Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-38271940-20190126234909

BlizzardDragon wrote: I'm sorry, but how is Adam one of the best fighters in the show? Seriously, he doesn't seem all that stronger than other characters.

Lets look at his history of fights.

Robots in the Black Trailer

Blake in Volume 3

Yang he one-shotted in Volume 3

Blake and Sun in Volume 5

Generic Bandits and SDC officials in his Short

Blake and Yang again in Volume 6.

If using Power Scaling, the only characters he's fought remotely strong are Blake, Yang, and Sun, and not only are none of them close to strongest characters in the show, each one has reasoning behind it.

Blake: They were partners, meaning if Blake were to know his fighting style, than its the same for Adam knowing hers, plus the emotional abuse factor.

Yang: He one shot her cause of a reckless move on her part. That's it before their rematch.

Sun: He barely fought him at Haven.

You can't really use Sienna for scaling since he blindsided her, and most if not all of Adam's feats can be attributed to him either knowing his opponents, blindsiding them, or fighting generic mooks.

Seriously, why do people think Adam is one of the strongest characters in the show, when he's done nothing to prove it, and scaling doesn't support such a claim? Let me pull a lesson out of my Overwatch book and BREAK IT DOWN!

Why is he one of the strongest characters in the show? Let's see - how many fights has he lost? 1? His last one. Who has he fought, before? Yang, Blake, Sun... The Spider Droid... A bunch of the white fang... Lots of guards. Who do we hear CONSTANTLY being up just how strong Adam is? Blake.

He's one of the best fighters in the show because he's been built up to be just that. Even in volume 5, they didn't give chase because he was that strong and dangerous. We see him cut off Yang's arm in volume 3, after TOYING with Blake. They run. What has Yang done since then? Volume 4: She moped and trained with Tai. Volume 5: She got in a fight against a bunch of bandits. Volume 6: She's uh...fought some grimm on a train. What has Blake done? Volume 4, she fought grimm and white fang. Volume 5, she fought white fang. Volume 6, she uh...fought some grimm on a train.

So Yang REALLY hasn't shown us much growth since the last battle. Blake, on the other hand, has shown a lot before volume 6. But despite that growth, she STILL acknowledges just how strong Adam is by saying the chase would kill THEM, not him. And that's not going into the details of his past bits we've seen, boarding trains, killing guards, or even him slaughtering the white fang followers he has.

So, how is Adam one of the best fighters in the show? Because we have been explicitly told that he is by one of the other strongest characters in the show: Blake. And that's not even getting into the comments about his talents that Cinder or Sienna have made.