The Warrior of Light and tournaments...

[Alleo]

I really get the feeling that you want to find something just to make the WoL look bad. ^^; There arent that much MSQ tournaments and in SB its only the one that we are kinda forced into to help Doma. At the end you will always have someone that is stronger then the rest (normally the winner) which will make the losers feel bad. Even if you are a normal person and you win, you will still destroy dreams of the others with that. THis simply is the result of only having one winner in any tournament, even if its something like chess. (And the tournament in HW was done to raise the spirit of the knights after revealing the truth of the past. The other city states were completely fine with it and Raubahn was really looking forward to fight against us and enjoyed it. So we did not destroy anyones dream there, we even helped them)

And we are strong (and I believe that SE made us too strong way too soon, because I kinda wonder who will come next to stand a chance against us) but we are not that strong thanks to our blessing or echo. Unlike some plotpoints at the end of SB it was never shown that the Echo makes you strong, otherwise people like Minfilia and Krile would be able to kill primals too. You might be able to see AOEs or predict movement (if that is truly how our echo functions..I still remain skeptic on that) but without the power and skill behind it you will only manage to evade someones attack. The blessing itself only protected us in important fights like the Ultima one and without it we were still growing stronger.

So yes we might have some advantages thanks to the Echo but deep down we are just a very good fighter, that learned it through training and battles. Our old level 15 WoL could have never defeated Raubahn even with the Echo simply because we did not have the skill to do so. So we trained hard over the times by defeating more and more powerful enemies.

You kinda have that in the real world too: You will have people that have a natural talent for things that needs to train less to be really good at it and then you will have those that have to work extra hard to get to that point or even will never get to the point because sometimes in life even if you train hard does not mean that you will ever reach your goal. Should those people that have a natural talent be excluded from any tournament too? Arent they in some way a motivation for others to get better?

So no I do not find it bad that we participate in those tournaments. Both times (in HW and SB) we are asked to join and we did it to help other people. Also nobody had their dreams truly crushed and imo its always shown in the story that our fighting skill and wins are a motivation for a lot of people. We are their role model and them wanting to be like us often means that they will train harder. This can be seen in a lot of quests.