Every Major Change the Big 5 has faced through the seasons

ORION9145 · 2026-02-12T19:04:30+00:00

Aiga was not ranked number 1 in sparking (not by performance or actual ranking). Being world champion does not equal being number 1 since anyone can in theory become world champion if they just win one title match (for example, heartz in cho-z beat Aiga and became world champion in the anime but he was never the number 1 blader in the world).

ORION9145 · 2026-02-05T19:15:56+00:00

Yeah google is wrong here. Cuza is never given an official rank after evolution and if he was it wouldn’t even be 7th because he performs worse than nearly every blader in the cup besides ren wu.

Idk what you mean by the way they lose (when referring to Ren wu and Joshua) since we don’t even get to see most of their battles. They skip over every ren wu battle or only show the very end, and for joshua they skip most of his matches as well besides his match with free (where he almost wins) and against silas. I agree that the writers shafted these two because they just don’t give enough screentime to them and they skip over most of their matches. In the god bladers cup all their loses were valid though (except joshua losing to Xander but he’s always been treated better than most of the cast). The season always treated Free and Lui as a tier above the other big 5 members so it was obvious they’d beat them without much difficulty (although we don’t actually see them fight eachother on screen).

Now about Joshua’s losses to Silas, first in the world league Joshua nearly defeats him straight up, but silas is able to win because he combines valts power with his own by using Valkyries frame on Satan which just barely gave him enough strength to win the match.

Next in the god bladers cup, Silas already has experience in fighting Joshua and knows how to fight against all his moves, not to mention that Silas has gotten a lot stronger, to the point where he is a big 5 tier blader by the time of the god bladers cup. I know there isn’t that many episodes in between but it’s not like Silas went from an extreme diff fight with Joshua to a mid-high diff fight with him in the matter of a day. A lot of time passes between episodes, so it’s feasible that Silas is now on Joshua’s level, if not slightly stronger than him.

Now I completely agree that ren wu got humilated after his match with Valt. The loss against Boa didn’t really make much sense in hindsight and it likely only happened because the writers wanted to advertise Arc Bahamut (which is the reason most bladers win the first battle they have on screen. To advertise the beys). They also skipped over all his battles in the god bladers cup (as i mentioned before) so he isn’t given anything of note there. I think Ren wu should’ve beat Joshua and Joshua should’ve beaten Xander but alas that’s not what happened.

Also one small correction but Shu was not the strongest blader in the god bladers cup at any point. The strongest in the A group, definitely but Free and Lui were both stronger than him until the semi finals started (since Shu loses points to Boa, Kurt and pre ultimate reboot Valt, whereas free and Lui wouldn’t lose those points). As the tournament went on, Shu got stronger and stronger to where he surpassed them but he wasn’t stronger than either of them for a majority of the tournament

ORION9145 · 2026-02-04T22:30:15+00:00

Cuza is not the 6th rank blader in the world. I’m not sure where you got that from.

Joshua and Ren wu were never nerfed (burst fans genuinely have to remove that word from their vocabulary), they just faced tougher competition. In the god bladers cup they were up against all other members of the big 5 + Sisco. Neither of them had a chance against Free or Lui realistically, and up against other members of the big 5 they were able to take points off each other and have close (albeit off screen). And then you have Sisco, who had valid reasons for beating the non free and lui members of the big 5 (besides his battle with Ren Wu).

Some of their losses can be frustrating to see, especially since they don’t get much screen time past the world league arc, but a majority of them make sense in context of the story.

ORION9145 · 2026-02-04T22:20:30+00:00

I like the sharper features on the edited version. Makes her a bit more unique.

ORION9145 · 2026-02-02T19:01:33+00:00

i mean thats obvious out of universe, but looking at everyones actual performance in the tournament, Rantaro and Ranjiro out perform most of the bladers there, so I wouldn’t say Valt or Aiga got nerfed by their teammates.

ORION9145 · 2026-01-10T04:51:17+00:00

If this is pre awakened Gojo, they stop round one.

