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In this thread I'd like to discuss the scaling of the Kangan universe and in general its lower levels.
Scaling the lower levels:
Ohma Tokita versus Raian Kure.(scans)
In the fight itself, Ohma faced an opponent many times his physical strength. Ryan used no martial arts throughout the fight, relying only on physical strength, but even so he was able to defeat Tokita. After Ohma was knocked out, he regained his memories and fully completed Niko's style, adopting it for himself, and began to dominate Kure in a straight fight, which left Ryan shocked, wondering what had become of Ohma's techniques? The point was that Ohma moved chaotically, unexpectedly, and with the most precise attacks possible, causing much more damage, as Niko had said martial arts were about countering physical force. According to Niko, Ohma's physical strength does not even reach the average Kure clan member, while Ryan is the strongest among them in this respect, surpassing those "average members" many times over.
Kuroki Gensai vs Kanoh Agito.(scans)
Kuroki Gensai isn't a physical fighter either, but he is a skilled master whose level of martial knowledge is astounding, and when he faced Kanoh Agito he did damage on the second one that neither the strongest puncher nor the fastest could do, but what's the point? Kuroki's strikes were timed to coincide with Kanoh switching between modes, in other words, he was doing damage at times when he wasn't ready for it, causing mind-blowing damage to his opponent in just 3 strikes.
Chiba versus Hatsumi.(scans 1 and 2)
Chiba is the lowest-level character possible, considered by most of the fandom to be just about the weakest in the Annihilation Tournament, but that same Chiba in his battle with Sen Hatsumi injures him, and also, if I may say so, puts him on a speed blitz. According to wakatsuki he lost ONLY because he decided to fight him in Aikido, in terms of which Hatsumi is invincible.(I'll say right away, saying that Hatsumi wasn't at his peak doesn't work in any way, your body strength or reaction speed (debatable) can't be affected by your state and intentions in any way)
Kaneda versus Hatsumi.(chapters 229-231 Kengan Omega)
Kaneda is exposed as a physically weak character throughout the series, which he says he is, but when faced with the terribly strong Sen Hatsumi (who, incidentally, was able to tanks Kanoh Agito's Dragon Shot twice) he still manages to beat him, keep up with him, and so on, all thanks to his deterministic foresight, which puts him on a very high level according to Tokita.
Okubo Naoya.(scan)
Okubo is one of the strongest characters in the series and was capable of fighting Fang on equal footing before adapting to his style, BUT. According to his card he's though the strongest of the companionship consisting of: Rihito, Okubo, Kaneda, and Himuro. He still doesn't have a 100% chance of winning, all depending on the strategy and conditioning of the fighters, which tells us a direct scaling of even physically weak characters to Okubo-level monsters.
Gaoh Ryuki.(scans)
Gaoh Ryuki is one of the characters that can be classified as mid-level, when he was confused after one incident his movements deteriorated repeatedly, which Yamashita noticed, and then he lost to a literal statistic. When he recovered and started attacking more accurately he practically defeated Chiba with one punch, who, in case you hadn't forgotten, could punch Hatsumi Sen and easily defeated this guy.
Ohma Tokita.(scans)
The moment Ohma was slammed to the floor by the Metsudo Fang he was in a state of confusion, fully focused and in the most correct stance possible he struck with unprecedented power, the point was that Ohma had simply rediscovered the Adamantium kata, remembering it and regaining the precision and technique of his movements, thus increasing his attack potential many times over.
Ohma Tokita; 2.(scans)
Wakatsuki isn't sure that defeating the early Ohma will be easy. The members of the Kure clan also think highly of him. He was in their league back in the beginning of the story. Ohma had gotten much stronger by the start of the tournament physically, as we are told by his setsuna stanza, but at the same time, as I said he couldn't do anything against Kanoh Agito, who was convinced he didn't stand a chance against Ryan, but after he got some of his memories back and improved his technicality that put him over the top as a fighter.
Ohma Tokita; 3 chapters 172-174 Kengan Ashura ) and conclusion of the thread.
Ohma has repeatedly taken blows from his teacher Niko, which allows us to scale his durability even BEFORE the series starts to Niko's level. Niko himself is directly related to the Demonsbane feat, he didn't take any damage from the shockwave (because the shockwave would have spread the damage over Niko's entire body, but in the end it was only his arm that was hit), but he did take damage from Demonsbane to a specific limb in the form of an arm. Consequently, as I described earlier, the scaling of the demonsbane feat goes to almost every level in the verse, such as Kaneda, Chimuro, Sawada, Falcon, and others, which have a huge scaling ability due to the nature of the verse, in which techniques are the key to defeating an opponent rather than physical parameters, as well as a bunch of scaling chains (say scaling from Ohma to Rihito, from Rihito to Sawada, and so on), and there's also chiba.
