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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Super Saiyan Turlast x4 » Thu Apr 21, 2016 5:00 pm

RandomGuy96 wrote:Not really. If he was suppressed the entire time, then none of them would have been able to tell how powerful he was and how outclassed they were, which they clearly did. They obviously got a read on his power at some point, and it's never stated that they underestimated him (a stock phrase when such a thing happens).
Freeza never fought, so there was never an opportunity for them to say anything about underestimating him. What we know for a fact is Tagoma's Chi stood out more than Freeza's when he began to power-up. That was what got the kids attention. Freeza's a lot more powerful than Tagoma, so there's no reason why he wouldn't have been suppressed.

Even on Namek, Freeza was regarded as having a huge Chi the entire time. This didn't change the fact that he was nowhere near full-power. There's no reason why the same logic wouldn't apply here.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

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RandomGuy96 wrote:That wouldn't really make any sense though. It's not like any of them have a formula for how strong Freeza's forms are in relation to each other, or that they can't attack him before he transforms. Plus, everyone's comments before they actually see Freeza suggest he was outputting a large amount of power in his 1st form. So either he wasn't suppressed, as he had no reason to be and this wasn't implied anywhere, or he was suppressed to an oddly specific level, but not enough for it to actually serve any kind of purpose. I don't see any reason to make the assumptions necessary to make the latter true.

The statement of "that's alright, we still have Boo" just seems really straightforward, as it comes right after multiple comments on how strong 1st form Freeza is. Let's look at it as a scene: multiple people say that Freeza's really strong. Krillin hopes Goku and Vegeta will handle him, but they're not there. Then he has a temporary hope spot by remembering they still have Buu, only to be told that, unfortunately, Buu isn't there either. Then it's established that Gohan can't handle Freeza- again, immediately after Krillin stated that Mr. Buu could. Then, later, we see 1st form Freeza beat up Gohan. If Freeza was suppressed while everyone was making those "what an enormous ki"/"we can't handle this"/"he's in a different dimension"/"if only Goku and Vegeta were here" statements, then the scenes don't really work in context (especially since the point of bringing Buu up and then dismissing him is pretty clearly "things are fine ---> crap ---> now they're not", rather than "things are fucked ---> things are fucked").
Yes,they don't have any specific formula on Freeza's forms.But they should at least know that Freeza's ki will go way up if he transform.Pehaps he's suppressed because he was saving energy for Goku [?].Goku did the same thing when he arrived on Namek.

The crux here is the Tagoma part.Tagoma's ki attracts Goten and Trunks' attention.If Freeza's at full power right off the bat in his First Form,wouldn't the kids sense his enormous ki and attract there attention ? Unless Tagoma is stronger than 1st Form Freeza,which seems unlikely.So Freeza is probably suppressed at that point,but his suppressed state is still enough for guys like Tenshinhan to creep out.I could be wrong about this but Gohan only said that he won't do jackshit against Freeza when they saw him in his first form,which could possibly mean that Gohan was taking Freeza's other forms into account.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

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RandomGuy96 wrote:Not really. If he was suppressed the entire time, then none of them would have been able to tell how powerful he was and how outclassed they were, which they clearly did. They obviously got a read on his power at some point, and it's never stated that they underestimated him (a stock phrase when such a thing happens).
Freeza never fought, so there was never an opportunity for them to say anything about underestimating him.
Yes he did: he beat up Gohan and Piccolo. But we never get a comment like that.

This reminds me of how a lot of people were saying Goku was suppressed when Beerus said he couldn't beat Freeza without Super Saiyan. In both cases, the statement was never contradicted, and we were never given any reason to believe that the speaker was wrong.
What we know for a fact is Tagoma's Chi stood out more than Freeza's when he began to power-up. That was what got the kids attention. Freeza's a lot more powerful than Tagoma, so there's no reason why he wouldn't have been suppressed.
Two things. One, being suppressed here wouldn't mean he was suppressed earlier. Two, no, it doesn't actually mean that. There's clearly a difference between being suppressed, and not being suppressed at all, but also not "flexing" by making your power just grab someone's attention. We saw this in the Buu arc, where no one's ki just grabs people in other dimensions like Goku's does, even though we see characters stronger than Goku in this arc. Moreover, we see this in this same Super arc: SS Gohan fighting at his full power doesn't attract Goku's attention, but him 'powering up' does while Freeza's ki doesn't, even though Freeza obviously was stronger than Gohan at that moment and in the moments prior.

