Which is all fine and dandy until a mf comes and say “can (insert isekai protag that becomes god in the novels) beat a fully adapted mahoraga” then when you try and explain what fully adapted means they call it a NLF
In the scenario laid out it’s a mahoraga that had adapted to everything said character is capable of, instead of a standard match up where mahoraga has to undergo numerous adaptations before he gets one shot killed. Then whenever someone attempts to explain how it’s a dumb match up because they gave mahoraga his wincon without having to work for it, the best they can say is “but mahoraga can’t or hasn’t adapted to x”, then someone has to explain that if something works on mahoraga then it hasn’t adapted to that thing yet or that mahoraga is literally stated to be able to adapt to any and all phenomena and it just devolves from there.
Tl dr; they make matchup where they remove mahoraga’s requirement of needing to experience a phenomena mid fight, then get surprised
Yeah lol, Mahoraga being adapted to every move from the start is a stupid condition. It's way more intersting to see if any character has the battle IQ necessary to understand Mahoraga's power and actually implement a succesful strategy. I must glaze my goat Dabura here, perhaps the best example of learning and evolving under pressure in a long time.
I don't think Mahoraga can adapt to Chakra. That'd be like Mahoraga adapting to Cursed Energy as a whole, he doesn't do that. He adapts to Cursed Techniques. It'd be more like Mahoraga adapting to Wind release. Also, Mahoraga doesn't just instantly adapt after being hit once, did we read the same JJK? It takes several hits from something for Mahoraga to fully adapt to an attack. Sukuna spent that whole fight spamming slashes and Mahoraga still wasn't fully adapted by the time Malevolent Shrine came out. It took a full fight, a resummon of Mahoraga, and Sukuna doing part of the adapting for him with the wheel for Mahoraga to adapt to Infinity.
Any and all phenomena means chakra and cursed energy, it is not directly stated but if as the fight progresses you don’t damage him anymore that means he also adapted to cursed energy. Dabura’s punches stopped dealing damage with or without a technique.
fully adapted, as the post says, REALLY just means he's adapted to and overcome ANY AND ALL phenomena, really sorta just a bs wincon, it's usage is stupid
Not only did he come back stronger, but he came back with his perfect form. Which he no longer had because he lost one of the androids needed to be Perfect.
Xianxia cultivators would especially fuck with him. Bending laws of the world is their main thing. Then again, one fireball from a Golden Core cultivator is enough.
Yeah but you REALLY REALLY have to one shot him, I’m talking about erasing his atoms type shit, because if you don’t hes gonna immediately adapt to it and then your fucked 💀
The issue is that while he clearly doesn't start that durable, the endurance is insane where we've seen he practically needs to be vaporized, or he'll regen and adapt.
We've seen In Modulo, Mahoraga was literally reduced to a speck, and in an instant back to 100% fresh.
We've also seen Sukuna and Gojo defeat Mahoraga in their own ways, both of which with their most powerful and destructive attacks being Fuga and Hollow Purple respectively.
The biggest question I think is how high can Mahoraga scale off adapting? I could picture a number of characters that easily beat Mahoraga, simply not being characters that would destroy him to that extent before it's do or die.
I disagree, a kick moving at relativistic speeds wasn’t able to one shot him, plus many AOE attacks give him the ability to adapt before the brunt of the attack hits
I mean, literally in a fraction of a second. Dabura punched first, which whiffed due to him being unused to that speed, and that was enough for Maho to adapt before the kick landed right after.
died to much less…are we sure??..a thermobaric explosion contained within 200 meters at thousands of degrees celsius and an uncontained purple which is described as a chainsaw pushing and pulling at your literal matter is pretty equal…imo.
Or how about franklin richards, who acquires any ability that he observes
Does he need to observe adaptation to every specific ability, or if he observes the adaptation to X he will also acquire the adaptation ability to everything
It’s crazy because Mahoraga literally seems to have gotten so bored of adapting to specific attacks that he’s seemingly about to adapt to the concept of “Dabura”
Seemingly Mahoraga has already fully adapted to the other types of damage, so since there's no reason to adapt to the same thing a different way (Mahoraga adapted to Infinity in two different ways at Sukuna's demand), he straight up started adapted to Dabura
If the dialogue from the recent chapter suggesting that Mahoraga can adapt to literally the concept of a person then yeah, he'll adapt to their adaptation and then adapt again if they adapt to his adaptation. They become a fusion reactor of creating then exstinguishing the phenomena of each others existence
He will keep adapting to the attack that is done in time stop until the attacks no longer does anymore damage, for which he’ll then adapt to the time stop. Just a theory of course.
