And to quote Wakatsuki
"He's too tough!" followed by Kanoh's statement. "If they're equal in terms of muscles, then the one with the bigger frame has the advantage. A bigger frame is particularly linked to an increase of resilience. Wakatsuki only has one way to gain the upper hand."
First of all, Kanoh isn't even sure if they're truly equals, this is isn't Kanoh outright stating they're equals so your taking this out of context First of all. Secondly, in context Kanoh is referring to Julius's durability, which again he is shown to be more durable between the two combatants. Wakatsuki needs to land his strongest attacks on Julius's vitals to have any chance of knocking him out, already meaning that Julius has durability above that of Wakatsuki's normal strikes. "
Wakatsuki has the edge in blows but.." followed by Wakatsuki stating Julius is
too tough. I'm not sure how this isn't clear to you when both direct statements and literal feats of Julius's tanking Wakatsuki's blows and being stated to be too tough for Wakatsuki to bring down Julius without his Blast Core. Your heavily ignoring the context here, Agito never stated they were equals, Julius is shown to do more damage to Wakatsuki than Wakatsuki is able to damage Julius.
Julius was clearly at an advantage here. Wakatsuki was without a ground to stand on
and he was caught off guard. Pressing the muscles is much easier in this case
Being caught off guard doesn't lower Wakatsuki's durability, due to his Superman Syndrome they're always as strong as they are, without him actively cleaning his already dense muscle fibers.
Pressing the muscles on someone who has
Superman Syndrome isn't easier in that case in the slightest, his muscles fibers are much thicker than Julius's. Especially with Wakatsuki being the heavier of the two, Julius just weights more due to his bigger frame. Wakatsuki also needed to actively utilize Blast Core to escape Julius's grip, even
striking him didn't work, and being an expert in Karate Wakatsuki excels at close range striking.
This is not simply a combo attack, this is literally Wakatsuki being forcefully Overpowered and ragdolled. Also really? Let's not be misleading of the time-frame here, that was during the beginning of the match, quite literally after this is stated,
Julius is both stated to be too durable for Wakatsuki and gains the edge in the bout.
I mean, it is literally said that the advantage of having bigger frames is resilience,
which means that you are able to recover quickly from difficulties/attacks. This is not durability.
This is absolutely in reference to Durability,
the definition of Resilience can have more than one definition first of all.
resilience
Noun
re·sil·ience | \ ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s \
Definition of resilience
1
: the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after
deformation caused especially by compressive stress
2
: an ability to recover from or adjust easily to
misfortune or change.
Examples of resilience in a Sentence
… the concert remained a remarkable tribute to Dylan's resilience and continued relevance.— Susan Richardson,
Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 1994He squeezed the rubber with a clamp and then released it—demonstrating with this painfully simple experiment that the material lost its resilience and therefore its ability to flex rapidly enough to protect the rocket joint from tumultuous hot gases.
it can mean both recovery and durability, depending on the context of what's the term is being used in. In this context it's in terms of durability, not recovery as
Julius is shown and shown to be more durable while Wakatsuki is shown to have the edge in the
recovery rate and stamina as per evidence of him having
literally half of his face shaved off and proceeding to KO Julius, getting
stabbed in the neck by
Muteba and proceeding to Blast Core him, having his own power reflected back at him with
greater force,
twice albeit the first one wasn't time perfectly but it still reflected Wakatsuki's strength back at him. The second usage was a perfectly timed Demonsbane directly to Wakatsuki's chin and
got back up. Julius does not have feats of recovering from attacks that are over 2x as strong as his AP. Wakatsuki does, and he took the Demonsbane to his chin, which is a much more dangerous vital point than striking at the head directly.
And again, this is ignoring the time-frame of where the statements take place. These take place in the 14th & 16th page of chapter 138. Then we get to page 17
which is after the statements you've posted, where Julius is stated to be
verbatim too tough for Wakatsuki and overpowers the Wild Tiger. You can't say that this was due to skill either as Julius doesn't believe in using skill, but rather sheer strength.
Also starting off on equal footing doesn't mean Jack shit, Agito and Lu Tain fought for
5 minutes straight before he was
overwhelmed by Lu Tain, showing Lu Tain had the physical and skill advantage.
Later it is explained that this is because of his resilience and not because of durability. The other things I explained above.
Yeah and that's false as I've stated before, resilience can mean many things depending on the context of where it's being used. In this context it's durability, Julius does not have more endurance than Wakatsuki, quite the opposite as I've proven above.
But it is a kick, a straight kick is still a kick.
