I'm fine with Obito fight Base Guy~KCM Naruto and the 3rd Gate being a dozens of times amp, but I don't think Sub-Rel can work because that considers pre-WA Base Guy as relative to Kakashi, when their rivalry has always been portrayed as an overall thing which should include the Gates. 3rd Gate Guy being 24x MHS+ is fine though, or Sub-Rel+. Kinda neutral on 8th Gate multiplying off 7th Gate but slightly leaning toward agree.
That's pretty much the only way this can remotely work with the current scaling.
The only way to use Sub-Rel as a base value would be to have one of the KCM dodging Ay calcs accepted and implemented, and then scaling Guy to KCM via Obito.
Of course, I disagree with this for many a reason, but the biggest issue is that it affects many, many profiles and characters. So you'd have to account for probably dozens of scaling chains and profiles, which this thread seems ill-equipped to handle.
Do you mean characters scaling to the KCM dodging Ay calc or characters scaling to Guy? Cause the former is understandable but the only people that really scale to WA Guy are people involved in that fight like Obito and Kakashi.
Statement:
''draws out several tens of times the body's original capabilities''
this databook entry along with Guy's
explanation of the gates in the manga implies that from Base to 8th Gate is a "several tens/dozens of times amp".
He's talking about what the Lotus does specifically, which is done with the 3rd Gate.
nothing supports this idea that the 3rd gate to the 8th gate is it's own at least 30x amp, unless you ignore the context of Guy's explanation being a holistic one on the "limits" imposed on the body that the Lotus can open, which are all 8 gates.
so at the very least, I disagree with Option 3.
Not 3rd to 8th, but base to 3rd. Which is consistent with the 1st Gate being a 5x amp. The difference from Base to 1st Gate being comparable to the difference between 1st and 3rd is completely fine.
Guy ~ KCM?
The other issue is that Base Guy should not be scaling to KCM Naruto in anything but arguably reactions.
we see 6th Gate Guy
fight the V2 Jinchuuriki who were
capable of fighting KCM Naruto previously.
1. Guy had the upper hand while Naruto was doing quite poorly and is arguably
more relative to the Base Jinchuriki (at least in speed) and blatantly scale to Base Bee who is just consistently on par with Naruto (I will say as a caveat to all of this that Naruto is fatigued this whole time but the wiki doesn't currently accept clones as nerfing the user)
2. Guy could've simply got stronger through fighting/plot amps. Just look at Kakashi who went from
reactable by Blind Sasuke to swapping hands with Rinnegan Obito in the span of a few days.
we also see Kakashi and 7th Gate Guy
coordinating attacks at relative speeds, and Kakashi can have a decent fight with Obito in h2h soon after.
Same thing, and Obito was clearly holding back anyways as
he can tag KCM2 Naruto at full power.
We also saw a few days prior that the same Base Guy is
easily blocked by Kisame who thought
Naruto's own movements in KCM were unbelievable.
Along with Naruto being able to contend with the widely proclaimed fastest Shinobi of his era in 4th Ay(something that I believe was even confirmed in a Databook.) who believed no one has rivaled his top speed since Minato(which should include people like Bee, Tsunade, and other notorious Shinobi of that Era.)
You know the drill
Guy being able to intercept Obito seems like more of a case of good reaction speed + timing on Guy's behalf as well as Obito not paying him much mind while attacking Naruto.
As when Base Guy does attack Obito alone he is easily disarmed.
No? He's literally
intercepting Obito's strike on Naruto before Naruto himself can, and
has no trouble blocking this KCM level Obito, even earning praise from Naruto.
Conclusion
So yeah the multiplier from Base to 8th Gate being at least 30x or 36x is fine for now at least IMO, but trying to implement any scaling out of it right now will just make more of a mess out of an already outdated and inconsistent speed scaling we have on wiki for Nard.
I feel like this thread should just be about accepting the multiplier for now anyway kinda like how Slayer mentioned: trying to upscale Guy from his own first gate scaling aint it.
and yeah Base Guy = KCM Nard in speed is definitely not it.
I agree it might not be the best time to implement changes but getting it accepted to be used in later CRTs can still be productive