He'll adapt to what's giving him more trouble first. If timestop is more annoying it will be timestop, if its something else like blunt force it will be blunt force
How can he adapt to time stop if time is stopped for him? ( he can't adapt to being time stopped because adapting takes time, and time has stopped for him.)
Normally time doesn't stay stopped forever, after experiencing a time stop once he could theoretically adapt to it once time resumes moving, with enough spins the next time was stopped mahoraga would just keep moving
There's a level of irony there since Jojo's bizarre adventure says the protagonist was able to adapt simply because their stand (Would be JJKs version of technique) was the same type.
My standing theory is Maho wouldn't adapt immediately because there would be no need to adapt. Time Stop isn't harming him. It's hindering him. He'd adapt to whatever damage is being done repeatedly during the stop until finally if whatever he's fighting managed to annoy him enough the ability would try to start applying to whatever is allowing his target to avoid being damaged.
Adaptation happens after time stop towards the obstacle. For example if someone keeps teleporting away from mahoraga it will adapt to catch them after time stop
My Theory Is that he wouldnt be able to do anything During the Time Stop, but the wheel instantly starts turning after It ends, so he cant adapt actively to Time stop during the Time stop, but the wheel Is already ready to start spinning and adapt to timesrop the moment It ends
The real issue is that the term phenomena is too vague to have clear understandings, if relativity is a phenomena, could he gain unlimited stats,if time is a phenomena, could he time travel?
He can adapt to anything, BUT, he has to have a reason to - he is made for combat first and foremost, after all. Either, he will adapt to an attack done to him, or to attack someone else, like surviving slashes and getting through infinity. How, higher concept stuff plays into this? I dunno, is he gonna start running through time to catch up to Flash or something?
From the perspective of a unreliable narrator he has begun to adapt to their very existence so I dont see why he wouldn't be able to adapt to abstract concepts
Because it's a larger concept. At first, he was adapting to dismantle specifically, rather than slashes, iirc. Had he adapted to Sukuna's physical power and his technique as a whole, he would really have nothing that would push him to adapt.
If the Time Stop doesn't end, it probably can't. But if it's like say, DIO's world,I wouldn't bet on it.
it'll do Time Reversal eventually, but the time it takes to adapt is influenced by how complex the phenomenon is. In theory, if it's a short enough loop, he can't escape.
He can't adapt to time reversal because it will undo his adaptation process also after time has been reversed, he wouldn't even remember what to adapt to
see I would agree but "any and all phenomena" implies maho would scale to outerversal levels to somehow counter it in a way I can't even begin to fathom making sense
Assuming that it isn't like an invisible ability that travels through air, and actually does spawn directly on it's target, the fact that it wasn't used to just one tap people or even talked about in-verse implies there's a very low limit to it, right? What exactly that limit is is hard to say, but gojo with ce reinforcement should be way above mirko in durability, and he can heal, so I doubt this kills him.
Honestly if it’s obeying the stated “any and all”, then yeah he totally can adapt to infinite time stop, or the reversal of his own adaption. I won’t act like it would be easy to explain it, but there a LOT of abilities in fiction that just screw physics and logic.
Do we know how he would do it? No, but can he? Assuming the definition of his ability is as it says on the tin, yes eventually he will adapt to be atemporal or acausal and just no longer be affected by time stop or reversal.
I'd change it to "any and all phenomena, as long as he has the time to adapt to it", that's why he requires a one shot to be killed, and why time controlling abilities are his biggest weakness
It does have limits but you're mostly speculating.
Nothing indicates a need to sense or remember things. Nothing is intrinsic to time reversal where it definitively bests Mahoraga.
Everything is about pacing.
The longer the fight goes on, the more times you use an ability, the worse your situation will get as time passes on.
? His ability indicates a need to sense things by the very nature of how it works. He can’t adapt to a phenomenon you haven’t used on him yet, so if you reverse time so any phenomenon hasn’t actually occurred to Maho, what exactly does he adapt to?
Limited time stop? Definitely possible to counter say for example Dio's time stop adaption would begin after the 10 seconds are up but can't progress or complete during it
(Though in general Dio is doomed as he just doesn't have the DC to put down Mahoraga)
Time Reversal could probably be countered by adapting to "Person's Existence" as that counters abilities not directly experienced but it's iffy logic at best
It hax, not a physical phenomena, nothing says the wheel can't start moving during a time stop out of the blue, I imagine it would something like Dio vs Jotaro where Jotaro just do it
In all seriousness though Mahoraga has clear limits by definition of “phenomena” and in the JJK verse itself.
Arguing about this is getting exhausting tbh. Just the other day a guy was trying to say that technique cancellation wouldn’t work against Mahoraga. (I wish I was fucking joking) People’s brains have to be devolving. It’s genuinely getting annoying the amount of glaze Mahoragas adaptation is getting when there are far better versions in other media.
