmind.

[xxiaoxing]

Think it would be between those two though

[Primernova]

I like Xenomorph, they pretty much replace whatever they are fighting, one by one and instantly adapt. On a planet with a large population, a war with them would be over in hours or days at most.

They were 'easily' dealt with in the movies by always being very confined and alot of creative license was used for the 'one woman with a pulse rifle' to win.

[ChiefWigman]

I chose Xenomorphs not only they are aggressive, but they can adapt and survive, if you go outside the film franchise and go into comics, the queen of the hive can be an aggressive or a defensive strategist when it comes to numbers and survival. Also the xenomorph facehuggers tend to adapt/absorb the host's qualities as well as size. The Facehuggers can impregnate if they are about to be devoured, process takes bit longer than being facehugged. When the xeno's reach huge numbers any opposition will be pretty overwhelmed tryin to defend, cuz acid blood has to go somewhere ya know? unless they make a stand on a raised area, it will be inevitable.

[Stuffs]

Tyranids #1 MVP

[Axaruz0]

Zergling rush.

[Dembai]

The Tyranid. YEAH.

Adding reasons:

Ripley was just a normal chick. She's managed to kill three of them, not to mention the other ones killed by normal humans.
The Terran might be in battle armor, but they're still humans. Criminals, even. No special training.
Halo guys might also be in cool armor, but ultimately, they're STILL mostly normal humans.

NIDS SCREW WITH AND UTTERLY OBLITERATE SPACE MARINES.

Space Marines are far from normal humans, trained for combat, emplanted with genetic material that turns them into super humans and then you wrap that in power armor.

NIDS EAT THEM FOR BREAKFAST.

I'm sorry, but the other xeno-species really don't hold a candle to the nids.

[OrcsRLame]

The Tyranid. YEAH.

Adding reasons:

Ripley was just a normal chick. She's managed to kill three of them, not to mention the other ones killed by normal humans.
The Terran might be in battle armor, but they're still humans. Criminals, even. No special training.
Halo guys might also be in cool armor, but ultimately, they're STILL mostly normal humans.

NIDS SCREW WITH AND UTTERLY OBLITERATE SPACE MARINES.

Space Marines are far from normal humans, trained for combat, emplanted with genetic material that turns them into super humans and then you wrap that in power armor.

NIDS EAT THEM FOR BREAKFAST.

I'm sorry, but the other xeno-species really don't hold a candle to the nids.

How strong are the space marines from 40k exactly? I barely know anything about the setting and would love to be educated on it. The Master Chief can lift over 200 tons easily. For reference, the statue of liberty weights 225 tons. He could literally pick up the statue of liberty and throw it.

The elite and tank flood forms are FAR stronger than the Master Chief, and they come in zerg-like numbers. They also adapt very easily to any technology they find, able to operate starfighters, large capital ships, fire, reload and maintain infantry weapons etc. They also know advanced military tactics and strategy. They are extremely resilient when it comes to blunt trauma and bullets able to continue fighting at zero loss in combat effectiveness with dozens of bullets holes and multiple unarmed strikes from Spartan 2s. Unless you can score a precision shot on their infection form it's difficult to finish them with gunfire. Energy weapons and fire are the only decently efficient ways to clean them up, but even then they can survive several shots from heavy plasma cannons.

Can the Tyranid really compete with that, and if so how?

[McFrotton]

zerg, flood, and zeno enter the arena, zerg assimilate xeno bio dna, zerg vs flood, zerg win .... PRIMAL SURVIVAL INSTINCT with assimilation power will always win.....ALWAYS.

[MrWolly]

In the end they would all converge into one massive alien scourge. And, I'd like to see necromorphs in this battle =)

[Judge Malthred]

Xenomorphs lose due to the fact that there arent huge armies of them.

Flood vs Zerg, hm...

Flood take on the forms of what they infect, but zerg assimilate what they deem worthy. Infectionfest?

There you are VERY wrong! Never read any of the comics that took place on Hive world? Basically the entire planet is xenos, a red hive and a blue hive that war with each other endlessly for food. The queens of each hive are several stories tall and their guardians are bigger than tanks.

