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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Mon Mar 17, 2014 5:05 am

Going by the manga alone, we can only tell that SS3 Gotenks & U. Gohan are much stronger (by an unknown amount) than SS3 Goku for sure. However, we can't tell how SS3 Goku compares to SS Gotenks (both pre & post RoSaT), because Goku reveals in the end that he was stronger than he was saying.

But if you add the guidebooks to the mix, we get the SS multipliers (SS = base x50, SS2 = base x100, SS3 = base x400), and a generic Fusion multiplier (Fusion = base x many (dozens of) times). And with the manga implying that all the base Saiyans in Boo arc (Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Trunks, Goten) have a less than x2 gap between them, it makes SS Gotenks (pre) much stronger than SS3 Goku.
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Superman is, and always has been, a symbol for truth, justice, and upstanding moral fortitude–a role model and leader as much as a fighter. The more down-to-earth Goku has no illusions about being responsible for maintaining social order, or for setting some kind of moral example for the entire world. Goku is simply a martial artist who’s devoted his life toward perfecting his fighting skills and other abilities. Though never shy about risking his life to save either one person or the entire world, he just doesn’t believe that the balance of the world rests in any way on his shoulders, and he has no need to shape any part of it in his image. Goku is an idealist, and believes that there is some good in everyone, but he is unconcerned with the big picture of the world…unless it has to do with some kind of fight. Politics, society, law and order don’t have much bearing on his life, but he’s a man who knows right from wrong.

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by xmysticgohanx » Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:11 am

DBZGTKOSDH wrote:And with the manga implying that all the base Saiyans in Boo arc (Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Trunks, Goten) have a less than x2 gap between them
What led you to that conclusion?
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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Tue Mar 18, 2014 6:08 am

xmysticgohanx wrote:
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:And with the manga implying that all the base Saiyans in Boo arc (Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Trunks, Goten) have a less than x2 gap between them
What led you to that conclusion?
Trunks was only a little stronger than Goten.

SS Goten was a very good sparing partner for SS Gohan, and while SS Gohan could block all of SS Goten's hits, he couldn't do that easily. SS Trunks went all out on SS Vegeta, and while Vegeta could not so easily block all of Trunks' hits, Trunks almost hit him once, and Vegeta was forced to punch him in the face to stop him. The difference is obviously smaller than the difference between Goku (was using around 60.000, true power 90.000) and Jheese & Butta (between 30.000 & 60.000), which is a less than x2 difference. The kids got even stronger in RoSaT.

Goku said that he could use Fusion with Gohan, and since Fusion requires similar powers, it means that the difference between Goku & Gohan wasn't x2, which is a huge difference.

So, the difference between Goku (strongest Saiyan) & Goten (weakest Saiyan) is at most x2 (while in the same form of course).

The kids are also implied to be stronger than #18 (SS Trunks' suppressed ki blast was considered dangerous for her), and even Piccolo (he was much weaker than Kaioshin, who was much weaker than the Super Saiyan adults, so there is a big gap between Piccolo & the Super Saiyan adults, which would possibly make the kids above him). Why are the kids so strong? They seem to have mastered Super Saiyan, and they were sparring for years, so that would explain why they are that strong.
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Superman is, and always has been, a symbol for truth, justice, and upstanding moral fortitude–a role model and leader as much as a fighter. The more down-to-earth Goku has no illusions about being responsible for maintaining social order, or for setting some kind of moral example for the entire world. Goku is simply a martial artist who’s devoted his life toward perfecting his fighting skills and other abilities. Though never shy about risking his life to save either one person or the entire world, he just doesn’t believe that the balance of the world rests in any way on his shoulders, and he has no need to shape any part of it in his image. Goku is an idealist, and believes that there is some good in everyone, but he is unconcerned with the big picture of the world…unless it has to do with some kind of fight. Politics, society, law and order don’t have much bearing on his life, but he’s a man who knows right from wrong.

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by dbgtFO » Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:33 am

I reworked my power levels from page 202.

* indicates official Battle Powers.

Dragon Ball part 1

Search for the Dragon Balls Arc
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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by xmysticgohanx » Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:13 am

Is Bardock's 10,000 only a tv special thing? If it is then what would you guys guess is Bardock's power level just by the Manga and EoB?
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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:26 am

Toriyama, when asked about Bardock's battle power, stated that he never was able to ascend beyond low-class level, and if he did, he would have been promoted. So I figure he's below a typical elite like Nappa (4,000) at least. I have him at 3,000 during the events of EOB, as that makes him exactly 1000 times weaker than Goku was when he fought Freeza, and fits Toriyama's statements about him only being on the high end of the low-class tier.
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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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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by Kaboom » Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:53 am

I don't think Toriyama's comments HAVE to mean that Bardock was weaker than the TV special originally said he was (he's supposedly a big fan of the special, after all, so I doubt he'd purposely want to change anything in it). Just that, for some reason or another, he was never "able" to be promoted, even possibly despite his power. Which is technically all Toriyama said, and still fits with the TV special. After all, Goku's abnormally high power and pwnage of elite-rank Nappa didn't stop Vegeta from still considering him a low-class.

