Talk:Mewtwo vs Metal Sonic/@comment-32765736-20180324225148/@comment-31067519-20180325193908

Actually, no. It is true that Mewtwo beat Shadow, but it didn't win using its natural power alone. In fact, it was pretty clearly stated that Shadow surpassed Mewtwo in nearly every way; he took the edge in speed, strength, destructive power and had time manipulation on his side as Super Shadow. The only other conventional edge Mewtwo had was intelligence, and even then, brains alone wouldn't be enough against such overwhelming power advantages.

The ONLY reason Mewtwo had any chance was thanks to its wider arsenal of moves and its mind-reading and memory-wiping abilities that allowed it to get information on Shadow's abilities and erase his memories of both who he was and how to even fight. Otherwise, Shadow would've literally stomped (he almost did, actually, when he kicked the back of its head). Since Metal Sonic had no organic brain and uses digital data instead of biological memories, there's no way Mewtwo can read/manipulate his mind nor erase his memories. Mind manipulation doesn't work on machinery, computers and data drives work completely differently from the flesh and tissue of an organic brain. And since Metal Overlord is at least as strong and has as much destructive power as Super Sonic and Super Shadow, who is easily stronger than Mega Mewtwo Y, Metal takes this mid-difficulty at most.