KABOOM’S
TOTALLY ROCKIN’ DRAGON BALL Z
SERIES POWAR LEVULS
POWER MULTIPLIERS
Great Ape – 10x
Super Saiyan – 50x
Super Saiyan Grade 2 – 75x
Super Saiyan Grade 3 – 125x
Super Saiyan 2 – 100x
Super Saiyan 3 – 400x
Fusion – <A Max> + <B Max> x Plot
[Great Ape, Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan 2, and Super
Saiyan 3
all have officially-stated power boosts from at least one solid source
each.
Grade 2 is a moderately good boost over Super Saiyan, balancing speed
and power
with some extra strain and energy waste. I've decided to treat Grade 3
as a
little bit stronger than SS2 (so that both Goku and Trunks can
amply surpass
various versions of Cell) because it focuses too much on raw
power, but its
crippling energy drain and speed deficiency leaves it markedly
inferior to the
latter’s more balanced boosts. The mastered version of Super Saiyan,
once
labeled “Grade 4,” does not grant any additional power over the
regular
unmastered version, but eliminates all excess stress and energy waste
in order
to maximize the form’s effectiveness and leave it more useful overall
than
Grade 2 or 3. For Fusion, I've switched to a new system where the
Fusion
process takes everything
the two individuals have under the hood then multiplies it a few times
over (depending
on method, compatibility, Dance proficiency, in-sync-ness, etc)
to create a super-powerful base form, which then gets much smaller
transformation multipliers in return.]
THE
FAMILY
REUNION WHERE YOUR LOSER BROTHER BRINGS HIS
RUDE
FRIENDS
Raditz – 1,500
Son Goku – 334
Un-weighted – 416
Kamehameha – 924+
Piccolo – 322
Un-weighted – 408
Makankosappo #1 –
1,330
Makankosappo #2 –
1,480
Son Gohan – 1
Upset – 710
Angry – 1307
Muten Roshi – 139
Kuririn – 206
Tenshinhan – 250
Yamcha – 177
Kaio – 3,500
[Official and stated levels all around. There’s
a lot of
theories that could be thrown around and explored about what might
or might not
be Goku and Piccolo’s true full powers during this fight, but I
don’t want to
willingly invite the headache.]
Piccolo – 1,220
Full Power – 3,500
Son Gohan – 981
Angry Masenko – 2,800
Great Ape – 6,000
[Meek little Gohan doesn’t quite measure up to
his elders
until he gets pissed off and unleashes a big anger-fueled Masenko,
and even that apparently still doesn’t match up to the best that
Piccolo can
pull off. Plus, Piccolo noting that Gohan’s power can
surpass his own at
times like this doesn’t guarantee that it will. Gohan was
quite beaten
up by the time he transformed, and even having him still at 600 or
so seems
almost too generous in light of that, but his Great Ape power was
still too
much for a likewise beaten-up Vegeta to handle.]
Kuririn – 1,083
Full Power – 1,770
Tenshinhan – 1,830
Chaozu – 610
Yamcha – 1,480
Yajirobe – 970
[More official levels all around.]
Kami – 220
Mr. Popo – 1,030
[I, among others, reason that these official
levels apply
to these two in the Saiyan arc, after Popo has been personally
training the
Earthlings and Kami hasn’t done much of anything but stand around
and be
really, REALLY old. Flash back to almost 10 years ago, when they first
debuted
after the mess with King Piccolo, and their power levels
could
be anything you
want.]
Saibaimen ~ 1,200
[Yay, official numbers.]
Nappa – 4,000
“Full Power” – 4,500
(Max Vs Goku – ~6,000?)
[Many power levels enthusiasts will no doubt be
delighted
to learn that official evidence does in fact exist to support Nappa
having a
battle power higher than his commonly-listed 4,000. An old pamphlet
for movie 3
listed him at 4,500 instead. Absolutely groundbreaking.
On top of that, according to Toriyama there's
apparently
a thing where if Saiyans can hang in there and keep fighting well in
an uphill
battle, their power will actually rapidly rise to close the gap.
This may be
what happened for Nappa towards the end of his fight when he
actually started
challenging Goku, but isn't really necessary, so I included it as a
hypothetical. Since he lacks the ability to willingly raise or lower
his power
level, this is the best Nappa can hope for when it comes to
"powering
up."]
Vegeta – 18,000
Great Ape – 90,000
Battle-Worn – 9,000
[Vegeta had, like Gohan above, taken quite a
beating by
the time he went Great Ape. Not to mention simply creating the fake
moon to
transform drained even more power from him. But his strength once he
did was
still far more than Goku could handle, even with a hypothetical
Kaio-Ken x5.
