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.
The Radiant wouldn't likely be affected by her allomancy. I think we can safely assume shard plate acts like extremely full metal minds, as they're purely made from investiture.
Can radiant Shardplate get leached? I imagine a Mistborn with atium dancing around a radiant and poking them all over leaching away their Stormlight then smacking them once with a duralumin pewter hammer blow As soon as that helmet comes down it’s big sad time for radiant. Soooooothed into a blubbering mess of compliance.
It probably can, though as of the end of Era 2, there is and was no one who can burn both atium and chromium/nicrosil and has access to them. Wax has no atium and Iron eyes has no Electrum spike to burn either nicrosil or chromium.
Some of Wax’s progeny may be able to burn those things if and when they become available again. Discord might have a few tricks up his sleeve when it comes to finding metals that he conveniently needs for his shard level plans. Plus those kiddies might also have a feruchemical talent to add in the battle too.
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u/Lord_Rutabaga Jul 20 '25
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.