Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by Marlowe89 » Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:33 pm

Hugo Boss wrote: I agree. We should exercise empathy more in this community.
Well for my part, it's not like I particularly have a problem with the idea that base/SS/2/3 Goku is stronger than Gotenks but still weaker than SSG on a surface level -- that was something I subscribed to myself before the shenanigans with Gohan, Universe 9, Tupper and some of these other characters in the tournament like Ganos. I'm just not all that convinced that it's what the writers currently intend at this point, and I have the feeling that Toyotaro will probably follow the same general outline of these fights for the manga's version of the ToP as well.

Toshio's confirmation that the anime team tries to follow Toriyama's perspective on power-scaling coupled with the fact that the Potaufeu arc (and likely the movie adaptation arcs as well) lacked any supervision from Toriyama's own drafts for Super leads me to believe that the retcon interpretation still holds merit, but everyone is entitled to believe whatever they want. It's specifically when certain posters act offended by this idea that I start to feel there's a bit of disingenuity going on in the thread.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by PerhapsTheOtherOne » Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:43 pm

Well, as the stakes get higher and we approach the climax of this current arc, the actual strengths of fighters will likely be made more clear in terms of their relation to each other, as is standard of the high stakes final boss fights in the franchise.

Right now, we're in the "show off the super cool abilities and have cool exchanges between different kinds of fighters" stage, which generally isn't meant to show off any hard strength numbers yet, at least based on how I'm personally interpreting it.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by Hugo Boss » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:57 pm

Marlowe89 wrote:
Hugo Boss wrote: I agree. We should exercise empathy more in this community.
Well for my part, it's not like I particularly have a problem with the idea that base/SS/2/3 Goku is stronger than Gotenks but still weaker than SSG on a surface level -- that was something I subscribed to myself before the shenanigans with Gohan, Universe 9, Tupper and some of these other characters in the tournament like Ganos. I'm just not all that convinced that it's what the writers currently intend at this point, and I have the feeling that Toyotaro will probably follow the same general outline of these fights for the manga's version of the ToP as well.

Toshio's confirmation that the anime team tries to follow Toriyama's perspective on power-scaling coupled with the fact that the Potaufeu arc (and likely the movie adaptation arcs as well) lacked any supervision from Toriyama's own drafts for Super leads me to believe that the retcon interpretation still holds merit, but everyone is entitled to believe whatever they want. It's specifically when certain posters act offended by this idea that I start to feel there's a bit of disingenuity going on in the thread.
Maybe they intended to follow the notion that Goku absorbed the power of Super Saiyan God and abandoned unnecessary transformations, but after a certain point Goku or Vegeta can decide how to use this power. Conveniently, it would be practically impossible to quantify how much of it they use when they aren't Super Saiyan Blue, since this is their true strength anyway. This sounds a bit annoying to a fan that likes to craft power lists with the different forms of the Saiyans but whatever.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by JazzMazz » Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:42 am

Hugo Boss wrote:
Marlowe89 wrote:
Hugo Boss wrote: I agree. We should exercise empathy more in this community.
Well for my part, it's not like I particularly have a problem with the idea that base/SS/2/3 Goku is stronger than Gotenks but still weaker than SSG on a surface level -- that was something I subscribed to myself before the shenanigans with Gohan, Universe 9, Tupper and some of these other characters in the tournament like Ganos. I'm just not all that convinced that it's what the writers currently intend at this point, and I have the feeling that Toyotaro will probably follow the same general outline of these fights for the manga's version of the ToP as well.

