Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-16083651-20170111164432/@comment-4723271-20170122164438

JEK wrote: Killer kev wrote: Kate was a threat prior to even having Berserkers, or even supernatural powers of any kind for that matter. She's still very capable without them as she's a hunter first. The Berserkers were a big help but they aren't the only reason she lasted as long as she did. They couldn't beat her bc she was a step ahead. She had everything planned out. Well, honestly, if she didn't have the Berserkers, she WOULD have been dead, pretty early on I'd say. She wouldn't have had anyone covering her with the assassin's, or distracting the pack at the school (so when she went down into that vault, she'd have been facing off against not only Peter, but Scott, Malia and Derek. Possibly Kira too. Even with the flashbang/gas grenade Brunski tossed down, I doubt she'd have evaded all those people simultaneously.). She wouldn't have had them tanking the brunt of Chris's gunfire at the warehouse when he and Scott caught up to her. She wouldn't have been of much use to Peter, so he probably would have just killed her and mounted her head on a spike when he tracked her to the sewers (rather than deciding to use her to take out Scott). And at the final showdown, if it hadn't been for the Berserker's running interference, the Calavera's/Chris would have concentrated their fire and taken her down.

Lots of situations she only survived because of the 'Zerkers. And hell, as a regular human hunter, the only reason she lived so long in S1, was Peter was playing with her, while he eliminated all of her minions. The second he decided to go for her, he outclassed her completely.

She's smart, and skilled, but lets not overestimate her abilities here. Like I said, the Berserkers were a huge help, but saying she would've been dead earlier on is underestimating her abilities if anything. Each planned involved the Berserkers, she had control of them, so she utilized them as much as possible. You're saying certain situations wouldn't have went the way they did without the Berserkers, which is true, but who says the plan as a whole would've remained the same without them? What I mean by this is, obviously each plan was constructed around the Berserker's involvement, if she didn't have them then the plans would've been different. Just like in S1, she didn't have Berserkers, and she didn't need them, at least not until the final, they probably would've come in handy then.

As for her time as a human hunter, if what you said about Peter playing with her is true, then why'd he try to kill her in 1x04? It was when she first got into town and Peter tried to kill her while she was driving. However, Kate was prepared, she shot Peter and he ran off. If anyone was outclassed in that confrontation, it was Peter.