The Power Scaling Iceberg Explained

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Published 2023-08-24
Have you ever wanted Power scaling explained to you? Maybe you just need the power scaling tiers explained, or want some insight into some of the more confusing topics like dimensions, all power levels, or canon. In this power scaling iceberg, I’m going to do my best to explain all that to you. At the end, you’ll have tiers, attack potency, suppression, and the power scaling levels explained, as well as much more!

Quick, who would win? Spider-Man, or Link? How about Captain America vs Batman? Or Gojo vs Giorno? Power Scaling is a controversial and complex form of media analysis, but it’s also one of my favorites. For some people, their only exposure to the hobby is dorks on twitter commenting “Don’t care, Goku Stomps” under any post about another character, but there’s actually multiple large communities full of fun and thought-provoking conversation, and that’s the side of it that I want to share with you today. This Iceberg will cover everything you’ll need to know about the mechanics and concepts behind power scaling, as well as some of the more common debates, memes, and even some controversies, getting more and more niche the deeper we descend. This is the Power Scaling Iceberg explained.

0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Tier 1
6:57 - Tier 2
15:30 - Tier 3
28:14 - Tier 4
40:07 - Tier 5
50:16 - Interlude
50:59 - Tier 6
1:05:31 - Tier 7
1:15:00 - Tier 8
1:21:18 - Tier 9
1:26:54 - Tier 10
1:31:19 - Outro

All Comments (21)
  • @anamap
    Man, powerscaling fans are gonna be so confused when they discover rock-paper-scissors
  • @Kusari_Yarou
    Gold Experience Requiem isn't actually vague in it's explanation, it states very clearly it nullifies your opponents will and actions before they happen if they were to harm Giorno or GER in any way. That's why most of the time the argument that Giorno is untouchable is actually true. The only things that could help are other types of causality and timeline manipulation abilities. Also the infinite deaths is just a quirk the stand has, it's explained but it's not that related to the main ability.
  • @troykv96
    I think at least the existence of stomps in Death Battle is in large part because Death Battle puts quite a lot of importance to theming when selecting their match ups, I think that is why they can get away with making stomps. They're stomps, but it's fun seeing so similar characters clash in amusing ways simply because of the difference of their respective's verses power levels; I think the truly ridiculous stomps (something like Raiden vs Thor, that even the Death Battle people find it a bit pointless) stopped being a thing a while ago. ~~Also Homelander is a bully and the weakest "evil Superman" ever, it's kinda of the perfect candidate to be stomped~~
  • @Nexii801
    "People just use words without knowing what they mean" Literally every "powerscaler" who says "X scales to Y" when they mean "X's Z-stat is roughly equal to Y's Z-stat"
  • @franklinok3225
    Was the Xeno Goku section and the reality equalization section copyrighted or something? Good video tho I enjoyed listening to terms and concepts I’ve come to be familiar with over the years
  • @CripperSnipper
    Thank you from the bottom of my heart for correcting how most people use the term "solos", it has bothered me as well.
  • @ScpEnigma
    I'm honestly surpised how this doesn't have more views, it covers pretty much everything about this topic, well done!
  • @kirainfo
    Thank god someone preach the way on how to use "solo" correctly.
  • @Wyrmknave
    To put the disagreement with Stan Lee in another way, it's a conflict of Doylist and Watsonian perspective. Stan Lee sees a fight between Spider-Man and The Hulk the way Doyle saw Sherlock Holmes - there is limitless possibility for what can happen in a Sherlock Holmes story, and the trick is whittling away that possibility to make a good one. It wouldn't be a realistic story choice for Sherlock to reveal he has teleportation powers, but from Doyle could have done it if the idea had occurred to him. Power Scalers are deliberately choosing to instead see Spidey V Hulk the way Watson saw Sherlock Holmes. If Watson wanted to guess at the outcome of Sherlock's next case, the best he could do would be to use his knowledge of what Holmes has accomplished so far and try to reasonably extrapolate from there. Which leads me to the far more important question at hand, which is who would win in a fight between Arthur Conan Doyle and John Watson (original canon version)?
  • @Bee-Bee5136
    Honestly this is one of the best Iceberg videos I've ever seen. Mostly because it's on a topic I'm passionate about but also because you avoided tropes I've criticized other Iceberg videos for. You're very well informed on Power Scaling and the VS Debating community. I'm definitely subscribing and checking out your podcast.
  • @mayborneflower
    1:13:25 - I personally contest the Dreamy Bowser thing because of the context surrounding him. Immediately prior to becoming Dreamy, Bowser tried to straight use the Dream Stone to erase Mario and Luigi from existence with a wish, which was nullified by Peach and Starlow shutting the Dream Stone down and shattering it. So then Bowser ate most to all of the fragments to attain godhood. He did indeed get a tangible boost from eating the broken Dream Stone and demonstrated some feats of creation during his boss fight, but his constructs were barely any better than his usual Koopa Troop goons (being literally just those but in gradient rainbow) and Bowser by all accounts should’ve been trying to delete the Bros. like he was already going to in the first place. But he didn’t, which tells me he physically couldn’t. So he opted for brute force, and lost.
  • @rattis
    This is a great video but... could it beat Goku, Saitama or Superman? I think not. All things considered, as long as those three characters exist, this video will always be at most the fourth best thing in existance.
  • @ygkoz
    I just sat here and watched this entire video, and I must say I loved it . I love the fact you went all in and didn’t do parts . When I comes to Iceberg videos I like to grab dinner or lunch out it on the screen and just watch . Not only that the video was so well made and informative and I love how you tackled certain issues with power scailers, fallacies and all other issues . I agree with everything you said and explained and you just got a new sub , great video
  • @taso8774
    Very entertaining video! I'm kinda surprised to not see Digimon referenced anywhere, I feel like that series is constantly brought up in power scaling communities.
  • @user-yn7oh3rv3g
    honestly one of my favorite videos i have ever seen it was very informative and made everything very easy to understand
  • @JogVodka
    as a wrestling fan i didnt know "jobbing" was used differently in the power scaling community
  • @adonaiharris5057
    This is one of the best Iceberg videos I've seen. Thorough and easy to understand brekdown.
  • Last entry just shocked me, because i remembered Shaggy from Scooby Doo. This character never been strong, yeah, sure, he beat couple of punks once and can outsmart monsters by accident, but nothing even remotely extra powerful. But internet turned him into reality bender with infinite amount of power (and even that number not even 1%). What if Shaggy affected our universe and so he can be infinitely strong inside multiverse of all fiction? Just food for thought
  • @JTC161
    This video is amazing, should have 10-20x the amount of views. Keep it up the good work tho. Watched all the way thru