User blog comment:Drexzen/Discussion of the Week: Paralysis/@comment-1011548-20140121223315/@comment-3062343-20140122011238

The SnS was just overpowered in general in Freedom 1. In the damage formula there was a multiplier of 1.5 for SnS, which means it was equivalent to using purple sharpness at a stage of the game where you'd usually have yellow (prior to the slight purple sharpness nerf in 3U, that is).