Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.6.48.60-20141221154843/@comment-35248429-20181204012018

Gsimenas wrote: How exactly does it do that? One SAO survivor =/= another. For starters, most SAO players either never left the safety of towns or stayed in low/mid level areas where they wouldn't be risking their lives. Then a majority of them never continued playing any other game. Then, even those who actually battled frequently in SAO and still continue playing other games aren't necessarily playing them as hardcore as they used to. Kirito is a prime example of this - in the battle against Death Gun, Kirito was overwhelmed as he hadn't been as actively maintaining his combat skills as Death Gun. Just being an SAO survivor doesn't mean shit unless you're actually putting in some effort. Dive time is direct correlation to reaction speed, which is in direct correlation to ALO's damage formula. It's why Kirito with beginner equipment was so strong in ALO. The amount of time Yuuki has spent living in the virtual world is the reason for her strength. Other than her Sword art online players have the most dive time of anyone in the SEED.

We're not talking about the players that never left the starting city. Or we wouldn't be talking about skill from fighting. Clearly when mentioning Yuuki's lack of skill in comparison to Kirito and Asuna I wasn't talking about someone who never fought in SAO.

Deathgun spent 2 years practicing one skill over and over added to the photon sword not being very heavy put kirito at a disadvantage. Kirito even says that he's at least Death Guns equal otherwise.