Toshio's confirmation that the anime team tries to follow Toriyama's perspective on power-scaling coupled with the fact that the Potaufeu arc (and likely the movie adaptation arcs as well) lacked any supervision from Toriyama's own drafts for Super leads me to believe that the retcon interpretation still holds merit, but everyone is entitled to believe whatever they want. It's specifically when certain posters act offended by this idea that I start to feel there's a bit of disingenuity going on in the thread.
Maybe they intended to follow the notion that Goku absorbed the power of Super Saiyan God and abandoned unnecessary transformations, but after a certain point Goku or Vegeta can decide how to use this power. Conveniently, it would be practically impossible to quantify how much of it they use when they aren't Super Saiyan Blue, since this is their true strength anyway. This sounds a bit annoying to a fan that likes to craft power lists with the different forms of the Saiyans but whatever.
I completely agree, outside of knowing where SSB stands in relation to other characters(and even thats difficult due to him constantly holding back), it's really impossible to place how much power they're using in their super Saiyan forms, or where their SS forms stand in general.

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Post by TAF108 » Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:40 am

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Frieza thought he killed Trunks after his first attack. Then Trunks fired a ki blast and Frieza instinctively dodged, but that was part of Trunk's plant and he came down on him as Frieza was going up. And considering how Gohan stated Frieza was suppressed, it was never stated Frieza powered up, and Frieza tends not to go at full power right away when he fights, it seems logical he still wasn't at full power when killed. Not that it would of made much of a difference since Trunks would still be stronger and still would of hit him at full power on the head with a sword.
I don't think Trunks was much above namek saga ssj Goku in power. So I would put him around maybe 160 mil, and when he came back later in the arc maybe 170-180 mil. I would put the androids at around 220 mil, which would be plenty to stomp him silly, and that isn't even 2x Frieza's max power.
Like I said, I'll completely disregard Trunks' fight with Freeza while discussing this. If you consider that Trunks should be stronger than Freeza on Namek, if you're conservative and say he's just above Namek Goku. Goku had been training for a decent amount of time on Yadrat, and then Goku trains for 3 years with Piccolo and Gohan. Yada..Yada, skip to the fight with 18 and Vegeta. Vegeta (about as strong as Goku) is clearly much stronger than Trunks (who is stronger than Freeza), and 18 beats Vegeta without breaking a sweat.
So just considering how 18 > Vegeta > Trunks > Freeza, I'd say it has to be pushing higher than that. If we use your numbers for returned Trunks being 180 mill, then Vegeta has to be the one around 220 mill. And then 18 was beating that Vegeta while not giving it her all. I've always seen the Artificial Humans as closer 300 mill, 400 max. This is pretty off track for the overall thread, but I'll concede to the original number of around 2x-ish.
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So this is something I've thought about a bit. Katchi Katchin's been broken by pretty much all the characters at this point right? Even Roshi I believe managed to break it. So for the densest metal in the Multiverse, it doesn't seem overly impressive. Not much of a scaling point but I think it's semi-interesting.
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TAF108 wrote:[spoiler]Image[/spoiler]

So this is something I've thought about a bit. Katchi Katchin's been broken by pretty much all the characters at this point right? Even Roshi I believe managed to break it. So for the densest metal in the Multiverse, it doesn't seem overly impressive. Not much of a scaling point but I think it's semi-interesting.
I'm using Katchi Katchin breaking feats as legit power statements. I think if anyone is able to break the metal, then they're definitely stronger than Buu Saga Base Gohan at the very least, since he wasn't able to slice that Katchin block with the Z-sword.

Of course, Tenshinhan uses the Kikoho for everything and I don't believe Roshi or Krillin have damaged the metal without amplified attacks either, so they don't need to be that strong.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by Hugo Boss » Sat Sep 09, 2017 8:41 am

DBZ Macky wrote:I'm using Katchi Katchin breaking feats as legit power statements. I think if anyone is able to break the metal, then they're definitely stronger than Buu Saga Base Gohan at the very least, since he wasn't able to slice that Katchin block with the Z-sword.
I think the Z Sword broke due to a set of factors. Perhaps the sword itself wasn't that special, just pretty heavy. Couple that with Goku overdoing a bit. If Goku and Gohan were using equivalent force against each other, it came to block vs. sword and the block won.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by Animelover5487 » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:18 am

DBZ Macky wrote:
TAF108 wrote:[spoiler]Image[/spoiler]

So this is something I've thought about a bit. Katchi Katchin's been broken by pretty much all the characters at this point right? Even Roshi I believe managed to break it. So for the densest metal in the Multiverse, it doesn't seem overly impressive. Not much of a scaling point but I think it's semi-interesting.
I'm using Katchi Katchin breaking feats as legit power statements. I think if anyone is able to break the metal, then they're definitely stronger than Buu Saga Base Gohan at the very least, since he wasn't able to slice that Katchin block with the Z-sword.

