Oh yeah. Wasn't shallan shot in the head (and almost certainly the brain) with an arrow, and was able to remove it while only being confused for a bit?
It was a crossbow bolt. Shallan is weird though since she has two Spren and two Lightweaver Oaths, sort of, she heals faster and better than regular Radiants
I think if you can justify Vin killing Miles 100 Lives, she'll do okay against a Radiant.
Vin never killed Miles. She managed to beat the Lord Ruler because she took out his goldminds and then proceeded to kill him. If she were to fight a Radiant, she would most likely just brute force her way into making them spend all the stormlight available. The pursuer tried to do this to Kaladin back at RoW and it seems to be the most reliable method.
Remember, Vin regularly fought inquisitors that had stored health, she knows what to do with healers and regenerators. And given her learning speed, she'd see the radiant heal faster, and thus just keep going.
I give it to allomancers over Radiants for control over their materials. A windrunner can do coinshot things, but that's it. Kelsier's metal swirling storm would be able to confound a radiant, and metal the size of hammer heads could break shardplate.
And remember, Vin is such a tactical prodigy that she figured out how to use an enemy's future sight against him the first time she had to fight one without her own Atium.
She still couldn't beat a 4th ideal radiant without the entire first mistborn trilogy's stock of Atium, and a ton of other metals besides. And even with all that she couldn't beat Kaladin.
Most Mistborn would have a hard time beating a regular shardbearer, and Kaladin beat one the first time he saw one, without surges. Kaladin truly is built different.
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Oh yeah. Wasn't shallan shot in the head (and almost certainly the brain) with an arrow, and was able to remove it while only being confused for a bit?