Originally posted by One Big Mob
They weren't equal.And I'm not saying anything about Cell winning. I'm wondering how you keep getting to the conclusion that Gohan was somehow weaker than or equal to anyone not named Cell. Hell you even said Vegeta and Trunks were more powerful than him not even a week ago.
It's pretty simple really. Gohan was a little weaker than normal maxed Cell. Goku was a little weaker than Cell holding back at least a little of his power. IE FP Cell > Gohan ~ Cell > Goku
The degree doesn't matter, however it's more like Cell is 100 at fp and Gohan is 90-95 while Goku is 80-85, imo. A 10 percent increase from Cell's powerup against Gohan seems fair. IE SS2 Gohan would be around 180-190% Cell.
The less said about Vegeta's pl the better
But Goku making up for that (like you said earlier when you think Goku could win) would have had to have Cell drop like 20 percent in your example and Goku raise up 10 percent. And I hope you're factoring in Cell weakening, otherwise you'd have Goku raise to like 130 percent his normal power after one senzu...
Um... Yeah. For all intents and purposes, MSSJ Cell saga Gohan ~ MSSJ Cell saga Goku. Goku even made a point to say how he had "kept up" with him.
Everything you're saying is speculation, which is unsupported, given the fact that Gohan barely managed to even draw a single drop of blood from Cell, before going SSJ2.
And even if what you're saying is true... I'm still right. You literally said, "No, Cell isn't 125% of Goku's strength, Goku is 80% of Cell's strength"... Which is literally you claiming that Goku is even stronger than I said. You said Goku was 80%, what I said would put him at 75% of Cell's full power. Anyway, the point is that Cell is less than 1.5 times stronger than Goku, which means that he would LOSE if he was fighting Goku at full power a second time, before fighting Gohan, then Vegeta, then Trunks.
Either way, Cell would have lost. You're literally arguing against yourself here.
And carver, learn basic math. 👇