Veterans of Sonic 2 and Sonic and Knuckles will not be surprised at losing a footrace to Eggman.

Tails being the fastest, slowest, and in the middle is hilarious.

By this tests' standards, Red Tails being the winner is natural, But there's a bit of a catch here. In actuality, Metal Sonic is the fastest character in the game in terms of Top Speed. Red Tails is only faster in terms of Acceleration from a Stand-Still. I'm a SA2 speedrunner and I've put in a ton of hours into researching how the 2P Mode characters operate for specific categories; and thanks to debug mods, we can see the approximate horizontal speed values for each character. Red Tails' Top Running Speed clocks in at '6.99' by the game's speed values, but Metal Sonic has a Top Running Speed that clocks in at '8.88'; It just takes a little bit for him to reach that. Best place to see this is on an endless straightaway (such as the Sonic/Shadow 2 arena). Red Tails is quick on the draw, but Metal Sonic moves so fast the camera has to zoom out just to keep him onscreen with the rival boss. Also Fun Fact: If you were to take abilities into consideration abilities, Metal Sonic's Black Shield can get him to clock in at speeds in the 19's in certain places- almost 3 times as fast as Red Tail's top ground speed.

4:02 "imagine losing a foot race to Eggman" - someone needs to go replay Sonic 2 😂

The fact eggman is faster than sonic and shadow is so funny to me. Well seeing him walk on his own is also pretty funny tbh

Tails coming in first, last and seventh all at once is amazing 😂

As a kid I always used to play Eggman in the Chao garden because it made me laugh how fast he could run lmao

Makes sense that Mechless Eggman is able to outrun Sonic. You could never catch up to him at the end of Sonic 2 when he's running for his giant Eggman mech lol.

The real fastest character is Big the Cat. You see him in most cutscenes, but if you blink, then you miss him. It was almost like he wasn't there to begin with.

Sonic has lost to a foot race to eggman miltiple times actually. The blue blur can never seem to catch with the egg-shaped scientist.

I love how that means Eggman is the fastest thing alive Red Tails and Chao Walker: Needs a Mech Metal Sonic: Is a robot Tikal: um... About that...

Redtails is hilariously fast I love the content he’s thrown into

Kudos to sonic team for making eggman faster than sonic and shadow, that's consistency from sonic 2 for sure.

Of course Eggman is faster, his egg shape is perfectly aerodynamic

Haven't watched yet, but I feel like some of the fastest are probably like... Red Tails, Tikal, Metal Sonic and the Chao Walker are at the very least in the top 5. Edit: Wow, I was *not* expecting mechless Eggman to be that fast, especially when mechless Tails was the worst of the worst.

I thought it couldn't be Red Tails because I'd think he only has that speed while hovering but wow, he really does have a rocket booster on that mech

I always thought it was knuckles, so I played him in the chao garden when I was younger. Dude is always ZOOMIN

Id like to see this factoring in acceleration, because acceleration is how fast you reach top speed not top speed itself I’d like to see if it was just acceleration that let red mech tails claim first over metal There’s roughly a 2 second difference between them and that could have all been metal accelerating

A part 2 with their abilities and stuff like tails flying, glides, homing attacks, punches and more would be honestly very interesting. Just a gauntlet of movement options to see which is the slowest and which is the fastest

Sonic not being the fastest character in the game feels like a crime against humanity

Red Tails sounds like the name of someone's overpowered OC, so it's interesting to see that he plays just like one too

Sonic: You can't catch me! I'm the fastest thing alive! Eggman: And I took that personally.

there's an error in the final standings, as you put Tikal's 8.95 above Eggman's 8.56. Otherwise good video! I knew Chao Walker and Metal were fast but not that fast!

Plot twist it was big the entire time

Mechless Tails runs like he really needs to take a dump and has found the perfect balance between not going too fast and not going too slow.

Great Video! It would be interesting to see the difference if acceleration wasn't part of the equation. Sonic and Shadow both have a very slow acceleration in this game. But a strong top speed. It would probably take mods to make this possible since I can't think of a fair way to do this in the base game

dannggg i did not know mech-less tails was so slow in this game i never felt it heh. you should definitely make a part two that involves slopes cuz slopes be having interesting properties for these characters (especially with knuckles since its the only way to see his top speed animation) . this video opened my eyes ngl tho so nice !

I already knew it was going to be Tails in the Tornado III from the start!!! I remember when unlocked it and my brother and I played on Cosmic Wall and after falling off the stage, I kept hovering opposite of the camera’s view, going past the invisible wall, and out of bounds! It was a fun accidental discovery

we all know eggman (mechless) was holding back

BTW Hearing you screaming, swearing and laughing at the same time, makes you sounds like from someone who love streaming GTA games named “Hugo One” he’s my favorite streamer too!

Sonic after getting beat by Tails's mech: Fine! Im getting my car!

I wanna see a "Ringless" Shadow mod. Where you play As Shadow but with his wrist rings removed thus enabling his full power

This was actually all expected tbh. As a teen, I used to test this various ways, because tikal always felt faster than sonic, as did mechless Eggman, and that never sat right with me lmao.

i already knew eggman was gonna be faster than sonic, but i've forgot that metal sonic was playable 💀💀💀

Not hating just being scientific, Tikal got stopped early, the rest of the characters stopped in between the 2 walls at the end of the runway, Tikal stops before. Was noticeable because Tikal didn’t grab the ring. Fun little video

Eggman runners quickly in the chao garden

Eggman said it himself He works out

sonic running through a field at top speed, minding his own business. hears some super rapid metal clunking sounds. tails blows past him like he's standing still

The real question is can Sonic/Shadow beat Red Tails with spindashes.

