Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.6.48.60-20141221154843/@comment-35248429-20180823204847

The only thing that even makes this close is that yuuki for all her reaction time isn't as skilled as Kirito or Asuna in sword play. Asuna makes note of this in their duel. So basically Yuuki is better than kirito with just raw power and speed. If she actually had the sword training to match this wouldn't even be close.

The very existence of Yuuki pretty much puts the Kirito is OP arguments to bed. It shows that all the SAO survivors still playing have a massive competative edge over all the other SEED players, both in speed and strength but generally in skill as well.