It contradicts his speed rating because he was either unable to avoid the lightning or there's some reason to assume he let it hit him.
And the fight takes place later in Volume 5, and there's nothing to suggest the crew suddenly got OOMs faster since that point in V5.
I didn't say you were saying it directly. I said that, for what you're saying to work, we'd need to assume these things, otherwise the aforementioned issues still hold true. If you don't think that we need to assume these things, just explain why instead of accusing me of stawmanning you when I was only going over basic issues with your argument. I'll spell out the logic here:
- Yang and Weiss can see in front of themselves.
- Yang and Weiss, if they were able to react to lightning, would have been able to notice the lightning coming down in front of them.
- We see the lightning trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in them, so if they saw the lightning coming down in front of them they would have jumped back instinctively as they saw it - jumping back before the lightning hits the ground.
- They do not react or jump back, however until the bolt hits the ground.
- Yang and Weiss could not react to lightning.
For
your argument to work, and for Yang and Weiss to still be lightning-timers, you would need to remove the first point. This is what I mean.
Okay, good that we've reached a consensus with him blocking. And of course we can assume - we make the less ridiculous assumption that the bolt hit Mercury first. Either way if he had the speed rating you're telling me, he would have had zero issues reacting to it far earlier and moving out of the way, which he doesn't.
Lines up just perfectly. There isn't "less" or "significantly less" stuff it has that lightning doesn't, if you want to be pedantic about it.
It doesn't. It's perfectly spelled out in our standards that it should not act significantly different than lightning. The lightning the Feilong puts out acts significantly different than real lightning, a number of experienced staff and calc members have said it doesn't meet our standards, it doesn't meet the standards.
I already explained what the rule means in practice.
"If the electricity doesn't look or act like real electricity it isn't given the speed of cloud-to-ground lightning." If I need to weigh in even more calc members to spell this out for you, I'll go ahead and do that.