Stop Spreading Lies

Saitama. A character that has gained one of the biggest fanbases in a short time. His power is such a mystery that some believe him to be undefeatable. In this article, I will break down his feats and find the extent of his true power.

A Few Important Points Before We Start

This article is anime exclusive.

I will like to list a few things before starting. Saitama is not a gag character(meaning that he can’t beat every character ever to exist) because the writer has never said it, and it hasn’t been shown in the anime or manga. Moreover, Even if we assume he is, that only proves that he can beat every character from his own universe and not every character from any universe.

Secondly, some people claim that the writer of OPM(One) has said that the limit of Saitama’s power is that he can destroy half a universe with one full-powered punch. This isn't true. One has never said anything like that, and it is only a rumor.

Third, Some people say Saitama has infinite power. That is not true as in the manga and the anime; it was said that Saitama has infinite potential, not infinite power, meaning he can grow infinitely strong as long as he trains. for example, if Saitama trains for, say a 1000 years non stop maybe he will be able to destroy a multiverse and if trains for even longer he will get stronger as he has no limit. This doesn’t mean that he has infinite power. Moreover, several characters have also broken their limiter, for example, Goku, Superman, Deku, Vegeta, etc.

Forth, Some people say that Saitama just can’t be beaten because it’s his narrative always to win. This is the most stupid thing one can say. Psychology and narrative are not used during power scaling. By this logic majority of heroes can’t lose. For example, Goku’s narrative is to always overcome his opponent; we saw it happening with king piccolo, Frieza, jiren, and many other opponents. But he still loses to, let’s say, Zeno or any of the angles. Same with superman, L, All Might, etc. So narrative doesn’t mean anything when comparing characters from different or even the same universe.

Fifth and last, I am going to assume a lot of things during this explanation. So the outcome will be very rough, although it still will be the most likely one. I will high ball all of the characters so that the Saitama tards can not use any excuse.

Power

Saitama is an interesting character because he has never revealed his full power, so it isn’t easy to estimate his power. So I will assume two different percentages as to how much of his power he is hiding. One will be the most likely one, and the other will be the least likely and the craziest one(for the Saitama tards. be aware I believe that the second one is just not true. just giving variety). The first one is that he is hiding 90% of his power, meaning he has only used 1/10th of his power. I estimated this because it’s pretty evident that he is hiding at least this much of his power.

The second percentage is that he is hiding 99.9999999999% of his power, meaning he has only used 1/trillionth of his power. This is probably the max amount of power he can be hiding because, in his fight against Boros, he said that he would use his full power, which is apparent that he didn’t, but I don’t think he would have said it if he didn’t at least use 1/trillionth of his power. Moreover, this is the most extreme number that can come to one’s mind.

Now let us scale the significance of the power he has used. The highest amount of power he has used was when he was fighting Boros. Elder centipede was not the most significant threat because he was said to be able to be destroyed by several heroes, and Saitama killed him in a single punch. You could say otherwise, but it will not change the scaling.

Boros stated that he went around killing all the people on all the planets that he found in hopes of finding a real challenge. That is the only explanation we have of Boros’s power. He didn’t say that he could destroy planets, but let’s assume that he could. That would make him planetary.

Using the first percentage, we get that Saitama is ten times stronger than a guy who could destroy planets. That makes him a low-level solar system character, meaning he can destroy solar systems with a small star. Using the second percentage, we get that Saitama is trillions of times stronger than a guy who could destroy a planet. A galaxy contains around 100 billion planets, not to mention all the stars, black holes, nebula, etc. So that makes him a high galaxy-level character meaning he can destroy a big Galaxy without a problem. That is the true extent of Saitama’s power.

Speed

Saitama’s speed is even a bigger mystery than his power. The fastest he’s ever moved was when he jumped from moon to earth in 19.15 seconds that’s 0.066969268270646087338 times the speed of light. We can assume that his speed is directly proportional to his power, although it is the most stupid thing to do. So the least possible speed of Saitama is 0.066969268270646087338, and the highest possible speed of Saitama is 66,969,268,271 times the speed of light for the people that disagree. However, it will still take Saitama 13,438,800 years to cross Milky Way even with that speed, and a lot of characters can move trillions of times faster than that speed.

Conclusion

Saitama is not an Omnipotent God who can’t be defeated. Saitama is somewhere between a lower solar level fighter and a higher galaxy level fighter who moves slower than light. I am sorry if this disappoints some of the Saitama fanboys out there, but this is the truth. If you disagree, let me know in the comments, share with your friends. Thanks for reading, and I will see you in the next article.