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Hypersonic+ is where most people already are. We also recently have Megumi capable of slightly reacting to explosions which helps solidify the rating goven he had notably lesser reactions than even Maki recently and isn’t as physically inclined.Unfortunately idk how to make this post 'aesthetically pleasing' or 'easier to read', but...basically speed scaling tiers should be something like this:
1.) Hakari and Kashimo as the current god tiers of the verse speed wise with the lightning timing calc and both of them getting much faster over the course of the fight, with Hakari getting blitz levels of Kashimo at the end of 188. Lore/Narrative wise it also works as Kashimo is narratively the most dangerous opponent in the early parts of the Culling Games and Hakari has like 4 different statements in and out of the manga that says or implies he's above Yuta.
Full Power Sukuna and Gojo should get a likely rating for this as they 'should' scale above.
15 Finger Sukuna shouldn't scale to this though.
As for the Naobito statement, it wasn't fact, but 'Naobito is known as'. Its 'word on the street' kinda scaling.
But even then, Kashimo exists outside of the Naobito statement as he was dead when it was made. And Hakari should as well as he's
A.) Been suspended/out of the eye of the Jujutsu World for a year, so they have no idea his current strength
B.) Even assuming they know his current strength, they would have to somehow measure his speed compared to Naobito's. The 'good for nothing' High School Student with a weird technique that the higher ups hate vs a clan head leader who's ability displays his speed at all times + confuses people's perceptions if they don't understand the frame aspect.
C.) Blatantly has higher feats by narrative (straight up times lightning on panel and gets blitz levels faster, is considered to be stronger than Yuta and Tokyo School's secret weapon even with Yuta being known to all, with Naoya and Naobito scaling relative) and calcs (both the electricity speed calc and the lightning speed calc)
D.) Naobito and Naoya should be relative as the reason why Naobito was the fastest was 'strategic movement and timing', rather than having a faster version of Projection Sorcery or more raw speed. Their CT speed should be relative but Naobito moves and times things 'better' making him 'faster'.
E.) The statement was made before these characters were even introduced in the story. It was also made before Yuta returned from training in Africa, so even if you imply he was a character that was introduced, his current power would be unknown. And shonen power progression is a thing, because in the literal next arc, Naoya has feats above Naobito's, and people scale to or above Naoya
2./2.5) Next speed tier under would either be Cursed Naoya or Yuta/Ryu/Uro. I dunno who's universally considered faster, but they can't really upscale to Hakari since Hakari > Yuta, at least in terms of physical stats in context. They all should scale above human Naoya though, as human Naoya was basically cucking down to Base Yuta.
3.) Next tier would be Human Naoya, Naobito, Maki, Choso, Current Yuji and anyone who scales to them. Maki could react and has combat speed relative to Human Naoya, Choso is similar, and Yuji while injured and holding back scales to Base Yuta. Him getting 'blitzed' by Projection Sorcery isn't an anti feat as everyone that see's PS notes that it's not just speed, but 'something else' which we know is the fps aspect. So it's expected to blitz people who are off guard. Even Maki was getting blitzed by it at first even when she can react to that speed. She had to get the specific timing of the CT to counter.
That and a weaker 4 Finger Shibuya arc Yuji could 'anime speed vanish' blitz relative to the Supersonic Piercing Blood, so in terms of reactions he can see supersonic attacks, and in short burst movements he can 'blitz' them to a higher degree than Hakari dodged the lightning. That weaker 4 Finger Yuji could also keep up with FRSS Choso in terms of combat speed, and while Choso's reactions were lower due to not focusing on his eyes, his combat speed was still somewhat relative to Naoya. Current Yuji ate 15 total fingers, got amped in the Mahito fight in Shibuya, and got amped again compared to his post Mahito fight self as that's the last version of Yuji Choso had seen before his 'Demon God' statement in the Culling Games arc. He specifically mentioned that Yuji was still injured there too.
(keep in mind the fingers give Yuji more CE and base stats as current Culling Game Yuji is physically Grade 1 Sorcerer level with 0 CE in his body at all while, at full power with CE, Black Flash experience, and all that in the Goodwill though Shibuya arcs with 3 and 4 fingers, he was Grade 1 level scaling to Todo and Nanami)
Base Hakari might be able to scale to this speed as before Yuji stopped fighting back, while some blows were off guard, Hakari was able to tag and beat up an on guard Yuji for a while who was actively fighting back before being knocked out of the room. This was a fully healed Yuji compared to the injured one that 'fought' and avoided all of Base Yuta's blitz and one shot attempts. And in Yuta's first blitz attempt on Yuji, he was shown moving relative in speed to Naoya, side by side. Which is more supporting evidence that the PS's FPS is what makes things hard to react to rather than raw speed, as Yuta began speeding up after noting that Yuji was fast enough to dodge his first blitz attempt and then dodged his second.
4.) This would be where the high tier Grade 1s and some Special Grade Curses go. Shibuya Todo scales in speed to Mahito fight Yuji which is stronger than Choso fight Yuji who reacted to and 'blitzed' Piercing Blood. Yuji prior to the Choso fight was scaled to Nanami physically, so Nanami should scale. Mahito upscales above Todo and Shibuya Yuji in terms of speed due to him keeping up with both of them even with Boogie Woogie. Idk if Kamo is a high tier Grade 1, but he reacted to Supersonic Naoya without even having Flowing Red Scale activated.
And then from there we just go down. Now, for Maki and Cursed Naoya's speed concretely for rating/profile purposes, we should wait until the fight is done. We don't know if Maki failed to react or if she tried what she did before, reacted, and was just overpowered. That and if she reacts to Naoya's speed, depending on how it's done, she would be beyond mach 3. And Naoya might get faster as well.
Keep in mind, even if these characters scale to higher speeds than mach 3 in terms of reactions, short burst movements, or even combat with calcs, Projection Sorcery is unique in that those character's travel/movement speeds also scale. And if you wonder why movement speed would be considered impressive in a verse full of people that have that level of reactions and such, just look at Naoya vs Maki, where they have relative reaction and combat speeds, but Naoya had the superior movement speed and was able to bully her for it for most of the fight until she figured him out.
Before we start throwing out what's contradicting author intent and what's not, we should wait until this fight finishes as the conclusion should affect the speed scaling. If Naoya shows us more and Maki or Kamo end up with feats, then that would contradict the whole Mach 3 > downgrade.
Though High Hypersonic is sounding far fetched right about now. Supersonic to Hypersonic+ is sounding more consistent for anyone outside of tier 1
I disagree with only Hakari and Kashimo scaling this far as Gojo should definitely scale, and Yuta level peeps should also scale.