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Would the users ki be permanetly weakened if one of the clones is killed.
Example Piccolo has a power level of 1 million. Splits into 4 clones. 1 of clones dies in a fight and is destroyed. Leaving 3 clones. If Piccolo reforms would he be ever stuck with a PL of 750,000 or just need to rest to regain his full 1 million. Are the clones a split in personality and would killing a clone result in a complete personality change in said individual ?
Also how come Z-senshi never used multiform to collect Dragon Balls easily ?
It's never stated whether or not any of them could be killed(strictly speaking for Tenshinhan). Piccolo and Krillin have only split in filler, but even then, I have doubts it works anything like the Four-Bodies Fist.
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Nothing would happen. Even if one of the multiform clones were to die, the user that originally produced the clones would still be alive.
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Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
Hmm... possibly the ki used to create the clones just gets redistributed among the remaining clones when one dies. So killing one just makes the others stronger. Or the ki is lost until the user can rest and regain it, just like using a big ki blast or some other ki-draining technique.
I don't think killing one or more clones would make the original being permanently weaker, though -- that'd just be too big of a downside for too little of a benefit. Splitting already reduces the user's power to divide it between the clones, which is a big enough downside already.
On a semi-related note: I wonder if Saiyans would get a near-death boost if they somehow learned the multi-form technique and then had their clones beat the crap out of each other before reforming? Like, would each individual clone get its own near-death boost and then when they combine back together again the result is an even bigger boost to the original, or would the boost be divided by 4 to begin with so the overall effect would be the same?
