I'll agree with liso that xenmas is the strongest character but that's only because we've never really seen riku at 100% for more than 5 seconds.
Now, that being said, i must defend riku.
my dear, Riku beat only the first form of Xeanorth's heartless... with cards!
Listen to me right now: Riku beat xehanort's heartless on a entirely different level than when sora did. He beat him, not only alone, not only with xehanort's own element, not only
IN HIS OWN HEART, but then
contained him for more than a year.
Mikey was with Riku half of the time he was "alone" (AND Riku was hiding with DiZ...).
No. Sometime between the end of CoM and the beginng of KHII mickey and riku went their own ways, we don't know why, but they did. The reason i assert this because in ansem's other reports,it states that riku showed up ALONE to meet up with diz again, sometime between the end of of KH:CoM and two weeks before KHII. WE don't know when they split but they did.
Saïx didn't have his weapon out... he didn't show any resistance!
It's odd, would you not say, that saix, who is only shown to be scared or to not want to fight one person(xenmas) would run from riku, and not just kill him? Why would, he not fight riku if he really wanted to contain both kairi and namine? WHy not just kill him? There are two reasons: he didn't want to fight(which is unlikely as he had no problem f-ing with sora and them before) and he is scared of him. Those are the only two logical choices with those given variables. Why would he not fight riku? Why not do so?
we all know Riku wouldn't have beaten Xemmu alone either. It takes two to beat that monster
I never said he could. I'm just stating that, if sora had gone it alone, he could not have won.
I'd like to mention two very important things: Riku was injured during the xenmas fight, and that riku wasn't fighting at his full strength as he didn't use all of his darkness.
And we all know Riku got his butt kicked by Roxas... stupid Riku fan boys/girls...
If I gave you a sword, and gave your adversary.... nothing, would your adversary not lose? IF he won than you suck pretty bad. RIku was fighting alone, with no weapon, other than that which roxas gave him: and riku beat him with that very same weapon. Riku beat his arse with the 'power of darkness' go back and watch the fight. Riku was toying with him.
Also, it doesn't matter if Riku could beat Xemnas' final form alone or not. We were saying that Sora couldn't do it; and there's a long list of evidence for that.
The problem is we never say riku at full capacity. Really, we never did: he was really badass in the riku roxas fight(he disappears and crushes roxas) and then we never see that awesomeness again. It's depressing really, they made him so awesome, and we never really get to see it.
I think he meant that his friends give him encouragement and support,
Go rewatch the scene: he clearly states that he does need a weapon, it's his friends that are his weapon. Just before this he states that his heart is small and weak, but that it will live on with this friends. His friends are a source of encouragement,and they are the source of his power. He states it himself.
Yes, sora says something like that in the game, but I don't think he meant that physically weak.
He's physically weaker than riku. Really, go get the guide and look at the stat progression, riku's skill max higher than soras.
in the riku vs. roxas fight, if the power of darkness that riku uses has nothing to do with ansem, will someone please tell me why he turns into ansem, complete with ansem's guardian?remember in re:CoM after riku beat ansem, ansem clearly wasn't phased from the battle and tells riku something like 'I will always be in your heart', then shows riku the darkness in his heart, then disappears? Ansem is still in there. when riku beat roxas, that wasn't all riku.
Mickey states in CoM:
Mickey: Your darkness belongs to you. Just like your light. Until now, I
thought darkness was nothing but bad. But my time with you made me
change my mind. You've chosen a road I never thought of. Light and
dark, back to back. With you, they mingle in a way no one's ever seen
before. I want to see where that road leads. And if it's okay, I want
to walk the road with you.
ON THE IT'S ANSEM FIGHTING:
Riku: I'm...fading... Consumed by the light...
Kairi: You won't fade.
Kairi appears.
Kairi: You can't fade. No power can defeat you — not the light, not the dark.
So don't run from the light — and don't fear the darkness. Both will
make you stronger.
Riku: Darkness, too?
Kairi: Especially darkness. Because that power is yours alone. The darkness in
your heart is vast and deep...but if you can stare into it unflinching,
you'll never know fear again.
Riku: All this time I've been pushing the darkness away...
Kairi: Just be brave. Know that the darkness is there and don't give in. Do
that, and you'll gain strength unlike any other. You'll be able to
escape the deepest darkness —
Riku: — and I'll be able to see through the brightest light...
Kairi: Follow the darkness, Riku. It'll show you the way to the friends you
miss.
Riku: But can I face them...
Kairi: You don't want to?
Riku: You know I do. And I will! The darkness — MY darkness — will show me the
way! (reappearing) Darkness, awaken!
