All righty then. Also, you forgot about the fact that his lightning destroy steel which would be utter bullshit if that lightning is a regular bolt. If the bolts are that strong to destroy steel, all his victims would have been dead with one bolt, even against innocent bystanders but no, it took numerous bolts, lesser with headshocks. The reason why he was able to destroy steel is because he used either his grenade or rocket...which is something that the military uses and can destroy steel as well.Speaking of rockets and grenades, his freeze attacks, besides ionic freeze, is absolutely pointless due to their slow velocity. But, for the ionic freeze, it is possible to dodge it even at almost point blank but can still be get caught. Why? Well, his ionic freeze is close to James' groundspike moves and Alex was able to at least dodge them with one spike injuring him. However, Alex won't always use close combat tactics and he uses cars, debris, whipfist and critical pain.Now, why do I say so when Cole can clearly just use shockwaves to propel or even redirect back? Well, unless there are evidences that Cole can propel greater attacks of force, he was only able to redirect the rockets back with it moving at almost the same velocity by using an original shockwave. Considering he needs to have a greater force to stop the rocket in mid-air and back to the user, it would be two times the force of the rocket. This also proves how much he can propel back such as a car but, even more with the punch shockwave(which is non-canon, due to it being an evil technique)However, remember the fight with helicopters? Yeah and it took how many rockets to take it down? Around 5, I believe whereas, Alex used his whipfist once on a helicopter with a grab and destroyed it in one go in his first game WITHOUT the addition of explosion damage. This proves he has much greater force than 5 rockets or so and moves around the same speed as a rocket, I think. But, that really depends for Cole. He may either, like you said, dodge it and use a gigawatt blade(which I thought was DLC) or push it away with a shockwave. Well, considering both feats of the whipfist and Cole's shockwave, it would be just like Gareth's(I believe that's his name) weird vomit things that is bigger than his homing ones and that couldn't be force back to, even with a punch shockwave. It is usually up to cole's decision whether he should dodge it or propel back, which is certainly not the better decision, but he could be tempted by the speed of the whipfist grab and try propelling it. None of them know each other's powers, right? And Cole wouldn't know the feat that Alex casually displayed. Even if Cole was able to have other feats with his shockwaves, it wouldn't be possible to propel against Alex's much more superior attack, Critical Pain. I don't think I need much explanation, right?
Even if it takes time to start a devastator, he could also do it in mid-air while even dodging bullets from numerous barrels of numerous Blackwatch, military soldiers and commanders. So yeah, we don't know about Cole's decision of encountering his projectiles. Even with the throwing of objects that ripped a person's body apart as if it was paper may not be easily propelled but at least be able to rival the shockwave.
I agree that the sticky rockets homes on human size and it's almost impossible to avoid it...considering their rockets while Alex was able to, IN PROTOTYPE 2, logically and power via scaling, tank the 5x hiroshima bomb with his agile armor, shrug it off as if it was nothing. Oh yeah, did I mention that Alex's weakness isn't electricity but ice only?
Now, why would I say that, you wonder. Remember Cross? Yes, yes, he has a stun baton that looks as if it hurts Alex a lot but, does a regular stun baton be able to send out massively large sparks? No. Would a regular stun baton be able to tear walkers apart effortlessly? No. How do I know this? Well, first question, internet and second question, even without game mechanics, it was evidential that he was able to kill walkers while destroying their bodies with ease and the more powerful stun baton. It would need a much higher voltage and current to channel the electricity around the body quickly and burn them off like Raiden's high frequency blade but that weapon was used well against metal. A regular stun baton only shocks someone for a few seconds and override the nervous system and pretty much sedate him/her.
Took almost more than a second for Alex to be shocked and thrown back which would have destroyed his nervous system, lungs, other organs and his brain. However, with the same time, he got back up and shrug it off as if it was a rocket, like what you had said in the previous comment.
And, since you said that the Cross is around peak human or something and could not be infected, well, if he isn't, then why is he, still as a human but a little bit better, able to survive a kick that destroys a helicopter and so with a few kicks without bleeding through his organs and mouth? True, it may be because of the armor Cross' wearing. But, unlike Lex Luthor, he doesn't have a forcefield to protect his face and his probable years of training and experience would at least be defeated by Alex's almost one week of easily getting the hang of his new found powers and the combined tactics of countless of innocent Military and Blackwatch soldiers and commanders.
This way, Alex would go for the head and finish him off by snapping his neck which is something Cross is unable to train to inprove on the defence. If you also think that the writers included the stun baton is to show his weakness, well, bullets go through or deflected, knifes don't work as well and rockets only be patheticly used for so long until Regenerationn kicks in. So, it would be logical to kill enemies easily with a stun baton but, guess not against Alex who has already shown some resistence to electricity.
Cole's cluster grenade doesn't work too well since it's almost like Cross' grenade launcher attack.
