(Mandrake in disguise)
(Mandrake in disguise)
I wanted to share the alignment chart I think of when I think of different types of powerscalers
Open
Scientific |
Neutral
Scientific |
Skeptical
Scientific |
Open Neutral |
True
Neutral |
Skeptical
Neutral |
Open
Narrative |
Neutral
Narrative |
Skeptical
Narrative |
There are two spectrums here to explain. It's not so much anyone in particular is at the extreme end, but a spectrum where some people tend more one way then other people.
Open vs. Skeptical: Open people are people who tend to have higher balled interpretations, and are more open to evidence. In general they are more open to considering unorthodox positions on characters and matchups. Their strengths are they are not prone to appeals to incredulity or tradition, they are relatively good at just removing all pre-existing assumptions about characters. Their downside is their positions can seem absurd to people with higher evidentiary standards. Skeptical people are people who tend to have lower balled interpretations, and generally higher standards of evidence. They are less likely to change their positions on how strong characters are in general. Their strengths are they are very discerning and good at dissecting bad evidence. They are very good at going over a list of evidence and finding leaps in logic or alternative explanations that don't require extraordinary conclusions. However on the other hand they are more likely to make unfalsifiable claims about how a character can't be x strong or fast, or be stubborn in the face of evidence that doesn't corroborate their current position. People who are neutral tend to be roughly in the middle. They can have very strong senses on how strong characters they know well are, but can be convinced to go higher or lower, especially if it's not by that large a margin by looking at the evidence. Most people on both spectrums will tend towards the middle, this is again more of which way you lean.
Scientific vs Narrative: Scientific Powerscalers are ones who probably either towards fictional realism (that is to say thinking that fiction has a kind of reality unto itself) or Death of the Author (where the meaning of a text is not determined by an author.) They tend to be most concerned with empirical data about a series, and tend to be the types that think there is a "right answer" as to for instance how fast a character is. Not that it's written down somewhere, but if you look at their showings you should be able to discern it. Their strength is they are more focused on evidence and proof rather then their intuition however their weakness is they can seem somewhat removed from the "spirit" of a story judging solely by empirical data. I think Scientific Powerscalers are more common at least on sites dedicated to such things, and I will give an example of the three kinds in my different alignment descriptions. Narrative Powerscalers are ones who care more about what they think the story is trying to say, and probably tend more towards fictional anti-realists (thinking of fiction as more a mental exercise then having a reality onto itself.) They don't tend to think of characters as having a specific level but instead numerous interpretations based on your understanding of the story. They are the ones who tend to care more about showing why their interpretation is more consistent with the lore or themes of the story, rather then just focusing on the feats themselves. People far on the Narrative side won't even debate a series they haven't experienced themselves. Their benefit is they tend to be more willing to understand why people disagree with them as they view it as another interpretation of the story, and they can be seen as more respectful to the source material, especially to non powerscalers. On the other hand, Narrative Scalers are not strictly focused on falsifiable empirical data and so can be rather floaty in their interpretation and not focused on evidence, which is arguably against the spirit of debate.
The Nine Alignments of Powerscalers as I see it:
Open Scientific: People who are Open Scientific Powerscalers are ones who are mostly just looking for do characters have feats of a certain level. They're not really concerned with if those feats have counter-examples or if they tie into a deeper narrative, they view powerscaling in probably the most direct way which is "these are the impressive things the character has done, so that's how they strong they have to be." They'd probably agree with the notion that if a character has done something, then you trying to say they can't do that thing is just silly regardless of your interpretation of the text, and tend to have more open scaling where they don't mind scaling characters much higher then most do if they think the feats are clearly there. I have found them to be very common on Youtube.
Neutral Scientific: People who are Neutral Scientific are most concerned with what a characters's showings are but don't tend to have as out there interpretations and do tend to consider anti-feats a little bit. Their interpretations of a characters' strength might be a little higher then what most people think or it might be about where most people think but their primary mode of evidence is empirical showings and they are generally convinced by either just enough feats at a certain level or by a systemic explanation for why each feat is untenable. I have found them to be very common on most Battleboarding Sites.
