You're meshing strength and skill with the keyblade into overall power, which is wrong.
Not really, those two kind of go hand in hand in this situation. The keyblade is what ALL 4 of these people use to fight, so one person being more skilled with it than another could make them stronger. Could an inexperienced fencer defeat someone who has been doing it longer than he/she has?
Grass said:
There's not much doubt that Terra, Aqua, and even Ven are more skilled with the keyblade than Sora, but in terms of power, we really can't say. Just because they have fancier techniques does not make them more powerful.
For instance, I would hardly consider the ability to use a keyblade rider a show of power, since Ven rather unwittingly did it on his first try with nothing more than a flick of his keyblade.
This is yet another completely invalid point.
Sora has killed adults. He's not quite translatable into an irl 14 year old.
The fanciness shows that they know what they are doing, but that isn't really what I am going on since gameplay apparently doesnt matter. I am going by what Jiminy says in his journal about LS.
On his first try? How do we know that? He looked like he knew exactly what he was doing when he tapped his shoulder and was engulfed in light. Sora technically hasn't killed any adults(or anyone for that matter) He has defeated a Heartless, and 13 incomplete beings that are probably naturally weaker than their somebody counterparts.
And Sora kind of is, Nomura himself has even said Sora is a normal boy.
Grass said:
Moreover, you're completely disregarding the potential for innate ability. Sora may or may not be better on the sheer grounds that his heart is naturally stronger.
And lastly, training does hone skills, but not to any degree that actual combat does, so you're relying far too heavily on the fact that they were "trained professionally," when Sora is the one with far more on-the-field experience.
Assuming how strong his heart is matters, why would that change anything with how much stronger or not stronger he is than TAV? We have no idea if the strength of a heart directly effects someones overall power, besides, don't ALL wielders need a strong heart to wield a keyblade? The only thing I hear people say about Sora's heart is its ability to connect it to anyone.
Well, if the amount of training is greater than the amount of 'field experience' I would say it does. HOW long has Sora been on his journey anyway? I mean, COM is basically wiped from his memory so he doesn't remember any of the fighting he did there, and he went to sleep for a year. I don't think he actually has been on his journey for that long. Anyway, we don't know exactly how long TAV have been
professionally training, but we know it goes back 1 year before the events of BBS judging from a flashback we see in BBS. So it is safe to assume they have been training for a while.
Thanks to ME, and MX, TAV have been taught the proper way to use the keyblade to its full potential, while 2 of them were keyblade masters(counting Terra since he basically kind of was one) while Sora on the otherhand kind of got thrown into this whole thing, without the training that TAV has, and I DO believe that makes a difference.
Grass said:
Note here that I'm not even trying to say that I think Sora is stronger. I really have no clue. I'm just giving counterpoints because it's so easy to, since, as I pointed out, there's no standard by which we can measure their powers, and having a definitive answer is next to impossible at this point.
That's fine, I am only going about this logically, Sora may very well be stronger than TAV according to Nomura, but right now it just doesn't add up.
