Edit: Turns out a later Kombat Kast retconned the kick into being done with portals, nullifying much of the feat. So keep that in mind while reading this.
In one of the Kombat Kasts, the devs actually mention that Rain's super kick canonically launches the opponent around the planet.
I went and counted the frames from the moment of the kick's impact to the moment Sub-Zero hits the ground, and it takes exactly 52 frames.
The circumference of Earth is 40,075 km, and for simplicity's sake I'm going to assume he's traveling the whole circumference down to the meter (because I can't be bothered to do pixel scaling to overcomplicate an otherwise basic calc).
40,075,000 m/(52/60)sec = 46,240,384.6154 m/
46,240,384.6154 m/299792458 = 0.15424132055 = 0.15c
Now for the KE. Going off the average Chinese male weight (since Sub-Zero was canonically born in China) gives us 77.7 kg. Putting this through the relativistic kinetic energy calculator nets us a result of 84580202362 megajoules, or 20.215153528202674 megatons.
Lastly, while it doesn't have a whole lot to do with the kick itself, the devs also stated that Rain has control over all of the Earth's water, even noting that about 80% of the world is water. Looking up how much all the water on Earth weighs on Google tells me that it weighs 1.4 × 10^18 tonnes, which converts nicely into 1.4e+21 kg. Which probably comes out to continent+/multi-continent level just from mass alone.
Results
Rain Super Kicks Sub-Zero (launch speed) = 0.15c
Rain Super Kicks Sub-Zero (KE) = 20.21 megatons.
Weight of Earth's Water (that Rain has control over) = 1.4e+21 kg
The nice thing about the kick itself is that it should also apply to his own speed since he can react to the launched opponent, and even nicer is that this should technically apply to both timelines since the move itself is the same, and all the devs did was confirm that it does indeed launch the opponent around the planet. Overall all of these things should scale nicely to some of the high tier characters, at least in the NRS timeline.
In one of the Kombat Kasts, the devs actually mention that Rain's super kick canonically launches the opponent around the planet.
I went and counted the frames from the moment of the kick's impact to the moment Sub-Zero hits the ground, and it takes exactly 52 frames.
The circumference of Earth is 40,075 km, and for simplicity's sake I'm going to assume he's traveling the whole circumference down to the meter (because I can't be bothered to do pixel scaling to overcomplicate an otherwise basic calc).
40,075,000 m/(52/60)sec = 46,240,384.6154 m/
46,240,384.6154 m/299792458 = 0.15424132055 = 0.15c
Now for the KE. Going off the average Chinese male weight (since Sub-Zero was canonically born in China) gives us 77.7 kg. Putting this through the relativistic kinetic energy calculator nets us a result of 84580202362 megajoules, or 20.215153528202674 megatons.
Lastly, while it doesn't have a whole lot to do with the kick itself, the devs also stated that Rain has control over all of the Earth's water, even noting that about 80% of the world is water. Looking up how much all the water on Earth weighs on Google tells me that it weighs 1.4 × 10^18 tonnes, which converts nicely into 1.4e+21 kg. Which probably comes out to continent+/multi-continent level just from mass alone.
Results
Rain Super Kicks Sub-Zero (launch speed) = 0.15c
Rain Super Kicks Sub-Zero (KE) = 20.21 megatons.
Weight of Earth's Water (that Rain has control over) = 1.4e+21 kg
The nice thing about the kick itself is that it should also apply to his own speed since he can react to the launched opponent, and even nicer is that this should technically apply to both timelines since the move itself is the same, and all the devs did was confirm that it does indeed launch the opponent around the planet. Overall all of these things should scale nicely to some of the high tier characters, at least in the NRS timeline.
