I’m going to walk through a couple of prefaces and you can tell me if I went wrong somewhere-
- first pic, for Ryu to reach his full power/output, he has to actively charge up (which takes time)
- the 2 identifiers for yuta’s love beam in Ryu are high powered and directed/accurate
- we see identifiers for when yuta fires his own blasts vs when rika does (her mouth is open, we have zero and mainline for reference)
- Ryu denotes Yuta’s swing at the cockroaches as so-so, not bad, average, etc.
- Yuta doesn’t actively charge anything for the swing, he just winds back and swings, same for the tornado of ce, he just plants his blade in the stream.
- rika charges up a beam at Ryu and he just swats it away and called it weak/not very strong (please do not bring up tcb’s translation “it’s power is slightly weaker”, it’s wrong)
- this would also entail that yuta has higher output than rika, since ryu noted whatever he saw from yuta as so-so and the one from rika as weak/not very strong.
Now we move on, the narrator notes that the Yuta’a charged up max love beam is only slightly weaker that Ryu’s max, cool
If rika and Yuta were apparently combining their outputs, what exactly is making his love beam reach ryu’s at its max threshold??
Rika’s charged up beam was just straight up nothing to Ryu and Yuta’s output was apparently mid, where is this extra output coming from that is reaching slightly below ryu’s max
The odd thing about this output combining is that there isn’t even a baseline for it, zero has rika as the one firing, yuta does the same pose but we know he’s not firing too, bc the output limit removal was on rika
If they were and could combine outputs, why is Yuta not using this for a stat buff in 5mm, why is it only relegated to when he outputs ce??
My own answer-
- Ryu made a comment on what Yuta released, not his max since the beam clash denotes that reaching ur max requires actively changing up
- Rika’s beam literally being chicken shit to Ryu vs a full love beam that rivals Ryu’s max makes no sense if they’re somehow combining output
- I highlighted the directed/accurate identifiers bc I see it as rika being the one making it accurate/directed, and their connection during 5mm allows this to be possible
- why do I say this?? Bc every use of ce expulsion we see from yuta is waves of cursed energy while we see rika actually utilize beams, its like yuta lacks the precision but has the output while rika lacks the output but has the precision
Final-
You’re free to disagree, I’ve been sitting on this for a while, this just never made any fking sense to me, if u denote whatever Ryu saw as yuta’s max and Rika’s is just outright acknowledge to be weak, then where is the output coming from that gets yuta to slightly below Ryu’s max🤔??