If Freeza's ki was truly less than Tagoma's even when he was touching down on Earth, Gohan wouldn't have been so afraid of the ki he sensed.
Even on Namek, Freeza was regarded as having a huge Chi the entire time. This didn't change the fact that he was nowhere near full-power. There's no reason why the same logic wouldn't apply here.
There's no proof he was suppressed the entire time on Namek. When he wasn't fighting at his full power, we were told that. This doesn't happen in the Super arc. There needs to be some actual proof that he was suppressing himself here. I don't see any.
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RandomGuy96 wrote:That wouldn't really make any sense though. It's not like any of them have a formula for how strong Freeza's forms are in relation to each other, or that they can't attack him before he transforms. Plus, everyone's comments before they actually see Freeza suggest he was outputting a large amount of power in his 1st form. So either he wasn't suppressed, as he had no reason to be and this wasn't implied anywhere, or he was suppressed to an oddly specific level, but not enough for it to actually serve any kind of purpose. I don't see any reason to make the assumptions necessary to make the latter true.

The statement of "that's alright, we still have Boo" just seems really straightforward, as it comes right after multiple comments on how strong 1st form Freeza is. Let's look at it as a scene: multiple people say that Freeza's really strong. Krillin hopes Goku and Vegeta will handle him, but they're not there. Then he has a temporary hope spot by remembering they still have Buu, only to be told that, unfortunately, Buu isn't there either. Then it's established that Gohan can't handle Freeza- again, immediately after Krillin stated that Mr. Buu could. Then, later, we see 1st form Freeza beat up Gohan. If Freeza was suppressed while everyone was making those "what an enormous ki"/"we can't handle this"/"he's in a different dimension"/"if only Goku and Vegeta were here" statements, then the scenes don't really work in context (especially since the point of bringing Buu up and then dismissing him is pretty clearly "things are fine ---> crap ---> now they're not", rather than "things are fucked ---> things are fucked").
Yes,they don't have any specific formula on Freeza's forms.But they should at least know that Freeza's ki will go way up if he transform.Pehaps he's suppressed because he was saving energy for Goku [?].Goku did the same thing when he arrived on Namek.

The crux here is the Tagoma part.Tagoma's ki attracts Goten and Trunks' attention.If Freeza's at full power right off the bat in his First Form,wouldn't the kids sense his enormous ki and attract there attention ? Unless Tagoma is stronger than 1st Form Freeza,which seems unlikely.So Freeza is probably suppressed at that point,but his suppressed state is still enough for guys like Tenshinhan to creep out.I could be wrong about this but Gohan only said that he won't do jackshit against Freeza when they saw him in his first form,which could possibly mean that Gohan was taking Freeza's other forms into account.
They should also know that it takes a while for Freeza to transform and they can just blitz him first. They weren't considering his other forms.

Again, it wasn't just Tenshinhan freaking out. Gohan and Piccolo were freaking out before they even physically saw Freeza; right after Tenshinhan and Piccolo comment on how huge Freeza's ki is, Gohan makes this face:
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I wouldn't take the Tagoma incident to mean anything, unless SS Gohan also was stronger than the same 1st form Freeza that was kicking his ass.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Super Saiyan Turlast x4 » Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:31 pm