Skeptical Scientific: People who are Skeptical Scientific put a great deal of stock into things like expressed limits or anti-feats, with some suggesting that they have equal importance to feats. They tend to interpret characters as being either roughly as strong as common consensus where they debate, or a bit weaker. They do prioritize feats but will either argue that a very high end feat is an outlier or try to discuss the internal logic of the feat and express why they don't think it applies. Because they are more on the Scientific Side they probably do still consider things like calcs, but because they are Skeptical they are very discerning on if any part of the calc it at all assumed, and are very conservative about what calcs can be applied, and if the number seems very high they may consider it an outlier. I have found them to be very common on Reddit WhoWouldWin.
Open Neutral: People who are Open Neutral can have very eclectic views on how strong a character is and be willing to consider any perspective that is meant to showcase their true strength whether it be in the form of direct feats or in the form of narrative implications. These are probably the most open minded scalers in one sense as they are eager to look at characters and series from new perspectives. I feel like a lot of the bigger Youtuber Powerscalers are here as mixing narrative elements into an Open Scientific Approach allows appealing to a wider audience and giving more interesting takes on series. I am not on them much but I feel like r/powerscale and tik tok powerscaling do seem to trend in this direction.
True Neutral: The True Neutrals of the Powerscaling community are people who want to consider hypothetical matchups in all kinds of different ways. While Open Neutral is the most open minded in one sense, True Neutrals are probably the most open minded in another as while they may not consider a character radically different in power then most people they seem very open to people having different opinions without them being just wrong. These kind of scalers can be more casual and are seen pretty much anywhere powerscaling happens, from wikis to subreddits to video sites, especially more casual ones. I don't mean to suggest they're all casuals, just that if someone is casual they're likely here because they don't have very strong opinions on the matter.
Skeptical Neutral: Skeptical Neutrals are Powerscalers who are neutral on Scientific vs Narrative, they're willing to consider different types of evidence equally, but they are equally skeptical on both. To be totally honest, this seems to be the rarest type as I see them the least. There are certainly some bad actors who play Skeptical Neutral when it's only dealing with a series they don't like but people who truly are Skeptical Neutral on all series seems rare. With that said when I do see them, they like Skeptical Scientifics care on keeping consistent the limits of a character, however with a broader focus on what would "break the plot" as opposed to just what feats should not apply.
Open Narrative: People who are more Narrative Focused are those that care more about how strong a character is meant to be portrayed but when they're more Open they're much more willing to considering different interpretations of the narrative, including more out there ones. They tend to be less impressed by quantifiable things like dimension count and more by things like characters representing or effecting concepts, religious ideas, or other more abstract types of scaling with some expressing that those are inherently above the quantifiable. As a Narrative Focused Scaler they are more interested in making sure the power is consistent with the lore but as an Open Scaler they are more willing to consider more esoteric views on the Lore as opposed to more grounded views. Broadly Narrative Scalers in general tend to more focused in fandom specific spaces rather then powerscaling specific spaces.
Neutral Narrative: People who are Neutral Narrative are almost more fanfiction writers than they are traditional powerscalers, though they are still trying to be consistent with the series they're using. These type of scalers view the characters AS their narratives or what they represents or the persona and the appeal of powerscaling is the interaction of these narratives. They are the most concerned with sticking close to the lore and spirit of the series the characters come from and when discussing feats they have the most care to say "this is why this level of power is the most consistent with the lore of the series."
Skeptical Narrative: People who are Skeptical Narrative even more then Skeptical Neutral are the most likely to be concerned with whether or not a proposed level of power would "break the plot." They are very concerned with maintaining the internal consistency of a world's worldbuilding. While an Open Narrative Scaler might be more concerned with what a character represents and how strong that could be, and a Neutral Narrative Scaler might be more concerned with what they believe the spirit of a series is and if that is being expressed correctly, a Skeptical Narrative scaler is most concerned with the actual plot and if any scale breaks that plot.
