Talk:Suiryu/@comment-4753851-20170423053852/@comment-79.51.200.105-20170423114246

Not sure if what Gouketsu did against Bakuzan counts as "tanking", I'm pretty sure he never took a direct blow and parried/deflected all of them.

We can assume that if Gouketsu was bothered to parry/deflect those blows, then he might have taken some (even minor) damage from them if they had fully connected. Against Suiryu he took blows to the face like nothing. Even this could be an indicator of a power gap between Suiryu and Monster Bakuzan.

Suiryu, in his current state (this means even a fresh Suiryu pre-Choze fight), does not seem capable of handling a dragon. It was pretty close with Choze, and compare the comments that Gouketsu did when gauging both of them:

Choze -> "Heh, this guy's turned out pretty good I'd say"

Bakuzan -> "This guy is a huge success, I'd say his monster level is dragon, like me"

Unless the translation was poor or Gouketsu is just full of shit and can't gauge people's strength at all (which I find unlikely), there appears to be a great gap between monster Choze and monster Bakuzan. The kind of gap you'd expect between a Demon and a Dragon.