This was the reason why both he and Garou were only given "possibly higher" ratings rather than a straight speed upgrade.
I've been meaning to ask this to anyone. But is there actually any evidence of this? Saitama holds back on literally everyone, that just still is enough to kill them in one shot 95% of the time. From my read throughs there's zero evidence Saitama held back anymore than he usually did, and the anime version of the fight scene explicitly had Saitama use his trump card to counter the CSRC.
I don’t think they should even have that tbh. Scaling anything off of Saitama is very questionable imo.
Doesn't boros literally say that their fight wasn't really a fight? And that saitama wasn't trying against him?
That's literally every fight though. Which is my point. The idea that Saitama was holding back more because he sympathized with Boros has zero basis. He outright criticizes him when they first meet because his goal is dumb.
Anime had the serious punch be an outright trump card by Saitama and a move he wasn't holding back on. Which while not valid for the manga, leads more credence to the idea that the intention wasn't that Saitama was sad that Boros had a similar problem as he does.
I think Matthew said something similar in the last revision.
Has anyone ever calced how much damage the moon kick did to the moon when Saitama landed?
You'd get a solid 8-C result from that.
Dunno if holding back is the correct usage. More like "Not going all out"
Ok I didn't word that right, but you can't deny that Boros took a punch from Saitama and stayed relatively intact. He only got his shit kicked in right after when Saitama rushed him with CNP. Also about the whole nobody scaling to Saitama thing: If Saitama does something casually like what he did to the moon then goes on to rush and try to kill someone like Boros who takes a punch why wouldn't Boros at least downscale? Unless you want to argue that Saitama decided to hold back a couple hundred times on a punch intended to kill someone when he just caused that much damage to the moon accidentally by jumping.
With all those cases no since Saitama holds back a lot more against humans than he does against monsters and in Rover's case he saw him as a dog so he held back and later on he even admitted he held back. With Boros he was clearly holding back a good bit in the beginning, but after Boros launched him to the moon Saitama says "now this looks more like a real fight" right before jumping back. Implying he was holding back way less with MB Boros than anyone else so far or even later since he hasn't said anything like this to anyone else even Orochi.
I don't recall the anime saying that Saitama wasn't holding back with the serious punch. Boros even stated that Saitama was lying when Saitama told boros when he was a tough opponent.
How is it "Assumptions" when there're 4 separate statements from Saitama calling Boros strong or the battle between them a real fight. Also the sonic fight is played off as a comedic moment and Saitama didn't even directly hit him. With the punch against Boros its more of a dent and he was fine in the next panel or even after that. Also its a big assumption to say that the damage Saitama did by jumping is hundreds of times stronger than a punch directed at an opponent he was trying to kill and made Saitama admit it was starting to be a real fight.
And any of this immediately makes the singular hit (that badly damaged Boros) stronger than the moon jump... how?
Wow, it’s almost like Boros has regeneration or something... Also I wouldn’t classify having a hole punched in you, being sent flying back and bleeding from the mouth as “being fine.”
It’s an even bigger assumption to claim the attacks scale to the moon jump when literally nothing implies that beyond “I think they should scale to each other.”
Just asking, but why would it not scale to his AP. I thought stuff like this would only be seperate unless contradicted, like black sperm.
Going off of what the Durability page itself says: Logically, characters capable of physically achieving a certain degree of energy output, must be able to at least withstand a comparable amount of damage, or their bodies would break apart from the strain and automatic counterforce, whenever they exert themselves.
That would be extremely underwhelming
