Can dragon-type namekians even regenerate?

[apex_pretador]

Piccolo - Warrior type

Nail - Warrior type


The only namekians in the entire series (movies, GT, super included) who have regenerated are these two (three maybe if lord slug regenerated ever, but I don't remember that). What do they have in common? They are warrior type, not dragon type

All other Namekians have never ever regenerated even though they had many opportunities to show that if they could.
- King Piccolo
- Dende
- Lots and lots of random namekians
- Kami


So, I have a little theory that only Warrior-type Namekians can actually regenerate. What do you think?

[Kamiccolo9]

You don't have a theory, you have a hypothesis. A point which I only bother nitpicking, because there is nothing to discuss here. There's no evidence either way.

[floofychan333]

Wasn't King Piccolo a warrior type Namekian?

[Darkprince410]

Wasn't King Piccolo a warrior type Namekian?

Daimao was a Dragon Clan Namekian, as only the Dragon Clan are capable of producing eggs.

[GreatSaiyaman123]

It's possible, considering they aren't made for fighting.

[Arugela]

You don't have a theory, you have a hypothesis. A point which I only bother nitpicking, because there is nothing to discuss here. There's no evidence either way.

There is evidence. None of the random namekians regenerated. Most of them did not take damage to their heads to kill them. They all died or random wounds(some to the head) like normal humans being hurt. It defies the logic of them having regenerative powers. Unless they simply lack the power or were never taught/learned the skill. That or those not hit in the head waited for the enemy to leave and regenerated themselves. Or am I mixing up which type of namekian we're talking about?

[PerhapsTheOtherOne]

You don't have a theory, you have a hypothesis. A point which I only bother nitpicking, because there is nothing to discuss here. There's no evidence either way.

There is evidence. None of the random namekians regenerated. Most of them did not take damage to their heads to kill them. They all died or random wounds(some to the head) like normal humans being hurt. It defies the logic of them having regenerative powers. Unless they simply lack the power or were never taught/learned the skill. That or those not hit in the head waited for the enemy to leave and regenerated themselves. Or am I mixing up which type of namekian we're talking about?

Weren't the random Namekians that tried to fight Freeza and his men Warrior-Types, though? I mean, they looked like their only job was to protect their villages, and they had keen battle sense and power, dwarfing the regular Freeza Force soldiers.

[Kamiccolo9]

You don't have a theory, you have a hypothesis. A point which I only bother nitpicking, because there is nothing to discuss here. There's no evidence either way.

There is evidence. None of the random namekians regenerated. Most of them did not take damage to their heads to kill them. They all died or random wounds(some to the head) like normal humans being hurt. It defies the logic of them having regenerative powers. Unless they simply lack the power or were never taught/learned the skill. That or those not hit in the head waited for the enemy to leave and regenerated themselves. Or am I mixing up which type of namekian we're talking about?

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Piccolo has been heavily wounded without his head being damaged without regenerating as well.

My own feeling is that they can only regenerate missing limbs; they can't reform themselves like Buu can.

[Darkprince410]

You don't have a theory, you have a hypothesis. A point which I only bother nitpicking, because there is nothing to discuss here. There's no evidence either way.

There is evidence. None of the random namekians regenerated. Most of them did not take damage to their heads to kill them. They all died or random wounds(some to the head) like normal humans being hurt. It defies the logic of them having regenerative powers. Unless they simply lack the power or were never taught/learned the skill. That or those not hit in the head waited for the enemy to leave and regenerated themselves. Or am I mixing up which type of namekian we're talking about?

As Kammiccolo9 commented, we've seen Piccolo not regenerate from wounds sustained to him that weren't on his head. He failed to regenerate when Freeza shot him through the chest during the Freeza arc of Z or the RoF arc in Super, and died from the blast fired by Nappa that he took in order to save Gohan, despite there being only superficial burns to his outer body.

[PerhapsTheOtherOne]

We also see that it still takes a lot of energy to regenerate for Piccolo, even though he's become so powerful.

Namekian regeneration seems to mostly be a backup in case things go to the crapper, and not something they can rely on.