Pick one, you said that's fine to get a power basis a while ago:
And I already said them not knowing about his technique doesn't matter for the case of sukuna scaling aslong as they know how strong he physically is since the argument is if Sukuna scales to his durability, not if he beats him or anything like that. And again, the other statements prove they were indeed correct in their measurement. (And again, the narrator and tengen knew about his technique and still said the same thing)
Usami still had no idea about Dabura while the higher ups did, thats the point. You can't use Usami as your evidence which you did at first. And Jabaloma warns them about his strength on how they can technacly not be considered unarmed when Dabura is around due to how strong he is.
I already said why it doesn't matter, the whole point is that via the other statements they are correct. You are missing that the point is that they measured Dabura at said Sukuna level, and it gets confirmed as true by the side material and the narrative itself. It's that simple. If it was simply a throwaway statement, I'd agree with you, it could be wrong. But it's not.
The intent is that he is Sukuna level, you are genuinely clutching at straws and headcanon.
"Narratively Dabura washes Sukuna" Hmm that's gotta be interesting he will surely show narratively dabura washing Sukuna in
POWER right as that's the convo right... right?
"Ever since he introduced his light speed movement" "going mach 3 as something somewhat troubling"
Do you see what I mean? All your "narrative" for Dabura being much strong is
SPEED (not only downplaying Sukuna's speed to mach 3 for some reason but ignoring that). Dude I swear no one and I mean NO ONE is trying to say Sukuna scales to Dabura's accelerated speed

, the narrative around his speed is completely irrelevant and, yes, gaps Sukuna what about it.
Because... it wasn't an explosion. You tried bolding narrative let me just tell you here, tell me that "
narratively" Yuji blew up 10km worth of a city and houses to kill grade 3-4s.... Sounds sooo reasonable right? Look at the actual pages cause I swear you probably only looked at leaks and didn't bother to read the chapter.
The whole context is that as Maru and Tsurika were fighting, the cursed spirits started appearing around the city, Yuji
AS HE SAID JUST PAGES BEFORE, was gonna handle the job of killing all of them, but Tsurika also notices them coming and
starts aiming at them, with
Rika saying Tsurugi will just have to swing it and she will take care of outputting the damage necessary. That's why we get the panel of both Yuji and Tsurika side by side as Yuji uses his dismantle, they both slash at a different group of cursed spirits at the same time and kill them all.
As Uraume says that upon killing a curse their body will turn into dust due to the disappearing reaction and that cutted pieces will do the same, in this case
there were so many curses for Yuji and Tsurika to kill that they could quite literally make a tsunami out of sheer numbers and we see how much dust
a single curse and a
few curses can cause upon being killed. That's the entire feat. Yuji's dismantle and Tsurika's Slash both cut through the huge number of cursed spirits and caused it to create said huge dust explosions due to that.
Look at all the pages after the dust cloud where Tsurigi and Maru are, and please tell me where the destruction went. There's no "narratively" high feat here. In fact it makes it so
Yuji's dismantle is equal to Tsurika's Output. The same Tsurika who Maru was fighting by the way.
Sure....They truly actually meant he will actually be
THOUSANDS OF TIMES stronger than both of them here when they said "
as good as me" and "
equal".
First off when. I'm forgetting it here, when did he show memories of what happened when he was unconscious? What domain are you talking about? But once again, he was unconscious and couldn't get a grasp on Sukuna's power at all regardless.
I already showed why that's not the case but I guess you mean this two panels:
That have this translation done by Lightning that completely changes it's meaning:
So... yea.
Even if the other ends up being correct, Gojo was going off what he wanted here, the actual narrative statements as I showed before was about Yuji and the students having potential to be
as good as Gojo and Yuji be
equal to Sukuna.
"Explosion". I already explained why you're just wrong but let me tell you that to have enough output to kill grade 3-4 curses after those kms... isnt that impressive compared to Sukuna and Gojo man.
First off that's not what Sukuna says:
He says he can move unhindered because Megumi doesn't have control over his actual flesh/body like Yuji did so he couldn't resist Sukuna's control, but his entire
CURSED ENERGY OUTPUT was lowered to below even 10%, that would indeed affect his physical body, what isn't affected is
his control over the body.
That's why they were even harming 16F Sukuna and actually keeping up that much without being killed, we literally see how
an actual 16F Sukuna upon regainin all his output could just blitz someone comparable to Yuta in speed and even superior physically (Ryu).
10% of 16F Sukuna was indeed enough to harm people that were special grade level sorcerers level physically, which is way more impressive than like 1% output of yuji's dismantle killing grade 3-4 curses lol.
And did you just say Yuji "ate" those dismantles...?
He was still being cut it was just superficial which allowed him to get close enough. 10% 16F Sukuna would still "scale" comparable to CG Yuji here via those cuts.
