One of the things I love about Dragon ball is the fact that there are so many different reasons to watch this series
You can watch it for the comedy you can watch it for the martial arts influence. You can watch it for the characters
You can even watch it for the movie references
But the one thing that is a constant throughout the series is the importance of B O N E L E S S
And there's tons of little communities in the dragon ball fandom. You've got your shippers
You've got your hardcore fans your dubby, but one community that I think
definitely is
Prevalent especially nowadays with dragon ball super and the way things have been going is the power scaling?
Community and the power scaling community I feel does have to exist in this fandom
I think it's necessary for various reasons Dragon ball super
Itself just dragon ball as a whole the entire story of Dragon ball is
Goku's main goal in the series is to get stronger and fight tough guys
And we see this theme recurring over and over again. They constantly train. They always have new Martial Arts Masters
They try to get stronger to face the next threat and goku wants to always face
Strong guys so to sit there and say that this series is not about strength
You can't say it's all about strength
But you can't say it's not about strength a big part of it is about strength and here joining me to talk about this please
Welcome the ever controversial mayor of cuck city sets the program or hello says yo what's going on man
He's here folks, so we're talking about power scaling
And you're one of the more prevalent guides in the power scaling community you know for years the scaling community?
from what you've told me and what from other people have told me a lot of it was on Google+ A
Lot of them was on boards. You know back in the 90s man. We had these bs
Power level websites that would put up these phony huge numbers for like the buu Saga like over that 18 brilliant for the buu Saga
But in the series all right let's talk about power levels were so power scaling the last time they use power levels was uh
Namek and then when trunks showed up
He got red at power level of five and then after that everything from that point forward there were no
official power level so right the only way to figure out how
strong people were was power scaling
It's kind of it's kind of weird, but like I used to play budokai - I don't know
I played it when I was like nine
and then like I was addicted to
Learning like how much stronger each transformation like made you because like if you go in like training mode and you
Transform it like increase your percentage like if your attack power tell you how much stronger you get when you transform?
and I always just loved the concept of just like a
Concrete number of how much stronger you get and like it being displayed would you say that?
Dragon Ball is harder to power scale than say naruto or one punch man
Or other shows is it more challenging because Dragon ball is longer
Not as challenging as some series the main challenge with Dragon ball is inconsistencies
Other than that it's it's mostly
Concrete like
For example if you want to learn how strong vegeta is right a guide will probably tell you like you'll probably like be like hey
what you done to stay and Saga could destroy a fucking planet or
If you want to know like how strong they are compared to other characters like hey the dies and she was like this power level
For here this power level for here
And then you just divide right you find out how much stronger they got so for dragon ball
He was like it was pretty easy other than just like the mainly the inconsistencies
Even with the guys like Toey is just inconsistent
I don't know if they
Don't understand the concept of scaling or why it matters because you know it confuses the fuck out of people and kind of make some
Disinterested like one of the things that does irritate me is that when you're doing? I don't mean you
I mean anybody, it's talking about power in Dragon ball a lot of fans throw out the fucking power levels of bullshit thing now
So then let's clarify this for all the people first of all the original origin of power levels or bullshit was
Essentially a joke made by team for store. That was based on
Interview from Toriyama where he said the funny thing about power levels is that whenever somebody scans you with a scouter?
Especially the Nanak Arc but the scouter is wrong because the person is suppressing their power
That's what you mean the fandom has used the power levels or bullshit phrase to basically say
You shouldn't think about power
Like yeah so dumb. Yeah, when the problem is I can understand somebody not thinking about power, but if
The series is telling you this is this strong better than the next ARc. They say no, this is this way
You're going to be wondering what happened between the arcs like you know like I showed you the Goku Super Saiyan Gold and universe 6
and then he went
He goes uses blue like I never told it to use both forms till then yeah exactly
do you think that the way dragon ball has gone into super that's gone too far in other words as
Like a fan of this shit
Do you think that because we have these characters that are literally in some cases Multi universal level strength?
