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Verse-Wide Katekyo Hitman Reborn Downgrades

“Nature that is so attractive” isn’t even the argument it was to lay up for the mountain argument so I don’t know how you think that’s an actual argument.
Again, mount Fuji is considered a very beautiful and iconic mountain despite being a volcano.
Again When it’s an unnatural event( For Mountains that do not contain any lava) Speed/ Volume can be different when you are comparing it to natural occurring phenomenons. I again said it can be recalculated if it must but it should be recalculated under the assumption that it isn’t a natural volcano and limiting it to such
Alright, good, then please provide the proof that supports the eruption having a speed of 25145.3m/s, so double the escape velocity of earth, and the justification as to why it wasn't shown or mentioned the absurdly impressive event of the lava reaching space, I'm all ears.
 
Again, mount Fuji is considered a very beautiful and iconic mountain despite being a volcano.
You are literally comparing Mount Fuji, a dormant volcano to random mountains. I genuinely don’t know why you’re stressing this entire point because I decided to use what is said in the manga to leeway to my actual point.

Alright, good, then please provide the proof that supports the eruption having a speed of 25145.3m/s, so double the escape velocity of earth, and the justification as to why it wasn't shown or mentioned the absurdly impressive event of the lava reaching space, I'm all ears.
I verbatim said that it should be recalculated for better accuracy. I only said that it should not be limited to natural phenomenons because “the strongest volcanic eruption was _ strong or _ fast”. Or unless you want to tell the average mountains contains lava ready for eruptions at any given time?
 
There are consistent Tier 7 feats, but literally no Tier 5 or even Tier 6 feats other than this one. That is pretty much by definition an outlier.

And I think black hole feats are extremely unreliable anyway, since by nature they will always be vastly inflated from what we are actually shown. I get that DC =/= AP, but black holes are unreliable since they are a fairly common thing in fantasy that shouldn't by default come with the assumption that the author intends that to mean that every character can blow up planets now.
Well, like I stated, contextually, it checks out. Do people need to show another tier 7 feat afterward for a feat to be valid? Why can't a feat be valid by itself? When people say "outlier," they think of a bunch of data points with one sticking way out. But what we are talking about here is linear progression. They gradually grow stronger and stronger and when graphed, this would be the highest and most current feat. That isn't an outlier, that graph would show exponential growth. I also think black holes are a case-by-case thing. Attacks named "Black Hole Attack" or "Hole that is Black" and they're just some weird sphere being thrown at an opponent, I'd chalk that up to a name fallacy, but when they take the time to go through and explain how a black hole is made and show it happen, well that's clear what the author is trying to depict and convey.

This is what people think of when an outlier is called. The difference is, where the outlier occurred, the progression afterward shows another pattern. In this case, There isn't any linear progression afterwards to call it an outlier. Its called growth in this instance.

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You are literally comparing Mount Fuji, a dormant volcano to random mountains. I genuinely don’t know why you’re stressing this entire point because I decided to use what is said in the manga to leeway to my actual point.


I verbatim said that it should be recalculated for better accuracy. I only said that it should not be limited to natural phenomenons because “the strongest volcanic eruption was _ strong or _ fast”. Or unless you want to tell the average mountains contains lava ready for eruptions at any given time?
Because you are trying to use that as an argument to defend a calc that assumes that lava was ejected at 25145.3m/s, so 2x faster than escape velocity and far faster than any other volcano calc in the wiki as far I could find. But alright, you are arguing that it looks like a mountain range so I'm going to change my example to, say the Hakkōda Mountains, which are collectively considered among the 100 most famous Japanese mountains so chances are the author is aware that volcanoes can exist in close groups, unlike you who seems to assume that they can only be stand-alone mountains instead of volcanic groups. Also, in case you didn't know, through volcanic eruptions tons of rock are also ejected, so the bits of rock you marked don't mean what you argue they do. Your argument has honestly zero strength, and is a baseless claim to try to justify a ridiculously wrong calc through the use of faulty logic.

