Kong showed great skill in thwarting Godzilla's atomic breath attacks, but in the end, the explosion caused by the axe only temporarily disoriented Godzilla it didn't defeat him. Nathan Lind believed Kong initially won the second round.
In their second and final fight in Hong Kong, Godzilla defeated Kong, despite the fact that Dr.
Related: All Godzilla/Kong MonsterVerse Movies Ranked, Worst To Best Godzilla decidedly won that battle and left once he believed Kong was no longer a threat, but that truce only remained until Kong picked up and charged his axe down in the Hollow Earth. Although Monarch had gone to great lengths to stay away from Godzilla's charted paths, the monster still found them and attacked Kong, since he viewed the Skull Island Titan as a threat to his alpha status. The first fight between Godzilla and Kong in the MonsterVerse takes place in the middle of the ocean, during Monarch's journey to their facility in Antarctica. However, Godzilla doesn't do anything different in the film it's just that the characters he targets is considered to be humanity's friend, too.
While Godzilla was viewed as humanity's friend and savior in both Gareth Edwards' Godzilla and Michael Dougherty's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Adam Wingard's film flips the story and makes him the villain. Godzilla wins in Godzilla vs Kong, but he doesn't kill Kong and instead leaves the idea of being the sole Alpha Titan up in the air.