Showing a cropped panel I already responded to, wherein Maki is travelling further than Yuji and had to grab Yuji and use him as a weapon. Like again I'm not saying Maki should be blitzing Yuji, Yuji "keeping up" isn't in contention, the issue is you saying Yuji is EQUAL to Maki in speed.
Which is wrong because all of the times Sukuna calls her impressive are in regards to her durability and strength. He doesn't even give a vague statement of "she is a big threat" or something it's always implied to regard to those two things. If he is so impressed with her speed then give me a panel of him even implying that's the case.
Sukuna saying "her durability is impressive" isn't the same thing as saying "ONLY her durability is impressive". I'm saying her speed is ALSO impressive and you're using scenes of Sukuna mentioning to durability to argue that therefore means it's only durability, that's incredibly fallacious. You can't prove Sukuna ONLY thinks her durability is impressive via him talking about durability, so you can't use it as a counter to me bringing up Maki's speed feats.
Alright so I've made a (probably very obvious) realisation. The rocks Maki and Suk are scaling are going upwards while I always thought they where horizontally for some reason. However this actually helps my case because at the end of the page we see that Yuji and Maki arrive at the top at the same time (we know it's the same time because there's still speedlines on the page as well as an arch showing how Sukuna moved implying this is at the end of their movements)
Maki wasn't going in a straight line, she was zig-zagging whilst chaotically clashing with someone instead of dashing from point A to B, so Yuji dashing to point A and arriving at the same time as her is an anti-feat if anything.
As for the "Maki intentionally started jumping with Sukuna point" yes that is the case but it's not so she can use her full speed or smth. It's because Sukuna was jumping to escape from them (the whole point of the spiderweb move was so that he can put them out of balance for a but) and they needed to catch up to him. Obviously she would chase after him through the rocks because that's the quickest way to get to him
You just said Yuji had no issue arriving at the same point as Sukuna and Maki as a point for Yuji's speed, so why would Maki risk fighting 1-on-1 if by your own logic she didn't need to?
Ok but why wouldn't she? When she talks about speeding things up she mentions that their goal is to capture Sukuna, which would require her to use her full speed.
This isn't my burden of proof, if character at time 1 is shown to be x speed but at time 2 is shown to be y speed, and y > x, then it's basic inference that their either got faster between time 1 and time 2 or were holding back at time 1, so the point I'm making is even if you can prove Maki is equal to Yuji in this scene then that doesn't successfully contend with her feats in Shinjuku given there's no proof she's going all out. So asking "but why would she hold back" isn't important, I could say I don't know and my argument would be just as valid. Though even ignoring this, there is a pretty common sense reason of her wanting to coordinate attacks with Yuji still as combining your attacks with a third party could be more advantageous than running in on your own against an opponent.
Yes that's literally how knee strikes work
A knee strike is hitting someone with your knee, i.e. you need to move your knee in a way which would actually connect with their body, holding your knee to your chest to block a punch isn't a "knee strike"....
The point is that using RCT to heal from a lethal attack takes a lot of energy, even Gojo could have eventually drained himself if he kept using RCT continually, and that failing to RCT one of the injuries would obviously put a strain on him
Yuji has blood manipulation which mitigates the fatigue imposed on a sorcerer via RCT, this is stressed in the story. That's not to say Yuji would never fatigue, but if the story never shows any indication of fatigue and even goes out of its way to say "the technique Yuji's using specifically mitigates fatigue", AND we having scaling chains showing no significant drop in performance.... yea I don't see why you think Yuji is massively slower here, just seems like headcanon.
They didn't react immediately because the smoke surrounding them, so they wouldn't have known what direction Sukuna went from
They were literally holding him down, they would've felt him move, and also the smoke seems to be from Choso's attack which he's dodging so it wouldn't have obscured his movement.
The moment Sukuna actually got very interested in Maki was when he realised the whole "sorcery vs physical body" thing at which point he ******* perception blitzed her. I'd argue he would be trying harder against Yuji than he did in most of the Maki fight since he had already vowed to crush Yuji's ideals by that point and was clearly very pissed when fighting him.
Sukuna only started getting pissed later in the fight, also trying to gauge Sukuna's interest for scaling is inherently assumptive so I don't buy into it. Tbf tho, if you asked me 257 Yuji vs Maki I think that's actually extremely close. Maki has the better win con imo (she just needs one hit with SSK on the head, and healing soul wounds would slow Yuji down) but I actually would assume Yuji has the better stats (durability is a toss up), though again I don't think EoS, or even post-259, Yuji has the same stats as 257 Yuji due to the difference in performance against weaker versions of Sukuna (such as
this embarrassing play in 263).
Looking at the nerfs Sukuna had between the two fights I'd say they're pretty even. Sukuna's biggest nerf between them was losing an arm which obviously detrimental but he also landed thre Black Flashes which substantially recovered his output (both RCT and CE)
Yuji removed the boost he got from 2 BFs with his own 7 BF hits onto Sukuna's soul (hence why he couldn't regain RCT)
His conviction might have been shaken post Choso fight but he clearly figured it out by the end (265 is literally just a big therapy session for him) and was able to duke it out with a Sukuna that had recovered his RCT and all for of his arms.
Sukuna is WAYYYYY more nerfed there than ever before. Yuji went from outperforming Sukuna to being carried by Todo against a CT burn out Sukuna, and then Sukuna got hit with a HP to the face and Yuji (without Todo) couldn't land a hit. Sukuna then got RCT and was bullying Yuji inside his own domain whilst 2 hands were occupied, and then after Megumi awoke (lowering output), Nobara hit resonance to remove his CT and damage the soul, and Yuji's surehit landed dicing up Sukuna's soul he was still going blow for blow with Yuji.
Yuji retains the boosts he gains with BF. All that's different between base EOS Yuji and the Yuji that was fighting Sukuna was that one is in the zone and the other isn't. And the zone is something he enters if he lands even a single Black Flash.
I don't agree with this, not much in the story suggests a sorcerer maintains a permanent amp from BF, the best we have is Nobara remembering the zone she entered and trying to mimic that level of CE mastery during Shibuya, but that's not the same as her retaining her stat amp nor would it be applicable to Yuji who had already experienced that state several times by now.
stop rating omfg
. Notice Maki never states she's going all out too.