Now speaking for myself, I think I am pretty neutral on Open vs Skeptical. When I'm on more Skeptical Powerscaling Forums I am considered very Open, and when I'm on more Open Powerscaling Forums I'm considered very Skeptical. I feel like I am around the average scaler. I consider feats more then I do anti-feats but I don't totally ignore anti-feats and I consider a number of characters stronger then most people do, a few even much stronger but only because I believe I have a LOT of evidence for it, and hard to argue evidence at that. In terms of Scientific vs Narrative I feel like I tend towards Narrative. My background for this hobby is as a fanfiction writer, and while I do try to get really into feats to appeal to the broader powerscaling community, I do care a lot about trying to express the spirit of what a character is meant to represent if you can't tell by my blogs. That said I think all the alignments are valuable in what they can express in terms of critical thinking skills and debate skills.
In a far off galaxy there was a brutal war amongst aliens. However the death toll became too high. In order to settle this with no more of their own dying, they appoint a neutral party called Moderaters who give lesser races the power to become superhuman enhanced fighters called Blue Kampfer or Red Kampfer. The Blue and Red Kampfer fight, act as proxy champions for the two alien sides.
Sakura Kaede was a pleasant and kind young girl, who perhaps was a bit fearful of men. One day the young girl went exploring in the abandoned house next to her finding a secret tunnel underground. There she came across a strange statue with large glowing eyes that seemed to peer into her soul. On that day, Sakura's mind was inhabited by two personalities: the kind and gentle Sakura, and a manipulative and cruel misandrist who sought to do the will of the Moderators. It's unclear if other Sakura, the main villain of the series, is a moderator possessing her, or it's the result of Moderator brainwashing, or is a part of Sakura herself, but she spread the plushie toys called Entrail Animals, Stuffied animals in macabre deaths around, these toys causing people with potential to turn into the Kampfer.
However one enigma stopped her plans. While for some reason all human Kampfer were girls, Natsuru Seno was a boy who turned into a girl when he transformed into his Kampfer state. More then that instead of fighting the Red Kampfer, he tried to foster peace between the two sides so that they could turn against the moderators. Sakura didn't like that. She tried to manipulate him into accepting that he was really a girl and stay in that form and by her side forever, seemingly determined to prove the superiority of her sex and also to allow the battle between Blue and Red Kampfer to proceed. However Natsuru and his allies were able to stop the other Sakura and her forces, even freeing the original Sakura mind.
In September 1995 a JRPG was released for the Sailor Moon franchise after the release of the Manga's Third Arc the Mugen Arc, and the corresponding anime season Sailor Moon S. This game, involving the shifting of timelines and destiny, was a bit interesting in that it clearly used both the Manga and the 90s Toei anime, using elements from both. From a fandom perception this may seem paradoxical as the two stories have mutual exclusive events, but this sort of loose perception of continuity, more common with American Superhero Comics lately, was more in use for Sailor Moon as a franchise and a brand at the time with products not specifically focused on either continuity focused on the vague story of Sailor Moon expressed both ways. So what would happen if you were to analyze this hypothetical Sailor Moon brand as a verse, ignoring the discrepancies in the plot? Of course to do stuff would require someone immersed in Sailor Moon. To scale this verse would require someone with an in-depth knowledge of all the continuities of Sailor Moon to the point of being able to scale them as a single property, as well as knowledge of the secondary information like the Japanese only novelization of the Manga First Arc or Anime Guidebooks to the 90s Toei Sailor Moon.
