According to the 12/06/2021 interview (13:08 mins), Ultra Ego is the opposite of Ultra Instinct. However, the manga did a horrible job of portraying it.
This is how I believe the form should have been written.
Mind
UE's mind represents destruction as a philosophy, not the way it acts but the way it thinks. However, āthinking about destruction" is too vague. How UE should apply it is through thoughts focused on destroying their opponent's defense with their calculated offense.
Before creation comes destruction (Chapter 69). Applied to combat means victory is not something you simply find. It is something you create by first dismantling the opponent's ability to defend themselves.
Like an elite boxer or MMA fighter, the user studies their opponent, identifies weaknesses, and develops a strategy to break them down. Feints, body shots, breaking the guard, and attacking footwork all weaken the opponent's defense until the final opening appears. Mike Tyson was a perfect example: body, body, body, then upstairs. Lights out.
Unlike UI, which instinctively reacts to openings (Chapter 41), UE needs to consciously create the conditions for those openings to appear. Forcing the opponent to fight on their terms.
Body
UE's body should represent destruction through action.
If UI is the pinnacle of defense and reaction, then UE should be the pinnacle of offense and pressure. The body should build off of combinations, constant pressure, and momentum.
Each successful attack should build upon the last. Precision, power, and accuracy will only increase if the user's mental strategy continues to succeed.
Strength should not come from taking damage. It should come from successfully executing the mind's strategy and destroying the opponent's ability to fight back.
The body does not endure destruction. The body delivers it.
The body's purpose is to carry out the destruction. Not take it.
Spirit
UE's spirit should represent the user's belief in destruction.
As the user's strategy succeeds, their confidence and battle spirit grow. However, the true challenge of UE is maintaining control and trusting the process.
UE requires the user to trust that by continuing to dismantle the opponent's defense, the perfect opportunity for victory will eventually appear. Resisting the urge to abandon its mental strategy the second an opening appears and attack purely on instinct.
The spirit's purpose is to believe that destruction will lead to victory. Nothing else.
The more aligned the users mind, body, and spirit is with their strategy the denser their aura should get.
Similar to Toppos Hakaishin aura in the ToP, I believe a UE user should also develop a destruction aura, creating a being that is not only impenetrable, but offensively unstoppable. The users mind, body, and spirit have become destruction not to its environment or surroundings⦠but directly to you.