Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.6.48.60-20141221154843/@comment-6697950-20181204102659

By that logic, Yuuki could've actually played serious herself and still beaten him. They played on an equal terms and he lost. Deal with it. If you throw one character into a "serious" situation but not the other, then your whole point is utterly moot.

There was no timer in the novel. Yuuki won fair and square, no ifs or buts about it. The anime added that timer in because all the Kirito fanboys apparently can't take the fact that Kirito isn't a god and can very well lose a fight sometimes.

[Citation needed]. All the best players in ALO are about the same level skill-wise.

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No, you clearly said "all the SAO survivors still playing", without regards to HOW they were playing the game. Not all SAO survivors who are still playing VR games originate from the diehard frontliner group of the SAO playerbase. Some players come from the middle levels, some actually specialised in production and marketing. Dive time alone doesn't give you combat experience. Of course it's an important factor, but not the only factor in the equation to generalise as much as you did.

No, he doesn't say that he's his equal. He says that he could pull off as many swings as XaXa did, not that he could stand on equal ground with him in general. If anything, a lighter sword means that he could pull off more attacks in the same amount of time, but he isn't used to fighting like that. He does, however, say that XaXa was far more powerful than he remembers from SAO, which is one of the reasons why Kirito found it hard to fight against him. On the other hand, XaXa himself found Kirito to be weaker than he used to be in SAO.