You guys use this argument too much as a crutch. You know who also wasn’t being taken seriously in the altercation? Boruto. It makes no sense to assert Code doesn’t scale to Boruto physically given what is shown. If his goal is to corner Code and force him to retreat to where Ten-Tails is, why is his struggling to tag BASE Code with Uzuhiko without FTG? By your logic, Boruto wouldn’t scale to or above Code for the same reason, Code wasn’t taking him serious.
So now we have an unserious Code vs Unserious Boruto.
- Base Code attempts to attack from behind.
- Boruto dodges and attempts to thrust Uzuhiko.
- Code Catches Boruto’s Hand and counters with a claw strike.
- Boruto Blocks with his sword.
And they hold here in a physical struggle for a bit before Code activates WK (Out of Spite Mind you, not necessity and Boruto is shown dead serious in
Panel 2 & grimacing
Panel 1).
Except knowing what we know now, that’s not really the case.
This is not true argument. Boruto has FTG and the ability to react to Code’s attacks, as he showcased. He’s not actually “
wide open”. You can literally say that about everyone Boruto simply stands in front of.
Peripheral is a thing, and If we’re harping on “
casual” showings, Code “
casually” grabbed his thrust.
Boruto didn’t “
allow” him to do anything. Boruto was striking, and this itself defeats the narrative Boruto > Code physically. Why go through the trouble if you can just blitz & overpower? And you can’t say it’s not IC because Boruto consistently decides to Blitz all of Mitsuki’s Clones, including the main body. He blitzed Kawaki. Etc.
You haven’t actually proved that. All you can prove is Boruto was “
casual”, all your other characterizations are arbitrary. And if that is really the route you want to take, Code is in the same boat, having “
casually” done everything in Altercation up until the last part with FTG. I could also argue, “
Code was sooooo confident he could beat him, he attacked Boruto head on without any defenses or worry of counter attacks”, etc etc.
Nobody is saying Boruto couldn’t react to WK Code… FTG usage isn’t an argument for “
faster speed showings”. Naruto and Sasuke could still react to Full Power Jigen despite being far outclassed, your point? And It’s extremely disingenuous to use that Uzuhiko tag feat as the implication and legit showing is that Boruto discombobulated Code popping around him first.
And the narrative that he blitzed him is directly contradicted by the next showing of him equally reacting to Hidari (
Scan 1 |
Scan 2)in a Situation Boruto stated he was
panicking.
Again, you haven’t proven this in regards to physicals. What’s actually shown is a “Casual” Base Code is able to react and match strength with a “Casual” Boruto and both are able to react equally to enemies like Hidari. You haven’t proven otherwise, just used arbitrary characterizations on behalf of Boruto.
Irrelevant. Who would win isn’t being questioned.
Jura doesn’t consider Boruto a “threat” bc of his strength, which you are giving a false characterization of that entire situation, he considers Boruto a threat due to the
knowledge they know he possess. So the Ryu stuff is irrelevant given you’re trying to compare how Jura treats Boruto vs Code when the reasonings aren’t even comparable. And what’s even more, you conveniently leave out that while Jura doesn’t care if Ryu kills code, he gives Code the task of
killing Boruto, which goes to show it’s a frivolous whim on his part, not statement on if he “
truly” believes either are capable.
Or, I’ll just concede here if you can prove Jura wants to Kill Boruto if he shows up purely based on his strength and not the fact he considers him a threat on the basis of the information he has…
Well, as you said, we’ll see.