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I'm not being harsh...It's a statement of what Salamander is capable of, so I don't see the argument here.
Also, being honest, I think we're a bit too harsh on world-destroying statements. Mitch mentioned All For One, but the reason he wouldn't qualify is because in context, he's planning to rule over the world rather than destroy it. Lucifero is a different ballpark, so I really don't think it's comparable, and this really seems like the authorial intent is for Lucifero to be a world destroyer
We didn't consider those "World-Ending" statements valid as it's own before and we shouldn't now... I mean I'm guilty of using loose statements like these to support a meta, but they are in fact loose and don't hold much weight... Authorial intent for Lucifero to be a planet level being would be better for him to perform a feat that's actually well... Planet level... Could have been anything, like the entire planet suffering from his gravity, but we don't get any of that, so all these statements chalk up to is hype statements for Lucifero being really strong, that's about it. Countless verses have these kinds of statements, I was just using AFO as a good example, but we don't just hand out Planet level to someone with a "World-Destroying" statement
"The sigh of the firedrake heats 1000 ri, one swing of its talons also dries the ocean!!"
Also this can be interepreted as hyperbole. For one thing, the feat says that Salamander can heat 1000 ri, not that it can vaporize 1000 ri of water, that has no given volume, it just means that you can feel Salamander's heat even at 1000 ri away. And "One swing of its talons also dries the ocean!!" is also questionable as it seems VERY flowery. We've never seen Fana interact with a body of water as large as the Artic Ocean. Does BC have any of it's own known Oceans? Maybe the statement means an Ocean smaller than one IRL. And even more than that, by drying the Ocean, does it mean the entirety of one? Or does it mean only a section of an Ocean? Is it hyping up Salamander by saying it can dry an Ocean only in regards to part of one?
Just none of this is solid to me. I can't in good conscious upgrade this verse all the way to 5-B off of a calc I don't think is solid, statements I don't think are solid, a meta I don't think is solid, and a verse that's best in-manga feat, statement or otherwise, is Low 6-B
So I consider the Salamander feat both hyperbole and an outlier. I consider the moon creation laughably wrong. And I don't think any of the Lucifero statements help the OP's argument at all. So maybe I will lose out in the votes and it will be applied, but as it stands, this CRT does not have my agreement or support with it. If any time soon, the Manga drops a solid Tier 5 statement or feat, then I would feel much more confident in this meta being accurate, but until then, I've said my peace and will leave the CRT