5:40 frontiers foreshadowing 22 years earlier

There is a debug mod that shows you the speed of the characters

As a kid I always thought it was Knuckles bc of the King Boom Boo fight

Try meteor heard for your next speed video because the mechs for some reason have a faster run speed in that stage and cosmic wall along with weapons bed

Whenever I play as mechless Tails, I use the physics swap mod to give him the same physics as Sonic because Tails's speed is just abysmal 🤣

In Vs. Mode it's Amy. Because with enough Rings your opponent never moves.

My prediction was Red Tails and/or Metal for top spot, and one of the mechs for bottom spot. I didn't think there would be characters without mechs that were slower than the mechs. Also, Sonic the Hedgehog who? Now that we have confirmed that Eggman is faster, I demand a game built around him called "Egg the Man".

Eggman on Foot being faster than Sonic is accurately true. Sonic never seems to be able to catch up to Eggman in the classics.

4:03 I mean Sonic did lose a foot race to eggman multiple times, like in Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

I always thought as a kid metal sonic was the fastest when you go downhill and hold his shield, but then I remember my friend having red tails. and he wouldn't tell me how he got it 🤣 and told me I had to beat following the president with crazy time at exactly a certain number of minutes and seconds I was tricked.. good times 🧐

I love how rouges alt costumes is a main thing of your channel

Definitely yes on a no-abilites-barred test. It will require much more troubleshooting for maxing a character's speed efficiency, but sounds like the fun of it.

dang i had no idea that costumes could effect stats. great vid

I'd like to see how this test gets modified when characters are actually trying. Especially Sonic and Shadow's spin dash. Also, Eggman has been faster than Sonic since Sonic 2.

Hmm, I wonder how fast all 12 of the playable characters in heroes are( with the fly types on the floor, and not carrying the other characters )

I hate how Sonic's friends just got slower and slower as time went on until not even being playable

I had never known about the alternate skins altering stats that's crazy! Over 20 years and I had no idea lol

bro mechless eggman u can see how fast he is in the room between the chao gardens, that weird space room, And mechless eggman has faster acceleration than sonic too. I never knew there was even a red and fast Tails that actually speeds him up.

It always frustrated me, that sonic cannot reach TopSpeed by himself, unless he’s running downhill as he can tell when his hands are not behind his back

haven't watched yet but I already know it's mechless Eggman, bro be zooming in the chao lobby

Can't wait for the Sonic Movie 3 scene where Eggman outruns Sonic on foot.

My boy egg man booking it on legs

My beautiful boy Metal once again proving he is the Superior Sonic

Whoa! This mech is faster than Sonic!

Finally some GOOD content

It's funny how Tails is simultaneously Last, Middle, and First all at the same time

5:03 in other words eggman it's the true Faster thing ALIVE.

I loved using eggman in the chao garden for the sole purpose that he could run fast as heck from da gardens to chao kindergarten

what is utterly bizarre about mechless tails when I experimented with him is that he is faster going up the stairs in the chao lobby than on flat road, his acceleration and speed values are just odd.

i wonder if it'd change if everyone was locked into their top speed

Well, in many games you see that Eggman outspeeds Sonic.

Sonic and Shadow with a Spin Dash instead of gaining momentum easily wins this race

Commenting while Amy's up: I haven't tested the mechs, so I'm not sure where they rank, but I know that if the mechs are excluded the fastest characters, in order, are Metal Sonic, Mechless Eggman, Sonic/Shadow, and Tikal. This is only in terms of top speed, disregarding acceleration - I wouldn't be surprised if Metal Sonic didn't rank as high due to his slow acceleration or if Tikal ranked higher due to her fast acceleration.

Eggman being faster than Sonic tracks with the Death Egg Zone in Sonic 2. Nicely done Sega

You should do a sequel where you include enemies, bosses, and Chao

You forgot [insert character here]. (Comment made to boost the algorithm)

That's gotta be Intentional.

Absolutely love this game. Great video

they should mod sonic and shadow to have red tails' speed? sonic and shadow didn't even look like they reached their top speeds 🤯

5:46 well that’s disappointed, I expect him to finish the race with 4 seconds and few milliseconds!

Eggman is faster than Sonic in Sonic 2 and here he is still faster than Sonic . I'm suprised

also, i wonder if theres an easy way to actually-modify the levels (i mean, the "Any Character, Any Stage" bit is already a pre-packed code with ActionReplay, iirc), to put a Ring Trail along this "dragstrip" of an aircraft carrier...i wanna know how fast Sonic/Shadow's Light Dash can go...

He called me an epic gamer 😎✨

Tails getting the fastest and slowest times is pretty funny

This was so entertaining!

That was bonkers!

Obviously it’s eggman. He out ran sonic in sonic the hedgehog. He made it to the death egg and we all had to fight a hard boss

Eggman being faster than sonic is a wonderful thing.

was all this on the dreamcast version cause thats the only one i'd count. the vanilla

I think they paying homage to sonic 2 with this

I've been using Tikal in the choa garden for pretty much the same reason you use Rouge and that's how I found out how fast she is

Now how about going downhill in City Escape?

I’m confused by the non-playable characters like Chaos.

I don't remember half of these being playable characters

Playing Super Sonic Racing was a nice touch ;)

Not surprising that sonic lost a foot race to eggman, happens every time in the classic games

Can you do this with SADX and 06’s characters?

You know it makes sense that Eggman is faster than Sonic, just look at the original games Sonic can't catch that guy.

Of course it's Red Tails, lol... Although I'm surprised Metal Sonic was that fast. Maybe it shouldn't be surprising, TASes of Metal Sonic are cracked

But what about Big and the OG Chao Walker? Y'know, from the Dreamcast version

EPIC DUSK BABY! That was fire