Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Discussion specifically regarding the "Dragon Ball Super" TV series premiering July 2015 in Japan, including individual threads for each episode.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by emperior » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:11 pm

kidhero1000 wrote:When Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan, Cabba is asked by Champa if he knew Saiyans could transform, but Cabba claims he never seen or heard of anything like it before.

Guess Cabba is jobbing to whoever at this point, unless he has an unknown technique to defeat Vegeta.

He's probably getting wrecked.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by LightBing » Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:12 pm

After re-watching the episode, I was wrong regarding Assault Frost, he's superior to Base Goku. So here's what I have so far:

Botamo - 3 (300)

Base Goku - 6,50 (650)
SSJ Goku - 8,20 (820)

First Form Frost - 4 (400)
Assault Frost - 6,70 (670)
Final Form Frost - 7,20 (720)

Piccolo - 6 (600)

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by ZombieVito » Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:25 pm

LightBing wrote:After re-watching the episode, I was wrong regarding Assault Frost, he's superior to Base Goku. So here's what I have so far:

Botamo - 3 (300)

Base Goku - 6,50 (650)
SSJ Goku - 8,20 (820)

First Form Frost - 4 (400)
Assault Frost - 6,70 (670)
Final Form Frost - 7,20 (720)

Piccolo - 6 (600)
The gaps are way too small.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Skar » Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:36 pm

Vice wrote:I find it hard to believe a Zarbon-tier mook can get to Boo-level by having holes punched into him for 4 months but it happened.
That's also in Super though. I'm asking if something like that has EVER happened in the manga. Every power-up was only enough to catch up with the villain of the current saga. For example, we never had anyone who hasn't trained since the Saiyan or Freeza and then become Buu saga top tier within a few months of training.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by TheMikado » Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:48 pm

Skar wrote:
Vice wrote:I find it hard to believe a Zarbon-tier mook can get to Boo-level by having holes punched into him for 4 months but it happened.
That's also in Super though. I'm asking if something like that has EVER happened in the manga. Every power-up was only enough to catch up with the villain of the current saga. For example, we never had anyone who hasn't trained since the Saiyan or Freeza and then become Buu saga top tier within a few months of training.
This has NEVER happened in the entire history of the Dragonball series. Even in Yo Goku, they were only like Frieza tier.
That's what's making this so weird in terms of the massive power leaps. Even one was already at literal universe destroying levels but we upped the anti several hundred times over and now even scrub tier enemies has to follow suit.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by singsing » Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:17 pm

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ekrolo2 wrote:Does anyone else wish we could get some comparison statements to have even a hint of a clue where the hell anyone stands in relation to one another? Even GT at least gave you an idea where Rild stands so you can even have some basis to jump off of. With all this God stuff, everyone's just vaguely stronger or weaker with no frame of reference to even gauge them with.
Just before Super Saiyan Blue is revealed, Freeza says something like "Despite knowing you [Goku] have defeated Majin Boo, I didn't think you'd become this strong..". A hasty viewer may say Freeza stated Base Goku was much stronger than Boo, but perhaps Freeza wasn't expecting Goku to match him in that condition?
TBF, Freeza doesn't really have a clue how strong Majin Boo is apart from his father's warning. Now, if someone like Gohan or Piccolo said it, that might give us a good idea where Base Goku stands. The only way he could potentially know if Goku's stronger than Fat Boo, at least, is if he could sense ki but I don't recall that ever being stated or implied in either versions of F.
I mean, Toriyama uses characters as narration. I think it's safe to assume basically any dialogue should be taken at face value unless, just like in the original manga run, they get proven wrong afterwards.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by DragonHermit » Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:23 pm

Frost > Final Form Freeza but <<< Golden Freeza. He wouldn't even be on that 1-15 scale.

U6 fighters don't seem to have a lot of physical strength. They are strong because of special abilities. It's a different concept, because power in DB used to be linear.

Cabbe probably has some sort of Ultimate Gohan strength.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by LightBing » Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:04 pm

Zombie wrote:The gaps are way too small.
How so? I'm using the "God Scale", which differs from the scouter numbers. At least that's what I think, based on how Mr.Toriyama came up with it. It's like a scale people make up everyday: Ex:"How good was dinner? Well lunch was a 7, so dinner is a 9!"(for some reason I imagined this in the voice of child).

Anyway here's my reasoning based on the Beerus 70% vs SSJG Goku.

If you're above by 1, you can have a entertaining fight but will always be in control.
If you're above by 0,5 , you can have a close fight and still be favorite, whoever it's not given.
If you're above by 0,2 , it's a very close fight. Fighting smarts, endurance and many other factors greatly matter. Power becomes secondary.

