Power levels for versus scenarios

[creature386]

We have numerous threads that begin with "Create your":
theworldofanimals.proboards.com/thread/2251/create-own-superheroes
theworldofanimals.proboards.com/thread/1922/create-own-villains
theworldofanimals.proboards.com/thread/2326/create-fictional-animal
theworldofanimals.proboards.com/thread/1605/create-own-creature
(OK, the latter one is completely empty, I just had to pretend it was important)
Perhaps I'm alone with this view, but I get quite invested in them and it'd be a waste if we couldn't put the profiles to good use in this section. In fact, we have a whole thread for superheroes and a superhero's raison d'être is to get in fights, isn't it?
However, matchups based on our own creations have the unique limitation that no external information from outside this forum can be cited, so the profiles must contain all necessary information to decide a winner.

You might have noticed that all my profiles so far had had a "combat capacity" section, until I recently ditched it in the profile for "They".

The reason (besides my inherent obsession with classifying things) was to make finding a matchup partner easier.

Here's the original scale:

Combat capacity tiers:
0. Low human: Kids, small animals and really sick people fall here, so do characters who would die if left alone.
1. Mid human: Average human
2. High human: Characters which are comparable to the "strong male" occasionally used in the Interspecific Conflict section.
3. Low superhuman: Characters which are only slightly above peak human potential (running at speeds of 70 km/h, lifting about a ton) or superheroes with only very limited or situational powers or superheroes with powers that have many downsides. If an armed human could defeat the character, it is probably not higher than here.
4. Mid superhuman: Characters who are clearly superhuman without being nigh-invincible. About as strong as Spiderman.
5. High superhuman: A character who is either a living weapon of mass destruction (like a nuke) or has access to some other ability which is a complete game-breaker and makes them nearly invincible to lower tiers.
6. Very high superhuman: Comparable to Superman. Being able to affect whole planets of even solar systems.
7. Low cosmic: Being able to affect large regions of space, ranging from a solar system to a galactic cluster.
8. Mid cosmic: Being able to affect a whole universe.
9: High Cosmic: Being able to affect multiple universe/a multiverse.
10: Divine: Omnipotence. You can’t get higher than that.

The problem is of course that a lot of categories (essentially, all from category three onwards) can be rather broad and indiscriminate. A character might for example be as fast as the Flash, but as durable as a turkey, where does that one fall under?

In my profile for "They" (link), I decided to use the classification utilizes on the vsbattles.wikia (look at any random page on that wiki to see how it works) which ranks characters by their speed, stamina, intelligence, lifting strength, range, striking strength, destructive capacity, and durability (in addition to a list of abilities, of course). The latter three are all measured in kinetic energy output. My main problem with it is that it seems tailor-made for comic or cartoon character. Characters from more realistic media (who tend to be not THAT superhuman) are almost all lumped together under the 9B (Wall level) category. Moreover, calculating the kinetic energy output of a cartoon character seems inherently absurd.

What do you guys think? Should we use power levels for our profiles and if yes, how should they look like?

[dinosauria101]

I think power levels are a reasonable idea; can be very helpful in determining an opponent for one character.

For the appearance, I was thinking something similar to our animal profiles. Maybe DonaldCengXiongAzuma can weigh in on it too

[creature386]

What do you mean with appearance? That our fictional animals should have a taxonomy and phylogeny section, too?
I don't think that makes much sense, since it's clear that a lot of our animals are not the product of natural evolution.

[dinosauria101]

Oh, I meant by type (people, animals, monsters, etc all different sections)

[creature386]

We have threads for the profiles though. The reason animals get their own profiles is so that others can supplement data. Obviously, that's not possible in question when only you have the data on the profile you're creating.

[dinosauria101]

Oh, maybe I'm not thinking this all the way through.

I'll let others weigh in because now I'm a bit stumped

[creature386]

Well, my main question was how a power ranking could look like. Maybe it helps to look at the two options I proposed.

[dinosauria101]

I think what you proposed is a fairly good look for a power ranking overall. HOWEVER, for the characters that are unclear, we can find the 'mean' of their abilities (like with your example: is the character fast enough to stay out of harm's way, or will low durability be their downfall more often than not?)

[creature386]

Do you think you can map your creations on this scale? Most sound like Low Superhuman to me, being big animals and all.

[dinosauria101]

I agree that Dunkleosteus terrestrials is Low Superhuman; it's only got realistic animal abilities
However, I think I'd classify Spino and Mapu a bit higher, in Mid Superhuman - weight/form shifting, as well as only killable when an animal wants to kill itself from all the effort, are probably a bit too high for the Low Superhuman

I was also going to make a Triceratops soon. The power level estimate for it will be posted once it's made

[creature386]

I have plenty of characters in the Mid Superhuman region, but none of them are complete enough that I'd like to use them in a matchup.

Anyway, thanks for weighing in.

[DonaldCengXiongAzuma]

I will put my characters on a list later on.