I actually agree with what you are saying here. Yeah, I believe the Gamma 2 only used a fraction of his power against Piccolo, otherwise he would have finger flicked him. Piccolo was able to gauge the hidden power Gamma 2 actually had based on what he was using.Hugo Boss wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:15 amYou are right that Piccolo doesn’t exactly imply that Gamma #2 is a mirror to Base Goku, but, to be fair, there a few points to consider.dragonball0900 wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 2:48 pm There's also no way Piccolo was comparing them to their base forms. They wouldn't be hyping up the Gammas that much if they were just said to be as weak as that, pretty sure that's not how a story works. Piccolo even treated their threat as if it was such a big deal, which wouldn't be the case if they were so weak.
1. Piccolo knows how to judge his opponent’s strength based on a fraction of it. Maybe he was counting on Gamma #2 having hidden power comparable to Goku’s Super Saiyan Blue, although that ended up being an overstatement. So, even if the Gamma siblings start weaker than SS Gohan, Piccolo can make an educated guess on the full scope of their strength.
2. Gamma #2 full power, I would say, was around SSGod’s level, but even if Piccolo guessed something like SS level, he would still cover everyone that is not Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Boo, and 17. And, since Piccolo assumed he was the only one left to fight them, and there were two and potentially three opponents, their threat level would also be intact in this scenario.
3. Piccolo being weaker than Base Goku is not unfounded. Even in the anime (despite it being self-contradictory multiple times), Base Goku’s strength was at least on par with Piccolo’s, to the point that Goku easily shrugged off one of Piccolo’s strongest explosive waves without transforming. Since then, presumably Goku could have increased the gap between them, even in his regular state.
So, my take from the scene is that Piccolo used a fraction of Gamma #2’s power (I think it was around Base Goku level), to calculate how strong he would be at full power (close to SSB Goku or sort of). Granted, this is not a first time in Super, Freeza also assumed Goku’s full strength in RoF would be a notch below his own, which ended up being partially correct for a while.
The only thing I disagree is that Gamma 2 was using power comparable to Base Goku. I don't agree with that since that means Piccolo would basically be fodder compared to Base Goku. But we do see in the ToP that both them as well as Base Gohan and Vegeta were all comparable to each other, and even if Goku got stronger years afterwards until the Super Hero events, I don't think Piccolo stayed far behind to the point that Base Goku would easily defeat him like Gamma 2 did.
This is why I think the level the Gammas first used was somewhere near SSJ level (as we see Gamma 1 fighting equally against SSJ Gohan), which would make more sense since Gamma 2 easily defeated Piccolo.