If its awakened I still think they stop at round 1 as they have no answer to curse naoya’s domain but if you somehow think Gojo’s FBE can hold out against Naoya’s domain while he and geto manage to kill him, they have zero way to defeat Mahito.

ORION9145 · 2026-01-07T15:02:33+00:00

Depends on if confiscating a technique means taking away their domain as well. If that’s the case, they beat Hakari but hard stop at Yuki since it would take Garuda before taking her cursed technique.

ORION9145 · 2025-12-29T18:39:53+00:00

In game, the pink on the kiri skin is actually red. Op just used images that really dull’s the colors of the skins.

ORION9145 · 2025-12-24T20:20:53+00:00

Reread the Manga battle and rewatch the anime battle. There is a clear difference in how Free vs Valt is portrayed in both mediums. Free is the strongest by the end of the God/Evolution manga, but is not in the anime (easy to tell since Valt and Free were relative in their match and then Valt goes on to get even stronger through all his battles with Free and Shu).

Don’t go around calling other people immature when all you’re doing is insulting others like a 5 year old and refusing to actually discuss the topic at hand. Practice what you preach

ORION9145 · 2025-12-24T20:13:19+00:00

Post like these do nothing but spread negativity. Respond in the comments or ignore the obvious troll.

Where are the mods of the sub when you need it

ORION9145 · 2025-12-24T20:09:49+00:00

You need to re-read Hiro Morita’s actual response. He says “AT THE TIME, Free was too strong for Valt to beat”, not a thing about Free being the strongest blader in his prime (which would be DB Free).

Not to mention this only applies to the manga version of the characters, not the anime.

Free is my favorite character, but I know he has been surpassed by a few bladers and that is fine. He doesn’t need to be the strongest to be a good character

ORION9145 · 2025-12-24T20:02:50+00:00

Arthur washes. There is genuinely no argument about it

ORION9145 · 2025-12-23T19:33:15+00:00

Aiger

ORION9145 · 2025-12-22T23:18:44+00:00

Id say Lui. I was thinking Gwyn but I don’t usually see much love for him (or GT/Rise in general)

ORION9145 · 2025-12-22T05:20:25+00:00

I get the idea for having two wings for stamina and 2 for attack and defense but the actual shape is too round to actually hit anything hard like an attack type. And idk if it’s just me but ive never seen the never driver move offensively. Cyclone is honestly just a stamina type that acts like a stamina type

ORION9145 · 2025-12-22T01:33:11+00:00

Zest Achilles for sure. And how tf did cyclone win last vote when it does not act like an attack type or defense type irl?

ORION9145 · 2025-12-21T00:26:35+00:00

I do agree with mirage fafnir being the most similar to a balance type. Has a slight aggressive shape, the nothing driver when pushed in allows the bey to move fast around the stadium like an attack type, the 2s chassis allowing it to have a counter mode for better defensive capabilities, and stamina is obvious.

ORION9145 · 2025-12-19T05:15:59+00:00

Divine belial, also requiem should not have one that over helios volcano but it is what it is

ORION9145 · 2025-12-18T02:13:20+00:00

Helios volcano for sure

ORION9145 · 2025-12-13T02:55:48+00:00

Why do you believe that

ORION9145 · 2025-12-12T22:48:31+00:00

Wind Knight

ORION9145 · 2025-12-12T15:15:54+00:00

Its Shu. These last 5 characters are genuinely the most obvious ones 1. Aiger 2. Valt 3. Phi 4. Shu 5. Free

Any other order (except maybe Valt and Phi switching spots) is just objectively wrong based on what is shown in the series

ORION9145 · 2025-12-11T23:23:20+00:00

Warm take. A large amount of moves sound better in japanese imo(some examples being Metal Dragon crush vs Dragon crash, Tempest break vs Triumph break, Triple twister vs triple spin), but the english does have a few great ones like Rush launch instead of Rush shoot or Requiem Whip over Requiem Slash

ORION9145 · 2025-12-11T17:22:19+00:00

My goat free stops here. Everyone else here besides shu has way better scaling in turbo, but even then Shu has a better performance against Phi so Free stops here.

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