RandomGuy96 wrote:Yes he did: he beat up Gohan and Piccolo. But we never get a comment like that.
He just did finger beams. He never exerted himself, nor did he power-up once.
This reminds me of how a lot of people were saying Goku was suppressed when Beerus said he couldn't beat Freeza without Super Saiyan. In both cases, the statement was never contradicted, and we were never given any reason to believe that the speaker was wrong.
The situation is nowhere near the same. You're basically saying because Goku was correctly assessed in one instance, the scenario needs to apply to everything else. Not really, no.
Two things. One, being suppressed here wouldn't mean he was suppressed earlier.
There was never a reason for Freeza to not be suppressed. The only thing he does is shoot finger beams at Gohan. He never powered-up because there was never a reason to. You're basically assuming he just powered-up for the hell of it despite this being implied nowhere.
Two, no, it doesn't actually mean that. There's clearly a difference between being suppressed, and not being suppressed at all, but also not "flexing" by making your power just grab someone's attention. We saw this in the Buu arc, where no one's ki just grabs people in other dimensions like Goku's does, even though we see characters stronger than Goku in this arc.
So what you're saying is it's not possible for someone to be giving off any Chi and yet still be suppressed? Because that's shown to be wrong all throughout the series. Being suppressed does not have to mean you're literally down to 0, as there's different levels of suppression. Freeza was relaxed, which means the extent of his power was never shown.
Moreover, we see this in this same Super arc: SS Gohan fighting at his full power doesn't attract Goku's attention, but him 'powering up' does while Freeza's ki doesn't, even though Freeza obviously was stronger than Gohan at that moment and in the moments prior.
So in other words, Goku quickly locking onto Gohan's power and not Freeza's would mean Freeza isn't actually revealing all of his power. That's pretty much the point.
If Freeza's ki was truly less than Tagoma's even when he was touching down on Earth, Gohan wouldn't have been so afraid of the ki he sensed.
But it was. At least to a point where it stood out more than his.
There's no proof he was suppressed the entire time on Namek. When he wasn't fighting at his full power, we were told that. This doesn't happen in the Super arc. There needs to be some actual proof that he was suppressing himself here. I don't see any.
Everything doesn't need to be stated. Krillin said he never imagined Freeza's power was so incredible after he finished doing his power-up on Namek. There's no reason to assume he'd function any differently now. We're given no indication that Freeza ever powered-up or exerted himself whatsoever, so the simple conclusion is he wasn't at full-power.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Khin » Fri Apr 22, 2016 3:28 am

RandomGuy96 wrote:They should also know that it takes a while for Freeza to transform and they can just blitz him first. They weren't considering his other forms.

Again, it wasn't just Tenshinhan freaking out. Gohan and Piccolo were freaking out before they even physically saw Freeza; right after Tenshinhan and Piccolo comment on how huge Freeza's ki is, Gohan makes this face:

I wouldn't take the Tagoma incident to mean anything, unless SS Gohan also was stronger than the same 1st form Freeza that was kicking his ass.
It's illogical for them to not consider Freeza's other forms.It's not like the Freeza that they know is exactly the same as before.Future Trunks is the only character who attacks while the character is powering up/transforming.Other cases was just characters standing there and doing nothing,so i wouldn't be surprised if the same thing will happen in a hypothetical scenario.

Tenshinhan,Kuririn and co. are the only ones who was really shown to be freaking out.We saw Gohan's reaction many times in the series to other characters and those aren't enormous power gaps,it's more like a worried/nervous reaction.Goku had the same reaction when Frost transformed into his 3rd Form.

Freeza can alter his ki anytime without no one noticing.Goku is altering from 5,000 to 60,000 on Namek without everyone noticing.Not to mention Gohan was just standing there doing nothing,so even if we say Freeza is below than SS Gohan when suppressed,Freeza can still kick his ass.

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Post by Noah » Fri Apr 22, 2016 10:41 am

RandomGuy96 wrote:Why do you assume that Good Boo is the same as Mr. Boo? Grey Boo wasn't the same as Pure Boo, so this split is obviously different than that one.
Where did you get that? I said that Mr. Boo (Good) is weaker than the Boo (Fat) that outclassed Dabura because of the division, and that you can argue that either Grey Boo has the same power or is a little bit stronger than Mr. Boo.
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Where do you guys have Arale at?????
That's important question for this thread.

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Post by apex_pretador » Fri Apr 22, 2016 11:34 am

@SSJ3vegeta and @Randomguy

As I already mentioned in the other thread, buu can one-shot 1st FF even if he's buuhan level (By candy beam).
And the quote says yet, which means goku-vegeta will be soon there, all they have to do is hold Freeza till then.

