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If the Shosa fight is all that suggests Krillin and 18 being on par, that's not enough evidence, I'd say. 18 was casually stomping Shosa, who caught her off guard when pushing her back. Her and Krillin only fought together for a brief period and easily defeated Shosa in a scene that was clearly supposed to just be meant to show their affection. Anyways, 18 was fighting alongside the others against Aniraza, dodging and also tanking attacks from Aniraza just as well as them, which, according to scaling, would mean that 18 could tank and shrug off an attack that would obliterate Krillin. Goku says that they'll also have to make up for 18's knockout, which further implies that she was actually useful in the fight, whereas Krillin would be irrelevant. 18 and 17 were also sort of made out as being comparable if not roughly equal in that episode, which would make sense narratively.I mean, unless you want 3-A Krillin, 3-A 18 isn't happening. I think it's better to treat Ribrianne vs Goku an outlier than saying Krillin and 18 an Universal via scaling to her.
It's also really not too absurd to claim that Krillin is 3-A, considering how he could perform against Gohan and Goku, even if they were heavily suppressed. Kachi Katchin destruction was always kind of weird anyways, with Gohan in the Buu Saga not actually attacking the Katchin at full power (they just used it as a test for a likely unreinforced Z-Sword with no one expecting that the Katchin was stronger), and on top of all that, we don't actually know how much stronger Kachi Katchin is, so if anything, the whole Katchin scaling isn't really concrete.
Even when it comes to the argument of absurdity, I'd say it actually leans in Krillin's favor. Is it more ridiculous to claim that Krillin is 3-A than it is to claim that Krillin is literally less than 0.0001% of base Goku's power, especially when considering what we actually see in the show?