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Hello. Now I am not calling for a downgrade at the moment. However I feel like some of the reasoning for base Sonic being FTL is a bit questionable.
1. It uses the official guidebook sources. Which I am not always immediately against. However as we've shown in the past, we don't always use guidebook statements if actual feats/showings don't back them up.
And personally I don't feel comfortable with trusting a Guinesse World Record section that also claims Sonic to be the fastest gaming character ever, and a guidebook statement that actually calls him Lightspeed, not FTL.
If we decide these statements can be accepted, I'm fine with that. But some of the other feats listed I have more questions with.
2. The Cyan Laser feat. Well the alien shows multiple signs that go against our laser feats. Such as being tangible and able to be physically interracted with by people (the profile directly says Sonic caught it), the light form can bounce around off walls and such, and is able to swirl in loopdeeloops.
3. We use the Light Speed Dash which is stated to give Sonic SoL attack speed. However Light Speed Shoes are explicitly a speed amping technique. So why are we using a case where Sonic has to amp himself to reach SoL in order to justify FTL base?
4. The black hole feat. Now there isn't a calc on this. However if the result turns out to be FTL or calcers decide it logically should be FTL, then I am willing to completely concede on his rating. Especially since I would love an FTL Sonic.
Please note I am not immediately trying to have a downgrade happen. Rather I am asking questions involving some of the reasonings I see listed on his profile. If I am mistaken on things or shown to be wrong, then I am more than happy to hear about it. All I want is some clarification and if Sonic's ratings are fully justified then I'd love to be reassured of that for the sake of our site's accuracy. Thank you for reading or for any input.
1. It uses the official guidebook sources. Which I am not always immediately against. However as we've shown in the past, we don't always use guidebook statements if actual feats/showings don't back them up.
And personally I don't feel comfortable with trusting a Guinesse World Record section that also claims Sonic to be the fastest gaming character ever, and a guidebook statement that actually calls him Lightspeed, not FTL.
If we decide these statements can be accepted, I'm fine with that. But some of the other feats listed I have more questions with.
2. The Cyan Laser feat. Well the alien shows multiple signs that go against our laser feats. Such as being tangible and able to be physically interracted with by people (the profile directly says Sonic caught it), the light form can bounce around off walls and such, and is able to swirl in loopdeeloops.
3. We use the Light Speed Dash which is stated to give Sonic SoL attack speed. However Light Speed Shoes are explicitly a speed amping technique. So why are we using a case where Sonic has to amp himself to reach SoL in order to justify FTL base?
4. The black hole feat. Now there isn't a calc on this. However if the result turns out to be FTL or calcers decide it logically should be FTL, then I am willing to completely concede on his rating. Especially since I would love an FTL Sonic.
Please note I am not immediately trying to have a downgrade happen. Rather I am asking questions involving some of the reasonings I see listed on his profile. If I am mistaken on things or shown to be wrong, then I am more than happy to hear about it. All I want is some clarification and if Sonic's ratings are fully justified then I'd love to be reassured of that for the sake of our site's accuracy. Thank you for reading or for any input.