User blog comment:Fedora Lord Para 348/My own Death Battle: Lloyd Irving vs. Kirito/@comment-26428157-20150924034010

I will say this in regards to Kirito being slow, he does have the highest reaction time of any character in SAO (Kyaba mentions this during teh floor 75 PVP duel btween them informing him of why he is the only character with Dual Wielding capabilites) and is able to keep up the Silver Crow from Accel World (who can fly at exteremely high speeds) without his ALO flying abilies (This isnt officially confirmed canon, but was written by the author of both Accel World and SAO). So while his foot work might be slower than LLoyd his ability to react and adapt to the situation at hand is in his favor. Also his style "Aincrad style" is a little unorthodox in that it leaves a large window open for his enemy to hit within (as noted by Sugu during he match with her in real life (anime real life anyways)), if Kirito is unable to block, but given his reaction time, he is usually able to counter this defect. However, against LLoyd I dont know if he would have fast enough reaction times even then. Also for this battle I think it is important to define which Kirito we are using Aincrad (SAO) or Alfheim (ALO) style Kirito. In ALO he aquires the Holy Sword Excalibur and I think Ragnarok (although I may be mistaken on that last one) being the two strongest swords in the game, possibly higher stat-wise than his SAO swords, the Dark Repulsor and the Elucidator (although the stat systems vary slightly so its a rough comparison). Also his ALO avatar is able to fly quite well by the end of the Mother's Rosario Arc. Furthermore, if we use his ALO avatar, he acquires all of his stats from SAO, and gains magic abilities including Illusion magic and cloaking abilities via the Spriggan race magic specialty and his swords gain elemental attributes (most notably Fire and Ice in the first episode of the Excalibur Arc). Sorry for the long info addition, but I wasnt sure when this was originally made, so I felt the need to add in anything that may have transpired that was left out of the author's already great intro.