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So recently it has been brought to my attention by a friend of mine that Misaka Mikoto has been massively buffed in “Vs battle wiki” in almost every category which made me real happy but I also discovered that her intelligence was demoted from extraordinary genius to just genius which is absolutely nonsensical in my opinion. I will now try to present my case and hopefully convince you to change it.
First thing which I feel like I should say is that it’s already well known on this platform that level 5s have brains which surpass supercomputers in computing and calculative power (I believe this was directly stated somewhere too but can’t remember where off the top of my head). Regardless, this is pretty evident because espers constantly need to do an enormous amount of high level physics calculations in milliseconds for their powers to even work. In Toaru esper powers are like lifting your arm or something completely natural but it requires massive amounts of effort from the brain itself. Mikoto being a level 5 means that she especially needs to calculate thousands if not millions of things in a split second to basically do anything with her ability. Even when she is doing nothing her brain needs to subconsciously calculate things because she constantly sends out electromagnetic waves in all directions and she has an electromagnetic field/barrier surrounding her at all times. But aside from that even when she does the most basic thing with her ability she still needs to calculate charge, voltage, amperage, weight, air pressure, air resistance, electrical resistance, pathways, forces and physics at play, micro changes in surroundings, currents, kinematic equations, electromagnetic coil, magnetic component and many, many more calculations in an extremely short period of time. She can (for example) control millions of tons of iron sand and even individually control all those tiny iron sand particles and god knows how many millions of calculations her brain needs to do in a split second to achieve something like that. She can instantly summon enormous city spanning storms and the amount of calculating her brain would need to do for all the particles in the air, currents and everything is absolutely insane. A character stronger that her once ripped skyscrapers from Academy City and threw them at her like bullets. Not only was she able to stop them and gently put them back on the ground but she managed to do that without hurting any of the people inside of those buildings. The amount of precision and accuracy needed to pull that off is incredible and she definitely needed to calculate millions upon millions of things in a split second in order to pull that off. Even when she didn’t know she could do electrolysis, one time when she was under lots of pressure she managed to use electrolysis to separate water molecules from the ocean water into molecules of hydrogen and oxygen, she then used the hydrogen molecules as fuel for her water wings which she made from static electricity and water vapor (she can use oxygen molecules made this way to breathe underwater) and she did all this very quickly without even knowing she could do this beforehand (it was a tense situation). There are more instances too but I think these examples are enough. It should also be stated that she has more calculative brain power than any of the level 4 espers simply by nature of being a level 5 and there are already level 4s on this platform who have extraordinary genius level for calculative power and most of them are backed by feats. Mikoto should have more calculative power than any of them by default. No matter how you look at it she puts our supercomputers to massive shame. Just instantly summoning a giant storm over academy city and all the calculative power that requires (millions upon millions of calculations in a split second) far outclasses our computers, it’s really impressive.
Another thing is the AAA and her intelligence feats surrounding it. The AAA is an incredibly impressive piece of technology even for the Academy City which is 30 years ahead of our world to the point where most characters are completely shocked and puzzled by at and it seems like something out of sci-fi movies even for them. The combat speed of the AAA is Mach 6. It can travel faster than that in a straight line and allows her to get anywhere on Earth in some minutes, it has a massive array of weapons all of which are at least city level and all those weapons are neatly packed inside the backpack which is light enough that she can carry them (the entire AAA is that backpack) easily on her back, it protects the user from G-force, kinetic energy, explosions and other kinds of damage. It can transform into any kind of machine or vehicle regardless of size, from something as small as a normal bike to a plane, it has very advance AI which can predict what its user wants and respond to that instantly, it can be remotely controlled and probably do more things which I am not remembering right now. Mikoto not only immediately figured out how to use it upon stumbling in front of it (she didn’t know about its existence and she hasn’t ever seen anything similar to it) but she almost immediately understood how most of it worked. The most impressive AAA intelligence feat, however, is that she managed to reverse engineer it when it got destroyed for the first time. Just from memory and her own understanding and intellect she was able to reverse engineer it and make a perfect, slightly twerked and modified copy in a very short period of time and to make it even more impressive she didn’t have access to any high level laboratories, research facilities or even other high level tech when she reverse engineered it. She just did it on her own. If that’s not insanely impressive, I don’t know what is. I will remind you once again that even in the sci-fi world of Toaru the AAA was still an incredibly high level technology which left most people who witnessed it puzzled and confused/shocked.
