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 – 115x
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 – 1,700,000,000
[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 overall, and shows
the same prowess with Grade 2. But after Vegeta’s beaten, he goes even further
by using Grade 3. His power in the form manages to 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 – 3,200,000,000
Worn Out – 2,000,000,000
Full Power – 4,800,000,000
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 – 56,000,000
Super Saiyan – 2,800,000,000
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 – 6,000,000,000
Super Saiyan – 18,000,000
Post-RoSaT – 11,000,000,000
Super Saiyan – 33,000,000,000
Super Saiyan 3 – 100,000,000,000
[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 – 15,000,000,000
Initial – 5,000,000,000
Powered Up – 10,000,000,000
Good Boo
– 6,000,000,000
Pure Evil Boo – 9,000,000,000
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 under
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.]