It seems logical, but the only problem is this is just evidence. We can say that Escanor powers up when he wants to, but we don't have any specific time to base this off of for debate. Close to noon could've meant 11:00, the sins could've been ambushed towards the later hours of the day. Also, the databook says that Escanor cannot fully control his power yet. Even more so, Nakaba purposely drew in a completely random scene about a village boy just to let his audience know that it was 11:30.
I took the 11:30 scene to mean "it's not noon yet" rather than "yep, 11:30, time for a powerup". The thing to consider here is that escanor does not go around melting castles or evaporating lakes all the time. Against izraf this was specifically linked to his mood being fouled and taking it out on the measly vampire king. Against estarosa escanor made the point that he exerted himself. We saw escanor in his vacation with the other sins and for the most part he even got into the water without evaporating and only actually evaporated when merlin made him feel aroused. So perhaps I phrased things wrong earlier. The issue is not quite that escanor can power up when he cans. The issue is that at any given time he keeps his power level at it's lowest possible level. And strong emotions make him loose control. And of course his power can increase by him merely not suppressing his power. And that his power cap actually increases as the day progresses does not help him in maintaining his power suppressed. The power increase merlin and meliodas mentioned in turn would also not be escanor's "normal" power increased. That would be the most he can suppress his PL increase through the day. As in, that is the slowest possible increase in power he can manage.
Ah, well in that case yes I agree. Escanor has shown that he has the ability to surpress his powers to an extent. So yeah, it makes sense to me now.
Estarossa is not Meliodas though. Meliodas's abilities should more than likely be enhanced when he is using his mark.
No, I don't see how it's possible. Escanor doesn't control his power and the time of the day was mentioned, he powered up because of that, we all know his PL depends on the time of the day. He can't use more of his power because he wants to. He also said that he would fight Estarossa seriously. Rhitta is not supposed to hold him back, it's his Sacred Treasure. The heat he emits is stored in it, helps to reduce damages caused by his heat and can be used to release a Sunshine blast , it doesn't reduce its power.
Yeah but keep in mind Estarosssa strength stat which is a measure of his physical capabilities is extremely high. Yet Escanor proved that his 11:30 self was more than enough to outclass and outspeed it's 50,000ish value. I wouldn't be surprised if prime Meliodas's strength was under Estarosssa's strength stat or barely above it. If Meliodas had physical capabilities (strength stat) of let's say 60,000; I believe that 11:30 Escanor would certainly give him a challenge and that peak Escanor would be too much for him to track. Escanor would still have half an hour left for his powerlevels to rise right after a big surge, and then they'd most likely surge again at his peak.
What I am saying is completely consistent with him being unable to control his power though. You are talking about a guy who does his best 12 hours a day to suppress his power as much as he can. And yet the bare minimum at which his power increases is still thousands worth of PL per battle. The slightest arousal causes his power level to surge. And given what we have seen, rhitta does certainly have the function to hold him back, otherwise his comment at the end of his fight with estarosa makes no sense. Of course, clearly rhitta also has the opposite function of helping him in battle just as much as any other sacred treasure would in battle.
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What we know so far(strictly in terms of PL)
Escanor is not trying to suppress his power though, what he tries to suppress(at times) is the heat he emits. His PL doesn't increase as you said. So far, it only surged during the night against Gowther and at 11:00/11:30 AM against Estarossa. Against Galan it was clearly rising with 5 points per seconds.
Who ever said Rhitta suppresses his power's just making up excuses at this point, it clearly states in the manga it takes in all the heat and stores it
It depends on how much it boosts him. At most I can't see Meliodas going past 80K total. Assuming that his strength is the stat that gets most impacted it would probably be at 60K which still isn't that much higher than Estarossa's strength. Escanor's power drastically surges and then will continue to increase for a half hour before finally surging again probably. Meliodas is tough but I can't see him going past an Escanor surge followed by a full half hour of increasing power and then followed by another possible surge at noon.
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If you take away from something that is obviously going to decrease the amount that is available, so technically Rhitta does surpress his power. Unless of course you're suggesting that the laws of subtraction don't apply in Nanatsu...
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Lol stop, Rhitta stores heat so he doesn't burn his surroundings, his power is still increasing, he's still gaining mass etc
But his heat/magic is suppressed
And as his power increases Rhitta takes more of it until it becomes full. Escanor will still rise, but his power will still be surpressed to a degree because Rhitta takes it away and stores it. And what argument did demonspeed debunk? And whose to say he did? You? That doesn't make any sense.
10K is still a huge difference though. I don't think Estarossa would be able to keep up with that. And we have seen Meliodas easily toy with Derrierie despite her 48K(a difference of 6K between her and Estarossa). Against Dolor and Gloxinia, Meliodas must have somehow reached the 50 or 60K with his mark when he had a PL of 32500 without it, and now this mark is even more powerful. I can't imagine a scenario with Estarossa keeping up with him even for an instant.
Unless estarossa can power up with his darkness ( i hope he can)