Just to clarify here; would this mean that it's exclusively Base-Kisame who wouldn't qualify for Bijū scaling or isn't Fused Kisame applicable either?
I guess he wouldn't necessarily have anything to disqualify him from being Bijū level by default, but even in his fused form, he has no Bijū level feats
or scaling. If he did, I would've added him to the OP most likely.
Remember, there's no good reason to assume Akatsuki members have Bijū level AP by default. If they have feats or statements on that level, then they're good. But otherwise, they get rated based on their feats.
I just realized part of the Sasuke vs Gaara fight happened offscreen so it doesn't contradict anything, but ig we can talk about that in the scaling thread.
There are still minor contradictions, but yes, this should be left for later. Gaara and Sasuke have nothing to do with the OP.
Kakashi specifically tried to pierce through it fully but the Deva Path pushed him away first.
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. You're gonna have to re-explain your point, if you don't mind.
Uh, no, he very clearly tried to pierce them here.
That means the arms are less durable than the torso.
Not necessarily, no. We see that the tip is lunged a bit into the torso. This is because Kakashi's just jabbing/stabbing the torso in a quick motion. He's not trying to impale them or anything, as that would hinder his movement and make him a sitting duck for the other V2s. He's trading blows with them here, not trying to plunge his arm deep into one of them.
Think of it like this. If you just stab someone repeatedly in quick succession, you'll cut them a lot, but the cuts will be pretty shallow overall as opposed to one powerful stab followed by a big push.
Remember, to actually stabb through something you gotta stab
and then push. The knife or cutting object won't automatically go through something on its own.
As for consistency, Kakashi's Raiton is just consistently on this level. He stabbed through Obito, cut his mask, and cut the V2's arms. That's 3 feats vs one that's not even really an anti-feat. It's consistent.
But anyway, I feel like we're derailing with this debate since I already agreed Kakuzu should only scale with the Iron Spear. I'll update the OP with that later today.
Matched it in P1. There's several years between P1 and P2, it doesn't rlly make sense to assume Kisame stayed static.
Unless you have a reason to assume he got stronger, as well as an actual Bijū level feat, this entire point is completely moot.
His Shark bomb temporarily matched Hirudora which would probably be Bijuu level or above if calced.
It got completely overpowered by Hirudora, like what-
And no, Hirudora isn't really impressive calc-wise, unfortunately. I don't think it even hit 7-A last time it was calced. Although, you'll probably have better luck asking one of the calc experts about it off-thread.
Not more canon than the manga.
It clearly caused external bleeding.
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Okay? How does that not make it dura neg?
But anyway, again, this particular debate is pointless due to the conclusion we reached above.