Talk:Arata/@comment-186.23.212.125-20150531061728/@comment-81.233.86.104-20150531195746

When you receive new top-of-the-line equipment you are quite likely to change your combat style to a differing degree depending on the characteristics. When he was saying those lines it was mainly because he was up against Kakuja and Half-Kakuja, indirectly complimenting his opponent's sheer force. We don´t know how capable the "average" Special-class Investigator is because several were either killed or forced into retirement ten years before the start of the series because of the Owl attacks, but the amount of ability shown by Shinohara and Kuroiwa when wielding Arata is without a doubt abnormal.

Yoshimura was powerful enough to take on an entire extermination force on his own, which speaks highly for the abnormal quality of the stim they receive in conjunction with their own natural skills when wearing Kakuja-Experimental Armor due to the fact that they could suppress him in their fights. Eto's sudden appearance in the Anteiku Raid was just that, a surprise assault where she forced a weakened and largely exhausted Owl Suppression unit out of commision.

What goes for Arima appears to be a rather unnatural capability for following and redirecting the flow of battle together with high-end offensive equipment, and wasteless movements that are crucial when you´re fighting something as large as either Owl, so it should be hard to base the predicted might of a Special-class from looking at the Arata-wielders and Arima, especially since Shinohara hasn´t been seen directly fighting prior to the encounter in the 11th Ward.