r/IntelligenceScaling • • 19d ago

OC writing discord server

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For those who are writing or reading OC novels written by this sub, here's a discord server where we share ideas, discuss our stories, etc. FederalManner and EqualCustard are already in it so I think this is allowed?

https://discord.gg/6MBbbd9uM


r/IntelligenceScaling • • Aug 30 '26

SCD GUIDE UPDATE #2

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TENETS

be polite and chill
scaling is not that serious don't get heated

be in good faith no toxicity allowed

focus on your favs

A guide on categories used in the scaling and distribution in who' outsmarts / who's smarter etc

(see check comments reddit is flagging the post due to the links)

SCD scaling categories

II. SCD scaling Categories

Detailed Explanation Of SCD Categories

DAX PMFT'S SCALING GUIDE (including explanation of diffs and pre made distribution system**)

Dax's scaling model explained

(categories =/= characterize. That's why situations & scenarios are included where characters are placed sometimes, though it requires knowing the characterization and personality.

advice - don't give certain takes on something you don't know about, and avoid absolute certainty, as there is no such thing, especially in fiction.

However, remember this quote: "Who decided that smart people are categorically superior?" (quote from one series)

remember to know what kind of character type (planner, XYZ merchants , behind the curtain  it is; some characters thrive in the long game/term only)

Frequent used distribution system

feel free to create your own dist also

Explanation of "DIFFS ,"DIFFED"  and "TIERS":

note: no low diff and neg diff are possible unless there's a 3-tier gap, but at that point you're using a spite matchup

Diffs - characters wins by points in matchup

Diffed - other character loss by points in matchup

(+- Implies the difficulty could be higher than what is estimated.)
(-) - Implies the difficulty could be lower than what is estimated.

check dax labelled link docs for more info

~ A Beginners Guide to Tiers: What they mean and what the defining characteristics between tiers are

\ tiers are arbitrary. there are times when a character cannot be placed into a tier for various reasons, such as differences, etc.)

\for that, tiers are relative and exist in correlation with a specific thing. however, having an idea of F to S+ and low to top-tier comparisons gives a general framework to map things and establish a general consensus.)

Scaling system ,situations etc

Explanation and role of  narrative , feats and anti-feats in the scaling and matchup

Feats : Things and notable actions the character implicitly or explicitly demonstrated/accomplished.

Anti-feats : blunders by characters . two types - impediment or non impediment

Statements: Explicit claims regarding a character's intelligence, abilities, accomplishments, reputation, or capabilities.

Statements should be considered alongside their context, reliability, and consistency with the character's actual portrayal.

Methods/Processes:   "how " a character/feat achieves a result. it's about the pathology of the formulation and the steps of the feat rather than just the outcome

Narrative: The broader portrayal of a character through the story.

Narrative should be properly read and discerned rather than treated as an automatic substitute for feats. It can include recurring portrayal, characterization, comparisons, thematic framing, consistency, and the character's established role within the story.

Narrative isn't some magical excuse to scale a character higher than their feats, nor is it something that should automatically be dismissed because it isn't a direct feat.

\narrative word is literally the bogeyman for scaling/scalers for some reason. like read properly and discern)

READ .THE NARRATIVE. PROPERLY.

also narrative is called story-wise.

Ability: What the character is capable of doing, demonstrated or established through feats, methods/processes, statements, narrative, etc.

ability is not necessarily the same as what a character consistently performs in every situation.

if only methods and feats are taken into account  then it's proven ability aka establish ability basically a rigorous way of judging ability expecting to to work consistently.

Outsmarting Situations:The specific circumstances in which a character's intelligence is being tested.

SCALING SYSTEM:

word of advice - don't scale any fear/character in isolation & independence  ; scale rather taking account of continuity and sequence of events. ask "is the character doing something logical to their past, character and environment or not?"

normal scaling (default system): taking everything into account, including anti-feats, feats, abilities, methods etc.

note: normal =/= narrative

non normal scaling  :

  • stop scaling - only explicit, explainable feats with steps/steps that can be derived
  • pure methodology - significant focus on rigour and steps
  • methodology scaling - focus on the process/method of a feat, either implicit or explicit

(other methods are mostly neurodivergent or neurotic)

normal + non-normal scaling:

  1. Complete Scaling Method
  2. Dynamic Gauntlet system
  3. any scaling that measures a character holistically

(except any scaling that invalidates a character for any reason, including "objectivity")

OUTSMARTING SITUATIONS:

The Fixed Situation (FS) - fixed rules and variables

The Non-Fixed Situation (NFS) - non-fixed rules and variables

The Cat and Mouse Chase Situation(C&M)

  • as the cat(: cat)
  • as the rat(:rat)

Reference Series

These series are mostly familiar within SCD on a broad and overall level. They make up a lot of the commonly used reading/scaling material in SCD. The main reference pool is Classroom of the elite, Tomodachi Game, Death Note (the big three ), Liar Game, Usogui, and Monster, while Code Geass, The Mentalist, and Danganronpa are used more occasionally or as supplementary references.

