u/vibez_vexx

I want someone to prove to me that Shigaraki was operating at prime mights level in terms of reaction speed and perception speed (not that I think Bakugo perception blitzed him anyways) neither reaction speed or perception are set to the max constantly. Especially when we know Shigaraki was barely trying that entire fight.

So no, Bakugo isn't faster than prime might for blitzing an unprepared Shigaraki who wasn't trying, nor does him briefly outmanoeuvring Shigaraki because he memorized his attack pattern scale him anywhere near prime might either. You'll notice the second Shigaraki starts getting pissed and putting in more effort Bakugo then gets one tapped and died

My top 10 are

1. Deku

2. Shigaraki

3. Prime might

4. Prime/rewind afo

5. Tokoyami

6. Bakugo

7. Sns

8. Endeavor/nine

9. nine/endeavor

10. Machia

It got kinda iffy after sns so feel free to let me know what y'all think and let me know your top 10s in the verse

So firstly, lets drop the idea that afo was a ruler in the shadows as it's directly stated he himself went out and fought anyone strong while in his prime, on top of the fact that in many of the flashbacks we see him killing people without a single care or living in some huge lit up building or even surrounded being worshipped, hell in the flashback of all might and Nana talking, the city had giant spikes coming out of the ground and nobody seemed to give a damn as if it was just some normal thing.

That's not me saying everyone knew of all for one, but they did know SOMEONE existed. Which was his dream. Everyone being scared of the big bad. Not exactly knowing what it was but they knew something was there. With that out of the way, we know that all might dodged next to none of all for ones attacks. Afo himself stated that all mights way of fighting was to just rush through everything. So tanking everything?

Stay with me, in a chapter extra it's stated that afo had been put on the defensive by all might and lost his brothers hand. So you mean to tell me the utterly obsessed afo got chased off once and lost his brothers hand in the location he was chased off from? I don't think so, it sounds to me more like pafo and Pam fought at least once before their big fight, afo got his ass kicked and was then running his ass off. Ended up losing his brothers hand and still ended up losing the top half of his head.

So long story short. Afo and all might fight, all might tanks everything, beats afos ass. Afo runs and hides. All might chased this fraud all around Japan. Afo loses his brothers hand somewhere between the chases. Maybe they fight again during some chases (not gonna argue for that, but it is possible) but idk. Either way they had to have fought at least once and afo lost in order for him to have been scared of all might to the point to where he'd run and end up letting all might destroy his empire like he did.

Something I hate is when people talk about awakened Bakugo as if it's something new. I hope everyone knows full body explosions was NOT an awakening. It was explained why it happened and is described as a byproduct of cluster... A side effect... Cluster was his awakening. Cluster is just Bakugo producing multiple condensed explosions rather than 1. This happened in season 6.

So lets start with debunking Bakugo perception blitzing Shigaraki..... It simply didn't happen. Not a single person can sit here and SHOW ME Shigaraki couldn't see Bakugo. It also just doesn't make sense that Shigaraki knew where Bakugo was each and every time, which would imply his eyes could actually see Bakugo. So perception blitzing just shouldn't be in the conversation.

With that being said, you'll notice Bakugo never actually blitzes Shigaraki when he was prepared. The situation plays out like this. Bakugo blitzes an unprepared Shigaraki, he then barely dodges Shigarakis attack despite already knowing it was coming. He then sets up an attack because once again he knows what Shigaraki is going to do before he does it, he then gets one tapped by that very same Shigaraki once he locks in. That should shut down that... Hopefully

As for afo, Bakugo is blatantly faster than afo, at least with the ring quirk. Which by the way isn't the end all be all. So sure Bakugo is faster than afo when he's (to our knowledge) only using the ring quirk. Does this mean he's too fast for afo to react to? No... Why? Well look at the fight. The first time Bakugo "blitzes" afo, he's not paying any attention to him and actually turns his head away from Bakugo. So not a proper blitz at all.

Next we have Bakugo catching up with afo and blasting him into a building, if you noticed, Bakugo is going through a building which means afo cannot see him. By the time afo can see him again Bakugo is already about to attack him, so not a blitz at all as that's just an unprepared afo. I HOPE I've explained the speed arguments well cause he's not as fast as everyone makes him out to be.

Lastly... Ap, his explosions are strong enough to sting a prime might level Shigaraki, by sting I don't mean cause they're hot, I mean as if someone slaps your arm. With that being said, his howitzer is completely capable of burning Shigaraki, who again is on par with prime might.

This sounds impressive until you realize that everytime Bakugo attacks afo in the face, the damage is very very minimal... This wouldn't be so bad but afo is a child and way physically less durable than his adult self. That's all there is to it. He can't beat either prime afo or prime might at all.