It can be absolutely limited by natural phenomena if the calc use faulty logic, like, again, assume such a massive speed in a why that a mass lower than the biggest volcanic eruptions gives results hundreds of times higher. Common sense and logic are the basis of calculations, so even if fiction can take some liberties you can't just ignore irl science when trying to calculate feats, if you go that route you may as well argue that what doesn't look and behave like blackholes are indeed black holes but wait, you also actually believe that (as you disagree with the 5-A downgrade) so I guess it's no wonder why you would have such a take with this stuff.
 
Well, like I stated, contextually, it checks out. Do people need to show another tier 7 feat afterward for a feat to be valid? Why can't a feat be valid by itself? When people say "outlier," they think of a bunch of data points with one sticking way out. But what we are talking about here is linear progression. They gradually grow stronger and stronger and when graphed, this would be the highest and most current feat. That isn't an outlier, that graph would show exponential growth. I also think black holes are a case-by-case thing. Attacks named "Black Hole Attack" or "Hole that is Black" and they're just some weird sphere being thrown at an opponent, I'd chalk that up to a name fallacy, but when they take the time to go through and explain how a black hole is made and show it happen, well that's clear what the author is trying to depict and convey.

This is what people think of when an outlier is called. The difference is, where the outlier occurred, the progression afterward shows another pattern. In this case, There isn't any linear progression afterwards to call it an outlier. Its called growth in this instance.

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But it's not really linear progression. We are explicitly told that Enma only becomes 7x stronger, not quadrillions of times stronger. And then immediately after this incredibly vague and indirectly "Tier 5" feat, nothing is ever shown or implied to be near that level again.

Based on the standards of the wiki, it is absolutely a outlier. And again, it is Tier 5 not by any virtue of what is actually shown or stated in the series, but by applying real-word logic to fictional magic black holes that don't line up with irl black holes at all.
 
Because you are trying to use that as an argument to defend a calc that assumes that lava was ejected at 25145.3m/s, so 2x faster than escape velocity and far faster than any other volcano calc in the wiki as far I could find.
Man.


First of all, From the get go I said this

Let me start with the 6-C stuff actually, I don't completely agree with you on most of the argument made, I can only agree that it probably needs to be recalced. First of all you're under the assumption that it was a volcano in the first place
1. I never explictiy defended the calculation's entirety. As I already Bolded, I stated from the get go that IT PROBABLY NEEDS TO BE RECALCED.

But alright, you are arguing that it looks like a mountain range so I'm going to change my example to, say the Hakkōda Mountains, which are collectively considered among the 100 most famous Japanese mountains so chances are the author is aware that volcanoes can exist in close groups, unlike you who seems to assume that they can only be stand-alone mountains instead of volcanic groups. Also, in case you didn't know, through volcanic eruptions tons of rock are also ejected, so the bits of rock you marked don't mean what you argue they do. Your argument has honestly zero strength, and is a baseless claim to try to justify a ridiculously wrong calc through the use of faulty logic.
2. I never once asserted that they can only be stand-alone mountains let alone Volcanic Groups stop strawmaning my point. According to the wikipedia you linked the hakkoda mountain ranges are classified as a Stratovolcanoes which according to Brittania have craters at the vent. And as far as i am concerned I don't see any form of crater at the top of the mountains provided.

Your Arguments have been mostly about misundertstanding where i stand with the usage of the calc, I stated before it can be recalcaluted, I never once defended its "absured mass" or "impossible speed" All i asserted was that the OP was under the assumption it was a regular volcano and I claimed that it was a regular mountain range.
 
