Yuki Tsukumo’s feats, statements, and other possible actions in regards to power (Almost entirely manga spoilers)
The comprehensive list of Yuki Tsukumo's feats, statements and other reasonable possibilities.
Hello! This is a comprehensive list of Tsukumo Yuki’s feats and statements meant to help with Yuki scaling and debates. Inspired by Individual-Turns own list, this will help with giving relevant information regarding Yuki’s power and capabilities. If any relevant information comes out in a future guidebook, it will be added to this list or otherwise updated. Please let me know if I missed anything, but here we go!
Rank.
Rank; Tsukumo Yuki is a Special Grade Sorcerer. This was confirmed once by Yuki herself when she met with teen Geto during Hidden Inventory, once again by Akutami during the JJK Official Guidebook (JJK Official Handbook, page 67), and finally in the first page of Chapter 205 by the Narrator. According to Kenjaku when speaking to Choso, the rank of Special Grade implies that the person who holds that rank is capable of overwhelming an entire country (Chapter 203, panel 15). Logically, Yuki would fit this bill, as she was the first of the four modern Special Grades, apparently having that rank as long ago as 2007, when she spoke to teenage Geto.
And NO, Yuki is NOT a Special Grade simply due to her potential Black Hole. The very definition is to be able to overthrow an entire country single handedly. The Black Hole is not only something that she obviously would never do, but also wouldn’t be overthrowing anything, it would just destroy the world. Overall I doubt they would rank her so highly if she was only being scaled to an attack she both would never do and also wouldn’t fit the bill for overthrowing or defeating an entire country as she would die.
By rank relativity alone, Yuki should already be on par with Prime Geto, JJK 0 Yuta, and then Sendai Yuta (after Rika’s Curse ended), as they all share the same rank. Gojo of course, being the exception to this relativity as he is miles stronger than any other Sorcerer, including Special Grades. While this isn’t a concrete way of scaling, it does hold some weight to it, and should be considered when scaling. Even Kusukabe makes a point of it that he couldn't just prance around a Special Grade like Yuta nor a SG Curse like Jogo. From this alone, Yuki should already be pinned up there as one of the strongest in the modern Jujutsu Society.
Statements.
Yuki has quite a few good statements to her name, despite limited screentime.
After destroying Ganesha and severely damaging Kenjaku, Kenjaku himself questions if he can even beat Yuki, especially due to how he thought that she made his strongest Curses unusable. This same Kenjaku showed no such reaction to anything Choso could throw out, and didn’t even see Yuta as any significant threat as far back at Shibuya, yet was uncertain of being able to beat Yuki alone.
Yuki was directly put on Yuta’s level by Maki, as they both shared the same rank. Despite Maki not knowing much about Yuki, she knew a lot about Yuta and went out of her way to call Hakari weaker than Yuta when they were compared, yet not with Yuki.
Tengen elected either Yuki or Yuta to protect them specifically, putting them on at least the same tier of strength at that point in time.
Yuki’s Physical Feats. (link to full feats; Link )
Striking force; Yuki, (w/ Star Rage at full capacity), destroyed both of Kenjaku’s arms with one single hit and sent him back so far and fast that he broke the circular definition of Tengen’s barrier.
Endurance; After being hit by Kenjaku’s Domain Expansion directly, Yuki still manages to box with Kenjaku, even pushing him on the backfoot.
Speed; Yuki destroyed Uraume’s Icefall in an instant after arriving on the scene while it was mere inches from Yuji’s head.
Speed; Yuki managed to catch Kenjaku off guard with a rush initially due to her speed, leading to her iconic punch, then later repeats this feat. This is especially impressive as Kenjaku outright easily dodges multiple Piercing Bloods, even adjusting for one at point blank range, yet still stuggles with Yuki at multiple points in tiem.
Durability; Tanked both Kenjaku’s first direct Mini Uzumaki with only next to no injury
Yuki crumpling both of Kenjaku's reinforced arms a with a single direct blow
Yuki is not relative to Choso in stats. She is significantly stronger.
For another, smaller post that can help further dispel any confusion as to why Yuki is NOT merely on par with Choso, but above him in physicals, go here; (Post)
But in short, Choso was not nearly on par with Yuki. He was being completely outclassed by Kenjaku at every level until Yuki straight up held him in place, while Yuki was capable of landing straight up hits without any assistance.
Star Rage is an amazing technique. (Link to full explanation of Star Rage: Link )
Tsukumo Yuki’s innate cursed technique. Star Rage allows Yuki to add Virtual or Imaginary Mass to her body, which both does not weigh her down as well as boosts her strikes with the force equivalent, enough to destroy both of Kenjaku’s arm with a single punch. The mass was described as being so overwhelming that it cannot be contained semantically or pragmatically.
