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I'm making this thread partly because I don't understand, but also because it doesn't make sense.
Characters who harm another character with piercing weaponry (swords, spears, firearms, etc) cannot scale their attack potency 1-1 with the durability of the character that they harmed. It just isn't logical in so many ways.
For starters, whether we include it in our system or not there is such a thing as durability at different scales. This is a fact. Just because Saitama is High 6-A doesn't mean he's High 6-A at the atomic level, or the molecular level, etc. If I hit him with a 6-A attack at the atomic level, you bet it's going right through him, despite it being much weaker than his stated durability. Why? Because durability cannot be conventionally focused to protect smaller attacks.
Now obviously the scale of atomic level attacks is an extreme, but even on a slightly smaller scale do we see weaker attacks hurting stronger foes. The energy from a smaller attack such as a 9-C handgun bullet is still enough to punch through and harm a 9-B elephant. It's being dispersed against a smaller surface area. This is conventional physics, we use it as a base when comparing and debating other characters.
Yeah I know we use attack potency as a measure to see what tier of characters can this person damage, but we should also take into account the amount of damage they can inflict. Swords and guns are usually doing minute levels of surface damage in the hopes of grazing an organ and causing shutdown. If I poke a bear in the eye am I suddenly 9-B AP?
What's an example of characters who have a tier far higher than they deserve because of piercing weaponry?
Levi Ackerma. He's rated as High 8-C with his blades which are able to cut through building sized titans. This doesn't make sense to me, most of the time he kills a titan he's only cutting past the surface of the skin in order to hit their self destruct button. There are times where he can cut a small finger or two off, but even then that's in no way comparable to the energy delivered by Eren Yeager (the 15m muscle giant), and yet they share the same attack potency. Are you really telling me he's delivering an equivalent amount of energy as a giant titan? If he were, he'd shatter his arms and destroy his own body, it's acknowledged he's only 9-B in durability.
(Then why is he able to harm them? Because his energy is being delivered on a significantly smaller scale, and thus it's able to punch through and harm them. He's using focused pressure.)
Characters who harm another character with piercing weaponry (swords, spears, firearms, etc) cannot scale their attack potency 1-1 with the durability of the character that they harmed. It just isn't logical in so many ways.
For starters, whether we include it in our system or not there is such a thing as durability at different scales. This is a fact. Just because Saitama is High 6-A doesn't mean he's High 6-A at the atomic level, or the molecular level, etc. If I hit him with a 6-A attack at the atomic level, you bet it's going right through him, despite it being much weaker than his stated durability. Why? Because durability cannot be conventionally focused to protect smaller attacks.
Now obviously the scale of atomic level attacks is an extreme, but even on a slightly smaller scale do we see weaker attacks hurting stronger foes. The energy from a smaller attack such as a 9-C handgun bullet is still enough to punch through and harm a 9-B elephant. It's being dispersed against a smaller surface area. This is conventional physics, we use it as a base when comparing and debating other characters.
Yeah I know we use attack potency as a measure to see what tier of characters can this person damage, but we should also take into account the amount of damage they can inflict. Swords and guns are usually doing minute levels of surface damage in the hopes of grazing an organ and causing shutdown. If I poke a bear in the eye am I suddenly 9-B AP?
What's an example of characters who have a tier far higher than they deserve because of piercing weaponry?
Levi Ackerma. He's rated as High 8-C with his blades which are able to cut through building sized titans. This doesn't make sense to me, most of the time he kills a titan he's only cutting past the surface of the skin in order to hit their self destruct button. There are times where he can cut a small finger or two off, but even then that's in no way comparable to the energy delivered by Eren Yeager (the 15m muscle giant), and yet they share the same attack potency. Are you really telling me he's delivering an equivalent amount of energy as a giant titan? If he were, he'd shatter his arms and destroy his own body, it's acknowledged he's only 9-B in durability.
(Then why is he able to harm them? Because his energy is being delivered on a significantly smaller scale, and thus it's able to punch through and harm them. He's using focused pressure.)
