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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by The Undying » Wed Jul 29, 2020 7:34 pm

Magnificent Ponta wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 5:04 pm Fundamentally, I guess I can summarise my position by saying that I just don't agree that the initial power of SSjB is the same thing as the complete power of SSjB.
I would have agreed with this point if Vegeta didn't already emphasize the difference between using Blue's full power for a "short while" (the God-Blue switching tactic) and using it "continuously" (completed Super Saiyan Blue) while describing Goku's new accomplishment to Trunks. The initial impact, at the very least, is virtually the same.

The issue with God-Blue, however, is as you've described; the aura visibly leaks Blue's excess power every time Vegeta activates the form, but he's able to at least maintain strength approximately closer to 100% by making that switch in a matter of milliseconds. The implication from Vegeta's dialogue in Chapter 24 is that God-Blue also loses power, but at a much slower pace.

The reason Vegeta is still weaker than Fused Zamasu is likely twofold - he can't use it continuously, and what little leakage he'd already consumed during his fight with Black was enough to put him at a disadvantage. I'm pretty neutral on the exact difference between Fused Zamasu and Black, but I don't think it's nearly as massive as something like Vegetto or Gogeta.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by ankokudaishogun » Wed Jul 29, 2020 7:46 pm

Magnificent Ponta wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 5:04 pm More to the point, when Vegeta is given the opportunity to be fully restored after a beating, he admits he can't fight equally with Zamas2, so the most natural interpretation is that his SSjB, even at its full initial power, doesn't stand a chance of matching Zamas2.
You are missing a critical point: Merged Zamasu can use Full Power with a 100% uptime.
Vegeta could use Full Power only in brief bursts in-between downgrading to God, which is much weaker.

It was fine when the different wasn't excessive: we know a tired Blue can be even weaker than God.
Therefore Zamasu was never at Full Power against Vegeta's Blue-God-Switch as even when putting effort to force the output to the maximum possible, he was still losing stamina and\or damaging his body, making him progressively weaker.
He might have defeated Vegeta if he understood his tactic faster, and therefore with more power to use.

It's obvious, then, that a fully regenerated and unlimited max stamina Marged Zamasu who already did know the tactic could drop Vegeta easily.


Also: Complete Blue probably IS stronger than the Initial Burst of Blue.
The whole point of the Burst is that it's 「Wasted Power」.
The power of "Burst" arguably only a fraction(if a major one) of the real "Full Power of Blue" that Complete Blue manages to master, not letting even a quantum of energy go wasted, as some of the power is wasted in aura and whatnot instead of punching harder.

In short:
Complete Blue>Merged Zamasu(Unlimited Stamina Rosé-now-White)>Blue Burst>Sustained Rosé(Limited Stamina)>Sustained Blue
Merged Zamasu's Unlimited Stamina Rosé-now-White is likely comparable to Rosé Burst, or just a little weaker(but still somehow stronger than Blue Burst)

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by ZombieVito » Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:30 pm

Completed Blue can't be stronger or equal to Merged Zamasu if the form doesnt give a boost.

Goku Black was already stronger as a Super Saiyan than normal Blue Vegeta. Rose is even stronger and so is Merged Zamasu as stated by Goku.

Merged Zamasu > Goku Black full Rose output > Goku/Vegeta full Blue output.

This is the chain if CSSB doesnt give a boost and it's obviously not the case.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by Dragon Wukong » Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:13 pm

ZombieVito wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:30 pm Completed Blue can't be stronger or equal to Merged Zamasu if the form doesnt give a boost.

Goku Black was already stronger as a Super Saiyan than normal Blue Vegeta. Rose is even stronger and so is Merged Zamasu as stated by Goku.

Merged Zamasu > Goku Black full Rose output > Goku/Vegeta full Blue output.