Maybe Bardock was never back on Planet Vegeta for King Vegeta or whoever's in charge to take notice and promote him. Maybe he rose from below 5,000 up to almost 10,000 in a very short amount of time. Maybe there was some sort of prejudice at work. Who knows. I'll admit it's a bit of a work-around, but it's better in my book than the pain in the butt of considering there to be two different alternate-universe versions of Bardock or something.
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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Sat Mar 22, 2014 2:13 am

(he's supposedly a big fan of the special, after all, so I doubt he'd purposely want to change anything in it).
Jaco says hi. And there already are at least three alternate Bardocks:

Bardock 1: manga Bardock. Similar to Bardock 2, except probably weaker and definitely of a different age.

Bardock 2: anime Bardock. Main difference from manga Bardock, besides power, is that there's apparently a two year gap in between him and the other Bardock. His son was a newborn in the special, yet two years old in the Jaco manga.

Bardock 3: EOB Bardock. Created when Freeza's Death Ball somehow sent him back in time, which by DBU rules created an alternate timeline. He fought and killed Chilled instead of dying to Freeza, and lived for an unknown amount of time after that.
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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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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:03 am

Kaboom wrote:I don't think Toriyama's comments HAVE to mean that Bardock was weaker than the TV special originally said he was (he's supposedly a big fan of the special, after all, so I doubt he'd purposely want to change anything in it). Just that, for some reason or another, he was never "able" to be promoted, even possibly despite his power. Which is technically all Toriyama said, and still fits with the TV special. After all, Goku's abnormally high power and pwnage of elite-rank Nappa didn't stop Vegeta from still considering him a low-class.
The question was "what is Barodock's BP". If Bardock's BP was at mid-class or elite-class level, but he just wasn't promoted, Toriyama would have said so. Instead, he only said that Bardock is one of the strongest low-class warriors. It's very clear.

And as for Toriyama contradicting the TV Special, he said that he didn't remember many things, other than that he really liked it. Purposely or not, he has already contradicted the TV Special in various things through Jaco, BoG, and the EoB interview.
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Superman is, and always has been, a symbol for truth, justice, and upstanding moral fortitude–a role model and leader as much as a fighter. The more down-to-earth Goku has no illusions about being responsible for maintaining social order, or for setting some kind of moral example for the entire world. Goku is simply a martial artist who’s devoted his life toward perfecting his fighting skills and other abilities. Though never shy about risking his life to save either one person or the entire world, he just doesn’t believe that the balance of the world rests in any way on his shoulders, and he has no need to shape any part of it in his image. Goku is an idealist, and believes that there is some good in everyone, but he is unconcerned with the big picture of the world…unless it has to do with some kind of fight. Politics, society, law and order don’t have much bearing on his life, but he’s a man who knows right from wrong.

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by Kaboom » Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:15 am

Hmmm... Somehow I knew I shouldn't have bothered saying anything.

I did forget about the Jaco thing. That's a better reason to have things differently, I suppose.
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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Sat Mar 22, 2014 4:29 pm

I don't. I think what Toriyama said is a good enough reason, but the Jaco manga does show that he clearly has no problem knocking the anime special right of continuity, so I'm not sure why the power level it gave should matter if the events themselves couldn't have happened in the manga's timeline.
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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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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by kuartus4 » Sat Mar 29, 2014 1:58 pm

What do ya'll think about these numbers:

Cell Games

SSJ Vegeta:75

Mssj Goku:100

Power up Perfect Cell(vs Goku):111.11

Mssj kid Gohan:133.33

Power up Perfect Cell(vs Gohan):150

Full Power Perfect Cell:200

Anger boosted SSJ2 kid Gohan:375

Super Perfect Cell:300

Buu Saga:

Mssj Teen Gohan:133.33

Mssj pre majin Vegeta:142.22

Mssj Goku:200

SSJ2 Teen Gohan:266.66

SSJ2 Goku and Majin Vegeta:400

Initial Fat Buu:320


I'm not commited to these numbers. Just trying to get feedback.
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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by Pantalones » Sun Mar 30, 2014 11:10 am

I'm guessing you're going with the "Gohan didn't actually get weaker, he just lost his rage boosts" theory, since Gohan's numbers aren't actually any lower in the Buu saga than before?

But yeah... just going by how the characters relate to each other, the numbers seem to make sense. Goku and Vegeta are both stronger than the weakened Gohan in the Buu saga, but even with SSj2 (+Majin Vegeta's power-up) they aren't that far ahead of what SSj2 Gohan was capable of at the Cell Games. Fat Buu is initially weak enough that Gohan thinks he'd have a chance if he could bring out his rage again, and Vegeta doesn't think he'll be a problem until after he powers up. Everything seems to match up pretty well with the statements made in the manga so far.

