Dragon Ball Super Strength Discussion Thread

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by apex_pretador » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:51 am

RandomGuy96 wrote:Then he was holding back. By a lot. Because we know for a fact that he's many, many times stronger than Goku and Vegeta even as SSBs, to say nothing of their base forms. If he wasn't holding back, they'd be dead.
They attacks were just said to be unrestrained, but nothing like beerus being at a higher power level (than BoG level) was said, so I assume they were unrestrained blasts from max suppressed beerus (as in BoG)
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Bullza » Fri Jul 15, 2016 6:06 am

Well they weren't his best attacks by any means anyway. He turned over in his sleep and caught them with a foot and tail to the face and it was only a small blast and nothing like the blast he threw at Goku in the movie.

But those attacks would have wiped Gohan out.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Sat Jul 16, 2016 3:42 am

Bullza wrote:Well they weren't his best attacks by any means anyway. He turned over in his sleep and caught them with a foot and tail to the face and it was only a small blast and nothing like the blast he threw at Goku in the movie.

But those attacks would have wiped Gohan out.
What are you basing this off of? It doesn't matter if they weren't "his best attacks", at this disparity of power he could literally kill any of them with a poke if he was truly "not holding back".
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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: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Bullza » Sat Jul 16, 2016 7:14 am

Well they said he holding back (twice) and that's all you can take it as. Whether his power has been retconned since then who knows but as of that moment, Base Goku and Vegeta remained concious after being hit by attacks that were described as Beerus not holding back, Enraged Vegeta was knocked unconscious by a Beerus that was severely holding back and Enraged Vegeta was stronger than Gohan.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Bullza » Sat Jul 16, 2016 8:29 pm

Doesn't look like there's anything to really discuss from this weeks episode.

However the preview was interesting, looks like Zamasu punks Super Saiyan Goku at least. Couldn't tell if Goku had turned Super Saiyan 2 even, thought I saw a spark briefly. Definitely seems to be much stronger than the Supreme Kai's were familiar with though.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Krillin1994 » Sat Jul 16, 2016 8:30 pm

Pan stronger than Trunks.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Darkron2151 » Sat Jul 16, 2016 8:36 pm

Krillin1994 wrote:Pan stronger than Trunks.
CONFIRMED!!
  • SSJ2 Goku >= SSJ2 Trunks >> SSJ Trunks > Goku/Pan >= Base Trunks > SSJ3 Gotenks
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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by RandomGuy96 » Sat Jul 16, 2016 9:50 pm

Bullza wrote:Well they said he holding back (twice) and that's all you can take it as. Whether his power has been retconned since then who knows but as of that moment, Base Goku and Vegeta remained concious after being hit by attacks that were described as Beerus not holding back,
Then again, the description was wrong. Because we ALWAYS knew that Beerus would kill any of them with one hit if it was truly "not holding back". The disparity is more than big enough between base Goku and full power Beerus for 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: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Alee9977 » Sun Jul 17, 2016 12:19 am

Darkron2151 wrote:
  • SSJ2 Goku >= SSJ2 Trunks >> SSJ Trunks > Goku/Pan >= Base Trunks > SSJ3 Gotenks
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
SSJ3 Gotenks is just a joke right now.
Something that isn't clear to me yet, was Goku fighting in SSJ or SSJ2 against Trunks? I think he was only in SSJ because of the hair style, but that "so Super Saiyan 2, then me too" he says before transforming really confuses me.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Bullza » Sun Jul 17, 2016 7:43 am

RandomGuy96 wrote:
Bullza wrote:Well they said he holding back (twice) and that's all you can take it as. Whether his power has been retconned since then who knows but as of that moment, Base Goku and Vegeta remained concious after being hit by attacks that were described as Beerus not holding back,
Then again, the description was wrong. Because we ALWAYS knew that Beerus would kill any of them with one hit if it was truly "not holding back". The disparity is more than big enough between base Goku and full power Beerus for that.
I'm sure he could but a non held back Beerus turning over in his bed and them getting caught by his foot is something they can apparently withstand.

A proper martial arts kick to the face with killing intent would be another matter.

