Timetraveller wrote:PFM18 wrote:sunsetshimmer wrote:
Goku vs Ledgic
Goku vs Rildo
Goku vs Super 17
Goku&Pan vs Oceanus Shenron
Pan vs Haze Shenron
Goku vs Eis Shenron
Those were all good fights. Especially Goku vs Rildo was very good.
I mean at the end of the day the "quality" of these fights is very subjective. I found the Rildo fight to be incredibly boring and the Ledgic fight to be the 2nd best in the GT series even though it was still bad. Again, personally the only fight I found to be particularly engaging was Goku vs Baby. Maybe in terms of strictly fighting quality, Super 17 vs Goku may be alright, but I felt it made very little sense, so it kind of ruined my engagement/immersion.
Uub vs Goku, Vegeta vs Baby Gohan, Goku vs Nuova Shenron. And we've almost listed every single fight in GT. They might not have reached Goku vs Jiren 131 heights but they never looked anywhere as bad as this (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Ana7tXLMQ). Super had the highest highs and by far, the lowest lows in Dragonball.
GT went more for art consistency than anything else. Nothing looked jarring to the viewer and the art was very detailed and usually on-model.
LOL yes you you have listed most of the fights in GT. But none of them could compare to the majority of fights in DBS. Jiren vs Goku is the best fight in the franchise by far. Kefla vs Goku, Gohan/Freeza vs Dyspo, Cabba vs Vegeta, Hit vs Goku, all of these fights are leaps and bounds better than anything we saw in GT. You try to simplify it to be as simple as "Super has the highest highs and lowest lows" when really the only "lows" that existed were in the retellings and that most people didnt even watch those. The following 106 episodes had consistently superior fights and animation than anything we saw in GT and I have no idea how you can deny that. Goku vs Baby was decent to good. The Ledgic fight was tolerable. Every other fight just isn't engaging. The Omega Shenron stuff? THAT is supposed to be the final battle? The final fight in the GT series? THAT is all that you can offer? Compare that to Jiren vs Goku in 129-131 and get back to me.
That Super 17 fight was perfectly in line with what we've seen Goku do in the past. Trying to overload him with energy was a strategy he's used multiple times, against Yakon and a bunch of movie villains. If you can believe Frieza became a god in 3 months, Goku losing his guard or holding back every fight, Trunks unknowingly manifesting a spirit bomb and turning it into a sword or Vegeta somehow neutralizing GoD ki, everything is believable.
The Super 17 fight was just ridiculous across the board. Majuub, Vegeta and the entire rest of the group is fighting Super 17 and everybody gets massacred. SSJ Goku shows up and easily damages him. Wasn't Majuub supposed to be legitimately strong? How tf is Goku stronger than him already in just SSJ? Why would he be so mcuh more effective than everybody else in just SSJ? Gohan supposedly never stopped training and we know that he has the highest potential, Vegeta should be strong at this point, and then Uub should be very strong in this story given he is the reincarnation of Pure Buu fused with Fat Buu and who has received tons of training..(He was so much wasted potential it was ridiculous btw.) And yet Goku waltzes in and shows how incredibly useless everybody else is. Perfect example of "Goku's time" in action. also, 17+17=stronger than everyone how? That makes no sense. Then Goku goes SSJ4 and it is still essentially even. Like wasn't it established this was supposed to be a massive increase in power?? Then Goku is apparently mentally challenged and decides to spam ki blasts forever. The whole thing is just dumb. Then the fight itself is just boring. You want to talk about having the lowest lows? The Super 17 arc is the worst arc in the franchise by far.
The fact that you reference movie villains shows just how weak this is if you are comparing this fight to movie villains that also aren't canon. Freeza has never trained and had a PL at 120M, to train in 4 months and reach God tier is questionable to some people but it ultimately resulted in Freeza's glorious showing in the ToP where his character was handled extremely well and we saw other sides of him that we never saw before. There was no precedent set for Freeza's strength gains so it doesn't contradict anything. If it wasn't for the Golden Freeza stuff then bringing Freeza back would have been laughable since he would be so weak.
Goku letting down his guard has always been a consistent thing that Super has built on and it showed that Goku and Vegeta have weaknesses that they must work on even though they have divine strength at this point.