By lying and just making false equivalences yea you are. You are trying to use them not knowing the techniques as proof for why they were wrong on his physicals. (Even tho Tengen/Narrator knew by the way!!)
It's completely headcanon to say that it DIDN'T show everything because Usami even complains about Ui Ui just recording what he wants alongside that
the whole intent that Ui Ui had was to show power and strength to the current generation as they had forgotten, he wanted to show everyone the brutality that living beings can do. Why would he stop the recording before the very thing that would just show them even more what living beings can do, and an destruction just like Gojo and Sukuna left off? Once again clutching at straws man. And the video wasn't edited what? Where did you get this from? The one who made the simurians look good was their "sources" that told them about Dabura, the video wasn't modified to make Dabura look good because nothing in the video would even make Dabura look bad per se as they simply said "Mahoraga appeared" so they didn't see that Yuka, a child, summoned it. So all they saw was Mahoraga fighting Dabura for apparent no reason, there was no need to modify the video, they just lied about it.
"clearly significantly faster than them" genuinely you are
NEVER proving this outside of Dabura's acceleration man, and why are you acting like Gojo and Sukuna werent blitzing each other aswell?? Do you mean blitzing the viewer? You can not be using "Blitzing the viewer" as an argument here... surely not...
....
what? Genuinely what did you mean to say here, I understood 1% of it. To answer what I understood, yes, Dabura could do such manipulation of cursed energy cause thats something you just do on instinct,
even fearsome womb arc Yuji who had 0 CE control was able to put Cursed energy into his own fist when under emotions which was the case for Dabura here aswell, no way you think Dabura just sucks that much, I literally even gave you the Todo example for that exact reason:
(He does it instinctively like every sorcerer does, Mahito is the biggest example of sorcerers passively and instinctively protecting their own body and even soul when in danger)
And you completely missed the point on the Gojo and Sukuna thing so let me rephrase: Sukuna blocks a 120% Hollow Purple -> A 120% Hollow purple would
at the very least be 3x stronger than Gojo himself. (As regular hollow purple would already be above a 2.5x black flash, adding the 120% it would reach 3x bare minimum) -> This means that, with CE reinforcement, Sukuna and block something which is at
THE VERY LEAST (and it should be way superior and you know)
3x stronger than him. Todo, who didn't have as much cursed energy as Sukuna still managed to block a black flash from Mahito that should have killed him aswell on instinct. Dabura blocking and breaking Mahoraga's sword means
N O T H I N G. Especially when as I said Mahoraga's durability,
INCLUDING HIS SWORD, is not linear as seen during all of the Gojo VS Sukuna fight.
Mahoraga's sword was able to just straight up block two Black Flashes in a row from Gojo with not even a crack on it.
The same Black Flash sent Sukuna to dreamland and very clearly damaged him alot. This is because Mahoraga had adapted to his physicals (and even black flash itself as the last spin happened in the moment Sukuna got black flashed) yet when it came to something Mahoraga hadn't adapted to (Hollow Purple),
it vaporized him yet Sukuna lived. Does this mean Sukuna got stronger?!?!? He took something that Mahoraga didn't even tho Mahoraga was taking stuff 2.5x than him before!??! (No, his durability just isn't linear and if he hasn't adapted to X, X can still break him)
That was not the point. It was to say that Dabura didn't "increase thousands of times" here unless you wanna say Dabura sucked that Mahoraga actually just fully adapted to the point he could keep up with someone that BY YOUR LOGIC, just got thousands of times stronger in a second. The amount of strech you're doing will make you reach Jupiter.
...Why are you speaking of things like that? That doesn't make Dabura physically stronger, this point is just null lol. I don't deny he learned way more after that, he starts learning new techniques and calls earth's sorcery advanced. That's it, that's how he "gets stronger", he's fighting properly and like a true warrior now, but he
DID NOT GET PHYSICALLY STRONGER.
We do indeed not witness Dabura get physically stronger, nice headcanon though, a change in mentality simply makes sorcerers tune in more with their power and attune them because of how emotions allow you to connect with cursed energy more like how Yuji turns his fear into cursed energy against Choso or how he turns his emotions into it aswell back in the fearsome arc.
This would all also need statements, Dabura's statements just directly contradict the intent being "He gets stronger now!", just read Doula's own dialogue man. He literally says strength is
N O T what makes you a warrior and
acknowledges that Dabura already has the strength of a true warrior but he will never be one because he has never truly "fought", he never truly had the mentality of one, but that's irrelevant for STRENGTH. You are genuinely going against Doula's own words and intent on his speech to Dabura.
He was trying to say that getting and being stronger will not make Dabura a warrior, and you think that the way Dabura saw this and decided that the way to turn into a warrior... was by getting stronger. Narrative intent thrown out the window, we need Dabura upscale!!
Promotional Material and outside of the story statements can be used if they are consistent with what the story says, in this case, it is, unless you can prove otherwise, they are usable due to matching the in-story narrative and statements.