BRUTE (Halo) vs. KROGAN (Mass Effect) | Who Would Win? 

If this video does well y'all can expect another vs episode soon!

"I dont think they have the same singleminded fury midbattle as a Brute..." Grunt: I AAMMM KROOOOOOOGAAAAAAAANNN!!!!

Best Mass Effect quote from Wrex: “That’s why I like hanging out with you guys! Why shoot something once when you can shoot it 46 more times!”

You can fight like a Krogan, run like a leopard, but you'll *never* be better than Commander Shepard.

A hairy boi vs a scaley boi

A lot of the stuff Shepard does to krogans is purely plot Armour. Krogans in Canon are shown to lift hundreds of pounds with no effort, tossing them to the side like rag dolls. Standard fire arms do little to them as well, many lore settings saying that extremely heavy weapons are required to take down even a single krogan.

For the record, the "strongest, brute-force warrior" from Mass Effect would be a yahg, not a krogan...

before the fight should start, however, I recommend evacuating the entire planet first

Everyone: Now if the Brute has a fuel rod cannon... Me: Looks at the M20 Cain

I think you’ve forgotten to factor in the fact that a krogan can live up to a thousand years, so a regular krogan soldier could have hundreds of years of combat experience. So that could help in a hand to hand fight as well as the fact that a mortality wounded krogan enters a blood rage which increases strength and Ferociousness. Though I will concede that they might still lose to a brute like you said.

A battle that has lasted through the ages. Furries versus Scalies.

Hey next you should do the Sangheilli vs Turians.

Wrex and Grunt: "We don't need luck, we have ammo!"

The peak warrior for the Krogan is the Krogan Warlord not the Battlemaster. Krogan Warlords are like 10 feet tall and weigh almost a 1000 pounds and can heal injuries in a matter of seconds.

The way a Krogan Battlemaster fights also works in their favor here. Battlemasters are actually a new sort of Krogan warrior, after their species was hit by the Genophage. The Codex states that "To the Battlemaster, killing is a science" and the idea is that Battlemasters focus on turning themselves into the most lethal, singularly effective and unkillable badasses around, essentially taking a quality approach since quantity isn't an option for them. So in a one-on-one fight like that, my vote goes to the Battlemaster.

Finally who would win is my favorite content on this channel.

3:19 in my ME2 playthrough I was wearing the N7 helmet so the headbutt made sense. Here I just imagine shepherds head cracking open on impact with the krogan

The most interesting thing about the Krogan is that they have evolutionary traits of a prey species. The wide-side eyes, for instance. Says all you really need to know about Tuchanka.

Idk, for strength I would point to Mass effect 2 when the tank bred Krogan moves rubble for Shepard, that solid slab probably weighed over a ton...

To some extent I think when you look at the Krogans abilities you could almost call them Mass Effect's Space Marines. Incredibly strong, long lives have redundant organs and heal wounds quickly, came to the galaxy's rescue in a time of colossal need and were originally colossal in numbers but due to a catastrophic event had to be reduced down to a few.

Shepard knocked Wrex to the ground for plot reasons, they couldn't have Shepard getting fucked up and destroyed by Wrex when he's the main character. You can't take that seriously in a debate setting about who would win.

A brute (halo). Vs an ork (40k)

Idea: do an episode where you describe your “perfect fleet”, with access to ships from Star Wars, Halo, Mass Effect, and/or other sci-fi universes. (35th try)

Yesssss a versus!! I mean I love all of your content but versus has always been my favorite

It's been a while since the last VS episode

I'd have to give it to the Krogan. One of the reasons, besides plot armor, that spartans beat brutes has a lot to do with experience or measured violence without the savagery of the brutes. Successful Krogan have centuries of experience to draw on when they fight especially if you're going to bring in battle masters and warlords. Throw in the tech and it's not even a competition.

I kinda feel like it's a hard comparison, Krogan are talked up and talked about but due to the mass effect engine and cheesy cutscenes, you never actually get to see them use there powers in a realistic way. like yeah shepard smacked him out, but grunt also jumped in to a shuttle and basically knocked it out of the sky. their strength is never really displayed in any great way due to the limitations of the games engine. where as in the Halo world we are able to physically see more of how the Brutes actually operate and conduct themselves and their physiology

Glad to see another versus episode, and some Halo content again

Dear God, finally. We need more Halo.