Scaling the lower levels:
Ohma Tokita versus Raian Kure.(scans)
In the fight itself, Ohma faced an opponent many times his physical strength. Ryan used no martial arts throughout the fight, relying only on physical strength, but even so he was able to defeat Tokita. After Ohma was knocked out, he regained his memories and fully completed Niko's style, adopting it for himself, and began to dominate Kure in a straight fight, which left Ryan shocked, wondering what had become of Ohma's techniques? The point was that Ohma moved chaotically, unexpectedly, and with the most precise attacks possible, causing much more damage, as Niko had said martial arts were about countering physical force. According to Niko, Ohma's physical strength does not even reach the average Kure clan member, while Ryan is the strongest among them in this respect, surpassing those "average members" many times over.
Kuroki Gensai vs Kanoh Agito.(scans)
Kuroki Gensai isn't a physical fighter either, but he is a skilled master whose level of martial knowledge is astounding, and when he faced Kanoh Agito he did damage on the second one that neither the strongest puncher nor the fastest could do, but what's the point? Kuroki's strikes were timed to coincide with Kanoh switching between modes, in other words, he was doing damage at times when he wasn't ready for it, causing mind-blowing damage to his opponent in just 3 strikes.
Chiba versus Hatsumi.(scans 1 and 2)
Chiba is the lowest-level character possible, considered by most of the fandom to be just about the weakest in the Annihilation Tournament, but that same Chiba in his battle with Sen Hatsumi injures him, and also, if I may say so, puts him on a speed blitz. According to wakatsuki he lost ONLY because he decided to fight him in Aikido, in terms of which Hatsumi is invincible.(I'll say right away, saying that Hatsumi wasn't at his peak doesn't work in any way, your body strength or reaction speed (debatable) can't be affected by your state and intentions in any way)
Kaneda versus Hatsumi.(chapters 229-231 Kengan Omega)
Kaneda is exposed as a physically weak character throughout the series, which he says he is, but when faced with the terribly strong Sen Hatsumi (who, incidentally, was able to tanks Kanoh Agito's Dragon Shot twice) he still manages to beat him, keep up with him, and so on, all thanks to his deterministic foresight, which puts him on a very high level according to Tokita.
Okubo Naoya.(scan)
Okubo is one of the strongest characters in the series and was capable of fighting Fang on equal footing before adapting to his style, BUT. According to his card he's though the strongest of the companionship consisting of: Rihito, Okubo, Kaneda, and Himuro. He still doesn't have a 100% chance of winning, all depending on the strategy and conditioning of the fighters, which tells us a direct scaling of even physically weak characters to Okubo-level monsters.
Gaoh Ryuki.(scans)
Gaoh Ryuki is one of the characters that can be classified as mid-level, when he was confused after one incident his movements deteriorated repeatedly, which Yamashita noticed, and then he lost to a literal statistic. When he recovered and started attacking more accurately he practically defeated Chiba with one punch, who, in case you hadn't forgotten, could punch Hatsumi Sen and easily defeated this guy.
Ohma Tokita.(scans)
The moment Ohma was slammed to the floor by the Metsudo Fang he was in a state of confusion, fully focused and in the most correct stance possible he struck with unprecedented power, the point was that Ohma had simply rediscovered the Adamantium kata, remembering it and regaining the precision and technique of his movements, thus increasing his attack potential many times over.
Ohma Tokita; 2.(scans)
Wakatsuki isn't sure that defeating the early Ohma will be easy. The members of the Kure clan also think highly of him. He was in their league back in the beginning of the story. Ohma had gotten much stronger by the start of the tournament physically, as we are told by his setsuna stanza, but at the same time, as I said he couldn't do anything against Kanoh Agito, who was convinced he didn't stand a chance against Ryan, but after he got some of his memories back and improved his technicality that put him over the top as a fighter.
Ohma Tokita; 3 chapters 172-174 Kengan Ashura ) and conclusion of the thread.
Ohma has repeatedly taken blows from his teacher Niko, which allows us to scale his durability even BEFORE the series starts to Niko's level. Niko himself is directly related to the Demonsbane feat, he didn't take any damage from the shockwave (because the shockwave would have spread the damage over Niko's entire body, but in the end it was only his arm that was hit), but he did take damage from Demonsbane to a specific limb in the form of an arm. Consequently, as I described earlier, the scaling of the demonsbane feat goes to almost every level in the verse, such as Kaneda, Chimuro, Sawada, Falcon, and others, which have a huge scaling ability due to the nature of the verse, in which techniques are the key to defeating an opponent rather than physical parameters, as well as a bunch of scaling chains (say scaling from Ohma to Rihito, from Rihito to Sawada, and so on), and there's also chiba.
