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Posted by: forthnback
Yes, he was the only Spartan in place when the Autumn jumped. As such, he was the Spartan on hand to tackle the Halo rings. In Halo 2-3, Blue Team was sent away. Once again, he was the only Spartan on hand to spearhead the Delta Halo campaign, along with the Ark landing.
John saved the galaxy, and inspired Humanity as it's hero. Yes.
He's also, according to the novels, entirely mediocre as a Spartan. He is not the strongest, fastest, best marksmen, smartest, most agile, etc. He is average, in literally every regard. He is exceptional in only one regard, and that was leadership. He was one of four Spartan selected to be leaders (and even then, Kurt's team frequently outperformed John's team because Kurt was the better commander).
Bungie's stance, not mine, is that John is an average Spartan who excells at only one thing. Leadership. And he isn't even the best at that.
For those familiar with the definition of average, this means John was in the middle of his class as far as terms of abilities went. That means that 50% of the Spartans, roughly, would have performed as good as he did in Halo 1-3, if not better.
I really laugh at everyone who claims John is somehow a better warrior than Noble Six. Leader, absolutely. But N6 was declared to be one of two Spartans to have the hyper-lethal rating....and god knows it isn't going to be 'everyman' John.
Well it -blam!- helps the story (mainly the books) if you read that in his file, he had extreme "luck." Yes he was not the best. But put any other spartan in his position? No one could have won the war. Sure if 50 spartan's were alive and sent to the first halo, I'm sure that mission would have been done in a day. One spartan? Remember that one spartan is about as strong as an elite. Several elites? With jackals, mass amounts of grunts? Hunters aswell? What one spartan could do all that? If you play on easy sure but I'm sure the true Halo universe was probably set in Heroic or Legendary. John's luck saved them, with the help of Cortana. Cortana chose John because of his luck, was it luck that he was the one that was sent to Installation O4?
Yeah -blam!- you.
[Edited on 07.07.2011 8:44 PM PDT]