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Currently, the Inklings are rated as Small City level+ and Subsonic for being able to defeat DJ Octavio and for being able to react to their own weapon projectiles. Octavio is rated at Small City level+ for using a Killer Wail weapon, which is scaled to Pearl's Killer Wail overpowering Tartar's beam, which was said to be capable of wiping out a city.
There's a few problems with this scaling, which I will adress before suggesting changes to the verse.
Firstly, Pearl's Killer Wail did indeed overpower a City level beam. There is nothing wrong with that feat. It is neither an outlier nor lacking context. What is lacking context is the scaling behind that feat.
Pearl's Killer Wail was massively amped by Pearl's own voice. Think of it like yelling through a megaphone, which the Killer Wail essentially is. In addition, Pearl's voice has been established in the series to be incredibly powerful. Even as a child she was capable of causing damage to venues just by singing loudly. What she's doing in this feat is essentially adding and amplifying her power to an already powerful weapon. It does not scale to a regular Killer Wail, and it definitely shouldn't be used to justify the rankings of a "smaller, slightly weaker Killer Wail".
The Subsonic statistic is a bit less erroneous. The projectiles of the weapons in Splatoon do move at subsonic speeds, and there are Inklings who can dodge these projectiles. However, there's some context behind that as well.
Inklings cannot dodge their own projectiles in the game itself, to my knowledge. They simply move too fast to dodge, even if a computer was playing the game. However, there are Inklings who can dodge these projectiles in the manga. The problem is that these Inklings are not "normal" by any standards. That first scan features a member of the S4, who are among the best teams in the entire world. That character in particular has his speed heavily emphasized even in reference to other members of his team. The other scan features a character who, at this point, had defeated multiple S4 teams, and even at this level of skill he struggled with dodging shots from the E-liter.
So, while there are Inklings who can avoid their own shots, they tend to be the Inkling equivalents of Olympians, and the average member of their race is definitely not that fast.
Now, as for my suggested changes.
Disagree: 2 - WeeklyBattles, Jackythejack
There's a few problems with this scaling, which I will adress before suggesting changes to the verse.
Firstly, Pearl's Killer Wail did indeed overpower a City level beam. There is nothing wrong with that feat. It is neither an outlier nor lacking context. What is lacking context is the scaling behind that feat.
Pearl's Killer Wail was massively amped by Pearl's own voice. Think of it like yelling through a megaphone, which the Killer Wail essentially is. In addition, Pearl's voice has been established in the series to be incredibly powerful. Even as a child she was capable of causing damage to venues just by singing loudly. What she's doing in this feat is essentially adding and amplifying her power to an already powerful weapon. It does not scale to a regular Killer Wail, and it definitely shouldn't be used to justify the rankings of a "smaller, slightly weaker Killer Wail".
The Subsonic statistic is a bit less erroneous. The projectiles of the weapons in Splatoon do move at subsonic speeds, and there are Inklings who can dodge these projectiles. However, there's some context behind that as well.
Inklings cannot dodge their own projectiles in the game itself, to my knowledge. They simply move too fast to dodge, even if a computer was playing the game. However, there are Inklings who can dodge these projectiles in the manga. The problem is that these Inklings are not "normal" by any standards. That first scan features a member of the S4, who are among the best teams in the entire world. That character in particular has his speed heavily emphasized even in reference to other members of his team. The other scan features a character who, at this point, had defeated multiple S4 teams, and even at this level of skill he struggled with dodging shots from the E-liter.
So, while there are Inklings who can avoid their own shots, they tend to be the Inkling equivalents of Olympians, and the average member of their race is definitely not that fast.
Now, as for my suggested changes.
- Change the speed on the Inkling page to simply "Normal Human level, SuperHuman travel speed with the Super Jump". This will serve as a placeholder until additional calculations can be done. If the page serves as an overview of the species as a whole, add "At most Subsonic reactions (Elite Inkling teams are capable of dodging blasts from their weaponry, which have a muzzle velocity this high)"
- Remove the Small City level+ ranking from DJ Octavio and replace it with a Wall level+ ranking based on this calculatio of the energy behind his punches during his final boss fight. Since this scales to the Inklings as well, replace their Small City level+ ranking with the same statistic as DJ Octavio's ranking. The justification would remain the same, however.
- Remove the City level ranking for the Inkling's Special Weaponry, as the circumstances behind Pearl's feat renders its scaling to other Special Weapons null. If the page is a composite, change the statistic and justification to "Unknow, likely higher with Special Weaponry, though at most City level (A Killer Wail, when boosted by Pearl's voice, was capable of overpowering a beam from Tartar's canno)".
- If the Inkling page is not a composite, create pages for Pearl and the manga characters to reflect their feats.
Disagree: 2 - WeeklyBattles, Jackythejack
