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===[[Battle against Leviathan]]===
After Legend gave his introductory speech Armsmaster took over the briefing to explain to the gathered capes how Dragon's armbands worked. He questioned [[Miss Militia]] about [[The Travelers]] when they stood with those who have faced an Endbringer before. He was assigned to lead a group of capes who think they can harm Leviathan in hand-to-hand combat alongside [[Chevalier]].

During the battle, Armsmaster provides tactical advice and orders, and eventually maneuvers things to set himself up in a one-on-one duel with the Endbringer itself.

Tired, but gloating and taunting, Armsmaster appears to be fighting Leviathan and winning due to his new disintegration weapon and his numerous tinker devices giving him countermeasures for much of what Leviathan attempts. His combat analysis software<ref>“You dumb brute,” Armsmaster growled.  He was panting for breath.  “Every fight you’ve done so far, that we’ve got on camera?  I’ve watched it, put it through programs.  I’ve got a computer on my back that’s relaying to a supernetwork, noting your every move, using subsonic pulses to read every aspect of the street, the surrounding buildings, every feature of the terrain.  I know exactly what you’re going to do next – you’re going to try to catch me from behind with a wave.” - [[Extermination 8.4]]</ref> (with no interference and outside variables) genuinely worked against the [[Endbringer]] by predicting his attacks, movement, counters, and tactics.<ref>'''Plendamonda:''' Reminder that Armsmaster's prediction software worked perfectly at predicting Leviathan<br><s>until it didn't</s><br>[...]<br>'''Wildbow:''' His combat analysis software did work<br><br>'''Xantho:''' The data it had was incomplete<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Not that.<br>It let him land the blow just where he wanted it.  But he was working on the assumption that his halberd cut through everything.<br>His software doesn't get into the nitty-gritty of powers or composition or figure out what can be cut through and what can't.  It's about movement, attacks, counters, and tactics.<br>Watch how someone moves, get all the data from video footage and whatever else, gather data on mindset and habits, extrapolate.<br>Even if there's 50 possible moves (in a broad sense), it can still guide you to places where you're safe, and that reduce the opponent's future options for courses to take. - Conversation with Wildbow on Parahumans Discord</ref> However, Armsmaster was caught off-guard by his [[nano-thorn]] Halberd getting stuck partway through Leviathan's claw as he assumed it could cut through anything:<ref>Legend talks about underestimating Leviathan... which is a complete aside and totally unrelated to me bringing up Armsmaster vs. Leviathan. I should explain (because I think it was unclear) - Armsmaster's computer didn't let him position the others so they would die, exactly. That was secondary. He put the villains in the way (particularly the giant bruisers and the wall-creating Kaiser) and set himself up so he would be able to fight Leviathan one on one. That let the simulation program be clean of interference and outside variables.<br><br>It wasn't that Armsmaster screwed up, but that a weapon that's supposed to cut through anything gets part of the way through Leviathan's claw and ''stops''. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://spacebattles.com/posts/34689673 --> the Endbringer then pins Armsmaster to the ground before tearing off one of his arms.

Skitter, who had been watching the fight, arrives and administers first aid as best she can. Armsmaster claims that she was dead. Shortly afterwards, [[Lady Photon]] arrives to take Armsmaster to receive proper medical attention.