The op argument relied in the impossibility one the absurdity of something with 8x less mass being 743x more powerful, and so the calc was wrong and needed to be redone. I then pointed out that the reason for the massive result is the ridiculous speed assumed for the feat, then I pointed out the speed of real examples of volcanic eruptions to use for the speed due to a lack of timeframe from which to get a speed (as well as point out a more reliable way to calculate volcanic eruptions). Then you began to argue against the downgrade with an argument that essentially boiled down to "it was a fictional eruption so it can't be compared with irl eruptions" based on the fact that "they looked like mountains (specifically looked like a mountain range, despite the fact that volcanoes can also be grouped like mountain ranges)" using as evidence "mountain tops being blown off (showing just small bits or rock in the eruption, despite the fact that I pointed out how real eruptions send tonnes of rock flying)", and now that I refuted those points with evidence of irl examples you go "I don't see craters so they clearly are normal mountains (essentially if I don't see it it doesn't exist)" to which I would like to ask you if see any crater in the image of the wiki page of the Hakkōda Mountains because I certainly don't see anything like that (does that mean that they are just normal mountains instead of volcanoes?) but I won't ask you that because I sincerely believe is a waste of time as you clearly don't want to recognize that you were in the wrong and complained just for complaining. I also asked you to provide evidence of how, going with your narrative of them being normal mountains, the numbers of the calculation would be affected in a significant way that could make it far above the eruptions of real volcanoes (as you argue that they clearly can't be compared), and your only response was just "it can" without further elaboration, so you lack both the evidence that it would affect the result of the calculation and an explanation of how much it can affect it, so effectively you contributed zero things to the debate of how to make a more accurate calculation of the feat that is valid to use.

This is my last post in regard to you, as this discussion is clearly pointless.
 
I think it would be best to ask a CGM to have a second look at that calc or do a recalc instead of going back and forth.

Other than that the Planet level thing is dubious and the Black Hole stuff still violates the standards.
 
But it's not really linear progression. We are explicitly told that Enma only becomes 7x stronger, not quadrillions of times stronger. And then immediately after this incredibly vague and indirectly "Tier 5" feat, nothing is ever shown or implied to be near that level again.

Based on the standards of the wiki, it is absolutely an outlier. And again, it is Tier 5 not by any virtue of what is actually shown or stated in the series, but by applying real-word logic to fictional magic black holes that don't line up with irl black holes at all.
I never claimed for it to be a linear progression. I don’t think a single verse that has 400+ chapters or equal amount of content has linear progression throughout the series. That’s also why you can’t pin this on an outlier. At this point of the series, we are made aware that the vongola had undergone massive growth. This fits. I don’t know why Enma’s 7x multiplier matters because we never really even got to grasp his full strength before this fight. That multiplier could be 100x or it could be 2x. The fact of the matter is we never had a basis for how strong he was before his power up so using that to try to say he shouldn’t be this powerful is illogical. Thats cool if there’s nothing like this shown again. That doesn’t mean that it’s incorrect. There isn’t anything to really contradict it afterwards too. Like I said, I never really understood why multiple feats of the same caliber have to be shown for a feat to be valid. Why can’t a feat be shown and if nothing contradicts it, nothing contradicts it. The guidelines themselves are pretty shabby for outliers if I’m being honest. 1. It is a big jump in power. 2. It’s not really a unique event as Enma makes his spheres multiple times. While he didn’t really do it in the arc afterwards, it’s also to be considered that Enma has minimal screen time afterwards as well. 3. Contextually, it checks out. The series narratively undergoes the biggest general power upgrade. 4. This doesn’t break any established things. We never got a ceiling to how powerful a flame user can be. 5. Again, narratively it was never established a ceiling for flame users. Using proper reasoning, I don’t see how this is an outlier when your basis for it is that it was never seen again in the arc afterwards when Enma had minimal usage in the plot.
 
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It doesn't matter if Enma uses the spheres multiple times, since the outlier being 5-A in the first place. No other character performs anything higher than a Tier 7 feat ever. And as I mentioned, yes, Enma is a big power jump, but we are explictly told that power jump is 7x.

And the other issue is that it makes no sense to apply real world physics to magical fictional black holes, all that does is vastly inflate the power we are actually shown
 
It doesn't matter if Enma uses the spheres multiple times, since the outlier being 5-A in the first place. No other character performs anything higher than a Tier 7 feat ever. And as I mentioned, yes, Enma is a big power jump, but we are explictly told that power jump is 7x.

