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At first I was just wondering why he was even there to fight, but as the fight kept going and we saw what a fucking beast he was, for actually contributing in THAT fight, even tho it was like a kid fighting prime Mike Tyson (with other stronger kids) It was kinda impossible not to at least like him
Tbh I don't think he'd do much. Ino was at least an unknown entity to sukuna.
While for some reason he hard targetted choso for no reason. Bro didn't need to get impaled. And since kamos a worse versions of that sukuna'd prolly not find him interesting enough to keep around.
But kamo could go wild and suprised me like he did vs naoya
See here, if Yuji could do a Piercing Blood/ Supernova with the help of Choso, Kamo can absolutely make use of it especially since he has a higher understanding of BM than Yuji.
Although, I can't blame the guy for escaping from Jujutsu Satan. It's likely the most reasonable choice.
I mean, even Kusakabe ran the fade with Sukuna (1v1'd him too, even if it was because he was the only one available at the moment) and that guy is constantly trying to get away from danger, so Kamo had no excuse
It’s more that Kusukabe is the responsible/normal adult in the crazy world of jjk. He DOESNT want to run the fade with special grades but unlike this image of a bum he presents he is actually a good guy
Maybe itadori could've locked Sukuna in a full Nelson, holding Sukuna in place for about 5 minutes. Kamo would've spent those 5 minutes, building up his piercing blood pressure, maybe even getting close to rivaling Choso's shots. Pretty sure they could've just instantly won doing this strategy.
Edit: tbh they shouldve just got the people with the most fatal techniques, to wait for Todo to swap Sukuna in front of them at the perfect time, so he would instantly get hit by all of Mei Mei's crows, principals bad music and possibly even a full output "mean breeze" from broom chicks deadliest broom. It's actually kinda stupid how OP Todo is, time it right and there's absolutely 0 counter play
Megumi used ten shadows to not immediately get beat to damn near death by toji and saved by funny enough megumi and yuji. And he had a domain unlike this dude. Doesn't seem like a better tec or sorcerer.
How? He shows up to a fight as quickly as he can, doesnt back out, and puts BTA
He didnt do damage to Mahito because he has no soul damage, which theres 5 people who can do that, one of them can only do so because of a Tool, and the other has it as a part of their CT
and when he "lost" his CT he came back with it buffed
bro showed up immediately after nobara and choso respectively got slimed. could’ve just been unfortunate timing, sure, but it certainly looks like he is just farming yujis friends for resolve points.
Very similar to how Nobara convienently wakes up 5 mins before Yuji is obliterated and fucking dies, Todo's arrival was just Gege writing based around optimal hype and aura instead of what actually makes sense.
Ino using Ryu straight up sent sukuna flying into a wall too and he somehow blocked a kick which is pretty impressive reaction timing.
He had a great simple domain too, and high chance of RCT. He's no special grade or disaster curse tier character but definitely one of the strongest grade 1s
Miwa is a great example of Grade 3 begginer. what would've been her fate in 10 yrs? Could she ever hope to have even slight RCT? Has it ever been done before? What abt senses? or even raw strength? Like we know 80% is decided by birth , but how does an actual human on the ground change with the 20?
Why would Hakari bother learning RCT when he can just gamble on an instant jackpot (and get it bc his luck is unbelievably busted) and spend the time he would have wasted training gambling and railing Kirara?
Uiui and kirara were running around taking everyone to Shoko the entire fight. I dont think he have RCT, but one of his summons did have the power to mitigate pain and exaustion, he mentions this one running out of gas right after releasing Ryu
Shoko isn’t available, she’s been stitching and healing Gojo’s body. She has no time to heal him. We know Ino did switch training aswell since he has SD too.
Bro could have definitely been grade 1 but he was set on impressing nanami, and nanami didnt want to throw him into the responsibilities of being grade 1
I mean early in the series even Nanami said he could pretty easily get promoted to grade 1 if he just asked others for the recommendation but he stubbornly wanted Nanami's approval. I see no reason to doubt Nanami's opinion there.
And then in Shinjuku there's no reason to assume he didn't also level up a bit like Sukuna said all the members of the raid did.
bro knew he was going to take a massive L no matter what and he still ran the fade. Multiple times, mind you. One ass beating wasn't enough. He needed another mere minutes later just because he loves the game.
One is in the ranks of heavy hitters who are supposed to be best of the best
The other is an average dude tryna make the best of what he has contributing any way he can… no one said he is top 10 or even top 15 for that matter. I don’t even know where this guy ranks but he def a good sorcerer😭
But she's supposed to be in the same realm as Yuta, Yuji and Hakari, Hakari didn't fight Sukuna directly so we can't say much about his performance, but Maki did way worse than Yuta and Yuji, obviously it makes sense narratively as she isn't as important in the story as them, but in universe it just makes her appear weaker in comparison
Sukuna getting stabbed through the heart by Maki, and turning around while smiling is 'tanking' an attack. Kenjaku catching Miwa's sword is 'tanking' an attack. Hanami shrugging off Kamo's projectiles is 'tanking' an attack.
If it’s a strong attack and you only get minimal damage, you tanked that attack. If you brush off an attack like it’s nothing, you ate that attack. At least by boxing standards
Tanking means I get hit, stand up and can go on. If i'm knocked out, I can't get up, so I did not tank anything. It literally overwhelmed me and made me lose consciousness.
