Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25415705-20150503012906/@comment-679780-20150506013138

Monochrome-Mix wrote: What you think is Mario's edge against Sonic is something Sonic has himself so you could hardly call it an edge. Sonic is way more agile and has way more edurance, ya know cause his body can withstand going that fast and he blasts through steel all the time. Thats true but Marios got some shock-absorbancy himself if you know what I mean (he has a sort bend of fat and muscle). He also has some strength as he is able to lift up enemies much greater in size and weight than himself also has will-power to hold out with. If Sonic was a nice guy to stay still and let Mario have the first hit, Mario could give him a punch that is more his rings worth.

Mario has some skills and physical attributes. But we can agree that these attributes will not be much against Sonic's speed. Sonic can dart around him or his powerful boost could crash into Mario doing some serious damage. Now Mario is agile to avoid oncomming attacks such as koopa-shells but Sonic would be way too fast and his boost turbulence way too destructive for Mario to escape.

I imagine Sonic's stradegy would either be to boost directly for Mario for the major offense attack, or Sonic could ninja around Mario to confuse him or stir up some wind to make him even more confuse before executing smaller attacks that will eventually weaken him.