Of course, Tenshinhan uses the Kikoho for everything and I don't believe Roshi or Krillin have damaged the metal without amplified attacks either, so they don't need to be that strong.
Caway damaged it and Base Roshi overpowered her with two fingers lol, so evidently you're wrong.

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Post by PerhapsTheOtherOne » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:44 am

Well, maybe Kachi Katchin is simply impossibly strong by real-world standards, it just sucks in such a high-octane battle royale between so many different power levels of fighters in this franchise.

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Post by Bullza » Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:01 pm

Some of these characters can wipe out planets and solar systems with little effort. So it's not really that surprising that they can destroy some durable metal.

It's holding up better than any planet probably would under such circumstances.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by dragon boss z » Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:40 pm

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Frieza thought he killed Trunks after his first attack. Then Trunks fired a ki blast and Frieza instinctively dodged, but that was part of Trunk's plant and he came down on him as Frieza was going up. And considering how Gohan stated Frieza was suppressed, it was never stated Frieza powered up, and Frieza tends not to go at full power right away when he fights, it seems logical he still wasn't at full power when killed. Not that it would of made much of a difference since Trunks would still be stronger and still would of hit him at full power on the head with a sword.
I don't think Trunks was much above namek saga ssj Goku in power. So I would put him around maybe 160 mil, and when he came back later in the arc maybe 170-180 mil. I would put the androids at around 220 mil, which would be plenty to stomp him silly, and that isn't even 2x Frieza's max power.
Like I said, I'll completely disregard Trunks' fight with Freeza while discussing this. If you consider that Trunks should be stronger than Freeza on Namek, if you're conservative and say he's just above Namek Goku. Goku had been training for a decent amount of time on Yadrat, and then Goku trains for 3 years with Piccolo and Gohan. Yada..Yada, skip to the fight with 18 and Vegeta. Vegeta (about as strong as Goku) is clearly much stronger than Trunks (who is stronger than Freeza), and 18 beats Vegeta without breaking a sweat.
So just considering how 18 > Vegeta > Trunks > Freeza, I'd say it has to be pushing higher than that. If we use your numbers for returned Trunks being 180 mill, then Vegeta has to be the one around 220 mill. And then 18 was beating that Vegeta while not giving it her all. I've always seen the Artificial Humans as closer 300 mill, 400 max. This is pretty off track for the overall thread, but I'll concede to the original number of around 2x-ish.
18 beat Vegeta without breaking a sweat because she has unlimited stamina. And yes, Goku got stronger, but he doesn't have to be much stronger than Trunks. People use him blocking Trunk's sword with his finger as proof, but Goku said Trunks was holding back and in the Super manga he blocked multiple blows from a ssj2 Trunks that was about equal in power with him.
But ya, the androids could be 300-400 million, I just saw nothing that proved them that high, especially the future androids who Trunks said he could hold his own against 1v1, meaning they probably shouldn't be much over 200 mil, but the current androids can be stronger, and they are stated to be stronger.

