I've gone over this topic a lot in detail, in the past.How is Skullion beneath Gray if he beat him? Furthermore, Skullion tied with Mirajane, who is above Gray, according to the narrative.
There are many other inconsistencies.
Mashima either retconned the DE trio or powered up the good guys (i think it's a combination of both). Cause Kyria is now at a level where Lucy can defeat her, albeit with minor help. In contrast, Kyria of the past one shotted Lucy with a roar.
OG trio members were bonkers.
Kyria had combat stats to give Erza a high diff on top of her hax, one shotted Lucy and Wendy. Skullion no diff DeS gray. Madmole no sold FDKM Natsu, Natsu had to resort to heat rather than attack power.
Like I said, there will be inconsistencies, because Mashima is the author.
Why do you think Kirin, Laxus and Erza are stronger than Suzaku?I'd put her in tier 3. Tier 3/4 seems kinda convoluted don't you think. As for me personally right now I would say laxus and Erza are stronger than suzaku. The reason why I put kirin above suzaku is just base purely on the fact that I think suzaku might show up in this arc but that's a huge gamble. But it's whatever.
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Mard geer?? X791. Bro s fodder rn. Base natsu one shots him easily
Mashima went out of his way to specifically tell us he didn't retcon Suzaku's power level.
He made natsu gain a new mode where he has his DF durability in FDKM, and have Natsu even admit he's one shot material to suzaku if not for that.
Suzaku's feats against Erza and natsu in Elentir stays.
Also, suzaku is clearly the special one amongst BDSK there is a reason he fought natsu, is paired with natsu, and fought two DGs.
Misaki also implied that Kirin was stronger than her.
As for Mard and other early big bads.
I think Mashima is making it clear recently that the power creep isn't as high as many of us (including me) originally thought it was.
Mard geer no sold x791 DF Natsu, that shit will take out half the (low dura) Spriggans.
Look at how strong dual mode Sting was. Future Rouge is x792 Sting plus 6 years of training.
Now we're seeing demonized Zero implied to be the strongest of the 6 new villains.
Mashima has massive respect for the old big bads.
I agree. I didn't even rank Haku due to this lol, don't know where to put him.personally I think some mages like the ones uses hax are difficult to rank because some of them do have magic that can work on mages stronger than them and some can only be beaten (unless you count plot) is if someone’s around that can counter their hax or doesn’t work on them
At least for Misaki, her hax is kinda counterable. There are many general counters, like flight, telekinesis, ranged attacks, etc.
We can hence gauge her powers to an extend.
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I think Lucy and Wendy are by design meant to be weaker than base natsu/Gray via portrayal.Lucy and Wendy are too low.
Suzaku is too high.
Misaki is too low as well.
Haku?
I would move Suzaku, and the Signario sisters to tier 3. Wed is supposedly stronger than the sisters and we know Erza will most likely beat him.
Suzaku is the source of BDSK hype like Serena was for regular Spriggan, he's the special one.
A (weaker) Signario sister dealt with Erza + Jellal + Minerva easily. I think they deserve that high spot.
They and Duke were giga nerfed by Mashima in the end, where they were not allowed to use their hax. Without their hax, yeah they're utter trash.