What i meant by he wouldnt be impressed is. He dealt with Shadow that could stop time and move somewhere else. Basicly thats what Raziel do. Yet unlike shadow he is limited to his area where he can appear.

Granted the Soul Reaver might not negate an attack from the Soul Reaver but anyway it would be stupid to use it in Melee. Where he would be able to use it is when Raziel use a Glyph or anything that isnt Melee to redirect the attack directly to Raziel himself.

Sonic been in a 2d and 3d games (Classic Sonic), pinball,3d racing game and 3d fighting games. Which give him quite lot of possibility and attack.

By listing attack i was mostly showing he was more then a runner since many do not know many of the game since they stoped following him on Genesis or never really knew about him.

Sonic could simply use Time Freeze (Put Raziel in a Ice Cube for 10 sec.) then get next to him. Just before Raziel get release he could transform in Gold Sonic (Faster, Stronger, Invul) then at the sec. Raziel get release of the ice cube Sonic would use his Sonic Wind ability to do some damage and a shortly stun. During that stun Sonic could grab the handle of the Sould Reaverand Strongly pull on it ! Once Raziel lost his Soul Reaver he doesnt have anything to be any trouble for Sonic. Sonic being in fighting game would actualy even be able to use the Soul Reaver against Raziel. Then while fighting Raziel he could go in Hyper Sonic to do some deadly combo.