This allow to put everything in the scale and feels right to me.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Bullza » Tue Mar 01, 2016 12:00 am

Does anyone else wish we could get some comparison statements to have even a hint of a clue where the hell anyone stands in relation to one another?
If we knew how Goku's 4 forms compared to each other, base, SSJ, SSJG and SSJB, then I don't think it would be all that bad.

We know SSJ is supposed to be equal to SSJG. We know SSJB is stronger than SSJG but not to what extent.

We also know SSJ and apparently SSJG are stronger than base but again we don't know know to what extent.

If we knew how much stronger him going SSJ was supposed to be it'd be a lot less complicated.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by namekiansaiyan » Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:27 am

I have been thinking about how strong Piccolo is now from the evidence we have
He must be close to Frost because of these reasons:

He is dodging Frost's attacks easily while charging the Special Beam Cannon.
Frost does not like using his final form so if the power difference was a lot I am sure he would go back to his long head form or just one-shot Piccolo in his final form.
Piccolo is using his multi-form technique which will divide his power so he must have a lot of power if the attack is to work.
Piccolo looks like he is acting arrogant while charging his attack and he only does that when he is doing well so he must have got stronger.

He has to be between Goku in his base and Super Saiyan (which i think is his strongest form now).

Tht preview card is probably exaggerating the strength difference.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Hugo Boss » Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:41 am

namekiansaiyan wrote:Piccolo is using his multi-form technique which will divide his power so he must have a lot of power if the attack is to work.
Dividing power doesn't seem the best way to overcome power greater than his, does it? I'm more inclined to think that is the afterimage technique, which may cover makkankosappo time charge's weakness. Of course, we don't know yet if the makkankosappo will work on Frost.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Draconic » Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:50 am

Maybe Piccolo mastered the multi-form technique to the point it doesn't divide his power. Cell did it in the fight against Goku (in filler), so why can't Piccolo.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by namekiansaiyan » Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:16 am

Draconic wrote:Maybe Piccolo mastered the multi-form technique to the point it doesn't divide his power. Cell did it in the fight against Goku (in filler), so why can't Piccolo.
That is what i mean he has to have improved quite a lot and he can't win by strategy unless by ring-out only as he does not have a technique like Frost has supposed to of used so he has to have a lot of power behind his Special Beam Cannon which has to partly come from his only power and not just charging it up.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:24 am

After the latest episode, I think it would make much more sense if Goku is not using his SSG powers in the tournament.
  • SS seems to have given Goku a huge boost, while it gave a really small boost in BoG & SSB gave a not-so-huge boost in FnF, since it made him go from a little below Frost's Assault Form to way beyond Frost's Final Form, and there is a huge difference between these 2 forms based on what we saw with Freeza.
  • It doesn't seem like Piccolo has reached the level of gods. Piccolo appears to be stronger than base Goku, but below SS Goku, just like in Cell Games & Boo arc. It seems he had reached his limits ever since the Cell Games, since he didn't bother to enter inside the RoSaT a second time, and he never managed to surpass SS Gohan, who wasn't training for 7 years. In FnF, he was weaker than base Gohan, but this was a weakened Ultimate Gohan. He appears to be on par with base Gohan now, who has also become stronger but he still doesn't look like he has regained all of his Ultimate power. He didn't even join Goku & Vegeta inside the RoSaT because he didn't think he could handle them. How would he suddenly reach the level of gods in 5 days when he couldn't even reach the level of a Super Saiyan in 7 years?
  • It makes more sense for Botamo & Frost to be far below the level of gods. Goku said that Botamo doesn't appear to have trained because of his ability, and Frost has been using his Assault Form to fight common aliens. Plus, if all of the U6 fighters are at god level, it wouldn't make much sense for everyone to get frustrated over losing Boo.
Vegeta will probably get his chance to go all-out, unlike Goku, so hopefully everything will then become more clear.
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Post by apex_pretador » Tue Mar 01, 2016 12:58 pm

