Saiga wrote:@DBGTKOSDH It's still outright stated that Pure Boo is stronger than Gotenks-Boo and Gohan-Boo, and so Goku not being able to beat them is retconned... just like him not being able to beat Fat Boo.
TheMightyOzaru True, Pure Boo might not be much stronger than Gohan-Boo... but Vegetto still struggled to stop Gohan-Boo when he was distorting the universe. So I think Pure Boo and Super Saiyan 3 Goku are at least a little stronger than Gohan-Boo doing the distortion and Super Vegetto. Only in the anime, of course.
Just curious but where are you getting all this? Goku is confident that a SSJ Gotenks(Pre-ROSAT) would be able to defeat Fat Boo. That would make SSJ3 Gotenks much stronger than SSJ3 Goku because Goku would never be able to defeat or buy enough time for Trunks to grab the Dragon Radar without SSJ3. If he could put up a good fight in SSJ1 or SSJ2 he would have just done that instead of waste time on a transformation which would drain all the time he had left on Earth.
Evil Boo says the only warrior that was stronger than him was Gohan meaning:
Fat Boo < SSJ Gotenks < Kid Boo <= SSJ3 Goku < SSJ3 Gotenks < Evil Boo < Gohan < Bootenks < Boohan < (Anime: Base Vegetto <) SSJ Vegetto
No matter how you look at it, anime or manga, SSJ3 Goku is nowhere near the Evil Boo's in regards to strength. Especially the absorbed versions. And while you might be able to nit-pick lines which could suggest the opposite there are just as many lines as a counter argument.
goku the krump dancer wrote:I don't see why its so hard to believe that SSJ Goku or General Rildo would be stronger than Boo (Fat,Super or Kid).. Isn't it Dragon Ball tradition for the next bad guy to stronger than the last? Hell Dabura who was a henchman was compared to Cell who was the previous arc's top villain.
So in that regard I don't see that as a problem in GT.
The dragonball tradition would be for the bad guy to be stronger than the last but for the hero to outmatched in some way until they gain a powerup or ability to defeat them. And I wouldn't say the jumps between each villain has been that massive in my personal opinion. For instance, Vegeta was stronger than Cell by the Boo era but he still put up a semi-decent fight against Fat Boo despite Boo being stronger. Goku was easily taking Fat Boo when he was SSJ3 and SSJ3 is only 4x stronger than SSJ2. So I feel that any new villain would be 2x to 4x stronger than the last. In my opinion anyway. But Goku jumping from having a battle power rivalling Kid Boo in SSJ3 to a Base GT Goku who's close to Kid Boo in battle power is a pretty massive jump of nearly 400x. I guess you can say that its because Goku had the chance to train with Oob for all that time which Zenkai'd him up to be close what he was in the Z-arc.
But that's really dependant on whether Oob got to his Kid Boo power during their training. Instead of just peaking off at a human limit. We probably have to take into consideration Oob might not be able to access 100% of Kid Boo's because he's human and the human body has its own limitations. Its the same thing with, for instance, Gohan, for him to fight Super Boo the Elder Kaioshin had to "
unlock his potential way beyond his limits" Of course who's to say that Elder Kaioshin unlocked all Gohan's potential beyond his limits. There might have been a point in which he could unlock no further for risk of destroying Gohan's body. The limits are there for a reason, they're there to prevent such cases. For all we know Gohan at the end of the Z era is only using 80% of his potential and before that he could have been using 50% due to the limitations of his body only allowing him to use 50% So it could be the same issue with Oob where his limits only allow him to use X% of potential due to his human limitations. So we have no way to gauge how strong GT Goku is except for him needing SSJ to fight a person on par with a Majin Boo which we aren't given any reference as to which one. Regardless, it paints the picture that General Rildo is more than 2 to 4 times stronger than Fat Boo or Kid Boo if Goku is using SSJ to fight him and he's been training with Oob for so long.