Thread:Alucard10001/@comment-4576906-20150902221211/@comment-2017262-20150905013937

"Sesshōmaru is easily the number two swordsman in the series". That's your direct quote. Not "could be", but "is". The Bane/Vader comparison is far more valid than the Vader/Jade one because Bane and Vader are far more comparable in terms of power and abilities. That they lived in different time periods is completely irrelevant because you can still speculate about what might happen should they battle. I mean, time travel is possible in SW and has occurred in SW but anyway...

You don't know that Menōmaru is the best swordsman in the series because, first of all, he's kind of apocryphal, and second, that's never been stated by anyone either in-universe, or who was involved with creating the material (at least not that I've heard of, correct me if someone has). As such, it's just you speculating. Just to give you an example, the only way that such speculation could be put in an article and still be truthful and neutral in tone is for it to lack any absolute qualifiers. It would have to be something along the lines of "Menōmaru has demonstrated himself to be one of the most skilled swordsmen in the series", not "Menōmaru could be the best swordsman in the series", because we don't know that. We only know that he is one of the best, because that's all he has demonstrated. By the same token, all that could be put in the Menōmaru article about Sesshomaru blocking a Wind Scar is to say that he deflected one at one point with a blast of energy from Tokijin, because that's what he did. Saying he could do it with a normal sword has no basis at all in fact, because he's never done anything even remotely like that. The only issue with that was it's redundancy with regard to the previous sentence in the article.

With regard to Inuyasha and Inu no Taishō having both never blocked a Wind Scar through normal means, neither has Sesshomaru. At all. He diverted it once with a similarly empowered weapon, and that doesn't translate into anything other than exactly what it was. And with regard to telling whether or not Sesshomaru or Menōmaru is the superior swordsman, you can't really. You can make educated guesses, but ultimately, all you can say is that they appeared to be similarly skilled, because the tone of the statement has to remain neutral.

Again, I'm not interested in having this degenerate into a fight; like I said earlier, the bit in the article isn't important to me at. I'm only interested in debating this question.