Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-118.211.8.204-20150302141811/@comment-98.109.212.161-20150708035449

Sorry to post again, but honestly Zekken's character was all the more special and awesome due to her BadArseness. She was the only person who could take Kirito on and show him what's what. It wasn't a bad thing, it was a special thing that added even more significance and beauty to her worth as a character and to her ultimate fate.

They should have done a clean and full fight. I believe Kirito said he was worried that if he took out a second blade so would Zekken, and I think that would have been epic if they actually had that happen. But alas, squandered opportunity. Also, they should have had Zekken's Rosario clash with Kirito's own smaller combo, idk if it has a name, that would have explained how he managed to survive Rosario and would have been epic.

A full on fight between them would have been the biggest thing since Kayaba vs. Kirito and would have had us on the edge of our seats the whole time.

I mean, the crossover novel with accel world takes their hypothetical (or not) fight more seriously than Zekken's fight. I feel that if Kirito did not go hard enough, that he did a disservice to Zekken. There would have been no way for Zekken to truly go all out unless her opponent was going all out, and I believe she would have won. Zekken excels in one-on-one combat, Kirito is good at it, but it is not his focus. His specialty was targeting the weak-points of his opponents weapons (as shown when he shattered asuna's creepy guard dude's sword).

Also, as many people have pointed out, Kirito himself when he showed how higher levels made him invulnerable to the orange guild members attacks on him when he was with Silica, a lot of Kirito's advantages in SAO relied upon his stats and skills. In ALO, Kirito does not have those stats and skills. He only has his innate skills and reaction speeds. ALO itself is a more fair game in that sense (unless you happen to be fighting Gram's demonic sword lol). Due to this and Zekken's obvious prowess in One-on-One fights, I do believe Zekken would evenly match and surpass Kirito in the tournament. (Ofc, Kirito fought all the way to 2cnd place, so his skills in ALO can't be dismissed either. Makes me wonder which of them fought Grahm (gram? idk))