His power after being ripped out of the form and then hit with a
Spirit Bomb
was still enough to take out everyone else, but not enough to handle
getting a
giant semi-Great Ape Gohan dropped on him.]
Son Goku – 5,000
Full Power – 8,000
Kaio-Ken/x2 – 16,000
Kaio-Ken x3 – 24,000
Kaio-Ken x4 – 32,000
[These numbers for Goku are all pretty
self-explanatory.
There’s a plethora of potential explanations for why Vegeta wasn’t
wiped out or
even seriously wounded by Goku’s KKx4 Kamehameha. His own Gallic Gun
lessened
the impact, Goku’s power was less than the full 32,000 because of
the strain of
his prior KKx3, Vegeta’s just a durable mofo… and so forth. Take
your pick.]
THE
TOTALLY
RELAXING AND UNEVENTFUL TRIP TO PLANET NAMEK
Son Gohan – 1,400
Vs. Ginyu Force – 14,000
Kuririn – 1,800
Vs. Ginyu Force – 13,000
[Pretty sure the 14 and 13 thousand numbers for
these two
against the Ginyu Force are official. The pre-unlocking numbers here
would
average out to the “about 1,500” that was used against the two
Freeza goons who
showed up and wrecked the ship. ]
Nail – 42,000
Dende – 20
Power Unlocked – 2,000
[Not enough power level lists include Dende, if
you ask
me.]
Freeza – 530,000
Vs. Nail – 85,000
[Freeza is kind enough to let us and Nail know
his “true”
power level at this point, though he says he won’t use all of it
against Nail.
That 85,000 figure from the Movie 3 pamphlet is awfully convenient
to have
laying around.]
Vegeta – 24,000
Vs. Zarbon, Recoome –
30,000
Kwi – 18,000
Dodoria – 22,000
Zarbon – 23,000
Transformed – 32,000
Roughed Up – 27,000
[Kwi, Dodoria, and
pretty-boy Zarbon’s power levels are
official, as is Vegeta’s when he
fought them. Zarbon’s power when
transformed as well
as Vegeta’s during their rematch are just conjecture. Vegeta would
actually be
“almost 30,000,” as (eventually) stated in the manga, but rounding
is par for
the course with power levels. I think Zarbon
was
probably still a little ahead of him, but Vegeta’s tactics and
effective first
strike in their rematch let him undo that advantage and gain the
edge in their
fight.]
Gurd – 6,000
Recoome – 42,000
Butta – 41,000
Jheese – 45,000
Captain Ginyu – 120,000
In Goku's body – 23,000
[The numbers for the Ginyu Force members (save
for Ginyu
himself, both while in his own body and Goku’s) are obviously
conjecture. The
40k-ish range is near-universally considered a good place to put
them all, with
Ginyu figuring that a roughly 60k power could school them the way
Goku did.
Plus, Vegeta put up an admirable fight against Recoome, but
ultimately did
little more than superficial damage.
Butta and Jheese are stated to have about the
same amount
of Ki as Recoome, though I gave Jheese a very slight edge over the
other two,
what with him supposedly being second-in-command and my suspicion
that his
“specialty” is Ki attacks (given his ‘Crusher Ball’ attack being
treated like
something special). Gurd, the exception, is a relative weakling whom
Gohan and
Kuririn would have easily spanked if not for his time-stopping and
telekinesis
powers.]
Son Goku – 90,000
Suppressed – 5,000
Kaio-Ken – 180,000
[Goku being at 5,000 while suppressed and at
180,000 with
a Kaio-Ken are stated in the manga, and his normal 90,000 level is
easy enough
to extrapolate from the latter as well as listed in the guidebooks.]
A
PLEASANT OUTING WITH THE ESTEEMED MISTER FREEZA
Vegeta – 250,000
"Super Saiyan" – 2,300,000
Piccolo – 35,000
Merged with Nail – 1,500,000
Son Gohan – 200,000
Angry – Lots more.
Kuririn – 75,000
[Vegeta’s power in the first round against
Freeza is an
official number. A little hard to swallow, but no more so than
Nappa’s (…wait a
sec). He was depending a lot on his backup and everyone’s power
continuing to
increase. His “Super Saiyan” power is at least stronger than
third-form Freeza,
but still easily wrecked by what Freeza’s
true form
ended up packing.
