Look at it this way
Yuji goes for close combat as he does>Realizes Pochita is much stronger than him when his punches don't work or Pochita manages to cut through him>Domain Expansion
Yuji realized he couldn't beat Mahito hand-to-hand as soon as he hit him,
because he had an idea of Mahito's regen
he realized he couldn't beat Yuta in a straight fight as soon as Yuta moved and switched to non-standard tactics.
he fought yuta a good bit before that he has at least yutas stats and established capabilities to work with
Speed equal so Pochita going for a blitz just straight up won't work, especially when Yuji has dealt with speed gaps like against Choso
While true Pochita tends to yoink himself with chains to enhance his movement, said chains, mind you are backed with class G physicals if someone like yuji who is used to being physically above the enemy tries to grapple them he's getting cooked.
Yuji swapped tactics against Yuta the instant he figured out Yuta had an advantage.
which isn't near as fast as the amount of time it takes for pochita to cut yujis head off
then theres also conceptual EE that pochita can use if he sees yuji regenerate one or two limbs by cutting the next one and biting down on it
He used domain even though he didn't he know he could after figuring out that just going with his usual punch and kick wouldn't work. Yuji isn't just going to not use domain for no reason
we're talking about a situation where itadori has
Just started the fight and doesn't know to use soul attacks it took yuta,maki,miguel, yuta again, itadori multiple times, todo, and a bunch of other people fighting sukuna for an extended period of time before he used domain expansion domain is basically a non factor to the points I mentioned.
Quit acting like Pochita can just blitz him and be done,
I said pochita
leads with an attempt to blitz and kill
Pochita using over the top moves is really bad for him because it means he'll be leaving himself open and taking a long time to reset movements
over the top moves...as in his insane acrobatics showings that other characters have trouble dealing with even when he's depowered enough to the point they can react to him
Problem here is that Deku was a blitz level faster than Shigaraki which is not the case for Pochita against Yuji.
This dosen't stop yuji from getting picked up by chains whatsoever
Yuji getting in close at all is an assumption
We're saying yuji itadori getting up close and personal with his opponent at the start of the fight is an assumption....do i need to pull out the countless examples that say this isn't the case?
when he can recognize even a relatively small gap in stats from a glance, is very much not above running away if it gives him the advantage, and has far more experience and feats in combat against people relative with him in stats.
Usually he can sense the opponents cursed energy to get an idea of how strong they are but pochita dosen't have that nor does he have a power system you can equate to that so yuji would get caught off guard the same way sorcerers are normally caught off guard by the strength of a heavenly restriction user without knowledge on how exactly strong they physically are (look at ino getting blized by toji as an example)
Yuji's RCT cost is only half that of most characters, and Blood Manipulation stiching isn't costly at all because he could do it long after he stopped using RCT.
yuji is very new to using blood manipulation at this point and isn't as good at is as someone like choso for example so stitching would be harder for him. half of what most characters struggle to pull of while isn't too much, isn't neligable either which is important since we're having yuji regenerating multiple limbs and/or injuries to his vital organs here.
Yuji stopped using RCT mid way into Shinjuku because at that point he'd taken like 5 fatal injuries.
fair point in regards to if he'd get tired or not before he can do anything, this still effect my other points tho like how his RCT would need an insanly fast healing speed to heal his limbs as pochita is cutting them down (assuming he isn't going for the head)
Healing a limb once or twice won't stop him from using Domain Expansion
But pulling the in character move of cutting his head off while zooming around him with acrobatics from chains 100% will
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