i know i’ve done a short meta on this before but wanda is of decent skill at hand to hand combat. she isn’t comparable to natasha or elektra or sharon or the like but she is quite capable of fending for herself in the instance that she cannot use magic. she was trained by cap and served under his leadership for a decade, while also later being co-leader of the avengers with him. he would never put her in a firefight without knowing she was capable of basic non-magic defensive techniques, but after so long training together, i would say her physical fighting style is most similar to his. you would be able to see the mark of his influence all over her in hand to hand.

nevertheless, it is a rare occasion that she relies on that to handle business. her typical defense would be a lower impact hex, something clever like altering gravity to keep someone from being able to stand or making oxygen molecules impossible to breathe or even the cells within someone’s body, forcing them to reject their own physiology. the full scope of what she is able to do is far more interesting than her larger displays of power, tbh. she could turn someone’s blood to tar, cause a million tiny aneurysms in their head, constrict oxygen to their brain, completely halt the pumping of blood to vital organs, debilitate someone’s white blood cell count. she could induce unending vomiting, destroy the ability to control one’s own bodily functions…things that no one would think of in combat, yet she does. she is CLEVER, she has to be — because while leveling a city is an easy feat in her case, innocent people don’t need to reap the repercussions of her destructive nature. even then, killing isn’t her first instinct in a typical battle. killing shows no skill, no real concentration, no imaginative flare. the influence of her power is as wide as it is deep. your physical form and everything that surrounds it is pretty much at her complete mercy.