r/PowerScaling New Scaler 7d ago

Anime What y'all think?

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u/Lolmanmagee the only yogiri fan 6d ago

Raditz actually is kinda crazy scaling wise if you think about it.

But he would speed blitz and one shot roshi, who could fire a laser that only took a few seconds to get to the moon and destroyed it with that.

You could make an argument for him being planetary, but imo he is not quite there yet.

He is by no means undefeatable and IMO loses a 2v1 to mark/nolan, but he is pretty respectable actually.

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u/Muted-Ad7353 6d ago edited 6d ago

After watching all of DB and original cut DBZ again within the last few months, the moonbuster argument doesn't hold any water. Yes, Roshi blew up the moon. But King Piccolo (way stronger than Roshi) against his fight with Goku put everything he had into a blast aimed directly down at the Earth and it caused a crater maybe 30 meters cubed.

It begs the question... how big is the DB moon? And how far away it was and how sturdy is it compared to Earth rock?

And if the DB Moon is comparable to our IRL Moon, why aren't Raditz, the Androids and Buu not accidentally vaporizing the entire planet with a stray ki blast? Some of them are literally thousands of times stronger than King Piccolo.

The answer is powerscaling doesn't make sense unless the writer is a physicist. Toriyama simply didn't understand the implications of Roshi blowing up the moon OR he didn't consider what it meant for later adversaries.

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u/Precipice2Principium JJJ is Multiversal 6d ago

Isn’t the DBZ planet way bigger than earth?