DBZGTKOSDH wrote:After the latest episode, I think it would make much more sense if Goku is not using his SSG powers in the tournament.
  • SS seems to have given Goku a huge boost, while it gave a really small boost in BoG & SSB gave a not-so-huge boost in FnF, since it made him go from a little below Frost's Assault Form to way beyond Frost's Final Form, and there is a huge difference between these 2 forms based on what we saw with Freeza.
in FnF , there isn't anything to indicate that SSB is a "small" boost. It was implied to be incredible boost.
In BoG , i think it can be explained by the fact that he was SSG in base a few minutes ago, & after the battle, when all his stress is gone, he needs to go SS to access his SSG powers.
[*]It doesn't seem like Piccolo has reached the level of gods. Piccolo appears to be stronger than base Goku, but below SS Goku, just like in Cell Games & Boo arc. It seems he had reached his limits ever since the Cell Games, since he didn't bother to enter inside the RoSaT a second time, and he never managed to surpass SS Gohan, who wasn't training for 7 years.
No indication that he was weaker than SS gohan in buu arc.
In FnF, he was weaker than base Gohan, but this was a weakened Ultimate Gohan. He appears to be on par with base Gohan now, who has also become stronger but he still doesn't look like he has regained all of his Ultimate power. He didn't even join Goku & Vegeta inside the RoSaT because he didn't think he could handle them. How would he suddenly reach the level of gods in 5 days when he couldn't even reach the level of a Super Saiyan in 7 years?
He could still be 10 times weaker than SS goku & be a threat to frost.
[*]It makes more sense for Botamo & Frost to be far below the level of gods. Goku said that Botamo doesn't appear to have trained because of his ability, and Frost has been using his Assault Form to fight common aliens. Plus, if all of the U6 fighters are at god level, it wouldn't make much sense for everyone to get frustrated over losing Boo.[/list]
Botamo is just special ability
Frost is seemingly stronger than freeza (not counting "ultimate" form ofcourse.
It makes no sense for "DB Super" to be "Goku loses because suppressed Super". Who knows how strong are base goku/vegeta? are they even stronger than SS vegetto? Why can't some aliens who frost is fighting , be stronger than SS vegetto?
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by ZombieVito » Tue Mar 01, 2016 1:10 pm

I'm starting to think that the reason Goku's Super Saiyan was gold is simply because he wasn't at full power. If you guys remember before he turns Super Saiyan Blue for the first time his aura turns gold for an instance. Something like this can work:

Goku: 850
-- Super Saiyan: 5,000
-- Super Saiuyan Blue: 8,500

Frost [First form]: 300
-- Assault form: 900
-- Final form: 3,000

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Post by Hugo Boss » Tue Mar 01, 2016 2:50 pm

apex_pretador wrote:Who knows how strong are base goku/vegeta? Are they even stronger than SS vegetto? Why can't some aliens who frost is fighting be stronger than SS Vegetto?
It's not impossible, but what is the need to compare them to Cell or Vegetto when we can't even tell where the main characters fit yet? Even if Frost is stronger than practically everyone in his universe, perhaps Universe 6 is so vast he doesn't have time to save all the people that lives there. With someone as strong as a god he could get rid of evil doers much faster.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Bullza » Tue Mar 01, 2016 3:27 pm

This is what I'll go with for now.

Vados - 15.5
Whis. - 15
Beerus - 10
Champa - 9.3

Golden Frieza - 7.8
SSJB Goku (U6) - 7.2
SSJB Vegeta (U6) 7.2
SSJ Goku (U6) - 6.6
SSJG Goku (BoG) - 6

Frost (Final Form) - 5.5
Frost (Third Form) - 3.6
Base Goku (U6) - 3.3
Base Vegeta (U6) - 3.3

Botamo - 2.7
Frieza (Final Form) - 2.6

SSJ2 Vegeta - 0.7
SSJ3 Goku - 0.5

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Post by namekiansaiyan » Tue Mar 01, 2016 3:32 pm

Bullza wrote:This is what I'll go with for now.

Vados - 15.5
Whis. - 15
Beerus - 10
Champa - 9.3

Golden Frieza - 7.8
SSJB Goku (U6) - 7.2
SSJB Vegeta (U6) 7.2
SSJ Goku (U6) - 6.6
SSJG Goku (BoG) - 6

Frost (Final Form) - 5.5
Frost (Third Form) - 3.6
Base Goku (U6) - 3.3
Base Vegeta (U6) - 3.3

Botamo - 2.7
Frieza (Final Form) - 2.6

SSJ2 Vegeta - 0.7
SSJ3 Goku - 0.5
I don't think there is evidence that vados is stronger than whis they are probably the same

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by ZombieVito » Tue Mar 01, 2016 4:19 pm

Bullza wrote:This is what I'll go with for now.

Vados - 15.5
Whis. - 15
Beerus - 10
Champa - 9.3

Golden Frieza - 7.8
SSJB Goku (U6) - 7.2
SSJB Vegeta (U6) 7.2
SSJ Goku (U6) - 6.6
SSJG Goku (BoG) - 6

Frost (Final Form) - 5.5
Frost (Third Form) - 3.6
Base Goku (U6) - 3.3
Base Vegeta (U6) - 3.3

Botamo - 2.7
Frieza (Final Form) - 2.6

SSJ2 Vegeta - 0.7
SSJ3 Goku - 0.5
Goku and Vegeta don't surpass Freeza after 3 years in the RoSaT?

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