supersaiyangodgogeta said:
1. Nope. Piccolo is stated to far surpass Vegeta's SSJ power and Piccolo is stated to rival 18 in power. Cell was stronger than SSJ Vegeta and he wasn't close to the Androids.
Cell stronger than SSJ Vegeta? I don't think so, nope, not at all.
Furthermore, you're contradicting direct statements about a subject (there's no doubt 18 was serious against Vegeta because she tells us she is and 17 confirms it again, and that he managed to fight her at her level for an instant -every Z-warrior comments on it-) with your own extrapolations on statements that doesn't even address the subject.
Another example: Kami-Piccolo surpassed 17 in PL (that's why the fight lasted so long), who at the same time surpassed 18. So the difference between him and SSJ Vegeta could be considerable by DB standards, and him still being at 18 levels of powers only because when 16 says what he says he is taking into account the android's unlimited strength.
So even if a N18 vs Piccolo could be more one-sided at the beginning in favour of Piccolo, if Piccolo fails to deal fatal damage to the android the android will surpass him eventually, which is something that doesn't apply to SSJ.
supersaiyangodgogeta said:
2. Yes Goku fought Jiren fairly well but is nothing to him. It's subjective. Trunks' performance in the History of Trunks special is what Trunks himself defines as "fairly well". It looked "fairly well" to me, though his powerlessness was apparent. Doesn't matter if you don't want to accept it.
Yes, is subjective, but what you can be sure of is that Trunks didn't mean that his fight against the future Androids went like the one witht the present one, and in that fight Vegeta managed to match serious N18 in strength.
So if Trunks did a much better job against the future androids only by himself, it's obvious that he surpassed them in strength, just not enough to kill them before losing his advantage in pure strength.
supersaiyangodgogeta said:
3. And? That has nothing to do with anything I said. Present Androids>Future Androids>SSJ Trunks in terms of power.
Trunks saying that he could fight the Future Androids fairly well does nothing whatsoever to contradict him saying that they're way too strong for him nor does it hint at any sort of improvement. Nada. It's a pathetic reach, nothing more.
Look, I wouldn't be that con-descendant if I were you, because your "logic" is full of flaws and most important, you're trying to avoid the direct statements from the manga that doesn't interest you.
Trunks saying he could fight the future androids fairly well OF COURSE that it contradicts statements like "even as a SSJ I was powerless against them" or "I was in no way able to do anything against them".
I mean, if you can't see the difference, okay, but the difference it's there and the meaning of those sentences contradictory.
SIAD said:
Apart from the fact that Future Trunks went from calling scary to be able to rival one of them, we must not forget that the gap between Goku SSJ on Future Trunks SSJ decreased in those 3 years and we know that Goku trained during those 3 years.
But what I'm telling you is precisely that Trunks, after coming from the future (chapter 348) said he could do NOTHING against the androids.
In other words: Trunks at chapter 348 and AFTER coming back from the future, still said he was no match for the androids. So you can't say he changed his stance during that time, because that is not true. We have Trunks, with the exact same stance, AFTER his 2nd time travel.
Please can you justify this with your 3 years improvement explanation (and I'm not saying Trunks couldn't improve at all, I'm saying that if that improvement was there it was fairly small, and that it didn't affect his stance on the subject).
And where is it said that Trunks closed his gap with SSJ Goku? I think SSJ Trunks was implied to be as strong as Yadrat Goku, so if I'm not missing anything I don't see how you can reach that conclusion.