Piccolo’s levels before and after his merger
with Nail
are just my best guesses. Pre-merger, he was strong enough to
impress Nail and
confident about taking on a power which he only knew was even
greater than
Vegeta’s on Earth. Some may see “only” 35k as low-balling
him
a bit,
but 10x his prior strength seems pretty darn impressive to me
for
the short amount
of time he’d been training on Kaio’s. His post-merger level is
strong enough to
tango with second-form Freeza on equal footing.
Gohan and Kuririn’s
levels are
official numbers, supposedly at the start of the fight with Freeza,
but they
could also be at the end for all I know. Either way, Gohan’s power
increased by
a noticeable chunk after he was beaten up by Freeza and then healed
by Dende.]
Son Goku – 3,000,000
Kaio-Ken x10 – 30,000,000
Kaio-Ken x20 – 60,000,000
Super Saiyan – 150,000,000
[Most official power levels in the guidebooks
are for
Goku, and most others stem from characters matching up against Goku
in some
way. Goku’s completely covered by official numbers for his battle
with Freeza.
He seems to do well enough against Freeza, until the tyrant starts
using his
50% power or something close to it. Goku needs to use the Kaio-Ken
x10 just to
not get killed, much less keep putting up a fight. A Kamehameha
fueled by a
Kaio-Ken x20 only matches Freeza’s 50%
and annoys
him. But finally, a whopping 50x increase from Super Saiyan makes
Goku superior
to Freeza even at 100%, and lands him the title of the new strongest
dude in
the universe.]
Freeza (First Form) – 530,000
Second Form – 1,100,000
Power-Up 1 – 1,300,000
Power-Up 2 – 1,500,000
Third Form – 2,000,000
True Form – 4,000,000
50% Power – 60,000,000
100% Power – 120,000,000
[Freeza does a LOT of transforming and
powering-up, but
since we’ve got a starting and ending level for him, it’s easy
enough to place
his forms in between. His first form has a stated maximum right in
the manga.
His second form starts out at “over one million,” before powering up
twice (Vs.
Gohan, then Vs. Piccolo). His third form is too much for Piccolo to
handle. His
true form is beyond Vegeta’s expectations, and only Goku can stand
up to it.
Then we’ve got an official 50% and maximum power to go by, each
matching up
with Goku in various ways.]
GREETINGS,
FROM
THE WORLD OF TOMORROOOOOW
Future Gohan – 3,200,000
Super Saiyan – 160,000,000
Kid Trunks – 50,000
Super Saiyan – 2,500,000
Future Android 17 – 320,000,000
Future Android 18 – 300,000,000
[Young Trunks is, apparently, still quite the
work in
progress, and weak enough compared to Gohan that his elder can repel
his Super
Saiyan blows in just his normal form. The last time they fought,
Android 17
used “less than half” of his power to beat Gohan, and, not knowing
that, Gohan
thinks he can beat the Androids now. He’s woefully mistaken. So I
put Gohan
right at actually half of 17's power.
The Androids are said to be moderately less
powerful than
their “past” selves, and while for a long time I resisted the idea,
apathy has
changed my mind. There’s a whole heckuva lot of potential reasons why
they’re
less
powerful – I favor the idea that their maximum level simply degrades
over time
with heavy use of their power, the same way a rechargeable battery
will hold
less and less juice later into its lifespan.]
Cyborg Freeza – 3,000,000
Maximum – 150,000,000
King Cold – 4,000,000
Unseen Transformed Max – 80,000,000
[Freeza’s become
strong enough
through his new cybernetic enhancements that he thinks he can defeat
Goku now,
so I figure he’s at least probably matched him. But since Goku got
stronger as
well, the difference between them hasn’t really changed, and on top
of that
nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition Trunks
to show up.
King Cold is said to be somewhat weaker than
Freeza, and
while one of the Dragon Books alleges that he can transform, we’re
still in the
dark about whether we saw him in his true form or a suppressive one.
Based on
appearance it's most likely a suppressive one, but regardless, I
think this is
where he’d cap out at his absolute best.]
Trunks – 3,400,000
Super Saiyan – 170,000,000
Son Goku – 3,600,000
Super Saiyan – 180,000,000
[Trunks is stronger now than Gohan when he
died, but
still gets his ass whooped by his future Androids on a regular basis
(even
while they apparently hold back on him somewhat like they did with
Gohan). He’s
at least able to smoke Freeza with relative ease, though it’s likely
Freeza
didn’t get a chance to go up to 100% power. Goku is a bit stronger
than Trunks,
impressing him greatly even though neither of them really put much
effort into
their little test-skirmish.]