So, 1st FF can be above buu.
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Post by Speedster » Fri Apr 22, 2016 11:57 am

Kuririn Fan wrote:Where do you guys have Arale at?????
That's important question for this thread.
Arale is as strong as she needs to be to serve a gag.
I have to say though that Arale is not the strongest or fastest in her Universe. The Gatchans (those green haired angels) are even more ridiculously overpowered and the best of all is Turbo Norimaki (i.e. the baby that fixed Goku's Dragon radar).

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Post by Sandubadear » Fri Apr 22, 2016 1:42 pm

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Kuririn Fan wrote:Where do you guys have Arale at?????
That's important question for this thread.
Arale is as strong as she needs to be to serve a gag.
I have to say though that Arale is not the strongest or fastest in her Universe. The Gatchans (those green haired angels) are even more ridiculously overpowered and the best of all is Turbo Norimaki (i.e. the baby that fixed Goku's Dragon radar).
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Speedster » Fri Apr 22, 2016 3:55 pm

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Kuririn Fan wrote:Where do you guys have Arale at?????
That's important question for this thread.
Arale is as strong as she needs to be to serve a gag.
I have to say though that Arale is not the strongest or fastest in her Universe. The Gatchans (those green haired angels) are even more ridiculously overpowered and the best of all is Turbo Norimaki (i.e. the baby that fixed Goku's Dragon radar).
Angry Tsukutsun >> Teapot Genie >= Caramel Man 7 > Arale = Obotchaman > Turbo >= Gatchan
For starters this is how they compare in terms of speed.
Turbo>>Gatchans>>>>>>>>>Arale
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Post by ZombieVito » Fri Apr 22, 2016 4:01 pm

Kuririn Fan wrote:Where do you guys have Arale at?????
That's important question for this thread.
AT said she is stronger than post sacred water Goku.

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Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Fri Apr 22, 2016 4:09 pm

Kuririn Fan wrote:Where do you guys have Arale at?????
That's important question for this thread.
Until proven otherwise, much stronger than Vados & Whis.
Sandubadear wrote:
Speedster wrote:
Kuririn Fan wrote:Where do you guys have Arale at?????
That's important question for this thread.
Arale is as strong as she needs to be to serve a gag.
I have to say though that Arale is not the strongest or fastest in her Universe. The Gatchans (those green haired angels) are even more ridiculously overpowered and the best of all is Turbo Norimaki (i.e. the baby that fixed Goku's Dragon radar).
Angry Tsukutsun >> Teapot Genie >= Caramel Man 7 > Arale = Obotchaman > Turbo >= Gatchan
Actually, the Gatchans are stronger than Arale, I think.
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Post by WhatIfTheories » Fri Apr 22, 2016 5:18 pm

So I just did a Power Level video for Dragon Ball Super.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cLVxAHwaEw


I take into account that the scale Toriyama said probably isn't for the series and only Battle of the Gods. However show a way it could totally be relevant and Goku or Vegeta won't pass Beerus in Power as Toriyama said in his most recent interview in April.

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Post by RandomGuy96 » Fri Apr 22, 2016 6:20 pm

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RandomGuy96 wrote:Why do you assume that Good Boo is the same as Mr. Boo? Grey Boo wasn't the same as Pure Boo, so this split is obviously different than that one.
Where did you get that? I said that Mr. Boo (Good) is weaker than the Boo (Fat) that outclassed Dabura because of the division, and that you can argue that either Grey Boo has the same power or is a little bit stronger than Mr. Boo.
I got it from that statement you just made. You're assuming that the Buu that fought Pure Buu is the same as the one who fought Grey Buu. Unless Pure Buu and Grey Buu are equal, which doesn't seem to be the case in your eyes, that doesn't make sense.
apex_pretador wrote: As I already mentioned in the other thread, buu can one-shot 1st FF even if he's buuhan level (By candy beam).
No he can't. It's been shown before that even if you're only moderately stronger than Buu, you can deflect or dodge the Candy Beam at point blank range. They weren't relying on that.
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RandomGuy96 wrote:They should also know that it takes a while for Freeza to transform and they can just blitz him first. They weren't considering his other forms.

