u/CoolReaper101 — reddlx

Or continental. Or even country. He is large island. First of all, I would prove that with some rough calcs for the cloud bursting feat which we are all familiar with.

*Note: I will be using VSBW metrics for the most part except when they don't match up*

An average cumulonimbus cloud weighs around 1 million tonnes, and requires around 50 MT of TNT to burst it on the higher end. That is an equivalent level of energy as the Tsar Bomb, which has an obliteration radius of around 35 km, which means an area of 3850 km². That is around the size of 5 NYCs, so it should be around small mountain level.

*Note: I searched and VSBW claims that 100 MT is classified as City Level. The claim didn't really line up from my calc using Tsar Bomba as a metric, so it doesn't really make sense. It is likely that I am wrong and didn't account for something important, but I chose to go with my calcs since it would only benefit the wankers.*

Now, there is some overlap between large city and small mountain, so I am taking the height of the hypothetical mountain the average cloud bursting feat scales to as 800 m (way more than the baseline 300 m requirement for a mountain).

Now, assuming that the cloud Deku pierced was 20x the size of the larger cumulonimbuses(since it was confirmed to be way larger than a normal cumulonimbus), it should correspond to 50×20= 1000 MT of TNT. This puts the feat at Small Island (Interestingly, both my calcs and VSBW agree that 1000 MT is Small Island).

Now, Deku was significantly weaker during the cloud bursting punch, so accounting for a decrease in power due to loss of OFA and AFO absorbing some of the impact, he should scale to Medium Island (around 20 GT) Using Fa Jin and Gearshift, he can achieve top of Island Level AP (around 80-90 GT) for a single attack (but that shouldn't be used as a reliable metric for scaling Deku since he can't maintain them for a long time, and should only be used as a wincon).

Most of you would probably quote this bs VSBW calc as proof.

https://share.google/Ezc3ijDMC7wLh2bpl

There are a lot of problems with this however.

First of all, affecting the weather is not necessarily multi continental. Most of y'all would have known if you paid attention in class.

It was expected that the massive cloud formed over Japan would travel over the Pacific and bring heavy rainfall to the USA. That is usually how you get storms and stuff, they are usually carried from another place by the winds. Since Deku bursted the cloud before it could reach the USA, the stormy weather was averted.

Second, the "winds" were used in a metaphorical context, not as actual winds. We see the announcer remarking, "Tune in to see the effects those winds would have". Why would the people need to know about the effects of some moderately strong winds from a news station? Knowing what happens when strong winds blow is just common sense and not particularly news worthy. This implies that by 'winds' the announcer referred to the effects of the battle which would have far reaching impact on society.

But let's just assume that the winds were literal.

The distance from Mt Fuji to California is 9000 km.

There are 168 hours in one week.

That would mean the winds blew at an average speed of 53 km/h. Winds of that speed don't have anywhere near the level of energy required to traverse the entire Pacific. Even a gust of wind strong enough to do that would cause tsunamis, which the announcer definitely would have reported. Also, it is impossible for a singular gust of wind to keep blowing for an entire week.

There might be some faults or drawbacks with my calcs, so I might be wrong. But no matter how you spin it, Deku is nowhere near continental. Simple geography contradicts that claim.