
Originally Posted by
citizenlion
Actually, we have never seen Kensei got anywhere nearly serious in any of his fights. All of his fights with master class fighters, including a Fist (in a group of rival fighters to the Ryozanpaku masters), ends with one hit when he finally gets serious. Kensei's general battle strategy is dodge and negotiate first.
Kensei's speed actually significantly exceeds that of Akisame's, and second only to the Elder . That Rock Paper Scissor scene basically played out like this. Kensei is 1 beat faster than Akisame, being able to change hand 39 times a second to Akisame's 38. But Akisame manages to predict Kensei's strategy, and so, Kensei went all out and beat Akisame by 2 beats so that he could win for sure despite being predicted... Ok, he was motivated by the possibility of fighting a beautiful woman, and we all know that the power of ero is the greatest of them all, but still.
Having read both HDSK and Baki (original and son of orge), I would say Yujiro would tie or win with Sasaki, Apachai, and Shigure. They are the younger members of Ryo, and are the only masters in Ryo so far who had been pushed into a situation resembling life and death by any opponent. Yujiro would lose to both Ma Kensei and Akisame, though he would manage to seriously wound either of them before being utterly incapacitated. Yujiro would give the elder or Silcardo Jenazad a good fight and force these two to be serious, but he has a very small chance of ever winning, except by playing the former two's collossal arrogance to create openings.
Both Ma and Akisame, or any of Ryo for that matter, will not fight to kill, and even when going up against armies with automatic weapons, tanks, and combat helis, they have maintained a perfect zero casualty record... (Most if not all of Ryo had killed a person or many in their lives by accident when their skills weren't quite high enough to treat regular masters like fodders, but they all have reached this subliminal state at the point of the manga)
And as for Kensei's "power", well, in terms of just raw strength, not taking into account the fact that he's an expert at power transfer due to his small size, he would not be as strong as Yujiro, but still in the same comparable league. Feats includes gouging a large furrow into a stone block with his palm from a limited-leverage position, picking Apachai (a 9 foot tall wall of muscle) by the top of his head with one hand and then pulled him instantly (fast enough to evade someone turning his head around) into the attic of a house... And this is when he is not fighting anyone...
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