And the other issue is that it makes no sense to apply real world physics to magical fictional black holes, all that does is vastly inflate the power we are actually shown

I’ve explained before the definition of an outlier and showed graphically what it looks like. Even going by vsbw standards, it doesn’t even fit the majority of the baseline standards and even then, it stated to just reason it out. Reasonably, Enma becomes a lot less plot dependent leading to less screen time. Him never using it again isn’t evidence that it’s an outlier. It just means he didn’t use it again. It’s evident that he is capable of doing it. This is a jump in power not an outlier. There is a very clear difference. An outlier would require something after said feat to debunk it. Like if Enma said he didn’t have enough power to even destroy a building. But nothing afterwards contradicts it.

I’m just curious but are you aware that when the vongola and Simon get sin and penalty respectively, they get a power boost on top of the 7x multiplier right? As in, when the simon poured sin on their rings, they became more powerful immediately in that moment and got their sin lines with their powers. You’re ignoring that key fact. They just also were going to grow gradually stronger over the next week. And like I said before, we have no idea how powerful Enma was before he got the sin upgrade as well. Even if I steelman and agree with you that sin didn’t immediately power them up which is narratively incorrect, we still have never seen Emma at his full strength so a 7 times multiplier wouldn’t be illogical as we never saw his ceiling. Even then, you’re also assuming Enma is able to do this feat by his 7 times multiplier when nothing like that is stated or even implied. Why couldn’t he do this before sin?

Also, didn’t you argue something about accretion discs against the black holes? I mean I agree with you to an extent on that argument. I feel like applying every minuscule detail of physics to fiction in general isn’t going to end well for anyone. But when the narrative explains and shows a black hole is being made, I don’t know what else to tell you. The story says and shows one thing and then you say that it’s just magic. It’s not magic, they physical showed and explained the process as it was happening.
 
We are looking at things like a meter wide and then saying that those things make every character able to blow up planets just by overapplying real-world physics to things that obviously do not follow real world physics in the series.

Like they obviously do not resemble real black holes visually, and they do not function at all like real black holes (if they did, they would have a bigger impact on the area around them than barely 9-A). So why are we assuming that this one aspect of a black hole will follow real world physics when most other things about them don't?

It's really just cherrypicking to inflate AP values beyond what is actually shown. Either the black holes follow real world physics or they don't, you can have both here. And here, they clearly don't.

Also, the VSBW page on black holes says this:

"Because of both of these reasons, a black hole can not be destroyed through normal methods. Destroying it through brute force would conflict with the very basics of its nature and as such it should be doubted if it really is a black hole, with common black hole properties."

Tsuna being able to destroy these black holes also goes against site standards on black holes
 
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We are looking at things like a meter wide and then saying that those things make every character able to blow up planets just by overapplying real-world physics to things that obviously do not follow real world physics in the series.

Like they obviously do not resemble real black holes visually, and they do not function at all like real black holes (if they did, they would have a bigger impact on the area around them than barely 9-A). So why are we assuming that this one aspect of a black hole will follow real world physics when most other things about them don't?

It's really just cherrypicking to inflate AP values beyond what is actually shown. Either the black holes follow real world physics or they don't, you can have both here. And here, they clearly don't.

Also, the VSBW page on black holes says this:

"Because of both of these reasons, a black hole can not be destroyed through normal methods. Destroying it through brute force would conflict with the very basics of its nature and as such it should be doubted if it really is a black hole, with common black hole properties."

Tsuna being able to destroy these black holes also goes against site standards on black holes
Yeah things a meter wide can blow up a planet in fiction. When did size determine the abilities of something in fiction? By that logic, a ki blast from dragon ball can’t blow up the moon. But like you established earlier, AP=/=DC. They just enough energy to destroy a certain quantity but not the magnitude to do so. Pretty standard versus battle things here.

Like I said prior, Enma clearly had the ability to limit the the AOE of his ability. They’re always limited to the inside of his sin lines. We see this exemplified in the fight against Daemon. Where Enma limited his ability to his immediate location. This also explains why he exclaimed that his power was going to kill everyone after it was stated he lost control of his power.

