Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-118.211.8.204-20150302141811/@comment-6697950-20150916173215

2. I don't recall anything about them being one-hit. They were awfully difficult, but since it's said that a party needed quite a few healers (and enough heavily armoured people) to fight them, it would be strange if they could kill anyone instantly. And with the introduction of Sword Skills, the difficulty of Jotunheimr is supposed to have diminished. Heck, Kirito's gang managed to get past Thrymheim with just 7 people (though the monster population was low at the time, but the floor bosses were all still there and if they managed to beat those with only some effort...).

4. Yuuki's attacks mostly focus on speed, while Kirito's attacks are more power oriented. I can't imagine Kirito getting that many openings to use high combo skill. Especially since he needs to be in a specific position after a skill to activate a chain and I doubt that Yuuki parrying his attacks at high-speed would help him with that.

5. I don't get how that's an argument. You can't assume that a character will be stronger just because he was the only one shown in a dire situation. You'd have to assume how well Yuuki would do for comparison, and there's no evidence to support either that she'd do better or worse, thus it would only be speculation and not an argument. And even if you do want to take that as an argument, I can counter that Kirito does better under extreme circumstances by bringing up his fight with Heathcliff. Basically, he screwed up so hard by deciding to use a Sword Skill during that fight (even though he was fighting the guy who created all of them) that if Asuna hadn't taken the blow, he would have died without landing a single hit. How's that "gets better under extreme circumstances"?