Hi. My Name is Imperator100, fan of Sailor Moon since childhood and today is my birthday. The very first scaling I did was of the 90s Toei Sailor Moon series which I provided a complete vs analysis for, the first to my knowledge. The Sailor Moon Manga is my favorite series and I am in all humility, maybe the single most influential person as to the current scaling for the verse pioneering the mainstream scaling people used between 2014 to roughly 2023 or so when people started using dimensional tiering for the verse. I am, to my knowledge, the only person to have scaled this particular game. This blog is a strategy guide for Sailor Moon: Another Story and with it everything Sailor Moon in the first half of the 90s. This will include every character that would exist as of Sailor Moon Another Story's place in the Chronology after the Third Arc as well as scaling and information from later in the franchise that would retroactively apply, but not characters from further.
This is how to be OP in the Another Story-verse.
Stellar Tier:
This is the tier for characters who are on the level of the Sailor Senshi untransformed or stronger but below their Transformed States. It would be easy enough to say that this tier in Stellar because in Chibiusa's Pictuary Diary 2 we see numerous stars that are living entities including Kengyu, Epsilon, Zeta, and Shokujo. But that would not get across why every character down to civilian characters scale to this state. All things bearing life in Sailor Moon are born from an inner star which when removed crystalizes into a Star Seed. These Star Seeds are vesselizations of a metaphysical power which have to manifest planets and stars from nothing, hence the name. People in the Sailor Moon universe hold an incredible power within them, a power that monsters draining only some of the energy from fans of theirs could take over the world (Sailor V chapters 3,4, and 6) and is inexhaustible (Sailor V Chapter 5.) In times of great emotion humans can utilize this energy become much stronger. Humans when brainwashed into violent hatred can become, in large groups, minor threats even to early Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon Act 1) and Sailor V (Sailor V Act 3). These Sailor Senshi are meant to be Cosmic Guardians of Planets and even Stars with Sailor Kakyuu being the explicit Guardian of the Kinmoku Star (Sailor Moon Act 57) and Five Child Senshi immediately after awakening for the first time defeating a planetary threat (Parallel Sailor Moon.) This early Sailor Moon uses the Ultrasonic Crying, a joke attack that knocks out but does not kill these brainwashed civilians (Sailor Moon Act 1), yet also shows the power to destroy a dimension (Sailor Moon Act 3) This Dimension seems to have a Moon in the sky and some argue even seems to have stars at one point. Even just using the Moon the distance from a planet to it's moon is comparable to the diameter of the largest planets and smallest stars, especially if you think it has to be double that for the Moon to orbit the planet. In the Sailor Moon R Promise of the Rose, humans brainwashed by Fiore pose a mild threat to the Second Arc Sailor Senshi. An arc prior Usagi's body had become that of Princess Serenity who tanked the initial energy of the Silver Crystal leaving her body. (Act 9) Given this scene is the Silver Crystal and its power leaving Serenity, at this point Princess Serenity was likely no different physically then a normal Lunarian, which humanity driven to genocidal hatred by Metaria slaughtered (Sailor Moon Act 10, Episode 44) In the Second Arc itself, Usagi, Ami, Rei, and Makoto withstand being on Nemesis, a black hole the size of a planet even in their civilian states, and even doing so after Sailor Moon's power causes the Black Crystal Reactors to supercharge and the planet's growth to violently increase (Sailor Moon Act 22.) Even using Pluto (Which was considered a planet at the time of Publication hence Nemesis being called the 10th planet) Nemesis would have a mass of 804 stars. In the next Act Black Lady tells Demande and Saphir that their planet is now without equal. Assuming just in the Solar System a Black Hole the Size of Jupiter would have of 65,322 stars. While the Senshi presumably evacuated before it reached that size Saphir could survive being inside that Nemesis, and in Act 22 was going to rely on using a piece of the Black Crystal to kill Civilian State Usagi. These are the Senshi civilian states that the R Movie in this combined canon that brainwashed civilians posed a mild threat too.
