How about an adolescent kangaroo?

  • @Delphia
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    409 months ago

    Blue whale.

    You never said I had to win.

    • CaptainBlagbird
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      209 months ago

      They also never said in which environment:

      Stranded blue whale.

      • @Delphia
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        179 months ago

        In the ocean. I punch it once, it swims away. “Yeah bitch, you better run!”

        • @[email protected]
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          With all the blubber, would a whale even notice a punch, especially if the force was lessened due to water drag?

          • @meco03211
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            89 months ago

            Notice it? Likely. Interpret it as a threat? Unlikely. Swat you like an annoying insect? Probably.

            • oo1
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              39 months ago

              if it was a Right Whale then by all accounts, it’d take it as a come on.
              they’re lovers not fighters.

    • @schmidtster
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      109 months ago

      Doesn’t “think you can take on” imply winning though? If not at least surviving with most limbs attached.

      • Bleeping Lobster
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        59 months ago

        Sit in its blowhole until it suffocates?

        Obviously I am not advocating for these beautiful majestic giant beasts to be killed but if it was a life or death thing… I’d be getting in that blowhole like a big old human tampon.

        • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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          79 months ago

          They can hold their breath for 30-90 minutes and can dive to 1000 feet. Good luck.

          • @ccunning
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            69 months ago

            Their error was sitting in the blowhole. The trick is you have to go in head first so you can steal the oxygen from the whales lungs.

          • Bleeping Lobster
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            49 months ago

            I’m so fucked. But I’ll wedge myself in deep, if I’m going down I’m taking it with me!

            (reality would be it’d surface and blow me out like a floppy ragdoll)

            • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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              59 months ago

              Later the whale is telling his buddy about the worst booger he had to get rid of.

        • @schmidtster
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          49 months ago

          They have 2 20inch holes, so make sure to bring a buddy!

    • Rhynoplaz
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      19 months ago

      Get him on land and just keep punching for a few hours and you might just win!

  • @[email protected]
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    219 months ago

    Most beasts under 80 lbs. Over 80 lbs, it’s gonna be on a case by case basis. 90 lb sloth, no problem. 81 lb wolf, …problem.

    The biggest animal I feel confident in is an 800 lb human. Huge, but that fucker’s gonna be exhausted ten seconds into the fight.

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    A blue whale. (they won’t fight back b/c they don’t consider me a threat, and so when they wander away I win by technicality)

  • Jeena
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    179 months ago

    If I had bear hands then probably a small bear.

    • oo1
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      69 months ago

      ew, i dont want to touch one of thoser with my bare hands though.

    • VindictiveJudge
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      19 months ago

      Yeah, OP never said the animal had to be non-sapient.

  • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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    149 months ago

    A large opossum. I could probably handle something larger, but I can only handle one pet at a time and I like opossums.

    Yes, I understand you’re asking about the largest animal I can fight and I’m telling you that that opossum is going to become a pet if I win.

    • theodewere
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      49 months ago

      opossum would be the perfect battle out in the forest… run up and swing at him a couple of times til he falls over… declare yourself champ and go party with your hoes… nobody goes back to check to see if the opossum got back up…

    • @hactar42
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      29 months ago

      I once saw a chaparral (aka roadrunner) hold it’s own against a opossum, so I think you’ll be fine

      • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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        59 months ago

        Yeah, but I’d probably adopt whatever I fight as a pet, and I think having a pet opossum would be awesome, so that’s what I’d pick to fight.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    139 months ago

    A giant squid. It would have to be on land though (you never said we had to do it in their natural habitat).

  • edric
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    129 months ago

    Galapagos tortoise. That’s the largest I can think of without teeth and claws, not fast, and not in water.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 months ago

      I mean, it’s got a shell, and turles/tortoises can still bite pretty bad without teeth, consider the snapping turtle.

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        A turtle is a good idea.

        A shell is a great defense against a biting predator, but not great against a thinking / tool-using predator.

        • @[email protected]
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          109 months ago

          To be fair, since it was specified that one must fight the animal with one’s bare hands, tool use is probably cheating here

          • @[email protected]
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            09 months ago

            Bare hands doesn’t necessarily mean “only punches”. You can’t pick up a rock if there’s one on the ground? To me “with your bare hands” means going into the fight without preparation, with your hands empty originally. No guns, no swords, no rocket artillery. Like, you were out for a hike and a ________ attacked you.

        • @ccunning
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          59 months ago

          Not to mention siege warfare as an option…

          • @smort
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            109 months ago

            Yes, my favorite bare handed tactic is using a trebuchet

            • @ccunning
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              29 months ago

              I’m just saying you could probably starve them out, but a trebuchet could be fun too. I won’t report you…

            • @MajorHavoc
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              29 months ago

              I’ll allow it, because trebuchets are great.

  • thelastknowngod
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    129 months ago

    Definitely something smaller than a grasshopper… Lost that fight a few days ago.

  • @ohlaph
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    99 months ago

    Probably a fainting goat.