Board Thread:Sonic News Channel/@comment-24560510-20140217220116/@comment-25147790-20140812212139

Myself 123 wrote: Numerous reason as to why the LSD gets a lower rating: Sonic would then have to move faster than the speed limits in the game, which would present all kinds of issue when trying to use the move, another reason could be that it can be used to exploit the ranking system in the game to get a massive amounts of points.

That sounds more like a promotion than an actual statement on Sonic's speed.

Sonic is cocky, it makes sense that he would exaggerate his speed and Shadow teleports when he uses Chaos Control, it's not a case of moving fast, so that's irrelevant. Sonic isn't always serious about speed whenever he says something like that, it's in the presence of friends, so I think it's pretty clear he's just being cocky and arrogant. Not really. They could simply make it so that using the LSD through the checkpoints nets the player a larger SPD, or removed the already sparing number of checkpoints you can use the LSD through. And having looked over it, the SPD doesn't actually add up to the SPEED ranking at the end of levels, so it wouldn't have exploited anything. Besides, if it did, what would it matter if they did? It'd just mean an easier S rank.

Actually it was stated in the character-to-character context of him saying it to Omega after he complimented his speed in Sonic Colors, and on top of that Omega seemed to believe him, so it's not a promotion. Sonic's cocky, but that's not enough to say he's lying about his defining trait. Fleetway's Sonic was way cockier than game Sonic and he never did. No, I'm talking about warping, as in what he did in his introduction in SA2 where he glides past Sonic in the slowed-down scene and Sonic goes "he must be using the Chaos Emerald to warp" and what he does as Hero Shadow in Shadow the Hedgehog.