The Clamp multiverse can be really hard to figure out, especially in a versus context. Sometimes it can seen street level and sometimes it can seem cosmic. If I may say personally this is actually one of my favorite things about Clamp, how little things can be given such importance. This is a verse where being able to speak to the dead is often as good as being to destroy a dimension, or even better. Being able to destroy a dimension is fairly limited, while speaking to the dead is potentially much more versatile. Even mundane skills can have importance like in CCS where Eriol approvingly comments that Tomoyo is completely mundane but she has keen powers of observation.
With that said in the versus contexts people often want to know how strong how CLAMP characters are so I thought I'd give a quick guide-ish thing.
Issue 1: The meaning of Dimension
Clamp uses the terms "dimensions" a lot to designate it's separate areas of space leading to much argumentation about how big these dimensions are. The lowest estimation is that there are a few dimensions that are just earth-sized planets or smaller (Earth Dimension, which in this interpretation is literally the planet Earth, Cephiro, Fahren, Autozam, Chizeta etc.) and the rest are even smaller then the size of planets. The highest end interpretation is that most of these dimensions are the size of universes with a few exceptions. Obviously this DRASTICALLY affects how strong the verse is.
My interpretation tends closer to the higher and here's why. At multiple times stars are seen in the background of these dimensional worlds but the most important instance is in Magic Knight Rayearth Chapter 6 when Mokona relates how it created the Earth Dimension and it is seen creating the stars, indicating that in the creation of the Earth Dimension it created the stars and not just the planet Earth. Mokona also clearly states that it created the rules of the Earth Dimension contrasting it to the Cephiro Dimension where everything is determined by will. This means he created the physical laws of the universe such as gravity, electromagnetism etc. However the rules of the universe are not bound strictly to the planet Earth, nor are they ever implied to be in Clamp.
What this suggests to me is that the dimensions in Clamp are likely mostly universe sized.
Issue 2: Durability vs Magic Resistance
In Clamp those that have magic have correlated a certain level of resistance of magic resistance, for instance when Eriol plunged the Earth into sleep in CCS, this did not affect the magic-users and the magical entities like the clow spirits. This raises the question of "if this character survives a magic attack from this character, is it their durability or their resistance to magic?" There's no easy answer to this, but it seems must of the Clamp cast have both a level of enhanced durability and magic resistance and the only way to find the level of each is by separate feats or scaling
Notable Power Feats
- Within the 52 Clow Cards there is a hierarchy where Light and Dark come first, with the 4 Elemental Cards; Earthy, Fiery, Watery, and Windy come second and all the rest come last suggesting that each kind of card can scale to the cards in the upper ranks of the hierarchy
- Plenty of the Clow Cards can create effects at least building level in area of effect
- The Dragons of Earth and the Dragons of Heaven have superhuman stats and abilities
- The Snow can cover Tokyo in Snow
- The Rain and the Storm can create storms
- The Maze can create it's own dimension that was seemingly endless and stretched at least to the horizon. When combined with Illusion it seemed to be able to contain the stars though this is ambiguous (clearly the stars were Illusions as they were made by Illusion although whether they space they resided in was illusory is unclear)
- The loop can create an infinite internal space by looping space in on itself
- In the war for Cephiro, there was numerous mecha and vehicles the size of buildings or larger propelling themselves at massive speed
- The Warrior Zagato created his own mecha the size of a building purely from his will
- The Fiery vaporized all of the Snow coating Tokyo at once
- The Earthy can create earthquakes capable of threatening cities
- The Six Stars all scale to an important city-busting feat in RG Veda
- The Greatest Sorcerer of Cephiro, Clef created a magic blast that reached the clouds above
- The Pillar of Cephiro is a planetary warper whose will prevents natural disasters all across the surface of Cephiro and who even weakened was able to maintain a dome surrounding the whole world protecting it against inter-dimensional invasion
- The Dark can plunge the sky including the Sun and possibly the other stars in Darkness. It can also restore the night from the Light
- The Light can restore the light to the heavens, making the whole thing of light.
- The Guardians of the Cards (Kero/Yue and Spinel/Ruby Moon) have dominion over the half of the cards attributed to them are immune to their effects
- Dimensional Witch Yuuko is able to turn mortals into Gods
- God Mokona created universes and gave them their rules
- The Dark God Ashura wishes and supposedly can destroy Heaven, Earth and Hell
- The Rune God Rayearth was able to challenge and struggle against the power of Mokona without being stomped. The power of the three Rune Gods together was able to overcome Mokona's power.
- Fai D. Fluorite was able to collapse a dimension
- Clow Reed and Dimensional Witch Yuuko created a few Mokona
- Fei Wang Reed nearly destroyed and recreated the multiverse but Sakura and Syaoran together overpowered him
- The Two Syaorans survived the power of Fei Wang Reed
- Fei Wang Reed was scared of confrontation with Dimensional Witch Yuuko though I'd be careful on assuming that's due to raw power
- Clow Reed was so powerful that his presence was felt throughout the multiverse and God Mokona confusedly flew to him to see who this stronger entity was
- When Yuuko died Clow Reed's stray wish to see her smile again warped the entire multiverse and suspended Yuuko in time
- After his death, Clow Reed's stray power became Fei Wang Reed
- Clow Reed supposedly put all his power into the 52 cards, and their negative energy created the Nothing
- The Nothing has power to match the other 52 cards alone as the negative energy counterpart to them
- Sakura became stronger then Clow Reed and was able to transform his cards into her own Sakura cards, recreating them, including recreating The Nothing into The Hope completely on her own with her love. She was also able to split Clow Reed's power being stronger then him
- As of Clear Card, Sakura is making her own Clear Cards that are akin to Clow Reed's cards, without even trying to
Notable Speed Feats
- The Thunder is a beast of electricity, and Arc 1 Sakura was able to move comparable
- One of the fighters in RG Veda uses electricity and the others are able to react and move to it as if at the same speed though it may be just unnatural lightning
- The Light is literally light. The Dash at short ranges is faster suggesting FTL speed
- Various Powerful entities in the war for Cephiro were able to travel from other dimensions and worlds using the Roads although how much of this is attributable to the Roads themselves is ambiguous. None the less they're all able to easily travel around the world of Cephiro in hours at most.
- Mokona traveled across the multiverse to see the great power of Clow Reed
- Various Mages have power that has stretched across a dimension or indeed all them at once suggesting their magic speed is very fast.
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