Hello, I was given permission to give one last comment in regards to the matter. The side vouching for the arguments were given an extra turn to make a comment, with that comment being AKM's. Note; this should have stopped after Kukui's comment but his side was given an extra rebuttal, so to balance things out I'll be making the last rebuttal to make it even for both sides. And this acts more as a Redirection more than an actual rebuttal.
- I think stabilizing the worlds is not shown to be a proper 3-A feat or anywhere close to it going by the standards. The destruction upon Soul King's death is blatantly shown to be slow on panel with characters saying that the tremors have been going on forever and it's too small to notice.
This is inherently false and we're shown that in the Manga. The Soul Society and Hueco Mundo are both shown with extreme amounts of
earthquakes, only The World of the Living received a small earthquake in comparison to the others. Also Yhwach clearly wasn't going to "blow it up" why would he want to destroy something he just wants to merge? You can merge something if it's gone if you destroyed it. Not to mention Mimihagi's entire existence should also disqualify any notion of the timeframe being that slow. Chapter 614 is where Reio is killed and we see
immediate effects ranging from the Soul Society to
The World of The Living.
We know these characters were in the middle of a war as well, so why on earth would literally everyone be flipping out if the timeframe for the destruction was actually that long as it's being made out to be? No, everything else implies that the destruction of the Realms would be a quick process. We have a timeframe to use if need be, that being a timeframe of a few minutes at max. A calc can likely be done to find the amount of energy needed for such a feat, and I've seen them before. And given that the quakes were massive, even in the World of the Living where the quake was deemed to be a large scale seismic shift that's was of
unprecedented magnitude should also go against any notion of the quakes being small. Also anyone who's ever experienced an earthquake would know that from a greater distance they start to weaken, even with the student's statements it falls moot due to them only being exposed to a small fraction of the quakes.
- We only see tremors on a few planets and that's it. This is not a one shot or immediate destruction which makes it unable to qualify for a 3-A rating. Duedate covered it pretty well in his response earlier in the thread:
So Dimensional tremors are now only planet's? The quakes aren't something that just affected the Planets, these quakes were caused by something outside of any known Geological process and was scientifically
unexplainable.
- It just goes to show how a seemingly universe destroying feat is not even close to universal in attack potency because of the mechanism involved, in spite of the implied end result.
The Mechanism involved has nothing to do with Hax, nor does it have to do with the Soul Cycle. The Soul Cycle is just a natural occurring phenomenon, Rei-O has nothing to do with the Soul Cycle. Firstly, the stabilization isn't done through the Almighty, nor is it done via mass manipulation of souls. Ichigo, Ginjo and Hikone don't posses the Almighty nor do they have the Soul Regulation ability to maintain the realms, yet all of them are capable of doing so. The fact that Yhwach in a state where he isn't alive nor dead, with most of his Reiatsu being sealed away was still able to maintain the Realms.
The timeframe has a maximum of a few minutes, and the stabilization is done via Reitasu (which scales to the combatants physical stats.)
- Obviously being a lynchpin is important to maintain the balance and provide overall stability, but it doesn't mean it automatically scales to the end result of what happens due to the imbalance caused by or without it. Sometimes a single faulty construction error resulting from a tiny nut and bolt causes the bridge to collapse.
False comparision to the greatest degree, a singular tiny screw would never make a bridge collapse by itself, first and foremost. Bridges are designed to stay functional even in the midst of car crashes involving several semi's.
Secondly in the comparison of that and Rei-o's stability feat falls flat because unlike the Bridge analogy (which is wrong.) we know for a fact the timeframe can't be any longer than a few minutes, given what he stabilizes and how he does it (Reiatsu.) an incapacitated Yhwach was maintaining the Realms passively with only a small amount of his Reiatsu, and most of it was sealed off. He had no access to The Almighty yet he can still maintain the Realms. Ichigo can do so as well, despite lacking any form of The Almighty or Soul Regulation.
- Another issue was the quote from Yhwach where he highlights the flow of souls, and the novels mentioning the Soul King to be the one who regulates the "universal flow of souls" is also evidence that the stabilization involved is the Soul King stabilizing the flow of souls and the worlds are kept stable as a consequence. Imade tried to refute this point by saying it's completely irrelevant
No he didn't, that's either you misunderstanding what he's saying or that you didn't read his arguments at all. His argument was that the Soul Cycle quote from the Novel was a lie, as it was stated to be just that. A lie, nothing more and nothing less. One can say that's it's open to interpretation but whenever we have a statement vs something without a statement we tend to go for the statement.
Yhwach highlighting the Konpaku is irrelevant, as we're shown and given statements about how Stabilization works (Reiatsu, again Ichigo doesn't have an Almighty nor can he manipulate the cycle of Souls yet he can maintain the realms himself. A incapacitated Yhwach while under several seals and without the usage of the Almighty is still able to maintain them as well.)
- I outright disagree with Almighty scaling to raw stats based on what has been presented in the thread. It's mainly fate hax +a few more abilities.
