Talk:Shulk vs Sora/@comment-3463132-20150722050644/@comment-7424710-20151012232551

Monado Speed is essentially not a massive speed boost. It's main focus is to enhance the ability for Shulk or others to dodge attacks more quickly to the point of no warning or vision needed.

Am I saying Sora is faster? No. Especially in the air, Sora takes it. I'm saying Shulk can catch up with Monado Speed until it you know... dies out. Every Monado Art has it's own time limit and doesn't last forever.

And as for Reyn, he has no Anti-Mechon weapon canonically at that time. What he did was perform a Topple, which is a form of making an enemy trip over, something Shulk also has the ability to do via a Break inflicting art followed by Monado Cyclone. He didn't kill the Mechon, only stun it. Shulk kills Mechon at this point, Reyn cannot. Reyn is not important unless you want a whole 2v1 where Sora keeps getting Topple chained to the point where he can't get up.

And it's not all a shield. It's a gunlance or driver, a 3-in-1 weapon of a Sword, Shield, and a Gun.