Out of all the heisters, Jacket is physically the strongest since his perk deck is the meta for melee builds
In arm strength and wrist dexterity you're probably be right.
But I'd respectfully argue a few other heister to potentially take the strongest metal in other area's.
Long counter argument below (Skip to the end for shit posting about Jacket being the strongest)
Here's where I put the disclaimer: I know not that much about the meta of Payday. I am a filthy casual who plays for fun rather than maxims efficient win rates. Those who can figure out/use the meta have my deepest respect. That requires a bigger brain that what I have. So I am going to be doing analyzation based off of the in universe implications.
If you disagree that's valid and I can understand wanting to have such headcanons based on the meta.
Now on to my argument that Jacket may not be the strongest in every area:
Wolf, for example is represented by the Armorer perk deck and the Technician skill tree.
His perk deck implies high stamina built for wearing armor than say someone like Houston(Rouge Perk Deck) who would be a bit more slowed down as his perk deck is better suited towards avoidance of armor.
Tower Defensive and Kick starter comes to mind. The final skill of the Engineer branch, implies some level of intense working out to gain the strength(Read in-game points to spend on the skill) to carry. Though kick starter seems to work on the goofy logic that allows Duke to heal via whiskey, there's a high iq argument there as well.
Not sure how much this is really relevant, but in more live action trailers and what nots, Wolf is show a preference for melee, even with out a weapon at time.
Of course with that arguments of Skills and Perks comes the Houston has leg strength.
The Ghost skill tree has skills like Sneaky Bastard and Low Blow implies some level of insane speed. And sixth sense just straight up implies supernatural ability. (But hey half the time it seems like Bain has a level of Omnipresence to him, so I wouldn't be surprised)
Killer Instinct from the Rouge deck perk deck allows for a better chance for any weapon to have amour piercing damage. Of course this is probably small amounts of arm strength in comparisons to melee favoring Jacket, but I thought it was worth noting.
Pretty sure owning a shooting range as basically kid also means something for strength (Kick back of riffles and all) but you could also counter this with an argument of it just being good balance rather than strength. This would also arguably line up with his stealth style better.
Hoxton's skill tree Fugitive is a DAMN good argument but outside of that his lore background is just damning him.
Building muscles in prison is hard as shit. Prison food is the opposite of nutritious from my understanding. The Crook perk deck's dodge is pretty great as well for the leg race between him and Hoxton. But there's more focus on general muscles due to the secondary focus on armor.
Of course if we're excluding skill trees then of course, these arguments have a little less weight I suppose. And it would make sense to exclude skill trees. I'd understand the argument there. As the skill trees while based on og 4 plus Houston(og 5? LMAO)
However Wolf would still have more stamina when he took of his vests and is shown to have a preference for physical fighting
I'd also like to put up for consideration Dragan.
His constant work ethic towards working out would imply general all rounder strength. However a master of one is better than a master of none. So to support this argument I point to the Infiltrator perk deck. The deck build upon close combat
Of course this could be argued that he has to keep up the strength due to his smoking habits murdering his lungs. Old man is 45 after all.
Sokol is an ex-athlete in his prime.
I've seen very few Hokey matches but the ones with incidents tend to be brutal. And it seems like Sokol here had a habit of starting them as well. His over all thicker build implies core strength and balance. You would need such a thing to knock people on the ice with out tipping over yourself (well that a momentum). The Grinder perk deck seems to be focused on healing more than anything, showing an ability to take a hit. But this isn't about a fight, this is just about strength.
Either way I had to include Jacket's Rival/Enemy/Competitive/Negative relation in this. Just for kicks ;)
honorable mentions:
Jiro who is a speedy boy with some melee, but unless he's working out like Dragan his 50+ year old body isn't going to be winning the race with so much young blood.
Scarface: His strength is a lie and all drugs
Duke: He is an alcoholic in denial
However with all that said:
It's still really funny to think of skinny Jacket just taking someone more well built like Sokol and just SLAMMING him into the ground.
