Thread:Alucard10001/@comment-4576906-20150902221211/@comment-4576906-20150905000908

On the one hand you seem to indicate that you don't mind "speculating upon available evidence and drawing potential conclusions" necessarily, but then you complain about not having "conclusive proof", which would rule out drawing conclusions based on available evidence. So I'm a little confused as to whether you're still disagreeing with speculation in general (which is sadly immaterial, since we have no policy against that) or groundless speculation, which is prohibited and discouraged, and which I've already explained that the particular content we've been discussing is not groundless.

I said Sesshōmaru could easily be #2 after Menōmaru, not that he definitely was. And did I say that on an article? No, I said it on a message wall. So there's no need to flip out. I could go into how I know Menōmaru is likely the best swordsman based on the evidence, but since that's not actually in an article anywhere, and therefore the information itself is not currently in dispute, there's no need for me to do that, unless you just really want to know.

Darth Bane and Vader lived in completely different time periods, so again, your comparisons don't match up closely to what we're talking about. A better example would be Vader and Mara Jade, who were contemporaneous. And I think no one would dispute Jade was weaker...I don't know if that's ever stated in Star Wars canon, but you can kinda just tell based on the feats they are capable of.

The Inuyasha and Inu no Taishō examples still don't matter because we have no reason to compare their swordsmanship levels to Menōmaru in the capacity of their ability to potentially stop the Wind Scar as they have never, as I said, ever blocked the Wind Scar through normal means. So comparing Menōmaru to Sesshōmaru and comparing Menōmaru to those two are two completely different things.

You misunderstood what I said about the animation, but I don't see any need to clarify that since it's only one small component of my reasoning. But you can tell that Menōmaru and Sesshōmaru are both superior swordsman, and you can also tell that Menōmaru has an edge over Sesshōmaru. Sesshōmaru for his part, does have a good track record in sword fights as he has defeated Inuyasha at least four times that I can think of, and rather easily. Menōmaru defeated Inuyasha almost instantaneously.