How could anyone not like silver, even in a duel you can: (1) freeze sonic and shadow in place if you do battle mode. Ive managed to do thi to my sister, and keep here there while I run the race. Sounds mean, but its fun to do. (2) he has almost pure invinciblity when you have a bunch of stuff circling you. Hence if you get attacked by sonic or shadow you only have a few areas they acn hit you from, the rest goes into boxes circling you. (3) despite there speed, silver doesnt need the speed to stop missiles and sling them back at his targets, so pretty much as long as your watching wuts happening you cant be hit.