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I have several problems with the justifications for the AP of the Masters of Mystic Arts (MoMA) with magic. Let's go through them one by one
Strange: Doesn't consider Ultron a threat
=> After Thor: Ragnarok and Infinity War, we know how MoMA deal with these kinds of threats: throwing them into portals (Loki and Cull Obsidian). They have nothing to do with AP. Neither do the durability-ignoring portal cutting. One statement that they don't consider Ultron a threat without going into details how they would defeat him, and the usual ways they deal with such threats (portals) cannot automatically translate into them having higher AP via magic than Ultron.
Wong: Harmed Ebony Maw in Combat, aided Iron Man and should be comparable to Pre-Key Doctor Strange
=> Harming Maw who has Wall level durability is meaningless. Wong also hurt Maw by sending his own spikes at him by portal. He also did not "aid" Tony, merely sending Cull into a portal before he could attack Tony again. I already addressed the problem with Stephen.
Kaecilus: Fought against the witch that covered London in a storm alongside Wong, Master Minoru, and Daniel Drumm, providing 1/4th of the power needed to overpower her
=> Are we even certain the witch covered London in a storm? In this page she mentioned "Darkness" and the next page implied she covered the area in darkness. Later in this page the MoMA discussed that the relic she held Feeds of the physical light and pulls all light from within while also amplifying doubt and fear. Wong, Kaecilius, Daniel and Minoru later defeated her by releasing so much light magic that the relic was pushed to its limit. So I don't know why we treated the power of the relic as anything remotely storm-related. The witch's feat is a non-quantifiable darkness hax feat and also an Environmental Destruction feat like the Mirror Dimension - the environment is altered, but does not translate into direct combat-applicable AP.
TL;DR:
Strange: Doesn't consider Ultron a threat
=> After Thor: Ragnarok and Infinity War, we know how MoMA deal with these kinds of threats: throwing them into portals (Loki and Cull Obsidian). They have nothing to do with AP. Neither do the durability-ignoring portal cutting. One statement that they don't consider Ultron a threat without going into details how they would defeat him, and the usual ways they deal with such threats (portals) cannot automatically translate into them having higher AP via magic than Ultron.
Wong: Harmed Ebony Maw in Combat, aided Iron Man and should be comparable to Pre-Key Doctor Strange
=> Harming Maw who has Wall level durability is meaningless. Wong also hurt Maw by sending his own spikes at him by portal. He also did not "aid" Tony, merely sending Cull into a portal before he could attack Tony again. I already addressed the problem with Stephen.
Kaecilus: Fought against the witch that covered London in a storm alongside Wong, Master Minoru, and Daniel Drumm, providing 1/4th of the power needed to overpower her
=> Are we even certain the witch covered London in a storm? In this page she mentioned "Darkness" and the next page implied she covered the area in darkness. Later in this page the MoMA discussed that the relic she held Feeds of the physical light and pulls all light from within while also amplifying doubt and fear. Wong, Kaecilius, Daniel and Minoru later defeated her by releasing so much light magic that the relic was pushed to its limit. So I don't know why we treated the power of the relic as anything remotely storm-related. The witch's feat is a non-quantifiable darkness hax feat and also an Environmental Destruction feat like the Mirror Dimension - the environment is altered, but does not translate into direct combat-applicable AP.
TL;DR:
- Strange's scaling from Ultron assumes Strange's magic AP > Ultron, based on a single statement of him not seeing the robot as a threat, without taking into account the way MoMA deal with similar threats - non-quantifiable portals.
- Wong has a lot of faulty justifications with scaling from people that don't matter (Maw) or people he shouldn't scale from at all (Tony)
- Kaecilius/ The Witch: The feat of covering London in darkness was assumed to be a storm for no reason at all. The feat itself is more or less a "Covering an area in darkness" feat that would not be quantifiable