On the other hand though, would you assume that the statement would apply to a simple punch from Genos?
Well we’d probably assume it’s his main weapon, his blasters
and boros’ main weapon is both punching and blasting
I don't think it's confirmed that the CSRC is always a suicide move or that Boros has never used it before (even if only to destroy a planet's surface, not just in a 1 on 1 fight). Boros' death in the series is likely a combination of his energy being used up and the damage he received from Saitama's Serious Punch.
Yes, yes it is. He has never fought someone who’s lasted long enough to see his released form’s full power, let alone meteoric burst, let alone his 2nd ace in the hole that expends all his energy, leaving him unable to regenerate or fight anymore. If anybody even made him go go meteoric burst in the first place, he would never have claimed that there was nobody to give him a good fight in the universe.
It is a suicide move in that it literally uses up
all his energy.
At the moment I'm not convinced there is a strong enough connection for a solid scaling rating between Boros and Tatsumaki's full power.
3 statements of him being the strongest in the universe says otherwise.
I wanna clarify some things:
1. "Saitama's power boost being irrelevant because he can tell Genos got stronger but thinks he himself doesn't" is not an argument. Saitama knows Genos gets stronger because he sees Genos' full power output is better than his last full power output (which is how you can tell someone got stronger unless you have some information analysis ability)
Meanwhile, Saitama himself uses so little amount of power per punch that he cannot tell the difference between two enemies he one punches. Obviously, even if Saitama had his exponential growth as something passive, if he always attacks and ends fights effortlessly he cannot notice his full power output is greater than it previously was.
Linear growth is beyond way too little to mean anything.
for example, in a graph of just 5x = y, going from x = 1 to x= 2 would double it, but going from x=2 to x=3 would be a lower multiplier, and low and lower and lower
by the time it reaches like x=1000, x=1001 literally is not a perceptible change
Saitama’s linear AD was represented as being completely FLAT on the Garou graph, further supporting that it’s completely useless
Additionally, this entire part of the argument is a complete derail from what actually matters: the Boros statements of being the strongest in the universe
2. Boros is already stronger than Tatsumaki. Check CSRC
3. Saitama was, in fact, impressed of Tatsumaki's power. Tbf you could argue actual fight should delete the possibly High 6-A from In-Training key, but I'll not deep in that because that should go for other CRT.
2. Suicide move that he never used in any of his billions of fights except for saitama, no we don’t scale powerscaling statements to his self destruct move.
3. The possibly rating is perfectly valid, given that he was unharmed by her and she was literally scared of him
Anyway, I still disagree with the upgrade. Not only the Databook has many flowery language which would end with FF as FTL, Tatsumaki as tier 2, Atomic Samurai with dura neg, etc. But it also came when all S Class' capabilities (including Tatsumaki) were mostly unknown. Also, don't forget if we consider Genos' knowledge of Boros vs Saitama as something Canon, it'd mean Gouketsu scales above Boros
doesn’t really matter if it was known or not, because the statement is still canon, and considering that tats was still considered high 6-A in in-training saitama’s story, there shouldn’t be a problem with this, not that they’re should be regardless, because you don’t get to override a canon statement with “but it was a while ago”
you can’t actually prove any kind of retcon here and that the statement was actually wrong
Speaking of that, the hyperbole argument is completely garbage at this point. The other statements are considered hyperbole because they’re contradicted and not really supported by anything else. Now, here’s what’s different
We have THREE ENTIRE statements of Boros being stronger than Tatsumaki, we have FIVE statements from saitama himself of Boros being strong, we have the additional context of Boros having never lost a fight to the strongest fighters on any other planet. So yeah, it’s an EXTREMELY supported statement, and it’s a bit baffling that you could even suggest that it’s hyperbole for someone with three canon statements proving it and a ton of evidence that he really is already a contender for the most powerful in the universe.