Originally posted by SupremeDragoon
Actually it is not really useless at all. Unleess the person is omnipotent Each character has a superior character above them. Do you get what im saying? Its like this, putting Sakura Haruno against Asura in a fight. Who would win? Asura because he is stronger, faster, possess a higher amount of reaction speed, more durable, probably more intelligent,lol, and has more power than her. Therefore we can rate them. Whitebeard vs Luffy. Akainu vs Rock Lee. We sure can put them into tiers without any arguments. due to what we know. And besides it is human nature to debate.
You misunderstand me. A list without definitions, reasoning, and sources is useless because it doesn't really prove anything.
You can't just rate a character above another without providing a proper explanation of why and then expect people to reference the list.
A great example is Bleach characters. They operate separately from energy and power according to Narita, whom further went on to explain that energy is a space-time concept, whereas reiatsu is its super-concept. Like the relation between area and volume. Accepting this would mean that Bleach should be rated higher than it is in versus communities. So you'll have to specifically eliminate concepts like this to avoid ambiguity and make the list reliable.