Talk:Deoxys vs Metal Sonic/@comment-26418719-20151030134942/@comment-26418719-20151115032858

Speed may not well be everything, but in this case, it's one of two things stopping Deoxys from taking it down, the other being its timestopping via Chaos Control. Metal's Copy can copy things that are biologically unique (Like Shadow's ability to use Chaos Control without a Chaos Emerald), so Copying Deoxys' moves wouldn't really be a problem. The issue is that Metal Sonic has timehax on his side on top of a speed advantage and the ability to go even faster by copying Deoxys' speed forme- and that's assuming he can only copy the abilities of one forme at a time. In the end, Metal's got better defensive options than Deoxys, is much faster and can turn some of Deoxys' moves against it, which should allow him to last long enough to transform into Metal Overlord, more than making up for Metal's lack of destructive power.