User blog comment:Kihlt/Whos better/@comment-1721556-20100901011145

I think Altair is superior to Ezio. He did after all, create all the Assassination techniques Ezio used and the special weapons he had at the time,.

But Altair still has his downsides as he isn't as good of a free-runner as Ezio and Altair is probably incapable of swimming.