Real world physics to apply here. He took a mass and crushed it to form a black hole. Now was it drawn properly? No but no manga artist can draw a proper black hole as they’re like I said before, invisible. And a shapeless object isn’t something that artists can convey concepts about. It’s an artistically limit. They elaborate about black holes as well.

As for the black hole logic of tsuna being able to destroy it, I can see where people can be led to believe that route but as reborn states, it would need a force equivalent to the Big Bang to destroy it. Now is that scientifically possible? Maybe? Using my knowledge of physics from my mechanical engineering degree, I can see what they’re trying to do here. Essentially, black holes are infinitely compressing inward to a certain point. The Big Bang, at least as a majority of people view it, is infinitely expanding outward from a point. So when you have an infinite compressing force and an infinite expanding force, it should in theory cancel out. Now is it realistically plausible? No we can’t generate infinite energy. If we could though, it is plausible? Maybe? Theres inconsistencies to it such as energy interacting with black holes but I mean at least there was basic logic applied to it. But regardless, Enma was able to make spheres with the gravity of a star. That’s at least star level in my opinion.

Edit: I haven’t read the series in a while, the last time I interacted with it was watching the dubbed episodes on the fan disc. Reading over, the chapter, I don’t think tsuna even destroyed the black hole, I’m pretty sure he just harmonized it.
 
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My biggest worry with that calc is that I'm pretty sure Reborn says "gravity like a star," and the calc's gravity value seems like a pretty assumption. Like was Reborn specifically saying that it's gravity is the same as a star's, or was it a simile?

We should somehow find the raws for this and get a translator on it.

Now I don't know much mathematics so I can't comment on the methodology really, but if my above concern is addressed and the calc is approved by the calc group, I don't think I have any complaints.
 
My biggest problem with it is the assumption of the size of the sun. They assumed the gravity of the sun was equal to the one in our solar system. It looks like they use the gravitational force formula but that can’t be applied in this case, at least with how it’s used as it is based upon naturally occurring stars. That’s why the numbers don’t really line up. They assume the gravitational force of the solar system’s sun but also get that the mass of the spheres is like 1x10^14 off from what the actual mass is. This is because the formula is used incorrectly. The formula they used is the gravitational acceleration formula. But they assumed that the center point of the sphere and the very edge of the sphere are the two points. That’s not how you use the formula or what the formula is used for. It’s to determine how fast an object falls towards another object. When you assume the two points to be on the same body, the formula itself becomes misused which gets you grossly wrong numbers like being 1x10^14 off.

So multiple things. One the formula is for naturally occurring bodies, not artificial. Two, the assumed points of the calculation for the radius are incorrect as the formula doesn’t take into consideration volume. Volume has to be Ken into consideration as this isn’t a naturally occurring body. Three, the assumption of which star of the gravitational force.

Also, generally speaking, this calc wouldn’t make sense. Enma created an object(s) that have the gravity of a star. That would mean he had a creation feat equal to that of a star. While stars carry in size, it would still be around the area of star level given he made multiple of them. He also was able to crush them. Which would mean he had to overcome the outward force as well.
 
My biggest worry with that calc is that I'm pretty sure Reborn says "gravity like a star," and the calc's gravity value seems like a pretty assumption. Like was Reborn specifically saying that it's gravity is the same as a star's, or was it a simile?

We should somehow find the raws for this and get a translator on it.

Now I don't know much mathematics so I can't comment on the methodology really, but if my above concern is addressed and the calc is approved by the calc group, I don't think I have any complaints.
I personally don’t think reborn would say a simile. I don’t think he would in this case but I do agree about getting raws. Do you know of any translators and/or where the raws would be located?
 
I personally don’t think reborn would say a simile. I don’t think he would in this case but I do agree about getting raws. Do you know of any translators and/or where the raws would be located?
The usage of the word "like" indicates to me it may be a simile. And honestly in general I'm extremely wary about taking any statement like this at face value.

