Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30928950-20170910225747/@comment-193.71.116.47-20180706010510

''"He probably burnt up the entire store of energy that he'd build up over all these years all at once..." '' as The One, he was completely unfaced by Meliodas attacks, and as soon as he wanted to, he speed blitzed and one-shot him. It stands to reason that he could have simply attacked a few times more to finish the job, but as Meliodas is his friend, he didn't want nor need to do that.

As for the ''"He probably burnt up the entire store of energy that he'd build up over all these years all at once..." ''comment from Merlin; it was likely something he did before high noon. He needed to stay alive against a vastly stronger opponent, so he had he not done that, he would not have been able to stall.

Escanor at his absolute peak as The One is way stronger than Assult Form meliodas, but he would have lost the fight if he hadn't had energy stored up.