Who was able to resist more punches from Saitama, Boros or Garou?


It's known few characteres can resist punches from Saitama when he's half
serious (probably only Boros, Garou and Orochi until now)

Who was able to resist more punches from Saitama, Boros or Garou?




## (Warning: webcomic spoilers ahead; shortcomings of spoiler tag formatting
makes it overly burdensome to use them)

  
  
I'll give a page-by-page rundown of the attacks that we see both Boros and
Garou take from Saitama without dying; this won't count the time Garou got
smacked for the dine-and-dash incident (or the couple extra times he got hit
in the manga version of events before they've actually fought). The
manga/anime version of the Boros fight is a bit different than in the
webcomic, but since a proper fight with Garou has to date only occurred in the
webcomic we'll have to use the webcomic for both fights to put them on an even
footing; or at least "more even". I think there are more blows thrown by
Saitama in the webcomic version, interestingly enough.

## Boros vs. Saitama

  * chapter 38 page 06-07 —armor-breaking chest punch
  * chapter 38 page 15 —off-screen jump in fight, Boros has lost an arm; possibly many blows have been thrown, at least by Boros, as Saitama is quite a bit dustier than he seemed to be before
  * chapter 39 page 13 —running exchange of blows; some are obviously countering each other, others not so much
  * chapter 40 page 05 —chest punch
  * chapter 40 page 06 —normal punch combo reduces much of Boros to vapor (he regenerates)

The fight then ends with Saitama's next attack, a serious punch, with Boros
dying.

It's hard to know exactly how many punches Saitama threw that weren't part of
his "consecutive punches"/"combo", due to that jump in the fight (the
intervening pages involve the other heroes). But there's at least 3 normal
punches landing a direct hit, a normal punch combo, and 4 or more
matched/countered attacks occurring during their running exchange. We are not
given any clear indication that Boros ever dodged any of Saitama's blows, but
he does appear to at least counter some or survive having his attacks
countered (until the serious punch).

## Garou vs. Saitama

  * chapter 88 page 08 — punch to face
  * chapter 88 page 13 — shoulder throw into the ground
  * chapter 89 page 07 — dodged punch to face
  * chapter 89 page 10 — dodged punch to chest
  * chapter 89 page 11 — dodged kick to chest
  * chapter 89 page 12 — dodged two punches
  * chapter 90 page 08 — survives a normal punch combo
  * chapter 90 pages 12-13 — two-handed normal punch combo; gets overwhelmed but no real damage (might have deflected them all before escaping)
  * chapter 91 page 05 — avoids getting arm grabbed
  * chapter 91 pages 06-07 — escapes getting slammed into ground
  * chapter 91 page 11 — survives direct punch
  * chapter 91 page 13 — survives direct punch to face
  * chapter 92 page 09 — gut punch in first monster form
  * chapter 92 pages 11-12 — Loses arm to serious headbutt, regenerates it
  * chapter 92 pages 14-15 — punched again, transformations start to undo

At this point Saitama says Garou's getting weaker and running on fumes, and
he's basically just scolding him. So the following hits can probably be
discarded, but I'll list them for completeness.

  * chapter 92 page 17 — slapped around, punched in face;
  * chapter 92 page 20 — punched again because he won't shut up
  * chapter 93 page 09 — downward hammer punch to head out of annoyance again

That's a normal punch combo, a two-handed normal punch combo, a serious
headbutt, and 14 or so other punches or kicks, plus a few other moves, before
Saitama declares that he's started getting weaker and just starts slapping him
around and scolding him.

Garou dodges or counters many of the attacks, with dodges indicated above. For
direct hits: 5 punches and a slam connected, a normal punch combo connected
seemingly in full (at least 14+ impact points from what I can count, but many
of them overlap almost completely with others making it hard to be sure), and
a two-handed normal punch combo overwhelmed him (he was doing a flurry of his
own) but it's not clear if anything actually connected.

## Analysis

Ultimately there's going to be some opinions here as there are some mitigating
concerns that aren't addressed in the canon. Of principle importance to me is:
was Boros capable of dodging any of Saitama's attacks? We don't see him do so,
but Boros was also clearly relying on his regeneration, so it's conceivable it
was possible for him to do so but he simply elected not to because he could
just regenerate the damage.

My personal opinion: Garou wins this comparison. Here's my list of reasons
why.

  * Unlike with Boros, we do definitively see Garou reading Saitama's movements, dodging and countering many of them.
  * Garou suffers several direct blows without taking lethal damage.
  * Garou doesn't lose any body parts to the direct hits until a serious headbutt.
  * Garou survives a serious series attack, whereas Boros dies to the only one Saitama uses. (Saitama also uses a serious table flip during the Garou fight, though this was not really intended to do damage so much as to show off and make Garou fight more seriously.)
  * Garou survives two combination attacks, whereas Boros only deals with one.
  * The total number of attacks we see directed at Garou is higher, though to be fair to Boros there's an undisclosed number of them that happen off-screen; could be zero, could be a whole bunch, but the rest of the fight suggests it's probably towards the low end.

As for word of god statements, ONE has said a melee Boros vs. Garou would be a
hell of a fight. Many people take this as saying that Boros and Garou are of
similar power levels. However their fighting styles and capabilities are
vastly different. Garou uses skill and technique to control fights and strike
at weak points and openings, whereas Boros relies on overwhelming power and
regeneration. Boros also has ranged attacks. At range Boros would probably
win, while head-to-head it'd be an epic clash with no word-of-god victor
known. None of that actually addresses how well either of them deals with
blows _from Saitama_ , though. Just makes it easy for each individual fan to
pick a side (or go Switzerland and stay out of it or declare them equal).




Up until now saitama really did not have to do anything at all to beat garou
all it took was one really simple shot(not even a punch) And in manga too
there isn't any fight scene between garou and saitama, it's yet to be revealed
if garou would be able to endure punches from him or not And if you read the
manga you would be aware of the condition of Orochi. So far boros is the only
one who gave a little fight to Saitama