Again, it wasn't just Tenshinhan freaking out. Gohan and Piccolo were freaking out before they even physically saw Freeza; right after Tenshinhan and Piccolo comment on how huge Freeza's ki is, Gohan makes this face:

I wouldn't take the Tagoma incident to mean anything, unless SS Gohan also was stronger than the same 1st form Freeza that was kicking his ass.
It's illogical for them to not consider Freeza's other forms.It's not like the Freeza that they know is exactly the same as before.
Why would they consider other forms before they even saw them and when they know they can just bumrush him because it takes a while for him to transform?
Future Trunks is the only character who attacks while the character is powering up/transforming. Other cases was just characters standing there and doing nothing,so i wouldn't be surprised if the same thing will happen in a hypothetical scenario.
This is a very lame excuse that relies on genre conventions rather than in-universe logic. Ignoring the fact that people other than Trunks DO do this (Goku attacked Recoome while he was charging his attack, for example) it's never implied at any point in this scene that the gang would sit there and let Freeza transform.
Tenshinhan,Kuririn and co. are the only ones who was really shown to be freaking out.We saw Gohan's reaction many times in the series to other characters and those aren't enormous power gaps,it's more like a worried/nervous reaction.
No, Gohan is pretty clearly freaking out. "Worried/nervous" is the look he gets IMMEDIATELY after sensing Freeza's ki. It's very apparent that what he's sensing is something he can't handle.
Freeza can alter his ki anytime without no one noticing.Goku is altering from 5,000 to 60,000 on Namek without everyone noticing.Not to mention Gohan was just standing there doing nothing,so even if we say Freeza is below than SS Gohan when suppressed,Freeza can still kick his ass.
That doesn't make any sense. He can't be both stronger than Gohan and strong enough to easily kick his ass.
Super Saiyan Turlast x4 wrote: He just did finger beams. He never exerted himself, nor did he power-up once.
Why do you think that makes any difference? Did I miss the part where it's said that finger beams are a special attack that doesn't require you to actually be at a level where you'd be capable of harming your opponent for them to work?
The situation is nowhere near the same.
It's almost exactly the same. We have a character saying something, the character's statement being backed up by another one later, no one contradicting the character, and the narrative never treating the character's statement as unreliable, yet people still try to contrive an explanation about why the character was wrong anyway despite the complete lack of any kind of evidence that the character was sensing a "suppressed" level. In this case, it's worse, because we actually see Freeza use enough power to easily put down Gohan, and you still insist he was somehow suppressed to a level below Tagoma the whole time.
There was never a reason for Freeza to not be suppressed. The only thing he does is shoot finger beams at Gohan.
Which requires him to not be suppressed. Given that he was never noted to change his power at any point, and given that his ki had Gohan panicking from the moment he sensed it, it's very clear that he wasn't suppressed.

It's quite simply really. Gohan could tell immediately that he had no chance against Freeza, even when Freeza was doing nothing but sitting in his ship. It's impossible for his ki in that instance to be below Tagoma's. It is possible that it wasn't his full power anyway, but that's extremely unlikely and has no evidence supporting it. None.
He never powered-up because there was never a reason to. You're basically assuming he just powered-up for the hell of it despite this being implied nowhere.
No, I'm assuming he powered up to beat up Gohan. Or, rather, I'm assuming he didn't power up at any point and was at full power the entire time, hence why everyone was so afraid, but just offering that as an alternate explanation.
So what you're saying is it's not possible for someone to be giving off any Chi and yet still be suppressed?
No, I'm saying there's a clear difference between being suppressed and having a high power level and just not making any effort to "show it off". The people close to you can tell how strong you are regardless, but people far away can't unless you "flex". This is why SS3 Goku grabbed everyone's attention in a way that the much, much stronger Gohan (plus Buu and Gotenks) didn't (when Gohan first transforms into his ultimate form, Goku comments on his enormous ki while standing right in front of him, but the gang on Earth doesn't notice; when Goku powered up as SS3, Kaioshin and Kibito in the other realm instantly took notice). This is why Tagoma powering up grabbed Goten and Trunks' attention, while Freeza displaying a power level much higher than that while just sitting down didn't.

