Isn't it basically Goku vs Hit with extra steps?
Not one to one but it does have similarities. The biggest being time is still going on when he is in his out of space-time and that he erases that time so anyone in the vicinity will have a "glitch in the matrix" for a lack of a better term. I'm at work so I don't have it right now but theres a scene where someone was on the first floor of a place in one moment and then in the second floor the next moment.
The scaling chain of this isn't that simple, like the "Zane from Ninjago" i just mentionted. It isn't as simple as "Their AP scales" or "they could fight against each other".
Well, how it worked in Zero-One was that the characters were AI or used AI with analytical prediction scaling chain. I'll try to explain as best I can.
There's three systems I want to bring up:
1. Kamen Rider Zero-One (Shining Hopper Form) has the
Shining Arithmetic: Shining Hopper's arithmetic processing unit. Located around the forehead. It predicts enemy behaviour by studying them and creates around 25,000 attack and avoidance patterns in consideration of Zero-One's own performance. From there, it is possible to find an optimal solution to a problem within 0.01 seconds. It's high-speed learning abilities can advance in battle.
2. This gets completely stomped out by Kamen Rider Thouser, who has the
Thousand Signal: The base where the five horns meet. It learns enemy behaviour, makes tens and thousands of behavioural predictions and derives an optimal solution within 0.001 seconds which is then presented to the wearer.
3. Fast forward multiple power ups and many episodes and someone gets this:
Zero-Two Arithmetic: Zero-Two's faceplate processor. During the battle, the artificial intelligence There extracts the thoughts of the matching person and learns the enemy and surrounding information to predict the behavior. The optimal solution is found in about 0.01 seconds from the 2 trillion patterns of attack and evasion patterns derived from it, and it is reported to the matching person. This ultra-fast learning allows the user to take advantage of the battle.
These are all taken from the official website. I'll just refer them as 1, 2, and 3 to simplicity's sake.
Taking this into account, its obvious to say 3 > 2 > 1. So we see in the show, 2 heavily outperformed and stomped 1. 3 was the most op of all the systems and we see that it was able to completely stomp 2 without 2 landing a single hit, 3 also had his back turned to him the entire fight so he didn't even need to see to counter and dodge all their attacks.
To dive deeper into how the predictions actually work. There was a scene with an android named "Is" that experienced a groundhog day kinda thing, where she relived a day repeatedly. So the day always ends up with Ark, whose the big bad, winning. She goes through millions (I think) of days, where she tries to do something differently in order to win. Millions of tries later, she discovers how to make the Zero-Two system and then Zero-Two beats Ark. Zero-Two does the same thing Is did but 2 trillion times within 0.01 seconds.
How does it scale? Analytical prediction is something that is passive and is on at all times (even if it isn't shown all the tie). There are scenes where it shows the calculations appearing in the show. Its in the AI nature to do everything that I said above.
So we know that there are systems out-predicting one another but there were multiple human examples within the show to actually make it scalable. There was an arc called the "Workplace Competition Arc" that compares the AI androids and humans. Each human in their professional roles stood no chance against any of the regular AI androids to the point, they have to wear a brain enhancer that boosted the brain so that it can match a supercomputer.
So we now how an average human vs an average android was like. The good thing is that there were human Kamen Riders that used no AI to help them. Kamen Rider Vulcan and Valkyrie both had no AI to help them. Vulcan and Valkyrie does really well to fight with their powers and upgrades throughout the show but even they couldn't land a single hit on someone who is inferior to Zero-Two, which is Ark-One. Fast forward many crossovers and Kamen Riders start scaling to one another and then the scaling gets ridiculous to say the very least. (Zero-Two and Ark combines to become Zero-Three and this mfker can predict immeasurable speed and learn reality warping instantly. Buffa doesn't scale to this yet though.)
So on to Buffa. Buffa scales to Geats and eventually beats him in a one on one. Geats, to no one's surprise is someone who goes toe to toe with (if not surpassed) everything I said above. Geats has a lot of explanation already so I can let the Geats experts handle that.
I overdid it with this already and I haven't even brought up Calibur's countless times precognition yet
