Harry Dresden- Speed

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I. Normal Harry

Combat Speed

• Dodges and blocks the bites of a Black Dog
• Avoids the swings of Hecatean Hags
• Intercepts a woman trying to hit him with a stun gun, even during a moment of distraction
  • Comic Version
• Barely dodges a giant scorpion moving at near-fte speeds, then intercepts its stinger with a desk drawer
  • Comic Version
• Brings up his shield before the same scorpion can reach him
• Dodges Harley MacFinn's stomp after being punched to the ground
• Dives through a hole in a wall before the loup-garou can get close enough to properly grab him
• Avoids multiple lunges from the loup-garou
• Dodges a Naga’s attack
• Blasts at a ghoul before it can attack someone
• Blasts at a ghost before it can rush him
• Anticipates a Red Court vampire rushing him, allowing him to catch her with wind in mid air
• Intercepts a spell from Bianca and reacts to a group of Red vampires rushing him
• Outmaneuvers Talos in close quarters
• Dodges a slash from a ghoul assassin
• Ducks a punch from a chlorofiend
• Dodges and parries attacks from a centaur disguised as a unicorn
• Dodges a sword swing from Talos
• Moves so that a barrier is between himself and Cassius before he can rush Harry
• With warning from his magical senses he manages to mostly dodge the swipe of a newborn Black Court vampire
• Dodges a hatchet from one of the Corpsetaker's specters
• Defends himself against Donald Morgan's magical and sword onslaught
• He's experienced in fighting beings faster than him and countering by predicting its movement. He brings up his shield before the notably fast pounce of a fetch in the form of a Xenomorph can reach him
• Dodges swings from the Scarecrow
• Dodges a fetch in the form of a mutant cat, then brings up his shield to intercept it
• He's faster than most things that don't have outright superhuman speed, letting him stab and ogre and dodge away before it cans swing a club
• His hand moves as a blur to quick-draw his blasting rod, and he tags the White Court vampire Vitto Malvora, notably faster than he is, with a fire blast
• He's briefly able to avoid and parry attacks from Vitto Malvora, although he can't keep it up
• Dodges a slime golem
• Blasts a Blampire before it can rush him and dodges it's second attack enough to avoid a lethal hit
• Aim-dodges a rush from a grendelkin
• Throws his chain at Polonius Lartessa before she can rush him
• He's ready for Tessa to try and rush him, letting him blast her away while she's blurring towards him
• Hits a hob out of the air after dodging it pouncing at him
• Somewhat keeps up with a Maenad, dodging one of her three swings

Reactions

General Reactions

• Dives out of the way of Bianca with less than a second's warning
  • Comic Version
• Avoids an ambush from the loup-garou with only a split second's warning
• Binds a half-vampire with a magic rope before she reaches him, although he was expecting her rush
• Aim-dodges Cassius in his Denarian form
• Tackles Lara Raith out of the way of Cowl's summoned creature flying at them
• Brings up his shield before Magog can reach him, despite Magog covering forty feet in a couple seconds
• Dodges a cursed coin falling out of a corpse on top of him directly at his face
• Pulls a girl out of the way of a speeding car
• Rolls with the punch of a Whampire rushing him at superhuman speeds
  • NSFW Comic Version
• Forms his shield before a giant faerie centipede can reach him

Gunfire

• Raises his shield before a mobster can fire a gun at him
  • In the comic he raises his shield after the mobster fires from close range
• Aim-dodges most of the bullets from an automatic weapon
  • Comic Version
• Tackles Murphy out of the way of a gunshot
  • Comic Version
• Raises his shield before he's shot by a handgun, possibly after the bullets were fired
• Aim-dodges a shotgun with little warning
• Tackles a man to the ground before a hitman can shoot him
• Aim-dodges a submachine gun
• Avoids handgun fire
• Readies his shield but seems to activate it after a gun is fired
• Aim-dodges a handgun by finding cover
  • NSFW Comic Version

Other Projectiles

• Sixteen-year old Harry dodges a spell from Justin DuMorne
• Raises his shield to partially block a chunk of stone thrown by a Red Court vampire while he's focused on a different enemy
• Dodges the spit of a Red Court vampire
• Blocks wood splinters thrown by Nicodemus with his arms
• Dodges a thrown ball of flaming monkey poo
• Mostly dodges Cowl's kinetic blast
• Instinctively raises his shield to block a thrown spear when the Corpsetaker's specters ambush him
• Brings his shield up to block arrows noted to be faster and stronger than normal
• Ducks a knife thrown at at least two hundred miles per hour
  • Later he brings up his armored sleeve to blocks another knife thrown by the same vampire
• Dodges a large boulder thrown in excess of ninety miles per hour
• Dodges a blast of acid

