KABOOM’S TOTALLY ROCKIN’ DRAGON BALL Z SERIES POWAR LEVULS
POWER
MULTIPLIERS
Oozaru – 10x
Super Saiyan – 50x
Super Saiyan Grade 2 – 75x
Super Saiyan Grade 3 – 100x
Super Saiyan 2 – 100x
Super Saiyan 3 – 400x
[Oozaru, 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. Grade 3 is equal to SS2 in power, but its
crippling energy drain and speed deficiency leaves it markedly inferior to the
latter’s more balanced boosts.]
A
LONG TIME AGO, IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY…
Bardock – 4,500
Fiddlehead (a.k.a. “Other Saiyan Dude”) – 2,500
Proto-Yakon Aliens – 200
[Toriyama has
– intentionally or otherwise – implied that “his” Bardock is somewhat weaker
than the original one portrayed in the TV special, and didn’t manage to become
promoted to an elite/mid-class because of that. But I’d find it distasteful to
depower him too much, so I settled for just chopping his “nearly 10,000”
power level from the TV special in half. This puts him on a level where he may
have recently pushed himself up into the lower end of the “elite” power range,
but has yet to be recognized or promoted for it. I’m comfortable with that.]
Gine – 1,800
[Kind, gentle,
in need of rescue more often than Princesses Peach… but STILL stronger than
Raditz! Because I say so!]
Li’l Kakarrot – 3
[His age is
his power level. I’m so clever.]
Li’l Vegeta – 9,000
Li’l Raditz – 750
[Let’s just
keep up the “chop everyone’s PL in half” method going, because why not?]
Freeza – 530,000
Random Alien Attendant – 2,000
[In a universe
full of constantly changing and retconned powers, Freeza’s
good ol’ 530k is a comforting constant. Also, where the eff were Zarbon and
Dodoria?]
King of Space – 20 tentacles
Jaco – 500
[Aside from
knowing that Jaco and most or all other Galactic
Patrolmen are no match for fully-grown Saiyans… this is arbitrary.]
THE FAMILY REUINION 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
Oozaru – 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). He
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 Oozaru 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 Kami’s lost considerable power due to old age since he last trained
himself for anything, and Popo inversely has been training alongside the
humans. Back almost 10 years ago immediately after the fiasco with King
Piccolo, they could be anything you imagine them to be.]
Saibaimen ~ 1,200
[Yaaaaay, official numbers.]
Nappa – 4,000
“Full Power” –
4,500
[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.]
Vegeta – 18,000
Oozaru – 90,000
Battle-Worn –
4,000
[Vegeta had,
like Gohan above, taken quite a beating by the time he went Oozaru. 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-Oozaru 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 – 100
Power Unlocked –
1,000
[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 – 9000
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. 30k might
be lowballing him a bit, but it seems realistic 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 – 260,000,000
Future Android 18 – 240,000,000
[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.
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 – 150,000,000
King Cold – 90,000,000
[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. Sadly, he doesn’t anticipate Goku getting stronger as
well, so the relative power gap between them hasn’t 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 heavily
implies that he can transform, we’re still in the dark about whether we saw him
in his true form or a suppressive one. I think it’s more likely a suppressive
one, but regardless, I think this is where he’d cap out at his absolute best.]
Trunks – 3,600,000
Super Saiyan –
180,000,000
Son Goku – 3,800,000
Super Saiyan –
190,000,000
[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 –
215,000,000
Sick and Drained
– 50,000,000
Vegeta – 5,400,000
Super Saiyan –
275,000,000
Drained –
65,000,000
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 it
gets bad enough, combined with 19 absorbing his Ki, that he ends up helpless.
Vegeta,
meanwhile, worked his ass off and in addition to becoming a Super Saiyan has
managed to become even stronger than Goku. His power is drained enough from
fighting Android 19 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 – 190,000,000
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.
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
+ Absorbed Ki –
100,000,000
Android 20 (Dr. Gero) – 90,000,000
+ Absorbed Ki –
140,000,000
[Androids 19
and 20 start off relatively low-powered compared to the heroes, before
increasing their power substantially through absorbing Ki. But it’s still not
enough, as 19 gets obliterated by Vegeta and 20 gets manhandled by Piccolo.]
Android 18 – 340,000,000
Android 17 – 360,000,000
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 HANDBASKET.
Piccolo – 380,000,000
[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. I like to think
Pic 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) – 300,000,000
Humans Absorbed –
500,000,000
Cell (Stage 2) – 700,000,000
Full Power –
900,000,000
Perfect Cell – 1,100,000,000
Vs Vegeta &
Trunks – 1,500,000,000
[Cell starts
out stronger than the Super Saiyans but still weaker than Piccolo and the
Android twins. He comes back stronger than all of the above and an even match
for 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 ass kicked
by “Super Vegeta.” After weaseling his way into absorbing No. 18 as well and
reaching his perfect form, he still seems inferior to Vegeta at first. But
after getting serious, he’s only surpassed, though not defeated, by Trunks’
fantastic-but-flawed Super Saiyan Grade 3 power.]
Vegeta – 18,000,000
Super Saiyan –
900,000,000
Super Saiyan
Grade 2 – 1,300,000,000
Trunks – 17,000,000
Super Saiyan –
850,000,000
Super Saiyan
Grade 2 – 1,275,000,000
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 prevent him from winning the fight.]
