Quote Originally Posted by HolyDraconus View Post
Shadow IS a genius though. It’s usually played down but he has been shown to merely glance at Eggman’s tech and immediately analyze it. He also can create rifts in time as well as black holes: he has the power to do the job, the question becomes can he last long enough to land it? Stamina has always been Shadow’s secret weakness.
Looking at a machine and understanding how it works is a very different skill from looking at an organism and understanding how t's biology works.

You can't, in complete seriousness, say that Shadow could cut Ryuko in half, see her be pulled back together, and then not only conclude that he needs to cut all of her fibers but also how to cut them.