Even when it comes to combat she is still an extremely intelligent combatant. One of her most loved character traits is that she is a very smart fighter who is very creative and quirky. She often comes up with complex and smart/effective strategies on the spot in difficult situations and she often finds ways to get out of tough situations with smarts and creativity. Her combat IQ is definitely very high and there are many instances where she was a smart fighter and managed to find a smart way to win even when she was under a lot of pressure. I was quite impressed by many combat intelligence feats she has displayed so far and she herself is pretty famous for being a very smart fighter. If you want I can list and go into detail about numerous fights in which she was smart, creative and quirky even while under pressure and managed to win by the combined efforts of smarts, strategy and creative use of her powers. I will refrain from doing that now because this post is already too long and that would probably make it twice as long. If you are curious, ask and I will gladly make a comment about it. It absolutely pains me to see that characters like Goku (no disrespect to him, he’s one of my faves) have extraordinary genius for their combat intelligence but Mikoto just has “Gifted” when she has shown extremely impressive combat intelligence feats many times before and is quite famous for that character trait. In my opinion her combat intelligence should get changed to normal “Genius” and she absolutely deserves it. She has proven time and time again that she belongs in that category combat intelligence vise.
She is also extremely knowledgeable about many different unrelated subjects and is like a living encyclopedia. She has shown high amounts of academic knowledge for subjects like agriculture, food processing and production, economy, politics, social status, social studies, science, language (she fluently speaks 5 foreign languages too), mechanics, engineering, mythology and religion, combat, esper powers, biology, medicine, geography, computers and other electronic devices, hacking and many more different and unrelated subjects. She’s also knowledgeable and precise enough that she is able to put many complex scientific theories to test herself by applying them to her powers and often gaining a new application for her ability (Lorenz force, Fleming’s left hand rule, Faraday’s Law, Ampère’s Law, water splitting and more).
She’s also just really good at almost everything and me and my friends often try to think of things she’s not good at and we struggle to think of more than a few (except romance… duh…). It’s seriously impressive how good she is at so many different things. Characters like Sam Raimi’s Peter Parker have extraordinary genius level intelligence and Mikoto is objectively more intelligent than him in almost every metric/category. Again, not dissing on him, Spider-Man is my favorite Marvel hero but it’s just something I notice and when I notice it and compare it it bothers me.
I can go on and there are more feats for her intelligence but this post has really become too long now and I don’t want to drag it on even more as I imagine it’s already a headache to read in its entirety. Thank you so much for taking your time to read all this and I really, really, really hope this helps out in returning Mikoto to extraordinary genius, I would be really happy if that happened and I fully believe it would be fair considering everything. Hopefully I haven’t thought and written about all this for nothing and this will get analyzed by people. Really hoping her intelligence gets rightfully upgraded and thank you all very much once again. Have a good day everyone.
Edit: Just realized she is “Genius” just for esper power and her general intelligence is “Gifted”
I would say this is abysmal but I do not want to insult things that are actually abysmal. I have absolutely no words for this.
For the love of God please update every intelligence section by one tier cuz this is so wrong it’s hard to believe…
First thing which I feel like I should say is that it’s already well known on this platform that level 5s have brains which surpass supercomputers in computing and calculative power (I believe this was directly stated somewhere too but can’t remember where off the top of my head). Regardless, this is pretty evident because espers constantly need to do an enormous amount of high level physics calculations in milliseconds for their powers to even work. In Toaru esper powers are like lifting your arm or something completely natural but it requires massive amounts of effort from the brain itself. Mikoto being a level 5 means that she especially needs to calculate thousands if not millions of things in a split second to basically do anything with her ability. Even when she is doing nothing her brain needs to subconsciously calculate things because she constantly sends out electromagnetic waves in all directions and she has an electromagnetic field/barrier surrounding her at all times. But aside from that even when she does the most basic thing with her ability she still needs to calculate charge, voltage, amperage, weight, air pressure, air resistance, electrical resistance, pathways, forces and physics at play, micro changes in surroundings, currents, kinematic equations, electromagnetic coil, magnetic component and many, many more calculations in an extremely short period of time. She can (for example) control millions of tons of iron sand and even individually control all those tiny iron sand particles and god knows how many millions of calculations her brain needs to do in a split second to achieve something like that. She can instantly summon enormous city spanning storms and the amount of calculating her brain would need to do for all the particles in the air, currents and everything is absolutely insane. A character stronger that her once ripped skyscrapers from Academy City and threw them at her like bullets. Not only was she able to stop them and gently put them back on the ground but she managed to do that without hurting any of the people inside of those buildings. The amount of precision and accuracy needed to pull that off is incredible and she definitely needed to calculate millions upon millions of things in a split second in order to pull that off. Even when she didn’t know she could do electrolysis, one time when she was under lots of pressure she managed to use electrolysis to separate water molecules from the ocean water into molecules of hydrogen and oxygen, she then used the hydrogen molecules as fuel for her water wings which she made from static electricity and water vapor (she can use oxygen molecules made this way to breathe underwater) and she did all this very quickly without even knowing she could do this beforehand (it was a tense situation). There are more instances too but I think these examples are enough. It should also be stated that she has more calculative brain power than any of the level 4 espers simply by nature of being a level 5 and there are already level 4s on this platform who have extraordinary genius level for calculative power and most of them are backed by feats. Mikoto should have more calculative power than any of them by default. No matter how you look at it she puts our supercomputers to massive shame. Just instantly summoning a giant storm over academy city and all the calculative power that requires (millions upon millions of calculations in a split second) far outclasses our computers, it’s really impressive.
