Quote Originally Posted by Hanemakikaze View Post
There is a difference between challenge & impossible, AV was indeed impossible unless you cheated back in the day. While I agree just because you don't see a drop it wasn't meant to be beaten isn't true, SE definitely did not want AV beaten. They removed the bug that even made it possible to kill it immediately after it was found out, thus once again making him dominant unkillable alpha NM of XI for a very long time.
Part of what made him unbeatable for so long was the narrow minds of the community. It was always throw KC DRKs at it or throw SAMs at it. None ever stopped to think about efficient new ways of killing him. Truthfully the way I think SE intended to kill him was to make Linkshell's work together. To try that out and stop the pointless fighting. However they would rather fight and argue over pointless things then actually work together. Most shell's never even went after AV simply because of the stories. So if anything it was the community that made him a lot more difficult to beat then he should of been.