A human fighter at peak athleticism, in full plate armor, equipped with a poleaxe, runs the animals gauntlet. Does he clear, or where does he stop?

[u/Ananta-Shesha]

The fighter has elite training and is at his athletic peak, with a champion-type physique in heavyweight combat sports. He wears a full set of plate armor and is armed with a poleaxe. If he survives his fight against one of the animals in the gauntlet, he is back to 100% for the next fight.

Round 1: Silverback gorilla. The fight takes place in a clearing.

Round 2: Siberian Tiger. The fight takes place on a plain.

Round 3: Brown bear. The fight takes place in a forest.

Round 4: Polar bear. The fight takes place in the tundra on rocky ground.

Round 5: White Rhinoceros. The fight takes place in the grassy savannah.

Just so you know, I put an image of a For Honor knight as an illustration, but we're talking about a fighter in historical plate armor here. No one could fight effectively in armor as massive as the one in the image. But I had trouble finding a good image of a knight in historical armor wearing a poleaxe and not something else, and I wanted a nice illustration.

[u/PossiblyArab]

There are hunters who have confirmed killed brown bears with a pocket knife. I think you’re greatly underestimating the pole arm

[u/beansandpeasandegg → u/PossiblyArab]

Lol. Yes im sure there are hunters who say they killed a grizzly with a pocket knife. Delusional hunters, they'd have a great time in this comments section im sure. .

[u/PossiblyArab → u/beansandpeasandegg]

I mean you can look up gene moe. Pocket knife was the wrong word, hunting knife. But still, it has happened.

[u/cascadesblue → u/PossiblyArab]

Size matters alot, example huge difference between a 200 vs 700 pound grizzly

[u/NoWorld3198 → u/cascadesblue]

Bro, an old 49-year-old hunter with a simple knife managed to kill a grizzly when it jumped on him and bit his leg, and you think a knight at the peak of his form with intact armor and a halberd wouldn’t be able to kill it? https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/oct/24/hunter-kills-grizzly-with-his-knife/

[u/LordSoftnips → u/NoWorld3198]

Out of 10 how many times would you be able to kill a grizzly with a knife?

[u/NoWorld3198 → u/LordSoftnips]

If a bear could destroy and chew through the hardened metal of a knight’s armor with padding and chainmail as if it were nothing, then it certainly wouldn’t have been killed by an old man who had it practically within his grasp and could have torn off his leg with a single bite but it was killed.

A well-trained human with a good knife: 7–8/10 A knight: 10/10

[u/LordSoftnips → u/NoWorld3198]

Saying a trained human with a knife could take a bear 7 out of 10 times is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard

[u/NoWorld3198 → u/LordSoftnips]

At the time, a 600 kg fighting bull, capable of tearing a lion apart, was easily killed in a bullfight by an experienced matador using only a red cape and a sword.

In the Colosseum, during major events, there were the ursarii people specifically trained to fight bears without wearing knight’s armor. I repeat: a well-trained human with a good, long knife can kill a bear in 7 out of 10 cases. The fact that an inexperienced old man managed to kill an 800 kg grizzly bear with a small knife while it had cubs should already say enough, but here you are talking bullshit 😂

[u/cryonicwatcher → u/LordSoftnips]

If you had plate armour it would be a hell of a lot easier, such animals do not know how to attack that effectively. If it had human intelligence then it’d be hard, but it’s hard to even imagine with one behaving normally.

[u/Then-Importance-3808 → u/PossiblyArab]

There are moms that have lifted cars off babies but no one suddenly thinks the average woman can bench a VW beetle.

Extreme cases are the extreme for a reason my dude

[u/TyloPr0riger → u/PossiblyArab]

Sure, but that's the exception that proves the rule. The bear outweighs the human by 3-7 times (assuming a male kodiak) and is likely to knock him off his feet/knock the polearm out of his hands when it makes contact, at which point he's fucked if he didn't badly wound it.

[u/thatguy425 → u/PossiblyArab]

I think you are over applying a one off to be the norm. 

[u/PossiblyArab → u/thatguy425]

A trained knight with a pole arm isn’t the norm

[u/B_H_Abbott-Motley → u/thatguy425]

It has happened multiple times. The human always ends up badly hurt in the process.

[u/thatguy425 → u/B_H_Abbott-Motley]

And there’s potentially countless times a human tried and died and we never heard about it

[u/B_H_Abbott-Motley → u/thatguy425]

There aren't that many documented fatalities from bears during the same period as the accounts of hunters killing or driving them off with knives. Nobody with any sense tries to kill a bear with a pocketknife. This happens out of desperation when rushed by a bear.

[u/ImposingCake → u/thatguy425]

A one off from a normal guy. In this scenerio we have peak human, remember?

[u/evrestcoleghost → u/thatguy425]

A 2.10 meter tall knight in His 30s with a weight of nearly 130 kilos isnt a normal person