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
Mister Satan – 6
[The strongest
man in the world… among regular human shmoes, 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" – 7,000,000,000
[Cell starts
the party off at a level which Goku can have a fantastic fight against, 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 “naaaah” 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 relentlessly. Cell takes
things even further, adopting more power in a speed-hindered Grade 3-like form,
but 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
match for 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 hard
time and barely allowing Vegeta to hold his own. Piccolo also manages to remain
standing against them, but Goku is pretty much helpless, being too worn out
after his fight with Cell. I ain’t even gonna bother quantifying how badly they
outclass the humans. 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 gives Cell the fight of his life, and he’s left too tuckered
out 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
(Angry –
7,500,000,000)
Injured –
3,000,000,000
[Given how Gohan
was so strong that it seemed like Goku and Cell were holding back to him, I’m
gonna say Gohan had quite a power advantage over his dad, and even over the
power Cell was using to fight them both. This means that when Gohan goes Super
Saiyan 2 and doubles his power level, he becomes so strong that Cell can’t
measure up to him even with two sizable power-ups of his own. I decided to
include an “optional” level with some extra anger-created power, but I don’t
really find such a thing strictly necessary. When injured by taking 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.]
Vegeta – 36,000,000
Super Saiyan –
1,800,000,000
Enraged -
5,000,000,000
Trunks – 34,000,000
Super Saiyan –
1,700,000,000
Dead - 0
Piccolo – 1,200,000,000
[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 ‘Grades’ in favor of working with good ol’
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
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.]
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 –
1,700,000,000
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 than before thanks to his excellent
adventure through time, 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
humans to be stronger than them. 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 – 64,000,000
Super Saiyan –
3,200,000,000
Super Saiyan 2 –
6,000,000,000
Ultimate Warrior
– 150,000,000,000
[Gohan’s
gotten weaker since the Cell Games, what with slacking off the whole time and
all. His Super Saiyan 2 power is somewhat weaker than it should be due to his
slacking, but it’s still enough to restore “almost half” of Majin Boo’s power.
At Super Saiyan he has a noticeable edge in power over Dabra, but his rusty
combat sense makes their fight a stalemate. But once the Elder Kaioshin pulls
out all his dormant power and then some, “Ultimate Gohan” is then on a whole
different level of power, 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
[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.]
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 in the Other World and at the Boo arc’s onset is now the top Super Saiyan
once again, especially with Super Saiyan 3. He could have taken out Fat Boo if
he wanted to, and could 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
gotten a bit more powerful, though with the world at peace and the Super
Saiyans outclassing him, he probably only trains casually nowadays. So his increases
aren’t much compared to that of Goku or Vegeta.]
Mr. Satan – 6.66
Videl – 9
After Gohan's
training – 25
Kuririn – 150,000
Yamcha – 35,000
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. Tenshinhan is the only one of the
super-duper humans to have significantly improved since the Cell Games, though
Kuririn still has a big lead on him.
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. Just kidding. It’s after.]
Kibito – 50,000,000
Kaioshin – 2,500,000,000
Merged – 10,000,000,000
[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, I figure he’s bumped up to at least the Super
Saiyan 2 level, though that’s still not any good against Majin Boo. Even
against Pure Boo later, his power is outweighed by his incompetence compared to
Vegeta, who stays behind to help fight while Kaioshin doesn’t.
I like to think it’s possible that Kaioshin wields the same type of “godly
ki” elaborated upon 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. It might be
the case, and it might not be. 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, but given
that they were only regular human shmoes 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 resistance to damage.]
Pui-Pui – 180,000
Yakon – 100,000,000
Dabra – 2,800,000,000
[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. Dabra is a bit weaker than
Super Saiyan Gohan in terms of power, but still at an advantage in battle
because of his magic abilities and how out-of-practice Gohan was.]
Gotenks – 150,000,000
Super Saiyan –
7,500,000,000
Post-RoSaT – 300,000,000
Super Saiyan –
15,000,000,000
Super Saiyan 3 –
120,000,000,000
[Goku predicts that Super Saiyan Gotenks would be able to defeat the fat
Majin Boo, and so I’ll sort of take his word for it and have Gotenks at least
on-par with the big blubbery beast. But only after his Room of Spirit and Time
session. Before it, when he first forms, he’s a “work in progress” of sorts who
still needs training, and according to Daizenshuu #7 he starts off somewhat
weaker than Vegeta. But his training time fixes that, leaving him quite a bit
stronger. At Super Saiyan 3 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
Good Boo –
6,000,000,000
Pure Evil Boo –
9,000,000,000
Evil Boo – 100,000,000,000
+ Gotenks –
220,000,000,000
+ Gohan –
250,000,000,000
+ Piccolo, Goten,
& Trunks – 105,000,000,000
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’s far more powerful than his prior
self and a close match for Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks. He absorbs Gotenks to kick
Gohan’s butt, but then drops back down to a level Gohan can definitely take
care of once Gotenks’ Fusion runs out and Piccolo becomes his primary
power-booster. After 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 – ZOMG
Super Saiyan –
ERROR
[Vegetto has always been high-and-above the strongest thing in DBZ (outside
of folks in Battle of Gods whose strength is “not expressed in battle
power” anyway), so I’ve never bothered listing an actual number for him before.
I see no reason to start now!]
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 human, 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.]