It's also why Gohan "flexing" grabbed more attention than Freeza firing beams, even though the power level Freeza had in that moment was without a doubt greater than anything Tagoma and Gohan could muster.
So in other words, Goku quickly locking onto Gohan's power and not Freeza's would mean Freeza isn't actually revealing all of his power. That's pretty much the point.
No, it doesn't. It means that a weaker person's ki can be more noticeable than a stronger person's. Unless you're going to try to say that Freeza was much weaker than Gohan while he was beating him up and displaying a readable battle power sufficient to make Gohan freak out.
But it was. At least to a point where it stood out more than his.
As already noted, standing out more doesn't mean it's higher. Unless, again, you're going to try to say that Gohan was not only scared of a power far below his, but that Freeza vs Gohan was actually Freeza beating up someone far stronger than him.

Note that Gohan outright says that Freeza is stronger than him when they first meet. He wasn't suppressed then.
Everything doesn't need to be stated. Krillin said he never imagined Freeza's power was so incredible after he finished doing his power-up on Namek. There's no reason to assume he'd function any differently now. We're given no indication that Freeza ever powered-up or exerted himself whatsoever, so the simple conclusion is he wasn't at full-power.
No, that's not the simple conclusion. The simple conclusion is that he was at full power, since we as the audience are never given a reason to believe he isn't, no one contradicts Krillin's earlier statement, and none of the power he displays in that form is beyond what the heroes initially estimated (i.e. "his ki is enormous [Tenshinhan], Buu can handle him [Krillin], but Gohan has no chance [Gohan]"). It's all very straightforward, unusually so for Super.
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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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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Super Saiyan Turlast x4 » Fri Apr 22, 2016 7:34 pm

RandomGuy96 wrote:[Why do you think that makes any difference? Did I miss the part where it's said that finger beams are a special attack that doesn't require you to actually be at a level where you'd be capable of harming your opponent for them to work?
So relaxed Freeza is just more powerful than Gohan. I have no issue with that.
It's almost exactly the same. We have a character saying something, the character's statement being backed up by another one later, no one contradicting the character, and the narrative never treating the character's statement as unreliable, yet people still try to contrive an explanation about why the character was wrong anyway despite the complete lack of any kind of evidence that the character was sensing a "suppressed" level. In this case, it's worse, because we actually see Freeza use enough power to easily put down Gohan, and you still insist he was somehow suppressed to a level below Tagoma the whole time.
Krillin never said Boo would've beaten Freeza at all. That's a spin you added. He said they have Boo on their side. The only thing that means is he's the most capable of fighting him after Goku and Vegeta. That doesn't literally mean he'd beat Freeza. As for Tagoma, I can agree that his Chi just stood out more because he powered-up. However, this only means Freeza was just far more powerful than Gohan without needing to power-up. Gohan also said Tagoma was hiding power on-par with him at his best, and Ginyu later brings that power out. Gohan's best is superior to Mr. Boo, so Freeza certainly isn't weaker than him.
Which requires him to not be suppressed. Given that he was never noted to change his power at any point, and given that his ki had Gohan panicking from the moment he sensed it, it's very clear that he wasn't suppressed.
There was never a point for his power to change because he never powered-up. Tagoma at a level greater than the Ginyu Force nearly killed a gradually powered-up Gohan, then has to power-up to reach full-power. We've seen Freeza power-up countless times to reach his full-power, so you're just assuming the dynamics of his power is different now. There's no proof of that anywhere.
It's quite simply really. Gohan could tell immediately that he had no chance against Freeza, even when Freeza was doing nothing but sitting in his ship. It's impossible for his ki in that instance to be below Tagoma's.

