Since the size of Drogon has already been estimated to 60 meters long, shouldn't the lifting strength of him, Viserion, Rhaegal & Balerion be Class M?

[Ong.ruixiang]

As the size like this makes Drogon around 1169307 kg due to what was shown there and dragons might need to lift up their entire body weight when they fly.

 

[Antvasima]

It doesn't seem that way. See here:

Large Size Calculations

In fiction, there are many characters of Large Size. When it comes to tiering them their size alone can be an indicator of their statistics. This page explains which statistics can and can't be calculated from size alone. The physical attack potency, and with it the durability, can be estimated...

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@Mr._Bambu might create a calc group forum revision thread about this topic though.

 

[Antvasima]

Yes. Mr. Bambu is planning to start a calc group forum thread about this.

 

[Mr. Bambu]

https://vsbattles.com/threads/large-size-and-lifting-strength.127358/

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you for helping out.

 

[Ong.ruixiang]

https://vsbattles.com/threads/large-size-and-lifting-strength.127358/

But aren't larger and heavier opponents required to lift up their own body-weight if they have wings to fly higher in the sky (as Smaug of the books has his lifting strength already been scaled to his own weight and the same thing also goes with the Hungarian Horntail)?

 

[Antvasima]

I personally think so, but we are currently talking about it in the thread that Bambu linked to.

 

[Ong.ruixiang]

I personally think so, but we are currently talking about it in the thread that Bambu linked to.

So I'm just trying to see if I could get him to agree to whether the same thing about the lifting strength of the Hungarian Horntail should also apply to Balerion since this dragon is bigger than the one featured in Harry Potter movie and both their wings are front limbs so they might proportionally scale to size?

 

[Antvasima]

Probably, yes, but we need to wait for some conclusions in the other thread.

 

[Ong.ruixiang]

Probably, yes, but we need to wait for some conclusions in the other thread.

So why not Balerion be added in with "possibly Class M by virtue of sheer size" to lifting strength?

 

[Mr. Bambu]

Read his comment. We need to wait for the other thread to reach a consensus.

 

[Antvasima]

Yes, but DontTalk seems to consider flying as acceptable for scaling to lifting strength, so I hope that he will adjust the wording in the Lifting Strength page soon.

 

[Ong.ruixiang]

Yes, but DontTalk seems to consider flying as acceptable for scaling to lifting strength, so I hope that he will adjust the wording in the Lifting Strength page soon.

Okay but actually, the average lifting strength of most kaiju (like the Cloverfield monster) that were as big as skyscrapers were stated as Class K or M at first so as for them to support their body weight and i used to be more precise in that.