Questions & Mysteries How good is OPM’s powerscaling?

[Shiroyru]

I honestly think that OPM has some of the best of most consistent powerscaling in the entire manga industry, which is kinda ironic given the premise of the series

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

It's pretty trash all considering. It's wild and all over the place with a majority of the crises being averted if one or two OP characters accidentally walked onto the scene. It's DBZ with more limited growth and time spent on the lower tier characters but honestly, you can't expect me to take a plot line centered around Metal Bat seriously when Tatsumaki can fly around and mentally crush whoever Metal bat is extreme diffing.

So if you like a series that makes 99.9% of the cast superfluous and eliminates tension with these wide berths of power, it's for you. Like I said, it's DBZ where Goku can handle everything but for some reason the author keeps letting Krillin have at it first.

I personally prefer series where characters are more clustered around closer power levels. Makes it all more interesting and any fight has more of a sense of danger to it.

 

[Cuistot]

It's pretty trash all considering. It's wild and all over the place with a majority of the crises being averted if one or two OP characters accidentally walked onto the scene. It's DBZ with more limited growth and time spent on the lower tier characters but honestly, you can't expect me to take a plot line centered around Metal Bat seriously when Tatsumaki can fly around and mentally crush whoever Metal bat is extreme diffing.

So if you like a series that makes 99.9% of the cast superfluous and eliminates tension with these wide berths of power, it's for you. Like I said, it's DBZ where Goku can handle everything but for some reason the author keeps letting Krillin have at it first.

I personally prefer series where characters are more clustered around closer power levels. Makes it all more interesting and any fight has more of a sense of danger to it.

You don't even read/watch this show...

OPM makes fun of DBZ, the comparisons are moot.

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

OPM makes fun of DBZ, the comparisons are moot.

But the last three arcs have been more serious, less comedic and the value has been placed on the fighting aspects. It ironically took the same journey as Dragon Ball did, starting out as a gag fighting series and transitioning into a straight series.

 

[Shiroyru]

It's pretty trash all considering. It's wild and all over the place with a majority of the crises being averted if one or two OP characters accidentally walked onto the scene. It's DBZ with more limited growth and time spent on the lower tier characters but honestly, you can't expect me to take a plot line centered around Metal Bat seriously when Tatsumaki can fly around and mentally crush whoever Metal bat is extreme diffing.

So if you like a series that makes 99.9% of the cast superfluous and eliminates tension with these wide berths of power, it's for you. Like I said, it's DBZ where Goku can handle everything but for some reason the author keeps letting Krillin have at it first.

I personally prefer series where characters are more clustered around closer power levels. Makes it all more interesting and any fight has more of a sense of danger to it.

Ok but this has nothing to do with the consistency of the powerscaling. You’ll never see OPM pull a DBS and have characters randomly get 100x stronger for the sake of the plot. ONE and Murata could have had TTM put in work against Fuhrer Ugly if they wanted to, but they respected the power scaling and had Ugly easily turn TTM into a piece of modern art

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

Ok but this has nothing to do with the consistency of the powerscaling. You’ll never see OPM pull a DBS and have characters randomly get 100x stronger for the sake of the plot. ONE and Murata could have had TTM put in work against Fuhrer Ugly if they wanted to, but they respected the power scaling and had Ugly easily turn TTM into a piece of modern art

It's consistent but the way its powerscaling functions is bad IMO. It's like FT having Gildartz hanging around, able to beat the shit out of any character or antagonist if he so desires.

Like dog shit consistently smells bad, but I'm not gonna compliment it for that

 

[Shiroyru]

It's consistent but the way its powerscaling functions is bad IMO. It's like FT having Gildartz hanging around, able to beat the shit out of any character or antagonist if he so desires.

Like dog shit consistently smells bad, but I'm not gonna compliment it for that

Lol OPM can still create more tension than One Piece despite having Saitama

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

Lol OPM can still create more tension than One Piece despite having Saitama

That's your inner contrarian in you speaking.

 

[Cuistot]

You miss the entire point if you start comparing Saitama's role with cookie-cutters like Goku and Gildarts...

@Shiroyru he's baiting you, he doesn't even read this manga

 

[Uncle Van]

It's honestly impressive how consistent the OPM manga is when you consider all the drastic changes from the webcomic.

 

[ZenZu]

Honestly it might have been the best pre everyone getting buffs and nerfs at a whim. It's falling off a bit, what with FF sustaining multiple blows from Platinum Sperm who is multiple times stronger than Golden Sperm who Darkshine (the most physically durable of the S ranks) got completely outmuscled by in like one attack. That's just a recent example.

Overall still one of the best but I'd say HxH has it beat.

 

[Shiroyru]

Honestly it might have been the best pre everyone getting buffs and nerfs at a whim. It's falling off a bit, what with FF sustaining multiple blows from Platinum Sperm who is multiple times stronger than Golden Sperm who Darkshine (the most physically durable of the S ranks) got completely outmuscled by in like one attack. That's just a recent example.

Overall still one of the best but I'd say HxH has it beat.

I think that was because GS being bigger and shinier than Darkshine made him lose his fighting spirit. Also PS probably isn’t “multiple times” stronger than GS, since GS was 43 trillion cells while PS is 54 trillion. I wish that they had made GS have a lower cell count

 

[vikas]

It has handled the OP hero very well.

 

[Uncle Van]

I think that was because GS being bigger and shinier than Darkshine made him lose his fighting spirit. Also PS probably isn’t “multiple times” stronger than GS, since GS was 43 trillion cells while PS is 54 trillion. I wish that they had made GS have a lower cell count

Darkshine lost his spirit fighting Garou and still took attacks. GS one shotted him.

 

[Shiroyru]

Darkshine lost his spirit fighting Garou and still took attacks. GS one shotted him.

Do we know for sure that he was KOed? He could have curled up into a ball and cried like a baby after Vomited Fuhrer Ugly and Golden Sperm broke his ego

 

[Warchief Sanji D Goat]

Way more consistent than One Piece for sure.

 

[JouShi]

The OPM and DBZ, plz.🖐
OPM never started off as a gag, it just never touched the subject of Saitama’s depression deeply, it has always been there, his frustration from one punching everything has always been there just never went deep into detail.

As for powerscaling, it’s up there in the god tier powerscaling consistency. Saw HxH was brought up, 98% of the fanbase still doesn’t know how the power systems works, and I’m one of those 98%. But nen stuff aside the strength and consistency of HxH is great. One thing I kinda have a problem with in HxH is piercing durability. The pre rose “king” Meruem and Gon were equals in power in Pitou’s eyes but Gon’s piercing durability being just a factor in why the king would clap him is just you know…unless Pitou is suggesting she can pierce the king, but that’s unlikely. I guess that’s just a human trait that needed to stay but then that makes Gon look fodder especially since the king is a piercing machine.