You say that like it's not a kick. Also, the scan said that the multiplier is for the legs and didnt say it was only for a roundhouse kick, so regardless of the specific attack the multiplier still works.
I know for a fact you didn't just use a trained MMA fighters kicking to compare Julius kicking. One is from someone with martial arts experience, one is from a hulking roid
head with no skill whatsoever. The statement is brought up once Wakatsuki preforms the roundhouse kick,
not whenever he uses normal and low kicks. If the statement were to be applicable of every kick then it would have been made once Wakatsuki landed the first leg thrust.
You treat the two as if they have a huge difference in power, but this is not real. What happened in this scene was simply a combo attack, not Julius completely overcoming Wakatski's strength,
as he is later able to block a kick
I'm not treating as if there's a massive power gap between the two, but there's definitely a power difference nonetheless. That again, was not just a "barrage", Julius doesn't not focus on precise blows, he relies on sheer strength and by overpowering the opponent. For reference, Wakatsuki is capable of
countering attack reflection from Ohma's Redirection Kata, Redirection Kata uses the flow of Power of the opponents in order to change it's trajectory. Wakatsuki is capable of stopping his own power when used against him such as the Redirection Kata, whereas he can't do the same to Julius due to Julius being stronger than Wakatsuki.
Also he didn't "block" the kick, going by what we're shown the kiss didn't land on Wakatsuki accurately. I want you to look at the
position of
where Wakatsuki's wrist is. His wrist is on Julius's thigh, implying Julius's foot didn't make direct contact with Takeshi. If he blocked the strike Julius's foot would have been stopped in its tracks on Wakatsuki's's arm. Also Wakatsuki previously needed
two arms to block his leg thrust. It wouldn't make any sense for an grievously injured Wakatsuki to be able to block a leg thrust from Julius with only one arm whenever he was trembling after blocking with two previously. and is capable of defending himself from all of
Ohma's actual barrage's with actual skill and precision unlike Julius. Or are you insinuating Julius is more skilled than Ohma?
So you are saying that Julius's durability other than at vital points is superior to the Blast Core, which is stronger than the kicks, which is 3 times stronger than the punches...?
How is this possible, with this logic no punch would be able to scratch Julius's body.
Is there any reason in particular why you continue to intentionally use scans that happened way before these statements and feats happen? It doesn't add up, again use the right context or don't use the context at all.
Did I stutter? I explained it perfectly in the OP.
Julius endured 2 Blast Core's, that weren't aimed at his Vital's. What makes Blast Core so dangerous is that Wakatsuki unleashes
all of his muscles strength into
one blow and aim's for
vital and
weak points.
Julius's durability is above Wakatsuki's normal punches, they can still harm each other but Julius going by the narrative, contextual feats and statements has the edge in durability and strength. Wakatsuki can only cause superficial damage when striking Julius without Blast Core or his roundhouse kicks, the only time Wakatsuki ever caused significant damage to Julius was with Blast Core and his Roundhouse kicks.
I have already explained this part
No, you actually haven't. You haven't even touched Wakatsuki needing to use Blast Core to escape his grip, every time Julius caught a hold of Wakatsuki he was unable to escape. Feats, statements and the flow of events strongly disagree with you.
"Dead" was just an expression lol..
And a terrible expression at that, couldn't be any further from the truth.
If it is bigger it makes no sense to use it to try to justify a weaker attack
This doesn't make much sense.
Wakatsuki's Blast Core >> his roundhouse >> Julius's durability >> his normal AP.
Punches to kicks don't seem to make much difference in the fight itself.
You can see Ohma blocking
This is him literally having an unimaginable amount of damage dealt. He was suffering
serious injury to his
arms when blocking with Indestructible and made Ohma incapable of using Indestructible on his arms.
Oh you mean the same kicks that were causing his legs to literally
become numb and intense internal bleeding, that almost broke his
legs? Yeah no, that doesn't work. Ohma's limbs were getting turned into mush and his bones were literally
shattering.
.Okay this part your heavily taking the scans out of context, and are literally ignoring the contradictory that you just posted with all due respect. All of what you posted as feats of endurance and stamina, not durability. There's an absolute vast difference between Ohma and Wakatsuki, Wakatsuki manhandled Ohma on several occasions and sealed off his Niko Style Technique barring Demonsbane. The entire point of the fight was to display the massive stat difference between the two to bring in Demonsbane.
Long story short: Your argument relies on using panels that happened before the events of the statements and feats I've provided, are taking Kanoh's statement out of context (it's not even a direct statement, he said "if.") and are outright ignoring the flow of events.