Savant

Brian Durlin, better known as Savant, was the spoiled heir to an enormous fortune who moved to Gotham City to become a vigilante. Discouraged by Batman, he used his computer skills for blackmail with partner Creote, an ex-KGB agent. Captured by the Birds of Prey, he joined as an enforcer under Huntress to clean up Gotham’s crime. Tortured by The Society, he suffered a condition reliving the trauma daily, leading to a suicide attempt and confession of love with Creote. Recruited by Oracle as a tech expert at Kord Towers.

Strength

• Kicks Black Canary across a room (source)
• One-hit knocks out an assassin with a kick to the back of the head (source)
• Hospitalizes Huntress with his strikes (source)
• One-hit knocks out Hellhound with a kick after being tied up and tortured (source)
• Shatters brick with the face of a bodyguard (source)
• Breaks a man’s arm with ease (source)
• Picks up and throws Black Spider out of a window after being tortured for days (source)
• Too strong for Black Canary to completely block his attacks (source)

Speed

• Keeps pace with a new and improved Black Canary in single combat (source)

Durability

• Takes a jumping kick to the face from Black Canary (source)
• Endures an array of strikes from Black Canary (source)
• Endures days of torture from Hellhound without revealing Oracle’s identity or location (source)

Intelligence

• Adept in Chinese, French, and Greek (source)
• Speaks at least a little American Sign Language, using it to figure out a guard isn’t actually deaf (source)
• Escapes Arkham-issued handcuffs by breaking his thumb (source)
• Quickly escapes imprisonment on the bottom level of Arkham Asylum (source)
• Deduce Oracle’s identity after reviewing potential candidates (source)
• Fluent in Portuguese (source)
• Disables the Batcave’s security systems (source)
• Frames the death of himself and Creote convincingly enough for Oracle to believe it (source)

Skill

• Black Canary considers him as skilled as Connor Hawke and potentially as good as Batman, later reiterating the Batman comparison (source)
• Battles Huntress to a standstill before interruption by Oracle (source)
• Casually takes out a room full of armed gang members alongside Creote (source)
• Fights and loses to a new and improved Black Canary, eventually overwhelmed, but she is hospitalized afterward (source)
• Takes out a room full of Gotham mob bodyguards with Creote (source)
• Fought the Twelve Brothers in Silk alongside some of DC’s greatest combatants (source)
• Has dirt on lawyers, judges, senators, and evidence of a hundred major crimes (source)
• Huntress calls him the best blackmailer on planet Earth (source)
• In four days, gathers enough information on Gotham’s crime family heads to jail them for decades (source)

Gear

• Possesses jamming technology that disrupts Black Canary’s comms signal (source)
• Uses technology to detect when Oracle is trying to track him (source)

Miscellaneous

• Deems Black Canary the picture of feminine sexual iconography (source)
• Tried being a superhero before being deterred by Batman (source)
• Preferred weapon is a baton, specifically the type used in Arkham Asylum (source)
• Considered easy on the eyes (source)
• Recruited by Birds of Prey as one of Oracle’s agents to solve Gotham’s issues with unique methods (source)
• Demonstrates the art of subtle solicitation (source)
• Acted as an enforcer for Huntress (source)
• Captured and tortured by The Society (source)
• Unable to conceptualize time due to a rare psychological condition, leading to suicide attempt after torture (source)
• Joined Oracle at Kord Tower as tech and data expert (source)