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 – 150,000,000,000
[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 – 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 – 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.]