This is not limited to Brainwashed civilians but any human in an emotional state can reach this power. In Sailor V Chapter 8, a normal gang fights a brainwashed gang and while the brainwashed gang is stronger, the gap does not appear to be massive. In Episode 32 of the Sailor Moon anime, Umino a weak nerd character who prior that ep was beaten by a normal dog, was able to withstand strikes from a Youma that was a threat to the Sailor Senshi due to his love for Naru. Yuuchiro, a Shrine assistant in love with Rei, when trying to save her was able to survive an attack from one of the Seven Great Youma in Episode 30. In the Anime Nephrite's Modus Operandi involves the manipulation of this fact where he targets individuals at the peak of their emotions turning them into Youma that are relative threats to the Sailor Senshi (Sailor Moon Episodes 14-21.) The Star Seed's metaphysical power defines everything one is, and humans in Sailor Moon have shown to be using metaphysical powers that reach into the level of the Senshi. In Episode 20 of the anime a young girl named Sakiko uses psychic powers to conjure a ghostlike creature that seems relative to the Senshi in power. In Episode 30 Rei's grandfather a Shinto Priest uses spiritual power that is able to temporarily stalemate Zoisite of the Heavenly Four, a rival to the Senshi at that time and in Episode 63 he was able to briefly contend with the Droid Dumbull. Similarly Artemis is a Maution, an alien species that seems to be able to draw power from their Star Seeds as in the First Arc Artemis is actually to briefly ward away Dark Endymion, a character stronger than the first Arc Senshi and Princess Serenity who tanked the energy mentioned prior, creating a surge of energy around him (Sailor Moon Act 12) and was able to scratch up Sailor V as a gag (Sailor V, Chapter 11.) with both Luna and Artemis able to survive multiple attacks from Kunzite of the Heavenly 4 (Episode 44) yet Luna was also hurt substantially from Usagi's younger brother Shingo kicking her while brainwashed (Episode 5.) Finally the energy of humans is enough to grant Metaria greater form, this Metaria able to grant Endymion dark power stronger then the Senshi, suggesting that the energy of humans scales to a fraction of Dark Endymion's power. It is a recurring theme in both the manga and anime the Dark Kingdom is attempting to gather energy for Metaria and it's treated like a reasonable goal that she would become noticeably more powerful, this Metaria able to grant entities more power then the Senshi themselves have.
Speed-wise, this tier scales to a ton of FTL speed feats for very low tier characters from the manga. Luuga is literally made of "electric energy", electromagnetic waves being light. (Sailor V, Act 6) Early Sailor Moon was able to move faster then a flash of light from a camera. (Episode 17) Minako prior to transforming for the first time launches herself to Venus in a short time before Artemis presumably brings her back that night. (Sailor V, Act 1) Both the aliens of Mau (Luna and Artemis) and the aliens of Coronis (Phobos and Deimos) came to Earth from another Star System (Sailor Moon Acts 53 and 54) yet still need to eat suggesting it was in a timeframe of days. The Lunarians traveled galactic distance over an unknown timeframe. (Sailor Moon Act 48) The Weaver Stars as well as Kengyu and Shokujo regularly travel dozens of lightyears every year for Tanabata. (Chibiusa Picture Diary 2) These speed feats are broadly calculated between tens to low thousands of times the speed of light. It's possible they could be much faster. In the December 1993 Animage Issue in the section "100 Seasons of the Sailor Senshi" Kunihiko Ikuhara the director of Seasons 2, 3, and 4 of the Toei Anime states that transforming increases the Senshi's spiritual power, but not their physical and mental power. This suggests that brainwashed civilians may scale to Second Arc Villains including Black Lady transporting Demande and Saphir to the end of spacetime (Sailor Moon Act 23), The Makaiju traveling the universe in what is presumably around ten years going by Ali and En's physical development (Sailor Moon Episode 59), Fiore traveling the galaxy in a similar timeframe to find a flower for Mamoru (Sailor Moon R Movie), and Demande planning to conquer the universe and other dimensions in the natural span of a human lifetime. (Sailor Moon Act 21) However you could argue that these characters are simply faster then the Second Arc Guardian Senshi with not scaling the Makaiju's attacks to it floating around in space, Fiore easily dodging Sailor Jupiter's attacks, Black Lady blitzing Sailor Moon and Demande blitzing Black Lady.
