Thread:Alucard10001/@comment-4576906-20150902221211/@comment-2017262-20150904203146

I'm sorry to say this, and I don't mean to be insulting, but everything you just said about Sesshōmaru is conjectural fan-nonsense. "Sesshōmaru is easily the number two swordsman in the series, after Menōmaru". Source for that please? Furthermore, where are you getting that Menōmaru was the #1 swordsman in the series? He's an apocryphal movie character; how do we know that he was more skilled a martial artist than, say, Shishinki? We don't; we can't. It's just how like you can't go onto the SW wiki and insert something into an article that compares Darth Vader's skill with a lightsaber to Darth Bane's. Maybe one was better than the other, we can't prove it.

"Sesshōmaru does plenty of things in the series that no one should be able to do." That doesn't mean anything. So what if he has done a number of extraordinary things, that doesn't mean he could do what you are speculating he could. Characters do unexpected/supposedly impossible things in the series all the time; in fact, that's how Inuyasha wins most of his fights.

"Putting similar things in Inuyasha's or the Inu no Taishō's articles would be different for a number of reasons, most significant of which being that, unlike Sesshōmaru or Menōmaru, they are never shown displaying the skill necessary to divert or block the Wind Scar in any manner period, let alone with a normal sword." First, you seem to have misunderstood what I said. I was talking about adding info in the Menōmaru article about how any of those other characters might be able to block a Wind Scar with a normal sword, not adding that info to their articles. Second, neither has Sesshōmaru. We have no idea how good a swordsman Sesshōmaru really is. He's powerful, but his track record for winning sword fights isn't exactly stellar. I could just as easily add something into the article regarding how any of those other characters that I mentioned might possess the ability to block a Wind Scar with a normal sword because it's just as valid (invalid) an assumption. Also, you have no quantifiable way of comparing Menōmaru to Sesshōmaru anyway. You can't just say that something was "[lazily] animated" and use that as proof of something that you want to believe. They could have been very similarly skilled swordsmen, Menōmaru might have been far better than Sesshōmaru, or vice versa. You just can't tell.

If there is no conclusive proof one way or another concerning a particular topic, it shouldn't be included in a forum that is supposed to be purely factual. Otherwise, the site isn't really a wiki, it's just another fan site.