So what does he gain from destroying multiple city blocks? If Hori really wanted to introduce a big bad and have him flex why not take out a city if he can do it. Also by the cloud feats a city level attack would be nothing to him.
AM didn’t block his second Air Cannon he got hit by it and only takes out some buildings. Oh that’s another great question. Why didn’t the clash take out Kamino? Trying to say it was focused into a crater makes no sense when OFA specifically doesn’t work that way. It’s a plot point in the fight that AM can’t focus his power to not cause collateral and we know darn well AFO doesn’t give a hoot about collateral. Also this isn’t dbz where most of these guys can focus their energy. Only ones who can are people with quirks like Explosion or Hellflame.
Difference is dbz both has in universe statements and feats backing it up. It’s very clear in dbz why every planet doesn’t get blown up but it’s pretty nonsensical here for a villain to show up destroy something and not show what they can do or even state what they can do. Frieza is planet level, Cell is known to be stronger and says he can blow away the solar system, Buu is stronger still and is called a threat to the universe.
I don’t agree that cloud feats shouldn’t be acceptable but your argument that ‘well it’s because heroes can’t cause collateral damage so we end up with multi city block stuff’ is very wonky because villains like Muscular, AFO, High Ends etc all exists and don’t care about minimising collateral.
AFO used as much power as was necessary to take out the heroes on his door, cause some damage and appear menacing. If he took out a city, he would have killed literally millions of people, which likely was not the set up Horikoshi wanted yet, otherwise yes, he would have done it.
Also, aren’t you just adhering to an AoE fallacy at this point? It’s entirely possible that AFO literally can’t destroy that much area with his range of Air Cannon.
There not being a universal power system like Ki is irrelevant to what is being discussed. The claim is that the characters do cloud feats, but don’t cause a lot of damage to cities and landscapes, therefore every cloud feat isn’t valid. That’s just as bad as saying Luffy can fight Kaido who’s continental, but his all out punches don’t even cause city level damage, so Luffy shouldn’t be continental. Again, the logic here is simply that “they don’t do as much damage across an area.” It’s just an AoE fallacy, no different from thinking that Base Deku or Ochako can’t be high 8-c.
If we keep this logic consistent, USJ Nomu shouldn’t be relative to All Might because USJ Nomu doesn’t flatten all of UA with a punch. But we know that’s absolutely stupid cause he clashes with All Might.
And if we really want to start bitching about not enough property damage, All Might does less damage to the area around him than Bakugo does when he fights. Hell Bakugo destroying the Humarize base is a better destructive feat than anything AM has shown up, should we start praising Bakugo? Are we going to downgrade Gentle because when he kicks Deku he doesn’t take out massive parts of the forest like a High 8-C AoE attack would? Should Muscular return to 8-B cause he got defeated and went into a crater despite clashing with 100% Deku who has a 7-B+ feat without any cloud calcs? Is ShigAFO actually just 8-A because he doesn’t reshape the battlefield with a wave of his hand, despite being confirmed multiple times to be near OFA levels of strength? Should Toga lose high 8-C cause she can fight people on that level, but can’t destroy a building herself?
This belief that needing to do destruction that is always 100% consistent with the best possible feats at any given time is
not the best way for any verse to scale.
Very good okay, now tell me why most of the energy of "the best missiles of USA" for some reason goes into moving clouds instead of having a larger diameter for their fireball
You don’t even look at the calcs you judge, do you?
Without the cloud portion of the calc, just using the current one by Rusty, ONLY with the fireball/vaporization, crater and explosion size, you get
208 Gigatons (High 6-C), divide by 10 for
20.8 Gigatons (6-C).
Without any cloud dispersal, the feat still winds up at High 6-C for the missiles, 6-C for the people who scale. And none of the problems you have go away. Your entire premise for the Star and Stripe feat is WRONG. The cloud dispersal is added on to the existing feat of the explosion, it is not the sole reason for its strength. You’re just blinded by your need for the verse to be weaker.
The problem is that this is literally the best feat of destruction that came from the manga, without "cloud calculations"
No it is not, Star’s explosion is.
btw, do you have proof of that recalculation of their final clash at 7-A? I would like to see it
Can’t find it, think it was from Earthy or Timmy. Irrelevant anyway.
Wolfram’s current calc is almost baseline 7-A for Deku and All Might separately. Makes Muscular the exact same by extension so we still wind up with 7-A top tiers without the widespread destruction to match, before they then hop into 6-C scaling from Star’s missiles. The cloud portion of the calc and the other cloud dispersal feats just show that that is not their limit