For pre HTA unmarked standards, the Upper 6 tier is portrayed as a threat even for a hashira. Are you guys trying to sell me that every single hashira without mark except the "bad luck weak one" Tengen is soloing one-tapping Gyutaro + Daki alone? C'mon, suddenly EDA loses the high stakes because you could've sent any other hashira to pull the win? Do you realize how INSANE is to kill an UM by that time? No training, no marks, having to make sure you don't do friendly fire with the three kids or those two civilizans alongside you...

Having the top 1 of all winning and even blocking a poisonous strike makes sense because even Gotouge highballs the Big Stone Guy, but THE WHOLE 8 HASHIRAS ONE-TAPPING AND LEAVING 100% HP WHILE THE ONE THERE SUFFERS? BRUH, EDA is now a walk in the park for everyone, disguised as a death mission now.

Battling Gyutaro and Daki is not just melee, it's:

\- The melee.

\- Blood blades everywhere homing at you.

\- Obi sashes everywhere.

\- Coordinated attacks of both siblings thanks to bird eye view.

\- Debris falling and blocking your vision and disrupting footwork because they use the battlefield against you.

IT'S A DIVIDED ATTENTION BATTLE. And Tengen, despite his great physique, AOE, and breathing style based on LEG POWER (Sound came from Thunder), struggled with the multi-tasking and he thankfully had the poison resistance required to last longer than the average hashira.

"Oh but Obanai trashed Tengen-"

# ENOUGH!

Kagaya was literally glazing Tengen, and Obanai never fought an UM by that point. I'd rather side with the absolute master of the Corps who has foresight and is son of a former Ubuyashiki master than to take snake guy's words as absolute.

And don't you dare do pull Kyojuro, Muichiro, Mitsuri, or Shinobu cuz Akaza and Gyokko were toying and Zohakuten is countered by Love Breathing and doesn't need to worry about beheading at all, he can simply stay still and shoot a sonic shriek because beheading does nothing. Not to mention how Shinobu (never went through HTA) lost to a toying Doma naturally carefree and off-guard (and it's not even clear if poison works on an UM).

Look, I don't believe in this "Tengen top 2 base" thing, not at all, but the circumstances of EDA make it insanely hard to win solo. The amount of unrealistic Tengen/Gyutaro diss is making me considering joining the Tengen agenda. CONGRATULATIONS YA'LL.

No pre-HTA hashira not named Gyomei is soloing the siblings and leaving unharmed