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Frieza thought he killed Trunks after his first attack. Then Trunks fired a ki blast and Frieza instinctively dodged, but that was part of Trunk's plant and he came down on him as Frieza was going up. And considering how Gohan stated Frieza was suppressed, it was never stated Frieza powered up, and Frieza tends not to go at full power right away when he fights, it seems logical he still wasn't at full power when killed. Not that it would of made much of a difference since Trunks would still be stronger and still would of hit him at full power on the head with a sword.
I don't think Trunks was much above namek saga ssj Goku in power. So I would put him around maybe 160 mil, and when he came back later in the arc maybe 170-180 mil. I would put the androids at around 220 mil, which would be plenty to stomp him silly, and that isn't even 2x Frieza's max power.
Like I said, I'll completely disregard Trunks' fight with Freeza while discussing this. If you consider that Trunks should be stronger than Freeza on Namek, if you're conservative and say he's just above Namek Goku. Goku had been training for a decent amount of time on Yadrat, and then Goku trains for 3 years with Piccolo and Gohan. Yada..Yada, skip to the fight with 18 and Vegeta. Vegeta (about as strong as Goku) is clearly much stronger than Trunks (who is stronger than Freeza), and 18 beats Vegeta without breaking a sweat.
So just considering how 18 > Vegeta > Trunks > Freeza, I'd say it has to be pushing higher than that. If we use your numbers for returned Trunks being 180 mill, then Vegeta has to be the one around 220 mill. And then 18 was beating that Vegeta while not giving it her all. I've always seen the Artificial Humans as closer 300 mill, 400 max. This is pretty off track for the overall thread, but I'll concede to the original number of around 2x-ish.
18 beat Vegeta without breaking a sweat because she has unlimited stamina. And yes, Goku got stronger, but he doesn't have to be much stronger than Trunks. People use him blocking Trunk's sword with his finger as proof, but Goku said Trunks was holding back and in the Super manga he blocked multiple blows from a ssj2 Trunks that was about equal in power with him.
But ya, the androids could be 300-400 million, I just saw nothing that proved them that high, especially the future androids who Trunks said he could hold his own against 1v1, meaning they probably shouldn't be much over 200 mil, but the current androids can be stronger, and they are stated to be stronger.
She let Vegeta wear himself out sure, but it's not like when he was running full steam he stood much of a chance. 18 never seemed phased by anything he did, the most he accomplished was dirtying her clothes. Her tiring him out seems more like the way she fights than her actually needing to do so. No. 18 shouldn't be far off from 17, who was equal to Kamicollo. And weighted Kamicollo was already stronger than SSJ Vegeta, who was significantly stronger than Mirai Trunks.
Looking at it as 17 = Kamicollo > 18 > Weighted Kamicollo > SSJ Vegeta > SSJ Trunks. There just seems to be to large a gap for me to consider everyone to be neck and neck (numerically speaking.)
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Had a lot of spare time so I decided to make my own tier list for this arc, I would appreciate some feedback on this:

Tier 1

Jiren


Tier 2

SSJB Goku (Kaioken x20)


Tier 3

SSJB Goku (Kaioken)

Toppo


Tier 4

Hit

SSJB Goku

SSJB Vegeta

True Golden Freeza


Tier 5

Ultimate Gohan

SSJG Goku

Dyspo

Maji=Kayo


Tier 6

#17

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Tier 7

Kahseral

Berserk Kale


Tier 8

SSJ2 Goku

SSJ2 Vegeta

SSJ2 Gohan

SSJ 2 Caulifia


Tier 9

Ribranne (this may change depending on how well she does against Goku in the upcoming episodes)

Jimeze

Kunshi

SSJ Kale (Controlled)

SSJ Goku

SSJ Vegeta

SSJ Gohan

SSJ Caulifia

SSJ Cabba


Tier 10

Frost

Magetta

#18


Tier 11

Freeza (Final Form)

Base Goku

Base Vegeta

Piccolo

Kakunsa

Rozie

Obuni

Tupper

Zoiray

Kettol

Bergamo

Base Gohan


Tier 12

Basil

Lavender

Vikal

Rubalt

Murichim

Napapa

Base Caulifia

Base Cabba

Botamo

Kuririn

Majora

Ganos (Bird Form)

Roshi (Buff)

Tenshinhan

Jium

Methiop

Jilcol

Jirasen

Catopesra

Hop

Chappil


Tier 13

Nink

Comfrey

Vuon

Cocotte

Base Roshi

Base Ganos

Dercori

Nigrisshi

Narirama

Hyssop

Shosa

Mirasam

Lilibeu

Methiop

Brianne de Chateau


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Su Roas

The Preecho

Dr. Rota

Hermila

Prum

Roselle

Sorrel

Base Kale

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by LowRyder2005 » Mon Sep 11, 2017 5:44 pm

It might be better if you added a "spoiler" tag, to avoid adding unnecessary weight to the page.

