Alright let's start there does the Infinite promotional statement actually leave any room for him to be any other tier than 1-C if true why or why not?
Prob not
But here's the thing Tails said that thing sure packs a punch ie this is powerful
yeah, Dark Gaia is powerful... doing such power with a casual attack is what is being complimented, Dark Gaia is only At most 1-C via scalling to a casual The End, so he inferior to him to some degree
and in response to Tails saying that Sonic immediately says they need to gather the Chaos Emeralds pronto and Tails agrees only based on what he saw and what he saw was on par with Dark Gaia easy.
Yes. A casual attack, don't see how that changes my point
So that in mind you could constrew Tails saying that thing packs a punch on par with Dark Gaia easy to simply mean in terms of destructive area.
it didn't even destroy the Island tho... you really couldn't
But that can't be the case because from what Tails saw The End only lit up an island while Dark Gaia can planet bust so this has to be a power level statement with The End (from what Tails saw) = Dark Gaia and even when being hyper casual The End should still be stronger than base Sonic.
nothing there implies it needs to be stronger than base Sonic, Tails as easily deduce from the fact that Sonic fought the Titans as Super Sonic + Such an extreme casual display of power. That Sonic would need to emeralds. It remains true either way
Additionally Sonic never objects to this statement by saying actually I think this thing is Infinite tier or anything
Which is not a proof of anything really? He could have simply not seeing the necessity to make another comparison
We don't know how much stronger Infinite is compared to the other tier 1s, so a casual display on that level is easily >> Infinite from their view, specially compared to the Titans they saw so far
and just accepts the claim Tails made despite knowing how strong Dark Gaia is, knowing how strong the Ancients are and understanding that something wiped them out.
Read above, the lack of a hypotetical statement is not proof against or for anything in this context
Last it's also telling that immediately after the Dark Gaia comparison Sonic suggests getting the Chaos Emeralds immediately which strongly suggests that Sonic still holds Dark Gaias power in high enough regard that being stronger than it warrants gathering the Chaos Emeralds which wouldn't be the case if he had long since surpassed Dark Gaia in his base form.
No? It shows that being so cassually on Dark Gaia's level is held in high regard... it says nothing on where Dark Gaia itself scales to them
TLDR: Tails compares something that took out the Ancients weaponry (he doesn't know of the Titans yet but he believes the Ancients have more impressive tech than Eggman and should know that their Gaurdians can fight base Sonic)
He knows of the Titans tho? Why are ypu saying he doesn't? The Knight was right there, so was the fact Sonic needed to go Super against the other Titans, and that Tails had information from the Titans via Cyber Space
to Dark Gaia and not Infinite
yeah? So? This doesn't show how he holds Infinite in comparison. We don't know why he used Dark Gaia as a comparison instead of, say, the Eggwizard, which is >>> Dark Gaia. So we know for a fact he isn't refering to the strongest enemies in the past
Sonic doesn't correct him for the comparison despite having fought the Titans
Corect him on what? He's not wrong
Plus are you trying to imply DG > The Titans? WoG puts them above the past enemies and they could fight The End at full power, while a very casual attack from it was compared to DG, so again, prove it was cause DG was the strongest they faced until now or your point makes no sense
and immediately wants to gather the Chaos Emeralds when that comparison is made
he also knows that the Titans lost to it? Aka the ones he needed the Chaos Emeralds to face? Again, doesn't prove much
. All of this serves to imply that Dark Gaia is still held in high regard by Sonic as a threat
No it doesn't, it shows that something very cassually on DG's level is held in high regards
that warrants Chaos Emeralds which would not be the case if Infinite was stronger than Dark Gaia.
The Titans, that lost to it, required the Chaos Emeralds, this, again, proves nothing about DG's level of power