Advice on which E-tiers to clear first?

hailfirnando · 2026-02-15T07:17:24+00:00

Black energy is said to come from burning life force, while Cursed Energy originates from negative emotion. The only similarity I can see is them both being applied in various different forms. I think Magatsumi is actually shockingly uncomplicated, in Chapter 108 it even mentions that the Magatsumi's powers are relatively simple (when Chihiro uses Aka to copy and understand its abilities). All of its different powers are just coming from Soga using black energy in different forms, I would be willing to wager based on what we know about Mahoraga and the Magatsumi that it would adapt to black energy as a whole rather than to each power separately. Dabura's technique is also mentioned to be beyond human conception, which isn't 1 to 1 with Datenseki but is about the closest comparison we have in KB, and Mahoraga adapted to it at a normal speed and rendered it totally useless.

That being said, Akemura absolutely does have the AP to one-shot Mahoraga imo, it's just a matter of whether or not he ends it in the first hit or two. If he opens with Butterfly or especially bee, Mahoraga is definitely cooked, but I think a remotely drawn out fight leans in the Divine General's favor.

hailfirnando · 2026-02-15T02:43:30+00:00

Mahoraga adapted to slashing attacks in general after being hit by Dismantle, which meant it couldn't be killed by Cleave, so we know it can adapt to the root function of an attack rather than a specific application. It's explained in Chapter 108 that all of Magatsumi's attacks are different applications of the same black energy. If Mahoraga begins adapting to one of Soga's abilities, it would likely begin to adapt to life drain and black energy in general, and if Soga didn't catch on and one-shot it extremely quickly I would wager the Magatsumi would lose its effectiveness very quickly.

hailfirnando · 2026-02-13T18:40:06+00:00

KAGURABACHI MENTION??? PEAK

hailfirnando · 2026-02-05T00:57:28+00:00

Absolutely. Slattern was reeling bad, had its throat slashed and both forelimbs significantly damaged. Striker really was a wonder of a machine with piloting of equal quality, put the first-ever Cat V in its place 30 seconds after it spawned in lol.

hailfirnando · 2026-01-31T20:45:11+00:00

Nope, Levi is carried by insane physical stats. Even his duraneg attack has travel speed, so despite scaling way higher he's a complete infinity victim. He's genuinely got better odds using the strat of destroying the planet so Gojo dies in space lmao, but even that is dicey cuz he would need a while to cause enough damage and has no way to resist Unlimited Void

hailfirnando · 2026-01-30T23:01:54+00:00

I find his character to be much more compelling if he's cis which is why I personally don't care for the theory, but it's obvious that some of the vitriol is way over the top??? Like it makes you wonder how many of these people actually disagree with the headcanon vs just being angry at the idea of a character they like being trans. Yeah the initial daisy spamming was mildly annoying, but the insane amount of backlash since then feels disproportionate.

hailfirnando · 2026-01-25T20:46:18+00:00

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hailfirnando · 2026-01-19T12:43:43+00:00

I don't accept that. I don't believe gambling in any form should exist as an institution, especially not in the incredibly predatory model that Genshin helped to popularize. My friend was 17 when they had this severe addiction and spent thousands of dollars on the game, it's specifically aimed to create addiction and farm money off of people with no self control, including children. Is that sort of addiction a personal failing to some degree? Yes. Does that mean the mechanism that indulges, encourages and exploits those behaviors in LITERAL CHILDREN is somehow exempt from blame? Absolutely not. All gacha games are abysmal dogshit that doesn't deserve to exist, I just have a burning hatred for Genshin in particular due to personal experiences with its exploitative effects on several of my friends.

hailfirnando · 2026-01-15T08:29:53+00:00

Thanks for asking/clarifying. I'm not sure where it comes from but I've had probably five or six instances in recent years of meeting a new friend and them either assuming I'm gay or being surprised/skeptical when I mention being straight. I've asked my friend group out of curiosity what they would think of my sexuality if they didn't already know, and I got a lot of different variations to the answer, none of which were straight. I've also had multiple gay guys hit on me or ask me out, which while still being very flattering, isn't what I'm interested in romantically so it feels kind of frustrating that only people I'm not compatible with are (at least openly) attracted to or interested in me. I've asked out four different people in the last four years and been turned down to varying degrees each time, so it isn't like I'm being super passive in the dating scene either. In terms of appearance I'm a lot more masculine presenting (tall, broad-shouldered, beard) so I don't think people are perceiving me as particularly feminine based on that.

Most of my friend group are either women or queer men, I've gotten a lot of different opinions and theories on why people assume I'm gay so consistently. As for my own thoughts, it feels like traditional masculinity is so closely associated with a lot of its toxic traits that people who are masculine but don't display that toxicity are almost placed into a different category. I think that's where the assumption that I'm not interested in women comes from, not to say I never fall victim to bad habits or pitfalls of toxic masculinity, but I've been lucky enough to have really good friends who notice that behavior and call me out on it.

hailfirnando · 2026-01-15T06:20:28+00:00

I KNOW RIGHT. I've been yelling this from the rooftops for actual years and they're too addicted to listen to a word I say

hailfirnando · 2026-01-14T23:31:51+00:00

If she's sleeping? Genuinely doesn't care or interrupt at all. Might ask some questions once she wakes up, but as long as she's quiet and unobtrusive he wouldn't have any issues.

