Some questions about the Trunks arc

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I've recently been reading over the Future Trunks arc and started thinking a bit more about things I never really thought about.

A quick recap:

Initially, we see that Super Saiyan Black was having a hard time going up against Super Saiyan 2 Vegeta.

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Once Vegeta went Blue, he decimated Black.

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After Black was healed, his Super Saiyan state became powerful enough to gain the advantage over Blue Vegeta.

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Super Saiyan Rose Black returned the decimation on Blue Vegeta, forcing them to flee.

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Vegeta's hellish training allowed him to overwhelm Rose Black with his Super Saiyan God-Blue Burst strategy. Black can't really do anything against Vegeta here.

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Merged Zamasu displays enough power to make quick of the Saiyans in their Blue and God states.

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Goku is able to fight on equal terms with Merged Zamasu after sealing the power of Blue.

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So here are my questions:

1) What do you believe the boost from Base to Super Saiyan was for Goku Black?

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The first statement seems like it's just focused on Goku Black becoming more powerful than their last encounter. I guess it was only noticeable the moment he transformed.

His later statement is a bit different.

Trunks words it in a way that makes it seem like the Super Saiyan transformation itself made Goku Black more powerful than the last time. he used the state Now if it was only a matter of a stronger Base Black=stronger Super Saiyan, would Trunks have worded it that way? The dialogue always sounded strange to me. If Black became strong enough to the point where he no longer needed Super Saiyan, wouldn't Trunks naturally

2) What do you believe the boost from Super Saiyan to Rose was for Goku Black?

Like the homie Super Saiyan mentioned, Goku Black surpassing Super Saiyan God was only mentioned after he acquired Rose:

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3) How much power do you believe Super Saiyan Blue normally has access to before the stamina starts depleting their power?

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4) Do you believe Goku did some additional training off-screen that wasn't Mafuba related?

The beginning of the arc showed them training together.

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Other than that, we see Vegeta sparring with Trunks and Goku meditating alone before it was time to go to the future.

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Then there's this:

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That's not even counting the Non-God forms that establish Super Saiyan 2 Trunks as Super Saiyan 3 Goku's equal....with Super Saiyan 2 Vegeta having a noticeable advantage over the guy (Base Black) that could dumpster Super Saiyan 2 Trunks with ease.

Aside from that weird instance, I always got the impression that Super Saiyan Blue Goku and Vegeta were depicted as equals.

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This is when the difference between them begins to be established.

Vegeta mentioned that Goku overcame the weakness of Blue and I kinda doubt he did it all in that moment. It sounds like he was working on correcting the weakness for awhile. There's also the fact that Goku couldn't do anything to Merged Zamasu in Super Saiyan Blue, yet sealing his power and fighting at 100% allowed him to knock Zamasu around and match his power.

Perfected Blue is written as if it's a huge power-up more so than being able to fight at Full-Power for a longer period.

Vegeta trained like hell after returning to the present, while Goku spent time getting the Mafuba down on Roshi's island. You'd think Vegeta's training would've allowed him to close whatever difference there was between them. Instead, it makes him look like he was way weaker than Goku before and after the rosat training.

5) Was the Potara Fusion power-up really that miniscule? Rose Black was no match for God-Blue Vegeta. Blue Goku and Vegeta were no match for Merged Zamasu. Perfected Blue Goku was on par with Merged Zamasu.

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The above says their power went way up when they merged into Zamasu.

Yet it seems like the Fusion is marginally stronger than Rose Black at best.

If Vegeta is above Rose Black, then the same would most likely apply to Goku. Especially since we know Goku's Full-Power is beyond Vegeta's.

So, is the equivalent of a Fusion between Rose Black and Zamasu somehow the equivalent of Goku going from Super Saiyan Blue-->Perfected Blue Goku?

As in, both would lose to Blue Goku separately. Fused, they can only equal Goku with access to 100% of his power?

The only way the above would make sense to me is if Super Saiyan Blue is so ass that they can't access anywhere close to its Full-Power. That would make the most sense to me, but Vegeta does in fact say they can use their Full-Power. It just doesn't last that long.

So does their power start rapidly going down as soon as they transform into Blue or something?

Whatever the case may be, that Fusion boost appears to be trashhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

It's actually funny thinking about how weak Super Saiyan Rose Black and Merged Zamasu look when all is said and done.

I know it's a lot, but a lot of things in this arc just make no sense to me. Maybe someone can help me see things in a different light.
 

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For some reason Black's Super Saiyan and Rose forms are nowhere near the multiplier of the other Saiyans forms. Black's base being stronger than SSJ3 tier is to blame for this inconsistency. It doesn't really make sense but the anime also has Black's base powerful yet not multiple times stronger than SSJB in Rose.

The Potara fusion doesn't seem to be too effective when one of the fusers is worlds below the stronger fighter. SSJ Kefla also wasn't much stronger than LSSJ Kale.
 

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Quite a bit to unpack here. This segment of the story makes less sense the more you read through it. I'm definitely no expert on it but I'll speculate where I can.

