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An odd location, but it’s to challenge both sides who have experience with fighting. There’s nothing in this environment where Piando can somehow sabotage his opponent with, just more experience with fighting than the other.
Piando doesn’t know what the lieutenant’s sticks do, but he knows that they’re trying to incapacitate him with them aka he knows to avoid them
The lieutenant’s sticks are his only weapon against Piando, no gas attack or other equalist weapons.
For those who aren’t having the link load, it’s the fishing village in the painted lady episode.
Even if piandao has higher strength and skills (he won't), a lieutenant is the worst matchup you can think of for a swordsman. how will the electricity be counteracted?
If his throat is slit by a sword, then the lieutenant isn’t going to be much of a danger to Piando… or stabbed the correct way; hell, even just injured in a way that I can’t imagine right now!
thrusting with a two-handed sword is not effective due to its low speed, and chopping is blocked by sticks through which an electric current passes. + sticks are more mobile than a sword, and there are two of them. and any contact with them leads to the loss of the sword at best.
Lieutenant and I'd argue pretty easily. Electrocution+chi blocking+acrobatics is a dangerous three way combination. The man also has surprisingly better durability. He got smacked at full force by Naga's paw. The same Naga who easily destroyed metal prison bars and he got hit with that force qns and fell off a cliff. He also got kicked off the pro bending arena roof by Korra and plummeted many stories and still survived.