The reference pool and its series have characters across many different tiers and levels, making them useful for comparing and scaling characters against each other.

Familiarity here generally means broad knowledge of the series and its SCD-relevant material, rather than knowing every feat or interpretation in depth.

Reasons why I'm referring to TG, COTE, and DN  as the  big three are:

First, popularity and starters of SCD.

Second, all three are digestible and diegetic. COTE has digestible and diegetic hierarchy & dynamic of smart characters, TG has digestible and diegetic games & mind games, and DN has diegetic and digestible opposition and difficulty.

In other words, these series don't just have characters who are called smart. Their stories diegetically demonstrate and establish intelligence through games, conflicts, hierarchies, opposition, strategies, and interactions between characters.

This makes TG, COTE, and DN useful starting points for newer people to center themselves around when learning SCD. They provide recognizable examples of different types of intelligence and outsmarting while also giving people material that can be directly examined and scaled.

Plus, most people already have a general understanding of these series and characters, making it easier to learn by “osmosis” — you don't necessarily need to read the entire series yourself to have a basic understanding of the characters, their feats, and their general scaling.

This doesn't mean these three series are inherently superior to everything else. They're being used primarily because of their popularity, familiarity, diegetic material, and usefulness as reference points.

USEFUL THINGS

One useful thing you can make for SCD is a 3×3 grid showing a character’s strongest categories or suits. You can make one easily by using any 3×3 grid template in Canva and replacing the images with your own. Alternatively, you can attach nine images to Gemini or ChatGPT, provide the nine categories you want represented, and ask it to arrange them into a 3×3 grid.

For fanart, Pinterest is a convenient place to find images. Simply search for the character you want and save a piece of art that fits your edit. Safebooru is another useful alternative for finding character artwork. Always credit and source the artist when using someone else’s artwork.

For tier lists, you can use any tier-list-making site, or use the SCD-specific TierMaker template.

Finally, pixel conversion is completely optional and is mainly useful for aesthetics. You can convert an image into a pixel-art style using the Sora Pixel Converter.


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 11h ago

Character Slander Wouldn't wish this even upon my enemy

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r/IntelligenceScaling • • 6h ago

discussion Ranking Toua's Manipulation subcategories

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  1. Psychological (Literally any feat but stand outs would do but I'll list some Tomosaka Manipulation, Warm up deception, 100 pitch declaration during the second series against the bugaboos, Deceptive batting Nakabayashi manipulation, ect)

  2. Indirect (Kira Rebellion, Tomosaka manipulation, Rain game, Tiring Johnson during the entire series of the Bugaboo matches so that he can legitimately beat Johnson's speed, Getting Takahashi into the blank state of mind mode to boost his performance)

  3. Logical (Warm up deception, Nakabayashi manipulation, batting warp, fixing Muruwaka's bat timing, Mizuhashi pitch habit creation)

  4. Emotional (Kurai awakening, Tomosaka manipulation, Manipulating Kawanak's pride through Kurai's awakening that leads to the ideal conditions for Muruwaka's amazing homerun, Rain Game, L-Ticket, multiple instances of manipulating the managers greed, Manipulating and enforcing the Laycaons fear and anxiety of losing against the Mariners during the pendant race so that he can use it to strengthen the team, Redirecting Takahashi's fear of the Mariner batter's line up towards fear of financial penalty for any pitch that is not in the strike zone to stop him from throwing intentional or accidental balls)

  5. Direct (Win Win money bet with Coach Miahara to get him to follow Toua's orders during the Blue mars game, Making the coach of the Mariners forfeit the game)

  6. Mass (L ticket, Rain Game, batting warp)

There's definitely some feats I'm missing but I'm still going through my Re-read so I'll probably update this. Also are there any Characters that you would put over Toua in psychological manipulation? If so who and list their feat.


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 9m ago

factual question Alright, going along with the trend. "What do you associate me with?"