So who exists in this tier? Sailor Moon: Another Story came out in 1995 when the world population was around 5.76 Billion, all of which would have the potential to reach this tier in emotional outbursts. This would obviously include the civilian supporting cast of Sailor Moon. Most of these normal humans lack powers but there are exceptions. The Seven Great Youma reincarnated into Seven Civilians who have greater capacity then normal such as Crane Game Joe having mild telekinesis. The most notable of these is Ryo Urawa, Ami's love interest in the Toei Anime who has visions of the future so often people assume he is a genius intellect on Ami's level due to him knowing the answer to every question. Sakiko is a young girl who has the power to generate a spectral ghostly entity that was capable of being a threat to the Sailor Senshi. Rei's grandfather is a Shinto Priest (as well as reincarnation of one of the Seven Great Youma) and with his spiritual power which came out of him like an aura he was able to repel Zoisite. The Sailor Moon Earth in general is host to people with powers corresponding to various New Age-y practices including Fortune-Tellers, Astrologers, Dowsers, Channelers, Spiritual Healers, and so on. Most of these specialize in divining information in one form from others: from spirits of the past or future or outer space, from the movements of the stars, from the attunement of physical objects, etc.
The Wildlife of Sailor Moon is also different. Infamously two plesiosaurs, a mother and child, are shown to exist in Sailor Moon R. In the Sailor V Manga it is shown that the animals are arranged in kingdoms when their royalty is encountered as enemies by Sailor V. The Youngest of these is the Mosquito Princess Chuu-Chuu who controls swarms of Mosquitos which can infect enemies with Japanese Encephalitis and form constructs made of Mosquitos. Older then her is Nyan-Nyan, the Cat Princess, who can create a gas that made Minako dizzy and dazed, has illusion creation and energy-draining, and changed writing magically. Older then bother is Wan-Wan, the Dog Prince who has laser vision, illusion creation, and energy-draining. All three can also disguise themselves, levitate, and command their associated animal.
In space there are also many opponents. The Stars in Sailor Moon are living entities. This would be as far as we know around 200 sextillion enemies at least up to UY Scuti, with a radius 909 times that of the Sun. There exists numerous alien species though a good number little is known about. The Aliens of Planet Mau like Luna, Artemis, and Diana are a species with a slightly catlike humanoid form as well as a catlike form. These aliens have shown telekinesis, energy protection/aura, weapon creation, flight, and sensory abilities so long as the crescent moon on their forehead is not covered. The Aliens of Planet Coronis like Phobos and Deimos are a species with a slightly crowlike humanoid form as well as a crowlike form. They have shown dimensional travel abilities and are known to have a military. Most dangerous are probably the Aliens of the Tau Dimension, the Daimon. The Daimon are not used to this universe and in their natural state can't persist long taking forms that resemble a jell, a strange planet, or something monstrous and hard to describe. To persist in this dimension they either possess an object (Toei Anime) or remove the soul of a living entity and wear the body like a skinsuit (Manga) with it being somewhat implied in the latter they also consume the original soul. Not Biological but on the world of Nemesis in the far future the Droids were built, the Manga Droids being robot assassins from the future sent back to the present to kill people and take their place, infiltrating society to sway it to the Black Moon Clan.
Back on Earth, this world also has many supernatural entities. Places have associated Genius Loci, the spirits of the Places. Touhi-chan is a Genius Loci who drowns her opponents in escapism so they drown out their worries in easy escapes. Bonnus is a Genius Loci who drains the information from her opponent's minds. Resin the Dentist Spirit showed the most powers, turning an old dentist shop with an old scary dentist into a modern shop with a young attractive dentist to lure people in. She also shows brainwashing, energy-draining, a drill who's sound makes teeth hurt, an a syringe to inject enemies with ghost cavities. Besides Genius Loci there's also Vampires who can convert others to vampires by draining their blood as well as energy-draining but are weak to garlic and seemingly to sunlight. There's an entire village of ghosts called Yaga Village who's elder casts illusions so potent they work even on Sailor Mars making her think the village is still alive and not in ruins. Karaoke Warrior Mike Makii is a Karaoke Themed Monster who drains energy of those singing at her stage, and can attack herself with sound based attacks.
