His CT is being affected even more yes everytime he goes to hit them because megumi's resistance gets even stronger. But that doesn't change the fact that his cursed energy output is already at 10% even without him harming them and cursed energy output refers to everything and is, once again,
His statement is made in reference to Yuji tanking his Dismantle net. Sukuna hadn't even fought physically yet (other than that one seemingly casual punch that one shot Pre-Rage Amp Yuji).
why he can't blitz them despite being able to when at 100%. You're acting like one statement erases the other.
I'm not. I acknowledged that Sukuna is physically nerfed, all I'm saying is that his physicals aren't at 10%. Although regardless, I do think the 16F Sukuna blitzing Ryu feat is questionable (brief summary: I think Ryu was mentally nerfed), but that's a whole other discussion and not the most relevant to the topic so let's not get into that.
Except it logically (sadly for my fellow Jane Juliet enjoyers, I also believed in this before but dont anymore) can not be a FP dismantle. If you want even further proof of this:
- Heres a sukuna WAAAY weaker than his 16F self
He's weaker for sure, but idt there's proof that he's "WAAAY weaker." In the Yuta fight, he was marginally weaker (doing marginally less damage to Yuta with Dismantle than he did to Ryu, with those two being in the same tier even if Ryu's a bit tougher), his output got dropped significantly, but then he amped himself with 3 Black Flashes. He's probably still weaker than Yuta fight Sukuna, but it's unquantifiable by how much.
- doing extreme damage to Shinjuku Awakened Maki with his dismantles from a long distance after a black flash
Extreme damage is a pretty big exaggeration. We see blood fly, but that doesn't mean she was on death's door or anything. And it was also a barrage of Dismantles, unlike the single one he used against Ryu (and seemingly on the stomach which I'm pretty sure is less tough than the chest, but that's a side point). I also wouldn't say it's contradictory for Ryu to be more durable than Maki, even if only marginally.
- (note that this literally takes maki out of the fight)
She was out of the battle for a bit, but it's not like it knocked her unconscious or anything given that she was standing when Sukuna used his domain.
- Heres Shinjuku Yuji considering the dismantle rain from a Sukuna also way weaker than his 16F self
Marginally
- as something that would have killed him if he didn't have RCT.
Ryu would die from a Barrage of 16F Dismantles regardless of if Sukuna was going all out or not. One slash did pretty good, just not fatal damage. Also Ryu is a decent bit tougher than Pre-Awakening Yuji.
This not even touching on the fact that Sukuna was not interested in Ryu, which would affect his output to begin with.
Except Sukuna clarifies that it's not a matter of holding back due to disinterest, but to being unable to kill him without Cleave. If anything, Sukuna should've been "fired up" by Ryu's toughness given his expression and words of praise, and just powered up his Dismantle to one shot Ryu if the situation was really how you're framing it.
Also we see that not even attacks 2.5x stronger than an opponent relative to you can one shot the other (Black Flash),
That depends. Mahito pretty much one shot Todo, Gojo knocked out Sukuna, and Yuji one shot an ISB Mahito much stronger than him (who was admittedly at low health, but still).
if Sukuna scales to his cleave, which can one shot Ryu, it is indeed not crazy to say he can be that much stronger and the rest is stacked up to how he uses his attacks and his cursed energy wavering.
Sukuna doesn't scale to his Cleave in AP just cause Gojo withstood it. Sukuna is much more durable than he is strong, and the same can be true of Gojo. Does Sukuna actually damage Gojo with just physicals? Even when using DA (which I think is a stat amp, though ik that's considered contentious), Sukuna's punches just knocked Gojo back a bit, Gojo doesn't show actual pain. Much how characters can sometimes tank a BF from a peer, Gojo withstanding a Cleave while he and Sukuna aren't close to matching Cleave's AP with punches is fine.
The other part was simply to prove to you that dismantles can get stronger.
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