Kind of wondering where you'd put Yakon and Dabura. I know Yakon seemed to be a bit much for base Goku to handle, but Gohan seemed to think that the two of them fighting together would beat him, so he shouldn't be that far above the base Saiyans (and he's obviously way below the Super Saiyans.) Dabura is a bit hard to pin down, though, since he's compared to Cell (...but which Cell?) and there's not a lot of agreement on what form Gohan was in when fighting him. I suppose if you consider Gohan to have been SSj2 in that fight you could put him close to Super Perfect Cell, or if you consider Gohan to have been just Super Saiyan he could be around the level Cell used against Gohan. Either way he ends up being a bit stronger than Gohan but would definitely lose to Goku... though those levels would make him exactly equal to "pre-Majin" Vegeta. I guess that works, though. Vegeta seemed confident that he'd be able to beat Dabura, but he usually seems that way when getting ready to fight against anyone who isn't Freeza or Broly, so that doesn't necessarily imply he's actually a lot stronger than Dabura.

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by kuartus4 » Mon Mar 31, 2014 5:11 pm

Pantalones wrote:I'm guessing you're going with the "Gohan didn't actually get weaker, he just lost his rage boosts" theory, since Gohan's numbers aren't actually any lower in the Buu saga than before?.
Yeah, basically.
Pantalones wrote:Kind of wondering where you'd put Yakon and Dabura. I know Yakon seemed to be a bit much for base Goku to handle, but Gohan seemed to think that the two of them fighting together would beat him, so he shouldn't be that far above the base Saiyans (and he's obviously way below the Super Saiyans.) Dabura is a bit hard to pin down, though, since he's compared to Cell (...but which Cell?) and there's not a lot of agreement on what form Gohan was in when fighting him. I suppose if you consider Gohan to have been SSj2 in that fight you could put him close to Super Perfect Cell, or if you consider Gohan to have been just Super Saiyan he could be around the level Cell used against Gohan. Either way he ends up being a bit stronger than Gohan but would definitely lose to Goku... though those levels would make him exactly equal to "pre-Majin" Vegeta. I guess that works, though. Vegeta seemed confident that he'd be able to beat Dabura, but he usually seems that way when getting ready to fight against anyone who isn't Freeza or Broly, so that doesn't necessarily imply he's actually a lot stronger than Dabura.
I have Yakon 1.16666x stronger than Base Goku. I have Yakon as strong as I have 100% Frieza, at 140 million.

I have Dabra stronger than Full Power Perfect Cell. I've changed my numbers a bit. I now have

Power Up Perfect Cell:150

Full Power Perfect Cell: 200

Dabra:250

SSJ2 Teen Gohan:266.66

I also think Gohan was SSJ2 vs Dabra.

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by Kaboom » Tue Apr 08, 2014 10:34 pm

Just in case anyone's interested, I added some Dragon Ball Minus levels to my series powar levuls list, which is still linked in my signature. It's right there at the beginning. I may list additional levels from Jaco if I manage to re-read it and notice anything worth adding.
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Post by RandomGuy96 » Tue Apr 08, 2014 10:38 pm

Bardock: 5,000
Uh.... huh...
[Toriyama has perhaps due in part to bad memory implied that his Bardock is somewhat weaker than the original one portrayed in the TV special, and didn't manage to become promoted to an elite/mid-class. But I'd find it distasteful to depower him too much, so I settled for just chopping his 10k power level from the special in half. This puts him on a level where he may have recently pushed himself up into the lower end of the elite power range, but has yet to be promoted for it. I'm comfortable with that.
He was on Vegeta for a month after, and he was far stronger than a good elite like Nappa, yet he wasn't promoted? Even though Toriyama explicitly said that Bardock never reached elite levels, but that one could if their battle power was high enough?
Kind, gentle, in need of rescue more often than Princesses Zelda but STILL stronger than Raditz!
Why? Raditz was an actual warrior, Gine was unfit for fighting and apparently was so worthless that Bardock had to save her all the time, and was better used as lunch lady.
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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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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by ZombieVito » Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:42 am

Might as well post mine, I still haven't read Jaco so those power levels will be at a later date:

Vegeta: 9,000

King Vegeta: 8,000

Bardock: 2,500

Gine: 1,000

Raditz: 750

Son Goku: 7

Avo: 40,000

Kado: 40,000

Freeza (3rd suppression): 530,000

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Post by RandomGuy96 » Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:44 am

King Vegeta should be stronger than kid Vegeta.
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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 ZombieVito » Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:59 am

Vegeta said he was stronger as a brat.

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Re: The Official Unofficial Power Levels Thread

Post by Kaboom » Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:03 am

Normally people bitch at me for having my power levels too low in their eyes. It's almost refreshing to be bitched at for the opposite.
Zombie wrote:Vegeta said he was stronger as a brat.
Yeah, but that doesn't technically have to mean, "before King Vegeta died." Even with Minus pushing back the date of Planet Vegeta's destruction, Vegeta would still be a "kid" for a few years after, so many opt to consider him still weaker than the King in flashbacks of this era.
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