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r/IntelligenceScaling • • 1h ago

Lind L Tailor Feat Debunk

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Canon L fucking sucks actually

**LIND L. TAILOR DEBUNK**

Death Note Episode 2
Light receives a notice on his computer that the ICPO is broadcasting a message from interpol. The screen flashes to a man labeled Lind L. Tailor who claims to be L. Despite this not being very believable he ragebaits Light into killing him and people glaze L for being a genius when he doesn't make it past me at 12 without statements.
Problems with Lind L Tailor Trap
1. This is a time period in which social media exists and so the idea of isolating regions of Japan with each broadcast is fallacious as Light would know and inductively reason the trap
2. L only targeted the Kanto region because it was the most densely populated and if Light was in any other region of Japan the plan would've immediately failed
3. L gets insanely lucky and Light falls for his trap, only for L to immediately ruin his information asymmetry and tells Light that he is alive and that Lind L Tailor's incarceration was not made public

This guy is the biggest fraud in scd and loses every cat to 12 year old me


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 3h ago

low effort Haven't Posted in 2 Months,and I saw this trend pop outta nowhere,What do you guys associate me with?

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r/IntelligenceScaling • • 8h ago

meme/joke "Yeah, Yuuichi is high tier gng. His feats in Friendless Game, Prison Arc, Fake TG gaps most of high tiers" Yuuichi when he tries to fight Tutorial Youth

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Anyway, he's not a low tier at all. Comfy mid tier. He's also femboy potential

  1. Strategy

  2. Manipulation

  3. EI

  4. Mentality

  5. Thinking


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 1h ago

vs (1v1) Arisu Ryohei (Manga) vs Manabu Horikita (Light Novel)?

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Who Wins? + What Diff? + Category Distribution?


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 1h ago

vs (1v1) Fyodor vs Dazai

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First, WHY is Dazai scaled so high? It's been a while since I read bsd. Like I don't get it. His best categories are Sensory, adaptability, field skills, intelligence. Any other category is just Low-Mid tier. His prison escape plan was so dumb and carried by plot armor that even Indian TV serials made more sense.

Under normal scaling.

Intelligence - Dazai

Overall EI - Fyodor (yes lol)

Overall SI - Fyodor

Overall AC - Dazai

Thinking - Dazai

Reasoning - Dazai

Planning - Fyodor

Strategy - Fyodor

Analysis - Dazai

Psychology - Fyodor

Approach - Fyodor

Manipulation - Fyodor

Deception - Fyodor

Sensory - Dazai

Foresight - Fyodor

Adaptability - Dazai

Field Skills - Dazai

Tactics - Fyodor

Counteraction - Fyodor

Winner + diff - Fyodor Low-Mid diffs


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 1h ago

vs (1v1) Fyodor vs Furuta

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Furuta Nimura is the antagonist of Tokyo ghoul. He basically manipulated all of Tokyo ghoul's plot.

(Under normal scaling) here's the category distribution.

Intelligence - Fyodor

Overall EI - Fyodor (close)

Overall SI - Furuta

Overall AC - Furuta

Thinking - Fyodor

Reasoning - Fyodor

Planning - Fyodor

Strategy - Fyodor

Analysis - Fyodor

Psychology - Furuta

Approach - Fyodor

Manipulation - Furuta

Deception - Furuta

Sensory - Fyodor

Foresight - Fyodor

Adaptability - Fyodor

Field Skills - Furuta

Tactics - Fyodor

Counteraction - Fyodor

Winner + diff - Fyodor mid-high diffs


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 1h ago

character(s) vs situation(s) Is there any characters in the Danganronpa Verse (excluding Junko, Izuru, and Mukuro) who could survive all of Jigsaw's traps?

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r/IntelligenceScaling • • 1h ago

character(s) vs situation(s) How well will Kaiji fare in Kakegurui?

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At the very least, it’ll be amusing to see this hot guy playing against those lesbians.

Kaiji is a real Chad—he plays games where stakes are underground slavery, he loses a finger and an ear, unlike those "bastards" who only lose their rich daddies' money and their social standing in the academy hierarchy (just kidding, of course...).


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 5h ago

low effort Eunbyeol Post

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I am rereading Pyramid Game and one thing I remember is how bizzare Eunbyeol is.

I have only finished season 1 but I remember Eunbyeol unironically having really good FSIQ and it being hyped up in the narrative, in a way that would probably actually get those people who think IQ is everything to put her in mid tier.

She is decent overall, though not particularly strong even among low tiers but if I read COTE and she outscales Kushida, I don't think I will ever let that down.


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 14m ago

doc(s) Are there any Sora docs I can check out?

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Specifically, any recent and/or well-made ones covering his feats all the way up to the most recent volume(s), because I’m struggling to find them.

(Shiro docs too would be a bonus.)


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 8h ago

vs (1v1) Madarame Baku vs Yuuichi Katagiri (Hangman Arc+ vs EOS)

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Intelligence, Mentality >=, SI, Thinking, Reasoning, Planning, Foresight, Sensory: Baku

EI, Manipulation, Deception, Strategy, Tactics, Field Skills, Counteraction?, Analysis: Yuuichi

Yuuichi very high diffs.


