ABED wrote:You can't compare it to real life in that manner. In DB world, at some point it doesn't matter what the tactics are, some characters are too powerful.
Not exactly true, as long as you know what you're doing and the difference isn't so great that you are basically a cricket fighting a mountain.
Let's imagine that Tenshinhan blinds Nappa with the Taiyōken and Krillin comes in with a Kienzan. There you go— two halves of a dead space monkey. We also don't ever see too many "sensitive attacks" anymore. It's very hard to build durability in your groin or neck, for example. Pump some thunderous punches to Nappa's family jewels and I bet you he won't be able to even stand after a while.
What's more, stamina is still a big deal in the world of Dragon Ball (sorta). I've long since hypothesized that there must be a reversed form of Kaiōken, which I've named Kyōka-tai (Reinforced Body) where you could theoretically be able to increase your ki output to absorb blows from opponents much stronger than yourself. If you are able to time it right and not overexert yourself, you could wear out your opponent and then counterattack.
In Nappa's case though, it really is a situation where the Zetto Senshi are up against someone who is more powerful and more experienced than all of them combined. Saiyans are a warrior race by nature and have much more durable bodies, essentially meaning that if a Saiyan and a Human had the same power level, the Saiyan is still technically more capable. Not to mention that Nappa was supposedly in his 50s and lived a life of warfare and combat throughout it all.
Relating it to something I read a while back, remember when AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol back in 2016? And how AlphaZero was described as playing "chess from another dimension"? The senshi are a bunch of Lee Sedols and Ke Jies, but in terms of martial arts and ki mastery. The Saiyans were like AlphaZeroes from 2037. It's martial arts vs. entities who are literally designed for that purpose and occupy a strata of skill and strength that you will never know without literal help from god or technology.