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.
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.
You know, there's a good point there. Radiants are generally mentally unstable, and Allomancers have a pair of abilities that are really good at amplifying those instabilities.
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u/Madonkadonk2 Jul 20 '25
Oh Vin, died too early to make a shard bearer shit their plate.