SO
MANY
ANDROIDS, SO LITTLE TIME
Son Goku – 5,000,000
Super Saiyan – 250,000,000
Sick – 220,000,000
Sick and Drained – 50,000,000
Vegeta – 5,500,000
Super Saiyan – 275,000,000
Drained – 80,000,000
Trunks – 4,400,000
Super Saiyan – 220,000,000
[Goku has improved a lot, but I reckon not as
much as he
could have, since he started out training with people much weaker
than him. His
power would only increase substantially once Piccolo gained enough
power to be
a worthwhile sparring partner for a Super Saiyan, and that probably
would have
taken a while. His initial power even while sick is still pretty
damn
impressive, and presumably even greater than whatever his friends
felt from him
three years prior. But his condition eventually gets bad enough that,
combined
with 19 absorbing his Ki, he ends up helpless.
Vegeta, meanwhile, worked his ass off and in
addition to
finally becoming a Super Saiyan he's also managed to become even
stronger than
Goku. His power is drained enough from Android 19’s absorption
and
pulling off a Big
Bang Attack finisher that he’d most likely have lost to Android 20.
Trunks has also improved decently in whatever
time he
had, but he doesn’t quite measure up to Goku or Vegeta, though he’s
still
considered in the same general range as them.]
Piccolo – 180,000,000
Gohan – 4,000,000
Kuririn – 150,000
Tenshinhan –60,000
Yamcha – 40,000
[Piccolo and Gohan have both benefited greatly
from
training with Goku; Piccolo’s now way up there in the same broad
tier as the
Super Saiyans, and Gohan would also be so if he was... well, a Super
Saiyan.
But he’s not yet, so yeah. He's at least moderately stronger than
Trunks was 3
years ago, given his "confidence" about fighting the Androids.
The Earthlings have improved as well, though
mostly
through the Namekian Grand Elder’s ritual for Kuririn and training
on Kaio’s
for the others. Given his official-as-it-gets stated superiority
throughout the
rest of the series and even as late as Battle of Gods… Kuririn’s
still
got a
very wide lead on the others at this point, with even Tenshinhan
only pushing
half his strength (and that’s being generous).]
Android 19 – 60,000,000+
Android 20 (Dr. Gero) – 80,000,000+
[Androids 19 and 20 start off relatively
low-powered
compared to the heroes, before increasing their power substantially
through
absorbing Ki. But wherever they ended up, it’s clearly still not
enough. 19
gets obliterated by Vegeta before long, and 20 soon after gets
manhandled by
Piccolo.]
Android 18 – 320,000,000
Android 17 – 340,000,000
Android 16 – 480,000,000
[THESE Androids, on the other hand, are quite a
different
story. Vegeta puts up an admirable fight against No. 18 at first,
until she
stops screwing around and completely schools him. 17 is even
stronger than her,
fighting equally with the merged Piccolo later. 16 is even
significantly
stronger than that, even though he doesn’t opt to show it until
later against
Cell.]
EVERYTHING’S
GOING
TO CELL IN A HAND-BASKET.
Piccolo
(Re-Merged) – 360,000,000
[Piccolo’s a total powerhouse after his
re-merger with
Kami, trumping the Super Saiyans and Cell’s initial power, and
proving an even
match for Android 17. Big Green had a slight edge in raw power,
while 17's got
an advantage in speed and resilience, not to mention that pesky
"never
tiring" thing. Piccolo sadly gets his butt kicked when Cell shows up
drastically stronger after absorbing a bunch of humans, though.]
Cell (Stage 1) – 285,000,000
Humans Absorbed – 500,000,000
Cell (Stage 2) – 600,000,000
Full Power – 750,000,000
Perfect Cell – 900,000,000
Vs Vegeta & Trunks – 1,500,000,000
[Cell starts out already a smidge stronger than
the Super
Saiyans but still weaker than Piccolo and the Android twins. He
comes back
stronger than all of the above but still only equal
with
Android
16.
After absorbing No. 17 and transforming, Cell can now school all his
prior
foes, but even after powering up further he gets his butt
kicked
by “Super
Vegeta.” After weaseling his way into also absorbing No. 18 and
reaching his
perfect form, he still seems inferior to Vegeta at first. But after
getting
serious he’s only surpassed — though obviously not defeated — by
Trunks’
fantastic-but-flawed Super Saiyan Grade 3 power.]
