Originally posted by: Gangrel
Actually that's the only thing I would like to disagree on ur post. I do think Shinn was doing fine against Destroy (I hate him but he was doing good). Kira hadn't done a scratch in destroy since he arrived, and then Shinn arrives, and already slice up near the cockpit almost killing Stellar (would be awesome if he did kill her). Then Neo comes up and mess up with the boy, who is already mentally unstable.
Shinn was doing fine with Destroy destracted by Kira he indeed landed the first blow however the direct issue is that once he realised that Stellar was the pilot he froze and when Kira stabbed it with the beam sabers in the chest. Which is what ultimately took down Destroy. Shinn was standing directly in the path of the chest Cannon unable/unwilling to defend himself. There is Zero question a direct hit meant he would have been killed and the Minerva with no other Mobile suits would have been a sitting duck for destroy considering the only weapon it had that MIGHT work against it is the tripple barreled cannon that can't seem to hit anything.

@Strike Freedom.
Understand I do see your points however. Strike was salvaged and later used by Mwu that was NOT a new mobile suit like Strike Rouge. Also even if you want to say that Athrun and Kira 1 on 1 was slightly in Athruns favor you can't deney Blitz was a much greater loss to Zaft then a Skygrasper with a virtually untrained pilot putting the advantage in the fight right back in Kira's favor both in result and during the actual fight considering had Blitz not jumped in then Athrun could have been either taken out at that point or later have lacked the will to go Seed.