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Sukuna compliments Mahoraga cause he just deflected his CT and then said he “might’ve lost” against him when he was at 3F level. Sukuna is someone who acknowledges and values strength,I mean he gives compliments to Mahoraga yet he thinks Maho is 3f level. This is pretty similar to that, he's praising those weak because he's surprised by their level of power compared to his power.
Nothing like this is ever said by Sukuna, all he says is “when he attacks” is when the body strongly resists against him. He never says something like “oh certain kinds of attacks are fine but other more lethal kinds aren’t.” So no, one shouldn’t be more reduced than the other because both things are still “attacks” onto Megumi’s friend.The reason one would be reduced more is because it's stronger. Dismantle and cleave are slashing attacks, they are simply superior to his punches or kicks.
But if you’re using “CE output” as a general term like the premise is, then physical and CT output have to be reduced at the same time because that’s what Sukuna says in his first statement. Why would he bother using his CT on the ground to create an opening to physically punch them instead of just using his CT on them. His physicals output has to be not reduced for that scene to make sense since Sukuna was literally talking about getting around his output being reduced in the scene to begin with.Because that's two different ways of outputting ce? Physical output and CT output are different. And he used it on the ground to catch em off guard by destroying their foothold which is what happened. You can look at Yuta vs Ryu's battle as an understanding for how physical output and ct output are different, Yuta using Ryu's ct can output a higher amount of ce than his normal punches.
I’d like to also show you the followup panels to these two as well because I think they’re very important in the point you’re trying to make.I would like to show ya these two panels as I believe it shows it as his overall ce output rather than just ct output alone. Fighting Yuji, he's surprised by Yuji's sudden gain in strength, but in reality Sukuna is the one who's gotten weaker from Megumi's influence. And then him saying he'd need to polish the form up as well, could be wrong but it would imply the form overall is just weaker due to Megumi not just his ct output.
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The first image Sukuna realizes why Yuji is so strong at the moment, and it doesn’t have to do with Sukuna’s CE output falling, it has to do with Yuji’s own backstory. And with Maki this is a person he acknowledges as someone who isn’t weak, not that he himself is weakened and thereby think Maki is strong. Especially since he comes to this conclusion after realizing she had taken care of Nue.