How strong is Gyu-Mao?

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It’s established he was Roshi’s number 2 student after Son Gohan. Do you think Gyu-Mao was stronger in the past than he is at the beginning of DB? If not, how strong is he then? Do you think his training with Gohan would have been similar to the relationship of Goku and Krillin? Was Gyu-Mao a rival to Gohan?
 

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Gyumao isn’t even remotely implied to be past his peak given the lack of implications and his physical shape, so I don’t think he’s weaker than when he trained with Roshi.

Going by the only feats he have in the anime he can tank Goku like nothing, so it’s a considerable advantage. Hell you could even have him in 21st Goku’s level or so.
 

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Roshi acted like Goku was the only one to push him so far besides Gohan, so he's at the very least weaker than 21st Galu. It also doesn't seem like he's able to perform the Kamehameha, so he'd at best be around 21st Kuririn imo.
 

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Kenshi said:
Roshi acted like Goku was the only one to push him so far besides Gohan, so he's at the very least weaker than 21st Galu. It also doesn't seem like he's able to perform the Kamehameha, so he'd at best be around 21st Kuririn imo.

It's strongly implied Roshi's power had decreased since his peak though. Roshi flat out pointed out a diference between his present self and his younger self when describing Piccolo Daimao:
Chapter: 135, P6.1
Kame-sennin: “Despite the cute name, he was an outrageously fearsome person…His strength was extremely overwhelming…[ ] He was an opponent we were utterly unable to oppose; not only my younger self or Tsuru-sennin, but even our master, Mutaito.”
 

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There's nothing that says Roshi was at his peak level when he fought Gohan, either. He was already old by then, and he resorted to the Bikkuri Sho attack all the same. He also didn't credit his struggling with Galu to having weakened further than when he fought Gohan.
 

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According to the timeline Gohan is over 200 years younger than Gohan, so Roshi being past his prime here already is reasonable.
 

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As GSM said, he's not implied to have weakened with age at all and as Kenshi said, he clearly wasn't capable of giving Roshi as much trouble as Goku did. The anime is the only place he presents actual feats in which he tanked BoDB Goku's attacks, yet was later staggered by a similar amount of bullets to what Bora endured which should place him below the last of the Mohicans Bora. He was also capable of destroying tanks with his physical strikes which is very impressive by the standards of early arc fighters. It was also suggested he was incapable of surviving a rocket launcher shell in the Piccolo Daimao filler, though that ought to be seen as expected when even Taopaipai was almost killed by a grenade.

Using anime feats, he ought to be at least on par with 21st TB top tiers such as Namu. His fighting style is one of just pure physical might, which would explain why he wasn't the type to cause someone as skilled as Roshi a lot of trouble (assuming they did spar). At most, and taking what I just said into account, he could potentially be far above 21st TB Goku, though still likely weaker than those of Taopaipai tier.
I'd probably lean more towards the low-end, considering he seemed in awe at the power of Roshi's Manly GAINZ mode, suggesting he'd only ever experienced what Base Roshi was capable of prior, with Roshi's power at the time likely not being much different to how it was in his introduction when taking into account Grandpa Gohan being born in Age 658.
 

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That Gyu Mao guy seems a sweet and kind person. I'd like to invite him for afternoon tea with me and Queen Ozma.

As for his power, I regard him as 90% as powerful as 21st TB Roshi.
 

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