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This whole argument is about how Raiden does not have Reactive Power Level. If I find another piece of evidence that supports my argument why shouldn't I bring it up?
That's the point of the thread, not the argument.
I mean, your evidence is "raiden wasnt trying lol", That's not evidence, that's literal hypocrisy, conjecture and false based on literally everything we are told in that sequence.
Also saying Raiden goes all out all the time is disingenuous to the entire plot of the game. Monsoon's fight was to prove that Raiden can't simply suppress himself when facing an opponent if he wants to win.
Using a form? And Raiden actually has a bit of a crisis at one pint because he realizes that he's blindly ******* murdering and stomping people into the ground.
And yes, he does go out all the time, there's a difference between him not wanting to become a serial killer and him actively holding back. Which becomes Ripper Mode, it's own thing. Which, fyi wasn't used against Armstrong in either phase so either way.
The entire game is about philosophy and Raiden coming to terms with the fact that at the end of the day it doesn't matter if your morals stand true, the victor is right. This is a very blatant in Armstrong's fight as Raiden was still of the belief that he would only kill for justice, not anger. That changed in the beginning of phase 2, and was hammered home with Armstrong's dying breath basically saying Raiden was doing the exact same thing he was doing: Killing to achieve his goals no matter the cost.
Yes, that's true. But it doesn't mean Raiden is suddenly punching drastically harder, so much harder that he goes from being incapable of hurting to hurting quite blatantly, all his attacks do much more damage, he folds Armstrong, and so on. ****, we actually know the difference between RM and base, and it's a canonical 10x, and Raiden's blows in phase 2 in the QTE's are doing a **** ton above what RM would allow him to cover.
Raiden was changed from phase 1 to phase 2 because in phase 2 he was killing in anger, which would increase his power canonically since that's literally how his ripper persona works.
He wasn't using Ripper Mode, and if he did, it's only temporarily (ignoring the fact that if you enter RM in either phase, the damage still scales accordingly and comparatively, without getting into the fact he was literally not in RM mode).