By the way, doing my own reading of the very long OP, I also find points that I find extremely flawed and I might as well point it out myself.
>If you notice, outliers are singular events or incidents, the wording is not plural. An outlier is an object from a set that is not similar to the set. These feats of were actually consistent for the Kage and consistent for Momoshiki and Kinshiki. Outliers can be a super high-end feat or an extremely low-end feat that is not consistent with the majority of a character's feat.
>Okay, as I explained above, this is not an inconsistency for the Kage, these are literally their first feats as of Boruto era. By definition they are not inconsistent. The feats make up literally the entirety for an unamped Base Momoshiki and make up all the feats for Kinshiki except for possibly one. That is consistency.
This is not neccessarily wrong, but it's being applied in a very wrong way. The OPs points about these being consistent feats and not outliers would only be the case if the Kage Momoshiki and Kinshiki fought were entirely new characters. Which, of course, they obviously are not. And what do I mean by "new characters"? I mean characters who have only appeared as of recently in a series and have literally no backstory, previous showings, and of course no feats prior to the arc they debut in to suggest what they do recently is inconsistent. Which absolutely does not apply to the Kage at all.
Just because the Kage fighting the Otsutsuki are their "first feats as of Boruto era" doesnt mean that they cannot still be outliers or inconsistent feats. The Kage, especially Gaara of all people, are again not new characters all of a sudden who have no previous stats and feats to compare. May I remind people that before Boruto was a thing, these 4 kage were generally treated as fodder. Gaara is an exception for being a Kage in Shippuden, but the other 3? Darui, the only other Kage that has a page here, and is argubly stronger than Kurotsuchi and Chojiro in Shippuden, was at best a 7-C. And Gaara is just a lower end of 7-A in Shippuden.
This is not the same thing as [insert here] new character who pops into the franchise with no prior history. What the new character does in the arc they debut in cannot be an outlier or inconsistency for them because they're new. They have literally no feats prior to when they first appear, so what they do in their debut is their literal first feats in existence. Ever. An outlier is based on comparing previous feats with recent feats and whichever is consistent takes the priority, making the inflated feat inconsistent. So if a character is previously country level, but busts out a Planet level feat out of nowhere, the planet level feat is an actual outlier. But, if this new character has absolutely no previous showings prior to performing the planet level feat, then that first feat is whats consistent and cannot be an outlier.
The Kage are blatantly opposite of that. Characters who have been in the series since Shippuden (or in Gaaras case, from the start) and have previous feats and standings in the verse before moving up a rank in Boruto. Unless you want to sit here and make the argument that Gaara and the other 4 Kage have consistently trained to develop their skills (which is very doubtful as even Naruto himself finds very little time to train and was pointed out to have gotten rusty by Kurama) to become massively stronger by the point of Boruto, their feats as new Kages in this era can still easily be outliers/inconsistent feats.
There's a difference between entirely new characters doing feats and old characters doing new feats.
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