Thread:Blade0886/@comment-31259708-20160610073628/@comment-3463132-20160623160611

It just seems like Nomura was talking more about the gameplay and not canonical strength. He even brings up how you need to get the codex entry for "___" in order to 'complete' the game.

@DBFan

Remember that those are translated- the wording doesn't always match up 100%. That's why I looked beyond 'strength' and looked at the rest of the article. And the rest of the article points to it being about the game mechanics of how powerful they all are.

In canon, Sephiroth is undoubtably stronger, Sora could defeat pretty much any Organization 13 member solo- but Sephiroth in KH2 just shakes him off easily and says he needs to fight Cloud.