just to clarify yuta is either top 3-4 imo as the only real contender for the third place is kenny and yuta.

STATS

during shinjuku hes the 2nd person to actually do damage to sukuna after gojos death, the other being higuruma with the help of yuji. during the absence of yuji he landed blows on sukuna, made his bottom mouth cough up blood with one punch and inside his domain landed a TIB and dhruvs shikigami all before yujis intervention.

this makes his feats for that portion much better than either kashimo or yuji who are HH tier characters. after yujis assistance he lands multiple blows yet again, saves yuji twice from death while yuji cant save him/doesnt need to and his plan actually works, until megumi throws that is.

here yuta is showcasing relative stats to yuji and rika being stronger than yuta would in turn be HH tier as well as she scales with yuta.

even before this he could throw hands with ryu who has the best physicals outside of the calamity grades, being praised by sukuna and remembered for his toughness.

ABILITIES

yuta has the most broken abilities in the verse, being able to copy anyones CT. he has sky manipulation that essentially nullifies H2H combat from the enemy, seen with uro as the only way that yuta could bypass uros defences was to stunlock her and pumble her before reusing her technique. before rikas involvement she was hit a total of zero times.

yuta has cursed speech to be able to stun enemies so they cant fight back for a period of time and receives no drawbacks unlike inumaki since his insane CE pool is only 2nd to that of sukuna.

dhruvs shikigami is a surehit that neglects the usage of CE reinforcement and indiscriminantly cuts anything inside the orbital domains. its an invisible pathway that even sukuna got caught in. making those that are tougher than him or use armor (yorozu) nearly bsolite in terms of their advantage.

jacobs ladder is a CT that disrupts CTs and barrier techniques, a perfect counter for the likes of slow moving CTs like perfect sphere or domains in general. the charge up time isnt lightspeed but the technique itself is, people in jujutsu kaisen are only mach 3 at maximum unless you are calamity grades so its a viable technique to use anytime.

RCT / output

reverse cursed techniques output is something thats essentially broken. it acts like poison for curses and it disrupts the usage of CTs as seen when yorozus liquid metal became unusable when piercing ox used it.

yutas RCT is also one of the most advanced forms ever, healing makis limbs, his own severed fingers instantly and also counteracts poisons, making the poison from blood manipulation become just a tedious thing to keep track of rather than a threatening variable.

Rika

as i mentioned before rika is stated to be as strong or stronger than yuta, having stats that rival ryus and can even cave his skull in with a single punch when fully manifested. this would mean that yuta has an ally at all times that can rival the other heavy hitters if not just outstat them fully.

even partial rika could hold down sukuna until yuta could analyze the battlefield fully, keep that weakened sukuna busy and also could hold two out of sukunas four arms pinned so he couldnt escape jacobs ladder.

not only that but partial rika cant really be harmed unless you one shot her (like ryu did when she was off gaurd) as she just heals passively.

fully manifested rika has RCT output as well with her RCT being potent enough to keep yuta alive while his body was split in half and even missing a vital part (that being the brain)

an assumption could also be made that partial rika also has RCT output but on a lower level as she was needed for kenjaku and we see her touching the curses and them exploding.

rikas output is lower than yutas though as we can estimate during sendai when they were charging the true love beam. when both of them combined their outputs the beam was nearly equal to that of ryus which is a crazy feat not talked about nearly enough as ryus granite blasts can effectively destroy entire city blocks as seen with his initial one that catches yuta and uro off gaurd.

when she tries to use it by her lonesome ryu can block it halfheartedly and says its weak. this leads to another point in modulo later on.

Domain refinement and skill

yutas domain refinement is top tier only being weaker than gojo, sukuna and kenjakus most likely. his siill in barrier techniques include shifting coordinates, singling out people from the surehit, and having the skill to break apart a domains shell wherever he pleases.

after the part where he takes gojos body he performs the basketball domain as well and calls it ”his” meaning its not gojos bodys doing but rather his own. during this instance he scans gojos memories bit by bit and carefully as he said himself, this is where some headcanons can be thrown however im including them only because its fun to think about, the rest of this is just speculation. he could have these now.

flowing blossom emotion

simple domain

RCT his technique instead of his body

now to another fun part about his rapid recovery in terms of burnout. ryu and uro are shown to not have recovered theough the clash of domains and uro gets sidelined early on, ryu also comments that yuta couldnt have recovered that fast since he hasnt either and fires his granite blast, but yuta had recovered. ”already” implying it was like that for at the very least a few seconds before he charged ryu.

thats insane since with that type of recovery speed he wouldnt even need to RCT his burnt out technique in theory.