Another thing is the AAA and her intelligence feats surrounding it. The AAA is an incredibly impressive piece of technology even for the Academy City which is 30 years ahead of our world to the point where most characters are completely shocked and puzzled by at and it seems like something out of sci-fi movies even for them. The combat speed of the AAA is Mach 6. It can travel faster than that in a straight line and allows her to get anywhere on Earth in some minutes, it has a massive array of weapons all of which are at least city level and all those weapons are neatly packed inside the backpack which is light enough that she can carry them (the entire AAA is that backpack) easily on her back, it protects the user from G-force, kinetic energy, explosions and other kinds of damage. It can transform into any kind of machine or vehicle regardless of size, from something as small as a normal bike to a plane, it has very advance AI which can predict what its user wants and respond to that instantly, it can be remotely controlled and probably do more things which I am not remembering right now. Mikoto not only immediately figured out how to use it upon stumbling in front of it (she didn’t know about its existence and she hasn’t ever seen anything similar to it) but she almost immediately understood how most of it worked. The most impressive AAA intelligence feat, however, is that she managed to reverse engineer it when it got destroyed for the first time. Just from memory and her own understanding and intellect she was able to reverse engineer it and make a perfect, slightly twerked and modified copy in a very short period of time and to make it even more impressive she didn’t have access to any high level laboratories, research facilities or even other high level tech when she reverse engineered it. She just did it on her own. If that’s not insanely impressive, I don’t know what is. I will remind you once again that even in the sci-fi world of Toaru the AAA was still an incredibly high level technology which left most people who witnessed it puzzled and confused/shocked.
Even when it comes to combat she is still an extremely intelligent combatant. One of her most loved character traits is that she is a very smart fighter who is very creative and quirky. She often comes up with complex and smart/effective strategies on the spot in difficult situations and she often finds ways to get out of tough situations with smarts and creativity. Her combat IQ is definitely very high and there are many instances where she was a smart fighter and managed to find a smart way to win even when she was under a lot of pressure. I was quite impressed by many combat intelligence feats she has displayed so far and she herself is pretty famous for being a very smart fighter. If you want I can list and go into detail about numerous fights in which she was smart, creative and quirky even while under pressure and managed to win by the combined efforts of smarts, strategy and creative use of her powers. I will refrain from doing that now because this post is already too long and that would probably make it twice as long. If you are curious, ask and I will gladly make a comment about it. It absolutely pains me to see that characters like Goku (no disrespect to him, he’s one of my faves) have extraordinary genius for their combat intelligence but Mikoto just has “Gifted” when she has shown extremely impressive combat intelligence feats many times before and is quite famous for that character trait. In my opinion her combat intelligence should get changed to normal “Genius” and she absolutely deserves it. She has proven time and time again that she belongs in that category combat intelligence vise.
She is also extremely knowledgeable about many different unrelated subjects and is like a living encyclopedia. She has shown high amounts of academic knowledge for subjects like agriculture, food processing and production, economy, politics, social status, social studies, science, language (she fluently speaks 5 foreign languages too), mechanics, engineering, mythology and religion, combat, esper powers, biology, medicine, geography, computers and other electronic devices, hacking and many more different and unrelated subjects. She’s also knowledgeable and precise enough that she is able to put many complex scientific theories to test herself by applying them to her powers and often gaining a new application for her ability (Lorenz force, Fleming’s left hand rule, Faraday’s Law, Ampère’s Law, water splitting and more).
She’s also just really good at almost everything and me and my friends often try to think of things she’s not good at and we struggle to think of more than a few (except romance… duh…). It’s seriously impressive how good she is at so many different things. Characters like Sam Raimi’s Peter Parker have extraordinary genius level intelligence and Mikoto is objectively more intelligent than him in almost every metric/category. Again, not dissing on him, Spider-Man is my favorite Marvel hero but it’s just something I notice and when I notice it and compare it it bothers me.
I can go on and there are more feats for her intelligence but this post has really become too long now and I don’t want to drag it on even more as I imagine it’s already a headache to read in its entirety. Thank you so much for taking your time to read all this and I really, really, really hope this helps out in returning Mikoto to extraordinary genius, I would be really happy if that happened and I fully believe it would be fair considering everything. Hopefully I haven’t thought and written about all this for nothing and this will get analyzed by people. Really hoping her intelligence gets rightfully upgraded and thank you all very much once again. Have a good day everyone.
Edit: Just realized she is “Genius” just for esper power and her general intelligence is “Gifted”
I would say this is abysmal but I do not want to insult things that are actually abysmal. I have absolutely no words for this.
For the love of God please update every intelligence section by one tier cuz this is so wrong it’s hard to believe…
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