IncredibleGuy wrote:Innagadadavida wrote:
That was the whole point. You're agreeing with the show. The numbers were introduced in DBZ as a way to give a little perspective and to introduce a different league of fighters who believed the use of technology could be used to determine the outcome of a fight (which by the third episode is proven to be a faulty philosophy). As we move along in the story we see that that technology is unreliable and that our heroes use their skill and spirit to win fights without relying on any sort of technical readout. At the beginning of the Freeza arc the reason one fighter could completely dominate another if they had a higher powerlevel is because their philosophy on battle power was that it was a static concept. It simply did not occur to them that there was any tangible way to control their ki in the way Goku or Captain Ginyu was able to. The concept of "Battle Powers" served its purpose and was quickly done away with. It was nonsense. That was the entire purpose of its existence within the story.
Raditz died because he relied on Battle Powers.
Vegeta and Nappa tossed their Scouters away, learning from Raditz's failure.
The Freeza Scouts that came across Krillin and Gohan died because they relied on Battle Powers.
Kui died because he relied on Battle Powers.
Vegeta and the Earthlings (that should be the name of a band) got the upper hand collecting Dragonballs, staying out of sight, and ambushing bad guys because Muuri and Vegeta broke all of the Scouters available at the time.
Jees, Baata, and Reacoom all were defeated and killed because of their reliance on Scouters.
Ginyu made a bad decision in switching bodies with Goku because he relied on a Battle Power instead of seeing the technique behind that power and it lead to his defeat.
Freeza, who relied on Battle Powers, didn't have a Scouter when fighting Goku (it would've broke, anyway). At certain points, Goku had the upper-hand because Freeza had to rely on sight.
In the Jinzouningen arc, Vegeta stated that you can't reduce Saiyans to mere numbers.
In the Jump Special, Vegeta corrected Tarble by telling him not to rely on his Scouter.
Battle Powers served two purposes in telling the story:
1) To show how much the characters had grown by comparing enemy BPs, which were static, over time.
2) To show that the backwater holistic methods that the Earthlings used were, by some miracle, superior to the technological methods that had become standard throughout the galaxy.
