Talk:Sonic the Hedgehog: Hedgehog Battle Royale (Strunton)/@comment-26418719-20151004114149/@comment-26418719-20151010172609

@ImagoDesattrolante The problem here is that each character counters another causing this to a be a rock-paper-scissors type match. In this case, it depends on who is best equipped to survive assaults by the one they foil while attacking the ones that they are foiled by.

Silver wants Shadow dead, Sonic wants Silver dead and Shadow wants Sonic dead. We've already established this. The PROBLEM is that Silver is poorly equipped to not only attack Shadow, but he also can't reliably prevent Sonic from approaching, either. None of them are stupid enough to not realize that this is a rock-paper-scissors type match. They know that if they know that if they're left alone with their foil, they're dead. Silver can't do much against Shadow, due to the fact that he's got to get close to Shadow to use his Telekinesis, and Shadow can fire unreflectable Chaos Spears at him, and freeze him with Chaos Control. In the meantime, Sonic could, quite easily, come from behind and attack Silver. Considering Silver is significantly slower and strikes with less force than the other two 'hogs, in a hand-to-hand fight, Silver would lose pretty quickly. In short, Silver cannot both get rid of Shadow AND hold off Sonic.

Now let's get onto Shadow. Shadow is poorly equipped to attack Sonic, mostly because his arsenal is countered by Sonic, as Sonic is easily capable of avoiding Chaos Spears, and can counter Shadow's Chaos Control with his own. On the flipside, Shadow can keep Silver at bay very easily by simply kiting him and using Chaos Spears, as well as avoiding the projectiles Silver will inevitably throw at him.

Lastly, there's Sonic. Sonic is easily in the best situation here, being able to not only avoid Shadow's attacks very easily but, if Silver is distracted, Sonic can easily score a few hits before running away, and considering Sonic is rather fond of the hit-and-run strategy, it's likely that will be what he uses on Silver until one of the three goes down. Sonic is also tough enough to take hits from Shadow if he gets caught off guard.