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To be fair, I see He-Man as 'High Tier Gatekeeper' rather than 'pure High Tier'. He is stronger than some of the guys we have in High (Bigby specifically comes to mind), but there are a bunch of people who I could see him losing to in mid - guy would probably outright forfeit to Maxwell, guys like Razputin and Luke could pretty easily take advantage of the Adam side of things, Aang's "actively remove the energy from your body" is a pretty strong counter, and the Rick/Elizabeth/Giorno threepack in general is really weird for him to overcome. No one here could straight overpower him, but I think he got really good bracket placement against guys who would straight-up fight him, the most cartoon villain of cartoon villains in mid, a city, and then this to actually test him.

Insofar as He-Man's limits... "as convenient as it would be for him to revert, but not actually lose". If I'm recalling right, most of Adam's depowering is around Snake Mountain, where the magic of Greyskull is weakened by the influence of Skeletor/Serpos (I could be wrong, I am going off memory and it is scary for me to go over every He-Man episode again to figure out which ones he depowers in). It's a lot more "cutting him off from/interfering with the power of the source", which disarming does succeed in doing... but it's "the secrets of the universe" he's infused with and is treated as a kind of cosmic force. Kinda hard to proper quantify that.

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