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So, two more novels have been translated, and there's two minor upgrades.
1) Weak Regulation-class Materials are rated as "at least Wall level", since they were compared to a car accident and can easily defeat groups of pseudo-powered suits that can crush armored cars. In Vol 2, Chapter 2 we have the weakest Material possible, a Cost 1 Original Series, destroying the footing (a section of the bridge) under the two summoners fighting so that they fall.
A moment later, the battle began.
However, it did not start with the yellow and green goo clashing at the midpoint between each other.
The Original Green that Benikomichi Fuuki had become mercilessly smashed the giant bridge.
Kyousuke and Librarian-chan immediately sank down.
Gravity was pulling them.
Their footing crumbled, but as a summoner, Shiroyama Kyousuke immediately saw what they were after.
The bridge's dimensions are not given, but it supports a lot of people crossing at the same time, and the two summoners were fifteen meters apart at the time. From the same chapter.
As a great number of people crossed the bridge, he heard a sound within the parade of so many lights. He heard it as clearly as a pebble thrown into a cave.
[...]
He did not have time to answer. He looked back and saw a short boy standing about fifteen meters away.
Later in Chapter 4 a stronger Material (But still in the range of a weak Regulation-class) smashes through several bridges (Which has an illustration, the one in the Regulation-class page right now).
The Spear that Pursues Fresh Blood (bih ― ei ― dp ― tq). Cost: 9. Sound Range: Low. A flying spear over five meters long moved in the span of a breath.
With a deafening noise, the Material stabbed through the bridge Hayato was trying to land on. The bridge broke in two and Hayato nearly lost his balance in midair after preparing his legs like springs. And Kyousuke's Material did not stop there. It smashed through bridge after bridge.
So I think that the first key of Regulation-class Materials should be changed from "at least Wall level" to "Small Building level".
2) We have Divine-class Materials stated to be too fast for humans to react, as they exceed human kinetic vision, in Volume 3 Chapter 3. Kyousuke manages to predict its first movement (Basically aimdodging) since he's pretty good at doing that kind of thing but he states that it won't work again.
"Stalling for time earns you nothing."
"True, this doesn't solve the fundamental problem. And this cheap trick won't work again. My kinetic vision can't keep up with a Divine-class's movements. And more importantly, all Materials are filled with combative instincts, so it'll probably charge at me itself."
Yes.
If this strategy was effective, the theory of these battles would be very different. The summoners would stand out front to receive all the attacks while the Material bombarded their enemy from safety.
But that was not how things worked.
The Material moved out front and the summoner stayed back. There was a good reason for that.
The chapter's fact section reinforces this:
The protective circle can be used to stop Material attacks (although there are exceptions such as the White Queen). But based on the Material's mobility, the summoner can only react once or twice at the most, so it is not a good long-term strategy.
So "Subsonic" Divine-class Materials, which would fit a Divine-cass Material like the Yamata-no-Orochi being the equivalent of an Object like the Baby Magnum in the crossover (Now to wait for an AP feat or statement to back City level in canon).
1) Weak Regulation-class Materials are rated as "at least Wall level", since they were compared to a car accident and can easily defeat groups of pseudo-powered suits that can crush armored cars. In Vol 2, Chapter 2 we have the weakest Material possible, a Cost 1 Original Series, destroying the footing (a section of the bridge) under the two summoners fighting so that they fall.
A moment later, the battle began.
However, it did not start with the yellow and green goo clashing at the midpoint between each other.
The Original Green that Benikomichi Fuuki had become mercilessly smashed the giant bridge.
Kyousuke and Librarian-chan immediately sank down.
Gravity was pulling them.
Their footing crumbled, but as a summoner, Shiroyama Kyousuke immediately saw what they were after.
The bridge's dimensions are not given, but it supports a lot of people crossing at the same time, and the two summoners were fifteen meters apart at the time. From the same chapter.
As a great number of people crossed the bridge, he heard a sound within the parade of so many lights. He heard it as clearly as a pebble thrown into a cave.
[...]
He did not have time to answer. He looked back and saw a short boy standing about fifteen meters away.
Later in Chapter 4 a stronger Material (But still in the range of a weak Regulation-class) smashes through several bridges (Which has an illustration, the one in the Regulation-class page right now).
The Spear that Pursues Fresh Blood (bih ― ei ― dp ― tq). Cost: 9. Sound Range: Low. A flying spear over five meters long moved in the span of a breath.
With a deafening noise, the Material stabbed through the bridge Hayato was trying to land on. The bridge broke in two and Hayato nearly lost his balance in midair after preparing his legs like springs. And Kyousuke's Material did not stop there. It smashed through bridge after bridge.
So I think that the first key of Regulation-class Materials should be changed from "at least Wall level" to "Small Building level".
2) We have Divine-class Materials stated to be too fast for humans to react, as they exceed human kinetic vision, in Volume 3 Chapter 3. Kyousuke manages to predict its first movement (Basically aimdodging) since he's pretty good at doing that kind of thing but he states that it won't work again.
"Stalling for time earns you nothing."
"True, this doesn't solve the fundamental problem. And this cheap trick won't work again. My kinetic vision can't keep up with a Divine-class's movements. And more importantly, all Materials are filled with combative instincts, so it'll probably charge at me itself."
Yes.
If this strategy was effective, the theory of these battles would be very different. The summoners would stand out front to receive all the attacks while the Material bombarded their enemy from safety.
But that was not how things worked.
The Material moved out front and the summoner stayed back. There was a good reason for that.
The chapter's fact section reinforces this:
The protective circle can be used to stop Material attacks (although there are exceptions such as the White Queen). But based on the Material's mobility, the summoner can only react once or twice at the most, so it is not a good long-term strategy.
So "Subsonic" Divine-class Materials, which would fit a Divine-cass Material like the Yamata-no-Orochi being the equivalent of an Object like the Baby Magnum in the crossover (Now to wait for an AP feat or statement to back City level in canon).