At a glance, I think I can more or less understand the reasoning behind most of your placements for the main cast. I'd still have Piccolo stronger than Super Saiyan Gohan and at least be comparable to Super Saiyan 2 Gohan. Both Super Saiyan Gohan and Piccolo should be above base Goku even before Gohan trains. Goku opting to transform to confront his son ought to take precedence over a mock fight.

Then again, I guess this could create some hiccups with your Freeza's placement and it's not really like writer's intent is reasonably clear-cut as usual.

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Post by Animelover5487 » Mon Sep 11, 2017 6:08 pm

LowRyder2005 wrote:It might be better if you added a "spoiler" tag, to avoid adding unnecessary weight to the page.

At a glance, I think I can more or less understand the reasoning behind most of your placements for the main cast. I'd still have Piccolo stronger than Super Saiyan Gohan and at least be comparable to Super Saiyan 2 Gohan. Both Super Saiyan Gohan and Piccolo should be above base Goku even before Gohan trains. Goku opting to transform to confront his son ought to take precedence over a mock fight.

Then again, I guess this could create some hiccups with your Freeza's placement and it's not really like writer's intent is reasonably clear-cut as usual.
Piccolo is comparable to Pre-Trained SSJ2 Gohan. Goku vs Gohan in the breather episode was a mock fight and an outlier. Piccolo should still be weaker than Frost, who was much weaker than SSJ Goku before he got over ten times stronger.

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Post by LowRyder2005 » Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:01 pm

Animelover5487 wrote:
LowRyder2005 wrote:It might be better if you added a "spoiler" tag, to avoid adding unnecessary weight to the page.

At a glance, I think I can more or less understand the reasoning behind most of your placements for the main cast. I'd still have Piccolo stronger than Super Saiyan Gohan and at least be comparable to Super Saiyan 2 Gohan. Both Super Saiyan Gohan and Piccolo should be above base Goku even before Gohan trains. Goku opting to transform to confront his son ought to take precedence over a mock fight.

Then again, I guess this could create some hiccups with your Freeza's placement and it's not really like writer's intent is reasonably clear-cut as usual.
Piccolo is comparable to Pre-Trained SSJ2 Gohan. Goku vs Gohan in the breather episode was a mock fight and an outlier. Piccolo should still be weaker than Frost, who was much weaker than SSJ Goku before he got over ten times stronger.
After the training there's no conclusive evidence to deduce Gohan got leaps and bounds above his previous Ultimate state; assuming he did (mostly because of the implications of the narrator and the fact he landed a punch against a Goku), we don't know if the same would apply to his his non-Ultimate forms. Leaving aside the fact that Gohan only trains and meditates for one night, so his training shouldn't obviously be assumed to yield gains superior to Goku/ Vegeta training with Whis right off the bat.

Other than that, I'm afraid your logic doesn't really make much sense: if there's an outlier, it makes more sense to think Piccolo would have some reserve about hurting Goku. That's the mock fight: they establish beforehand they should avoid hurting each other, and they are testing their tactics and simulating how they would fight in the tournament. Goku has no discernible reason to power up to Super Saiyan if a suppressed base form can do the job of keeping up with Gohan when they're sparring; there's barely enough room to make an argument he's heavily suppressing his Super Saiyan, actually, given how "carried away" the two get.

Thirdly, there's no conclusive evidence Goku got "over ten times stronger" either. Hit makes a point about avoiding to use the same technique he used against Goku in the tournament because he thinks he figured out the trick; hence, Goku breaking out of Hit's time dimension can't really be scaled because there's no statement they're really the same technique.
I still think Piccolo and Frost are relative to each other and that they're both around SS2 Gohan; Frost also trained, though, so given that there's the variable that both increased their power by an unknown amount there's no way real way to compare them to the SS Goku seen at the tournament.
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Post by PerhapsTheOtherOne » Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:11 pm

You know, something that people missed with regards to trying to place base Goku below 18.

