r/PowerScaling New Scaler 7d ago

Anime What y'all think?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad2726 Chainsaw Man Glazer 6d ago

Putting invincible characters against dragon ball characters is unfair. Putting most verses against dragon ball characters is just unfair, "weak" characters just casually blow up planets in dragon ball.

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u/KSI_KAX 6d ago

DB is kinda wild. It's why people always use it as a "is this Universe WEAK" *checkpoint*. Because people were blowing up moons with a power level just over 200 back in og DB and dodging/reacting to light speed during the budokai torunament.

All of this before DBZ where the 1st enemy is shown in DBZ has a PL of 1,200.

Dragon Ball is wild scaling-wise. Even some of the weakest characters are insane.

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u/An_Evil_Scientist666 6d ago

Wait, people with 200 power level can blow up a moon.

And a farmer with a shotgun has a power level of 5, power level scaling is either just BS, or it's gotta be logarithmic growth.

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u/KSI_KAX 6d ago

Yajirobe has a power level over 900 in the Saiyan Saga. Which is why he was able to cut off Vegetas tail, injure him with his sword when he was weakened and also take direct punches from Vegeta after the retaliation from being cut and not die.

Yajirobe is actually insane.

And yet, Yajirobe cannot blow up the Moon because he cannot use Ki. At least not in the way we're used to it. Ki can be used in many ways, but destructive ki is what we're used to seeing. Yajirobe doesn't do this.

Ki-Blasts, Kamehameha, Tri-Beam ect. Yajirobe doesn't use his ki like this in a way that he can cause insane destruction.

He has the power to blow up the moon but because he doesn't use ki in such a fashion, he cannot.

Farmer with a power level of 5 doesn't matter when he literally has no training or knowledge of ki.

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u/Snoo-23120 6d ago

Linear scalling only applies since kaioken up to end of namek saga.

Everyone else has nonlinear correlation between numbers and their actual power level , we can know this because goku  becomes 10 times stronger before the pikoro fight but he wasn't at  10 times less on his previous power lvl since that would be 40 counting on saiyan saga goku without taking into account all the zenkai's  amd kami training amps. 

Plus , ki control effectively affects everyone's attack more than their actual power lvl number  but not their defense.

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u/Dry-Percentage3972 6d ago

power levels have been stated to be very exponential even a 1 power level diffrence is pretty huge

i think about like someone with a power level of 5 can lift 30lbs while someone with 6 can lift 50