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[Terminator] How would T2 have gone down if both Terminators were T800s?

So we had Arnie protecting John Connor, and another T800 send from the future to kill John (doesn't have to be Arnie: Model 101) how would the movie have played out. Since both robots are physically equal and I their "programming" is also the same, the only difference being one has to protect and one destroy. Would the "evil" Terminator have the edge because he just has to think about killing, whereas the good one would be at a disadvantage because he has to keep John alive also? Would be able to pre-empt every move the bad Terminator would make?

Also, question 2, what if the roles in T2 were reversed so that the T800 was sent to destroy and the T1000 to protect? It seems to me like the T800 is better at protecting since he can absorb gun fire without much effect whereas T1000 is downed after a few shotgun blasts (yeah I know Arnie is downed by a shot gun in Terminator 1 but he seems more robust in T2. Thoughts?
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I think the guardian T-800 would have had a much easier time protecting John against another T-800.

For one thing, it still would have had the element of surprise as the assassin didn't expect to be facing off against another Skynet android.

Also, the guardian T-800 probably would have an intelligence edge as well, because John would still unlock the full capacity of it's neural chip, which  the assassin T-800 wouldn't have, which would keep it pretty predictable to John, Sarah, and the guardian T-800.

Between the three of them, they probably would have come up with a plan to take out an assassin T-800 quicker than the T-1000.