Talk:Marshall Gorilla/@comment-27131953-20161204042837/@comment-66.8.162.254-20190228082145

Super late to the party, but the real in-universe reason is probably that there's no Dragonball-style power lever scouter. Multiple times in the series we see threats levels being changed on the fly - the levels are based on what they've actually been seen/confirmed doing, not what they have the potential to do or have done without witness. Hero levels are (for the most part) much the same way, in that respect.