Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-36366948-20200805112208/@comment-45903789-20200817222052

But visually? No. And that's primarily how you determine feats.

Visuals is the primary way of determining feats and power scaling is based off of visuals and then logic. Logic is also another way of making you able to tell. Whether it is secondary or tertiary way of determining feats, it still determines feat.

He does not scale with Chojuro and Kurotsuchi? Then you just made my point for me. It stands to reason that if the fight with Sasuke looked normal because they're both so powerful they even each other out, then against Chojuro and Kurotsuchi, the two Kage would end up in pieces. But no, they doge him, punch him, tank his attacks. And they're strong, but they're not that strong.

Maybe he's weaker than planet-buster level, and they added that after the fact. Which seems very likely to me.

Suppressed/not serious Kinshiki scales with Kurotsuchi and Choujoru. Full power Kinshiki scales with Sasuke. Kinshiki only went full power when Sasuke got involved.

But you look at Kinshiki's feats, the guy is really just a really really strong Otsutsuki... but not planet-splitting level.

The planet-buster writing comes later, when the execs who made the movie and then the series went "hmmmm... it stands to reason that if he gave Sasuke a run for his money, he should be a planet buster".

But it's a way to cover their asses, because the reality of the situation is that Kinshiki was not intimidating enough as a villain, he's the muscle and that's it.

Base Naruto can kill anyone with just his muscles except Sasuke, Otsutsukis, and Rinnesharingan Madara, considering that he is already near light speed in that form.

The planet busting "level" of Kinshiki is just a high ball estimate since it was scaled with Sasuke's chidori, which in its weakest "Rinnegan Sasuke" usage was city level and high balling it to his high energy output of planetary level. The high ball estimate is the weakest inference/reasoning in the power scaling. Mid tier "power scaling" would put him in continent level. Power scaling is a range of estimates.