Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33064970-20190418072655/@comment-27921095-20190727043715

^ To be fair, that only has questionable statments supporting it, with like a single measurement of a game mechanic speed supporting it.

SEGA clearly isn't fully aware what Sonic's capacity is, and Izuka saying he "could reach up to light speed" or whatever could just as likely refer to the LS Dash and also, with the statments that man makes, can be considered analogous to the DMC creator's statements which seem to be debated and practically ignored. Also, calling him the "fastest video game character" and "comparable to the Flash" are contradictory statements within those sane guides and all that make the veracity of such claims evem more questionable. It also doesn't make sense with canonical abilities and plot lines, like Sonic exhausting himself with the black hole (meaning it wouldn't be casual either way and no one scales to a non-casual Sonic aside from people who actually rival him) in Colors or the Light Speed Dash and Attack being temporary means of achieving LS and characters like Silver also getting such explicit moves that allow them to breach the barrier and NOT their footing or casual speeds and such.

But I mean, sure. Without FTL speed he's super fragile and will get beaten by most opponents, so let's give it to him. There's a few flimsy pieces of evidence in support of it, so it's passable, I guess.