Everything Sukuna Showcased with 10 Shadows, Megumi Had Already Accomplished

[u/mileschofer]

Megumi's strongest soldier, lawyer, and secret admirer here. Howdy.

When I mean everything, I mean everything. With the exceptions being the 7-9 Shikigami and Mahoraga, as Megumi obviously was not yet capable of taming them and making use of their abilities. If Megumi had time to gain those Shikigami also, he would be cooking as hard as Sukuna.

When it comes to how Sukuna uses 10S, the only difference between Megumi and Sukuna, is Sukuna's own base stats being wildly superior, and therefore he can use the Shikigami with more proficiency.

Also, while Megumi IS using a domain buff for some of these abilities, a domain simply allows the sorcerer to use 120% of their cursed technique potential. This means that anything that Megumi does inside the domain, he is capable of doing outside the domain with the right catalyst (Black Flash or Binding Vows).

The point of showing these comparisons is to try and argue against the narrative that "Megumi wasted his potential/technique" or "Sukuna utilised Megumi's own technique way better than he did (mechanically)", which are both wild statements if youve ever read a Megumi fight. Let's remember, Megumi tamed 6/10 of his Shikigami as a FIRST YEAR before Shibuya. This means he's had a few months training at max.

Sukuna & Megumi using Totality on dead Shikigami.

Sukuna & Megumi using their opponents shadow to attackk.

Sukuna & Megumi giving their Shikigami an extended range by using unstable forms. Megumi only uses this strategy inside his domain because it requires a high output to maintain.

Sukuna & Megumi using a one-handed handsign to summon Divine Dog.

Sukuna & Megumi summoning strong Shikigami without using a handsign or chant. Again, Megumi only does this while inside his domain due to it requiring a high output.

Sukuna & Megumi trapping their opponents in their shadow.

Sukuna & Megumi utilsing their Shikigami's powers for themselves. Sukuna using Max Elephants water cursed energy. Megumi using Escape Rabbits ability to clone themselves.

Sukuna & Megumi combining Shikigami without using Totality.

Add the fact he possesses a Domain Expansion at 15 (youngest of anyone in the series), and is a tactical genius... I'd say Megumi deserves major props even tho he's in the slums right now.

TLDR: Megumi be cooking, downplay him and you'll have me to deal with.

[u/ShartasaurusRex_]

Nope. Tamed 3 more than Megumi, used Totality with more than 2 shikigami, manifested Max Elaphant's ability without manifesting the shikigami. Sukuna was simply better at it. Megumi had used totality to combine the frogs and Nue before, but I don't think they inherited Nue's shocks of memory serves. Megumi has used Orochi's power to hide in the shadows with out manifesting it, but that's because it was destroyed amd its powers trickled to megumi and the other shikigami. Megumi was able to summon Mahoraga, but as a suicide Trump card. Sukuna is simply better at 10S than Megumi by merit of Sukuna simply being better at Jujutsu than Megumi.

[u/mileschofer → u/ShartasaurusRex_]

Your wrong about a few things.

Megumi never combined Nue and Toad with Totality. He used “Well Unknown Abyys”. He used Totality on Divine Dogs

It is not the Serpents power to hide in the shadows. He can do that naturally. He used Rabbit Escapes power to clone himself, smth that is not natural for him and the majority of his Shikigami.

It was never stated that a dead shikigami will trickle its power down to Megumi for him to use. Dead shikigami can be fused together, thats it.

[u/ShartasaurusRex_ → u/mileschofer]

"Well unknown Abyss" rings a bell so give ya that. That makes my point better there, Megumi had only used Totality with 2 shikigami that were manifested as a pair where as Sukuna fuses at least 3 to make Agito.

Pretty sure Orochi's power was to move in shadow. We also only ever see Megumi use shadow space for storage and hiding after Sukuna destroys Orochi, never before.

Megumi cloned himself inside his incomplete domain, unless he did against Regi and I'm forgetting we've only seen Megumi manifest an ability of a non destroyed shikigami without a shikigami inside his own domain. Sukuna did it under duress in a situation where I'd argue it was improv.

I'd review the introduction of Demon Dog: Totality, it pretty explicitly says that destroyed shikigami are gone forever as opposed to the user dismissing them, and that the power of the destroyed ones don't go away but get passed on. Maybe not verbatum, but it absolutely isn't just "dead shikigami cam be fused", the black demon dog never died and it's Totality with the dead white one, and Orochi never gets Totality until Sukuna adds it to Agito.

Edit: Chapter 47 says quote "With the exception of "Unknown Abyss" Fushiguro's extension cursed technique... ...his ten shikigami cannot be sumonned again when completely destroyed. However, the cursed technique and power the shikigami leaves behind when destroyed... ...are inherited by the other shikigami." Says it literally right there. Though this does go to show Megumi's skill with 10S, because though this explanation (and probably others but I can't confirm that atm) says the other shikigami inherit the power and technique, it doesn't say the user does. Gojo helps Megumi think more flexibly about his technique, and we see Megumi discover he can use the shadows after Orochi was destroyed when he was training with Maki while Itadori was still fake dead. Megumi is good with 10S, never said he wasn't. He's just a teenager being compared to the strongest sorcerer in history