Classic “meaning of life”-style match-up.
Who would win this fight?
The stealthy ninja with his awesome fighting skills, cool weapons and shadowy tactics?
The flamboyant pirate with his skillful wielding of brutal weapons and underhanded tactics?
You must back up your choice with at least one reason.
Pirate will win.
Ninja is trained to suppress pain when fighting.
Pirate feels no pain when fighting because he’s drunk.
Pirate kick a$$ when drunk, imagine what he can do sober.
This is a great one. Man, this requires some thought. I will answer tomorrow.
Ninja will win. One ninja could kill an entire boat of pirates at night. Pirates rely on brute force techniques: cannons, revolvers and swords. Ninjas are patient, ninjas would hang upside down for three days waiting for the right moment to slit your throat silently.
Pirates don’t stand a chance. Ninja.
put a boat load of Ninjas on a ship, and pit them against another boat load of pirate, the pirates will win.
I always pick pirates.
Yeah, terrain seems crucial here.
It’s so great, it’s worth doing twice. 
Pirates VS Ninjas
Does anyone think, when going into a fight, “I wish my Pirate buddy was here now”? 
Also because, he’s already dead!
Uhhh, don’t forget that ninja’s can run on water. 
here’s the thing its too awesome to fight, after a short battle that ends in a draw; they decide to call cease fire; and later friends, and even later a little more than friends… nine months later a being of unmatched power is born all bow to the pinga
Intriguing! I started wondering what one would look like and to my delight Google pays off again.
The reason you have to pick the pirates is simple: the pirate is goig to be at sea 95% of the time. Drunk or not, they know their ships like the backs of their weathered hands, and a ninja won’t. Sure, one or two might slip over the edge of the railing and slit a few throats, but the pirate fights on his home turf, the rocking, rolling, ship at sea, and after an initial advantage, the ninjas cannot fight back against sea-legged men with cutlasses and pistols who knife-drag their way down sails and swing from ropes like so many monkeys, kicking ninjas back into the ocean.
Where, naturally, the kraken awaits.
After careful thought I submit to you that this is about as easy a call as guessing what the inside of a black hole smells like. You have a pretty good idea but to actually know would involve badness. Lemmie explain.
This has prolly happened many times before but you’ll never here about it. Cuz a ninja wouldn’t tell and a pirate would be too drunk to remember. Also had you happened to be a witness you would have either been silenced by the ninja aftwards for secrecy or done in by the pirates blunder bus.
Of course you could be another pirate (see drunk) or another ninja (holding your tongue) but that doesn’t help either.
In the end, to witness the actual event and truly know, it would mean the end of days.
this deathmatch reminds me of batman vs iron man
You know there is a pirates vs ninja podcast where they ask their guests whick one would win
I went with ninjas because they hone their skills.
Pirates lived by the motto: a short life but a merry one. I take from that that pirates accept that they might lose the battle when it comes.
Ninjas never, ever give up.
I just realized something. With all the skills available in the Matrix, nobody every picked Swashbuckling. I’m just saying.
Okay, I’m surprised that no one has brought up the inverse law of ninja effectiveness (where ninja effectiveness = 1/N, and N = the number of ninjas).
The poll question is “Ninja v. Pirate” singular. Therefore in this case I have to go with ninja. However, if we’re talking a boatload of ninjas vs. a boatload of pirates (either at sea or on dry land), those awesome ninjas automatically become ‘foot’ ninjas or those awesomely incompetent ninjas in the Tick/Paul the Samurai crossover, and the decision goes to pirates.
It was brought to my attention (by one of my daughters) that ninja would win this fight.
“Apparently”, it is a little known fact that ninjas are vampires. Why else would they wear black, only come out at night and even if the pirate (thinks he) killed a ninja, he could never recupe the body. That is becasue the ninja is not dead… he’s off to regroup and will eventually come back to get the pirate.
So the pirate can enjoy his booty thinking that he defeated ninja. But one night, he will be sent to Davy Jones’ locker.
Pfft, and she thinks she’s too cool to be a geek.
first off she may be a geek; she may not know it but…
secondly; I haven’t seen you around welcome from another fellow Canadian GWC’er greeting from alberta.