Replicators vs a Unified Star Wars universe (277th try now, *_I._** WILL NEEEEVER EEEVER GIVE UP!!!)*

Hell ya! Missed the vs battles thanks for bringing it back for now!

so happy to see you return to the versus! hope this is the first of many

Actually Brutes are waaay stronger than Spartans, at least 5 to 10 times, when a Brute puts his hands on you it doesn't matter if you are a Spartan or a Elite you are screw.

The strength difference is so big I have a hard time seeing even a peek Krogan beating the average Brute more than 10 or 20% of the time. I mean Wrex and Grunt have bulled off some impressive stuff, but there're probably examples of Brutes doing as good or better. Although I have a hard time seeing even a squad of Brutes taking down a Thresher Maw on foot. I'd kind of be interested in seeing a Halo Brute vs a Mass Effect Brute (a Reaperized Krogan/Turian hybrid).

I do think there is one more thing to take into account with the Krogan. They can live for upwards of 1000 years, equaling LOTS of combat experience. So while I still think Brutes would win the majority of the time, I think if the average Krogan is even only 200 years old, they have enough experience to maybe only let the Brute win 7or8/10.

I've been looking forward to this

Krogan all day. Brutes can brag about strength, but Krogan live for centuries and are battle hardened warriors to the core. They would destroy the brutes in a year

I don't think krogan are quite as strong as brutes but I think you may have sold their strength a tiny bit short! I'll have to check but I remember a krogan tossing an armoured human about 30ft in their air in one of the comics! Stronger than just big humans. Excellent video though! I was starting to miss these :)

You need to make this a animated fight👍🏻 ahh that outro will never get old😂😂😂!!!

Dark Helmet Vs Darth Vader

The brutes themselves already have some level of gravitational mastery, we've seen that the grav hammer can attract objects both living and mechanical so brute chieftan say tartarus could could just as easily toss around a krogan without touching him, and i doubt a biotic shield would stand up to a gravity hammer

hello can you do the Zerg vs the Flood (starcraft vs halo) PLEASE CAN YOU DO IT ????

Glad we’re phasing back into galactic versus type content. I always liked it more.

More awesome high quality Vids From ecks!

Do Elites vs Turians

I’d have to say that this is relatively accurate. Armored and armed, even a normal, non biotic Krogan I think would be more than a match for a Brute Chieftan. I’d put them on par with a Spartan II, and we know that Spartan II’s can kill a Brute. Grunt would be a perfect example of this. Especially since we seen him tackle and take down multiple Ravagers on his own. If Grunt is comparable to a very angry and scaly Spartan, then you don’t need biotics to kill a Brute. Just a really big gun and a lot of ammo.

Spot on, Eck!

brutes from halo vs orks from 40k

An immovable object versus an unstoppable force. Nice.:)

When taking into account Brute weaponry, are we leaving out Tartarus' special hammer? It has range, a pull, a pulse wave, etc. I still agree with this video in that a Krogan with tech could take out a Brute. While rare even UNSC marines can do it. However I don't see most sci-fi alien species beating brutes as they're so god damn strong, fast, and brutal. Don't underestimate Brute intelligence either. They're EXTREMELY good hunters and their entire race has a warrior culture. The best thing to do is fight a brute at a distance and pray to god they don't catch your scent and sneak up on you.

Heck yeah! More Mass Effect!

I really missed these episodes!

The big difference is that krogan's have amazing regenerative abilities and not only that krogan's can live to be almost a thousand years old so the Krogan Battlemaster would have almost a thousand years of combat experience to fall back on.

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YES! More versus please!

It’s been over a year since I’ve done this but I can finally watch an episode of versus while eating Taco Bell in bed tysm

ORK WARBOSS vs Brute Chieftain vs Krogan Battlemaster. WAAAAAAGH! Let's see who wins =))

Finally another VS episode. Was getting starved for this stuff.

Awww yiss, I’ve been wanting some species vs species videos...

I dig this kind of content.