Vegeta – 16,000,000
Super Saiyan – 800,000,000
Super Saiyan Grade 2 – 1,200,000,000
Trunks – 15,000,000
Super Saiyan – 750,000,000
Super Saiyan Grade 2 – 1,100,000,000
Super Saiyan Grade 3 – 1,900,000,000
[After his first session in the Room of Spirit
and Time,
Vegeta comes out fantastically more powerful than before. He’s
implied to
already be a match for 2nd-form Cell with just Super Saiyan, yet he
cements his
superiority by using Grade 2. But it’s not enough against Perfect
Cell, who
whoops his butt good.
Trunks is “almost as strong” as Vegeta in equal
forms, and shows
the same prowess with Grade 2. But after Vegeta’s beaten, he goes
even further
by using Grade 3. His maxmum power in that form manages to
well surpass
Perfect
Cell’s at the time, but its speed-killing drawbacks cripple the
form’s
effectiveness in battle and prevent him from winning the fight.]
SHALL
WE
PLAY A GAME?
Mister Satan – 6
[The strongest man in the world… among regular
human
schmoes, anyway.]
Perfect Cell – 3,000,000,000
Worn Out – 1,800,000,000
Full Power – 4,500,000,000
Bulked Up – 6,400,000,000
"Super Perfect" – 7,200,000,000
[Cell starts the party off at a level which
allows he and
Goku to have a fantastic fight, one which leaves Cell worn-out
enough that
everybody (well, Piccolo and the Super Saiyans) could gang up on him
and beat
him, before Goku goes “nah” and gives him a Senzu.
After Gohan goes Super Saiyan 2, Cell responds by upping the ante to
his full
power… which Gohan proceeds to pummel easily and relentlessly. Cell
takes
things even further, adopting more power in a speed-hindered Grade-3
type
of
form, but
even with that he
still
doesn’t measure up to Gohan. After nearly dying and regenerating,
Cell
has gained a new Super Saiyan 2-like “Super Perfect” state, which is
a titch stronger than Gohan and nearly
beats him. Nearly.]
Cell Juniors – 2,000,000,000
[The Cell Juniors are wickedly strong little
buggers,
giving Vegeta and Trunks a tough uphill battle. Piccolo also manages
to remain
standing against them, but Goku is pretty much helpless, being too
worn out
after his fight with Cell. I'm not even gonna bother quantifying how
badly they
outclass the Earthlings. They get massacred in one hit each by a
blood-lusted
Super Saiyan 2 Gohan, though.]
Son Goku – 50,000,000
Super Saiyan – 2,500,000,000
Tired – 1,000,000,000
[After emerging from the Room of Spirit and
Time, just
roughly half of Goku’s power is already fantastic and surpasses
“Super Vegeta.”
His full power at the Cell Games outstrips all the other heroes
(except Gohan)
and gives Cell the fight of his life, but he’s left too tuckered out
from it
to
put up a
fight against the Cell Junior who targets him.]
Son Gohan – 70,000,000
Super Saiyan – 3,500,000,000
Super Saiyan 2 – 7,000,000,000
Injured – 3,000,000,000
Final Kamehameha Burst – 8,000,000,000+
[Given how Gohan was so strong that it seemed
like Goku
and Cell were holding back to him, I’m gonna say he had quite a
power advantage
over his dad, and even an edge over the power Cell was using to
fight them
both. It’s just that his passiveness and hesitance to fight don’t
let him make
much use of it at first. But when Gohan does let loose, he
goes Super Saiyan
2 and doubles his power level, becoming so strong that Cell can’t
measure up
to him even with two sizable power-ups of his own.
When injured by Super Perfect Cell’s unexpectedly
strong
attack, Gohan loses more than half his power, and is quickly losing
the
subsequent Kamehameha clash. But he manages to summon his full power
back at
the crucial final moment and overcome Cell. That’s labeled as his
“greatest
power” by a few sources, so I figure he must have pushed himself at
least a bit
beyond his prior normal SS2 power]
Vegeta – 40,000,000
Super Saiyan – 2,000,000,000
Enraged – 5,000,000,000
Trunks – 36,000,000
Super Saiyan – 1,800,000,000
Dead – 0
Piccolo – 1,300,000,000
[Gohan and Goku aren’t the only ones who
improved. Vegeta
and Trunks’ second trips into the Room of Spirit and Time, and
Piccolo’s first,
results in all of them powering up quite a bit. Vegeta now considers
himself at
least strong enough to defeat the Cell who beat him, with Trunks not
too far
behind, and both of them have apparently ditched the superfluous
‘Grade’
transformations in
favor
of working with good ol’ regular Super Saiyan the same way Goku and
Gohan
did. Piccolo’s made considerable gains as well, noted as being “on a
whole
different level” by Goku, though still not strong enough to measure
up to Cell.
