Can someone help me find out what actually is the KEY to shifting?

It is clearly more than JUST intention as that hasn't worked out for a lot of us, but if you believe those "shifted randomly" stories to be true then the key is also not just methods and hardwork. So the key has to be something that is:

More than intention, less than a method.

I'm pretty new (4 years only) in this community so I still have no clue what other "objective" facts there are about shifting.

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u/myepicname1637 — 19 hours ago

Rest assured guys, it is almost a certainty that what we saw in the latest chapter was just some path bullshit going on

Too many factors just don't make sense:

  1. James Lee not knowing about the prosthetic arm. Even if we assume both Changsu and J kept their mouths shut (low probability) someone like James would still know about it because Tom is a gen 0 pseudo legend figure. Why I emphasized "someone like James" is because he is connected in the Gen 0 shenanigans unlike the rest of the gen 1, Kitae excluded.

  2. James Lee is not using strength mastery. Self-explanatory. If you wanna end it quick you gotta hit hard enough.

  3. Narrative and portrayal. James Lee, for a supposed end game villain hasn't really made much moves to be on the same level of threat as Kitae rn objectively. Now is the perfect time for PTJ to hypetool someone as important as Tom to raise the stakes of the story and establish him as threatening.

  4. He is literally the peak. Unless you also believe Prime Gap would get cornered by old, one armed injured Tom like this (you shouldn't)

So what's actually going on?

I think there are two possibilities:

  1. James is gonna use his path in the next chapter and neg Tom Lee. Guaranteed we will also find out he took no damage from the attack and he stopped it somehow and outsmarted Tom Lee or something

  2. James took damage on purpose to frame Tom Lee. I personally think this is what's going on. This would also improve his image in public if he twists the story like he was protecting Ms Kim from Tom Lee. He can then use this image to really keep Kitae in check and prevent him from killing OG Daniel

u/myepicname1637 — 2 months ago

IMPORTANT:- Everything else remains the same (meaning Changsu cuts Jinyoung's thumb here as well) except:-

First case:- Johan starts in his HFG state and attains his path the same way he did vs Gun.

Second case:- Current Johan

Does Goo clear both cases, one of the cases, or neither?

u/myepicname1637 — 2 months ago