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Re: The All-Purpose "Versus" Thread

Post by Eternal Super Saiyan » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:01 am

Gohan and Goku were more or less as strong as each other. There isn't much of a gap between SSJ1 Gohan or SSJ1 Goku in the Cell Games.

After thinking about it, Goku could not have possibly gotten much stronger in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber if Gohan couldn't keep up with his max power level, and if Goku had to lower his power level the whole time to make sure Gohan gets stronger. Right? They were most likely equals by the time they exited.

So I don't see too much of a different outcome with the Super Perfect Cell vs. SSJ2 Goku scenario.
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Re: The All-Purpose "Versus" Thread

Post by Saiga » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:03 am

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The Monkey King wrote:A hypothetical Cell Games SSJ2 Goku vs Super Perfect Cell.
It's the exact same fight as SS1 Goku vs Cell.
Except shorter and a more one sided, because even if you think the power gap is the same, SS2 consumes energy faster than MSS (or at least it should...).
Well, shorter maybe, but not more one-sided. I would assume Cell's "Super Perfect" form comes with increased energy consumption like SS2, so they'd both burn up energy faster but at the same rate compared to each other.
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Post by xmysticgohanx » Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:49 am

SSJ3 Gokule (Goku and Hercule) vs Super Buu
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Re: The All-Purpose "Versus" Thread

Post by Eternal Super Saiyan » Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:51 am

xmysticgohanx wrote:SSJ3 Gokule (Goku and (the H-word)) vs Super Buu
He'll probably stay in base form the whole fight. It will start with a 2 minute charging/yelling session, and then saying "errr.. why haven't I transformed?" - scratching the back of his head doing that giggle he does. Then being pummeled, effortlessly.
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Re: The All-Purpose "Versus" Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:22 pm

Eternal Super Saiyan wrote:Gohan and Goku were more or less as strong as each other. There isn't much of a gap between SSJ1 Gohan or SSJ1 Goku in the Cell Games.

After thinking about it, Goku could not have possibly gotten much stronger in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber if Gohan couldn't keep up with his max power level, and if Goku had to lower his power level the whole time to make sure Gohan gets stronger. Right? They were most likely equals by the time they exited.

So I don't see too much of a different outcome with the Super Perfect Cell vs. SSJ2 Goku scenario.
No. There was a huge gap in their power. Gohan was considerably stronger than Goku.
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dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
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Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.

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Re: The All-Purpose "Versus" Thread

Post by kuartus4 » Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:22 pm

Eternal Super Saiyan wrote:Gohan and Goku were more or less as strong as each other. There isn't much of a gap between SSJ1 Gohan or SSJ1 Goku in the Cell Games.

After thinking about it, Goku could not have possibly gotten much stronger in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber if Gohan couldn't keep up with his max power level, and if Goku had to lower his power level the whole time to make sure Gohan gets stronger. Right? They were most likely equals by the time they exited.

So I don't see too much of a different outcome with the Super Perfect Cell vs. SSJ2 Goku scenario.
MSSJ Gohan>MSSJ Goku at the Cell games is a fact and can't really be debated. The chapter where Goku pics Gohan to fight Cell and MSSJ Gohan powers up vs Cell is titled, "The Warrior Who Surpassed Goku."

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/manga/chp-403/

The title basically tells you straight up that Gohan>Goku.

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Re: The All-Purpose "Versus" Thread

Post by Eternal Super Saiyan » Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:27 pm

kuartus4 wrote:
Eternal Super Saiyan wrote:Gohan and Goku were more or less as strong as each other. There isn't much of a gap between SSJ1 Gohan or SSJ1 Goku in the Cell Games.

After thinking about it, Goku could not have possibly gotten much stronger in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber if Gohan couldn't keep up with his max power level, and if Goku had to lower his power level the whole time to make sure Gohan gets stronger. Right? They were most likely equals by the time they exited.

So I don't see too much of a different outcome with the Super Perfect Cell vs. SSJ2 Goku scenario.
MSSJ Gohan>MSSJ Goku at the Cell games is a fact and can't really be debated. The chapter where Goku pics Gohan to fight Cell and MSSJ Gohan powers up vs Cell is titled, "The Warrior Who Surpassed Goku."

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/manga/chp-403/

The title basically tells you straight up that Gohan>Goku.
Perhaps by a margin. If Gohan doubted Goku's choice at first, and had spent the last year training WITH his own father, he would be able to compare himself to Goku. He'd immediately offer up fighting Cell without hesitation if he knew he was all that much stronger than his own dad. And the title could be referring to his sleeping power from inside of him? After all, much of that chapter was spent with Cell trying to bring it out of him.
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Re: The All-Purpose "Versus" Thread

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Eternal Super Saiyan wrote:
kuartus4 wrote:
Eternal Super Saiyan wrote:Gohan and Goku were more or less as strong as each other. There isn't much of a gap between SSJ1 Gohan or SSJ1 Goku in the Cell Games.

After thinking about it, Goku could not have possibly gotten much stronger in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber if Gohan couldn't keep up with his max power level, and if Goku had to lower his power level the whole time to make sure Gohan gets stronger. Right? They were most likely equals by the time they exited.