STATEMENTS AND NARRATIVE

yuta is stated to be 2nd to gojo in the modern era in terms of jujutsu during sendais opening. gojo entrusting him with the other students is also proof of his ability and strength. gojo stating that hes going to surpass himself one day and also being a deacendant from both the fujiwara and sugawara is proof of it, gojo calling it a blessing even more than himself.

if it was only this i would be ok with people disagreeing but during the promotional manga cover of the fight between yujo and sukuna it stated ”the modern eras superpower and the king of curses face off in different forms!”. this would mean that after the death of gojo, yuta is now the modern eras strongest as a superpower means that no one else is stronger than you.

”a face off in different forms” is also implying that even without the different forms they would still be the same, title wise. this means that it cannot be the added effect of being in gojos body giving him the title.

THE HAKARI STATEMENT

its a point worth tackling since hakari fanboys still think it means that hakari is stronger than yuta which doesnt make sense given that both the narrator and maki disagree with this later on.

what this statement entails is that yuta is saying that hakari during multiple runs of jackpot is stronger than yuta alone. when yuta speaks about the combined efforts of him AND rika he beings her up as an individual not as his own personal ”strength”. this is far more credible since all the HH are relative in stats, why would hakari be as strong as two of those tier of fighters as a team as i established earlier on?

todo also mentions yuta during the exchange event, and says that the third years (hakari) were replacements for him.

KASHIMOS SUREHIT

this will be a controversal topic but tbh, idc. kashimos surehit doesnt bypass reinforcement, it wouldnt make sense for it to do so as MBA kashimo against TF sukuna would have used it atleast once if it did and even against a heavily damaged meguna it most likely didnt do damage seeing as how sukuna could transform.

kashimo is a lethal attacker, he goes for finishing blows whenever he can and as quickly as possible. him not aiming for the stomach (housing CE) or the head (housing RCT) would make zero sense. if he did and his surehit was dura negation sukuna wouldnt be able to perform RCT if it was the head or wouldnt be able to perform anything if it hit the stomach as seen with gojo and yuta (yuta needing outside healing from rika for example)

the ”surehit” is also just a biproduct of his CE trait, meaning it has nothing to do with an amp in CTs. what does this tell us? ryu with the highest CE output should in theory be able to posses even more lethal firepower since its just raw CE from both people, no enhancement of techniques in sight.

the only people the surehit has been effective against is panda (who isnt all that strong) and hakari whose durability is questionable given he could be pierced by charles. sukuna whose reserves were equal or slightly below yutas at this point is tanking it no problem and its a ”oneshot”?

the problem with it as well is the fact he needs contact, which yuta wouldnt let him have if he just goes into the battle wanting to kill kashimo from the get go like most vs matchups do. not only that but the fact kashimo has zero speed feats worth noting has me questioning why people think hes ”blitz” tiers faster than the HHs while TF sukuna was giving belt to ass while with yuta and tagteaming higuruma and yuji were doing just fine?

i could see him holding back more against higuruma and yuji but i cant say the same against someone who could damage sukuna so casually.

MY top 10

sukuna>=

gojo>>>

yuta>=

kenjaku>

yorozu>

yuki>=

MBA kashimo>=

yuji>

maki

uraume/hakari

keep in mind that jjk is heavily influenced by matchups, someone like uto whose top 15 could easily beat hakari or maki but isnt getting close to uraume. the top 5 are top 5 simply because they can ignore matchups as a whole because of their hax or abilities in general and each of them have some form of heavy KO move.

gojo has HP, sukuna has Fuga and WCS, kenjaku has a maximum technique and the most refined domain, yuta has JL and TLB, yorozu has PS and even yuki whos top 6 imo has black hole.

anyways bye!

EDIT

sidenote on modulo, with rikas slash equalling yujis dismantle and rika having lower output than yuta, even if we say rika tried harder than yuji it would still make it seem like gege was intentionally showcasing it to tell the reader that the previous generation was surpassed by BOTH yuji AND yuta.

also no rika didnt put all thw 40+ years of CE into one swing, if she did the CE in the ring wouldnt be enough to affect the entire world. also output is how much of your CE you can use at once. rika doesnt have that as an output cuz that would legit be insane if it was since that would mean yuta has the same output or even more. you would need to say that rika had INSANE efficiency which would in turn be an upscale aince they would still need the insane CE in the ring anyways.

I've recently heard that Gojo's CE Reinforcement has been greatly "overestimated".

Those arguments claimed that Gojo was hard carried by Cursed Technique: Lapse Blue in terms of striking power and speed, being a major reason as to why he is such a major threat. Not that he was a physical peer to Heian Sukuna in pure CE reinforcement.

And the fact that Mahito at Shibuya was able to dodge a punch from CT-less Gojo, alongside being comparable to Miguel in Reinforcement.

Is this true? I honestly am confused.

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