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Firstly, Aku's AP should just be straight up High 6-B, or "At least High 6-B" (which would match his durability). The logic for not applying this to his regular form is...odd. The High 6-B feat from The Birth of Evil, which is causing the massive extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, is performed by him simply falling to Earth from space. That's it. He doesn't even actively use anything but his sheer size and kinetic energy in this. This would likely rank extremely low on the list of "attacks" he could actually do. On top of that, when this feat happened, Aku was a tiny fraction of the size he is by the events of the show. We specifically see him absorb multiple organisms and grow in size exponentially over the course of millions of years. To assume he couldn't even replicate something like this isn't logical.
As a note, this does not mess up any scaling to Jack. Aku is canonically more powerful than Jack by an incredible amount. Jack fights Aku via skill and having a weapon created specifically to destroy Aku, not raw strength. One of many examples of this power difference would be the Season 1 episode Jack Versus Mad Jack. In an attempt to kill Jack, Aku makes a clone of the samurai who is equal to Jack in every way (speed, strength, skill, etc.), and thus Jack is entirely unable to defeat the doppelganger in combat (he only stops Mad Jack by expunging his own inner hatred, causing the clone to cease to exist). Aku is explicitly stated to have made this clone via his own magical power, not any sort of tech. He simply wills it into existence to fight Jack. Pretty clear showing of superiority.
Onto my other point, which is in regards to Aku's weaknesses. Most importantly is the fact that Aku being weak to magic is false. He's flat out immune to most of it in the same way as traditional weapons. In fact, in The Birth of Evil, the blessed magic arrow that Jack's father tried to use on formless Aku was entirely absorbed, simply waking him up instead of destroying him. He is only weak to divine magic (and as shown by the arrow, even traditionally blessed or holy magic does not seem to count), which is a big difference.
The other weakness that isn't entirely correct is illness, which I'm pretty sure comes from the episode The Aku Infectio, in which Aku gets the equivalent to a cold. However, this is shown to be far from a normal cold, as when Jack catches it, the "cold" starts consuming him with Aku's essence. So while he is susceptible to illness, the ones he can be infected with are clearly not normal, and thus need to be specified.
Summary of proposals:
As a note, this does not mess up any scaling to Jack. Aku is canonically more powerful than Jack by an incredible amount. Jack fights Aku via skill and having a weapon created specifically to destroy Aku, not raw strength. One of many examples of this power difference would be the Season 1 episode Jack Versus Mad Jack. In an attempt to kill Jack, Aku makes a clone of the samurai who is equal to Jack in every way (speed, strength, skill, etc.), and thus Jack is entirely unable to defeat the doppelganger in combat (he only stops Mad Jack by expunging his own inner hatred, causing the clone to cease to exist). Aku is explicitly stated to have made this clone via his own magical power, not any sort of tech. He simply wills it into existence to fight Jack. Pretty clear showing of superiority.
Onto my other point, which is in regards to Aku's weaknesses. Most importantly is the fact that Aku being weak to magic is false. He's flat out immune to most of it in the same way as traditional weapons. In fact, in The Birth of Evil, the blessed magic arrow that Jack's father tried to use on formless Aku was entirely absorbed, simply waking him up instead of destroying him. He is only weak to divine magic (and as shown by the arrow, even traditionally blessed or holy magic does not seem to count), which is a big difference.
The other weakness that isn't entirely correct is illness, which I'm pretty sure comes from the episode The Aku Infectio, in which Aku gets the equivalent to a cold. However, this is shown to be far from a normal cold, as when Jack catches it, the "cold" starts consuming him with Aku's essence. So while he is susceptible to illness, the ones he can be infected with are clearly not normal, and thus need to be specified.
Summary of proposals:
- Get rid of the lower part of Aku's tier and make him High 6-B or "At least High 6-B"
- Heavily update Aku's magic weakness
- Get rid of or heavily update his weakness to illness
