Yay, it's Thought Day. Revel in the SAN Loss of my thoughts. (Part 1)

Here, I'll give you an example.

Luffy. Most of anime fans know who he is and what he stands for, but I go farther. He might clearly be as powerful as some of the Sayjins from Dragonball Z. Don't believe me?

I have actually built a system made to measure the power level of any videogame or anime characters based on only on their techinques, but also their overall effectiveness as a character in any situation based on a ranking from 1-15. I call this my Tier System.

To start off, I'll make a simple example; a normal punch is not by a baseline, average human is not on the Tier scale. This rating system focuses on skills and abilities...as well as development beyond the norm and well defined. Specialists are within this kind of scale, such as a trained swordwielder has a least a Tier Level of 1, as does a well-trained boxer.

Secondly, Tier and Tier Level are two different things in this system:
Tier: The level of power and effectiveness a techinque or skill has when used by someone.
Tier Level: The actual character's overall power and effectiveness. This directly effects the Tier of certain techinques, as such when this level raises, so does the strength of their powers.

Tier Ranks in a nutshell:

1: Basic specialization or minor supernatural ability or skill. Perfect humans of comic fame are examples, but can go beyond this point with beyond-the-norm tactical, martial, deductive, or intellectual use and precise control. Examples: Early Robin
2-3: A basic, but relatively effective attack or defensive techinque reaches these points as a ironclad rule. They are suited to minor effects and abilities of lower-grade mutants or "heroes" still learning to fine-tune their powers, and supporting shonen characters with developing abilities which have potential. Examples: Nami when she first received the Clima Tact, Basic spells cast in FF games of early-level Mage-Types (Poor guy...he isn't there yet.), Church Knights from the Elenium, before Bhelliom and magic only.
4: A pinnacle of power and level Tiers in general. In combative use, it resembles the power needed or has the same efficiency of knocking normal people out in one blow, as well as destroying a well-built mortar wall of a two-story house with a blow WITHOUT exhausting yourself, or defensively to negate a Tier 3 or lower strike or techinque will ease. Outside of combat, it shows the extreme ability of getting from A-to-B with at least half the efficiency needed than normal considering technology and circumstances, or to diffuse a situation in half the time normally needed (situations vary). For healing, to be able to restore a limb's functions and health of an average human being without exhausting yourself. Examples: Usopp after Arabasta, but not before Water 7, Mega Man's charged shot from a Mega Buster, The overall effectiveness of Agatha's Dingbot Prime without a full contingent of Dingbots, or from the same series, a normal Jager's strength and resillence.

(More to come....)