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Agreed. You shouldn't use AP ratings alone regardless because it ignores the other factors of a fight. For example, Elsa could one shot Sub-Zero due to her Island level AP, but my statement completely ignores that Elsa is a glass cannon with Building level AP. Sub-Zero would have Massively Hypersonic speed which means he could evade pretty much anything Elsa attempts to throw at him. He also has the AP however to completely one shot Elsa if he manages to avoid to ice blasts.

Of course, this example is just one considering characters with more hax/powers and abilities make the justification of an AP reasoning almost obsolete. I think the point of an AP stomp match is that a good amount of fiction has the same AP and durability. A Building level character won't be hurting a Galaxy level character any time soon even if they could move at MFTL+ speeds. What if the Galaxy level has Universal range though? If the Building level can't escape that range for example or doesn't have any ability to do so, it wouldn't really matter how slow the Galaxy level is as the Building level loses either way.

Overall, I agree with this rule. Ignoring other factors completely devalues the characters if anything as you ignore their natural other abilities and statistics. You can literally still have AP stomp justification with more reasoning on the conclusion. I don't know if summing it up on making the rule mention the VS Battles Tiering System is exactly how I would word it personally myself, but I think as long as the rule includes that AP stomp isn't proper reasoning, I think it is agreeable the way it is.