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- Preparation (Garou studied the fighting styles, secret techniques, and whereabouts of heroes from a hero guide before confronting them. He did this right before engaging Death Gatling's squad, which proved useful in the fight)
- Instinctive Reaction (Fist of Flowing Water, Crushed Rock allows his body to move autonomously during crisis, as demonstrated when he involuntarily used the technique to counter Tanktop Master's finishing blow, stating it "slipped out". Evaded Chain'n'Toad's Ear Nabber instinctively. Can fight while asleep) added the part about countering Tanktop Master and fighting asleep.
- Extrasensory Perception (Sensed he was being watched by a monster. Can sense bloodlust)
- Social Influencing (Reputation & Instigated Fear; Gained a reputation as the “Hero Hunter” for thrashing heroes, causing fear among many individuals, including Hero Association Executives who hired S-Class heroes as bodyguards to protect their top investors)
- Vibration Manipulation via Tanktop Blow (Garou unbalances and distracts his opponent by striking the ground with tremendous force, causing shockwaves to spread)
- Stealth Mastery (Snuck up on heroes, monsters, and even Hero Association executives)
- Energy Manipulation (Fist of Flowing Water, Crushed Rock takes knowledge of the flow of energy behind raging currents and tidal surges, recreating these forces within one's body and channeling them through the fists)
- Limited Damage Boost (Fist of Flowing Water, Crushed Rock can reflect attacks two-fold)
- Poison Manipulation (Fought through the effects of poisonous arrows while battling multiple heroes)
- Pressure Points (Withstood Bang's Fist of Flowing Water, Crushed Rock, which incapacitates by striking pressure points)
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- Healing (Can replenish his blood by eating monsters)
- Fusionism (As his body healed from the injuries, his clothing fused with his wounds and hardened)
- Surface Scaling (Can run on walls) he could do this in his human key, but I wasn't sure if this was surface scaling since he's not moving
- Shockwave Generation & Durability Negation (Harmed Darkshine by sending shockwaves through his body, making him cough up blood from his mouth and nose. With Darkshine’s durability being so immense that he is incapable of even scratching himself, someone with comparable strength like Garou couldn’t have harmed him through conventional means)
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- Further Statistics Amplification (With Fist of Exploding Heart, Liberation, By making his heart pulse explosively in time with the impact of his punches, he can surpass the limits of his body)
- Limited Power Nullification (Canceled out Bomb's Fist of Whirling Wind, Slashing Steel)
- Bodily Weaponry (Grew sharp claws, spikes on his arms and shoulders, and sharp teeth)
- Light Manipulation (Formed a geometric structure of light trough sheer movement)
- Non-Physical Interaction (Elemental; Scales to Bang, who can interact with energy-based attacks. Superior in skill to heroes who could deflect Homeless Emperor’s energy spheres) he should be as skilled, if not more skilled than Bang at this point
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Edit:
Psykos did experiments on Orochi, making him experience near death conditions over and over again, causing his body to adapt and evolve. When Saitama turned Orochi into pieces, Orochi was able to regenerate due to his body evolving /overcoming near death conditions. Garou is explicitly stated to possess superior qualities and greater potential than Orochi. This directly implies that his adaptive abilities—regeneration included—would naturally evolve to meet and exceed the thresholds that Orochi had to reach in order to survive his own near-death experiences
So this is not just granting abilities based on being comparable. Regeneration is an inevitable stage among monsters who evolve through “overcoming death”.
