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Which says more about Vegeta's durability than the story showing one thing and telling another one. Vegeta had a battle power of 18k and his feats in the Saiyajin saga are tangible with such: he swiftly overwhelmed Goku whilst this latter was using a Kaioken x2, but got his ass kicked when Goku resorted to the x3. Meaning, a 18k battle power suits the situation just fine. He survived some attacks from the x3 level and survived the attack from the Kaioken x4 KMHMH, but it doesn't change the fact that the Kaioken x3 attacks were still able to hurt him badly.
It has nothing to do with the story showing Vegeta still failing to compete with Black upon recovering his stamina yet emphasizing the stamina drain as the most problematic issue they had with SSJB.
I am not claiming another thing. The story also showed Vegeta still being overwhelmed by Black after getting a Senzu Bean... such is also in the story. Meanwhile, Vegeta was established as having an 18k battle power (can be even more depending on how you interpret certain events), and such was shown given his performance against a 16k and 24k battle power... he wasn't taken down easily, which might speak more for his durability, tenacity... or just the plot, as he was taken down a lot easier later by Monster Zarbon. The story itself isn't contradicting Vegeta's battle power.
I am not failing to understand it. Goku and Vegeta emphasized the power drain as their main -- or only -- problem, but the story still featured a recovered Vegeta failing to keep up with Black. I am merely pointing out a contradiction here, and therefore the reader is kinda free to choose the route they wanna dive in... if they want to see Vegeta and Goku as achieving a power up through their mastery shenanigans, then ok.
It remembers me of Vegeta vs #18, in which Piccolo and co. emphasized Vegeta's lack of stsmina to keep up with #18 as the problem, yet the fight itself clearly shows how hopeless Vegeta truly was.
But it says nothing about either Goku or Vegeta not gaining power after mastering -- in their own unique ways -- the SSJB... it's merely saying how Toriyama didn't envision MZ as this powerful being, but still Toyotaro wished to insert Vegetto in some way to please the fans. For some reason you are trying to push it into Goku and Vegeta merely fixing the strain issue by mastering the Blue form. No.
