Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.82.164.213-20150409225706/@comment-35248429-20190219015346

The way the universe is stated to work makes Yuuki stronger.

In this world, only one thing controls how fast you can move: the speed at which your brain receives signals from the «Full Dive» system and reacts to them. Amusphere sends signals to the brain’s cognitive faculties, then the brain processes these signals and produces signals which control the motor functions of the body. These signals are then intercepted by the Amusphere system. The faster a player’s brain is able to do this, the faster the player can move in the game. Innate reflexes are one of the things that determine how fast this happens but the speed is also improved with experience, so the longer one plays the faster they can move.

ALO’s attack formula is not complicated. It depends on four things: Power of the weapon itself, where on the opponent’s body the attack hits, attack speed, and the armor worn by the opponent. On this occasion, the attack power of his weapon was almost the lowest, while the Salamander’s armor was really quite high level. The strength of his attacks came from the boy’s accuracy and overwhelming speed.

Yuuki just straight up has more dive time than anyone else. That simple fact makes her stronger than anyone else just like it makes the SAO survivors stronger than almost any other full dive player. No matter how many times this topic comes up, and no matter how many arguments are brought up nothing is going to escape that simple fact.