Sukuna’s Victory Over Gojo in Jujutsu Kaisen Explained

Only when Jujutsu Kaisen Fans thought Satoru Gojo Has finally made an end to Ryomen SukunaThe King of Curses pulled off one of the most shocking victories in manga history. While fans understood how strong Sukuna was, Gojo’s skill, experience and confidence strongly suggested he would win. Indeed, during the fight, Gojo had an effective counter game for every Sukuna maneuver. Gojo clearly had a better strategy – until the end.

Gojo vs. Sukuna was the fight Jujutsu Kaisen Fans have been waiting for it since the manga’s debut, and it proved to be as epically intense as they expected. Earlier in the story, Gojo easily handled Tsukuna, but that fight only lasted ten seconds and Tsukuna was not at full strength. Since then, however, Sukuna took over Megumi Fushiguro’s bodyAlong with his Ten Shadows Cursed Technique, which comes with an incredibly powerful cursed spirit known as Mahoraga. It was this, and a critical miscalculation by Gojo, that ultimately allowed Sukuna to win the day.

Mahoraga shifted the balance of the fight in Sukuna’s favor

Sukuna’s expansive new list of powers dramatically changed their rematch

Gojo came into the fight with a number of advantages. He was born with the rare Gojo Clan Six Eyes special ability and the Limitless Inherited Technique. Limitless brings the concept of infinity to reality, allowing the user to warp and manipulate space at will, and Gojo can combine it with Six Eyes, which reduces his cursed energy consumption and grants increased precision and accuracy. Their combination allows him to manipulate space so that nothing can hit him. Furthermore, Gojo was a master tactician – always thinking several steps ahead of his opponent. Sukuna, however, is not known as the King of Curses for nothing. Sukuna’s field expansion technique, Malevolent Shrine, allowed him to pierce Limitless Protective Abilities and land a hit on Gojo.

While Sukuna relied only on his “base” cursed technique, Gojo proved to be the more powerful sorcererWhich is why Sukuna decided to use Megumi’s Ten Shadows ability to summon Mahoraga. While Sukuna is able to penetrate Gojo’s Limitless Technique with his own Field Expansion, he is unable to use his Cursed Technique at the same time. Mahoraga’s power is that it can adapt to any attack against it if there is enough time. Mahoraga solved Sukuna’s problems by taking the task of piercing Limitless out of Sukuna’s hands. It thereby freed Sukuna to use his cursed energy attacks as soon as Mahoraga created an opening.

Sukuna secured victory with an incredible last-second strategy

However, Gojo knew all about Mahoraga and his abilities. Accordingly, he tailored his attack to take out Sukuna before Mahoraga could fully adapt, or so he thought. The problem was that Mahoraga does not stop its adapting process and limits itself to one form of adaptation, so, after finding that it had problems successfully adapting to Gojo’s limitless abilities quickly, it decided to broaden its focus. Rather than adapting to Gojo, it decided to adapt to the environment in which Gojo operates—that is, the space that Gojo used to occupy.

Once Sukuna figured out what Mahoraga was doing, he also changed tactics. He planned to learn from Mahoraga’s adaptation and apply it to his own cursed technique. Rather than trying to hit Gojo’s body, he hit the space in which Gojo was operating. Put another way, if Gojo was a figure painted on glass, Limitless would make it impossible for someone to touch the glass where the figure is painted. But it can not stop someone from touching other parts of the glass where the figure is not painted. So, Sukuna figured out that if he broke the glass where the painted figure wasn’t, the cracks would eventually spread to destroy the figure on it, and Gojo couldn’t do anything to stop it.

This was Gojo’s critical miscalculation, and Sukuna caught it by unleashing “the slash that cuts the world”, a new technique that “extended all the way to space, existence, and the world itself”, So make it so that Gojo is not his target, which is limitlessly useless. This is later briefly explained in chapter #246 as “Dismantle (Sukuna’s usual slashing technique) strengthened with a wider cursed technique strike zone”.

Ultimately, Sukuna prevailed due to the help of Mahoraga, the technique he stole from Megumi. However, it is also true that Sukuna did not show his true form in the battle against Gojo, and he has at least one more cursed technique (manipulation of flames) that he did not use in the fight. So, while the battle was even to the end, Jujutsu Kaisen Fans will have to admit that Sukuna Finally exceeded GojoLeaving behind one of the best battles in manga history.

Sukuna and Gojo will battle one more time – but not in the way fans expected

Yuta copying Kenjaku’s cursed ability leads to a heart-wrenching twist as the series reaches its climax

After Gojo’s defeat, fans of the manga were at a loss as to what the main cast would do to try and take down the King of Curses. In a twist that is not quite so unexpected, Yuta Okkotsu decided to copy Kenjaku’s cursed technique and inhabit Gojo’s body To fight the terrifying villain one last time. This turn of events is heart-wrenching, because it confirms that a vast majority of sorcerer society really only ever viewed Gojo as a weapon. While horrific, the series of events are grossly in tune with Jujutsu KaisenThe core themes that were in place from the beginning when Sukuna owned Yuji.

However, Yuta’s appearance in Gojo’s body was a shock to Sukuna as it was to fans in Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter #261. It was a deliberate move as a contingency in case Gojo actually lost to Tsukuna, with its payoff keeping Yuji, Yuta, and their allies alive in the battle, with Yuta is channeling the late mage’s techniques to once again break Sukuna’s domain in chapter #263. But even then, fans would be concerned that Yuta, in Gojo’s body, would meet a similar fate due to Kenjaku’s cursed technique, Brain Transplant, burning out.

It wouldn’t be for another full six chapters when Utah would be revealed as back in his original body in Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter #269. It also put Gojo’s body to rest for the rest of the series, contributing to the vast majority of the showdown against Sukuna, even in death. Despite Gojo not landing the killing blow, his efforts were monumentally useful in the Shinjuku Showdown.

Despite being dead, Gojo actually beats Sukuna in his own way

“No, I would win”

Gojo’s death was a strong catalyst for fans to grow rapidly upset with Jujutsu KaisenAnd hopes of his return from the grave were inevitably buried as Sukuna individually defeated him. However, Gojo contributed a lot to Sukona’s defeat both in Breaking down the malevolent shrine in his initial fightAs well as with Utah, owns it, with Gojo’s Unlimited Hollow Purple also destroys Mahoraga, his wheel and the threat of Fushiguro’s abilities. The fight with Sukuna was lost, but Gojo won the war, thanks to Gojo’s students carrying the torch in his place.

Conversely, this could be dismissed as a convenient way of recommending Gojo’s actual attitude towards Sukuna as something more proactive. It is reasonable for fans to believe that Gojo truly did not expect to lose against Sukuna, and rather, that his students really do something he cannot, Without invalidating the tangible contributions Gojo made to his side winning the fight. It is just as reasonable to believe that Gojo did not see himself losing, but due to what was at stake, Sukuna’s loss was still ultimately Gojo’s posthumous victory in Jujutsu Kaisen.

With the series finale of Jujutsu Kaisen Showing Sukuna finding his humanity in an emotional sendoff, Yuji’s influence playing a major part, and Gojo’s beloved student, Megumi, being saved, it’s a pyrrhic victory for the late genius sorcerer. Gojo’s team withstands everything Sukuna can throw at them, defeating Kenjaku, shutting down the cooling game and stopping the merger with Tengen. The war is over, and Gojo can finally be laid to rest Jujutsu KaisenWith no opponents for him to fight.

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