Tell us why amy is stronger please! I’m actually genuinely curious
god you have no idea how happy I am that you asked me this, thank you for enabling me
SO
WHY IS AMY’S STRENGTH 7/10 WHILE SHADOW’S IS ONLY 3/10
WELL, YOU SEE:
the screenshot that shows these stats are most likely from the mobile game, Sonic Forces: Speed Battle (I remember playing this a lot when it first came out and I recognize the skill categories). this is an online game where you can, at any time, pick a character from a large selection of Sonic characters that you can unlock and level up, and then race against other players. for this reason, the characters’ stats have to be balanced - resulting in silly shit like Shadow having the physical prowess of a wet noodle.
if their stats in the game adhered to story canon, it’s very likely that they would actually be pretty evenly matched in the ‘strength’ stat! they both canonically have super strength, and are occasionally shown to be slightly below Knuckles’ strength level (Knuckles is the designated Strong Boy in the series, so he’s a good measuring stick).
funnily enough, Amy and Shadow are actually some of the most inconsistently represented characters in the series when it comes to their abilities. this is because many of the games like to divide characters into one of three types; speed, flying or power. however, both of them simultaneously have super strength and super speed (and Shadow is sometimes shown as being able to hover with his rocket boots), resulting in Shadow often switching between all three types, while Amy is usually stuck with the ‘speed’ type even though she’s one of the physically toughest characters!
you can kind of think of the characters as RPG characters that put their levels into different things. Sonic put all of his levels in speed, and none in strength or magic or other powers. similarly, Knuckles put all his levels in strength. Amy doesn’t specialize in any one thing, so she’s above average in most categories (a fact that’s often forgotten in canon is that she knows magic too). Shadow, being an artificial super soldier, was born with more levels than the others and he’s got his speed maxed out, while also having above average in every other stat, so he also doesn’t technically specialize in any one thing, but has a level or two more in speed so he can match Sonic anyway.
so long story short, if the stats in the mobile game adhered to canon, Amy would have a 7/7/7 spread, while Shadow’s would be something like 10/10/7. but that wouldn’t make for balanced gameplay, so their stats were skewed in the name of making the game playable!
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