Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25908228-20141222101442/@comment-92.18.223.168-20151210002152

I am going to reference the SAO: Progressive LNs here. If they were all using the same model of Nerve-Gear then I reckon Kirito would have been stronger than Yuuki, even without dual-wielding or Excalibur, as her main advantage was the Medicuboid (or something like that) that allowed for better AI interfacing and allowing her to maintain a higher reaction speed from RL. Asuna is faster than Kirito in attack speed and is most likely stronger in terms of DPS because of that, but her main weaknesses if she were to fight Kirito are the fact he has more combat experience, better knowledge of games and skills and would probably be able to predict her skills more than she could of him.

In SAO, Kirito keeps saying that Asuna is faster than him. The fact that Asuna is faster than Kirito is confirmed fairly other in SAO: Progressive as he even says that he was most likely going to party with her until he believes she'd be fine on her own as her main problem was her resolve in completing the game and allowing it to be more than just a death-trap forced upon her. Kirito would probably win in an all-out duel due to his combat experience and slyness. It's impossible to say for definite that Kirito is stronger than Asuna or that Yuuki is stronger than Kirito as there are too many things that affect it.

Now, onto the GGO part that annoyed me in this section as people seem to missing the obvious. Kirito's sword was shitter than Death-Guns, as Death-Guns was player-made and tailored to his style where-as Kirito's was not. Death-Gun and Kirito's fight was also hard to determine who was stronger over-all as their stats were different, equipment was different and Death-Gun had an over-all better knowledge of GGO as shown through his trickery and the fact he used the game as a front to kill people.

In the end, there's only one absolute definite in all the SAO arcs; Argo's the best player. She survived without fighting and saved the front-players at least twice (so far in SAO: Progressive) through her knowledge of the game and slyness which eventually leads to the clearing of the game - Argo was a very important factor as she brougth Kirito and Asuna together and caused the defeat of at least two floor bosses.

This ends all my points now, feel free to say they're wrong or point out inconsistencies.

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