Basic Premises

## Introduction

When the average powerscaler seeks to examine a work's 'strength', they start by analyzing three things:

-Feats

-Scaling

-Calculations

The key thing to know is that these are done with an atomized perspective of the story. One where scenes do not exist as part of a whole narrative but rather as meaningless atoms gathered at random. They also assume a set of rules, like 'No Limits Fallacy' or 'AP =/= DC'. They emphasize the omnipotence of these rules, even placing them above author intent.

To put it simply, this is not how a story works. Scenes only exist to provide theme and tone, and to construct a narrative. Every world is a world of its own and no rules can be said to be inferred on it without evidence. And author intent is the sole and highest marking of a character's power. No one can know more than an author about their own story.

It is then I make an outline for how a story is properly built, and should be analysed in a battleboarding context.

## The Theory

The very first thing to be said is that one cannot put fictional characters from two different worlds together and figure out who wins in a fight objectively. The author decides who wins, end of.

But if we assume otherwise, we may continue forth. Since every scene is part of a narrative, one just as the author must take three things into consideration:

-Theme and tone

-Consistency

-Impact

Any evaluation of a character's powers or powerset that fails at least one criteria should be called into question. For instance, if one says 'Goku cannot blow up a planet because he was never shown to' that fails points 1 and 2. Dragon Ball is a series about growing ever stronger, and if Goku couldn't blow up a planet despite being stronger than people that did- the story's consistency and tone would be called into question. The statement must thus be thrown away.

Another thing to note is that rules take precedence over joules. No human sits down at their desk and thinks "Hm, I will write a story with a protagonist that flies at 27.13929293 mph and can pick up 33.3838 tons and can punch through 5.2291818 meters of stone at once." They think "I will write a story with a flying brick. Not too much, keep it below Marvel and DC madness." Humans think in rules, not joules. This instantly invalidates calcs beyond the most basic assumptions. 'If the story says this character can run at Mach 1, then they can probably run around my neighborhood in a few seconds."

That means when analyzing a work for its strength, one has to write down any rules, or Tags, the characters exhibit. For instance, Fei Fong Wong can easily destroy Gears on foot during the end game, but is harmed by a bullet once. Therefore he has the Tag 'Harmed By Bullets'. If he was consistently harmed by bullets, then one would rate his Potency of Power higher than his durability.

Taking these into account, what we end up is a scaling system where

-The intent of the author is valued above all else, and where most wanked characters are downgraded

-Where most characters are within what VSwiki would call the Tier 10-8 range with some 5-1 scale special powers'

-There is no NLF, no AP/DC split, no PIS, no assumption that one can know more about the story than the author. The AP/DC split in particular exists solely to make an incorrect excuse for a character's 'lore' not matching up with their 'feats'. For instance, Megami Tensei characters are apparently multiversal, but the most destruction explicitly shown is surface wiping. If demons were really multiversal, why would they be consistently be killed by floods, scared by nukes, and rely on human superweapons? Why would the authors consistently portray them as street level when they intend them to be multiversal? When AP/DC is used to explain away an extremely inconsistent interpretation of the source material, it is incorrect. It should be, at most, used to explain why every fight doesn't destroy large surface areas.

-Works with multiple authors are complicated. Ideally, one writer's interpretation of the world would be given its own page, unless one can prove their interpretation and one other writer's interpretation is mostly the same to be put into one page.