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The Philistine champion fights the Achaean champion before the walls of Troy, both with their full gear and weaponry. Victory by death.

There's a pretty huge gap between the strongest killers in DBD and the weakest, so I was wondering who are the most powerful and who are the weakest from top to bottom.

Bruce Wayne with no batsuit or gadgets or anything like that fights Odysseus in the streets of Troy. Both are given swords and a shield of their choosing.

The Waata of Kenya developed some huge bows for elephant hunting with draw weights regularly exceeding 120 lbs and some strong bows even reaching 160+ lbs which the Waata occasionally shared with neighboring, more sedentary tribes. The Hadza of Tanzania also have unusually powerful bows for their area, with some strong bows reaching over 100+ lbs and even the average being around 70 lbs. I am not familiar enough with the Hadza to know why their bows are so powerful though, they are certainly not elephant specialists.

Did bows of similar power appear in any other part of Africa? Also, while it is easy to see why the Waata's bows are so powerful given the cultural focus on elephant hunting, is there any reason why the Hadza's bows are particularly powerful relative to other hunter-gatherers in their area?

I have heard that some of the eastern nations had better wood for bows and that some early colonial accounts from encounters with these groups speak highly of their bows, but is there a rough idea of if there was a cultural complex particularly known for high power bows? If so, is there any good data on how strong these might have been besides just colonial accounts?