Great drawings. I think that pretty much seals up the hair issue for people.
Time for a mini-rant...
In the Manga, the aura's are very consistent and easy to distinguish. Many Anime watchers may not be aware of this. Every form always has the same aura and it doesn't change. There are a few occasions when the aura may be more intense than normal (powering up for a blast, initial transformation...) but other then that, it is always the same (and always present.)
Never does a Super Saiya'jin have lightning bolts in his aura.
Never does a Super Saiya'jin 2 not have lightning bolts in his aura.
Thus, by that alone, Vegetto couldn't have been Ssj2 because he would be a contradiction to every rule established about Aura's prior to this.
End mini rant.
You're right on what you concluded upon. In my opinion, we can't really attach general-case multipliers to the situations. Clearly, Piccolo was only made as strong as needed to be for the situation and logical multiplying wasn't a factor in Toriyama-sensei's mind. Otherwise, he would have gotten much much much much stronger from the K---Akira wrote:On the matter of Piccolo:
Although math equations are often redundant and annoying, in this case I agree with what was stated previously.
(Piccolo Daimao Junior + Kami Piccolo) x 2
That very much sums up the way I believe it to work for that specific remerging. They were both 50% of the original complete 100% namek, therefore that equation makes sense. Nail was entirely different, a completely seperate entity merging with basically half an entity. Nail was wounded badly by Freeza and near death. He recognized Piccolo, and stated that it was too bad that he came to the battle "incomplete" so to speak. He states then that had Piccolo come as his true self, Freeza would like nothing to him.
Nail becomes the submissive entity and merges with Piccolo even though at full health he would have been far stronger. The equation used to figure out how thier fused power worked would NOT be the same as the one used to figure out the Piccolo + Kami remerger. I will leave that to be determined by someone else, but I know that there would be a different method to determine how thier 100% + 50% merger worked.
Actually, no, I just thought of something. Would having merged with Nail reduce the potency of re-merging with Kami? There's our explanation, if any.
I have to side with the 2x theory for Kami + Piccolo because it is the only theory with any foundation or sense. It is the strongest theory.
These aren't, by any means, bad - But there are a couple of things you may or may not have overlooked I would like to mention.Akira wrote:Battle against Vegeta:
1770 – Krillin
2800 – Son Gohan
28000 – Oozaru Son Gohan
8000 – Son Goku
16000 – Son Goku (Kaioken x2)
24000 – Son Goku (Kaioken x3)
32000 – Son Goku (Kaioken x4)
18000 – Vegeta
24000 – Vegeta (maximum – Gallick-ho)
180000 – Oozaru Vegeta
The Power level you have listed for Son Gohan was during his use of the Masenko, so it may be a combination of anger and the typical increase from focusing Ki.
With how beaten Vegeta was by the time Gohan became a Great Ape, I highly doubt his power would have needed to be higher than even 4,000 or 5,000. Vegeta was barely able to walk and, when he threw out his Ki in all directions (this is after the Genki-Dama) he did even less damage to the Terrain than Piccolo at the 23'rd Tenka'ichi Budokai.
Gohan was injured pretty bad, too.
Son Goku & Kaio-Ken
When Vegeta read Goku's power level after he went to full power, it read "Over 8,000." This influences the numbers...a little bit, but not much.
I think we can attribute the equal power of the Kamehameha and Gyarikku-Ho to the fact that Goku had just come out of using Kaio-Ken x3, and his body was suffering from the effects. His base level easily could have been down to 6,000 at this point.
Vegeta and the Great Ape
Keep in mind that when Vegeta turned into a Great Ape, he had suffered some heavy damage and sacrificed a significant amount of Ki to form the Moon Ball (he notes this beforehand, and Goku observes the same when he makes it.) so, again, it would probably be lower.
But these are just some situational things and some of my observations. I still think your levels are a great base to work with or maybe not even change to keep things from becoming overly complex.
That is all.
