Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26167440-20160111225919/@comment-26253917-20160127213136

Look at Sonic Advance because when I played it, Eggman was giving Super Sonic rings, in Sonic Adventure 2,Sonic and Shadow were switiching off like they did in Sonic 2006.Similar thing happened in Sonic and the Serect Rings and Sonic and the Black Knight in the final boss. In Sonic Unlewashed, Super Sonic had a health bar and once you get passed the shield, there is no rings and no health bar.

I still think rings are only used as currency and nothing more. The statement Tails made at the end of Sonic Generations shows that they collect gold rings and put them somewhere. He did not say that they absored them like the Archie Comics. Also, Sonic Unleashed showed this as well as people use rings all around the world. This goes on to what happened in Sonic Advance 3 where no matter how many rings you had, it all turned into zero before Sonic turned into Super Sonic with the Chaos Emeralds and took off.