Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-180.214.233.65-20141121100326/@comment-3551173-20151204181738

Well similarly we don't know how Yuuki would fight if her life depended on it or loved ones. Also Excalibur doesn't make Kirito more skilled it just has higher specs than a normal sword so it doesn't rank Kirito's skills above Yuuki. Also, in combat and most fighting games the key is attack speed not power if you can strike faster than your opponent and evade your opponent then you can deal damage and not be hurt, that is the general ratio of a speed battle unless you use terrain and strategy to your advantage to block said advantage. That being said Yuuki is faster than Kirito, Asuna is also faster than Kirito, that being said there are numerous factors that we can't explore due to lack of information and so on so yeah.