There is something similar to that in Baki,
in which genius fighters can understand the Flow of every fight and dictate it to bring every fight to an end, which gives both a general form of analytical prediction in verse and a form of attack redirection. But besides, we know in which ways Baki characters were capable of resisting the different forms of analytical prediction inverse, and if you want further proof I am glad to give it.
That's a different form of "Flow". The "Flow" in that scan doesn't have anything explicitly to do with analytical skill. The "Flow" of a fight in that specific instant would just be referring to someone leading the movements of a fight with their own. That is even a concept found IRL in which someone can lead another's movements simply by having superior skill.
In The Boxer Flow explicitly allows one to
resist prediction from characters that explicitly have it, and provides greater prediction/resistances, which is what makes it a wider "power system" based on analytical skill.
Except I did? I've shown how these characters predict and resist predictions, just because there was two specifical examples in which I didn't give an in-depth explanation, doesn't mean that "I didn't show the characters negating/resisting the predictions". The in-depth explanation of Baki's resistance was that he was fighting without thinking to such a level Gaia couldn't read his Brainwaves, while the explanation for Doppo's resistance is that his technique is so good that Baki with his analytical prediction couldn't read it.
I didn't ask for an in-depth explanation, I asked for you to SHOW me where these things happened lol. In the original message of you explaining the skill chain, you didn't actually show me these characters resisting anything, just saying that they did it. I'm asking for scans.
Baki resisted his form of precog as a 13 year old and simply upscales from him.
No scan.
Doppo upscales from a 17 year old Baki to such a point he could land several slowmo hits on him, despite telling him beforehand where he would attack, completely bypassing his analytical prediction
No scan. (Ik you said that you didn't have this one on Imgur but still)
This one doesn't even seem like purely prediction. You said that Doppo bypassed it by erasing his intent, in which case it wouldn't be bypassing Analytical Prediction but bypassing ESP, because being able to sense someone's intent is ESP.
Now before you get it confused, Analytical Prediction via ESP is very much achievable. But if you erase your intent and someone whose prediction relies on the sensing of intent no longer functions, then you just resisted ESP and not prediction. Which wouldn't qualify for a "layer" difference.
For the rest of the skill chain after True Seiken you just didn't provide any evidence or explanation to begin with, so that's also already very iffy.
Also, I didn't mean to say that pre-Retsu Baki was a whole layer above his previous self, just that he massively upscales from his previous key, mb
You're good. It happens sometimes.
If you want me to provide scans for Yu's skill chain I can, I don't want to seem like I'm going "well uhhh you don't have evidence!!!!" while I'm also not generally providing evidence.