Sure, in the hypothetical where we have god avatars many times stronger than Cosmic Garou Blast won't be able to meaningfully contribute in direct combat.
You don't need a many times stronger than Cosmic Garou avatars, though. Blast could just buy time against Cosmic Garou, he couldn't meaningfully contribute against the fight in no aspect.
I think current* Saitama logically loses that hypothetical too if we take his MA self and a fully-empowered Garou starts with his strongest attacks. Garou was already relative to Saitama without getting a further massive buff, that should put him far ahead of Saitama in a scenario where Saitama's AD has no cause to kick in until the planet's already destroyed.
Yeah, that is true. But the only reason Garou could match full power Saitama was his copy ability and his innate growth.
Against Blast, one does not need to copy his abilities (see Empty Void) nor his strength to match and defeat him. That is the difference: Saitama can fight and defeat God avatars, Blast can only prolong the time he has left before dying
The hypothetical is just that though. We'll obviously get more cosmic avatars and standard power creep implies we should see something like what you've seen, but in the context of the universe Garou's partial conversion was unusually dangerous according to Blast who would (if anyone knows) have an excellent idea of what god avatars usually look like. So I feel like there's no avatar of the type you're describing... yet.
Pretty sure Garou was dangerous due to his radiation killing all life. Or maybe his attacks were focused way more in AoE than other avatars (since Void does not seem to have the capability of destroying the Earth with a Dimensional Slash, somehow. Yet Garou can with a GRB)
Strength-wise, both were seemingly equal. I'll even say EV is stronger and faster than a pre-Serious Punch Garou since he could land and do several damage to Blast without the latter redirecting his punches.
Hold on, I didn't say he "lost some battles" because I don't believe Blast's lost any battles at this point.
I honestly don't know how you don't consider the lattest chapter as a Blast lost.
He got his arm cutted, and if it were not because of Saitama stopping the Dimensional Slash, he would've died. Maybe he could've evaded it with his trick of transmitting blood to his hand, but with Empty Void being in the higher dimension, capable of constantly landing slashes against a bleeding, almost dead Blast… it'd be, again, just gaining more time before dying
Garou's too cocky for his own good, what he thinks he can do to Blast is irrelevant when he doesn't know the full extent of Blast's capabilities.
Yeah, I know. But even with the new abilities introduced, Blast still has no ability to handle Garou on his own. Fusing wouldn't work for the same reason it didn't work on Void
And I prefer to think he did not have an ability capable of containing Garou and didn't use it when Garou was about to kill someone.
Saitama has interrupted Blast and Void's fight and I can see why you think most recent Dimensional Slash would mess him up but I see no reason why he wouldn't have the time to werewithal to dodge the slash in the way he intercepted Void with his attempted fusion.
Yeah, he can dodge it. But he either leaves that dimension and lets the Earth die, or teleports somewhere else, which'd just mean it takes a little more time for Void to kill him.
I'm still surprised that Blast is relative to Saitama-tier characters in any capacity so I can't properly sympathise with your disappointment. Though I would like to see Blast and Void for a couple more chapters here; Blast can't used ranged and AOE offensive attacks on earth and it would be a shame if we don't get to see him use that part of his toolkit in his first extended fight
My disappointment comes from the fact that Blast can't do anything to prevent an actual cosmic threat to Earth without dying in the process. Which makes me think that his "group of people who fight against God" is nothing more than a bunch of people with reality warping that are just playing the hero part while hoping from the deepest of their heart that God does not lend any being power because otherwise they won't be capable of doing anything.
That, or other beings are capable of handling Cosmic threats yet he isn't, which does indeed make him fodder.