Do you think that it makes it harder to believe the fights because we're not seeing
Planets and stars get destroyed in space because you would think if these guys were that strong, bro
you'd have the whole sources come just blow it up every time they fought do you think that they don't too far with it the
fights never had like that collateral damage
That's actually a really big problem dragon ball faces against like a you know inter versus debate
Is that there's like goku doesn't do a lot in terms of Pt?
fights people that do a lot, but when he gets into a fight
You'll notice like the planet is almost never destroyed except first like kids
ooh and
Like the only time we ever seen goku destroy plane is versus Frieza like he punched an energy ball into space and ab local planets
Like Goku the best feet other than like the universe shaking shit with beerus
Yeah, but usually you just don't see it like it's it's the way toriyama rice
I don't know if he's like lazy, but you never really see planets blowing up, but yeah
It's it's all about Ki control and toriyama
It says that he says you know the stronger you get the more you need learn how to control your ki
That's why when goku became like a god for the first time
it was such a massive power boost that he didn't know how the fuck to control it and that's why he was stumbling over when
He's trying to - or yeah shaking all universe
Because he didn't not a control his ki because just so massive compared to what he wasn't used to
But and that's why people some people were like well. I don't know what I think super Saiyan
God is kind of strong as a super Saiyan below
I mean look at look at he uh shook the universe in this form
Oh, you didn't do that blue so I just think he's stronger dread. It shit like that. You know. That's just not
You keep it's just
It's just how dragonball works when the anime and the manga both say that blew stronger they blatantly
blatantly and
And we see goku using blue more than red numerous times in the manga and anime, and you're still denying it yeah hugene shit
Right there, bro. So the thing about power levels versus power scaling that a lot people understand as well
Is that people say parallels are bullshit because characters suppress themselves?
But when you see like a scouter for example scan like an alien that doesn't know it suppresses power
that's how strong is when Frieza says I'm
530,000 and
the Ginyu Force is like 40,000 or
120,000 agin you Frieza would dick on all of them no difficult
Yeah That's the power level is accurate whenever the power level reads an alien doesn't suppress his power is completely accurate
power levels do become irrelevant after Frieza
But for when they are used we do have their full powers that aren't suppressed so they aren't bullshit
It's just more like the scouter readings of the z fighters are bullshit. Yeah
and then what wound up happening is and toriyama commented on this by the time we got to you know the the
Androids it was
Impossible for him to continue with the power levels because it would just be the same thing what extra zeros at the end
You know yeah?
If you look at Frieza Society the sane society this I'm going to do a whole video about this is a whole different thing
Everything when it comes to your rank in that empire is entirely based on your power level when you're born they
Don't look at you as an individual what your skills are your talent what you can bring to the world?
They look at you as a number and the main it's deep bro. It's the the main you know it
It's great beautiful, bro
And that's what I'm saying is that you get you make them less fucked up
You actually make more money and become more successful in the empire if you have a high power level um
And they didn't even think about the possibility of an earthling
You know like a crillon or like you know goku who's not really an earthling, but he was raised on Earth getting to that level
so like the whole thing fits with that empires kind of um
Society it's all based on how strong you are when you're born and the whole thing toriyama was telling us
It's deep dude. Is that that empire has the
he was so caught up in how strong you were you were born they didn't even think that somebody could train and get stronger and
Surpass your birth power level and that was the whole point the entire point was to say yeah you were born with
Supposedly stronger than me
But I surpassed you because I got better training and that's all the reason vegeta hates goku that's like not not anymore
But that's why yeah did actually use low class
Looking jit. Yeah
And that's the thing in that was crazy even if you're royalty even if you're your father is really strong if you're born weak
You're going to be seen as fodder and that's interesting that's how they see you and again
That's why power levels are just a brilliant idea
For the Frieza Saga because it fit with that Empire Beyond that all you can do
Which is what the power Scam Community does is?
guess based on feats
that's kind of the best thing to do or
based on just the scaling up higher and higher and higher the reason people really get in power schemes because toriyama adds a lot of
mystery to like the fighters so like for example
Toyota Taro just did an interview where he was asked who would win between vegeto blue and beerus, and he's like uh well
You know the supreme Kai said vegeto would probably be stronger, but who knows maybe he's lying they they love it. It's like
It's like a mystery boner these guys are
Fully willing to leave us in the dark until the end of time about it everybody check out set catch you all down the road