In a VS match I am going to go with Xenomorphs. The speed at which things are built/created in Starcraft is not accurate for obvious reasons. Xenomorphs reproduce in hours and their is constant egg laying, in the interest of comparing I will say zerg and flood are the same.

Flood can infect installations, as can Zerg. Xeno's cannot... but there are no installations if they are battling each other.

Xeno's on the other hand take your DNA and incorporate it into following generations. That means that over (a very short) amount of time they can take the strengths of both the Flood and the Zerg into their own. That also means that on whatever planet they are going battle Xeno's will quickly evolve from the species already present and adapted to that environment where Flood and Zerg mostly just take over and convert.

[mordale]

How strong are the space marines from 40k exactly? I barely know anything about the setting and would love to be educated on it. The Master Chief can lift over 200 tons easily. For reference, the statue of liberty weights 225 tons. He could literally pick up the statue of liberty and throw it.

The elite and tank flood forms are FAR stronger than the Master Chief, and they come in zerg-like numbers. They also adapt very easily to any technology they find, able to operate starfighters, large capital ships, fire, reload and maintain infantry weapons etc. They also know advanced military tactics and strategy. They are extremely resilient when it comes to blunt trauma and bullets able to continue fighting at zero loss in combat effectiveness with dozens of bullets holes and multiple unarmed strikes from Spartan 2s. Unless you can score a precision shot on their infection form it's difficult to finish them with gunfire. Energy weapons and fire are the only decently efficient ways to clean them up, but even then they can survive several shots from heavy plasma cannons.

Can the Tyranid really compete with that, and if so how?

Space marine are more or less overpower ultraroided-out walking tanks , think the Juggernaut from marvel comics (except not at physically strong) with guns and chainsaw-swords.
and as for the tyranid all they are is what you would get if you crossed the xenomorphs from alien and the bugs from starship troopers(the book if you didn't know it existed), they even changed how tyranids looked after alien was released to make them look more like the xenomorphs.

on topic: zerg, seriously flood take forever to actually infest zerg do it at such a speed that they can do it in combat.

[Ozzy1346]

Broodlords, bro. EZPZ

zerg wins!<3

[Kaetuu]

at the end of the new avp game one of the weland clone/robots finds the coordinates of the xenomorph homeworld from the predator temple. The xenos in the movies where just weak human/dog/predator forms. just imagine if it was elephant or some huge zerg. That being said just using the xeno aliens from movies thier more like ninjas, they kill but they dont brawl.

finally mad mmo account just to post this lol.

[Collegeguy]

The Tyranid. YEAH.

Adding reasons:

Ripley was just a normal chick. She's managed to kill three of them, not to mention the other ones killed by normal humans.
The Terran might be in battle armor, but they're still humans. Criminals, even. No special training.
Halo guys might also be in cool armor, but ultimately, they're STILL mostly normal humans.

NIDS SCREW WITH AND UTTERLY OBLITERATE SPACE MARINES.

Space Marines are far from normal humans, trained for combat, emplanted with genetic material that turns them into super humans and then you wrap that in power armor.

NIDS EAT THEM FOR BREAKFAST.

I'm sorry, but the other xeno-species really don't hold a candle to the nids.

Have to keep in mind that the xenos they were fighting were human replicated ones. Their defensive and attack abilities are greatly weakened because they copied a race that uses technology. That gives the humans the upper hand every time because they have weapons and xenos dont, and even if the xenos inherit their intelligence, they dont have the means or industry to make weapons.

Replicating a race that uses physical weapons like the zerg would be an entirely different story. They would be ten times more brutal and stronger than human-replicated xenos. Facehuggers dont even need to face-hug but instead could just crawl into the mouths of large zerg units and replicate.

Xenomorphs would be 100 times more brutal to zerg than they would be with humans, and everyone keeps thinking that Xenomorphs are going to fight the same manner and march into battle like a British infantry line. They would infest their hives and ships meanwhile having a colony hidden somewhere under ground. They would refuse to fight in direct combat like zerg or flood do unless they knew they overwhelmed them.