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To clarify, when you refer to phase 1 and 2. Do you mean Phase 1 is when the fight starts and Raiden has his sword, and Phase 2 is when his sword breaks and he goes unarmed on excelsus? Or do you mean the whole fight on excelsus is Phase 1, and the part where Raiden gains Murasama is Phase 2.He has a better weapon that didn't break, yes. UNFORTUNATELY for that argument, Raiden explicitly harms Armstrong with his bare fists and kicks multiple times throughout the fight without the blade, he actively gets disarmed throughout the fight and is forced to contend and successfully does so, without the blade. Armstrong explicitly states, guaranteed, no matter how you go about the fight, that Raiden physically hurt him in contrast to the end of phase 1, and made even wrse as Raiden's physical blows aren't even that different from what Muramusa is seen doing.
And RM? Yes he still has RM, but he doesnt use it the whole fight, it's not shown in any cinematic and he's purposely shown in base form. Made even worse as Raiden can enter RM in both phase 1 and 2 and the damage and scaling of RM is scaled accordingly, put simply, RM isnt why he's doing more damage.
Both those points are demonstrably false, they're moot.
As I said earlier when he gains Murasama multiple things point to him embracing the Ripper once more. He makes a call back to his "Tool of Justice" line, and is speaking about his bloodlust and how he's not holding back for the kill. Also... You really wanna use damage values in game to determine this? How about the fact that in the final phase of the fight when you hit Armstrong with your sword or your fist when you're disarmed you do 1 to 2% of damage for each hit, where as Armstrong does 40% of your health with one kick? Even the QTE you've been throwing around where Raiden punches him in the face, that punch only does 10% of his health, implying he's still not really as strong as Armstrong, which would contradict your point about him scaling and being on par with him via RPL wouldn't it?