Dragon Ball Discussion Thread

Started by bbrem123633 pages

seems like dbz fillers are canon.

It looks like those episode title things were wrong, Goku didn't go SSJB when his match started; or at all, thusfar.

Originally posted by cdtm
But he already has a much better Ultra SSJ power up (Where Trunks becomes super bulky, and gains enough power to one shot Perfect Cell).

A SSJ Kaio Ken should be redundant.


Goku would never use the "ultra SSJ" power-up though due to the decrease in speed it causes which was why Trunks couldn't beat Cell. Kaioken temporarily enhanced Goku in all areas, but was never used anymore since any of the super saiyan forms did it better and made it obsolete, naturally.

Originally posted by bbrem123
seems like dbz fillers are canon.

Pretty clear indication that Toriyama doesn't give a **** anymore, in which case. There's no consistent vision with the continuity now. If Kaioken was occasionally used canonically after Frieza, I could accept this maybe, but seems they just went as far as to look back at some random filler material they could find to pull out of the ass for Goku to still be able to one-up the competition. lol

Originally posted by NewGuy01
It looks like those episode title things were wrong, Goku didn't go SSJB when his match started; or at all, thusfar.

If certain things go differently than what the rumored plot synopsis stated, then cool, but find it hard to believe that he won't go SSB in the match at all. Give it time.

To be honest, it makes sense enough to me. If I try to make it make sense, at least.

In the past, using Kaio-Ken in SSJ was simply impractical; it put far too much strain on the body for to provide too little of a boost for too little time to be helpful while using the already encumbering SSJ. The alternative "SSJ upgrades" were simply much more practical.

Now, however, the roles are reversed. Evolving to SSJ2 and 3 is almost meaningless, it's exhausting and the boost they provide is all but irrelevant compared to their god power. Kaio-Ken, however, simply focuses the capabilities of a fighter into a single heartbeat, so it could theoretically still apply and be effective. Especially now that power multiplications are practically impossible to achieve, the strain has become worth the advantages.

Hm, perhaps... Although the last time he canonly used Kaioken was 20x against Frieza, and even then he couldn't keep up with the strain it put on the body in addition to Frieza still toying with him at the time, so I question his ability to have mastered the technique since then. If we get some kind of explanation for using it now though like what you described, I guess it may be a pill I could swallow, but meh. Will have to see.

Who says it had to be 20x? Frankly, it could be 2x or less, but it's still a LOT more than SSJ2 and SSJ3 would give at this point.

True, I guess. If Vegeta is still stronger than kaioken-less Goku, then he'd still be able to keep up in the long run, I reckon. Even in their first fight in the saiyan saga he was able to counter the Kaioken, to some level.

But Goku still being able to have an edge even when Vegeta becomes a bit stronger must sting for certain fans, I'm sure. =p

Well, that's how it's always been. They're never equals for long.

Hit has some serious swagger.

Too short for my liking, but cool fight.

Well Base Goku just made SSB Vegeta look like a noob.....ermm

Well time for me to jump ship. Was fun while it lasted

Goku's new time skip ability is beyond bad ass.

What? Pretty sure he's just timing his attacks 1/10th off-rhythm to country Hit's time skip.

Originally posted by Estacado
Well Base Goku just made SSB Vegeta look like a noob.....ermm
I see it as showing what vegetas real weakness is. In the ROF despite the ending we saw what gokus issues were in battle. Hes too relaxed. Vegeta has the opposite problem. Hes so wound tight that his reflexes are shot to hell. Gokus style would counter hit way more than vegetas. Makes sense why whis would keep his mouth shut on beating it. I can get behind this explaination way more than some stupid shit like super saiyan god 2 or whatever.

For a Guy with hit speed, that time leap is a cheat. I know one thing, Goku is a fighting genious.

Originally posted by HueyFreeman
I see it as showing what vegetas real weakness is. In the ROF despite the ending we saw what gokus issues were in battle. Hes too relaxed. Vegeta has the opposite problem. Hes so wound tight that his reflexes are shot to hell. Gokus style would counter hit way more than vegetas. Makes sense why whis would keep his mouth shut on beating it. I can get behind this explaination way more than some stupid shit like super saiyan god 2 or whatever.

Still there should be a huge speed difference between Base and SSB.
So the fight did make look Vegeta bad imo.

I haven't had a chance to watch any eps since Goku's loss to Frost. Could someone catch me up on what has happened?

Originally posted by carver9
For a Guy with hit speed, that time leap is a cheat. I know one thing, Goku is a fighting genious.

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Originally posted by CosmicComet
I haven't had a chance to watch any eps since Goku's loss to Frost. Could someone catch me up on what has happened?

Frost was caught cheating, and was disqualified, with Goku's loss nullified. Vegeta insisted on fighting him anyways, and beat him easily. Then he won two in a row (Including a very interesting one against the alt universe Saiyan), before dropping to the last guy, an assassin named Hit.

Then Goku steps up and wins via plot device, apparently. Haven't actually seen that part of it yet.

cheating? how?