Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-16919137-20151107192333/@comment-26418719-20200205133636

Meta Knight is MUCH faster than Zero, no contest. Simply keeping up with Kirby's Warp Star, which could travel to the edge of the solar system and back in mere seconds is way faster than anything Zero or anybody he has scaled to has done (The best of which would probably be dodging Optic Sunflower's light beams, which would place Zero and X in the low FTL range). As far as power goes, Meta Knight is pretty comparable to Kirby, who survived a planet-sized explosion without a scratch at the end of Kirby Triple Deluxe. Zero has a similar feat in regards to surviving the explosion of the Space Colony Eurasia, described to be an extinction-level event at bare minimum, and it's stated in Mega Man X5's bad ending that the planet barely evaded destruction in the event Eurasia actually does collide with the Earth. So they're pretty even on that front. Versatility is also a toss-up. While Zero has things such as Time Stopping with Dark Hold which can give Meta Knight a hard time, Meta Knight has abilities himself that Zero has no answer to, like Meta Heal (Yes, Meta Knight can heal himself). Ultimately, it's going to come down to a battle of attrition between the two, and unfortunately for everybody's favourite blond-haired Maverick Hunter, it's a battle Zero is set to lose. Between the limited amount of times he can use Dark Hold (about the only thing that doesn't make it a complete wash in Meta Knight's favour despite their relatively even strength and durability, because Meta Knight is just that much faster), and Meta Knight's self-healing abilities, Meta Knight can simply outlast Zero until he can't use Dark Hold any more, at which point the red-clad Maverick Hunter is screwed.

So yeah, Meta Knight should win.