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It's just the following: Rimuru Tempest is being tiered 7-C because he is superior to people who are compared to tatical nukes. Sure, sure, but do they have nuclear feats?
Let me point out one thing: imagine a High 8-C and Subsonic+ person in real life, with enough stamina to fight for a few hours before getting tired. Yes, someone who can take down a neighbourhood in a bunch of punches, who can run around so fast you can never get to aim a bullet on them and who won't take significant damage from anything lower than high-end artillery and even then cannot die from that because it doesn't have the concentrated firepower of something like a punch, so it will be low damage distributed through the body. Who could take a railgun or antitank shot to the body and survive but won't take them because you can't aim directly at them with all that speed, who has above average human intelligence or, even worse, is a gifted tactician.
Would it be wrong to call this High 8-C individual an equivalent of a tatical nuke? I'm pretty sure they could take down at least a small town before being brought down, and it could indeed take a nuke to make sure they're dead.
In other words, when we're saying an individual is comparable to a nuke, we're not saying each of their attacks is comparable to a nuke, but that dropping them somewhere is comparable to dropping a nuke somewhere, as they will cause similar destruction.
So... may we use feats instead of lore in this case? It definitely seems like a person compared to a nuke can be no lower than Tier 8, as that's true for real life and for any fantasy where Tier 9 attacks are common enough that a 9-A would be quickly stopped by any city's defenses. It doesn't seem likely that Rimuru is actually 7-C on his first key just because he's stronger than people who "are in a war equivalent to tatical nukes". Give me 8-C+ punches and I can also cause destruction akin to that of a nuclear bomb.
Let me point out one thing: imagine a High 8-C and Subsonic+ person in real life, with enough stamina to fight for a few hours before getting tired. Yes, someone who can take down a neighbourhood in a bunch of punches, who can run around so fast you can never get to aim a bullet on them and who won't take significant damage from anything lower than high-end artillery and even then cannot die from that because it doesn't have the concentrated firepower of something like a punch, so it will be low damage distributed through the body. Who could take a railgun or antitank shot to the body and survive but won't take them because you can't aim directly at them with all that speed, who has above average human intelligence or, even worse, is a gifted tactician.
Would it be wrong to call this High 8-C individual an equivalent of a tatical nuke? I'm pretty sure they could take down at least a small town before being brought down, and it could indeed take a nuke to make sure they're dead.
In other words, when we're saying an individual is comparable to a nuke, we're not saying each of their attacks is comparable to a nuke, but that dropping them somewhere is comparable to dropping a nuke somewhere, as they will cause similar destruction.
So... may we use feats instead of lore in this case? It definitely seems like a person compared to a nuke can be no lower than Tier 8, as that's true for real life and for any fantasy where Tier 9 attacks are common enough that a 9-A would be quickly stopped by any city's defenses. It doesn't seem likely that Rimuru is actually 7-C on his first key just because he's stronger than people who "are in a war equivalent to tatical nukes". Give me 8-C+ punches and I can also cause destruction akin to that of a nuclear bomb.