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Anyways, it's not as direct as I remember, but this is from the LN and the fight between Kiba and Issei vs. Xenovia and Irinia
There's probably better examples, but when they say BOOST increases your Power, it doesn't just mean how hard Issei or his attacks can hit, they mean all of your power, including your speed. In these examples, Irina says that if Issei boosted again he would have been able to evade, not tank, evade.
Also says if he didn't boost he wouldn't have been able to do anything in their match, and this probably doesn't mean getting one shot as Issei had a training arc that should let him match these characters in base/
Then just refer to these points again.1. Never in the series is it mentioned that Boost explicitly "doubles" speed. It says it doubles strength / power, which are distinct from speed unless proven otherwise.
2. Arbitrary amplifications of speed do not prove that it also doubles speed. It needs to be explicitly stated for that to be the case.
3. Speed multipliers require significantly more evidence to be accepted than power multipliers because of the tendency for fiction to not showcase such multipliers properly.
4. There are moments in the blog where the explanations don't make sense or prove inconsistencies. Such as when Vali gets tagged by Issei while still being faster, but then Issei is only barely faster than Vali after boosting multiple times (An amp that would make him tens to even hundreds of times faster). This is blatant inconsistency and it's being used to inflate the ratings.
Said statements are not direct nor consistent enough to say it doubles Issei's speed.
I've tried such scaling before on my own threads and I was similarly rejected, even with more evidence.