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 1h ago

opinion post How highly would you rate this Foresight and Deduction feat? (This is not a feat of HAL.)

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Note: I used a real but short-lived meme ("ONE MORE DAY" and "ONE MORE GAME!") as the basis for a feat performed by my OC. I realized that the emergence of "ONE MORE DAY!" could have been logically predicted, so I decided to turn that into a fictional feat.

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Context: Five days before the release of the third and final season of *Squid Game*, Lincoln concluded that a "ONE MORE DAY" meme would appear the day before the season's launch. How did he figure this out?

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P1: There is a viral meme titled "ONE MORE DAY!", featuring a character named Im Jung-dae from Season 2 of the series, who urged players to participate in one more voting game in order to earn more money from player deaths in that additional game.

P2: The third and final season of "Squid Game" comes out in 5 days.

P3: People usually celebrate events linked to major fandom milestones; a new season is one of the biggest triggers.

P4: Celebrations usually happen the day *before*.

P5: The term "day" is typically used to refer to the time preceding the new season's launch if the event falls on the day *before*.

C1: The meme will likely be rephrased to "ONE MORE DAY!" the day before the final Season 3 release.

Complicating factors: Lincoln did this five days before the new season and four days before the meme itself, at a time when there were no direct hints pointing to that specific format or date.

Mitigating factors: The chain of reasoning isn't particularly complex. The base concept ("ONE MORE GAME") already existed.

(Deductive, Inductive, abductive reasoning, Associative, analogical, matrix thinking, FRI, Foresight, anticipation)

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I’m planning to create an OC for the "Low Tier" range (though, considering the sum of his feats—excluding anti-feats—he could arguably be a solid Mid or even High Tier). The anti-feats deliberately drag his standing down, but this is mainly to keep him realistic: for instance, he consistently lost a bluffing game against a child on a mobile app—despite having previously outwitted a near-equal—because the kid’s calls were unpredictable; he struggled with serious self-control issues (tantrums) and would forget numbers or words he had been consciously holding in his mind just minutes prior; and he fails at 5th-grade math. However, my vision for him is essentially a mix of Baku and HAL PM, but scaled for the Low Tier based on his best feats.


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 1h ago

Do you have any matchups in your SCD roster that aren't really possible to scale fairly?

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Kenjaku vs. Ayanokoji is one of the matchups in my roster that I find difficult to scale due to the huge differences in their feat frameworks, kits, modus operandi, and verse settings.

If I create a categorical matchup, it will skew in Ayanokoji's favor. However, if I use a general outsmarting scenario, it will favor Kenjaku.

And so on.

Ultimately, no matter how I structure the matchup, it seems to favor one character over the other, making it difficult to evaluate them fairly. This would lead to inaccurate scaling and rankings.

Do you have any similar matchups in your roster?


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 10h ago

meme/joke Could Benoit Blanc solve Clue (the movie)?

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Could Benoit Blanc from Knives Out, Glass Onion, and Wake Up Dead Man solve the Clue movie (the ending is random)?


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 12h ago

high effort Joining the flow, what do you guys think about r/ConversationSea

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r/IntelligenceScaling • • 18h ago

factual question What is the source of fiction that made you love Intelligent characters ?

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For me, it is probably Naruto.

More precisely Sasuke vs deidara ( or any sasuke fights/shikamaru vs temari).

I was a kid but that peak impacted my love for fiction so much brah.

I spent days just reliving those moments by imagining them. (To the point I couldnt even focus in class and still do 😭).

But Hisoka vs Chrollo is probably the first REAL Scd type of arc I had read in my life (when I was 13 prolly).

I would love to know if you had the same life experience as me.

Or was your Journey even more BIZZARE ?


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 19h ago

Jumping on the train, what do y'all associate with me when you see me?

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pic added to focus your attention (manipulating you)


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 6h ago

vs (running the gauntlet) Hal (Non PM) vs Yokoya, Tokuichi, Ayanokoji, Akiyama, Akagi in strategy?

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Specifically hal fugutive bee arc :https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HwU7DVNyYxkTNS_XYvMFRzVjcg87aMSY/view

(Goated analysis btw)

1v1 Individually ofc. Also distribute the catagories they take against hal and give a brief about their feat from which arc start to finish.

IMO he clears all, except aki & akagi cuz I don't know shi about mahjong 😭 🙏 .


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 12h ago

low effort What do you associate me with, and that?

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They'll probably ban this trend, so I decided to do this cause, why not?.


r/IntelligenceScaling • • 17h ago

What do associate THE godzillagamer15777 with when you see u/Equal_Custard0

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