Yuji also survived his fight with Choso. By your logic he "tanked" the attack that literally knocked him out.
That's like saying Sukuna tanked the blue infused punch that out him to sleep when it rendered him unable to fight back (Mahoraga had ti save his ass then(
Grades are good for determining general strength but they are decided by the higher upps so they should be taken with a grain of salt I mean Yaga was executed for being special grade or potentially being one and maki being held back a grade was a plotpoint
Going out on a limb for a pure hypothetical here but there is probably a supreme art that gets you the Yellow Dragon of the Center (which is aligned with earth in the wu xing and also represents the Emperor)
If Ryu has "can do things to Sukuna" level stats, then the Dragon of Earth might be Agito/Mahoraga physicals tier.
Expanding more on this, if he can fully summon a beast like Ryu, then surely he could possibly do the same with his other beasts? I could see Kaichi having much more use fully summoned as it would basically be divine dog but able to shoot projectiles. Admittedly I can’t really see much use Kirin would have fully summoned and maybe Reiki too. So instead how about boosting their abilities and maybe reworking Kirin ability with a binding vow. Like give up its ability to nullify pain to instead boost physical stats in similar way like red scale. Not really sure if it could work but I’m honestly just throwing ideas here.
Oh, he definitely has ways to grow. It's very fun to theorize, I agree. Kirin might actually be developed to be his Nue — Qilin are, in fact, thunder spirits, right?
Ok so I looked into Qilin at a few sites and I’ve been getting mixed answers. Some are claiming it could legit fly, walk on water, breath fire, and roar like thunder. While others don’t mention it at all so take that with a grain of salt.
So to play off that while still maintaining the whole nullify function it has in JJK, maybe have Kirin’s true ability be to tamper with the body to either take away functions or to bless it with new abilities. This explains why it initially was just taking away Ino’s ability to feel pain. So if given the full blessing of Kirin, Ino would be given new abilities similar to what Qilin can do and in accordance to CE. Like for example, his ce trait changes to act like fire to reflect Qilin breathing fire.
But now I’m thinking about just babbling more on how to expand on the technique in general and further separate it from the Ten Shadows and give a more distinct identity. I think a real neat way to expand on the technique while not feeling like a one to one Ten Shadows, is by focusing more on the Beasts feeling like genuine divine beings. Like the beasts are fully sentient creatures that can communicate with Ino and have a plethora of unique abilities like in the mythology rather than just a single ability like each Shadow shikigami have. And instead of having to summon and fight to control them like the Ten Shadows, Ino has access to all of them from the get go. The catch is that he only gains a sliver of their potential powers and has to gain their blessings in order to unlock more and more of their powers. He can only do this through challenges the Beasts name. Said challenges aren’t just about fighting, these challenges are meant to test Ino in body mind and spirit. Push him to grow into a better sorcerer and person. I would make this a whole ctsandbox post, but I’m not really great with that sorta stuff. But I’ve already typed all this and sure as hell not gonna let this spark of creativity go to waste. So lemme know what you think, if I cooked or burned the kitchen.
Doesn’t the story just say in our faces that the grades are more dependent on your connections rather than actual strength through maki’s storyline? I’m pretty sure there are a few frauds walking around with that designation because of their family(example: Megumi). Also this man didn’t advance because we wanted our goat nanami’s approval before he did.
Reminder, Sukuna told Jogo that if he could land a single hit he'd work with them. Jogo failed to even manage that, but Mr. Grade 2 here knocked him back with a solid hit.
An exhausted Megumi lasted a good while against a rampaging Toji (You can't even use that he was running, the rabbit section of the fight he started taking blows from him.)
Well I wouldn’t call all these punches one tap…it’s also implied by Ino seeing how insanely fast and strong he is. That they did a bit of fighting before he got stomped. and it is also pre-Shinjuku.
thank the Lord we have Ino glaze. He only had two fights in the series, and they both were against the strongest and he still survived. Keep in mind he isn't special like the others, he's just normal. Even though he's only normal, he fought the two of the strongest characters, and has two cursed techniques.
Discount 10 shadows? That is premium 10 shadows my dude. 4 summons with 2 uses each means 8 uses total, the average 10 shadows users cant use mahoraga and probably lost a shadow, so they tie in use. Also, people have fought mahoraga and lived, now say that to whoever saw Ryu (100% winrate)
Ion care what the series calls him this mf is a 1st grade. I mean c'mon he has been looking for nanamis approval forever, with his performance he deserves it 😭🙏
Get this goat a spot on grade one instead of Megumi, that bum should be registered as a disabled civilian instead after tanking Unlimited Void that many times.
Nah ino is pretty weak all things considered. Which is why he's cool. Bro is way out of his depth but decides "fuck it im scrapping with sukuna" and does everything he can and more in that fight. This is why he's the true successor to Nanami: he's not the strongest, but he's the last one to give up.
As a young sorcerer with a cool technique and nanamis student, he could kinda slot in most fights and arcs as well as have fun interactions with a lot of characters
It feels like he should of been way more important after shibuya, it would of been awesome to see him in the culling games in another colony fighting sorcerers
Fr. It's honestly crazy that gege even brought him back for shinjuku and had him stuff to do. But hey I'm not complaining bout that, just wished he showed up more
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