I decided to list a "rage boosted" level for
Vegeta here, sort of as a quasi-retcon tie-in to Battle of Gods.
Because
why the heck not? Still doesn’t let him do much against Super
Perfect Cell
either way.]
BACK
TO
THE FUTURE
Future Android 17 – 260,000,000
Future Android 18 – 240,000,000
Cell – 500,000,000
Trunks – 34,000,000
Super Saiyan – 1,800,000,000
3 Years Later – 50,000,000
Super Saiyan – 2,500,000,000
[The future Androids 17 and 18 are both just as
strong as
when last Trunks faced them. Trunks, however, has gotten a LOT
stronger during
his excellent adventure through time, and he quickly and easily
reduces them
both to crispy little chunks.
When Cell shows up, he thinks there’s no way Trunks could have
defeated the
Androids, much less beat him, which would probably mean he’s snacked
on enough
Earthlings to
be
stronger than them. Or so he thinks. Sadly for him, he’s wrong. So
very,
very wrong. Even more wrong than he would have been 3 years ago,
since now
Trunks has gotten even stronger. Not massively stronger since he’s
got no
training partners around, but still quite a bit.]
SALAGADOOLA,
MECHICKA
BOOLA, BIBBIDY BOBBIDY BOO
Son Gohan – 65,000,000
Super Saiyan – 3,300,000,000
Super Saiyan 2 – 6,000,000,000
Ultimate Warrior – 120,000,000,000
[Gohan’s become somewhat weaker
since the Cell
Games, what with slacking off the whole time and all. But to
reconcile some
guidebook information with the manga, I'll say most of his power
loss is “from
the top down” and mostly limited to Super Saiyan 2, though the
energy from him
in that form is still enough to restore almost half of Majin Boo’s
power all at
once. Gohan's apparent inability or unwillingness to pull out SS2 on
command
means he has an uphill fight against Dabra. But once the Elder
Kaioshin pulls
out all his dormant power and more, 'Ultimate' Gohan is then on a
whole
different level of raw strength, soundly surpassing SS3 Goku and
even edging
out SS3 Gotenks.]
Vegeta – 72,000,000
Super Saiyan – 3,600,000,000
Super Saiyan 2 – 7,200,000,000
Dormant power unleashed – 90,000,000
Super Saiyan – 4,500,000,000
Super Saiyan 2 – 9,000,000,000
[Along with gaining Super Saiyan 2 through
training,
Vegeta’s become slightly stronger than Gohan from seven years ago,
and
especially stronger than the weaker current Gohan. But despite how
much he’s
improved, he’s still Goku’s clear inferior until he lets Bobbidi
give him a
boost. Since that was accomplished through a fairly standard
potential-unlocking, distinctly separate from the brainwashing
spell, there’s
no indication or reason to believe Vegeta lost that extra power due
to himself
or Bobbidi dying. So he remains at this equal-to-Goku level through
the rest of
the arc.]
Son Goku – 90,000,000
Super Saiyan – 4,500,000,000
Super Saiyan 2 – 9,000,000,000
Super Saiyan 3 – 36,000,000,000
[Goku’s improved a lot from training for 7 years
in the
afterlife, and at the Boo arc’s onset he is now the top Super Saiyan
once
again, especially with his brand-new Super Saiyan 3. He could have
taken out
Fat Boo if he wanted to, and could also have managed to beat Pure
Boo later if
Super Saiyan 3’s energy drain hadn’t gotten the best of him.]
Piccolo – 1,800,000,000
[Piccolo’s always training and has no doubt
become more
powerful, though with the world at peace and the Super Saiyans
soundly
outclassing him, he probably only trains on a more casual level
nowadays. So
his increases aren’t much compared to that of Goku or Vegeta, and
he’s well
behind not just the Super Saiyans but also both Kaioshin and Dabra.]
Mr. Satan – 6.66
Videl – 9
After Gohan's training – 25
Kuririn – 160,000
Yamcha – 42,000
Tenshinhan – 90,000
[Videl starts out already stronger than Mr.
