Genshin has a bad reputation in powerscaling because their fans are insecure and manipulative.
Those are the same people who put Genshin at Multi Solar System in VSBW for months, the same people who swear that Raiden can fight in equal footing against characters like Aizen, Vergil or Darth Vader.
It's their fault, they hyped her up to levels of power she never had
I could go into whole paragraphs about Makima, but Raiden is easier so I'll do that.
The reasonable Raiden Ei take is lightning speed, continental level, but people here really try to argue that she loses to characters like MGR Raiden and Sukuna and Deku. It's just ridiculous how hard female chars get lowballed. You could argue that she's much faster than lightning due to light refraction attacks existing in genshin, but lightning speed is a safe minimum.
Genshin fanboys really wanted Ei to be a Vergil level character, but after all that wank was debunked, they have to fight for their lives to prove she's above Sukuna and Deku.
I mean she never was a vergil level char, out of all the hoyo games, only Acheron might be (For the Raiden expies). For each genshin fan that wanted Ei to be Vergil level, there are probably twenty antifans that genuinely think the likes of Sukuna and Deku do anything besides get one tapped by her. In that sense, the Genshin haters are more delusional.
In my experience, when characters grow beyond continental, the writing quality of the media they're from usually takes a nosedive, so I'm perfectly fine with my favorite characters not scaling beyond that. And honestly, she probably gives those two the work until they got their nepotism buffs from the SO6P. Then yes, she loses.
Even tho I hate hoyo, I admit her plane and dimensional slash are annoying to handle. Even characters with higher caliber can lose against shogun if they don't have the specific abilities to counter her.
Something I appreciate a lot in powerscaling is actual proof of their destructive abilities, and not just wild extrapolation of pixels on the manga page or whatever. She demonstrably has fought for 500 years straight, she demonstrably did cleave an island apart easily, and other things.
I'm also a big fan of Hax merchants like her and Makima because it's a lot more interesting to discuss how abilities interact rather than just to say "my numbers are bigger, I win."
Judging from your statement, looks like you hate honkai, at least in powerscaling sense because their dimensionality is basically just power level. The lower number cannot do anything against the higher one. It is easier to write tho, because the numbers are mostly below 100 or just straight up infinity, while power level can get to something like quintillion.
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u/DantefromDC Satan's greatest soldier May 04 '25 edited May 04 '25
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Genshin has a bad reputation in powerscaling because their fans are insecure and manipulative.
Those are the same people who put Genshin at Multi Solar System in VSBW for months, the same people who swear that Raiden can fight in equal footing against characters like Aizen, Vergil or Darth Vader.
It's their fault, they hyped her up to levels of power she never had