Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-75.27.105.179-20150316062106/@comment-4567891-20170218202628

Oh God, another one of these? This is, like, the fourth one? How many threads are going to be made until  Kirito fans get the answer they want, which is that "Yes, Kirito can beat the sick little girl who spent more consecutive years virtual gaming than he has."

Kirito believes he would likely lose when dual-wielding and his modesty doesn't impact his accurate assessments when it comes to his combatants. Case in point, in the light novels, he knew that using Sword Skills against Kayaba would be suicide since Kayaba programmed them and would know how to counter them. Lo and Behold, when he panicked after seeing that he couldn't get through Kayaba's defense with normal sword strikes and nearly got scratched by him, he used The Eclipse and Kayaba deflected every blow and would've killed Kirito when he entered his cool-down phase if Asuna hadn't shielded him. Hell, she beat Asuna, someone that Kirito has said time and again, he has problems keeping up with because her speed(as she always uses a speed-type build as opposed to his balanced one) almost surpasses his reaction time.

And Yuuki is faster than Asuna.

As for why duel-wielding would be pointless, look above. How is he going to hit someone who's faster than he is and has a better reaction time, meaning she can avoid his attacks? Kirito already knew before he fought her how strong she was just from observing her battle with Asuna. That's why Reki suggests that Excalibur with its stat increases might give Kirito the advantage. He maintains this stance whenever people keep bringing it up on Twitter.

As for the Yuuki and SAO Kirito thing,  Kirito stated that she would be better than him at SAO if she had been in the game and would've achieved Dual Blades faster because of her faster reaction-time. If you don't trust what posters are saying, then read the novels (or the fan translations for the novels) yourself. And if that still doesn't convince you, then nothing will.