Satan,
unbeknownst to her, and just gets even better after Gohan teaches
her how to
use Ki. I know she was really only focused on learning to fly, but
I've always
figured that merely learning how to use her ki at all, for whatever
reason,
would still make her stronger. Like exercising a muscle you
previously didn't
even know you had.
Aside from her, Tenshinhan is the only one of the
super-duper Earthlings to have significantly improved since the Cell
Games,
though Kuririn still has a big lead on him, being firmly and
consistently
touted as the strongest Earthling during this period.
Oh,
hey, I forgot Chaozu. Uh…]
Son Goten – 28,000,000
Super Saiyan – 1,400,000,000
Trunks – 32,000,000
Super Saiyan – 1,600,000,000
Android 18 – 350,000,000
[The two half-Saiyan kids are extraordinarily
strong for
their age, already being soundly superior to 18 as Super Saiyans
even when not
using full power. To fit in with all the cool kids, I’ve bumped up
their power
levels since my last list, to better fit how they could potentially
surpass
Gohan before long. But compared to their seniors, they’re still
really only of
any use via Fusion. Whether these numbers specifically are before or
after
their Room of Spirit and Time session is up for you to decide,
because
I
don’t see
any sign that they improved noticeably as individuals.]
Kibito – 50,000,000
Kaioshin – 2,800,000,000
Merged – 8,500,000,000
[Kibito’s pretty
strong, with a
high enough battle power to give base Gohan a tough fight. Kaioshin’s
far stronger than that, trumping Piccolo but falling short of Dabra
or the
Super Saiyan adults. When Kaioshin merges with Kibito, he’s bumped
up to a high
Super Saiyan 2 level, but on top of his general incompetence he
still lags
behind SS2 Goku and Vegeta power-wise, and so is appropriately
omitted from the
final battle with Pure Boo.
In retrospect, it seems like a given that
Kaioshin wields
“godly ki” as it was introduced in Battle of Gods (which
would
certainly make him a “different order of being,” to quote Viz),
given how the
heroes had trouble sensing and judging he and Kibito’s
power. But to keep things simple, I’m just gonna list equivalent
numbers for
them anyway based upon their performance against others.]
Spopovich – 30
Yamu – 25
[These guys have their power drawn beyond their
limits by
Bobbidi, and gain some basic ki-based abilities as a result, but
given that
they were only regular human schmoes before that, the result doesn’t have
to be
anything astounding by the superhuman heroes’ standards. All that’s
really
required is for Spopovich to be a match for Videl, but his main
advantage is
his freakish zombie-like resistance to damage.]
Pui-Pui – 180,000
Yakon – 100,000,000
Dabra – 4,000,000,000
[Each of Bobbidi’s
minions are
far more powerful than the last, intended to be overkill against
whichever
Saiyan defeated the previous one. But they’re each still easily
beaten in
various ways, of course. I really like the thematic idea that each
of these
guys represents a past major enemy, and it certainly fits with how
their fights
progressed, so I rolled with it.
Pui-Pui thinks 10x Earth’s gravity is a big
deal, as an
obvious callback to the Saiyan arc, so I made him equivalent to
Vegeta (his
Great Ape form specifically) but is easily smoked by the
infinitely-improved
current Vegeta. Yakon is similar to Freeza, having universe-wide
notoriety and
being too much for the base Saiyans to handle one-on-one, but firmly
inferior
to Super Saiyan (and especially to a burst of SS2 power). Finally,
Dabra is
directly compared to Cell, and presents an uphill battle for SS1
Gohan, but any
of the Saiyans’ true power, i.e. Super Saiyan 2 and up, would make
short work
of him. Heck, Goku wouldn’t even need it.]
Gotenks – 8,000,000,000
Super Saiyan – 24,000,000
Post-RoSaT – 12,000,000,000
Super Saiyan – 36,000,000,000
Super Saiyan 3 –
110,000,000,000
[With my new system for Fusion, Gotenks ends up
a beast
right out of the gate, on a low Super Saiyan 2 just in his base form
and noticeably
stronger than Fat Boo as a Super Saiyan, though still not measuring
up to SS3
Goku. After that, I reason that his Room of Spirit and Time training
consisted
mostly of A) Goten and Trunks getting even better at the Fusion
Dance and more
in-sync, making Gotenks stronger as a result, and B) Gotenks himself
spending
his 30-minute sessions of existence both unlocking SS2 and SS3 and
developing
his repertoire of goofy techniques. So he ends up improving quite a
bit without
any noticeable power increase in Goten and Trunks individually.
Power-wise,
Gotenks at Super Saiyan 3 is still right about where I previously
placed him.