This brings us to the Dark Agency, the main enemies of Sailor V, the underlings of the Dark Kingdom, a group of strange and possibly ethereal monsters taking humanoid form to drain humans of their energy. Disguise Power, Energy-Draining, and Brainwashing are common powers among them, with Pandora able to brainwash and drain energy across all of Japan and Lin-Lin able to brainwash across all of China. Other Abilities: DeVleene a low ranked Dark Agency Agent created and maintained a building made of fat, uses an illusion to make girls think they were not growing fatter, and create delicious chocolates that supernaturally tempts people into eating them. Petite Pandora was able to let off toxic fumes as she was dying. Hibiscus-y is able to sense hatred and was able to turn mortals into supervillains. Narcissus the first villain Sailor V can grow claws, project an energy attack, and shoot paralyzing waves that drained one's consciousness. Luuga is the strongest fighter in the electronic world, is made of electric energy and can take an ethereal form. Alongside standard Dark Agency abilities she is able to hit people from within her game or zap them into her game where they can't move unless a player plays them in the game. She also maintained her own dimension to fight in inside cyberspace and can shoot electrical energy blasts. The leader of the Dark Agency is Danburite, Sailor V's strongest opponent and who the rest report to. He uses playing cards that can slice off most Dark Agency members' necks and create explosions. He can use them to fortune-tell. He can attack with wind and lightning, created candy that could counteract DeVleene's, and was the hardest fight for Sailor V. But even he answers to a group, the four strongest of this tier.
In ancient time the Earth was one kingdom, with four subsections ruled by four warriors under Prince Endymion, known as the Four Heavenly Kings. Because they were bound to the four gemstones by Beryl's curse, they were not revived as enemies in Another Story and should only be in this tier, being the top threats of it. These are Ghosts bound to Four Stones, and were the Commanders of the Dark Kingdom suggesting some of the best skill and intelligence among them including warriors that were the best fighters of their entire world. (Luuga) All of them have levitation, teleportation and dimensional travel as well as illusion creation, the ability to disguise themselves, clairvoyance using crystal balls, and energy-draining that likely scales above the Dark Agency energy draining. Jadeite, Nephrite, and Kunzite all have shown energy projection and Nephrite, Zoisite, and Kunzite all use weapons (Zoisite uses a boomerang while Nephrite and Kunzite use swords.) Jadeite, Zoisite, and Kunzite all have forms of BFR as well, Jadeite and Kunzite having dimensional BFR, Zoisite and Kunzite using orbs to teleport enemies, and Kunzite being able to BFR enemies through higher dimensions and time. Jadeite and Nephrite have both shown aura-sensing, dimensional portal creation, and transmutation with Jadeite creating youma from the earth below and Nephrite creating them from the stars above. Jadeite and Zoisite have both shown fire conjuration with Jadeite's threatened to encompass a city and Jadeite and Kunzite have born shown other forms of energy manipulation. Nephrite and Zoisite both have shown enchantment with Nephrite using his to corrupt people and Zoisite's to amplify power while Nephrite and Kunzite both show superleaping with Kunzite's propelling himself into space. Zoisite and Kunzite both show technopathy, force projection and creating forcefields that can attack reflect.
