Questions & Mysteries Did Sukuna run the best gauntlet in anime/manga history?

#1
Who are some other characters that ran a more challenging gauntlet than Sukuna?

Sukuna faced:

1. Gojo (with some help from Utahime and Gakuganji for the 200% Hollow Purple)
2. Kashimo
3. Yuji/Higuruma/Kusakabe/Ino/Choso
4. Yuta/Rika/Yuji
5. Maki
6. Kusakabe
7. Yuji/Miguel/Larue/Ino/Choso/Maki
8. Yuji/Todo
9. Yuta in Gojo’s body
10. Yuji/Todo/Hana

Before finally being finished off by Yuji with help from Megumi and Nobara
 
#4
Not many characters even ran gauntlets half as numerous.
Maybe Madara's gauntlet is better? It was a long time ago, it all happened in one day, right?
He gets revived:
- fights a shinobi army detachment lead by the Kazekage, Naruto, Oonoki (and a few other chars I can't remember probably)
- fights the five kage
- fights Naruto, Sasuke and the revived kage
- fights the tailed beasts
- proceeds to take over as Juubi's host and fights Guy, Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Obito, Minato

I probably missed some
 
#5
Not many characters even ran gauntlets half as numerous.
Maybe Madara's gauntlet is better? It was a long time ago, it all happened in one day, right?
He gets revived:
- fights a shinobi army detachment lead by the Kazekage, Naruto, Oonoki (and a few other chars I can't remember probably)
- fights the five kage
- fights Naruto, Sasuke and the revived kage
- fights the tailed beasts
- proceeds to take over as Juubi's host and fights Guy, Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Obito, Minato

I probably missed some
Edo Tensei gave him infinite regen, so it’s really not a fair comparison. At least Sukuna can only regen until his CE bottoms out, and there are certain injuries which would be too fatal for RCT to fix. Kishimoto for some reason thought that Edo Tensei wasn’t already a broken enough jutsu, so he also decided to make the reincarnated able to automatically regenerate endlessly for some reason
 
#6
Edo Tensei gave him infinite regen, so it’s really not a fair comparison. At least Sukuna can only regen until his CE bottoms out, and there are certain injuries which would be too fatal for RCT to fix. Kishimoto for some reason thought that Edo Tensei wasn’t already a broken enough jutsu, so he also decided to make the reincarnated able to automatically regenerate endlessly for some reason
True true
But then again Sukuna didn't take the level of damage Madara did (like against the Kage) so he didn't have to heal to that level anyway.
Different verses, different APs I guess.
 

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#15
Battle wise
Madara had passive healing
And tbf l like this gauntlet more

Mostly because Madara didn't take damage from 70% of the people fighting him.

Writing wise meh
Could've been done way better

Favorite gauntlet is still Vegeta during the Saiyan saga
Might be short but seeing him still get up again and again was the coolest thing to me
:kayneshrug:
 
#16
I'd disagree on him running the most challenging gauntlet.

In similar vein to Sukana I like Vegeta vs goku & the others in the desert. I think its the most similar to Sukana because he also fought the strongest good guy at the beginning. I would say Vegeta had the most challenging one because Sukana kept recovering his moves while Vegeta kept getting weaker with no recovery or instant death moves. Each attack his opponent landed was a permanent damage and his only option was to grind and hope he comes out on top.

But Most challenging for me would pobably be something like King bradley in full metal alchemist. He had a human body and the people he faced at skills that were dangerous to him. And while he was better he wasnt "I am toying with you". He had to put his back into it. And the finale of it and how he dies was great.

I loved watching Madara kick ass but the edo tensei was a full recovery so id diqualify him for most challenging.

But Sukana probably ran the most numerous gauntlet? He had 12 opponents (gojo Yuta kashimo Maki Yuji Higuruma Todo Kusakabe Ino Choso Miguel Larue) which is a lot. Closest I got is Shigaraki who face 9 characters then Deku for a total of 10 for the fight in his cofin in the sky.
 
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