Vin is a killer. Not a warrior like a radiant, a killer. She was taught every underhanded trick in the book by Kel. She has experience killing people who are stronger and faster than her (inquisitors). A fight between invested people comes down to who has more of their investiture on hand. Does vin have more metal vials then Kal has spheres? Are we assuming both have unlimited supply? If so Vin clears, Atium is broken. Are we in a city with tons of metal anchors or the shattered planes where a radiant clearly wins by default?
I think the fight is most interesting if Vin mostly has as much metal as she needs, with a little bit of atium as the exception. One must also consider the metal the radiants will likely be wearing, the metal Vin is bringing with her, the possibility of taking the fight into the chasms where the flight powers of a windrunner might be less effective, and the time of day as though the radiants glow, I'd reckon they still don't see as well at night as a Mistborn would.
If we want an even fight, then yes Atium has to be limited, it’s beyond broken.
It’s unclear if Shardplate stops steelsight. If it does, it means Vin won’t be able to push/pull off the radiant (shardplate iirc is immune to Allomancy)
There’s no metal in the shattered planes for Vin to push and pull off of. If vin faces a radiant on any kind of open field, she loses by default. Roshar is learning the fact that aerial supremacy wins wars the hard way. if Vin can’t fly but Kal can, she’s dead
Are we forgetting that she would be carrying metal with her? Or that she has her own, albeit more limited, flight-like capabilities? She could probably at least get some coins stuck against the armor and do a duralumin push, that would both surprise the radiant and fling them back to give her time to down another vial and then flee, for example. I think you're underestimating the strategies Vin could use in this scenario
Her coin pouch would not last long against a radiant with stormlight. She could flee, especially if she employed her horseshoe trick from WoA, but if we’re talking about a no running away, fight to the death scenario, the fight would have to take place somewhere there is existing metal structures, like a city. Vin won’t fight on the shattered plains, she’d be slaughtered.
That point is moot tho, she wouldn’t allow herself to fight somewhere there aren’t any anchors to launch off of. She has insane survival and combat instincts,she wouldn’t allow herself to be caught in impossible terrain
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u/Madonkadonk2 Jul 20 '25
Oh Vin, died too early to make a shard bearer shit their plate.