INFP vs ISFJ epic battle

[gromit]

If INFP and ISFJ had to battle, what would it be like, and who would win?

 

[magpie]

Depends on what we were battling over and what the method of battle happened to be.

 

[gromit]

Depends on what we were battling over and what the method of battle happened to be.

It is an open-ended prompt, so you can go with it where your lil INFP imagination takes you! I had been thinking of something like pro-wrestling personally, but I don't want to limit you.

 

[thoughtlost]

lol.

I'd think that the INFP would win ...whatever the battle would be.

 

[magpie]

It is an open-ended prompt, so you can go with it where your lil INFP imagination takes you!

Welll, if the entire earth were divided into territories based off MBTI types, and both the INFPs and ISFJs were running out of resources and went to war as a means to appropriate each other's territories, then I think the ISFJs would probably have an easier time of it, since in the "Portrait of an ISFJ" I'm reading it says they live in a concrete world, and therefore might be better at planning and completing tasks. Assuming a conflict resolution couldn't be worked out first. Which, it probably would. I doubt we would ever go to battle at all.

If it was something where you got the chance to sacrifice yourself for the greater good I think both INFPs and ISFJs would be eager to die, but that's not really a battle.

If it was a battle over who got to hoard the most kittens then I would win. I don't know how other INFPs feel about kittens but I really like them.

 

[highlander]

If it's something that matters to the INFP, I'm betting on them.

 

[grey_beard]

If it's something that matters to the INFP, I'm betting on them.

Provided no squirrels wander by...

Don't underestimate the power of a determined ISFJ, however.
My wife is ISFJ and I've seen her commit acts of will which would make Zod kneel before her.
(Of course, that might be because she's of German descent.)

Obligatory literary quote:

"After and before the deed the German Will is the same. It cannot be broken by changes and by time, like that of those others who repent. It stands outside time like a thing of stone, looking forward and backward with the same face." -- G.K. Chesterton, The Three Horsemen of Apocalypse

 

[Cellmold]

ISFJ's would murder you to keep things as they should be, or avenge something past.

I'm banking on that over limp-wristed idealism.

 

[Frosty]

If we were going by numbers I would say ISFJs no contest.

But since you said individuals...

It would be close as neither one would really probably want to fight.

I would suppose it might come down to what they were fighting over. If the ISFJ was trying to protect someone close to them, or protect something they held dear, I could see them pretty much going feral. Putting their all into something off of pure adrenaline, being prepared to go down with the ship. If they are really angry an ISFJ might legitimately destroy you. The powers of angry Fe can be dangerous, they would be able to twist whatever you say if it is a verbal battle. Si, considering this is a long term scheme to tear you to pieces, might be able to synthesize a great plan, based on what they know, to tear you apart. So immediate heartfelt adrenaline attack followed by measured strategy to pretty much rip apart the basis of your character. An ISFJ 6 would probably be best suited.

Well maybe a 1, 3, 5, or 8 but going by the 3 most rare seeming enneagram-MBTI associations for ISFJ 6 would probably be more aggressive than a 2 or 9, especially the 9.

Then again. If the INFP was in a fight for something that they really cared about, their line of defense might be longer and less emotionally raw than the ISFJ's. They might end up having an easier time with understanding the basis of what the other person is doing and might be able to shut it down based on that alone. Might actually be more commited to their view and harder to convince or shake than the ISFJ. While the ISFJis using social manipulation to undermine the INFP, the INFP might be able to subtly manuever out from under it-negate the ISFJs whole argument by really understanding the entirety of it and counterstriking with an irrefutable point, and come out the victor. An INFP 5 would probably have the greatest advantage at a verbal spar.

Same reasoning as for the other. But arguably INFP 4's might stay the most passionate and driven in the long run. 9's are SOL.

So actually it would depend of the extent of either whose values are crushed. Could go either way. Base adrenaline would help an ISFJ, quick thinking an INFP.

A physical fight might be too close to call. Whoever gets the upper hand first.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

ISFJ

 

[Kas]

INFPs, but you know... I just don't like to lose