Star Rage’s mass appears to have a special property in regards to cursed spirits or techniques that entangle a concept with its cursed technique. As shown with Ganesha, Yuki’s mass was able to overwhelm even its obstacle removal, which was described as being able to; “Remove any obstacles”. Kenjaku even points out that, since she ignores concepts, none of his high level Curses would be usable against her.
I believe that there are even more techniques that Yuki could be immune to, namely; Projection Sorcery (link to why I believe that ; Link), Boogie Woogie, and Paralyzing Gaze. While a small buff if we assume this, it’s still something that she has in her kit.
Star Rage is also capable of being able to be applied to Yuki’s Shikigami; Garuda, which turned into a Cursed Tool by this technique and is the only other target of Star Rage besides Yuki herself.
Yuki was also incredibly secretive about her Cursed Technique. So much so that, despite being Special Grade, Kenjaku was completely unable to gain information about her technique from the Jujutsu Administration. Due to this, almost no one would be capable of figuring out Yuki’s technique unless she explained it to them in any realistic fight.
Kenny, even with prep, being unable to gather any info on Yuki's technique
Yuki’s drop in output is not special to her and shouldn’t be held against her. (Link; Link )
To briefly summarize this post, Yuki’s output drop is not special or significant to her. We see repeatedly just how far your output drops even when you’re not as damaged as Yuki ended up being. Naoya, Naobito and Angel all being examples. It’s simply short sighted and s illy to hold it against Yuki when realistically everyone’s output would drop a similar degree if they were as injured as she got.
Yuki’s Reverse Cursed Technique is actually pretty impressive (Link to full post; Link )
Yuki was able to directly heal from Kenjaku’s Domain incredibly fast even after having her entire left arm crushed and having multiple slashes across her body.Kenjaku stated that he “would not give Yuki time to recover” after blowing a hole through her stomach, implying she could recover from such a grievous injury.
Yuki should more than likely be capable of healing her soul, considering her knowledge on it and the fact she could interact with the past Star Plasma vessels.
Yuki knows how RCT works in regards to burn scars, showing a high level of knowledge on the topic.
Yuki’s Simple Domain is not weak.
Tsukumo Yuki has directly shown the ability to use the Simple Domain, an Anti Domain technique that. She used it during the battle against Kenjaku, but it was destroyed in Kenjaku’s Domain due to his insane barriers.
Why do I not consider this an anti feat for her Simple Domain? Well, firstly it was used against Kenjaku, who’s one of few people in the world who can compete with Tengen in terms of barriers. Yuki herself even states that it's because of the barrier, implying a normal barrier wouldn’t have broken her SD so quickly. It’s more a Kenjaku upscale than a Yuki downscale, as I doubt many other characters would have any more luck with their SD against Kenjaku’s barrier.
Yuki was also capable of teaching Simple Domain to Todo when he trained under her, as well as being able to move with it activated, unlike Miwa who uses a Binding Vow to maintain her Simple Domain.
Besides that, there’s another thing to Yuki’s Simple Domain. She didn’t learn it in the same way that other sorcerers tend to, paying the New Shadows School with its Binding Vow. Instead, Yuki was able to learn her Simple Domain in the same new Mechamaru figured out his. This being by observing others doing it, and copying it in some form yourself. Now, it’s unclear if this makes it any better or worse than a normal Simple Domain, but the fact she was able to effectively reverse engineer it and had over 10 plus years of experience at least means she should have a fairly good one.
Outside of all that, there’s not much in regards to her Simple Domain. From her rank, ability to teach it, having reverse engineered it, experience and the fact it was only torn by Kenjaku’s barrier, I find her Simple Domain should be more than good enough, and not to be disrespected.
Garuda is an excellent support (link to full Garuda feats: Link )
Garuda is Tsukumo’s Shikigami, converted into a Cursed Tool from her technique. Like Yuki, it is capable of utilizing her Star Rage Technique, as well as seemingly being able to partially move on its own will. I consider it to be highly underrated as a part of Yuki’s kit, as it’s been a major part of her ability. Below are some of its best feats.
During chapter 135, after Uraume uses their Icefall, sending massive shards of ice flying down at Yuji and co., Yuki uses what is implied to be Garuda to destroy the ice in one fell swoop before it even has the opportunity to kill anyone.
During chapter 205, Yuki punts Garuda towards the Special Grade imported Cursed Spirit; Ganesha. The resulting speed and force of the attack, empowered by Star Rage, tears without any resistance through the Curse's head and through the back, destroying it effortlessly.
During chapter 206, after Yuki took severe damage from Kenjaku’s Domain, lowering her Star Rage’s output, Garuda manages to wrap itself around Kenjaku’s waist to hold him in place for Choso’s attack.