So I don't see too much of a different outcome with the Super Perfect Cell vs. SSJ2 Goku scenario.
MSSJ Gohan>MSSJ Goku at the Cell games is a fact and can't really be debated. The chapter where Goku pics Gohan to fight Cell and MSSJ Gohan powers up vs Cell is titled, "The Warrior Who Surpassed Goku."

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/manga/chp-403/

The title basically tells you straight up that Gohan>Goku.
Perhaps by a margin. If Gohan doubted Goku's choice at first, and had spent the last year training WITH his own father, he would be able to compare himself to Goku. He'd immediately offer up fighting Cell without hesitation if he knew he was all that much stronger than his own dad. And the title could be referring to his sleeping power from inside of him? After all, much of that chapter was spent with Cell trying to bring it out of him.
Gohan didn't know that he was stronger than Goku. That was the point. Then we find out that what he thought was his dad holding back was actually Goku using his full power, and that Gohan was actually comparing his dad's full power to his own, with Goku's coming up short.
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Post by kuartus4 » Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:00 pm

Eternal Super Saiyan wrote:Perhaps by a margin. If Gohan doubted Goku's choice at first, and had spent the last year training WITH his own father, he would be able to compare himself to Goku. He'd immediately offer up fighting Cell without hesitation if he knew he was all that much stronger than his own dad. And the title could be referring to his sleeping power from inside of him? After all, much of that chapter was spent with Cell trying to bring it out of him.

Nope. The chapter ends with MSSJ Gohan powering up and Cell, Trunks, and Krillin being shown shocked at his power. The title would naturally be referring to this power up.

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Post by Eternal Super Saiyan » Tue Mar 11, 2014 8:01 pm

Oh yeah, reading through the Manga again I see I was wrong about that. It appears Gohan already was stronger then!

More ideas for fights...

1. Piccolo (post RoSaT) VS. Semi-Perfect Cell

2. Vegeta (Ginyu saga) VS. Turles

3. Chi-Chi (23rd Budokai) VS. Hercule!
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Post by Pantalones » Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:26 pm

1. Piccolo (post RoSaT) VS. Semi-Perfect Cell
Based on the jump he made during the training for the Androids, Namekian fusion seems to open up a pretty significant possibility for further growth to Piccolo (in addition to the initial boost), so I'd imagine Piccolo after an extra year-day of training would definitely be stronger than Cell in his second form. He seems to be depicted as being similar to Super Saiyan Vegeta and Trunks in power, and they were both strong enough to pummel that form of Cell with little effort even before they went in for a second year-day of training...

So even if he's behind their Cell Games levels, he should still be at or above where they are before (and thus far above 2nd-form Cell.) Otherwise the comparison between his power and theirs (with him, Vegeta, and Trunks being the only ones still standing against the Cell Juniors, while the humans and worn-out SSj Goku couldn't hold up long at all) wouldn't make much sense.

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Post by RandomGuy96 » Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:24 pm

Eternal Super Saiyan wrote:Oh yeah, reading through the Manga again I see I was wrong about that. It appears Gohan already was stronger then!

More ideas for fights...

1. Piccolo (post RoSaT) VS. Semi-Perfect Cell

2. Vegeta (Ginyu saga) VS. Tullece

3. Chi-Chi (23rd Budokai) VS. (the H-word)!
Piccolo stomps. Trunks was shocked when Goku and Piccolo confirmed he'd be useless against Perfect Cell.

Exact equals. Vegeta wins due to skill.

Chi chi makes him explode with a poke.
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dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.

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Post by Kid Buu » Wed Mar 12, 2014 1:09 pm

Stronget character Mr. Satan can beat? Pilaf Arc Yamcha?
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Post by RandomGuy96 » Wed Mar 12, 2014 1:42 pm

Anime or manga? Manga Mr. Satan < Bob Sapp.
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dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.

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Post by Kid Buu » Wed Mar 12, 2014 1:47 pm

Eh...let's do both.
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Kid Buu wrote:Eh...let's do both.
Manga: no one super human

Anime: Pilaf arc Yamcha.
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dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.

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Post by rereboy » Wed Mar 12, 2014 1:55 pm

Pilaf arc Yamcha was able to punch Goku through boulders of stone. No way Mr. Satan can do that.

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Post by TobyS » Wed Mar 12, 2014 2:09 pm

Why is Yamcha weaker in the anime?

He's still punting Goku around isn't he?

I think Satan would have a hard time with the bear warrior.

I reckon he could take the flying Dino who grabbed Bulma?

Not sure where in between that leaves him...
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Post by RandomGuy96 » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:29 pm

TobyS wrote:Why is Yamcha weaker in the anime?
He's not. Satan is just stronger.
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dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.

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Post by Eternal Super Saiyan » Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:06 pm

RandomGuy96 wrote:
Eternal Super Saiyan wrote:Oh yeah, reading through the Manga again I see I was wrong about that. It appears Gohan already was stronger then!

More ideas for fights...

1. Piccolo (post RoSaT) VS. Semi-Perfect Cell

2. Vegeta (Ginyu saga) VS. Tullece

3. Chi-Chi (23rd Budokai) VS. (the H-word)!
Piccolo stomps. Trunks was shocked when Goku and Piccolo confirmed he'd be useless against Perfect Cell.

Exact equals. Vegeta wins due to skill.

Chi chi makes him explode with a poke.
I can picture Satan at least coming in around the low 100's range. Maybe not near Roshi's 139 but perhaps 110 to 120?
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