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Souther even before Ken discovered his secret concedes that Ken is superior to him. During Raoh gaiden, which is set even before Ken fought Raoh the first time, 30% Raoh is so much stronger than Souther that even a blocked punch is powerful enough to give Souther internal bleeding, same Raoh Ken would go on to pretty much match 1:1; it's true that Souther would have gotten stronger in the meantime, but it's consistently shown that Hokuto users outpace everyone else in terms of development, so it shouldn't matter. The reason why souther seems unphased by ken's blows is that ken doesn't put power in his pressure point strikes since he doesn't need to, we see that he's easily capable of showing his full hand inside Souther's chest if he wants toI respectfully disagree with Souther's placing. He's not equal or that comparable to 100 Ken, if you go by Viz translation he says "I was no match for the Successor of Hokuto Shinken" not to mention base Ken adapted to him and was Blitzing him. I also don't understand how Souther is equal to Falco who's somehow just Souther Arc Ken?
Falco is just much stronger than Raoh, straight up, he was equal to Raoh during HNK1 and then he had 10 years of development on top of that.
This is why I say HNK2 should just be segregated from HNK1 in terms of scaling, even Solia should be eons stronger than Raoh realistically speaking
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