Any downgrade to Post-Timeskip Death Knight comes entirely from the one time Caspar fights him and military rank/boss order, and I will not have that. Keep in mind that the Black Knight's military rank is shared with 3 other people he's stronger than (he's stronger than an amped Ashnard, even). Camus was stronger in Shadow Dragon than most people Marth even faces in Mystery (he's simply built different tbh) despite being an entire game later. Rank and boss order doesn't necessarily mean anything in terms of power
Pre timeskip is more or less an optional thing, but also has other details. But there's the fact that he was interested in fighting base Byleth at the time, when Flame Emperor was more so fearful of a merged Byleth. But the focus is Post-Timeskip and I still don't think Death Knight fighting Byleth while being uninterested in everyone else automatically means he's his equal. I could just mean Jeritza is egotistical. Also, I agree in that boss order and military rank alone aren't evidence, but there are other differences. Main villains are typically assumed to be stronger than your average bosses. Also, 2 bosses fought during the same chapter are kind of a different story than boss order. Especially when the main boss is typically stronger than the sub-boss if anything. In chapter 19, Jeritza is the sub-boss while Hubert is the main boss. Also, they're both mandatory.
Also, for other FE villains. Black Knight more so comes from a more established Kingdom where the King is based on birthright, and Four Riders are just the 4 strongest generals. Plus, Black Knight has far better God tier shenanigans compared to Death Knight by the simple fact he's invincible compared to everyone else in PoR. And Radiant Dawn despite him losing his goddess blessing still has him a max leveled fully promoted unit. And same stats as his Final Chapter Floor 2 at all times. As for Camus, he's comparable to base Marth, not quite Falchion Marth. Same with Zeke being base Alm level, and Sirius is one of the strongest FE3/FE12 units in canon, but still not quite Falchion Marth tier.
Actually, I'd best consider Death Knight the Walhart of the series. The guy who one-shots everyone till you fight him as a boss? He fought Exalted Falchion Chrom, but is still not Tier 6.
But, my final point still stands. I think the fact that Byleth is merged with someone who actually tanked a Javelin is far more factual evidence than a "You're own arch nemesis wants to fight you at your best, so he went out of his way to save you because he wasn't confident enough. Not like Death Knight or Byleth ever took the direct hit and died from it in canon". Also, this is common for all RPG plots to be handled, but since this is the type of playthrough giving us the most actual story info. It's the logical assumption to assume 100% completionism. Meaning all side quests were done, all heart to heart/support conversations were viewed minus the full on ship trains since those are 1 per playthrough stuff. And most importantly, in Fire Emblem's case, the logical assumption is everyone who can be recruited was recruited and there were no casualties.
Yes, I'm sure there's many people IRL who've killed a grizzly bear with a katana. And neither of those cases would """""scale""""" anyway.
Yeah, not quite Wall level IRL humans, but a lot of them are Street level.
o, the comparison is just not good, because even a medium sized dog could cause serious injuries to any human being, meanwhile the nuke you're arguing would be survived with relative ease, nevermind that Byleth had very serious reasons to try and hold the place they'd just conquered.
A 10-B or 10-A sized dog being a threat to a 9-C human? Yes, I am resting my case. Still, it was Jeritza and not Byleth who feared for Byleth's safety. And still not like Jeritza has proof that he or Byleth would die from it. Where as Sothis and Rhea have both physically tanked Javelins before despite the former being part of Byleth and the latter both being nerfed via captivity sickness + being a bigger target that absorbs more impact compared to Byleth or Jeritza.
Payload and KE aren't necessarily related. Obviously in real life the former is much higher than the latter but IRL nukes don't have 7-B KE.
Actually, once it detonates. The Potential Energy becomes Kinetic Energy meaning both are Kinetic Energy. Yes, rocket launchers have 9-C to 9-B KE via propelling velocity but are higher levels of 9-B or some cases 9-A upon detonation. Nuclear Missiles are Tier 8 via launching velocity, but Tier 7 when they explode. Also, that only strengthens my argument because you were using IRL examples for other practices. This is a Javelin being through at 7-B levels of KE, and the impact causes a lot more damage than the simple soaring through the air. And it allegedly does serious damage to characters who might as well be High 6-A either way.
In your opinion, which I mostly disagree with and haven't seen
A scientific analysis based on scientific reasoning while explaining the examples is an opinion? Same thing has been said about basic math formulas but that doesn't make them right.
This is just not about fire emblem at all anymore so I'm going to ignore it for the sake of brevity.
Then you probably shouldn't have yelled at me or called me a pseudo intellectual to begin with.
We're debating right now. I haven't seen the Sothis statements so I have no opinion on that.
Fair enough, but that's all that really matters now, so maybe this should be the last super length post out of either of us. And we can stop talking about the Javelins if we just decide on the Sothis scaling.
The method for splitting stuff is the same, no matter whether it's done to a sheet of steel or mt. Everest.
It would still be like 15x higher due to being 15x taller object. But still 8-B and thus not too impressive. So I already said I'm retracting that part from the list of feats.
Kishuna doesn't even fight back... And the statements obviously vary between characters, nevermind that we don't have a Kishuna page.
But we do have some for other optional bosses from Three Houses, and Kishuna would still be having notable durability feats. But still, optional bosses are not leagues above main bosses if side quests are implied to be gone through.
Not only is the Death Knight not an actual experiment, but Edelgard is literally the only human on Earth who has two Crests (they consider Lysithea a failure cause of her lifespan), she is literally the pinnacle of their achievements, it's not necessarily a power thing.
Lysithea still has two crests, so a false statement regardless of whether or not relevant about "Edelgard being the only one with two crests". Or whether she's seen as a failure. She still becomes their strongest in the end save Verdant Wind where they have Nemesis to resurrect instead. But there is still too much unknown information about the Death Knight's tier which RTX already addressed.
... because he is treating it as a game.
Okay... But not the most relevant detail anymore.
Anyway, I have work today, so this might be the last time I post here in a while.