SS2 Goku vs. Ultimate Gohan.

That was a relatively even fight, and Gohan was recently retrained and powered up thanks to Piccolo's help. This is a suppressed Ultimate Gohan that's almost certainly stronger than his original power level, and yet SS2 Goku is going toe-to-toe with this one quite well until Gohan decides that he's had enough of his dad holding back full power.

By the numbers alone, Goku's base form divided down from SS2 would STILL be much greater than the power 18 displayed. Even if this Ultimate Gohan were only exactly as strong as his old self, which he's almost undeniably not, that would STILL place Goku's strength somewhere above his SS strength from before the beginning of the current anime, which is stronger than how strong 18 is perceived to be currently.

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Post by LowRyder2005 » Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:28 pm

PerhapsTheOtherOne wrote:You know, something that people missed with regards to trying to place base Goku below 18.

SS2 Goku vs. Ultimate Gohan.

That was a relatively even fight, and Gohan was recently retrained and powered up thanks to Piccolo's help. This is a suppressed Ultimate Gohan that's almost certainly stronger than his original power level, and yet SS2 Goku is going toe-to-toe with this one quite well until Gohan decides that he's had enough of his dad holding back full power.

By the numbers alone, Goku's base form divided down from SS2 would STILL be much greater than the power 18 displayed. Even if this Ultimate Gohan were only exactly as strong as his old self, which he's almost undeniably not, that would STILL place Goku's strength somewhere above his SS strength from before the beginning of the current anime, which is stronger than how strong 18 is perceived to be currently.
Gohan should be stronger than ever per various sources, but at some power output. There's no direct comparison made between the power Gohan is displaying against SS2 Goku in the beginning of their fight and the full power of Ultimate Gohan from the Buu arc. You can arbitrarily place him anywhere, at least at that point. Same goes for Goku, actually: what's even funnier is that Goku randomly turns Super Saiyan 2 even before gauging Gohan's power at all; namely, Goku transforms first - going from base to SS2 - while Gohan is still chilling in base form.

A better approach could be the argument that there's a chance #18 got stronger off-screen. She should be at least pretty darn similar to her brother in every way (although older statements do depict #17 as the one with the most potential); realistically, though, assuming she did train with Krillin off-screen or even from time to time how strong could she become, especially when everyone - herself included - decided Goten and Trunks stood a better chance to become strong enough to face Majin Buu? Two, three, five times? At best I could see her reaching some vague "Super Saiyan" level in late manga/ Z, and it's clear she should be either comparable - or most likely quite above - current base Goku.
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Animelover5487 wrote:Had a lot of spare time so I decided to make my own tier list for this arc, I would appreciate some feedback on this:

Tier 4

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SSJB Goku

SSJB Vegeta

True Golden Freeza

Tier 9

Ribranne (this may change depending on how well she does against Goku in the upcoming episodes)

Jimeze

Kunshi

SSJ Kale (Controlled)

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You are right on Ribrianne Animelover5487, You are right on the factor that she not only May change but will change by the end of the episode 108-109 with Goku with her shown levels! ;)

Now Again Like I keep saying this a theory but all we do here is have theories base on what we know best up to this point. As of now the Way Toei in Pushing Ribrianne and how placement in the marketing of her she should has a good chance of being a Major Character by the end of the ToP otherwise the marketing is truely a waste of money.

With that Ribrianne's Fight with 17 was so On-Par that right now at the end of Episode 103 Ribrianne was showing Levels of SSJ3 High!

But I think Ribrianne's Levels by the End of 109 will show her at SSJBlue Goku Levels making her a Major Force going forward from their. That is what I think Toei is leading to with Ribrianne and she may go even Higher then that a few episodes down the Road! But again it is My Theory base on how I think Toei is promoting and Pushing Ribrianne, in the end we will have to see and I and I know others will make judgments on what we witness. :thumbup:
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