That means relaxed Freeza is just stronger than Gohan.
It is possible that it wasn't his full power anyway, but that's extremely unlikely and has no evidence supporting it. None.
It's only unlikely if you try to pretend we never saw Freeza power-up to reach his best. Saying he was at full-power despite having no reason to be makes no sense. Piccolo acknowledged Freeza as a monster with an outrageously large Chi when he arrived on Namek, then notes that his Chi was increasing once he began to power-up. There's actually instances of Freeza needing to power-up to fight at his best despite already possessing a huge Chi.
No, I'm assuming he powered up to beat up Gohan. Or, rather, I'm assuming he didn't power up at any point and was at full power the entire time, hence why everyone was so afraid, but just offering that as an alternate explanation.
Everyone being afraid does not require Freeza to be at full-power. Everyone being afraid requires Freeza to be stronger than them.
No, I'm saying there's a clear difference between being suppressed and having a high power level and just not making any effort to "show it off". The people close to you can tell how strong you are regardless, but people far away can't unless you "flex". This is why SS3 Goku grabbed everyone's attention in a way that the much, much stronger Gohan (plus Buu and Gotenks) didn't (when Gohan first transforms into his ultimate form, Goku comments on his enormous ki while standing right in front of him, but the gang on Earth doesn't notice; when Goku powered up as SS3, Kaioshin and Kibito in the other realm instantly took notice). This is why Tagoma powering up grabbed Goten and Trunks' attention, while Freeza displaying a power level much higher than that while just sitting down didn't.
Super Boo grabbed everyone's attention from the Kaioshin world immediately after he changed into that form. Boo sensed Gohan's power, but everyone else missed it because they were panicking over Boo. They were watching Gotenks on the crystal ball, so nothing to really comment on. Piccolo sensed Kid Boo from the Kaioshin world and told everyone when his Chi disappeared. The only clear distinction on what makes someone detectable from a distance is power. Some people missing it altogether doesn't take away from that. Super Saiyan 3 Goku and Gohan did the same amount of "flexing", which was really just transforming.
It's also why Gohan "flexing" grabbed more attention than Freeza firing beams, even though the power level Freeza had in that moment was without a doubt greater than anything Tagoma and Gohan could muster.
Note that Gohan outright says that Freeza is stronger than him when they first meet. He wasn't suppressed then.
It means the power he could sense from Freeza established a clear enough difference between them. This really says nothing in regards to Freeza being at his best or not.
No, that's not the simple conclusion. The simple conclusion is that he was at full power, since we as the audience are never given a reason to believe he isn't, no one contradicts Krillin's earlier statement, and none of the power he displays in that form is beyond what the heroes initially estimated (i.e. "his ki is enormous [Tenshinhan], Buu can handle him [Krillin], but Gohan has no chance [Gohan]"). It's all very straightforward, unusually so for Super.
Freeza was relaxed, so that conclusion doesn't really make much sense. Freeza never powered-up. Most of the audience knows Freeza is a lot more powerful once he decides to power-up compared to when he's relaxed. We're given no reason to believe he was ever at full-power.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Noah » Fri Apr 22, 2016 7:46 pm

RandomGuy96 wrote:I got it from that statement you just made. You're assuming that the Buu that fought Pure Buu is the same as the one who fought Grey Buu. Unless Pure Buu and Grey Buu are equal, which doesn't seem to be the case in your eyes, that doesn't make sense.
Well, isn't the same? I didn't mention Kid Boo, I said that Mr. Boo, yes the one who fought against him, don't have the same power that he had against Dabura, Gohan, Kaioshin, Goku and etc.

But you got me on doubt now, shouldn't Super Boo become Grey Boo after they release Mr. Boo inside him? :think:
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Post by Faisal Shourov » Fri Apr 22, 2016 7:55 pm

Guys, it's time to forget the 6/10/15 scaling completely. There are important reasons

Let's assume Goku never got stronger after fighting Beerus (which is false, but let's lowball). If Goku was 6, the Kaioken 2x would put him at 12, above Beerus. Kaioken 10x would put him at 60. That's 4 times above Whis

That's right. 4x above Whis. Goku still can't beat Hit yet, so Hit must be above or equal to 60. We all know is Whis is around close to Vados in power. If Hit was indeed 60, he would've one shotted Vados and Champa and obliterate them from existence Remember Whis one shotting Beerus with just being 15? A difference of 5. Hit with 60 would murderstomp not only Champa and Vados, but Whis and Beerus as well. He would solo the god cast with 1 attack. Hit wouldn't have to participate in the tournament. The difference between 60 and 15 is STAGGERING.

