How strong was Melone from Kakarot

[Mad Swami]

Now let's clarify how beastly this guy is. He ate a yucker melone which propelled his power higher than and or around Krillin and Gohan on Namek. The fruit offered a x50 increase apparently. Now when he fought Piccolo, Piccolo thought he was weak but I doubt he was really trying. How strong is this monster (haven't finished the game, if he comes back let me know)

[VegettoEX]

Oof. This is a tough one.

You mention the fruit, which is important, alongside Piccolo's analysis. I wonder what other kinds of fruit intake there could be that might do even more? Maybe stuff he doesn't know about? It's a big galaxy after all! So much stuff could contribute and change his strength makeup.

Man, I really don't know. After weighing all the options, I just gotta concede that's he's probably only about as strong as your typical tour guide.

(Fun fact for those who don't know: his name is スイッカ Suikka in Japanese. That's an obvious adaptation of スイカ suika, which means "watermelon". As opposed to pretty much every other name in the franchise from the official rights holders, instead of keeping the name or changing it to something unrelated with some weird corruption of the spelling that if you squint and take a couple shots you might kind of see where they were coming from, in this case they actually goddamn localized his name. "Melone" is an obvious adaptation of "melon"... which is where the name comes from in Japanese... and elongates a syllable in the name just like it does in Japanese...)

(Some of the only other examples like this are in Viz's English manga translation, where Pui-Pui becomes "Pocus".)

[Dbzfan94]

Melone could have been Freeza, Cell, and Kid Buu at the same time without trying.