Talk:Tracer VS Scout/@comment-25182985-20160826021222/@comment-2255534-20160826201022

It's been noted that Meta Ridley had chased after Samus's spaceship. I haven't been able to find the actual clip of it happening, so I don't know the exact context, but for arguments sake, I'll assume that Ridley has the means to travel planet to planet like Samus, hence FTL for now.

Now because Samus has defeated Ridley, that makes her FTL. Any mindless fool who looks at scaling skin deep like that and ask no questions will accept this feat.

But we're smarter than that, because we like to apply a thing I like to call "logic".

If you were to watch an actual fight between the two of them, it becomes crystal clear just by looking at it that Ridley never displays any kind of speed like that. Light speed is the equivelent as travling around earth almost 8 times in a single second, so it would almost seem like teleportation. Such a speed is never again demonstrated, assuming it actually was demonstrated at all.

As for Samus herself, this one flawed argument, combined with the fact that there's no other feat to support it, leaves me stumped to understand how people could so casually call her FTL. If I have at least made you doubt in this poor example of scaling, then you shouldn't agree to it.

On that matter. part of the reason people think scaling is such a great way to measure characters is because they think they know how to do it right all the time. Again, people like these are fools.