Kenshin wasnt that strong

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his "godlike" speed only showed when he fought against fodders. Gues what? ANYONE could deal with fodders, even weaker characters like fucking Misao ffs.

Hits hiten mitsurugi style meant absolutely nothing when fighting against stronger enemies who could follow his movements. Examples:

-Jin E blocked his batotjustsu

-Aoshi almost killed him in their first fight

-Saito almost killed him

-Misao is a weak ass girl and could, albeit barely, follow him when running

-Couldnt do shit against Sojiro
 
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rurouni kenshin differs a bit from the classical shonen because it doesnt feature a teen upstart training to topple the top dogs, it features a guy in his 30s that is already a top dog one-shotting fodders and battling other top dogs

also it has been implied that kenshin was mentally nerfed due to holding back his will to kill (symbolized in the battousai persona) and after managing to fully get the inner peace that he craved - due to realizing his true nature, that his will to kill was the will to live - he stops being mentally nerfed.

thats why before the kyoto arc he had 'godlike speed' against fodders but top dogs were able to be even faster than him.

was able to beat the first guy in the series that gave him a true L - soujiro - after fighting aoshi, then proceeded to defeat shishio basically the best swordsman in japan bar hiko seijuro, kenshin's master

TLDR: kenshin took on a gauntlet of three of the best swordsman of japan beating them all one after another, he is pretty much the second strongest character in the series.
 
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his "godlike" speed only showed when he fought against fodders. Gues what? ANYONE could deal with fodders, even weaker characters like fucking Misao ffs.

Hits hiten mitsurugi style meant absolutely nothing when fighting against stronger enemies who could follow his movements. Examples:

-Jin E blocked his batotjustsu

-Aoshi almost killed him in their first fight

-Saito almost killed him

-Misao is a weak ass girl and could, albeit barely, follow him when running

-Couldnt do shit against Sojiro

i- kenshin still kicked his ass into ropemaxxing

ii- kenshin still won in the end, and in the rematch after aoshi improved kenshin showed that he had improved much more and beat him in an even more decisive fashion

iii- barehanded saito against battousai with a scabbard? was 100% gonna get killed if that official hasnt intervened

iv- kenshin wanted to seggs her thats why he let prime ninja JB follow him for a while

v- yeah he got mogged the 1st fight but after training he kicked that twink boi's ass after fighting aoshi one of the best swordsmen
 
i- kenshin still kicked his ass into ropemaxxing

yes but he still blocked the initial hit which is supposed to be muh godlike

ii- kenshin still won in the end, and in the rematch after aoshi improved kenshin showed that he had improved much more and beat him in an even more decisive fashion
Aoshi almost cut kesnhin's neck in the rematch. kenshin barely won. muh hiten mitsurugi style.

iii- barehanded saito against battousai with a scabbard? was 100% gonna get killed if that official hasnt intervened

saito could literally just catch the sheath lol

v- kenshin wanted to seggs her thats why he let prime ninja JB follow him for a while
he literally admitted he was suprised she was able to keep up....

- yeah he got mogged the 1st fight but after training he kicked that twink boi's ass after fighting aoshi one of the best swordsmen

if sojiro wasnt internally conflicted kenshin would be dead
 
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rurouni kenshin differs a bit from the classical shonen because it doesnt feature a teen upstart training to topple the top dogs, it features a guy in his 30s that is already a top dog one-shotting fodders and battling other top dogs
fodders that even sano can one shot anyway

also it has been implied that kenshin was mentally nerfed due to holding back his will to kill (symbolized in the battousai persona) and after managing to fully get the inner peace that he craved - due to realizing his true nature, that his will to kill was the will to live - he stops being mentally nerfed.
and yet aoshi still almost killed him in the second fight. shishio incapacitated him and it took 3 people buying time for kesnhin to fight

was able to beat the first guy in the series that gave him a true L - soujiro - after fighting aoshi, then proceeded to defeat shishio basically the best swordsman in japan bar hiko seijuro, kenshin's master
he never even deafeated shsishio lol. shishio beat him fair and square till the thers bought time
 

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