User blog comment:B214/General discussion/@comment-27180505-20151226021459/@comment-24742995-20160205112216

"Never said they were exactly the same, just that their style of fighting is similar in that they can spam attacks from a distance. And no his distance attacks aren’t lacking just because they are weaker simply because he can spam them faster than yudai. See the fight with ikki again. At marginal counters top speed he can spam upwards of 7-8 strikes in less than half a second."

No. You're the one that needs to read fights again. His top speed is ONLY in melee range. FYI, Ikki got close to Kuraudo multiple times, but it's Ikki who couldn't take Kuraudo head on melee range he had to back away. Reverse Sight is basically Perfection Vision Cheater edition so you bet your ass if Ikki can do it she can do it too.

"And you make overpowering shizuku in v3 sound like that’s an accomplishment when kuraudo did that against ikki who was way above shizuku at that point."

Shizuku's wall of water is comparable to that of iron got over powered by Tohka. Tell me any point in this story where Kuraudo is capable of such levels of destruction. Otherwise Stella would be one silly bitch because she said she has methods against Kuarudo since she got ranged options when she got lol blitzed by Ikki in the first place.

While Kuraudo's ranged attack are more effective against melee oriented enemies(hence sword eater), you're be silly if you think he can overpower balanced/ranged effective enemies. And in volume 9, even WITH Edelweiss's muscle techniques(which was an immense power boost), Ikki still didn't have such a easy time dodging Tohka's ranged attacks either and was actually under a bigger disadvantage than when he was facing Kuraudo range attacks the first time. Kuraudo's ranged attacks are harder to dodge if you're just getting kited, but Tohka's are much more powerful.

"Yeah if it’s in the short range than rakiri wins, but just because you’re not a tactitian doesn’t mean you’re an idiot."

You seriously confident that Kuraudo can win in range against anybody, aren't you.

"Ouma isn't a tactitian either and he wrecked rakiri in v4 and probably still recks her now."

This statement will become an argument the day Kuraudo can facetank Raikiri like Ouma. Since Raikiri has more kinetic energy compared to Marginal counter, I bet Kuraudo wouldn't even be able to tickle Ouma in his sleep.

P.S. Kuraudo and Yudai are complete opposites. Kuraudo is has better ranged attacks than melee focused characters, so he forces them to fight on their own terms, which is a melee range death brawl which he likes(Problem being with that is Tohka being balanced type). Yudai negates all powers and everything ranged is useless so you're forced to go melee range against him, but he will KEEP you from going to melee range by keeping you pinned in mid-range. Kuraudo's plays the invitation game, Yudai plays the keepaway game. You've never thought about why Kuraudo chose to abandon reach at the end of duel in Volume 2?