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Rising is fantastic (personally my favorite after the first three Solid titles), although personally I thought the Bladewolf dlc was much weaker than the main game, while Jetstream Sam was great. I don't remember too much of the VR missions I remember liking the different ones and the challenge wave thing which was cool.

This power argument is stupid.

Solid is physically inferior to the other Snakes, yet is clearly the most skilled given that he defeated all of them (well barring Solidus, and while he defeated Liquid in fights, Liquid would have ultimately killed Solid barring FOXDIE)

Solidus had a power suit and Raiden won fair and square. Big Boss kept his physical strength into his 60's (Kaz mentions Big Boss is still a physical monster in MG2)

Rising Era Raiden would lose to Snake on purpose since he sees him as his hero, but in a straight fight with no morals and both on an open battlefield 50 feet away from each other, Raiden will easily beat everyone else in the series at this point (well unless like Vulcan Raven or one of the other weird ones pulls out some magic, or you can dead man Sorrow)

And I believe Venom is canonically below Snake tier, it's mentioned in the novel, and as why the support systems in the game are in place to bring him up to a higher level. Even just from gameplay he's not shown to have the absolutely ridiculous strength Big Boss demonstrates in Peace Walker.

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