This is the sequence of events. Uraume was not off-guard, they simply think Piercing Blood is fast, which is why they remarked "It's fast!" And that scan of them holding back is in regards to their power— particularly the power of their Cursed Technique— not their speed.
Nothing here refutes the context I've established; Uraume considered Choso weak and then was shocked he wasn't as weak as they have thought (hence the comment of surprise). You also have no evidence that by holding back they only meant their cursed technique, it's completely headcanon.
Point is we have a character who is stated to hold back, vaguely, and we see them reacting to a supersonic attack whilst holding back and off guard but then when going all out we seem them reacting to someone who can dodge lightning. Trying to argue "well maybe by holding back it's about the CT, not speed, therefore it's an outlier!" is absurd, the info we're presently paints no inherent contradiction so we shouldn't invent one.
Its compared to a sure hit because of how it works, it is not an actual sure hit.
I never said it's an actual sure-hit, I'm saying that comparison demonstrates it's likely not something which can dodged simply by evading it.
And go reread what M3x already pointed out, he should've been reacted before it got close to to him.
During a fight there could be numerous contextual reasons why someone would react to something only as it grows closer, such as not expecting that kind of attack, point is we can measure Hakari's movements compared to the lightning so trying to argue it's a blitz is incoherent.
No is talking about houses destroyed, I'm talking about glass being shattered. And damn, my point is not about the visuals lmao.
You literally phrased it as the city block being destroyed, but sure you weren't talking about the houses only the... glass? lol. If it's not the visuals then what purpose does the glass serve also? What is there besides visuals?
Who denied it???
You both are genuinely not reading a thing I've said holy shit.
You literally said Hakari lacks the speed to be comparable to the top tiers and is instead slower than grade 1's like Naoya because he never makes sonic booms and stuff, so I showed how Hakari is in fact a high tier. Saying "but who's denying that?!??!!" is so disingenuous.
Yes, characters can get blitzed by something and still manage to dodge it. The lightning was only that close to Hakari because it was too fast for him to react earlier. Same goes for Piercing Blood where Itadori was blitzed by it and when it reached a certain distance he managed to react.
Site rules. Deal with it.
A blitz by definition is something you're unable to sufficiently react to, those "site rules" should change.
Someone 500x faster than a technique statues it in a verse where 3x (even less) can blitz people who can react to you
It wasn't a point blank feat or an attack that was invisible
You'll have a better ground to stand on if Uraume didn't comment on the technique being fast
Not a 10x difference
500x
Let's be real please
Why are you removing the entire context of the feat and trying to simplify it to "Uraume was hit by PB"? Why not engage with the context I've shown evidence for and mentioned 3+ times now?
Even Sukuna himself used Piercing Water
on Gojo and there was only
one Sonic Boom
It's almost as if PB gets faster when used by better sorcerers....
If you have strong evidence that they were holding back their speed, or that they didn't really mean it when they said "It's fast!" when facing Piercing Blood, I'd love to see it.
You're acting as if it's obvious that they were holding back their speed by >1000x in this moment, but you've added nothing at all to the discussion to back up this frankly extraordinary claim.
Maybe it was when Uraume themself said they hold back on opponents?
Assuming it did cross the distance between them in 1 second (and we have no real reason to assume it would take any less than that), that would net it less than Mach 12.
Hollow Purple crossed that distance before Sukuna could even react until the last minute, with Sukuna scaling above GWE Todo who can react to point blank attacks within time frames of 0.01 seconds.
Irrelevant argument because Naoya experiencing a 120% boost (Mach 3.6?) =/= Naoya suddenly being able to instantly move at top speeds.
Also, Naoya only ever reached Mach 3 once, and only after exploding into a jet of pressurized air in a straight line.
This is untrue, it's stated he reached max speed when darting around trying to hit awakened Maki (and failing to do so).