@Arigarmy:
1. Yes, I am aware Mahado = Dark Magician. Just had it on my mind that there's actually a "scaling chain" for the Yugioh characters that can get most of them to Wall Level durability. (Which reminds me that I need to figure out how to get a calc done.)
I asked if we care about tiering human characters not because I didn't think of Mahado & Dark Magician as one & the same, but because of statistics for Yugi, Kaiba, Joey, Tristan, Tea & a few others.
2. I didn't think there was any reason to care about such ratings. If they were implemented, they'd have to be their own keys. Also, it's questionable if versions of monsters/characters can scale to the monsters outside.
If we were to account for Legendary Heroes & Virtual World, there'd be a whole bunch of new feats, simply put. But both LH & VW are just places that Yugi & co. get their minds trapped into, so LH/VW don't scale to humans.
And since the LH & VW are just Industrial Illusions/KaibaCorp simulations, it's unclear if we can assume their depictions of the monsters & card effects are accurate enough to apply them to the other versions of them.
4. I just assumed so because of the manga discussion.
That said, I don't know how much of this is manga-applicable, but there do seem to be means to get monster statistics:
A. Normal Monsters' cards in the Japanese anime have card text which seems to match the card lore of their real life card equivalents. If we were to assume this lore is applicable to the monsters in the anime, could those Normal Monsters could be given statistics? Could they be scaled to? (I doubt ATK or DEF is that credible, & I'm not sure about Level Stars, either though.)
Some monsters have feats in their card lore.
B. Man-Eater Bug & Morphing Jar were both able to kill Pegasus's guards. Maybe 10-A or 9-C for those monsters & scale from them somehow?
C. I don't know how it was in the manga, but during Marik vs Joey & Marik vs. Mai, there seemed to be some level of physicality to some monsters.
Mai was able to be bound by Holding Arms, Holding Legs, & Sacred Stone of Ojhat. Physicality? AP via size/weight?
Joey was able to feel the heat from Lava Golem, & seemed to be imprisoned in its cage. If Lava Golem has its physicality, couldn't we find AP for it via size &/or heat?
That said, given that Marik vs Joey had both duelists feeling pain from attacks & what their monsters felt, it could be the heat was just part of that? Or maybe it was real? Opinions?
D. During Atem vs Orichalcos Soldier, it summons an Orichalcos Giygas, which is able to break through solid stone ground every time it revives. If we assume Orichalcos Soldier is superior to Giygas for summoning/commanding it, that might provide a scaling point, as many monsters are capable of defeating Orichalcos Soldiers.
Alternatively, we could assume that monsters who fought in the Battle for Atlantis are comparable to Orichalcos Giygas.
E. Several monsters -mostly dragons- appear to get absorbed by dormant Leviathan, fight in the Battle for Atlantis, & fight against Awakened Leviathan. If monsters in those armies have feats -such as by Normal Monster card lore or actual feats- could we assume they're comparable to one another?
Lastly, this probably doesn't help Dark Magicians much, but Timeaus's attacks destroy large portions of armies, create sizeable explosions & visibly damage land in the Battle for Atlantis.
Those Timeaus feats would be good for it, Critias & Hermos, possibly others in the war, & should scale to its fused forms, Amulet Dragon (Timeaus+Dark Magician) & Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight (Timeaus+DMG) as well.
Sorry about all the words. Does any of that help?
