Is There Any Noticeable Difference Between A Power Level of 1,000,000 and 1,000,001?

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Re: Is There Any Noticeable Difference Between A Power Level of 1,000,000 and 1,000,001?

Post by MasenkoHA » Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:07 pm

DiscountDabi wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 3:45 am Well. Given a Normal Human Farmer with a Shotgun is a 5 and Kid Goku with a 10 could tank Bullets, Lift Cars and Topple Trees.

Yeah I'd imagine it probrably would be.
This is why fans need to stop taking supplementary guide books as gospel.

Like we’re really supposed to believe Goku is only twice as powerful as farmer? Okay

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Re: Is There Any Noticeable Difference Between A Power Level of 1,000,000 and 1,000,001?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:33 pm

MasenkoHA wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:07 pm
DiscountDabi wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 3:45 am Well. Given a Normal Human Farmer with a Shotgun is a 5 and Kid Goku with a 10 could tank Bullets, Lift Cars and Topple Trees.

Yeah I'd imagine it probrably would be.
This is why fans need to stop taking supplementary guide books as gospel.

Like we’re really supposed to believe Goku is only twice as powerful as farmer? Okay
Goku in the beginning of the series probably closer to 20 but he's also naturally physically strong and durable.
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Re: Is There Any Noticeable Difference Between A Power Level of 1,000,000 and 1,000,001?

Post by theherodjl » Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:52 pm

One person who uses Ki is always going to have an advantage over someone who doesn't. Even if Goku only had a power level of 5, he'd still be stronger, faster, and more durable than the farmer.
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Re: Is There Any Noticeable Difference Between A Power Level of 1,000,000 and 1,000,001?

Post by MasenkoHA » Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:15 pm

theherodjl wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:52 pm One person who uses Ki is always going to have an advantage over someone who doesn't. Even if Goku only had a power level of 5, he'd still be stronger, faster, and more durable than the farmer.
Power levels take ki into account. That’s the whole point of the Z fighters being able to lower their ki and raise their ki to give the scanners an inaccurate reading

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Post by Polyphase Avatron » Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:29 pm

MasenkoHA wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:15 pm
theherodjl wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:52 pm One person who uses Ki is always going to have an advantage over someone who doesn't. Even if Goku only had a power level of 5, he'd still be stronger, faster, and more durable than the farmer.
Power levels take ki into account. That’s the whole point of the Z fighters being able to lower their ki and raise their ki to give the scanners an inaccurate reading
I think his point was that the farmer doesn't know how to use his ki.

If there was a battle between someone with a power level of 100 who had never heard of ki and had no idea how to use it, and someone with a power level of 50 who was a master martial artist and ki user and could use techniques like flight and ki blasts, the latter would probably win every time.
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Re: Is There Any Noticeable Difference Between A Power Level of 1,000,000 and 1,000,001?

Post by Yosheets » Thu Aug 26, 2021 11:14 am

No. Battle Powers aren't about stacking a marginally superior Power against another Power, they're about percentages. So 1,000,000 against 1,100,000 or even 1,000,000 against 1,050,000 is going to be a noticeably bigger gap in power than 1,000,000 against 1,000,001.

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Re: Is There Any Noticeable Difference Between A Power Level of 1,000,000 and 1,000,001?

Post by SlashHaiden » Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:43 pm

Power level is really subjective, as you can look at Goku being stated as "the strongest kid in the world" with a PL of 10. If Goku had a PL of 11, he would be WAY stronger.

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Re: Is There Any Noticeable Difference Between A Power Level of 1,000,000 and 1,000,001?

Post by Zillamon51 » Thu Sep 23, 2021 4:29 pm

Someone with a PL of 2 is twice as powerful as someone with a PL of one. That's a big difference, and easy to predict the winner of a fight.

1,000,000 vs. 1,000,001 is no significant difference. Fight could easily go either way.
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Re: Is There Any Noticeable Difference Between A Power Level of 1,000,000 and 1,000,001?

Post by tasuxeda » Sun Nov 07, 2021 12:05 pm

In my opinion the characters likely would consider these power levels to be the same unless they like to nitpick, as unless all other factors in a fight like skill or biology are exactly the same then a slight difference in power level is unlikely to make a difference in a fight.

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Re: Is There Any Noticeable Difference Between A Power Level of 1,000,000 and 1,000,001?

Post by Ironixie » Sun Nov 07, 2021 3:59 pm

No, not really, if you had a power level that was merely 1 point above your pier, it would make you pretty much interchangeable in terms of power. Though even then, if your power level is lower, you could still have an attribute that's better than the power that has a higher level than you. You could be physically stronger while they're physically faster, or vice versa,

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