Legion wrote:Goku is still not above Jiren
The dialogue and visuals both implied that Goku lost to Jiren due to Ultra Instinct expiring, not necessarily because he was
weaker per se. Jiren may not have been using his full strength, but the characters also mentioned that Goku was gradually becoming stronger while in his new form as well. We actually don't know how they match up in full yet, and likely won't receive any further clarification until the final battle of the tournament.
I'm tentatively placing Jiren above Ultra Instinct Goku for now, but that could easily become reversed when/if Goku learns to master that state.
LowRyder2005 wrote:Indeed he does, in the sense that instead of going Blue "on top" of God he reverts to his base form. Truth be told it's absolutely random, though. We have literally seen him transitioning from basically every type of Super Saiyan (God included, just a handful of episodes before this one) to Blue.
He also transitioned to Super Saiyan God from the yellow forms in this episode, which I thought was interesting because that happened a couple of times in the manga as well.
Coupling that with the Japanese Super Saiyan guide I've previously brought to light, this leads me to believe that Super Saiyan God really might be a literal progression of the previous Super Saiyan forms -- Goku simply wasn't capable of reaching that form the natural way at first, so he needed the ritual to obtain it initially.