FOUR TIMES AROUND THE WORLD.

[VampireWicked]

Manga & Anime



After the Tournament Of Power Frieza wants to see who is faster so he challenges Gohan to a race.
A foot race around the Earth.
No cheating
No Flying
No Sensu Beans
No detroying or manipulation any obstacles on the given path.
No assistance
No Fighting or interfering with the other racer of any kind.

Whis is monitoring the race & Lord Beerus promises to destroy anyone who cheats.

In four trips running around the Earth, Who is faster on foot in the Manga, Gohan or Frieza ?
Who's faster in the Anime, Gohan or Frieza?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Travel speed tends to not correlate linearly with levels of Ki, considering you have things such as Gotenks taking a while to circle the Earth several times or Gohan Boo not getting to Goku and Vegeta's location instantly in the Boo Arc when Freeza Arc top tiers should be FTL via-scaling, the former feat even seeming to be more impressive than the latter despite being far weaker. At the same time, however, you have SSJ Gotenks using his speed feat to prove a point to Piccolo, so by how much it does or doesn't correlate seems all over the place.

There shouldn't be any difference when it comes to running as opposed to landing beyond the convenience of it. That said, it all depends by how much you'd say travel speed correlates with flight speed. Given Beerus' Massively FTL+ feat of traversing many solar systems in seconds in the anime and zipping from planet to planet in his battle with Champa in the manga, it's safe to say Super treats travel speed as somewhat consistent with power.
All that said, it's a close contest in the anime, with Gohan likely edging it out just barely due to Freeza needing his Golden form which ought to have some impact on his stamina with such prolonged use even if having perfected the form. Manga-wise, Gohan wins easily.

 

[VampireWicked]

Grrrrr! Sorry, I should've put this in the DragonBall section.
Thanks.

Travel speed tends to not correlate linearly with levels of Ki, considering you have things such as Gotenks taking a while to circle the Earth several times or Gohan Boo not getting to Goku and Vegeta's location instantly in the Boo Arc when Freeza Arc top tiers should be FTL via-scaling, the former feat even seeming to be more impressive than the latter despite being far weaker. At the same time, however, you have SSJ Gotenks using his speed feat to prove a point to Piccolo, so by how much it does or doesn't correlate seems all over the place.

There shouldn't be any difference when it comes to running as opposed to landing beyond the convenience of it. That said, it all depends by how much you'd say travel speed correlates with flight speed. Given Beerus' Massively FTL+ feat of traversing many solar systems in seconds in the anime and zipping from planet to planet in his battle with Champa in the manga, it's safe to say Super treats travel speed as somewhat consistent with power.
All that said, it's a close contest in the anime, with Gohan likely edging it out just barely due to Freeza needing his Golden form which ought to have some impact on his stamina with such prolonged use even if having perfected the form. Manga-wise, Gohan wins easily.

I agree it's a close call however Frieza did get over his stamina issues in the Anime though, so that makes it even more interesting.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

I agree it's a close call however Frieza did get over his stamina issues in the Anime though, so that makes it even more interesting.

It does, though it still would likely have some minimal level of additional drainage compared to his natural state. As a comparable example, Goku had mitigated the stamina issues of Super Saiyan after his training in the Rosat, yet his stamina was still drained through pretty quickly in his fight with Cell compared to other intense battles that only involved his base state. Freeza was also incapable of using the Golden form during the final clash with Jiren, showing it still requires a decent amount of stamina to maintain, which will give someone who can match its power without a transformation a slight edge.

If it was both of them during the events of the Broly movie rather than immediately after the ToP, however, I'd give Freeza the slight edge anime-wise when considering Freeza was still deemed such a threat that Vegeta's training was primarily to not be killed by him and he showed his worth by lasting an hour of being ragdolled by Broly.

 

[VampireWicked]

I agree it's a close call however Frieza did get over his stamina issues in the Anime though, so that makes it even more interesting.

It does, though it still would likely have some minimal level of additional drainage compared to his natural state. As a comparable example, Goku had mitigated the stamina issues of Super Saiyan after his training in the Rosat, yet his stamina was still drained through pretty quickly in his fight with Cell compared to other intense battles that only involved his base state. Freeza was also incapable of using the Golden form during the final clash with Jiren, showing it still requires a decent amount of stamina to maintain, which will give someone who can match its power without a transformation a slight edge.

If it was both of them during the events of the Broly movie rather than immediately after the ToP, however, I'd give Freeza the slight edge anime-wise when considering Freeza was still deemed such a threat that Vegeta's training was primarily to not be killed by him and he showed his worth by lasting an hour of being ragdolled by Broly.

Yes but it's still a great accomplishment.
Factoring in the effort put in the fight while holding a Transformation at the same time, it really is.

Goku/Frieza isn't going to exhaust the same level of stamina during training as they would against someone who's eating them for breakfast from the start.
Training they have the luxury of working up to their stamina limits & going from there.
Facing an enemy like Jiren the pace is sped up, compared there's little to no time to adjust so they're hitting that limit sooner rather than taking longer feeling out a rhythm in knowing when to pace themselves.
It's a marathon vs a sprint.

The level of effort Goku/Frieza put forth against the likes of Jiren I consider they overcame the stamina issues by far when compared to earlier episodes.
In early episodes Goku had no chance at holding Kaioken on top of SuperSaiyan Blue as long as he did when he was fighting Jiren.
Frieza using Golden off & on without healing never would've been able to hold it that long.
So i think they did a pretty decent job at a stamina increase by that point, i agree DragonBall Super: Broly is more impressive but the Tournament Of Power isn't nothing to sneeze at either lol.
I think it's still tough.