Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25908228-20141222101442/@comment-2601:18D:8901:3460:3821:FEEE:C94A:57C8-20180115224550

In the ark it is said by Liz that during the first half of their fight he was doing better than Yuuki and then when asuna found out that zekkan was a girl she asked kirito if he was holding back because his opponent was a girl and he said that he was going full out for the FIRST HALF of their match, and yuuki also said that she didn't chose kirito becuase he found out her secret, and kirito is so much better in the first ALO arc, he moved so fast that the salamander men he was fighting couldn't even see him, and zekkan couldn't move even close to that speed(kirito did however reset his stats, but he still would have the ability to react to things at near light speeds, becuase you have to be going near light speed to not be visiable to the human eye, and he was able to pull his sword and slash at one of the men. And from what I saw he had regained most if not all of his previous power through grinding.). Also no matter what any of the characters say, he wasn't using skill connect and that means that he wasnt using his full power and therefore holding back. In a real life or death fight neither zekkan or asuna would beable to hold their oun against kirito not even a little he did pretty much single handedly beat the gleam eyes in the Aincrad ark, so I believe that kirito is still the strongest player in ALO