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Rainbowser wrote: MrBreada wrote: Shadow seems to be more powerful than Knuckles is. If Shadow and Knuckles fought in terms of abilities, Shadow would wipe the floor with Knuckles. Shadow seems to have a super form that's still canon, and also the Chaos Powers, like Chaos Spear and Chaos Blast.

Knuckles' strength is quite impressive, but he has a bit of a short temper. Shadow could take advantage of this easily.

Brains over brawn, and Knuckles seems to be more of the latter.

Shadow has all the abilities that Sonic has but a little slower and stronger plus Chaos Control.

Knuckles has besides his strenght the ability to glide, hang onto walls and move underground which can be useful in certain environments (see above). Depending on the incarnation he could also block the Chaos Emeralds rendering Shadow's Chaos Control useless or use Chaos Control himself.

But considering Sonic and Knuckles always tie in battle he would definitely give Shadow a run for his money. That means, if they don't dumb him down like they always do. Hrm, you have a fair point there. Though I do believe that Shadow still has one ultimate trump card - his rings. He can use a whole lot of power when he takes them off. However, that leaves him wide open for Knuckles to strike. It's a really closer battle than I thought now that I think about the points that you mentioned.