Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-75.27.105.179-20150316062106/@comment-73.42.45.136-20170218194859

73.81.120.246 wrote: No offense, but Kirito (and the author) knows his strengths better than you do. If he's certain that he would lose(note that he said it would be "impossible" for him to win)regardless of whether he wielded a second sword or not, he would lose. And Reki explicitly states that it would be the difference in stats that could possibly give Kirito a win, not skill. As for the reddit post, this dwelves in hypotheticals. Kirito has said that if Yuuki was trapped in SAO during those two years, she would've received Dual Blades much sooner than he did when he was in Aincrad due to her quicker reaction time and superior gaming skills. Meaning a hypothetical SAO Yuuki would stronger than canon SAO Kirito.

No matter how you want to spin this, Yuuki still comes looking like the better player. The author never stated Yuuki was stronger as far as I'm aware. Kirito said it's "probably" impossible.Your stating it as a fact that he would lose with dual wielding, and it's not a fact. In fact Kirito is modest, meaning he could been modest with those statements and didn't say she would definitely win or she was definitely stronger than him. He said he "thought" she was stronger than him at his peak.

So your saying that Kirito meant a hypothetical dual wielding Yuuki would was stronger than his SAO self? Kirito didn't say that he said he thought she was stronger than him peak, not a hypothetical version of her.

Besides you didn't answer my question: " Are you saying Kirito went into that fight not trying his best (dual wield), because if Kirito was completely serious against Yuuki, even if he thought she would win he should of attempted dual wield.