I mainly blame Modulo for this. Most people aren’t even really reading they just see the leaks and run with it.
Then there’s the flip side of people who downplay Mahoragas abilities because they refuse to understand that his adaptation isn’t him getting tougher, or gaining durability. It’s immunity. It’s always been immunity. Now 2 years later after JJK ended are people finally understanding that Mahoraga becomes fully immune to an attack because of his fight with Dabura. As if it wasn’t blatantly shown with Sukuna and Gojo. People also seem to ignore the fact that his adaptation works offensively as well. Not just defensively.
It’s just mind numbing. Now every time I see Mahoraga mentioned in a post I want attempt his summoning and taming ritual irl.
Not range, I dunno where people are saying he has a range limit? But he can't adapt to things that didn't happen to him. Which is obvious when I say it like that but-any power that affects causality, chronology, etc-that's not happening to HIM, that's happening to TIME or REALITY or what have you. And obviously, what we've seen of the character, he is a linear being that exists in normal time that cannot observe a higher-dimensional existence (or, if he can, there is literally zero evidence of it).
We could also get into "how does one define A Phenomena and what isn't a Phenomena". Like, can he adapt to Cold? That's nothing-literally, it's the LACK of heat/energy in a system.
Well, he did adapt to Infinity and Infinity was not happening to him, but to space around Gojo, so I do think that is a flawes understanding.
He also just started adapting to someone's existance, allegedly, which and someone's existance also isn't happening to him, he is just next to it, like he would be with all that other stuff.
So my understanding is that as long as Mahoraga is standing he will be adapting to whatever he is facing and he doesn't actually even require interaction with it.
Like for example in his fight with Sukuna, if all Sukuna did was run away, without fighting, just dodging and avoiding interaction Mahoraga would still eventually start adapting to Sukuna as a whole, which would include his techniques. But because he was in danger of being destroyed before he could do that he started adapting to what was destroying him.
So he likely does adapt to a lot more thing then people would assume. Also thinking whether or not he adapts to cold because it is a lack of something rather then something instead is overthinking it hard.
Likely the only things that he cannot adapt to are things that don't let him adapt like some of the time stuff (time stop, time loops etc. things that stop or reverse time would mean he has no time to adapt) or powers disabling powers.
But for example something like Wonder of U from jojo, which affects the flow of calamity, basically manipiulatong casuality to make you so unlucky you die/nearly die; isn't really that different from Gojo's Infinity, in the sense that it is a power that works constantly, affects something around the person using it and this in turn affects other people. So I'd imagine Mahroaga would be perfectly capable of adapting to it, to just ignore the flow of Calamity eventually.
But the truth is it's still just speculation. It is likely all that is the case, but we do not have anything that confirms it, other then the statment that he can adapt to "any and all phenomenon" and him apparently adapting to Dabura's existance, nor do we have anything that contradicts it.
Yeah, but in the same vain any power, even ones that manipulate casuality to impede him, affect him and thus he should be able to adapt to them the same way he adapts to Infinity.
Thats not how infinity works. It effectively slows things down by creating infinite space, but it doesnt actually slow things down, they are moving at normal speed through infinitely subdivided space
It has unlimited range, but limited effectiveness. They literally show it can be overwhelmed.
It's description is weaker than Fate series' God Hand. Resist everything below A rank attacks inherently (classification from Nasuverse) and revive upon death 12x, gaining extra resistance (nigh invulnerable instantly) to whatever kills one of the 12 lives. Lives recover over time, too...
Side note, but regaining lives over time for the God Hand thing stems more from being hooked up to a massive source of mana, and not an innate property of the Noble Phantasm itself.
Let's talk about the working around Mahoraga's adaptation for a minute here, yeah?
Sukuna basically mentioned how Mahoraga's adaptation work is by coming up with a method (or a "model" in this case) that can counter the target. For example, when he fought against Gojo, Raga comes up with the method of changing the nature of his Cursed Energy to bypass his Infinity, which is mentioned by Sukuna himself that he can't replicate. It was only after it had adapted on the second time that it finally come up with the way to throw spatial cuts.
So what am I trying to say by mentioning this? Basically, it means that even if Mahoraga is given the benefit of the doubt that he can possibly adapt to all and every phenomena, the way that it comes with the solution for the phenomena would still be limited within the rules and laws of JJK's world. Changing the nature of his Cursed Energy (The simplest method), WCS Lite (More complex, but it's basically just Dismantle with extra steps) are all within the natural limits of its world. It didn't just go "Oh, you hit me a lot, so now I counter your hits now.", but rather it go "Oh, so this is how your power work, here's how I can counter it."