This is the chain if CSSB doesnt give a boost and it's obviously not the case.
One can read Goku Black's strength as a Super Saiyan as his power ascending to SSGSS (think Gohan's power ascending as a Super Saiyan before he turns SS2, or Goku's power ascending as an SS2 before he goes SS3.) This makes sense in the context that after the zenkai that gives him that power is the first time he achieves the form. In addition, Vegeta likely also struggled with the power drop of SSB, as pointed out by others in this thread already.

Again, the dialogue contradicts the idea that CSSB is an outright boost, as Undying has pointed out.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by ZombieVito » Wed Jul 29, 2020 10:50 pm

Dragon Wukong wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:13 pm One can read Goku Black's strength as a Super Saiyan as his power ascending to SSGSS (think Gohan's power ascending as a Super Saiyan before he turns SS2, or Goku's power ascending as an SS2 before he goes SS3.) This makes sense in the context that after the zenkai that gives him that power is the first time he achieves the form. In addition, Vegeta likely also struggled with the power drop of SSB, as pointed out by others in this thread already.

Again, the dialogue contradicts the idea that CSSB is an outright boost, as Undying has pointed out.
Rose Black is still stronger than SS Black since it defeats the entire point of even turning into Rose if the forms have equal power. Vegeta ate a senzu before getting outperformed again by SS Black.

Rose Black > SS Black > SSB Vegeta is clear.

And you are ignoring that Vegeta was beat by Merged Zamasu isntantly in chapter 23. If CSSB doesn't give a boost then this shouldn't have happened.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by DBZ Macky » Thu Jul 30, 2020 1:14 am

ZombieVito wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:30 pm Merged Zamasu > Goku Black full Rose output > Goku/Vegeta full Blue output.
Other than Black never being able to use their full Blue output in the Manga at that point, I see nothing wrong with this chain.

The idea was initially for Merged Zamasu to be stronger than a single SSB, but weaker than two. Seems like it just ended up being compared to a full power SSB, rather than the initial transformation. Goku still wouldn't be able to defeat Zamasu without the Hakai, but he certainly was on the same level.
Dragon Wukong wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:13 pm One can read Goku Black's strength as a Super Saiyan as his power ascending to SSGSS (think Gohan's power ascending as a Super Saiyan before he turns SS2, or Goku's power ascending as an SS2 before he goes SS3.) This makes sense in the context that after the zenkai that gives him that power is the first time he achieves the form. In addition, Vegeta likely also struggled with the power drop of SSB, as pointed out by others in this thread already.
Yep, this is how I interpreted it as well.
Again, the dialogue contradicts the idea that CSSB is an outright boost, as Undying has pointed out.
I agree.
Even if God-Blue allows Vegeta to use Blue's full power, it's still much weaker compared to the real deal.
Momentum is a thing, even if you can take a car to its top speed, it still needs time to accelerate it to that point.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by ZombieVito » Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:36 am

DBZ Macky wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 1:14 am
ZombieVito wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:30 pm Merged Zamasu > Goku Black full Rose output > Goku/Vegeta full Blue output.
Other than Black never being able to use their full Blue output in the Manga at that point, I see nothing wrong with this chain.

The idea was initially for Merged Zamasu to be stronger than a single SSB, but weaker than two. Seems like it just ended up being compared to a full power SSB, rather than the initial transformation. Goku still wouldn't be able to defeat Zamasu without the Hakai, but he certainly was on the same level.
Dragon Wukong wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:13 pm One can read Goku Black's strength as a Super Saiyan as his power ascending to SSGSS (think Gohan's power ascending as a Super Saiyan before he turns SS2, or Goku's power ascending as an SS2 before he goes SS3.) This makes sense in the context that after the zenkai that gives him that power is the first time he achieves the form. In addition, Vegeta likely also struggled with the power drop of SSB, as pointed out by others in this thread already.
Yep, this is how I interpreted it as well.
Again, the dialogue contradicts the idea that CSSB is an outright boost, as Undying has pointed out.
I agree.
Even if God-Blue allows Vegeta to use Blue's full power, it's still much weaker compared to the real deal.
Momentum is a thing, even if you can take a car to its top speed, it still needs time to accelerate it to that point.
:eh:

So you are agreeing with me but then you aren't?

