User blog comment:MarkvA/Sonic's Sidekicks: Who's The Best/@comment-50.72.2.119-20120411045149/@comment-50.72.2.119-20120413034428

As I said, as far as having a good history with sonic goes, tails would win... Tails is a great sidekick, I'm just saying that Blaze, in my opinion, has better abilities, and a personallity that is interesting and SEGA could easily build off of it... I was just stating who I think won the other two catagories, Tails does make a great sidekick because of his and Sonic's history, I'm not questioning that...

So as I said, yes Blaze is more independent (hence why I gave Tails #1 for history), but she still has other things about her that make her an interesting character...