And, Alex's body doesn't work the same way as humans' do. Got shot to the head, took quite a long time for the Supreme Hunter and general Gregand(I think that's his name) to finish their chit-chat, got up behind the general with the bullet hole still to his head and regenerated from it. Hell, he took a point blank explosion and have all his guts in the sea, still clearly alive for a while until a crow comes to his rescue and heal him. So, in summary, Alex only needs a brain to think and not die without. It's just like Cell who need s to be entirely destroyed to be killed. Somewhat like that.
But the thing is, how did Cole become faster? You may have said that he absorbed lightning from the sky or something but doesn't prove much of a point that he became faster since he absorbed a lightning strike from Infamous 2 and still move quite the same as before. Help me with an explanation, yeah? And yes, I also agree that Cole can casually harm the Beast...with the help of provided electricity and Nix's sacrifice to bring him down for a while, even with the ionic storm. But then, the Beast still wondered off to the church with his body still in damages once Cole took almost a minute to get back up to the church and be empowered.
You kept saying that the Beast is already weak to Cole when the Beast was gradually being weaken by what you just said about his lightning cancelling Regenerationn. That's how Cole was able to weaken him to a state that he can't regenerate and get more power from the RFI to finally exhaust, and probably destroy at least half of his body with countless of cluster grenades, him to a state that he can never fight back for days. Even though the Beast didn't die from the nuke, he couldn't tank the nuke as well. If so, where is his body?
Alex, on the other hand, can dodge all of Cole's very COMMON attacks such as the bolts that doesn't move as fast as lightning and the rockets that doesn't home, grenades and even shockwaves and even tank the shatter blast. How? Ice shards doesn't
Bolts that move as fast as lightning will certainly hit him if Cole get a shot in him and rockets that homes on the enemy, well, one of them would be inevitable while the other one which is clearly named redirect rockets maybe able to be avoided. Remember the trailer gameplay with the creators of prototype 2 talking about the game? Heller was able to even time it right and be able to dodge the homing rockets while fighting tanks and such. And just like Heller, Mercer can almost do the same by timing it right or crashing into a building's window and using structures inside to get away from the rockets as they get blocked by environmental objects. And by the way, Alex's speed as the final boss may allow him to outrun the fast pacing homing rockets and may even be able to tank an ionic storm with the durability he has. However, the ionic storm should also be, power via scaling, powerful enough to at least destroy a few large buildings. But, I don't know anything else of Cole's other feats. Gigwatt blades may be able to tear David's arm off but since it's only feat was being stronger than building level, it wouldn't be much against Alex, I believe.
Ionic vortex and ionic freeze, he may eventually be able to dodge them-and don't start sighing but try hearing me out, alright? Yes, Cole would be smart enough to get Alex close to him and use the ionic vortex and freeze but, Cole wouldn't right off the bat use his most powerful attacks on his opponents like his battle with the Beast in the start. He was to use his rockets and missile bolts, which are actually sort of real since you shot a rocket-like bolt at him when you pressed r1, and then ended off with an ionic storm.
Hell, Alex isn't dumb as well and can realise the attack while seeing it once. How? He would realise in the split second that Cole spun around while causing an attack with both hands instead of using one to shoot out his bolts, grenades and rockets. What would he do? Jump over him while dashing across as the vortex only comes out completely in a second when it hits the floor where Alex won't be but behind Cole in mid-air. Ionic freeze...um, 50 50. Why? He would either dodge roll and thought it's a one directional attack and realise it was quite far off and get caught or simply jump over it.And you may think that I'm bullshitting the same thing over and over and over. No, I'm not. Hell, he even beat a specialist that may have probably many years of training, experience and very great tactics with just almost a week of easily getting used to his powers and his tactics of a kickboxer, since his melee looks as if he learned a few fighting moves back then, and well, like I just said back then earlier. And by then, Alex had two years of experience and a large meal of mindless infected, countless of innocent humasn, soldiers and commanders of both Blackwatch and Military and around 5 Evolveds. So yeah, reason why James defeated Alex is because he's more experience and tactical since he's able to shoot down a spiked brawler with just an assault rifle. Through this, it is possible he learned a few better tactics in his earlier days if one man like him is able to defeat a brawler almost unharmed when it took so many Blackwatch soldiers to gun them down one by one as they lose in numbers whereas, Alex is once just a bio-scientist and only learn how to fight with punches and kicks. So yeah, I think that's that…No, wait. I forgot one more thing. Cole would shock him continuously as if it was endlessly and all Alex could do is just get shocked for a very long period of time and then Cole would eventually have to use the ionic storm. Once that was done, Cole will confirm whether Alex is dead or not with his radar pulse and once he saw the red linings, Alex would just come back up in a few seconds, flee to a few more distance away, start his critical pain and destroy him. Now that's that.