You can safely ignore the 6/10/15 scale from now onwards. It's no longer valid in the slightest
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Fri Apr 22, 2016 8:34 pm

Faisal Shourov wrote:Guys, it's time to forget the 6/10/15 scaling completely. There are important reasons

Let's assume Goku never got stronger after fighting Beerus (which is false, but let's lowball). If Goku was 6, the Kaioken 2x would put him at 12, above Beerus. Kaioken 10x would put him at 60. That's 4 times above Whis

That's right. 4x above Whis. Goku still can't beat Hit yet, so Hit must be above or equal to 60. We all know is Whis is around close to Vados in power. If Hit was indeed 60, he would've one shotted Vados and Champa and obliterate them from existence Remember Whis one shotting Beerus with just being 15? A difference of 5. Hit with 60 would murderstomp not only Champa and Vados, but Whis and Beerus as well. He would solo the god cast with 1 attack. Hit wouldn't have to participate in the tournament. The difference between 60 and 15 is STAGGERING.

You can safely ignore the 6/10/15 scale from now onwards. It's no longer valid in the slightest
I would agree with you, if this was a card game.

Hit is weaker than SSB Goku & Vegeta, yet he overpowers them with his skill. His Tokitobashi makes him faster, and his skill to accurately hit pressure points allows him to deal lots of damage.

Beerus & Whis (and presumably Champa & Vados) have trained their bodies to react fast enough to avoid attacks stronger than them, though Beerus hasn't mastered this technique yet. And we have no idea what other abilities they have, since they've never fought seriously yet.

Kaio-ken multiplies Goku's battle power, but not only it is temporary, it also destroys his body at the same time.


If a fight could be determined by the highest battle power, they wouldn't have to fight. They would just stand, power-up, and the fighter with the highest power would be the winner.
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by LightBing » Fri Apr 22, 2016 8:57 pm

DBZGTKOSDH wrote:
Faisal Shourov wrote:Guys, it's time to forget the 6/10/15 scaling completely. There are important reasons

Let's assume Goku never got stronger after fighting Beerus (which is false, but let's lowball). If Goku was 6, the Kaioken 2x would put him at 12, above Beerus. Kaioken 10x would put him at 60. That's 4 times above Whis

That's right. 4x above Whis. Goku still can't beat Hit yet, so Hit must be above or equal to 60. We all know is Whis is around close to Vados in power. If Hit was indeed 60, he would've one shotted Vados and Champa and obliterate them from existence Remember Whis one shotting Beerus with just being 15? A difference of 5. Hit with 60 would murderstomp not only Champa and Vados, but Whis and Beerus as well. He would solo the god cast with 1 attack. Hit wouldn't have to participate in the tournament. The difference between 60 and 15 is STAGGERING.

You can safely ignore the 6/10/15 scale from now onwards. It's no longer valid in the slightest
I would agree with you, if this was a card game.

Hit is weaker than SSB Goku & Vegeta, yet he overpowers them with his skill. His Tokitobashi makes him faster, and his skill to accurately hit pressure points allows him to deal lots of damage.

Beerus & Whis (and presumably Champa & Vados) have trained their bodies to react fast enough to avoid attacks stronger than them, though Beerus hasn't mastered this technique yet. And we have no idea what other abilities they have, since they've never fought seriously yet.

Kaio-ken multiplies Goku's battle power, but not only it is temporary, it also destroys his body at the same time.


If a fight could be determined by the highest battle power, they wouldn't have to fight. They would just stand, power-up, and the fighter with the highest power would be the winner.
If it was just a regular Kaioken it would be fine, Beerus would defeat Goku despite the power disadvantage like you putted it. Kaioken x10 is a massive power advantage over Beerus, so much that whatever techniques Beerus possesses, durability and even handicaps the Kaioken provides are trumped.

If this Goku is indeed a 60, he could end Beerus in one swing.

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