HeroR wrote:That is a bunch of assumption based on the manga not doing Resurrection 'F' and people assuming Goku didn't fight Freeza in his base form like he did in the movie and the anime retelling.
Regardless it resulted in much confusion with the anime due to people having the belief that Base Goku was as strong as Super Saiyan God which meant that others would be as well which then caused confusion because people thought those characters shouldn't be that strong.
Then the manga came out and he used Super Saiyan God and then it started to become more clear because we knew they weren't then.
Using the manga version of the Trunks fight is also flawed since the manga had Super Saiyan 2 Trunks equal with Super Saiyan 3 Goku
Different forms may have been used but after the anime came out there were those who again took issue with Trunks power and so were saying that Goku didn't need to transform, only did so to match his form, was toying around etc.
The manga then made it clear that Trunks really was supposed to be a match for Goku and that it wasn't just him playing around. His match for a different form depending on the version but a match nonetheless.
Goku was ready to used Kaioken against Toppo, while in the manga Goku didn't used Mastered Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan and Toppo won because Goku dropped his guard.
In the anime the two were fighting somewhat evenly and then the ending made it unclear on whether they meant Toppo was equal to Goku as a Super Saiyan Blue or when he was using the Kaio-ken.
Then the manga seemed to suggest it could have gone either way and recently in the anime Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta was seemingly on the same kind of level so would appear, for the time being, that he was on the level of Blue and Blue Kaioken.
The whole 'Base Goku's power retconned back to his Buu levels' was always headcanon fans made up
Yes this is true but people did have that belief and it was causing confusion. Now the manga has again recently made clear that it's running with the idea that he's much more powerful than before which has cleared some of the confusion for the anime.