#and he doesn't really get mad at tokoyami for it unlike with shouto bc even bakugou can see it's out of tokoyami's hands

[delawaredetroit]

To Bakugou's credit, it seems like he made this comment because he was upset that he physically can't fight Tokoyami at his strongest, and he wasn't trying to say that he's better than Tokoyami.

It's more that he was saying that by nature of how their quirks interact it's impossible to tell who is objectively stronger. He can only win by technicality because his quirk gives off light, which goes against Bakugou's modus operandi of absolute victory against opponents who are giving it their all.