After passing the natural cap the strength grow and "difference" gets sluggish then, I assume?
Like, past 20,000 to non-JDF and 24,000 for JDF. Or it still being exponential as before?
Because if someone with ~19,000 can beat without difficulty someone with 15,000-17,000 shouldn't the Dragon Princes with greater numbers of Shard Domes be the absolute powerhouses of the World?
Someone with 22,000 should beat without difficulty too one with ~18,000-19,000, no?
Or after passing the natural cap someone(Or dragon prince specifically, I don't know if anyone that isn't a Dragon Prince can have and/or successfully use a Shard Dome) start to be naturally debuffed? Like; 16,000 Vs 20,000 is a absolute massacre, but a 20,000 powerhouse vs a Dragon Prince with 24,000 is manageable(Genuine question)?
Each ap is harder to gain regardless remember 0-5000 is easier than 5000-7000
0-10k is easier than 10k-12k and so on so 0-20k will be easier than 20-24k for sure it's just each ap being harder and harder always.
Eldra's example shouldn't be followed because she is S class and even among them an exception her 19k is better than other 19k as we know that 10 percent extra output matter a lot she might as well be like 20900 ap in practice this is not counting how she knows strength and weakness of each styles and elements or how she has so many abilities so that's just her being exceptional among the exceptions.
Also most DP are brute forcing only meaning they are S class on pure ap Orochi and like 2 others should be anything past 22k others even with 2 domes or one would be slightly above 20k at best only as you already know it gets super slow Orochi isn't getting anywhere near that 26k cap for a long long(2-3k years)
DG and most humans are S level without hitting 20k.
For example someone like Eldra would be way beyond these people at her peak because she will be 23900 so over 26000 ap in practice because of her efficiency and then having all the experience and skills in her arsenal.
JDF mc who has Eldra as master should be Able to match most feats except the experience one so he would also be above most of the World.
But yeah a regular 18k is cooked vs a 22000k but rasen has exceptional people at top without counting Eldra so those 19k people we have in Rasen will likely lose but do enough damage to a 22k and rasen a good amount of them so they can deadass just jump with 2 people like that
So yeah all the S class can beat a 20k ap person they all hit above that for Rasen as I said most aren't even at 20k ap
But for DPs they break the barrier of S through just raw ap as they are over 20k ap so obviously they are S class.Orochi ap wise might be second or third amongst them but should win against someone who might be above him because he has something special which I cannot share here( not talking about the 8 heads)
Ryujugo should have like 5-6 S class
Rasen has Eldra who would be above them(DPs who are full powered )by a big Margin in some time can already contend with them and then other S who can compete aswell from Archonate
Then exalts who aren't far off and some could be S and then we also have another JDF among the exalts too so even though he doesn't have stuff like Eldra and wouldn't be taught by her he will be S class sooner or later just because of brute force as the JDF have 24k cap and also JDF reach their cap faster as they grow in ap faster than anyone Dragon or not.This is worst case scenario but being a human and Exalt he likely has develop Enough Stuff to be S class before he hits 20k as most of the exceptional humans do.
Rasen just has a lot of people who are heavy hitters like imagine each exalt comp has like 10-15 people between 15k-19k ap lol this is for each inner kingdom.
Someone like DG who is S class can fight off those strongest Dragon Princes and he might lose but with some support he would win S are all crazy human side is just efficient lol.
And most DP have one domes so even if they max it out outside of that they aren't anything that a S class cannot fight now a S class of Rasen might lose or win but yeah they aren't anything which they cannot contend with.