The chain I posted is if CSSB doesn't offer a boost over SSB and that wasn't the case since Goku stalemated Merged Zamasu.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by The Undying » Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:57 am

ZombieVito wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:30 pm Completed Blue can't be stronger or equal to Merged Zamasu if the form doesnt give a boost.
My dude, you are exhaustingly throwing yourself into a trap of semantics at this point. Let me break this down as clearly as I can for you.

Prior to the end of the Future Trunks arc, 100% Blue is not something Goku or Vegeta really had access to beyond stupidly rare instances of transforming and attacking simultaneously. That's because its power drops immediately. Goku himself said he managed to do it only one time, and it was during his fight with Hit in the Universe 6 tournament.

So when Vegeta is able to use it at something close to 100% capacity via his God-Blue switching, or Goku is able to use it at exactly 100% capacity via the perfected Super Saiyan Blue, it's a "boost" in the sense that they're accessing strength they were essentially incapable of accessing previously aside from a very rarely used attack that only worked one time beforehand.

However, it's not a boost in the sense that they were going beyond its full power. You don't go past 100%. Again, Vegeta already underlined the main difference between Goku's completed Blue and his own God-Blue by explaining that the former allows him to use that strength continuously. Now, there's a big difference between only being able to use it while attacking and being able to use all of its buffs (including speed and maneuverability) at all times. Another distinction, as I mentioned above, is that God-Blue still leaks the aura a bit during Vegeta's burst attacks, so it's plausibly a little weaker than 100% after the first strike.

So when Fused Zamasu "stomped" Vegeta, he was shown to have an advantage in speed and blitzed him, which is consistent with what we've been discussing here; God-Blue doesn't actually use its speed because Vegeta only utilizes Blue's full power when he attacks. He was also probably only capable of using something close to 100% (rather than Blue's full power exactly) at this point because the energy drain may still slightly apply to God-Blue. Even if it doesn't, it doesn't change the fact that Fused Zamasu overwhelming Vegeta is mostly predicated on gains outside of strength that God-Blue simply doesn't provide.

Are you following along here? If not, go back over those paragraphs. If so, good. This is the actual chain:

Completed Blue Goku = Fused Zamasu > God-Blue Vegeta > Black > Blue Vegeta

There's no such thing as a "full output" Rosé, at least in Black's case, so I have no idea why you brought that up. Black doesn't know how to absorb his aura or switch between forms instantly like Goku or Vegeta can. Completed Blue can compete with Fused Zamasu because it's far stronger than Black, who was never close to 100% of its power.

I would have thought all of this to be fairly simple, but apparently it does warrant this level of clarification for some people. I'd hope this helps.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by DBZ Macky » Thu Jul 30, 2020 5:43 am

ZombieVito wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:36 am :eh:

So you are agreeing with me but then you aren't?

The chain I posted is if CSSB doesn't offer a boost over SSB and that wasn't the case since Goku stalemated Merged Zamasu.
We might be misunderstanding each other, CSSB is definitely stronger than the "SSB" with its energy leaking all around Goku and Vegeta.
But CSSB is still the actual 100% power of SSB, not an additional boost.

Also, Merged Zamasu after powering up was much stronger than before.
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Ergo, he was still stronger than CSSB Goku who was equal to him before.

It's probably open to interpretation, but I think this is the chain:
Goku (Hakai) > Merged Zamasu (Full Power) > Perfect Blue = Merged Zamasu (Initial) >> SS God-Blue > Incomplete SSB
The Undying wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:57 am Goku himself said he managed to do it only one time, and it was during his fight with Hit in the Universe 6 tournament.
I don't remember that being stated, are you sure about this?