He ends up matching Evil Boo and soundly surpassing everyone else
until Gohan
shows up to temporarily steal the show.]
Majin Boo – 20,000,000,000
Initial – 5,000,000,000
Powered
Up – 10,000,000,000
Good
Boo
– 8,000,000,000
Pure Evil Boo – 12,000,000,000
Evil Boo – 45,000,000,000
(Initial)
/ 90,000,000,000 (Full Power)
+ Gotenks – 200,000,000,000
+ Gohan – 240,000,000,000
Buff Boo – 120,000,000,000
Pure Boo – 30,000,000,000
[Fat Boo seems to fit comfortably to me at a
little over 2x stronger than the Super Saiyan 2s (with Gohan’s SS2
energy gathered by
Spopovich and Yamu restoring "almost half" of his power), and
despite Vegeta
putting up an admirable fight, Boo’s regeneration is just too darn
broken to
overcome without the use of Fusion or Super Saiyan 3.
To this day I’m still not sure what to make of
Boo’s
power after his split compared to later when he fought Pure Boo. For
the time
being, I’m assuming that Boo really did lose over half his power
from the
split, but somehow gained it back during all the absorption
shenanigans for his
fight during the finale later. Pure Evil Boo didn’t pop back out
either, so one
way or another the ingredients of Evil Boo did get
shuffled around
yet again.
Anyway, the two halves are rejoined to form Evil
Boo, who
starts off already far stronger than pre-RoSaT
Gotenks can handle, and roughly a match for post-RoSaT
SS3 Gotenks. He absorbs Gotenks to kick Gohan’s butt, but when
Gotenks' Fusion
runs and Piccolo becomes his primary power-booster, he out he drops
back down
to a level Gohan can deal with. After then absorbing Gohan he’s even
stronger
than before, but still gets his sorry ass whooped by Vegetto.
Once all absorptions are removed from him, he
reverts to
his original “Pure” state, which is a more-or-less equal match for
Super Saiyan
3 Goku, only “beating” him in battle due to SS3’s massive energy
drain and
ultimately destroyed by a sufficiently overkill Spirit Bomb.]
Vegetto – 150,000,000,000
Super Saiyan – 450,000,000,000
[Decided to finally give Vegetto an actual
number,
courtesy of my new Fusion system. His
exceptionally-generously-overpowered base
form, formed by Goku's SS3 power combined with Vegeta's SS2 power
then boosted
several-fold, is already on-par with Ultimate Gohan. His Super
Saiyan power is
then great enough for him to utterly humiliate Gohan-Boo, against
whom he
apparently expected to have at least a little bit of a
challenge. But
alas.)
IT'S
LIKE
FUTURE TRUNKS' TIME EXCEPT LESS DEATH-Y
Son Goku – 110,000,000
Vegeta – 95,000,000
Son Goten – 24,000,000
Trunks -28,000,000
Mister Satan – 5.5
Mister Boo – 15,000,000,000
Pan – 40,000
Oob – 50
Pissed Off – A lot stronger.
[Just a note – I’m not factoring in anything
major from
the new movies or Super in these post-Boo numbers. I like Battle
of Gods and
Resurrection
F quite
a lot, and at one point I was interested to see how they’d continue
things
leading up to the manga’s epilogue. But that torch has been since
picked up by
Super, which clearly has no interest in telling a consistent and
coherent story
that stays at all in line with the manga. So in turn I have no
interest in
accommodating Super, and I’ll just let these manga-based numbers
continue being
manga-based numbers.
Anyhoo, all the heroes’ powers have changed in
some way
or another. Goku and Vegeta have gotten moderately stronger, having
drive but not really any extra-special
ways to improve
drastically. Plus, Toriyama’s commented that he feels they’ve more
or less hit
their limits in terms of growth and age after the Boo arc, which I
don’t take
to mean they can’t get any stronger at all, only that they’ll no
longer gain
power in significant amounts.
Goten and Trunks keep getting weaker because
they’re
slackers. Ol’ Mark’s strength has probably waned somewhat with his
age. Mister
Boo’s probably the only one who’s exactly the same. Why? I’m not
exactly sure.
He just strikes me as working that way. Pan is promising, but still
quite
young. Oob starts off remarkably strong for a normal Earthling,
enough so to
sweep the World Tournament’s prelims, but only measuring up at all
to the
superhuman heroes once Goku gets him to fly into a rage.]
Captain Chicken – 500,000,000,000
[We all know who the TRUE hero of the series
is.]