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I'm sorry, but in the anime all we see is ichigo's arm blurring wildly and then the cloud of petals dispersing in a grouped together manner. If he truly deflected every petal individually then they wouldn't have been so closely grouped together before fully dispersing due to just how wild and haphazard his swings were.
Because the end result of that is that the petals will still all be sent away from Ichigo... Do you not get that part?
I don't care about the end result.
because Damage isn't arguing about the resolution of the event but the mechanics in how the action resolves those events.
Ah yes the Staff agree with you but literally everyone else agrees with me.
Swatting all the petals away is the how. The what is Ichigo blocking the entire attack.
I don't agree with you.
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I don't even disagree with the idea he swatted each individually but honestly, Damage does have a point. You're arguing that because he swatted them all away it MUST be the case that he swatted each petal individually which is just unfounded. The only thing the statement supports is the idea that he swatted them all away which I'm sure everyone agrees with. Nothing that you personally have shown would support him slicing each petal individually.
No no no, I am not arguing each slice = 1 petal. I am arguing my original calc is more accurate.
I apologize for misunderstanding your premise, what do you mean?
No it isn't because the swatting ALL THE PETALS AWAY part comes from Byakuya's statements which happens after the fact.
You're confusing Byakuya's statement coming after the action to mean that Byakuya is describing the what.
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No... It isn't... Because his sword strike would be pushing the petals back through the dense mass, not cutting them in two. Or, you know, swatting them back through the mass if you want to use that term.
That ignores the fact that a wall of petals were previously shown to be able to block Tensa Zangetsu. If that were the case then when Ichigo original slashed at Byakuya his blade would've sunken into the petal pillar and not stop at the surface.
You could just say that Ichigo hit harder when he deflect all of Byakuya's Senbonzakura. Especially since it is pretty apparent that his speed increased massively for that feat since Byakuya couldn't believe what he was seeing.
There's no proof Ichigo was striking with a different force in either of the two scenes. In fact when Byakuya blocks the strike, Ichigo is using two hands (and as Kenpachi says "do you know a strike is more powerful when swung with two hands"). In fact the narrative of the fight is that Ichigo is getting slower with time since he isn't used to Bankai. https://s1.mangabeast01.com/manga/Bleach/0165-015.png
That just proves the petals are strong enough to maintain their own positions, Ichigo needed to slashs all of them, not some chain reactions doing the job. Byakuya can literally control them and those petals condesed are > Ichigo 2 pages before, and were aiming at him.
You're equating speed to AP here. Which while yes, faster can mean stronger, it's not always the case. For example, Balas are weaker than Ceros but 20x faster. So that does not prove that Ichigo's two handed swing was weaker than his one handed swing.
Balas are specifically noted to work that way due to their composition and are also energy attacks, whereas Ichigo swinging a sword requires the speed in order for the force to exist. Sure, the actual AP he gets out of it definitely isn't going to be what we rate it as, however I think it makes sense to say that his slower swings are defintely weaker than his faster ones since it has never been noted in series that there is any form of trade-off for speeding up or slowing his attacks.
I'd be inclined to believe you if both were one handed swings, but they are not. There is more mass behind the two handed swing, whilst there is more speed behind the one handed swing.
