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When Superman first faces Doomsday, yeah, he is most definitely much weaker than usual, or really since he was young. Thing is, that form of Doomsday had little difficulty with weakened Superman. Then, he gets what little power from the nuke in space he can, followed by a replenished Superman putting a bullrush of energy into him, bringing him up to date strength wise. I simply don't see why Superman would still be affected by the kryptonite, or why the lack of consistant sun light would bring him down below his EoS MoS self. He isn't presented as getting any weaker throughout the fight; it's just him at that age struggling against Doomsday.I mean we already have precedent for Doomsday being weaker then Zod considering the Supes he fights is clearly still recovering from Kryptonite (like he doesn't get the outright top tier scaling until the Nuke hits)