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Accelerator was able to kil 10,000 clons of another level 5 esper, the 3rd
most powerful esper. If he's so above other espers, why isnt he counted as a
level 6 esper already? What does a esper need to count as level 6?


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Why if accelerator is so above other level 5 espers he isnt count as level 6 already?


While they where clones of a level 5 esper, the experiment was a failure due
to the clones being fairly weak:

> The abilities of the Sisters were less than 1% as powerfufl as those of the
> original Railgun. On average they were merely Level 2, and even the
> strongest ones never developed beyond Level 3.

(Railgun S, episode 3)

If they could have cloned Misaka perfectly, they would only have needed 128 of
her:

> Based on the simulations, we have concluded that by preparing 128 kinds of
> battlefields, and killing the Railgun 128 times, the subject would shift to
> Level 6. However, as it proved impossible to procure multiple Railguns we
> have decided to use the Sisters, originally from the suspended Radio Noise
> projecct, as replacements. By deploying a large number of armed Sisters, and
> accounting for variance in the production process... By using 20,000 sisters
> in various combat scenarios, we may achieve a Level 6 Shift.

(Railgun S, episode 5, last line was typeset on the screen instead of being
read aloud)

So Accelerator did not reach level 6 after killing 10,000 of the clones
because they are so much weaker. (How exactly killing a million ants should
make you be able to fight a bear makes no sense to me.) However I don't what
counts as being level 6 or why they want to reach it (and how they planned to
control Accelerator after the fact).


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