Later in 207, Yuki wields Garuda as a whip that rips apart part of the Tomb of the Stars corridor, destroying enormous amounts of the area with just one attack.
In 207 Garuda is used as a whip once again, this time against a curse that Garuda once again obliterates in just one attack, blowing it to pieces
Two other posts that explore Garuda's usage more are HERE; Garuda Press, Garuda might've tanked Kenny's Domain.
Tsukumo Yuki’s Domain Expansion is likely a lethal one and is not unrefined.
Yuki is directly confirmed to have a domain expansion that she is capable of using, once by herself when talking to Tengen, and again by Kenjaku after his own Domain. However, the full schematics of her Domain, as well as its name, are entirely unknown. However, we can infer a few things about it.
One; It’s more than likely a lethal Domain. As Tengen stated in Yuji’s flashback in chapter 164, not just most, but many modern Domains include a sure kill effect, compared to the now scarce non lethal Domain.
Two; She more than likely has good refinement. This makes sense in two ways; 1, she’s the most experienced of the Special Grades, having been one since at least Hidden Inventory and more than likely even prior to that. Logically, it would make sense for her to have good refinement considering just how long she’s been doing this. Secondly, Kenjaku stated that if she had used her Domain, the fight might’ve had a different outcome. Implying her Domain could’ve held up against his, even just for ten seconds is a feat in itself. Kenjaku was able to destroy her Simple Domain in even less time, and has the second greatest barrier skill in history.
Yuki is arguably the most knowledgeable of the modern era Sorcerers (Link to full intelligence; Link )
Chapter 136; Yuki almost immediately recognized what Kenjaku did in Shibuya to be the long range activation of a Technique, while everyone else was dumbfounded.
Yuki almost immediately recognized Ganesha as an exported Special Grade Cursed Spirit after just seeing it once.
Yuki knew about Heavenly Restricted humans like Toji as far back as Hidden Inventory, and knew what he could do
Yuki accurately deduced what Kenjaku’s third technique was after seeing it once and defined its limits after just a second sight.
Yuki wrote the book on the Soul, containing information on how souls interacted in terms of fusion, as well as helping Yuji to more accurately hit the border of the soul.
Yuki developed her own Simple Domain in the same way Muta did, without being taught it herself.
Yuki should have some resistance and ability with the soul (Link; Link)
Yuki was able to speak with the merged souls of past Star Plasma Vessels that even Tengen couldn’t hear.
Yuki knew about how souls interacted when merged or partially combined.
Yuki knew that souls never disappear regardless of how long they’re merged.
Yuki knew what Mahito’s Cursed Technique was, at least in regards to how it interacted with the soul.
Overall I think it’s very disingenuous to suggest that Yuki couldn’t do anything about the Soul. She quite literally wrote the book on it, so it’s unfair to assume she couldn’t do anything with it.
Yuki VS other high tiers!
Vs Kenjaku; loses to Barrierless Domain.
Vs Yuta, loses to overall versatility, Jacob’s Ladder and Sky Manipulation
Vs Yorozu; wins high diff due to hitting far harder than Bug Armor could handle, similarly having a domain, RCT and Garuda
Vs MBA Kashimo; wins high diff thanks to Domain, soul knowledge, and extreme AP
Vs Yuji, wins mid diff due to likely higher domain refinement, secondary fighter in Garuda and harder strikes
Vs Maki/Toji; wins mid-high diff thanks to knowing about Heavenly Restricted humans, Garuda being a nuisance, Star Rage being intangible, RCT, and being capable of causing far more damage than they could heal from.
Vs Geto; wins mid-low diff due to Domain, better H2H and being a hard counter to CSM
Vs Hakari; wins low-mid diff due to her AP definitely being able to kill him in his domain or even in Jackpot, Garuda, and her own domain.
A good presentation of Yuki's matchups (Link; Link)
Overall, Yuki has an unbelievably impressive matchup sheet, with her pure AP, skill and versatility giving her an answer for almost anyone outside of the top 4. I find it hard to find someone who counters her, as even Uro, who explicitly counters brawlers, would struggle due to Garuda being a ever constant presence. With and without a doubt, Yuki lives up to her ranking as a Special Grade, and should be ranked accordingly. She lost to one of few people who has a supreme answer to her pure power, and I doubt she would lose to many others, even among the best of the best.
Thanks for reading this far! This took quite a while to make :3 Hopefully this can clear up some confusion as to why Yuki is often considered top 5 and is extremely underrated in my opinion. By all measures, Yuki is shown to be, described to be, and implied to be extremely powerful, entirely fitting of her extremely high ranking, and should overall be respected more.
For other posts that can help explain why Yuki is often rated so highly, please check this out; https://www.reddit.com/r/JujutsuPowerScaling/comments/1gi2uem/i_feel_like_a_lot_of_people_forget_how_yukis/
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