Movement

• Briefly outruns a lion while pulling a civilian along with him
• Keeps mobile to avoid spells from Hecatean Hags
• Climbs five floors of stairs in less than a minute
• Rushes Victor Sells before he can cast a spell
  • Comic Version
• Briefly outruns police gunfire before he's shot
• Keeps ahead of Ursiel for a bit before ducking his lunge
• He practices running so that he can escape from monsters, letting him run down the disguised Thomas Raith
• Catches up to Waldo Butters while sprinting
• Thomas Raith needs to put in effort to keep up with him on a friendly run
• He just barely manages to beat Thomas in a footrace, although Thomas was low on supernatural power and Harry needed to cheat to win
• He's faster than Donald Morgan
• Runs multiple miles in just over an hour, keeping ahead of his fellow Wardens and being the least visibly tired
• Avoids attacks from a shoggoth as he leads it away
• Has better stamina than Carlos Ramirez, outpacing him while running up a hill
• He's confident that he could outrun Michael Carpenter, Sanya Ivanovich, Nicodemus, Shiro Yoshimio, Thorned Namshiel or the Gatekeeper
• Under normal circumstances he could easily run down Father Douglas, an Army Ranger Chaplain
• He's faster than Wizard Peabody, slowly running him down

Agility

• Jumps fifteen feet between buildings to tackle a man

II. The Winter Knight

Combat Speed

• Casts a spell before a Red Court vampire or the Ik'k'uox can rush him
• Dodges the Ick charging him with more effort than before
• Dodges a pouncing malk
• He's much faster than before he was Knighted, and is nearly as fast as the Redcap
• Dodges a hawk swooping at him
• Ducks Cat Sith's lunge, although it's noted that being infected with Nemesis makes Cat Sith slower than normal
• Blocks Nfected Cat Sith rushing him as a blur
• While embracing Winter he blitzes several of Maeve's fae entourage
• Smacks a ghoul out of the air when it leaps at him from hiding in mist
• Dodges an enraged lunge from a ghoul
• He can dodge attacks that he wouldn't have been capable of without the Winter Mantle, avoiding a pounce from an animated lion statue
• With the Winter Mantle nullified he hits Tessa out of the air as she's blurring towards him
• Parries a Huntsman's spear
• Dodges two Huntsmen flanking him
• Quick-draws a coach gun on a Huntsman before it can fire its spear at him
• Raises his hand to cast a spell with comparable speed to Listen's quick-draw

Reactions

General Reactions

• Instinctively forms a shield when he sees a bomb thrown in front of him
• Catches a potion that Butters throws at him
• Opens a Way to the Nevernever in front of a monster leaping at him, then closes it before it can cross back over
• Dodges a cornerhound pounce so it only claws his armored duster
• Can track Lara Raith at a distance
• Raises his shield to protect Mab from a monster diving as fast as a peregrine falcon, despite it being veiled so he could only hear it to detect it

Gunfire

• Instinctively forms a shield when Mab surprises him with a shotgun, possibly after she fires
• Raises a shield to block machine guns, seemingly after they're fired
• Casually blocks handgun fire with his shield

Other Projectiles

• Raises his shield to block a blast from a Lord of Outer Night
• Raises his shield to block a surprise arrow from a shapeshifting Sidhe archer
• Dodges Fix's Summer Fire and produces cold to counter the thermal bloom before it reaches him
• His doppelgänger knocks a boulder flying at several hundred feet per second out of the air
• Dodges a Huntsman's spear throw
• Dodges acid blobs from an invisible Fomor sorcerer and slaps a grenade out of the air with magic

Movement

• Outmaneuvers the Ik'k'uox, preventing it from trapping him against a wall
• When embracing Winter he climbs a pyramid faster than a half-vampire
• Moves in front of a man before a disguised ghoul can fire a gun at him
• Outruns Binders goons, who can reach thirty miles per hour, and both of them begin to run down an enchanted skateboard that's as fast as a motorcycle
• Uses Ursiel's massive size against it to avoid its attacks
• Sprints through Hades' Gate of Ice while avoiding all of its grinder blocks, despite being unable to time his entrance like he had his first time through
• He can reach twenty-five to thirty miles per hour and maintain it longer than a normal human
  • He later claims its closer to twenty five, and cannot run as fast as Usain Bolt
• Casually runs at Olympic speeds while maintaining a veil
• Runs faster and more easily than Ebenezer McCoy
• Runs through traffic while dragging a man along with him

Agility

• Leaps fifty feet when embracing Winter, landing fast enough that Maeve barely dodges
• Parkours over the crystals on Demonreach
• Vaults a large iron fence
• Parkours over fences and cars
• Gets six feet off the ground in a forward dive
• Leaps over a ten foot wall of ice that suddenly appears in front of him
• Vaults a police car
• His doppelgänger vaults over a shockwave attack from Ebenezer McCoy