But yeah we need raws. I don't really know where people find them, but I can try and search for them.
 
The usage of the word "like" indicates to me it may be a simile. And honestly in general I'm extremely wary about taking any statement like this at face value.

But yeah we need raws. I don't really know where people find them, but I can try and search for them.
Well first of all, that’s not how similes work. Just because it uses the word like doesn’t mean they’re using it as a figure of speech or at least how you’re perceiving it. A simile is “My smile is as bright as the sun.” My smile literally doesn’t radiate brightness like a sun does. It uses two concepts that are akin to each other to convey the idea that my smile is radiant. But in a different sense than radiant like the sun. When saying gravity like that of a star, that’s a simile, yes, but it’s not to be compared in a more esoteric way like my example above. It is a more direct comparison. I think you’re perceiving the simile to be more of an exaggeration than an actual simile. But I don’t think reborn exaggerates. He’s pretty literal throughout the series. So I don’t think we can really dismiss his claims on the basis that it’s a simile.

As for RAWS, it would be nice to see if he said “like that of A star” or “like that of THE star” which would help calcs. If he says THE star that would mean we could use numbers from our sun as apposed to having to randomly guess or use averages of stars.
 
Ok, vote tally: who is in favor vs. opposed to removing 5-A? I just want to see where people are at. I think we'll also need moderators to come and give their thoughts.
 
And I think black hole feats are extremely unreliable anyway, since by nature they will always be vastly inflated from what we are actually shown. I get that DC =/= AP, but black holes are unreliable since they are a fairly common thing in fantasy that shouldn't by default come with the assumption that the author intends that to mean that every character can blow up planets now.
We never assume characters who scale to BH can blow up planets so the authors intent is irrelevant for the most part. I think feats like it though should primarily be given to the one who does it, especially if its through some special ability.

So what I'm getting is that the verse will be going to H7C?
 
As for the black hole logic of tsuna being able to destroy it, I can see where people can be led to believe that route but as reborn states, it would need a force equivalent to the Big Bang to destroy it. Now is that scientifically possible? Maybe? Using my knowledge of physics from my mechanical engineering degree, I can see what they’re trying to do here. Essentially, black holes are infinitely compressing inward to a certain point. The Big Bang, at least as a majority of people view it, is infinitely expanding outward from a point. So when you have an infinite compressing force and an infinite expanding force, it should in theory cancel out. Now is it realistically plausible? No we can’t generate infinite energy. If we could though, it is plausible? Maybe? Theres inconsistencies to it such as energy interacting with black holes but I mean at least there was basic logic applied to it. But regardless, Enma was able to make spheres with the gravity of a star. That’s at least star level in my opinion.
Should we be scaling to the Big Bang if thats what they say is needed to destroy it?
 
We never assume characters who scale to BH can blow up planets so the authors intent is irrelevant for the most part. I think feats like it though should primarily be given to the one who does it, especially if its through some special ability.

So what I'm getting is that the verse will be going to H7C?
So right now the only remaining valid calc (in my opinion) is High 7-C from the Future Arc. Another, earlier, High 7-C calc has been proposed, but I very strongly oppose it. There is also a potential feat later in the Future Arc that, when calced, will probably be higher than High 7-C. If using my multipliers with the current calc, then Tsuna will end the series at 6.8 gigatons.

There is also a Low 6-B calc proposed for the black hole feat, but honestly the more I think about it, the more I honestly just oppose any use of that feat at all. In my opinion, if you can calc a feat to both Low 6-B and 5-A and have both be technically incorrect, the feat is honestly just unusable and should be dropped altogether. The feat, and black hole stuff most of the time in general, is just too vague and inconsistent.

Should we be scaling to the Big Bang if thats what they say is needed to destroy it?
No, I don't think so. That would be even bigger of an outlier imo. Like all we have for cosmic level scaling is vague statements, there isn't any feat at all that suggests characters on that level.
 
