Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-44038556-20191011020634/@comment-40261920-20200417031623

Let's talk Yellow Temperence for a second.

The conclusion to the YT fight has Jotaro punching a pipe with enough force to cause Rubber Soul to be launched by water rushing out of the manhole that he was resting on top of. Let's all remember:

1. Water will flow in the path of leats resistance, so it wouldn't move up and out the manhole unless the rest of the system exerted more recistance, which would mean that the system would also need to be filled. This is especially impressive considering

2. Sewer systems span throughout the entire system. This means that Jotaro had to provide so much pressure with a single punch that he flooded the entire city's worth of volume at once. To add a final element to this, consider that

3. Sewers have multiple exits. In order to get water to launch Rubber Soul like he did, Jotaro needed to essentially max out the flowrate of every exit in the entire system for at least a single moment.

I am not willing to spend the time necessary to research how much force that it would take, I'm simply gonna leave it at "a shit ton". Doing this shit is most definitely comprable to any feat that Soft & Wet can perform.

But regardless this really just goes to show that single feats are by no means an accurate measure of practical strength and ability. The idea that Star Platinum can destroy the sewage system of an entire city but doesn't obliterate Steely Dan's corpse after the barrage he subjected him to is laughable.

Similarly, claiming that S&W can punch with the force of whatever godforsaken amount of TNT Banana calculated but at the same time can be pushed back by Born this Way is ridiculous.

Going even further, that calculation is based on a throwaway line about an explosion with only enough force to destroy a single boat and dock somehow having the force of a magnitude 3 earthquake. Beyond that, this supposed explosion somehow didn't destroy Damo instantly, even though Aisho Dainenjiyama was a male of the same species with a similar age, yet he was one shot by a fucking bus.

Basically feats of strength and durability are no where near consistent enough in JoJo in order to make accurate judgements.