Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-118.211.8.204-20150302141811/@comment-216.18.241.51-20170601213615

I'm surprised this debate is still going on.

Anyways, in regards to people still trying to say Kirito would win if the timer didn't reach zero; please stop using that argument. Kirito would have landed the hit, sure, but it quite obviously wouldn't have been enough to kill her. If you look at her health, you'll see it is in yellow zone. A normal sword strike wouldn't do enough damage to drain that much health. It's also hard to believe he had a sword skill in his arsenal to do that much dmg, as her 11 hit combo couldn't drain all his health, but reduced him to the red zone. Unless it was a sword skill, it wouldn't have done as much dmg.

And as mentioned above, the timer thing was an anime only thing, thus, it doesn't mean as much.