This isn't about Base Goku standing a chance against Beerus this is about why Base Goku is superior to Gohan because Gohan would not be able to withstand that same foot to the face and remain concious.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by G Slim » Sun Jul 17, 2016 11:04 am

Power levels are bs they stopped being relevant during the android saga

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by buutenks » Sun Jul 17, 2016 3:02 pm

Alee9977 wrote:
Darkron2151 wrote:
  • SSJ2 Goku >= SSJ2 Trunks >> SSJ Trunks > Goku/Pan >= Base Trunks > SSJ3 Gotenks
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
SSJ3 Gotenks is just a joke right now.
Something that isn't clear to me yet, was Goku fighting in SSJ or SSJ2 against Trunks? I think he was only in SSJ because of the hair style, but that "so Super Saiyan 2, then me too" he says before transforming really confuses me.
Ofc ssj3 gotenks is a joke now ^^. We r in the 4th arc in DB super lol.

And goku was ssj2, they just messed up his hair, and made it ssj1.

Still tho, as hard as it may be for some, seems blackand ssj2 trunks are above ssj3 gotenks.

Also, love that future trunks can go ssj2 ^^. Since he is my favorite character, i always wanted him to be a ssj2. And i always imagined if buu came in his future, hed get to ssj2 and end the buu saga quickly, unlike the z fighters hehe.

Dream come true ^^

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Bullza » Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:07 pm

Does the newest episode of Super imply that Gohan is weaker than his Cell Games self now?

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by dbgtFO » Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:13 pm

Bullza wrote:Does the newest episode of Super imply that Gohan is weaker than his Cell Games self now?
Yes, it does.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by Bullza » Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:21 pm

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Bullza wrote:Does the newest episode of Super imply that Gohan is weaker than his Cell Games self now?
Yes, it does.
It's a bit weird how they've handled him because he was weaker than Piccolo in Base form during the Cell Games but was then much stronger than Piccolo during the RoF arc.

Then he trained with Piccolo and would have grown stronger from that but then only months have supposed to have gone by I think and I don't know if he's supposed to weaker than he was at the Cell Games now.

That whole thing with Gohan being retrained really screwed things up because it could have just been a continued progressive decline otherwise.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by LightBing » Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:24 pm

dbgtFO wrote:
Bullza wrote:Does the newest episode of Super imply that Gohan is weaker than his Cell Games self now?
Yes, it does.
We're supposed to believe that Trunks expects regular Gohan, who's not even fighting to be even close to SSJ2 CG Gohan? I would buy it if a character told Trunks about Mystic, since they didn't I will read that line as "Gohan is different, softer than before". Not a power statement in my opinion.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by dbgtFO » Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:28 pm

Bullza wrote:That whole thing with Gohan being retrained really screwed things up because it could have just been a continued progressive decline otherwise.
It's not like anything is established on how long they had been training together.
Since Gohan also makes it sound like they only just begun, it could literally just be the case, that this was their first training session, since RoF and Gohan then after his conference never revisited it again, because he thought fuck it :lol:
That would maintain the progressive decline.
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Bullza wrote:Does the newest episode of Super imply that Gohan is weaker than his Cell Games self now?
Yes, it does.
We're supposed to believe that Trunks expects regular Gohan, who's not even fighting to be even close to SSJ2 CG Gohan? I would buy it if a character told Trunks about Mystic, since they didn't I will read that line as "Gohan is different, softer than before". Not a power statement in my opinion.
I don't trust Toei's writing staff to be reasonable, so yeah, I just take this as straight up power statement.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by LightBing » Thu Jul 21, 2016 4:54 pm

dbgtFO wrote:I don't trust Toei's writing staff to be reasonable, so yeah, I just take this as straight up power statement.
I guess that's fair. Do you take all these statements at face value? Like Goku saying Piccolo will be a tough adversary in the harvest training. Implying Piccolo is close to Base Goku.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by TheMikado » Thu Jul 21, 2016 6:52 pm

Good question, how does Piccolo relate to base Goku and Gohan and Trunks and Frost?

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Re: Dragon Ball Super: Power Level Discussion Thread

Post by namekiansaiyan » Thu Jul 21, 2016 6:58 pm

TheMikado wrote:Good question, how does Piccolo relate to base Goku and Gohan and Trunks and Frost?
Trunks should struggle a lot against Super Saiyan Goku, Gohan is going backwards by the second so no point talking about him. Frost/ Trunks is slightly stronger than Piccolo.

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