Can the UNSC and the Covenant survive and beat the Angel Zeruel from Evangelion on Earth when the Covenant first attacked? Zeruel appears out of nowhere in this and is laying waste to everything and everyone that it sees and gets in it's way while trying to look for Lilith on this version of Earth to start the next Impact

The mentality and capabilities of the Brutes makes this roughly equivalent to Krogan vs Yahg. The Krogan are known for treating combat like an art or science, so I don't think the Brutes' brute force would really be as effective as you make it sound. Would it be a hell of a challenge? Yeah. Did Grunt deal with worse and survive it in Mass Effect 3? Probably. Not to mention the fact that the Krogan healing factor seems to only get better and faster with age. I think, in the unarmed and unarmored fight, it largely would be decided by how much experience the Krogan has. One like Drack would probably not have much of an issue really, seeing as a Krogan at such an old age has basically fought everything there is to fight, while a younger, less experienced Krogan would probably lose. Another point for Krogan resiliency: blood rage. It amplifies what the Krogan are capable of and, according to lore, has had cases where the Krogan fight beyond even brain death. I second the ones saying Turians vs Elites. It'd be interesting to see the thinking and outcomes

Great video

Oooo good choice today!

I think that it's only natural that you do a Turian vs Elites analysis now! Also, amazing work on your videos, and I hope that you keep up the great content!!!

The Yuuzhan Vong vs the Eldar. The Covenant vs the Dark Eldar. The Eternal Empire vs the Infinite Empire (inclouding all the droids and weapons they made that we see in SWTOR). Zann Consortium vs the Banished. The UNSC vs the Rebel Alliance.

Nice match up!

Ive been missing halo content:):)

The Chimera (Resistance) vs. The Locusts (Gears of War)

Is this a simple, straight up fight then? because I can imagine most Krogan can outsmart and outflank Brutes when they are say, hunting each other across an area. Krogan are born on worlds with nearly everything being bigger and stronger than them, so I dont think they would feel any need for being al Worflike about honor and such. If it is a straight fight I agree though.

Love when you do stuff out of the star wars uni

Thx for the awesome video. You shoud make a Gen'dai vs

Eventually tech can compensate for physical disparities. For example, regular grunt vs elite nah, easy, elite. Grunt goblin vs elite, different story. Hell it's why humans outclass gorillas despite our lacking of physical strength compared to most apes. So it makes sense a krogan master would be able to beat a brute chieften.

Do a vid with da Orkz!

Ooooh this is a good one

Pro-tip: Just spend 5 seconds to convince the Brute that blowing what little brains it has out will give them an amazing afterlife. The problem solves itself.

please do an A-wing vs a Viper Mk2 (BSG)

Brute vs WH40k Ork

Tartarus could perhaps be a match for a battlemaster, as the Fist of Rukt has some form of gravity field generator built in, which can be used to manipulate targets in a similar fashion to biotics, which could *potentially* allow Tartarus to deliver a swift killing blow by pulling the Krogan into range of the Fist (I can’t see a Krogan taking many hits from a gravity hammer).

The outro😂👌

So I don’t know much about Krogans but how does weaponry compare? Do they also have Gravity Hammers?

Without biotics there is just no way a korgan can equal the raw brute (haha) strength of a brute. Even if we put them with guns a brute can tank much more fire then a krogan and let's not even get into melee weapons

Regardless of how we all feel (and I absolutely love Krogans) the fact is that even a fully armoured Krogan warlord, the oldest strongest most badass Krogan, can be easily picked up by one arm of a brute and thrown like it was playing fetch. So I imagine with the other arm it would peel the Krogans head off. Its like an Elephant fighting a Rhino.

I love this series and next should be Master Chief vs Commander Shepard

Without the ability to manipulate gravitation and generate shields, a Krogan Battlemaster would stand no chance against a regular Brute, much less a Chieftain.

Predator vs Elite

Best transforming fighter: VF-11 thunderbolt from Macross Plus vs the Union Flag from Gundam 00 vs the Viking from StarCraft vs the Mecha Tengu from Command and Conquer vs the Legioss from Genesis Climber Mospeda. Both in 1v1v1v1v1 and squadron battles.