I also want to mention that Toyotaro is surprisingly very consistent with the aura of the SSB transformations.
If Goku and Vegeta are using the Perfect Blue forms, they'll never have the aura except while transforming.
The SSB Evolution form also always has the clearly different aura whenever Vegeta uses the form.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by Grand Marshal 1 » Thu Jul 30, 2020 5:58 am

DBZ Macky wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 5:43 am Also, Merged Zamasu after powering up was much stronger than before.
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Ergo, he was still stronger than CSSB Goku who was equal to him before.
I know it's all powerup and whatnot, but isn't this version of Zamasu something more than just a powered up state?

Doesn't he get more buff? The wiki treats this as a power stressed state. So it'd make sense for him to surpass Perfected Blue if he power stressed.

Kinda similarly to turning Giant in the anime I would say. More strength at all costs. Ofc with no apparent speed increase or decrease.

Basically, this is beyond his full power which rivals Perfected Blue. And he couldn't just access it. He had to change to deal with the threat.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by Dragon Wukong » Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:44 am

Grand Marshal 1 wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 5:58 am I know it's all powerup and whatnot, but isn't this version of Zamasu something more than just a powered up state?

Doesn't he get more buff? The wiki treats this as a power stressed state. So it'd make sense for him to surpass Perfected Blue if he power stressed.

Kinda similarly to turning Giant in the anime I would say. More strength at all costs. Ofc with no apparent speed increase or decrease.

Basically, this is beyond his full power which rivals Perfected Blue. And he couldn't just access it. He had to change to deal with the threat.
I wouldn't view it as a power-stressed state ala Grade 3 or anything. He's actually no more buff than Goku tends to be. I think he just tossed off his clothing for dramatic reasons as he regen'd his power back.
ZombieVito wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 10:50 pm Rose Black is still stronger than SS Black since it defeats the entire point of even turning into Rose if the forms have equal power. Vegeta ate a senzu before getting outperformed again by SS Black.

Rose Black > SS Black > SSB Vegeta is clear.

And you are ignoring that Vegeta was beat by Merged Zamasu isntantly in chapter 23. If CSSB doesn't give a boost then this shouldn't have happened.
Even if Vegeta ate a senzu, the fact remains that Vegeta's power would continue dropping since he was staying in the form. He didn't take advantage of any initial burst of power from the transformation. The fact that Vegeta immediately began dominating Black the second he found a way to "cheat" SSB's full power by spamming that initial burst tells you everything. Vegeta learning how to do that in the first place meant that his loss is attributed to SSB's weakness in maintaining its power.

And of course, as others have already pointed out, even SSG/SSB switching is likely just an approximation, given that the aura is still leaking out whenever he switches, even if it's only for a moment. And it doesn't allow the maneuverability/speed of the form to be maintained either.

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Post by DBZ Macky » Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:54 am

Grand Marshal 1 wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 5:58 am
I know it's all powerup and whatnot, but isn't this version of Zamasu something more than just a powered up state?

Doesn't he get more buff? The wiki treats this as a power stressed state. So it'd make sense for him to surpass Perfected Blue if he power stressed.

Kinda similarly to turning Giant in the anime I would say. More strength at all costs. Ofc with no apparent speed increase or decrease.

Basically, this is beyond his full power which rivals Perfected Blue. And he couldn't just access it. He had to change to deal with the threat.
Vegeta says something along the lines of Zamasu using all of his Ki and that even his immortal body might not be able to handle it. So yeah, thinking of it as a power stressed state similar to Grade II seems valid.
Dragon Wukong wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:44 am I wouldn't view it as a power-stressed state ala Grade 3 or anything. He's actually no more buff than Goku tends to be. I think he just tossed off his clothing for dramatic reasons as he regen'd his power back.
There's definitely an increase in muscle mass there. You can see it if you compare Zamasu from the same chapter a few panels ago, he's worse than (Anime) Cabba.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by The Undying » Thu Jul 30, 2020 10:53 am

DBZ Macky wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 5:43 am I don't remember that being stated, are you sure about this?
Shin's dialogue:

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Basically, 100% power is something they could use for only one attack per fight, and only if they attacked and transformed at the same time. God-Blue and the completed Blue mitigate this issue.
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Post by Thani » Thu Jul 30, 2020 10:55 am

It may not make sense, it may even be described as a different form. But the dialogue does not lie.

