Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26207833-20150318070524/@comment-5693502-20150320005211

Like I said above, Yuri should comfortably beat Karaka but unlike Yuri, whose power we've been given a pretty good indication of, we know next to nothing about Karaka other than he has been climbing the rankings very fast.

The rankings don't give a completely accurate indication of a Ranker's fighting strength anyway (e.g. Evan Edrok being ranked around 100th despite being implied to have relatively low battle power). Not to mention, a fight isn't always won with pure strength anyway.

Karaka may not be as physically mighty as Yuri but he may be extremely cunning and/or strategically proficient (brains over brawn). For example, if you faced Koon against Baam one would initially expect the winner to be Baam 9 times out of 10 (since Baam is broken as fuck). However Koon is extremely intelligent, cunning and has great strategic capabilities so taking that into account the winner between the two becomes less clear (I'd still think Baam would probably win but his chances would go down drastically).

The same principles could apply if Karaka was to face Yuri. But since we know next to nothing about Karaka an accurate comparison is hard to make.