1) What do you believe the boost from Base to Super Saiyan was for Goku Black?
Starting from the beginning, Trunks says that even FPSSJ2 was no match for Black, which we saw in the introduction to the arc. Black was strong enough to knock Trunks out of SSJ2 with one good blow, but Trunks was able to land some attacks. Let's say:


SSJ2 FP Trunks: 10
Base Black: 12

After this we see Vegeta and Trunks sparring while Goku is meditating which you brought up. Sadly I believe we are forced to assume they powered up from these brief bits of training as we then see Vegeta beat up both Base and SSJ Black. Vegeta probably acquired FPSSJ2 on top of whatever training gains that he made. He was strong enough to have a sizeable lead on SSJ Black, though not large enough to one shot him. Since Trunks only mentions Black's SSJ form getting stronger, perhaps it was due to becoming more accustomed to Goku's body, allowing him to utilize more power.

SSJ2 FP Trunks: 10
Base Black: 12
SSJ Black pre: 16
SSJ Black post: 24
SSJ2 FP Vegeta: 30

2) What do you believe the boost from Super Saiyan to Rose was for Goku Black?

Like the homie Super Saiyan mentioned, Goku Black surpassing Super Saiyan God was only mentioned after he acquired Rose:


3) How much power do you believe Super Saiyan Blue normally has access to before the stamina starts depleting their power?

This is the fun part.

Then Vegeta transforms into Blue and pummels Black. Black then gets healed and gets his first big Zenkai. He then ends up getting the upper hand on Vegeta until Vegeta needs to be healed on his own. The next segment is the hardest to understand. Vegeta is fresh from eating a senzu bean and lands an attack simultaneously with Black, and it seems like Black comes out on top. I wonder if this comes down to willpower more than anything because Black only took one attack from Vegeta before needing to be healed again.

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It seems very strange for Black to get the upper hand in several skirmishes with Vegeta despite being weaker, but perhaps the gap was pretty close by the time the exchange was over. Like so:

Vegeta post sensu: 75
SSJ Black: 55
Vegeta post first attack: <60

That allows Vegeta's only attack to be strong enough to give Black a Zenkai, but his rapid decline allowed Black to get the upper hand for the rest of it. I admit it seems ridiculous for Vegeta to be below SSJG level after a couple of attacks, but I'm not sure what choice there is.

Then after his final healing he finally surpassed SSJG level by turning SSJR. So I guess if I had to make some hypothetical numbers it could look like this:

SSJ2 FP Vegeta: 30
SSJG Vegeta (hypothetical): 60
SSJB Vegeta ("full power"): 120
SSJB Vegeta (usable power): 75 and declining
SSJ Black (post Zenkai): 55
SSJ Black (final Zenkai): 60
SSJR Black: 100

To further explain this, SSJB full power is when it is used in a bursts. I believe this is the full power that one can achieve without sealing the aura away. If the aura is not sealed, the form begins stronger than SSJG but loses stamina at a rapid pace. All that needs to be said about this is Vegeta using SSJB to one shot Cabba was enough to bring him down to near Super Saiyan level in U6. The form is clearly ass for stamina. While regular Blue starting at a measly 1.25x SSJG isn't ideal, I think it can work if you assume all of the statements about Blue having enormous power are referring to using it in bursts.

But to directly answer 2 and 3, I don't think SSJR has to be a massive boost by any means. He was stronger than SSJG by a large margin but not weak enough to be one shotted by Blue bursts. Regular Blue only has access to ~63% of it's maximum by my rough numbers and even then it declines fast.

4) Do you believe Goku did some additional training off-screen that wasn't Mafuba related?

The beginning of the arc showed them training together.
I don't believe either of them have to get stronger after their first trip to the future. Even Vegeta's RoSaT training isn't exactly suggested to have made him stronger. I think we have to assume they became equals after their sparring and meditation.

SSJ2FP Vegeta (post sparring): 30
SSJG: 60
SSJB bursts: 120

SSJ3 Goku (post meditation): 30
SSJG: 60
SSJB (one burst): 120

5) Was the Potara Fusion power-up really that miniscule? Rose Black was no match for God-Blue Vegeta. Blue Goku and Vegeta were no match for Merged Zamasu. Perfected Blue Goku was on par with Merged Zamasu.
I dunno if minuscule is the word I'd use, but it definitely wasn't great. The only examples of it we've seen are Goku/Vegeta and Kaioshin/Kibito. Both of these cases definitely resulted in a far larger boost from the potara, but Zamasu was clearly a weak link here. Goku thought he was weak enough to use Super Saiyan on in the first trip to the future, and he was only able to beat him through paralysis. So I reckon that he was a good deal below the Super Saiyans.

Zamasu: 5
SSJ Goku: 10
SSJ2 Goku: 15
SSJ3 Goku (post meditation): 30
SSJ2 FP Vegeta: 30
SSJG Vegeta (hypothetical): 60
SSJB Vegeta ("full power"): 120
SSJB Vegeta (usable power): 75 and declining
SSJ Black (post Zenkai): 55
SSJ Black (final Zenkai): 60
SSJR Black: 100

Looking at it like this, Zamasu could almost be viewed as Goku was viewing Mr. Satan in the Boo arc. Yet he still provided a boost, and a fairly noticeable one according to Merged Zamasu who was ecstatic about his new power.

Merged Zamasu: 240
CSSJB Goku: 240

So all in all the potara boosted Black by 2.4x despite Zamasu only being 5% of his power. Not too bad if you ask me.


Fucking christ. This post is kind of all over the place and not laid out very well and I feel more confused if anything. Feel free to point out anything you disagree with.
 

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Characters in this series get stronger by doing nothing, yet when someone trains we’re still not sure if they got stronger?
 

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