At 22:38 10/08/96 -0700, you wrote:

comex1@village.ios.com thinks that Ranma will lose the first match, then
win fairly consistently thereafter.

I think that Ranma is more likely to win the first match (given their
native fighting styles) and that A-ko will take this as something of a
wakeup call to seriously study martial arts, and as her skill improves
she'll pull slightly ahead of him.  From that point on, he'll win
whenever he's got an effective new trick that she hasn't caught onto
yet, but otherwise her physical advantage in speed, strength and
toughness will win out.

Note for instance that Ki-blasting A-ko is a very bad ideal, as she can
easily shrug off single massive attacks. (In A-ko #2 the giant robot
fist attack broke B-ko's bra but didn't even scratch A-ko's panties...)

For my opinion of A-ko, read my fanfic:
	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb

Well Ranma is far more skilled but A-ko is just a *tad* powerful isn't she?
It's hard to say who would win because they're fairly different series! If
A-ko were to land one punch on Ranma he'd lose, he prefers not to hit women
so he'd probably under estimate her, I'd say it would be very unlikely he
would win.

If there ever was an actual fight between the two in an actual anime (and
I'm just saying *if* we know it won't actual happen) I'd say they'd call a
draw between the two of them because you just don't see those sort of
extremes emigrating from either series ^_- (maybe Ryoga vs A-ko might be
more closer in terms of strength ;)).

Simon Barker
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~simonrb/
http://www.dragonfire.net/~simon/
"just call me unpredictable"