This again is false, The Almighty isn't just Fate hax and precog. The Almighty has shown the ability to utilize AP before, such as him blowing Ichibei into bits and him lifting the Quincy City with it. And unless we wanna suggest that there's just infinite futures in Bleach where Ichibei blows up for no good reason and random masses of land magically floating then this point is also moot.
- If your hax does not work unless you gain a sufficient amount of power to be able to use it, that's just one of the limitations in the usage of hax.
But it does also indeed prove that theres a level of Attack Potency to it, which is something you can't deny. A certain amount of strength is required for Yhwach to even use the Almighty, and even with that The Almighty can't make the impossible happen, all it does is it allows Yhwach to change any fate he sees in his future, his actions in the future need to be physically possible for him to actually Alter it. Otherwise I'm perfectly fine with upgrading The Almighty to Infinite futures and outright creation.
- That, in no way, means the hax scales to raw stats. Neither does the hax providing a stat boost is reason enough for it to scale one-to-one with base stats. That's neither here nor there.
Because they need to be physically capable of doing what they do in the future. For example, Yhwach can't just make a future where he fights someone like Reinhard and win, because it's not possible for Yhwach to do by any means. If the Almighty was just hax based then Yhwach would have merged the Relams instantly upon obtaining it after his fight with Ichibei.
- I also see an issue with the actual timeframe of the Soul King's splitting/creation feat where it is being assumed to be instantaneous because of the Almighty doing things instantly with what is fate manipulation.
Let me stop you right there, because the Almighty was never used for Rei-o's creation feat. He used almighty power, not as in his ability The Almighty. RAW's make this very clear so I'm not sure why it's even being brought up? Arc had it on the docs but that requires everyone to read it, and let's be honest here not everyone is going to actively read the entire thing.
その全能の力を「楔」として、五人は新たな世界の基盤を創り上げた。尸魂界、現世、虚圏。 = "With that almighty/omnipotent power, the five created the foundations of the new world. SS, WotL, HM."
全能 = adjective for almighty or omnipotent
全知全能 = kanji for All-Knowing Almighty -> furigana = ジ・オールマイティ (ji oorumaiti) The Almighty in reference to the schrift
And the creation was done the second the statement was made, there's nothing to argue against the timeframe. Not to mention Celestial Body Feats, Creation feats and GBE feats don't require a timeframe, as per wiki rules.
- We simply don't know enough about the feat.
We do, Reio and Yhwach maintain the Three Realms (not done via souls either.)
Going by the manga, a few minutes. Going for Reio's creation feat, it was done right then and there.
- We have no context of how he was going to do it. No mechanism explained.
We actually do, it's done via Reitasu (A dead Yhwach, Ginjo and Ichigo lack any sort of Almighty and or manipulation over the Soul Cycle to keep the balance, it's due to their large amounts of Reiatsu that allows for stability of the Realms.)
- Just a single statement that it happened using Almighty.
Again this is false and it seems like you are just confused regarding the mechanics of the verse in question. The Almighty was never used for any of the feats, nor was this ever stated. Give me citation that says stabilization is done by THE Almighty, since to my knowledge that's never stated.
- For all we know it could be the same slow chain reaction-esque process kind of like the tremors in the supposedly "universe destroying" instability feat. Or it could be a work of weird hax+range. We at least need some kind of context to properly evaluate the feat by which we can logically deduce that the Soul King is in fact able to one-shot the universe.
This is literally just a repeat of your timeframe argument but worded differently. The universal destruction would take place in a few minutes, Beerus and Champa didn't destroy their universe in the first clash for example but I dont care much for Dragon Ball. Point being that is you greatly blew up just how long the timeframe here is.
- Unfortunately, there is none, except for people trying to shoot for the highest possible interpretation because why not, that makes the character the highest tier after all.
I agree with the most part with such a statement but this is an issue regarding the tiering system itself rather than people going for the highest interpretation. It's a system like ours that allows for such a concept.
Which brings me to a related point, that being Yhwach's world reshaping feat and his quest to undo what the Soul King did. Since the Soul King used the Almighty to reshape the world first, therefore it makes logical sense that Yhwach would use Almighty as well.
Read the first half of this argument, Rei-o did not use The Almighty to create the Realms. This is an example of blatant regurgitated misinformation due to a inherent lack of understanding. Ignoring that Yhwach was blatantly using his own Reiatsu to reshape the Realms, not The Almighty.
It also doesn't help that his claim and flaring up of energy also involves a bunch of unknown factors.
That enegry was his Reiatsu, which is what is used to scale a character physical stats in the verse.
Soul King having vast amount of reiryoku is unrelated to the feat of trying to destroy everything. I don't see why this was important. Or any other statements.
Are you seriously saying that? You know the verses enegry system that makes them scale physically? It's absolutely related, you just aren't knowledgeable enough regarding Bleach's verse mechanics (not a rude comment either, it's a general observation that most agree with.) for future reference, let's not dismiss key arguments as unrelated simply because you failed to understand why it was brought up.
Anyway this is to be the
last form of rebuttal and Redirection, from this point foward we allow staff to decide given now that all the information for both sides have been laid out.