I definitely get what you mean on round 2 BUT a chieftain with a strong enough hammer, like Tartarus' Fist of Rukt, also has crazy offensive power and gravity manipulation powers

Without biotics it's tough to decide, but the main factor if they Brutes would be allowed covenant energy weapons and tech. If allowed covenant tech Brutes could possibly win, but would be long battle of attrition. This is because energy barriers can block a lot of things, but will be taken down with enough firepower demonstrate by various UNSC weapons, especially the sniper which can take out shields in 1-2 shots depending on placement. Even if they break through like he stated the armor itself and general brute hardiness can still be a bullet sponge. If you take away the covenant tech then brute weaponry is pretty bad. I mean you have the brute shot which is basically a grenade launcher with a blade attached, the mauler which is basically a shotgun pistol with a bayonet, the type 25 carbine aka " the spiker" which is kinda like a railgun but shoots spikes instead, and the gravity hammer. Without energy weapons they would lose I think. My main reasoning is that ME tech is heavy kinetic weaponry and defense, the kinetic barriers(KB) should be able to withstand most brute weaponry besides the gravity hammer, considering kinetic shields are able to block hyper velocity rounds, explosions, plasma( incinerate is basically a plasma blast I think), particle weaponry( collector weapons). Not to mention I think KB would be able to block some plasma damage, they can stop plasma but not the heat so they would still get burned heavily, but krogan armor and regeneration could nullify that. As mentioned by others Krogans live a long time, so the average krogan would have more combat experience as well. If we stick to krogan weaponry then they would be pretty effective against brutes I think if you take the graal spike thrower which is used to hunt thresher maws, you know those giant acid spitting 30 meter long worm monsters by shooting oversized flechettes at hyper velocity meant to pierce thresher hide and create deep wound channels leading to massive blood loss. Also the standard krogan battle hammers which are basically smaller gravity hammers, but if you take away the biotic variant there is still the tech war hammer which as more damage. In conclusion I think a krogan battlemaster could beat a brute chieftain due to combat experience, krogan physiology, and specialized mass effect kinetic barriers which renders most of the brute chieftains weapons useless without a lot of sustained fire( which a krogan battlemaster wouldn't allow), and ME krogan brutal weapons. Even if brutes were allowed covenant tech I think that krogan physiology and ME KB's can stop most of it and then it's just a battle of attrition in which krogans can regenerate over time when brutes can't, even with brute bullet sponge capabilities krogan weapons are meant to bleed enemies out and since brutes can't naturally stop bleeding like krogans can they will eventually lose.

From what I've seen in the game people with biotics can barely lift a ton, I doubt biotics can stop a charging brute.

I love that outro

How about for your next versus match you do the mammoth mk2 from command and conquer vs the AT-AT. Both are massive walkers that kinda lessen the effect of the others main offensive weapons

“Krogan don’t have the fury of the brute” Apparently you’ve never heard of Blood Rage. As Wrex always says: ah the benefits of a redundant nervous system.

My money is on the krogan, hands down. They are a lot stronger physically than I think you give them credit for, as well as their blood rage increasing their strength and durability in combat. The recoil of their trademark Claymore shotgun is stated to be enough to shatter a human's arm, yet they have zero issues using it. Not to mention that biotics completely break the encounter in favor of the krogan. But to cap it all off, krogans evolved fighting bigger stuff than them. They are explicitly stated to be a *prey species* on their homeworld of Tuchanka, so their entire philosophy in combat was developed with hitting things bigger than them as hard as possible.

I'm reminded of the Krogan Warlord in Mass Effect 3: Multiplayer, and that guy was pretty big. He had really thick armor, and wielded a battler hammer that - upon impact - could either detonate a Biotic explosion, or a tech explosions; which was basically electrical. That would be a much more interesting matchup in my eyes.

The Federation Fleet at Wolf 359 (Star Trek TNG) vs The Rebel Alliance Fleet at the Battle of Yavin (Legends) Attempt 3

No mention of the krogan battle rage when they have to rely on redundant organs or their quick health regeneration that all krogan have? ...okay. Think you're missing some of the biggest things that make krogan so scary.

Krogans woudl win hands down due to another factor. They breed like rabbits

To be fair, this was Commander Shepherd that smacked Wrex down. The best example of how strong Krogans can actually be is most likely in Mass Effect 2, where you're trying to save warlord Okeer. One of his clone troopers lifted a massive piece of ship debris to clear the way for Shepherd. Visually, it was pretty impressive, since the Krogan looked like an ant lifting something ten times larger than itself.

How about a squad vs squad with firearms.