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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9716582" data-attributes="member: 7026617">The problem is, these two characters are not similar.McCain is, indeed capable, but he's also capable of missing, doesn't show his tactical acumen is so good that he's incapable of taking a bullet somewhere.  Across the course of the movie an awful lot of them fly his way.  Even accounting for how bad shots are when under pressure, he'd be unlikely to completely avoid them (or as reliably put them into others) even as good as he is.He's also extremely lucky.   And that luck is not something you can reliably expect in a game barring an additional mechanism.Legolas, is, on the other hand, an exceptional individual among a species that is already superhuman and shows it.  He does things no other character in the movie/book seems likely capable of, and if there is one, its likely another elf.  He still most likely could be hit, but the number of incoming attacks you'd need before it would be particularly likely is most likely larger than the number you see aimed in his direction, and that's not accounting for the fact his superhuman mobility (and it is superhuman; the books spell out that the footing of elves is better than any human, orc or dwarf can have) usually keeps him out of range of some attacks.The two characters are really doing an apples and oranges comparison.</blockquote>