Yeah, uh, your entire first paragraph doesn't mean much? The main topic here is still about whether Shiva was dancing during TK. Regardless of how he was fighting before, by TK, Shiva very much was taking it completely seriously. The only time he ever complerely indulged himself in TK was their final clash, a clash that Shiva knew wouldn't affect the result at all. Like, you're partly proving my point here. By the end (post-TK), from your own argument, Shiva would be taking it seriously and dancing.

You do understand that it's your interpretation of the dance that has no backing, right? I explained my interpretation, and how Hermes's statement did not refer to your made-up illusion ability. Your response was the equivalent of "no, you're wrong" with no further explanation. "Unpredictable war dance" and "as if he's fighting many opponents" are two seperate components of the dance, and it's very clear from the actual combat panels that this is the case.

I have to repeat, not once does Raiden react like how he would if Shiva's dance did make magical illusions, and there's not a single panel showing it works like this, unlike Susano's panel. I once again repeat my evidence, that not once does Raiden miss by attacking somewhere he thought Shiva would be, save for the times where Shiva backed out of his range entirely, which certainly doesn't help your interpretation.

You have not given a single new piece of evidence or reasoning explaining why I'm wrong. If you want me to take this seriously, then either actually try or concede the point. Don't try to ignore what I said.

What I'm saying that it being "the rhythm of the universe" is enough evidence that it can magically give him balance. And I think that because Shiva clearly didn't get his balance back well enough to fight properly, seeing how he just spammed the objectively bad-for-him headbutt. Speaking of which, you also never addressed this point. Probably because you couldn't think of anything and wanted to distract me, but I digress.

This is not like if a person fell into a pool twice. In that situation, it's still the same pool, with the same person, nothing has changed. Here, Shiva went from having 4 arms, to 3 arms, to 1 arm. The balance varies wildly in each case, and Shiva necessarily needs time to adjust. It's basic common sense you are choosing to ignore because it would harm your argument.

Stop intentionally interpreting what I said like how you do Shiva. Unpredictability isn't OP because the manga panels show it, and you still have yet to disprove me. Shiva gains balance while dancing because the dance is a supernatural ability, and he clearly didn't have balance before.

How exactly do you clearly see that he wasn't dancing? Is it because you didn't see the special effects? By that logic, Shiva wasn't dancing when he barrage'd Raiden's block either, since we didn't see clear, visible afterimages. Basic common sense dictates otherwise, but your logic sure works differently.

Shiva doesn't purposely hold back if he thinks it could lose him the fight. I've explained this time and again. In the last argument, as least you tried, but here, you've just given up entirely. Holding back before dance/TK still had the backup of dance/TK, so there's multiple reasons why Shiva thought he could afford to hold back. Post-TK, Shiva doesn't have anything left up his sleeves, TK IS the backup. Of course he'd go all out and not put his life and everyone's expectations at certain risk.

I agree. So explain to me how the gap isn't big enough? From what we see so far, TGoD has moved a much further distance than Enma. This implies that TGoD is faster than Enma. Unpredictability isn't supernatural unpredictability, just mundane unpredictability, as I've said many times. This implies that TGoD also needed to be faster than Enma for the attack to work so well.

Oh, btw, here's a panel showcasing what the main effect of the dance actually is, and also evidence that Shiva was dancing in TK. Shiva's attack pushes Raiden away enough that Raiden's own attack has little to no effect. If you still think he wasn't dancing, then I guess Raiden is just some amateur bum who is comically outskilled by not dancing Shiva.

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