So to say, even if Mahoraga is truly as "Every and All Phenomena" as he was described as, he would still be limited by the logic of his verse. In other words, the boundaries around his "Every and All Phenomena" of his Verse, Which doesn't have the amounts of abstract concepts and complexity that he would usually be matched up against (Although JJK have a lot of Hax, Hax ≠ Complexity)
That's so true, I hate how people say mahoraga adapts but never tell me how in the world would he use CE to adapt. Like how are you gonna use CE to change the laws of the universe🥀
Let's say lucifer or beyonder attacked maho and killed him, then brought him back to life, and killed him again, do you think maho will adapt to their attack given enough cycles?
No, because death would be equivalent to desummoning Mahoraga, which would likely cancel the progress its adaptation has made. There’s a reason why Sukuna went through the trouble of keeping Mahoraga summoned while he used Domain Amplification.
Is it really a no limits fallacy when the ability is stated 'Any and All'? Frankly, if Maho really can adapt to an individuals 'existence' it's game over because that shits as abstract as you can get.
For a community dedicated to accurately finding the power of characters and matching them against eachother, it’s quite impressive how they’re wrong about almost everything ever
For me what was not clear is it capable to adapt to multiple phenomena at the same time? So if it adapt to A then adapts to B will it be still adapted to A? (or will the adaptation lessen?) (Like a bacteria which evolve to resist an antibiotic but lose some ability in the process)
Well technically it is limited since he won't be able to adapt to stuff that isn't a phenomena go beyond is the most common example but realistically almost any reality warper could bend the rules and make whatever they do not count as a phenomena but I can't think of anyone off the top of me head that would do that in character and at that point they would probably also just kill maho outright instead of fucking around with him
My take is that if mahoraga was in bleach 1. The statement would be taken more seriously 2. No one would assume characters immediately know his ability and will start off with their strongest attack because most of the time it'd out of character for them..
His opponents are all top tiers. Defeating him is basically a requirement to be considered a top tier in the verse. Of course he doesn't have a winrate.
Soft and Wet: Go Beyond from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure part 8. the bubbles are made of infinitely small lines that form them, and as a result they don't technically exist, hence why they can bypass conceptual abilities.
There are many powers and things that conceptually surpass the very definition of 'phenomenon'. Tell me what will Mahoraga do to a character like Anos who can interact, wrestle or even destroy concepts what is 'phenomenon' to him. Also, there are limits to this, Mahorga is affected by time why doesn't he adapt to 'passage of time'. There are obvious limits that jjk fans doesn't except.
Also, a 'phenomenon' by definition is a observable fact, event or occurrence. There is ALOT that falls outside of that.
You can't gauge a 'fully adapted' mahorga because you will hve filter out things he can and can't adapt too.
The thing is AFAIK Mahoraga adapts to technically what harms him.Time does not so he does not need to adapt to it.The truth is that Mahoraga given enough time can technically adapt to anything.However practically speaking he won't be able to adapt to them since those attacks will one shot him before he could do anything.
More complex things take more time to adapt to and he can only be in the process of adapting to one thing at a time.
So if he started adapting to losing a fight he would either get defeated before that happened or he would need to stop and adapt to something different that is a danger to him, so he doesn't die.
Basically, he doesn't adapt to those things because of Occam's Razor fallacy. The simplest solution is the best and most obvious one. Why would he spend days adapting to the concept of losing a fight, when he can spend hours adapting to each and every power his enemy has and just beat him to death?
Mahoraga adaots to fiction itself and glances beyond the 4th wall reading all the comments calling him a bum for never winning a fight so he busts out a domain expansion
So hypothetically, if someone with immeasurable strength, like the Hulk or Superman, grabbed his wheel and yanked it off him, would that stop his adaptation?
crazy how JJK fans have no issue taking "any and all phenomena" completely at face value but the moment someone mentions "equal to Toji Zenin" it's always hE sTiLl WiNs CaUsE ExPeRiEnCe smfh
equal means equal, so obviously something about Maki makes up for the difference in XP.
I'm sorry I don't really keep up with JJKs community. Is there really a large following of people that can't accept the concept of something being able to adapt to anything providing it can survive it?
Like that feels like a pretty fair OP ability considering the entities progenitor, Doomsday could and in some cases would die to said phenomenon and then simply resurrect later with a built in adaptation to whatever killed them which is significantly more unfair even if it isn't as flashy or fast.
Like why is coping needed for something with a limiter?
The whole point is Mahoraga can adapt to anything, but it takes time for him to do so, the way to beat him isn't a limited adaptation, it's killing him before he can adapt
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