Now. With the above being said, let's return to the topic of the thread.
T'Challa vs The High Evolutionary, who is an extremely. Extremely. Formidable intellect. Maybe they clash because The HE sees Interstellar Empire Wakanda as a menace hundreds or thousands of years in the future, and the HE wants T'Challa to initiate certain changes now in order to prevent the future menace of Wakanda? Or something?
Who wins, T'Chalal or The HE? And why?
Eh, HE always loses. But it could be fun if his "son" showed up to save him from T'Challa. Warlock vs T'Challa would be interesting. (depending on which version of Warlock. One version became the Living Tribunal--Of course, Starlin wrote that.)
Yes, T'Challa vs Warlock would also be quite interesting. I remember suggesting such a matchup before, but it was T'Challa vs Zombie Warlock and Zombie Guardians of the Galaxy [ the Original Guardians ]. Which Warlock are you thinking of? And the "whys" behind such a scrap would be as interesting as the fight itself.
But I also think that the straight up throwdown with T'Challa vs Stranger, Maximus and the revamped Horde would be a massive, massive test of T'Challa's prep and abilities in every regard. I do think that T'Challa would kill Maximus for this affront, though.
Which Warlock? There are so many options.
You could actually go the marvel route... first Warlock fights BP then they team up to battle Stranger and Maximus.
I like this. BP needs more team ups and that would make this more fun as well due to the throw back to classic Marvel then go for the real bads
What would you say is the primary difference between T'Challa's intelligence, and Reed Richards' intelligence? Priest specifically said that T'Challa is the "shrewdest man" on Earth. Being shrewd is definitely being smart, but it's more nuanced and carries more of an action and good judgement type of connotation. Our own R to the H flat out said that T'Challa is "...smarter than Reed Richards..." and can kick Captain America's butt. Which to me? Makes PERFECT SENSE, given the cauldron and foundation of Wakanda from which he emerged. But none of this draws particularly clear lines of demarcation in the sands of intelligence, so to speak. We definitely see T'Challa's cultural and spiritually honed WISDOM here:

And both his wisdom and shrewdness here, with Hickman's first issue of NEW AVENGERS
And again here, where T'Challa gives Reed some sorely needed advice:

But what we want to see is a scientific megagenius duel. Let's be honest. We wanna see that. Or at least speculate with some very grounded reasons to guesstimate the results of such a showdown. Let's see if we can find reasons that Reed might outperform T'Challa and vice versa. Then see which of these reasons are powerful enough to add to the more weighty conclusion of victory for one of these two.
I meantioned the HE [ High Evolutionary ] before, and CKW brought up the fact that T'Challa already bested high tech would be invaders of Wakanda sent by HE. But that's merely the prelude to an actual Brain vs Brain throwdown between the two. How could T'Challa actually outsmart HE, and what circumstances would compel them to duel with one another?