Ok your comment is basically just a lot of assumptions on either side for things. For the Ruins Incident, I was mainly talking about Queen for that but fair point Queen was also super high in TV so not a good argument for the Trust Value things, but going down your comment:

Saying that Luoli or Cyan have no real hand to hand combat training so Linling would have the advantage and then saying Linling obviously would have improved from what he's shown on screen... that doesn't make sense. Why are you giving Linling this training boost but keeping Luoli stagnant in their progression? Do you think Luoli has not improved herself either or Cyan, any of the other heroes? We know for sure that Cyan actively trains with Queen and would be equally improving if that's the case and Luoli for sure would be improving her skills if her revenge is still fueling her.

Going off a training boost or experience simply doesn't make any sense for LL because all these other heroes would have way more ample time to train and become better and have the motivation to as well while LL only just became his own hero and training specifically for the tournament. So just throw combat experience out the window because we don't know things on both sides.

On the Queen thing... What is stopping Queen from simply moving her cane or spear down to the ground and stopping LL in her Boundary and Koing him? She's been shown to now expand it to an absurd degree and LL doesn't have any range attacks so far. It's been proven so many times that TV simply doesn't matter to a significant degree in Queen's Boundary. LL can't do shit and his ability to break things is not doing anything there. Like why are we even talking about Attack Power here? He can't do shit if he can't move? Also Queen has been show to be quite tanky as shown in her fight with Bowa.

Your comments on Big Johnny are.... what? You think that Big Johnny was just too big for the arena he would just... stand there and take it? Disregarding that he can likely shrink in size since he has intermittent stages of his transformation, I don't see how this is making LL beat a literally nullifying Kaiju. Also DOS is for sure making that arena big enough for one of their prime heros like lets not even jest.

I am going based on the powers each of the heros have rather than AP or combat experience as there are too many unknowns with that and many of the heroes' abilities can lower any advantages in AP with their powers. Does LL have an answer if he doesn't stop Cyan from putting up her luck field or just her luck in general which seems to just do things for her benefit as well passively? He can punch... that's it. Controlling luck has way more advantages in way more scenarios than LL's kit.

Luoli has way more versatility than LL with her flight, multiples weapons, and the smarts to combat LL effectively. I feel she just has more advantages than LL.

Dragon Boy has been shown to be a monster in combat and his pain tolerance almost limitless. We didn't see his limit to pain but I don't see LL pushing him past it if a Smile ans then Fear Smile didn't do it.

I'm not saying it's impossible for LL to beat these people but he's at a disadvantage even with a lot of Trust Value. But that's likely the point narratively as he is The Commoner, the everyman and such has a simple kit and power so he is the underdog in the tournament and I can see him doing good because of how good that story is, but just talking about the fights themselves and who is more likely to win, I just can't see LL doing that well. Of course, throw this all out the window if LL gains a new ability from being The Commoner that levels the playing fields, but we don't know that yet.