- 54
- 9
Shagga
(Note: he currently has no profile, but his feats would be relevant for the entire verse.)
According to the References for Common Feats, to destroy a blade:
• Longsword = 2.177968 × 10⁴ Joules (Wall level)
• Shortsword = 4.172064 × 10⁴ Joules (Wall level)
This feat is a Wall-level feat. Shagga presses a sword against his knee with his bare hands and snaps it in half effortlessly. It’s also reasonable to say that his durability would scale to his AP. Newton’s Third Law is exactly why this works. Any force Shagga applies to the sword is met with an equal and opposite force on his body. Since he handles that force without injury. On top of that, because the force is applied across a broad area of his knee.
(I could also calculate Shagga’s lifting strength using the basic work-energy principle)
Shagga also has another Wall-level feat where he fragments a wooden door with a single kick. Two years ago, someone argued that this feat couldn’t have fragmented the door because “it took multiple hits to fully demolish it.” Revisiting this, the numbers and the scene show that this argument doesn’t hold. The kick alone is sufficient to cause violent fragmentation. I will go through everything in detail, and you can tell me whether it is valid or not.
Again, this is all based on the Reference for common Feats.
The door is described as thin, which directly affects how much energy is needed to break it. In the calculation, a standard thickness of 3.334 cm was used, which does not match to the door that Shagga destroyed. But even if we reduce its thickness to 25 mm or 32 mm, the energy required to fragment it is still Wall-Level:
• 25 mm → 387,849 J (Wall level)
• 32 mm → 497,332 J (Wall level)
Based on accepted material for wood (like shear strength), we can distinguish three types of breakage:
Fragmentation: The material splits into distinct pieces. For a wooden door, this requires ~516,644 J.
Violent fragmentation: Debris flies outward at high speed in small fragments. For wood, this is ~1,136,122 J. This is what we see in the feat. Pieces of the door fly inward after Shagga’s kick.
Pulverization: Crushing the material into nearly dust like particles. This requires much higher energy (~2,907,827 J) and clearly doesn’t happen in the scene.
Shagga’s single kick can deliver hundreds of kJ of energy, enough to reach the violent fragmentation threshold for a thin wooden door:
The door splits and fragments immediately upon impact, with debris flying. Classic violent fragmentation. The fact that Shagga later uses his axe doesn’t negate that the kick alone caused significant fragmentation. Even accounting for reduced door thickness, the physics lines up. The kick provides sufficient energy for violent fragmentation, consistent with the scene description. Arguments that “it took multiple hits, so the kick can’t count” overlooks both the door’s thinness and the energy delivered by a single, forceful kick. The scene clearly shows Shagga kicked the door first, causing it to split and send pieces flying, and only after that did he hack it with three axe blows to fully clear the doorway, the kick alone already produced violent fragmentation.
Like I said, even reducing the door to 32 mm gives ~1.09 MJ, and 25 mm gives ~0.85 MJ. If we use the regular fragmentation, then like I mentioned above: 32mm gives 497,332 J, and 25mm gives 387,849 J.
Brienne
This calculation got accepted. The same feat that was recently used to upgrade Brienne of Tarth’s lifting strength (from class 1 to class 25) was also run through the Work formula (Force × Distance) to get an AP value. The result comes out to be 107 kJ, which lines up with 9-B. So her Attack Potency would go from At least Street level, at most Street+ to Wall-level.
As noted in the lifting-strength CRT, this would also upgrade other warriors, such as Jaime Lannister, due to him being able to trade blows with Brienne while weakened. I also suggest that, since Jaime now scales to Brienne’s 9-B feat, any knights or warriors who were previously considered Athlete level because they were weaker than Jaime be upgraded to Street level, reflecting the new scaling chain in the verse (see explanation)
(Note: he currently has no profile, but his feats would be relevant for the entire verse.)
According to the References for Common Feats, to destroy a blade:
• Longsword = 2.177968 × 10⁴ Joules (Wall level)
• Shortsword = 4.172064 × 10⁴ Joules (Wall level)
This feat is a Wall-level feat. Shagga presses a sword against his knee with his bare hands and snaps it in half effortlessly. It’s also reasonable to say that his durability would scale to his AP. Newton’s Third Law is exactly why this works. Any force Shagga applies to the sword is met with an equal and opposite force on his body. Since he handles that force without injury. On top of that, because the force is applied across a broad area of his knee.
(I could also calculate Shagga’s lifting strength using the basic work-energy principle)
Shagga also has another Wall-level feat where he fragments a wooden door with a single kick. Two years ago, someone argued that this feat couldn’t have fragmented the door because “it took multiple hits to fully demolish it.” Revisiting this, the numbers and the scene show that this argument doesn’t hold. The kick alone is sufficient to cause violent fragmentation. I will go through everything in detail, and you can tell me whether it is valid or not.
Again, this is all based on the Reference for common Feats.
The door is described as thin, which directly affects how much energy is needed to break it. In the calculation, a standard thickness of 3.334 cm was used, which does not match to the door that Shagga destroyed. But even if we reduce its thickness to 25 mm or 32 mm, the energy required to fragment it is still Wall-Level:
• 25 mm → 387,849 J (Wall level)
• 32 mm → 497,332 J (Wall level)
Based on accepted material for wood (like shear strength), we can distinguish three types of breakage:
Fragmentation: The material splits into distinct pieces. For a wooden door, this requires ~516,644 J.
Violent fragmentation: Debris flies outward at high speed in small fragments. For wood, this is ~1,136,122 J. This is what we see in the feat. Pieces of the door fly inward after Shagga’s kick.
Pulverization: Crushing the material into nearly dust like particles. This requires much higher energy (~2,907,827 J) and clearly doesn’t happen in the scene.
Shagga’s single kick can deliver hundreds of kJ of energy, enough to reach the violent fragmentation threshold for a thin wooden door:
The door splits and fragments immediately upon impact, with debris flying. Classic violent fragmentation. The fact that Shagga later uses his axe doesn’t negate that the kick alone caused significant fragmentation. Even accounting for reduced door thickness, the physics lines up. The kick provides sufficient energy for violent fragmentation, consistent with the scene description. Arguments that “it took multiple hits, so the kick can’t count” overlooks both the door’s thinness and the energy delivered by a single, forceful kick. The scene clearly shows Shagga kicked the door first, causing it to split and send pieces flying, and only after that did he hack it with three axe blows to fully clear the doorway, the kick alone already produced violent fragmentation.
Like I said, even reducing the door to 32 mm gives ~1.09 MJ, and 25 mm gives ~0.85 MJ. If we use the regular fragmentation, then like I mentioned above: 32mm gives 497,332 J, and 25mm gives 387,849 J.
Brienne
This calculation got accepted. The same feat that was recently used to upgrade Brienne of Tarth’s lifting strength (from class 1 to class 25) was also run through the Work formula (Force × Distance) to get an AP value. The result comes out to be 107 kJ, which lines up with 9-B. So her Attack Potency would go from At least Street level, at most Street+ to Wall-level.
As noted in the lifting-strength CRT, this would also upgrade other warriors, such as Jaime Lannister, due to him being able to trade blows with Brienne while weakened. I also suggest that, since Jaime now scales to Brienne’s 9-B feat, any knights or warriors who were previously considered Athlete level because they were weaker than Jaime be upgraded to Street level, reflecting the new scaling chain in the verse (see explanation)
