ur literally saying head canon at this point lmfao, prove he read both knuckles and tails' minds and saw turbo tails and hyper knuckles
Not saying it's a definite possibility, but just like you were saying there's no way he would know about it, which we have no way of knowing, I was saying he COULD know about it, as there's not really any reason to assume he wouldn't be aware of Tails or Knuckles having a Super Form
It still doesn't change the fact he could make a Super Duplicate of himself. Or Sonic. Or Shadow. Because he HAS seen their Super Forms.
This entire argument is extremely funny and frankly all of it is terrible.
1. There's a pretty vast difference in the utilization of Chaos Emeralds and the Dragon Balls when it comes to characters' power levels, the DBs don't really net an explicit power boost or lock an entire form behind them like the CEs do. Not to mention, utilizing the Dragon Balls mid fight is incredibly inconvenient. Silver is not going to sit around and just allow for Trunks to make a wish, especially not with the speed gap. (plus you could probably argue Silver could take out/remove Shenron from the fight as well.
2. Even if he did get off a Wish for say, immortality, Silver could still kill him, considering that other Chaos Force users such as Mogul have been able to kill immortal beings such as The Ancient Walkers with Chaos Magic before, and even if he theoretically couldn't do so, he has methods of sealing as well. If he called in other Time Patrollers? For one, that's making this fight increasingly less and less Silver vs Trunks, but okay, Silver can, as stated above, make a super duplicate of himself, or Sonic, or Shadow, and potentially another super form to help him combat other Time Patrollers. He's also still significantly stronger and faster than every Time Patroller there is.
3. Ian saying he thinks Silver would lose, is,
AS HE HAS ADMITTED HIMSELF, an opinion, and he does not want people using this statement in arguments for Trunks vs Silver. Ian saying that the events of 06 is canon, is more than an opinion, it's a fact supported by the various Encyclopedias, the Comic itself, and various supplemental media. Ian, the writer of Archie, making a statement about the canonicity of something in the Archie Sonic universe, WHILE he's writing the comic is a reliable statement, while Ian making an opinionated post that he thinks Trunks would win WHILE he is no longer working on the comic, before later acknowledging that his mindset is very different than DBs', is not a reliable statement when it comes to Vs Debating or power-scaling.
4. If you want to argue that Silver has never directly used the Emeralds himself, he was one of the people who helped collecting them in 06 in the first place, so no, he does have experience with them.