There is also a Low 6-B calc proposed for the black hole feat, but honestly the more I think about it, the more I honestly just oppose any use of that feat at all. In my opinion, if you can calc a feat to both Low 6-B and 5-A and have both be technically incorrect, the feat is honestly just unusable and should be dropped altogether. The feat, and black hole stuff most of the time in general, is just too vague and inconsistent.
That does sound incredibly inconsistent for a feat.

No, I don't think so. That would be even bigger of an outlier imo. Like all we have for cosmic level scaling is vague statements, there isn't any feat at all that suggests characters on that level.
Does anyone do something to get that big bang level of power?
 
Does anyone do something to get that big bang level of power?
No. Basically, what happens is that Enma creates "black holes." Reborn says that Tsuna will need the power of the Big Bang to destroy them, but the translations on this statement are also inconsistent. And even if the translation was 100% literal I still would strongly oppose it, since would really just be hyperbole and outlier regardless. Like we see Tsuna do the XX-Burner attack again, and all it did was shake the island.
 
No. Basically, what happens is that Enma creates "black holes." Reborn says that Tsuna will need the power of the Big Bang to destroy them, but the translations on this statement are also inconsistent. And even if the translation was 100% literal I still would strongly oppose it, since would really just be hyperbole and outlier regardless. Like we see Tsuna do the XX-Burner attack again, and all it did was shake the island.
I’m pretty sure this was already discussed and Rae’s were found and reborn did say Big Bang. I can’t find the forum though.
 
that's not how similes work at all first of all.

he's comparing it to a star/planet he has to use the word "like" to describe it. there'd be no point for Reborn to make a non-literal comparison in this situation. This isn't a gag moment or a non serious situation where he feels like he needs to get his point across, he's literally comparing that ability to the gravity of star/planet. I don't see how that translation reads as a simile at all.
 
He doesn't say "the gravity of that sphere is as strong as a star," he says "that sphere has its own gravity, like a star." The comparison is that it has its own gravity at all, that does not mean that the sphere's gravity is as strong as a star's gravity. And the other issue is that apparently the word could also mean planet. There are so many variables and unknowns here that it's entirely unusable.
 
I've posted requests for some new calcs in the Calc Request Thread. One is the Choice Arc X-Burner and the other is a recalc of the volcano feat. In lieu of any calcable feats after this in the series (the XX-Burner is probably uncalcable), one of these will form the basis for AP values for the rest of the series. I also found a Ryohei feat that could be good for Varia Arc scaling (probably will turn out to be around 8-C). I think Colonello's shot could maybe be recalced with pulverization, but dirt seems pretty unreliable to calc pulverization for.
 
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He doesn't say "the gravity of that sphere is as strong as a star," he says "that sphere has its own gravity, like a star." The comparison is that it has its own gravity at all, that does not mean that the sphere's gravity is as strong as a star's gravity. And the other issue is that apparently the word could also mean planet. There are so many variables and unknowns here that it's entirely unusable.
Everything has its own gravity. He is saying it’s that of a star. It wouldn’t make sense for him to bring up the star comparison by saying it has its own gravity. Technically everything with mass has its own gravity. It would serve no point for him to add like a star unless the spheres had the gravity of a star. You’re clinging on to “he said like” to try to discredit this feat when you’re competing ignoring the fact that it would make sense considering Enma is a gravity user. It also shows gravitational attraction and they literally explained the collapse of a star into a black hole. Splitting hairs to try to discredit a feat when even thing, a simile to a star doesn’t impose any discontinuity, is cherry picking.
 
I'm sorry but the translator disagrees with you here, and I trust their interpretation of the Japanese phrasing more. "It's own gravity like a star/planet" doesn't at all mean its equal in strength to those. And also, since the word used can apparently mean star OR planet, that is another layer of massive inconsistency that really just makes this feat unusable. We can't use a feat that gives a Low 6-B result when calced one way and a 5-A result when calced another way, especially when the actual Japanese calls into question all the assumptions both of those calcs are using in the first place. It's just an unusably bad feat.
 
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