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In other words, SSGSS, in the manga, is obscenely strong, but that obsecene power only lasts for a real short while. The completed Super Saiyan Blue is literally a constant 100%. That's it.

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Post by ZombieVito » Thu Jul 30, 2020 11:25 am

DBZ Macky wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 5:43 am We might be misunderstanding each other, CSSB is definitely stronger than the "SSB" with its energy leaking all around Goku and Vegeta.
But CSSB is still the actual 100% power of SSB, not an additional boost.

Also, Merged Zamasu after powering up was much stronger than before.
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Ergo, he was still stronger than CSSB Goku who was equal to him before.

It's probably open to interpretation, but I think this is the chain:
Goku (Hakai) > Merged Zamasu (Full Power) > Perfect Blue = Merged Zamasu (Initial) >> SS God-Blue > Incomplete SSB
Well as long as you aren't saying something dumb like Merged Zamasu already has 100% of the power of Rose Black because of his stamina then we are in agreement.

Merged Zamasu never perfected Rose so he always had the incomplete form making up the difference bewteen him and Perfected Blue thanks to his fusion boost.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by Dragon Wukong » Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:07 pm

ZombieVito wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 11:25 am Well as long as you aren't saying something dumb like Merged Zamasu already has 100% of the power of Rose Black because of his stamina then we are in agreement.

Merged Zamasu never perfected Rose so he always had the incomplete form making up the difference bewteen him and Perfected Blue thanks to his fusion boost.
Again, awfully rude of you to discredit the argument as "dumb."

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Vegeta's dialogue heavily implies that Zamasu is able to use the full power of SSGSS thanks to his regeneration, and that Goku's assault was interrupting his recovery before he unleashed that power, at the cost of burdening his body in a manner similar to Goku. (Not that he cares, because again, he can regenerate in the end anyhow.)

If Vegeta found a way to use SSGSS's full power, and Goku found a different way to use SSGSS's full power, why the hell wouldn't Fused Zamasu's regeneration provide another different way to use SSGSS's full power?

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Post by Thani » Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:40 pm

And again, the "incomplete form" is merely a state of being incapable of using the 100% of the transformation, since the power steadily leaks out of the body once Blue is activated. Since Zamasu's not encumbered by this limitation when fused, he's indeed using the full power of his SSGSS from the get-go.

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Post by ZombieVito » Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:55 pm

And again, if that's the case then Goku stalemating him can't happen. On equal ground (Incomplete SSGSS), Goku Black was already stronger than Goku and Vegeta (Before RoSaT) and then he got a fusion boost on top of that. Going 100% won't change this.

Merged Zamasu > SSR Black > SS Black > SSB Goku.

This is also not counting Merged Zamasu recovering himself while Goku can't maing this even more ridiculous.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

Post by ankokudaishogun » Thu Jul 30, 2020 1:59 pm

ZombieVito wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:55 pm then he got a fusion boost on top of that. Going 100% won't change this.
Everything points to the boost being little more than Zamasu's immortality.

As long as the difference between the Full Power of Blue and the Incomplete Blue is greater than the measly addition of Zamasu's SS2-class power, there is no issue in Complete Blue being stronger than Merged Zamasu.

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Post by ZombieVito » Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:07 pm

ankokudaishogun wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 1:59 pm Everything points to the boost being little more than Zamasu's immortality.

As long as the difference between the Full Power of Blue and the Incomplete Blue is greater than the measly addition of Zamasu's SS2-class power, there is no issue in Complete Blue being stronger than Merged Zamasu.
Goku Black at 100% > Goku at 100%. Black was already stronger than him on their incomplete SSGSS so he will be as well at 100%.

How hard is for this to understand?

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