Ghost Wolves didn't train little bitches and he didn't slack off of training in Miami.
He is the king of arm wrestling and he and Bonnie quickly made a scheme to challenge the newer heisters to arm wrestling with money bet on the line.
Dallas stopped this after to many complaints of being scammed, but the closest to win was Jimmy who was coked up and using his hysteria strength.
Just regular baking, no drugs, no nothing. Just overly elaborate cake pops and other things. The Payday gang only finds this out when Jimmy finds out Dallas’s birthday a mentions making a cake.
At first they think he’s joking.
Then when they see the baking supplies strewn about everywhere (Much to the annoyance of Bob, Aldstone, and Houston) they think the cake is going to spiked.
So when Jimmy presents a fancy multi-layer cake with ice-cream and Dallas actually eats the slice given to him, they expect one hell of ride...
Only for nothing to happen besides Dallas being pleasantly surprised and complementary of Jimmy’s baking skills.
Chaos erupted as it became a free for all for a slice.
They’re was confusion on who actually got cake by the end of it all. After all with Clover complaining she didn’t get any to Bonnie only to turn around and brag to Hoxton she got two slices left a lot of questioning on the validity of her claims. And she wasn’t the only one who did this.
The only one’s people know for sure who got a slice where Aldstone, Bob, Houston, Jiro, and Scarface(The debates on Clover’s claims are legendary). As they were the ones who were served cake while everyone else was observing Dallas for side effect and then retreated/got out of the way when chaos erupted
Now any non-spiked baking has become a high valued item in the safe house.
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I dunno if english is your first language? But this is like really good, has no business being THAT thought-out for your first post!!!
YEAH YEAH Jiro does in fact refer to the gang as his “new family” in one of the Kento trailers! I love your attention to detail, in fact, I love your ideas so much that uhhhh is it okay if I rewrite the first few paragraphs of this fic??? (I say this, waiting to send you the new sentences and metaphors I came up for them)
op, I’m gonna be honest with you. I do have a few gripes about the way you presented it, (not the concept itself!) but I don’t know if. If you are doing this as a hobby or working towards self-betterment. I know some people are emotionally hurt by constructive criticism, and that’s okay! Know your limits, definitely.
That being said, is it fine if I give my advice/opinions on your fanfiction? I would hate to insult you in any form, so I want to make sure. I’m being careful, see?
Oh yeah feel free, It's my first fic as long as you don't emotionally crush me at every chance you get I'd be more than willing to hear.
Of course First fic being used loosely, I got a whole vault of stuff I've written that I never finished or just never showed anyone for one reason or another. It's mostly been just a fun hobby I do as a way to do something creative when my brain doesn't want to draw. But that doesn't mean I don't want to better it.
It might not be my main focus but I do enjoy seeing improvement in my work. Helps me be my best self and fulfills something in the back of my mind to know I'm not stagnating
But yeah English is my first(Currently only as well but I'm trying to expand that) language.
Though I did took a lot of writing courses as a kid, and my mom's a teacher so I guess that might've rubbed off(But not her handwriting or math skills)
I can understand why the presentation might not be the best I can get a little, uh, scatter brained when writing and have trouble with paragraph's at time(I know a good theory behind it, I just have issues getting my brain to actually uh use that knowledge. I'm not sure if that makes sense).
I'm also aware I have a repeating words problem. Most of the time my brain just uh get's bent on certain phrases and doesn't want to let them go like an angry dog so I try to clean it up into something a bit more fancy looking(Something that can be past off as a stylistic choice).
I did not know HTML before this, so I image the italics might be a bit wonky. (Thank god Bandit is an amazing friend who helped me)
As for the detail comment? Thank you ^u^. I really like making things(Whether it be art or story) that you can come back to and notice something new. Also hyperfixation commands me try to know stuff down to the detail(While also being detrimentally lazy in other areas lmao)
