User blog comment:Sokatsui/Is Black Beetle Losing His Touch?/@comment-4928331-20130224155637

I think the premise of your question is flawed.

In Before the Dawn, he was fighting against Superboy, Wonder Girl, Batgirl, Robin, and a still-groggy Lagoon Boy. He's physically resilient and cannot be beaten in melee combat by the powerhouses. Ranged attacks help, but the only ones with projectile weapons here are the bat kids, and that's not going to work against powered armor. Later on, when he fought against Scarab, the odds evened out.

In the next meeting with the Team, he was fighting against Blue Beetle, Robin, Impulse and Arsenal. Now there are two people with ranged attacks. Arsenal's laser gives him a little trouble, but he would have wiped Alpha Squad out if Green Beetle didn't intervene.

In this outing, he's going against the Outsiders. Tye was actually a physical threat, so he took him down first. The real ace in the hole was Dorado -- unlike with Impulse, the scarab cannot process his teleportation target deterministically. But notice they weren't a physical threat either. He would have eventually taken them down had Arsenal not free Mongul.

I wonder how he's going to fare against Miss Martian -- the two of them have never fought before.