In terms of unique powers, they each have some though Jadeite the least. Jadeite showed telekinesis and bodily control. Nephrite could use divination through the stars motions to learn of the future, had super-hearing and could generate explosions. He could also detach his shadow which along with other powers could disguise itself and possess people, or pieces of his soul which could also possess people and create paralyzing waves. Zoisite has various forms of element manipulation including earth manipulation and ice manipulation to create jagged icicles and earth shards to hurt the Senshi along with Storm Creation that could encompass all of Japan in a storm for several days. He can turn into a shadow, command the rats, induce melancholy and sentimentality across Azabu-Juuban and brainwash people across all of Japan. Kunzite can generate winds so cold that it can create absolute zero temperature or freeze all of Japan. A statue of him was able to petrify a village and he can create a dark dome that absorbs energy and closes to crush his enemies as well as manifest attacks within. He can also encompass an area in darkness and warp spacetime to cause the Senshi to wander forever inside the Dark Tower as well as BFR and Trap enemies in other dimensions, higher dimensions, across time.
So in terms of offenses the tier's biggest are basically the Heavenly King's Arsenal, The Dark Agency's extremely potent brainwashing and energy-draining, Luuga's more meta powers, and the Daimons' soul manipulation. In terms of defenses the tier's biggest are the higher plane Kings of Heaven (Astral) and Genius Loci (Spiritual), Logia Intangibility from the Daimon (Gel) and Zoisite (Shadow), and the ability to create attack reflection forcefields from Zoisite and Kunzite. This verse also has the problem of just.... so, SOOO many enemies with sextillions of enemies at least. So what can you use against the tier?
The biggest weakness of this tier is range. The maximum range and scale of most of the powers on this tier are city to country scale.The powers that actually are on the scale of the gigameters like you'd expect from this power level are the stars' true forms being stars themselves (and able to flood the Heavenly River), as well as maybe Nephrite's transmutation which is pretty vague. If someone could attack them from stellar distances, there is nothing to suggest they would be able to tell where it's coming from. Some metaphysical entities might survive though it's not clear if Luuga would survive without any technology to host cyberspace, the Kings of Heaven would survive without their Hi Stones, or the Genius Loci would survive without the places they're associated with. This doesn't solve EVERY problem. The Stars are still extremely numerous but if the character has higher range and infinite stamina, they should not be that big a problem. It doesn't even need gigameters, just so long as it's past where the characters can sense.
But let's say the character has to get into "close" range. What should they do? Probably the most common power of Sailor Moon villains is energy absorption and with good reason. The energy inside people is incredibly potent in Sailor Moon and energy absorbing allows power amplification. But even more impressive as shown in the Third Arc is Soul Absorption or Lifeforce Absorption. The Hostia of normal humans is enough for Pharaoh 90 himself to subsist briefly off, meaning absorbing souls or lifeforce would super amplify any attacker. This also solves the stamina problem as they can simply gain the power from the people they're defeating.
Actually resisting the verse's offenses would be difficult. The Senshi via the Light of Stellar Protection have a very impressive hax resistance suite which is not realistic for any random attacker to have. That said some things that would help: Being Higher Plane obviously helps a lot and if one is a spiritual entity the only abilities that can threaten are Kunzite's spacetime hax and Luuga's metafictional hax. Anti-Evil Hax would work on the powers of many of the threats here save the reformed Kings of Heaven. Many powers in this verse actually traverse through space to hit their enemies. Brainwashing happens through brainwashing waves that propagate often through technology or sound waves, Kunzite BFRs using an energy blast, Luuga zaps people into her game, etc. Messing with space or having a forcefield or protective aura similar to the Senshi's protective light etc. might ward off the attacks. It was through Attack Reflection that Sailor Moon beat the strongest Heavenly King Kunzite in the Toei Anime, reflecting his dark blade back at him.
Finally Dimensional Manipulation would not be a bad idea. The only characters that have dimensional abilities are the Heavenly Kings, kind of Luuga, and the Aliens of Coronis. Dimensional BFRing anyone else would trap them, and dimensional travel allow return from Jadeite and Kunzite's dimensional BFR. It would also give opportunities to pop in and attack at the attacker's leisure.
So who could use? Well you could use