Ranking How USELESS Tails is in Every Sonic Game

Tails is anything but a consistent character. Sometimes he's absolutely clutch and saves Sonic's life, and other times he's completely helpless and needs Sonic to baby him.

Today, we're looking at Tails' character in every mainline Sonic game and ranking him from worthless to elite.

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[jeremymklinger]

CORRECTION: You CAN play as Tails by himself in Sonic 2, he plays the same as Sonic and can’t fly, but he’s more independent than I initially thought. Still though, I’d keep him in sidekick tier.

[Spectral_radar]

You can play as Tails in the original Sonic 2. You have to go into the options. Great vid!

[tjlnintendo]

Eh I feel like you kind of did adventure 2 tails dirty. That one mistake where he gets outsmarted by Eggman (who was a genuine threat in that game) doesn’t really overshadow how Tails feels more like an equal to Sonic.

Carrying over his independence arc from Adventure 1. He goes on a rescue mission to save Sonic from the military captivity and even Amy from eggman. He comes up with plans. He stroms into Eggman’s hidden base to find the entrance. After he gets tricked, he still undoes it by fulfilling Sonic’s presumed final wish to stop eggman. Sonic trusted him to take care of the rest.

[Wahknight-ewml]

5:54


Honestly, Tails not trusting Eggman is very justifiable, not cause of jealously, but cause...he's Eggman. And the fact that Eggman betrays both of them at the end only makes Tails more justified.

[gameexplorer]

Classic/Adventure Tails: I'm gonna do all by myself! 🗿
Modern Tails: Sonic! Help me! 😭

[E-GammaMKII]

7:21 - He's fixing E-123 Omega, NOT E-102 Gamma. Gamma was destroyed at the end of _Sonic Adventure._ Omega was introduced in _Sonic Heroes_ as part of Team Dark.

[hyperwerefox]

You forgot "Sonic Battle". If you play Tails' story there is a part where he literally kicked Shadow's ass just to protect Emerl.

[lightyearpig]

I'd argue that Frontiers Tails deserves to be a little higher for the development he got. Tails didn't get an arc on par with his Adventure story, but it's great for him to learn that he's still a capable hero in his own right and acknowledge how useless he's been in the past few games, or "wildly inconsistent" as he puts it.

[andrewbrownie]

Sonic Adventure era Tails was definitely the peak of his character. The story of him coming out of Sonic's shadow and becoming a brave, strong, independent hero in his own right was great writing and was solidified in the second game

[sonicthehedgehogDX]

1:26 "To proving himself as an equally capable hero"
1:30 "In the beginning of the game he crashes his plane-"

[Mr.Galaxia]

7:24 I’m telling you, the rating on this game would’ve gotten to M real quick if classic sonic didn’t bail him out.

[IzzyTheMVP]

5:40 - Bragging about building a TV outta paperclips is wild

[Racco]

7:13 yeah why is Tails literally just standing there being an iPad kid, while his best friend is getting "killed" 💀

[ComicBoi]

Gotta be real, Tails should get some points in Rush for cheering you on during the boss fights. It’s genuinely such a cute addition.

[Mojojojo]

The worst part about tails not being able to defend himself from chaos 0 in sonic forces, is that he was able to defeat chaos 4 in sonic adventure 1…

[CrystalGreymon]

Tails is playable in Sonic 2 by going to the options.

In Forces he is fixing up longtime ally E-123 Omega since E-102 Gamma has been dead since Sonic Adventure.

In Adventure 2 Tails doesn't play identically to Sonic which is a fantastically good thing. The whole point of him using a mech like Eggman does is to simulate the intellectual battles of wits between the two. They're the tacticians and the engineers. It's what they do!

In Sonic Rush Tails is basically Sonic's Mission Control so he's more of the "barely does anything" since he establishes key information with Sonic and helps make him generally aware of what's going on and how to stop it even if he doesn't get involved himself.

[sonicwhite]

In Sonic 4 Ep 1, the rocket Sonic used to get to space was clearly made by Tails, due to it having his tails on it.

[CHICKENRAN]

Tails surprisingly has the best combat in Boom, and he's a key role in many stages where he's 100% needed to open doors or getting to out of reach buttons with his buddy bots, he's got flying vents only he can use, also only Tails & Sonic can hydrodash, and Tails was able to free the gang when they got trapped with Lyric's attack. Bad game but Tails is really helpful / most helpful and I'd say I'd give him elite for being a core member for progression and constant involvement.

[oddi]

since spinoffs weren't included, sonic battle wasn't included-- sonic battle being one of tails' most useful appearances. tails fixes emerl, has some incredible moves for emerl to use (one of them being the best aerial) incredibly strong projectiles, and he hosts the VT.

[naitsabes]

Lost world tails is such a wierd ass character, he has a such a big ego and is so smug, but his ego is so big and easy to fracture