Talk:Cloud VS Sora/@comment-29686583-20160930230238/@comment-3463132-20170206213711

Those would fall under game mechanics, and so they weren't considered as in cutscenes Sora doesn't demonstrate them and actively points against them being a thing such as when Xemnas has him locked down in lightning- not freeing Sora will have him die to said lightning. That's not to say only what he shows in cutscenes was considered- but those two in particular are more game mechanic-based than say, knowing spells or certain attacks.

Also Cloud's answer to that would be the same one various enemies in the games have- Death magic. Something Sora doesn't have and Cloud does. Marluxia and Phantom both have magic that will kill Sora straight through his defenses for example- as does Cloud.