Bat or Knife In A Fight To The Death?
 

For some crazy unknown reason, you are forced into a gladiatorial battle against someone your own size and weight.

You are given the choice of either:

1. An eight inch non-serrated knife
2. A full size alluminum baseball bat

Your opponent gets the other weapon.

Which do you choose?

I suck at bats so I'd take the knife hoping that my opponent of my own size and weight sucked at them too

Bat for reach.

My metal, baseball-playing bat could distract him with his shiny wings and pitches to the head while I take him down.

Seriously, though, a solid blow to the hand and he won't even be able to hold the knife. And I expect the bat is better at blocking a knife than vice versa.

The knife because it's sharp.

I agree with bat. But it takes quite a bit of power to hit someone hard enough to knock them over and stun then long enough so you can kill them, let alone the fact that if you do knock them over, it is still possible for them to stab you.

Something which can't be said for the knife, you knock someone over, it'll be almost 'impossible' for them to hit you with any degree of power on the floor.

Laser proves that he's never been hit with a baseball bat.

Obviously a headshot would annihilate your opponent, but if you got some guy who is trying to kill you running up towards you, bobbing and weaving about, that headshot is going to be hard to do..

I can just imagine someone being hit in like the side of the ribs, looping his arm over the bat and stabbing the dude in a fit of bloodlust, ignoring the obviously shattered ribs.

i am a pretty big guy and a bat is a deadly weapon in my hands. i am too fat and slow to avoid a 1,90m guy swinging a bat. so a knife would be useless.

Metal baseball bats in the hands of someone who really intends to do harm will be breaking bones, and making grown men cry.

this .. is .. beautiful

Unless you were built like Brock Lesnar or high on crack, then a metal baseball bat is going to floor you in the right hands no matter how much adrenaline you have in your system.

Also reach.

Reach reach reach.

Is there an universally correct answer for that?

Depends on whether or not I was an expert at knife-throwing.

EDIT: also this

Are you? Probably not. So take the bat. That's what I'd do.

Can I duct tape a knife to the end of my bat?
If no, then still bat.

Reach, plus raw power.
Knives are shit for fights if you aren't skilled with them, bats not so much. If you aren't an experienced knife fighter, you'll just end up dropping it, or even running yourself through.

Bat for reach. Also because if I lost the fight, the knife would probably make my death quicker and (relatively) less painful.

I have a wooden bat by my bed, mostly as an extension of my arm so I can reach things on my bedroom floor/ swat flies/ chase away the pikeys. But I know for a fact that even I could crack a guys head open with it in one or two good hits. They're sturdy as fuck, I'd be quite happy with my bat against someone of equal stature and strength to me if he carried a knife.

I voted for knife then realizing a bat would be actually better for me.

I'd take the bat and try to hit the knees hoping he won't start to run like an ostrich.

Knife, because it only takes one unguarded moment to strike and disable him. Knowing my own strength, a bat would take a few strikes to down myself properly if I even hit lol.

If you're fighting with a bat, you shouldn't be hitting to kill. You should be hitting to disable. Leave the torso alone, as it has the greatest ability to absorb the blow. You want to aim for the extremities, starting with the hands, or forearms. You want to disable their ability to fight back before you actually try to kill them.

What a weird topic. What a weird response.

Baseball bat--Throwing it covers a wider area.

Wow. I never expected to be so right about a subject I know nothing about.

Then again, in an actual fight I'd probably just run for it.

The Irish in me tells me to throw a punch and batter the fuck out of anyone trying to attack me. The white lower-middle class upbringing tells me to use my head and talk, being the masterful orator that I am, I haven't had to take a swing at anyone.

Of course, OANST would drop the knife and the bat, immediately opting for his swinging cod.

He has a fish on him at all times?!

I actually have an Indonesian Parang somewhere. It's what old pirate groups used to gut merchants.

We have a Colonial British Infantry sword in the loft. It's what the British Empire used to gut native Indians.

Bat, because of reach. You can get him before he gets you, but if he does get you, the knife will do a ton more damage. How much health do we have? Are there first aid kits around the arena? Are we allowed to do power attacks even if our stamina bar is empty? Can we use magic?