WHM has nothing to do with Joint Training Arc Izuku. Don't act like I haven't seen the movie. I'm currently seeing how he moves, and those movements are simple. Nothing like he did while at 8%, excluding flashy effects. His fight with NIghteye had far better movement.
Izuku is not strong enough to just burst through Geten's ice, they're AP is around equal. And Izuku cannot throw out shockwaves in 20% like he'll do during the War Arc with 45%. His air force attack are for only finger flicks. A standard 20% kick will produce a shockwave, which will get weaker ever meter away something is from the center.
From 10 meters away, the energy of his attack would be around Small Building level. Easily blocked by Geten's ice, it'd do zero damage whatsoever. While Geten will stay up over dozens of meters, if not 100 meters in the air as he rains down ice on Izuku. Large amounts that'll cover an entire city block.
With his superior Lifting Strength as well, with Ice too heavy for Izuku to move if he gets crushed by it.
I thought you brought up WHM, so that’s my mistake. But I disagree that his movements against Nine were not impressive considering every movement was breaking bones.
He doesn’t have to bust every single ice structure to get through them, he can easily just pull a Bakugo and tunnel through the ice with repeated attacks at a single point. Or do his spin attack and drill through the ice.
Why would it become 9-A? In WHM we see that the air pressure from 15/20% can go several meters without dropping in potency. I know WHM is in the future, but the mechanics of OFA are static, so there’s no reason why it would have harsh drop off here but none later at the exact same percentage. So yea, he can weaponize air pressure from any attack.
The thing Deku is mainly contending with is the AoE of Geten’s attacks and that he can summon it all over the place quite quickly. But Deku already has experience with stuff like this from Todoroki. He would analyze his quirk, realize any flaws he has in his defense, predict where he’s going to attack and just outmaneuver him.
He can dodge around his ice despite his “restrained” movements because even at 20% he’s ridiculously athletic. He can break any restraints to avoid being pinned down, or just do what he did against Gentle and dig into the ground to escape.
Deku can reach over a 100 meters in the air with a single jump, that’s not hard for him to do, especially if they’re in a city where he has stuff to bounce off of. He could just as easily use Geten’s own ice attacks to jump off of and get higher.
Deku has many ways of getting around Geten’s advantages even if his movements are restricted by 20%, and he definitely has the intelligence and stamina to take a win.
