Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-118.211.8.204-20150302141811/@comment-5481445-20150318171750

Although, Yuuki did spent a lot of time playing VRMMOs with her friends, most of those weren't a Death Game like SAO.

To explain what I just said, Kirito and Yuuki's experience are highly different in both perspective. Kirito had to experience the worst and best states of SAO, which was both a game and death sentence for him and the other 10,000 players that were trapped in it for 2 years. His experience in SAO gave him the nickname "The Black Swordsman", "Beater", etc. either he earned it or not. The death game changed him overtime as his time there went on, because, as the original arc showed, if you lost all of your HP, you'd die for real, unlike ALO and GGO, where if your HP went down, you'd only wait for a certain amount of time before respawning again. So, Kirito had to survive in a game where the only way out was either to beat the game or die. He was arguably the most powerful solo player within SAO. Kirito had to become serious within SAO in order to keep on living.

Yuuki, on the otherhand, had a lot of experience with simply playing games that were out of harm's way, apart from her illness. She had a less serious game play experience than Kirito had. Even if some of you think she's serious at most. Yuuki never had to deal with a red guild who could actually kill you in both the game and in reality or even try to survive in Death's Little Game just to escape. Making this short, Kirito actually has more experience than Yuuki if you put it in thought for a long while.

I agree that Kirito would've beaten her, if you check their fight, you can see that, if Kirito had a few more seconds, he would've landed a clean hit on Yuuki during their battle when he was about to do so, but the time ran out and Yuuki won. But still, it's always good to see someone good handing over Kiritio's butt over him once in a while.