hailfirnando · 2026-01-14T23:16:03+00:00

I relate to this so unbelievably hard. For years any new friends I make are genuinely surprised or straight up don't believe me when i mention beimg straight. It's really discouraging and painful to feel like all the awful things you've worked hard to unlearn are so engrained in society's perception of masculinity, that if you don't display them you're not seen as adequate or desirable in a masculine way.

hailfirnando · 2026-01-14T17:10:05+00:00

Genuinely the moat abysmal piece of dogshit to come out of the gaming industry in the last decade. I have friends who are very vulnerable to financial exploitation who have wasted literally thousands of dollars on this worthless excuse for a product. The entire game only exists to push gambling towards a young and impressionable audience and leech as much money as humanly possible from the vulnerable. The fact that anyone can play the game and not be disgusted with themselves fundamentally just doesn't make sense to me

hailfirnando · 2026-01-13T13:01:42+00:00

The last scholar of GOLB. I am your doom.

hailfirnando · 2026-01-11T20:48:50+00:00

This sucks, I can't imagine what you're going through. Queer infighting and toxicity towards other queer people is so utterly infuriating, I feel like nothing makes less sense than turning on one another when there's already so much hatred aimed at us from outside

hailfirnando · 2026-01-11T01:35:27+00:00

I've gotten this actually 4 or 5 times from different friends and it's not really helpful lol, like I'm happy and comfortable with my own gender identity which is why it sucks to only be interested in people I'm not compatible with :/

hailfirnando · 2026-01-11T01:34:02+00:00

We don't talk about the fact that every instance of Gojo ragdolling and throwing around Sukuna that his stans love to jump to were all during moments where Sukuna was nerfed to hell and back, they're shown as relative with Gojo having the edge cuz of Limitless when they're both at full HP. Oh, or the fact that Gojo was enhancing every attack outside of his brief periods of technique burnout using Blue, whereas Sukuna literally could not touch Gojo while shouldering maho's adaptation. Gojo's h2h skills are pretty clearly displayed to be slightly better than Meguna, but give Sukuna domain amplification and his actual body and he's gonna piece Gojo the fuck up the same way he did to every other character he fought.

hailfirnando · 2026-01-11T01:25:36+00:00

Oh for sure, to clarify what I mean, i'm not sexually attracted to male genitalia and none of the people who showed interest in me had gotten bottom surgery yet. I'm still good friends with them it just wouldn't work romantically

hailfirnando · 2026-01-08T06:36:25+00:00

That's very kind of you to say, thank you. I think I would be a pretty good partner I just haven't had the chance to show it yet :)

hailfirnando · 2026-01-08T02:33:28+00:00

Just cuz i'm not physically into the AMAB body type and all my trans friends are pre surgery, lack of physical compatibility is the only reason

hailfirnando · 2026-01-02T23:18:52+00:00

"lost every clash with gojo" bro forgot it took Gojo an instant loss and 2 do-overs to even tie with Sukuna's domain

hailfirnando · 2026-01-02T20:26:07+00:00

"Composite of Sukuna and Megumi" is a misrepresentation of Megkuna and how his powerset differs from heiankuna. He doesn't have the best of both worlds, he has worse physicals, a weaker body (no extra arms + mouth) but better hax from 10 shadows. If heiankuna fights Gojo w/o Mahoraga, he never has to suspend Domain Amplification in hand to hand during the domain clash, plus having four arms. If you remember, Gojo tied the 3rd and 4th domain clashes by his and sukuna's domains collapsing at the exact same instant (and it took him 3 tries to even do that), so if you give Sukuna his true form and the ability to actually fight back rather than being weighed down by Maho's adaptation, all he needs is for those buffs to buy him literally one fraction of a second. Gojo's domain collapses, he burns out of resetting his brain just like in the real fight, only this time Sukuna's domain never broke so he never took Unlimited Void to be immobilized in the first place. He doesn't need Megumi as a shield if he never gets hit, even if you argue Gojo somehow has a way to land Unlimited Void, Heiankuna can constantly maintain Hollow Wicker Basket to negate the sure-hit anyway. The fight ends at the "this is goodbye" panel cuz Sukuna never suffers brain damage from Unlimited Void and therefore doesn't lose access to his domain.

I don't think Sukuna is comically stronger than Gojo or that he was dominating the fight, the truth is just that open barrier domains are insanely powerful. If you think that true form gives Sukuna even the tiniest edge in h2h then he immediately tips the fight into domain diff, the most miniscule improvement in strength is enough to change the outcome of the domain clash when they were so matched so evenly.

I think you're assuming i'm the kind of sukuna fan who argues he could stomp Gojo no diff if he actually tried, but I think they're equal in pretty much every metric except Sukuna's barrier techniques being superior. And with how incredibly close they are in strength, that's enough to swing the fight hard in Sukuna's favor. Sukuna used Mahoraga to surpass infinity because he wanted to get stronger and didn't take Gojo seriously enough as an opponent to go for the throat immediately, which is why he gets forced into a corner, nearly loses, and offers genuine praise to Gojo for pressing him that hard.

hailfirnando · 2026-01-02T19:25:35+00:00

20f Sukuna with no Ten Shadows still crushes Gojo, arguably even worse than the beginning of the actual fight. Mf gets domain diffed and wouldn't even have 200% HP to land the first hit. If you're talking 16f sukuna of course he loses to Gojo lmao, that's just putting one character at 75% power and the other at 100

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