User blog comment:Legionwrex/Geth vs Covenant/@comment-4950455-20120730044034/@comment-4950455-20120730045026

I think these things are sort of a waste in time in general, since they very frequently come down to "whoever the answerer likes better", but I actually think there's a specific reason they don't work for Mass Effect. Like I said, it's much "harder" about the science of and difficulties involved in implementing energy weapons, and defenses against them. So pretty much any other SF faction will be able to win against anyone from ME except possibly the Reapers, simply because kinetic barriers won't be any good against their lasers/phasers/plasma weapons/whatever. It's not a meaningful means of comparison.