I HATE Power Scaling, kinda

Power scaling... is aight. Whether it be Jujutsu Kaisen or Dragon Ball, power scaling is incredibly popular and for good reason. It's fun, nerdy, and kinda fulfilling, but... I don't like it that much. I'm not a rabid hater like Bigs n Stuff, but sometimes it does get a little much.

Could bloodlusted prime Yuta with Rika and life vow beat exhausted teen Goj-- shut up.

#jujusukaisenseason2 #jjk #dragonball #powerscaling

[donartkrs]

Hello my friend, great video!
I think Goku cant hit Giorno and Giorno cant hit Goku so i think its a tie!

[blackestyang]

Goku has canonically died. Garfield hasn't even bled

[leontriestoart]

powerscalers explaining how mario can withstand the gravitational force of a black hole while he dies to a thwomp:

[danielgreen]

Powerscalers when their child is kind and sweet instead of continent lvl 😡😡😡

[TheCreepyLantern]

my biggest problem with power scaling is always "this character dodged a laser attack, therefore everyone in this verse that's comparable to him clearly has lightspeed reaction time"
it drives me insane 'cause it's always so obvious no author thinks like that and just thought it'd be cool. No death Battle. Batman and Link are not reacting at lightspeed. that's dumb.

[Godofstorm]

I think the main problem with power scaling is that for most things it requires you too interpret most things with a great example being Makima herself.

[chrissullivan]

My biggest complaint with power scaling is so many scalers ignore narrative. Like, they may understand the story but they'll see a character lose a fight and now it's an "anti feat" even if the narrative has been telling us they'll lose for a while.

[ReverseBanana]

What I hate the most is that people take what the author just said bc they thought it was cool and NEVER let it go. Every dragon ball character is apparently faster than light bc the animators didn’t want to have the characters wait 3 business days for roshi to blow up the moon

[smoothhoops]

Power scareles need to realize that the writers aren't calculating their feats as they write them lmao. Gege didn't google how fast a bullet travels, then decided if Maki was fast enough to catch it

[scrung]

Stan Lee's comment on this is correct because the narrative is what decides if a story is actually interesting or not, and he's not even addressing crossover 'verse' arguments because each story with its world has its own unique rules and systems that it doesn't even make sense to compare their characters

[thosemerc]

>Shits on Stan Lee
>Proceeds to say the exact same thing but in more words

[Cjaj]

I feel like through most power scaling discussions I start from a place of "oh that's kind of cool: and devolve into a place of "why do you care so much?"

[zorro]

One big thing that I completely hate about powerscaling is pixel scaling/unconfirmed scaling that massively highballs characters when they haven’t showcased feats of those levels.

An Example being Midoriya, Mha has consistently shown relativistic reaction speeds to hypersonic combat/movement speeds. Yet people do mega-wank “calculations” and pixel scaling to somehow get Deku at hundreds to thousands of times faster than light.

They completely ignore the narrative of the story and simply apply Bs made up multipliers.

Another thing I hate is dimensions tiering across verses when both verses have different dimensional scales; aka 5th dimensional in one verse is not equal to 5th dimensional in another unless both are explained to work similarly.

[Drakorre]

Power scaling is the male version of Shipping characters

[senntai]

what's annoying is that people take some ''feats'' too seriously when they were done for a cool factor more than how real life would work like that maki catching a bullet scene

i keep seeing people spamming that some characters are ''light speed'' fast for some dumb reasons like ''they dodged an attack that looked like light''. No...just no. It would take 0.13 seconds to run around earth once with light speed, if you don't see those characters doing that then they're not real life light speed.

[BellowDGaming]

before the Nah I'd Win meme, its Stan Lee's "It depends on the scriptwriter! Its fictional characters!"

[thermophile]

The fact that people take the bullet scene and say "Gege doesn't know how strong his own verse is" really tips the hands off the mentality power scalers have.

More than anything, power scalers want their favorite characters to be ludicrously strong, so stretches of logic are totally acceptable as long as there is an argument for it.

For example, Dark Soul characters are currently rated as star level (as in, if they punched a star, it would explode) by its fanbase, and if I remember correctly, that's just because of a metaphor about the flame being compared to a star or something. Take metaphors as fact, ignore all consistency issues this creates, and do whatever else you can to support your position.

And that's why I can't stand the power scaling community. They claim to use logic, but they ignore it whenever it's convenient for them.

[savage]

Stan Lee is spot on regarding how important that information is. The power of a character compared to some other average is utterly worthless when it comes to writing a story, and putting importance in it is indeed boneheaded. To provide a scientific comparison between two characters is incredibly difficult as references need to be clearly defined, consistent, and the laws of the universe in both series need to be mutually inclusive. You need to make a myriad of assumptions to "accurately" make predictions. So i disagree that you can do power scaling in every single case.

[sumandark]

As a physicist: the logic is never sound. I hate power scaling because of how bad the vast vast majority of it is.

[nabinoorshahil]

When it comes to power scaling among characters of the same verse I do think it is important as it help maintain an internal consistency.. If character A is stated to be stronger than character B but character B beat character A easily without any explanation and then looses to character C who was shown to be weak then that would just be inconsistent. That is how power scaling originally started. It was originally just a way to maintain internal narrative consistency of the power levels between characters of the same series but at some point it became about comparing characters of different series and although in some cases it is fine in many cases it becomes impossible as it is just a matter of interpretation.
With all that said though I do find power scaling between different versus and the various debates fun to watch so I don't hate it.