Why didn't Goku teach anyone else teleportation?

[MasterVampire]

It's one of the best and most useful techniques in the series - saves travel time, combining it with attacks (warp Kamehameha!), using it to escape when kid Buu destroyed the planet, etc.

Everyone seemed pretty amazed when Goku first showed it off so how come he never taught it to anyone?

[Puto]

Considering it apparently took him an entire year to learn (and this is Gokū, who learned the Kame Hame Ha in seconds) -- iirc he said 'He was only on Yardrat for a year, so he only had time to learn that one technique -- it's probably too complicated for him to explain it.

[NANLIT]

You'e got a point, Puto, with it taking him a long time to learn it when it usually doesn't take him that long to learn a technique. Now that you mention it being a technique taking a long time to learn, as soon as he got back to Earth, they learned about the Artificial Humans coming in 3 years so they had to train to get as strong as they could; taking a huge chunk of time to teach it to Gohan or Piccolo would be a waste of valuable time given the circumstances. Then, during the Cell Games, he died and remained dead for 7 years. After that he spent 10 years training (he told Pure Boo that he'd get even stronger and even advised Vegeta to train so that they would be able to beat Boo one on one if Mr. Boo ever brought back whichever evil Boo) and besides, Gohan, Goten, and Trunks slacked off during that time period, so they weren't even interested in training, let alone that one texhnique.

I don't doubt Goku would be able to teach it to someone; getting stronger was the #1 priority for those 3 years, then he was dead for 7 years, then most everyone slacked off on their training in the 10 years afterward so they obviously weren't interested in learning it.

[vegetaslegacy15]

It's one of the best and most usefull techniques in the series.
Saving travel time, combining it with attacks (warp kamehameha!), using it to escape when kid buu destroyed the planet etc...
Everyone seemed pretty amazed when Goku first showed it off so how come he never taught it to anyone?

Besides the fact that it was a plot device... He had to train himself, Gohan, and Piccolo during the three years of training for the androids, in the ROSAT with Gohan he had to teach Gohan Super Saiyan then they had to master SSJ, then Goku died. But we do not know if he taught anyone instant transmission in between the Budokai and the defeat of Buu. But since we do not see anyone use it I would assume he did not.

[Cipher]

Why didn't he teach it to anyone immediately? Because, as others have said, it took him a year to learn and it wasn't going to be particularly relevant against the androids who were going to show up in three years. And then he's dead for the next seven years.

Why didn't he teach it to anyone after the Boo arc? Because he's a dick.

[Herms]

Considering it apparently took him an entire year to learn (and this is Gokū, who learned the Kame Hame Ha in seconds) -- iirc he said 'He was only on Yardrat for a year, so he only had time to learn that one technique -- it's probably too complicated for him to explain it.

Yeah, Goku says "there wasn't any time" so he only managed to learn one technique. In the manga that time would have been about 1 year and 260 days, while in the anime it would have just been a year.

Why didn't he teach it to anyone after the Boo arc? Because he's a dick.

Maybe nobody asked? Or maybe he did teach them. Outside of GT we never really see the post-Boo characters in a situation where whether or not anyone else knows how to Teleport would be relevant. It would have been neat if Oob used it in GT, to demonstrate that Goku really did teach him everything he knew.

[FNF]

@Herms, sorry for bothering you but can you please translate the recent posts in the translation thread because, to be frank, it's dying a slow death

[Piccolo Daimao]

Either no-one asked, or Goku doesn't know how to teach it himself. Just because you know something that doesn't mean you can teach it to someone else.

[caejones]

Does the phrasing when Goku mentioned the time it took imply that there were other techniques he would have liked to have learned that he just didn't have the time for?
... Wait, why couldn't he just teleport back to Yardrat after Buu if he wanted more of their techniques?
... Then again, who's to say he didn't...

[Godo]

One question that pops into my head when I think of the possibilites with the Instant Transmission: Goku could have just teleported the Cyborgs into space, making them to die from suffocation. Left would be an Incomplete Cell, and #16 (who Vegeta could defeat).
But then again, it's the same person who didn't want to kill Dr. Gero because he hadn't done anything bad yet (it's not like designing and creating killer Cyborgs would count like something bad, right?).

[MasterVampire]

One question that pops into my head when I think of the possibilites with the Instant Transmission: Goku could have just teleported the Cyborgs into space, making them to die from suffocation.

Thats actually a pretty good idea.

[Puto]

He can't teleport to a location where there's nobody.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

He can't teleport to a location where there's nobody.

I know its always been worded that way, but I pretty much always assumed that if no one was around, he could still teleport wherever he wanted as long as it was within sight. For space, all he'd have to do is look up...

[Bussani]

Wait, why couldn't he just teleport back to Yardrat after Buu if he wanted more of their techniques?

He couldn't even teleport to Namek without help. The people of Yardrat apparently weren't strong, so sensing their ki from Earth might be too difficult. I guess he could always go to Kaio for help if he really needed to, though.

One question that pops into my head when I think of the possibilites with the Instant Transmission: Goku could have just teleported the Cyborgs into space, making them to die from suffocation. Left would be an Incomplete Cell, and #16 (who Vegeta could defeat).

Can the cyborgs die of suffocation? I'm not sure. Plus, like Puto said, it's always been explained that Goku can't teleport somewhere that has no people to lock on to.

[jjgp1112]

^Exactly. That's one of the most oft-forgotten parts of the technique. And Goku wouldn't just sick the Androids on some random, defenseless planet.

[Herms]

First they'd have to strand, say, Yamcha out in space wearing a spacesuit. Then Goku could grab the androids, teleport them out to where Yamcha is, and zip back to Earth. Yamcha would probably be killed, but those are the sacrifices you have to make. And they could wish him back, I guess.

[lash]

I think it's just a plot device. Apparently Cell can learn it just by getting teleported by Goku once, yet no one else for the whole series can?

First they'd have to strand, say, Yamcha out in space wearing a spacesuit. Then Goku could grab the androids, teleport them out to where Yamcha is, and zip back to Earth. Yamcha would probably be killed, but those are the sacrifices you have to make. And they could wish him back, I guess.

Lol, even in examples Yamcha continues to get the short end of the stick.

[Daisetsu]

I think it's just a plot device. Apparently Cell can learn it just by getting teleported by Goku once, yet no one else for the whole series can?

Wasn't it because his cells absorbed that bit of information from Goku when they exploded? Or was that just a dub thing?

[Jackal puFF]

I think it's just a plot device. Apparently Cell can learn it just by getting teleported by Goku once, yet no one else for the whole series can?

Wasn't it because his cells absorbed that bit of information from Goku when they exploded? Or was that just a dub thing?

Either that or he's just really intelligent and was really observing how Goku executed the technique and just figured it out.

[rereboy]

Even Cell, who was incredibly talented (having Goku's, Vegeta's, Piccolo's, Freeza's and Cold's cells) still had to see the technique executed (at least) three times right in front of him to figure it out.