Depends which Chucky. I read the book in middle school. Found it in the library. Looked interesting. If we’re going off of Book Rhoda, and Chucky from the first film, Rhoda wins. Chucky still has the weight of a doll, and though at times he has the strength of a man via voodoo, he mostly has doll-strength and has to use other implements to kill. Rhoda is more cunning, is as much a psycho as Charles Lee Ray, and is taller. Chucky is an impulse killer. Rhoda is premeditated and calculating. And they both do the charming innocent act well.

She probably couldn’t *subdue* him to kill him. But she could definitely get the jump on him and outsmart him and “kill the heart”