u/Electrical_Topic7940

Honestly, to me, the best way to scale stats is to treat it like a math equation. If you know two characters are narratively equal or highly relative, and one has a myriad of abilities while the other punches, the puncher will have probably have higher stats. Although, this is not actually always the case, since some characters will have a defensive focus, and some offensive. We just need to compensate stats till the theoretical fight fits the narrative. Im gonna use hakari for these examples because he is one of few top tiers with a stat boost as his technique.

Example: Kashimo vs Hakari: I am one of the few kashimo/hakari fans who believes he does not massively outspeed base hakari like many people like to claim. This misconception is actually one of the things hindering hakari and kashimo as a whole. Moving up a whole blitz tier after getting jackpot is ridiculous and either sets hakari's base at high grade one level, or his JP state to some ridiculously high level. JP hakari>Kashimo>~base hakari

Example: Yuta vs maki or Hakari. We know Yuta goes high-extreme diff with both of these. Saying he could easily CS+decapitate both would place him so far ahead of them that the story itself stops making sense, and leaves a bunch of plot holes. (like wiping uraume and whatnot). But onto stats. Maki has a sword with true damage. If she is significantly faster than yuta, she would demolish him and rika. Since we know Yuta has to win at around high extreme diff, him and her being relative in stats checks out (according to todo too btw). It forces Yuta to stay on his toes and play evasive and apply slow but continual damage to her, while maki could win with just one solid strike. Getting that strike in will be hard however, but only if she has similar stats. Against hakari, to me JP Hakari>Yuta~base hakari is the only thing that makes sense. If Yuta is at JP hakari stats, he would completely demolish hakari before he could get JP. You're mental if you think Gege intends for that to be the case. Whereas, if their stats followed how i explained, their fight would actually be high-extreme diff, which is how it should. Domain hakari would be on a big backfoot trying to play evasive to get JP. Person vs person with a summon and myriad of magical powers type situation. But once he gets Jackpot, he would be pummeling Yuta's reserves away and repeat. Yuta's other theoritical wincon would be JL and JP ends, which makes the fight appropriatley high-extreme diff. But you see how it only plays out as this if their stats are similar in base with JP hakari massively outstatting?

even with the sendai adaptation, jogo's feats are still relatively crazy

i gotta be real, yall make it hard to scale how i want cuz hakari and yuta adgenda are usually against each other, so i have to lean hakari cuz hes more underrated than yuta is.

for speed, yuta should be relative to maki according to todo(although i put yuta as the fastest of that tier cuz of feats), and im putting base hakari there too, cuz he wouldn't be anywhere near HH level if he didn't meet that minimum (cuz he gets fodderized in domain). Yuji in the middle cuz a better base w/ ce. JP hakari is prolly the fastest, its pretty obiously portrayed as such and striking someone after launching them is a physically near-impossible feat

As for dura, nobody should object to yuji in first, and striking str should be at a similar scale to ones dura obviously (but hakari has his random ce trait so i put him up there). JP Hakari dura makes sense, since he has a better base than yuta, higher output and is using 100% output/reinforcent n shi. But yuta does take dura over maki and base hakari cuz of shinjuku feats against a much stronger sukuna compared to maki. Also i think hakari would have similar dura cuz his base + higher output may put him comparable to yuta (even if he can't 100% reinforce), but alas he is featless in base for dura.

Overall, i believe in the take that Yuji>maki>hakari>Yuji all in high-extreme diff fights. and that Yuta>all of them in extreme diff too (but not in the same way as gojo vs sukuna, he has an easier time than that). And i think that this list is one of the only ways to properly balance their abilities against each other.

Now, im not saying every take you had about narrative is wrong, but i will say you probably cannot properly recognize authors intent. I mean it was literally spelled out for us. Obviously, you could have argued he would lose to sukuna or gojo and whatnot, but the important condition is this: if you didn't instantly recognize that dabura was a huge step over the heavy hitters (calamity grade) when the chapter dropped, your perception of manga narrative could use some work.