Ok, I am now completely convinced you actually didn't watch the video's your trying to critique, because he literally used the the example of Goku and Freeza's fight on Namek to justify his point.Rally 07 wrote:How are the transformations or the Kaioken technique arbitrary though? That still doesn't even make sense to claim to be perfectly honest.JazzMazz wrote: He wasn't transformations aren't multipliers, he was saying the number the transformations are a multiplier of(with the slight exception of Kaio-Ken), are almost entirely arbitrary.
How another character can surpass another character? Well have you or PinWheel really seen Dragon Ball or Z or Super? Because even if a character transforms, that doesn't necessarily mean he could surpass his opponent. Like Gokou vs. Freeza on Namek, even when transformed he still had an tough and intense fight against Freeza. Gokou has transformed against plenty of opponents and has lost. Then later as a Super Saiyan 3 against Kid Boo, Gokou lost to him blatantly. So transformations and power ups are only just a plot device. The problem with saying transforming is plot and only plot; I mean yes indeed it is plot. But with power scaling, it is essentially a certain sense of the plot. And that sense is the power of the characters. And what power scaling does is basically extrapolating a certain sense of Dragon Ball's plot which is the power of the characters.JazzMazz wrote: The number for the multiplier of each transformation is almost completely irrelevant to how the story is told. The purpose of each transformation, is basically to visually communicate how another character can surpass another character they were fighting evenly with or even losing to in a stylish fashion to the audience. It also communicates the basic vague idea of how strong said character is.
My best advice to you is to actually watch the video's before poorly potraying the points presented in them.