CosmicWreck
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I find it interesting that no one considers that Saitama doesn't consider Garou to be a real monster even now which is a pretty big factor in the fight since it's one of the reasons Saitama isn't actually trying to kill him.There is, unless it's against humans. Otherwise Garou wouldn't have been able to match his strength.
You're just outlining one of the issues with our current One Punch Man profiles really: scaling backwards to Saitama who is not only the pseudo god tier of the verse but also holds back immensely during fights.Yes he was splattered, but he did tank the punch right before it. Garou also tanked consecutive normal punches for a while before he was punched out of it.
We don't even know how strong the punches Garou matched even were since they didn't destroy anything and Garou's 5-A feat came later when it was treated as being a special attack.