User blog:Njalm2/Threat Levels

Some time ago, I made a "threat level" system for determining the scope of a characters abilities. This is to say, what their "threat level" would be in terms of what they can accomplish and how this would affect the world around them in turn. I assume many of you are thinking that this is another way to determine your characters "power" in combat, yes? Well, it isn't, scope doesn't necessarily mean power or who is more likely to win in a fight, there's a lot of conditions which are simply impossible to take into consideration here.

Scope is merely the "reach" of their abilities, and how large areas they can affect simultaneously, or alternatively, how many people they can harm/kill at once; depending on the threat level itself. When it comes to Threat Levels, I will not take into consideration a characters "power-ups" but rather focus entirely on their scope in their base form. For example, I won't count Naruto's numerable "Transformations" such as his Sage Mode and his Jinchuriki Forms in his threat levels, but rather Shippuden Naruto without all of these senseless additions. However, abilities which empower already existing abilities and powers without being a true "power-up" still count. The premier example being Susanoo.

There's a few comparisons I'm gonna use here, scope here is used only as a measure of how much impact they can make on the world around them, in comparison to their mortality. Because of this, only personal power will be put into the equation; but not political or military power. I'll list both canon and fanon examples, with the latter being written in Italics. Furthermore when I list the term "PS" before a canon characters name, that is to illustrate that the equation is "Pre-Shippuden".
 * Unarmed: This is the most basic indication of a characters powers, unarmed in this case refers to any attack which doesn't make use of a weapon or tool. This includes most contemporary Shinobi techniques such as common Taijutsu, Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. Assuming that no assistance was required.
 * Armed: An armed attack is simply put, any attack, technique or ability which makes use of an external object in any way, this would include shinobi techniques which require the aid of something else in order to work. Such as chakra flow, Minato's Flying Thunder God technique and Tayuya's Genjutsu, to list a few examples.