Conclusion:
Garou should be able to evolve to High- Mid because:
Abilities
- Marksmanship (Successfully threw a helicopter in a net 500 meters away)
- Greater Reactive Evolution (Stated that his monsterification was speeding up. His body started to evolve due to his rage, causing him to overflow with power)
- Energy Projection (Unleashes attacks that discharge energy)
- Fire Manipulation (Has fire on his thighs and back) first image is from a retconned chapter but the form is still the same
- Unconventional Statistics Amplification (Can fire energy beams out of hands to propel himself forward and increase his speed for greater impact)
- Immortality (Types 3) & Regeneration (At least Low-Mid, up to (or possibly up to) High-Mid with Reactive Evolution; As a monster who broke his limiter, he should be capable of surviving and regenerating similarly to, if not greater than Orochi. Psykos stated that Garou had greater potential than Orochi)
Edit:
Psykos did experiments on Orochi, making him experience near death conditions over and over again, causing his body to adapt and evolve. When Saitama turned Orochi into pieces, Orochi was able to regenerate due to his body evolving /overcoming near death conditions. Garou is explicitly stated to possess superior qualities and greater potential than Orochi. This directly implies that his adaptive abilities—regeneration included—would naturally evolve to meet and exceed the thresholds that Orochi had to reach in order to survive his own near-death experiences
So this is not just granting abilities based on being comparable. Regeneration is an inevitable stage among monsters who evolve through “overcoming death”.
Conclusion:
Garou should be able to evolve to High- Mid because:
- Garou’s regen has shown to evolve along with his power
- Gaoru has a higher ceiling for evolving than Orochi due to breaking his limiter
- Psykos down right stated that he can surpass Orochi, who evolved from being turned to meat pieces
- Regeneration is a guaranteed thing for monsters experiencing growth through overcoming near death/death.
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- Explosion Manipulation, Heat Manipulation & Sound Manipulation (With Nuclear Fission, which can reach temperatures of tens of millions of degrees and exceed 240 decibels, capable of killing a human through multiple lethal effects)
- Greater Fear Manipulation & Aura (His aura exudes pressure that causes fear and despair)
- Explosion Manipulation & Extreme Temperatures (Unaffected by his own nuclear fission explosions, which can reach tens of millions of degrees. Fought on the -130 degree surface of Io with no issue) added explosion manipulation
- Fear Manipulation (Resisted the fear induced by God's mere presence. He also showed no signs of fear as his life and power were being stripped away, which had Homeless Emperor afraid)
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Giving Garou at least Possibly NPI shouldn’t be an issue since we gave Orochi a possible rating for Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist and Awakening Breath because he copied one of Garou’s other techniques. If anything, this case has even more evidence supporting it.
Not sure if this should include spiritual NPI, since he never saw Saitama interact with spiritual stuff. But we’ve seen Garou use the abilities he copies in ways beyond what was shown, like when he used Gravity Knuckle to absorb a blast, due to his understanding of the flow of all forces in the universe..
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- Dimensional Travel (via portals) he already has interdimensional range on his profile for returning from the dimension blast sent him
- Greater Enhanced Senses (After copying Saitama, he was able to maneuver and fight him across the remains of IO—which is larger than Earth's moon—despite being completely disoriented just moments prior, unable to tell which way was up or down, like a bug trapped in a shaking cage. He should also be able to determine where a portal will lead the moment it opens, similar to Saitama) —This was already accepted in this thread but wasn't applied
- Non-Physical Interaction (or possibly) (Space & Spirit; Should have acquired this ability after copying Saitama upon witnessing him perform it)
Giving Garou at least Possibly NPI shouldn’t be an issue since we gave Orochi a possible rating for Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist and Awakening Breath because he copied one of Garou’s other techniques. If anything, this case has even more evidence supporting it.
Not sure if this should include spiritual NPI, since he never saw Saitama interact with spiritual stuff. But we’ve seen Garou use the abilities he copies in ways beyond what was shown, like when he used Gravity Knuckle to absorb a blast, due to his understanding of the flow of all forces in the universe..
Resistances to:
- Possibly Shockwave Generation
& Durability Negation(Scaling to Saitama, who resisted the Fist of Roaring Qi, Rending Air)
Agree: DarkDragonMedeus, FinePoint(agrees with possible High-Mid regeneration and everything else), LephyrTheRevanchist(only disagrees with limited Power Nullification), ActuallySpaceMan42(only disagrees with limited Power Nullification, Initial Energy Manipulation, and the Immortality & Regen scaled from Orochi)
Disagree:
Neutral:
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