Thread:Ultrasonic9000/@comment-26194462-20150311233029/@comment-26253917-20150721045309

Calling a thereby canonical aspect of its limitations strikes as simply making up the rules just for the sake of it. Oh, and wouldn't Sonic be able to tell when his Super form is running out and not start an attack if he couldn't finish it by the time it did. Or is that a "game mechanic" too?

If Super Sonic does havelimited energy then you could have just been talking about Dark Gaia this whole time instead of bringing up rings like they were going out of style, especially when we both know by now that they're game mechanics. Anyway, as for Dark Gaia, that's somewhat of an outlier as Dark Gaia had drained Sonic's base form of energy before the fight even started and on top of that Super Sonic did still last long enough for him to win the fight and only negated when it wasn't technically needed any more. Here's where I start getting theoretical, but there's been subtle proofs over the series that the Chaos Emeralds have some degree of sentience so it's possible that they make the conscious decision to leave when the fight is done and not a moment sooner. After all, Sonic was safe in Light Gaia's hands after he passed out.I'm saying Sonic was drained of energy in his base form so by the time he gets out of the Super form the strain on his base form comes back. Otherwise he would have passed out as Super Sonic.

Remember,  The amount of time that a user can sustain the Super Form simply depends on how long the user himself is able to handle and manipulate the infinite pool of Chaos Energy. In Sonic's case, he has been able to sustain the Super Sonic form for several days with seemingly no issue, whereas Shadow was exhausted in Sonic Adventure 2 after using Chaos Control because it was his first time being Super and thus was not used to holding the transformation.Its not speculations if no evidence support that the Super Form is ever shown using rings, instead he use the Chaos Emeralds o turn into Super Sonic