LogFAQs > #879363398

First off, this is the Green Hill Zone in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGobge1kfjo

It's long, narrow, and much of it is at a high elevation. Thanks to Survivor, it's also subject to an incredibly fierce storm, and is gradually falling apart. On a normal day, it would take any non-Sonic merc here HOURS to find the other team, given how many miles it is from start to finish on difficult to navigate terrain for non-platformers. Under Survivor conditions? It's a pretty safe bet that neither team is meeting the other during the course of the fight. So rather than a fight, I think this becomes a case of who survives the terrain the longest. No-one in the match can fly, so falling off the terrain would be game over for anyone (even if they survived the fall, they wouldn't be able to get back up to carry on the fight). There may only be two of them compared to five, but I also think Sonic and Lara are the best equipped to outlast everyone else.

Starting with Sonic, he's a platform character on his own turf who already routinely deals with bizarre, uneven terrain. His SSB4 moveset helps his jumping ability a lot here, and his speed running into the wind cancels out the force of it. If the chunk of land he's on begins to fall away, he shouldn't have much difficulty navigating himself to a safer area.

As for Lara, there are several segments of the Tomb Raider reboot where she has to scramble through disintegrating terrain in difficult conditions to safety. Examples include here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSnTkheVaAk

You can skip to 6:10 and 10:30 for notable parts if you want. Also here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vgaiC9Tegg&spfreload=10

From the beginning. She has the strength, agility and quick wits to adapt to rapidly changing situations and avoid dying. Even when the ground beneath her gives way she finds a way to survive.

Additionally, I think it's kind of a benefit that Sonic and Lara are outnumbered here. They only have each other to worry about and help survive, compared to any of the other team that have four other people to think of. It's easier for two to communicate and work together as a team under challenging circumstances.



tl;dr - If you only take away two things from this - the terrain is long enough and volatile enough that the two teams will never meet in combat; and Sonic and Lara are the two best characters here to survive a collapsing Green Hill Zone.
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