@Lancelot That tone won't help at all. If I wanted that kind of response I would have started out with something like this - the fact that this thing is being forced here so hard is asinine. It would have literally been laughed at any other year or in any other community. Not to mention, wherever I go, the wiki has already become a laughingstock due to this headcanon of a few people.
I was on the last 5 threads involving this debate and it was painful to see how such a simple thing never reached a conclusion even though the majority of people and admins were on the same page. Characters with enough reiatsu of their own can resist reiatsu crush effects, even if they are weaker than the enemy whose reiatsu they are trying to resist - so long as the gap isn't massive. But if the enemy has multiple times the reiryoku and reiatsu, resisting becomes difficult. Reiatsu crush is negged in-verse by simply being on a higher level of spiritual strength.
It doesn't work on anyone having higher reiryoku/spiritual strength/AP. That's how the power works. It is quite evident that the efficiency of this ability is directly dependent on the spiritual energy level / reiryoku level / AP. It doesn't mean a much weaker character can't have innate resistance to it. Which makes it an exception that goes against the established norm.
It is the caveat of the ability that it's not potent enough to be working on people with a higher power level. Not the other way around. And just because you can't tell the caveat from actual resistance doesn't mean you can disguise the limitation of the ability by making a headcanon and adding a whole another spin to it. Till now I haven't seen any accepted CRT with scans backing up this headcanon, and most people including extremely knowledgeable and trusted people and staff disagree with that line of thought (except a select few).
Energy equalization just means that
| A supernatural energy that almost everyone in a verse has, which is necessary to fight the characters of said verse, will be assumed to be the equivalent energy that the opponents use in their techniques so that a proper fight can happen. |
Which basically means Chakra, Ki, Reiryoku, Nen, etc are all able to interact with each other and treated the same way under the umbrella term "energy".
That doesn't mean characters would gain abilities or resistances which they don't inherently posses. But it means that if an ability has a caveat of not working on characters due to some attribute of energy X (such as having a fixed amount of X), and the energy Y is similar to it, that caveat would still hold.
For eg: If an ability can be rendered useless by having a higher Nen(energy) aura around you in HxH, it would also be rendered useless by having a higher Chakra(energy) aura. If an ability doesn't work on people having higher spiritual energy in Bleach, it wouldn't work on people having higher energy in another verse having similar type of energy, because both energies are able to interact with each other and because of the limitation of the ability in question.
We're reaching a point where a few selected people are arguing around the extremely flawed logic of "this ability is only resisted by characters with higher ki, so it can't be resisted by characters from another verse having higher energy level because ki is different" or "this character resisted normal or magic fire, but my character has ki based fire so the opponent gets burned".
EDIT: I apologize for the wall of text. That was two comments worth of material.
