"I spotted an unfamiliar suspicious individual near the Brooklyn Bridge. My first thought was to subdue him." Peter spread his hands as he explained to Schiller. "But the moment we came face-to-face, I realized that although his equipment was sophisticated, he seemed to have no real combat experience at all. His fighting skills were poor, he couldn't adapt on the fly, and he moved very stiffly."
Peter was indeed qualified to say that now. Matt had previously said that he and Elektra had spent the past few years studying combat techniques under Stick. Matt had taught Peter everything he had learned from Stick, while Steve had constantly sparred with Peter. In other words, Peter's fighting skills had inherited the essence of both Eastern and Western combat.
Combined with his constant real combat experience, Peter could now be called a fighting master. Compared with the amateurish skills he had when he first started out, it was like heaven and earth.
But Harry was only a college student, at most a fighting enthusiast. He was in good shape, but a fighting enthusiast could not compare to a master honed through real combat. The physique built in gyms and on football fields was also far inferior to Spider-Man's strength.
Moreover, although Harry's biotech armor had been invented through research into the Symbiote, it had specifically removed the Symbiote's greatest advantage: the armor had no self-awareness.
Old Osborn believed that the greatest source of instability in Symbiotes was their self-awareness. So although the armor he invented was very similar to the Symbiote factor within Symbiotes, it was actually an inanimate object. It could not inherit fighting skills from a previous owner like a Symbiote could. Aside from decent defense and agility, it had practically no advantages.
"We had only exchanged two or three rounds