Grey-Zone said:AzureDaora said:
Except that all Saitama has in his belt against Goku is hype statements, which are completely common and unreliable. How unreliable and common? So much so that they created a conecept of a fallacy for it, which is the "No-limits Fallacy". This fallacy states that it is wrong to state that x can defeat/withstand/etc something without showing proper feats for it, which is completely understandable. Yes, we've never seen that OPM can be hurt by Galaxy-level attacks, but have you ever seen him tank one? Nope.
What would you trust more, someone saying that the coffee is hot or you yourself seeing that the coffee is iced?
Let's put it this way. I've never broken a bone in my life, therefore my bones are unbreakable.
And yes, this "No-limit" thing happens ALL the time in fiction. Yukari Yakumo, the girl that I mentioned a while ago, for example, is a great example of one. She has never shown her true power since
1. She is bound by the rules between Youkai and Humans, which limits the Youkai to use their power directly and manifest them into "spellcards" instead, almost completely limiting her power.
2. She is nonchalant and lazy.
Nonetheless, she has shown great power. She can control boundaries, which are practically has tons of uses. She can turn any concept in the opposite, i.e if you are strong, she can turn you weak. Fast, into slow. Alive, into dead. Limitless, into limited.
While it is heavily implied that she can do all of that, she never did and most of those feats are thus not used, especially since one of the possible things that it can do is turn something omnipotent into impotent.
Feats only and no hype and hyperbole statements. One can cry "but Saitama has never shown his full power", but showings state that he's nowhere near DB's level.
Yea, but you can't just "set a limit" by yourself. For a death battle there simply... is not enough material to go on.
It's true that relying on the no-limit statements is not enough proof to show that Saitama could just kill any "planet buster+" characters either. But the mere lack of feats is not enough "proof" to say that, Goku and Vegeta "could kill Saitama easily", because that means you are making up an upper limit that was never ever stated. Saitama really is a special case in that regard, because he was never even pressured and the opponent who is considers Saitama's best feat himself proclaimed that Saitama was STILL holding back. The problem here is you could theoretically claim that anything that is "Saitama's MAX feats + 1" would be able to beat him going by the "lol,nofeats" logic. But that would obviously be completely wrong. Since he is shown to be "stronger than his feats by a certain amount", but anyone making a death battle would have to make a baseless assumption on what the actual numbers of this "certain amount" is and that really doesn't work, because anyone doing this Death Battle would have to measure it "by eye" which makes the whole battle completely subjective to that person's personal whims of what he "thinks" Saitama's power level is maxed at.
Again, I am not saying Saitama would beat everyone in the universe in a death battle. What I am saying is: You just CANNOT use him in a Death Battle against anyone with feats higher than his, because you would NOT be able to reach the point of "sufficient research" being completed until the webcomic shows us more. We also don't know how far his "conceptual defense" is because he broke one of the conceptual laws of the universe by himself through sheer willpower and this law was never "re-instated" on him either, so you really just "can't say" who would win between Saitama and any "planet busting+" characters. Think of Schroedinger's box. Both "the Saiatama that wins Death Battles" and "the Saitama that loses Death Battles" exist at the same time, until the "box" that is his "max power level" is being opened.
Yes Saitama has never used his full potential, and he isn't even trying most of the time ,although he does have his "serious" series. We "assume" because we have no other choice about it. Yes, we made a somewhat upper-limit about it, but that's because it's even more illogical if we take it WAY higher and have him set to "no-limits can break anything".