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It may be canon for here but USS is certainly not on the same level as a SS2 in force. Cell could match it in his base form and he was getting his ass handed to him by SS2 Gohan before his zenkai, cell even used a similar buffed form and it did nothing. He never had to give it his all against Trunks, he was just toying with him.



That kind of thinking is flawed even before you account for instant transmission and guerrilla tactics. SS2 operates on a whole other level of speed and they would focus down opposing SS1s before dealing with the rabble. If the saiyans tried that against someone smart like our MC they would lose hard.

Again in order: USSJ is on-level with SSJ2 if used by a FPSSJ, under the system I'm using, which Trunks was not: both double the SSJ boost, although mastering SSJ over training with USSJ is superior in every way. USSJ still has the usual speed and endurance penalties.

The SSJ2 focusing first on other Super Saiyans is the point of the tactic I was listing, though. While the SSJ delays the SSJ2, the rabble charges a thousand blasts simultaneously, that when added together overwhelm the SSJ2. The Super Saiyan doesn't have to win, just stall. And fast or not, even a Super Saiyan 2 can't afford to leave a mastered Super Saiyan at their back; with that kind of split focus they'd slip eventually. Everybody makes mistakes.

Not that anybody thinks the technique would work without tremendous losses.
 
I don't see at all how any number of regular Saiyans could defeat or even slow down a Super Saiyan 2. Super Saiyan 2 was too fast for even Cell to keep up with (as evidenced by Gohan easily grabbing the Senzus off him), much less an FPSS or regular Saiyans. The Super Saiyan 2 would kill all the regulars and the FPSS couldn't do a thing to stop it.

Put differently, imagine Super Saiyan 2 had a power level of 500,000 - Frieza's first form power level. Super Saiyan 2 multiplies a Saiyan's base power by 100, so it'd be like Frieza fighting against power level 5,000s. Do you really think any amount of Nappas would slow down Frieza who incidentally killed someone with a power level of 10,000 (Bardock)?
 
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Again in order: USSJ is on-level with SSJ2 if used by a FPSSJ, under the system I'm using, which Trunks was not: both double the SSJ boost, although mastering SSJ over training with USSJ is superior in every way. USSJ still has the usual speed and endurance penalties.

The SSJ2 focusing first on other Super Saiyans is the point of the tactic I was listing, though. While the SSJ delays the SSJ2, the rabble charges a thousand blasts simultaneously, that when added together overwhelm the SSJ2. The Super Saiyan doesn't have to win, just stall. And fast or not, even a Super Saiyan 2 can't afford to leave a mastered Super Saiyan at their back; with that kind of split focus they'd slip eventually. Everybody makes mistakes.

Not that anybody thinks the technique would work without tremendous losses.

But your talking about a massed attack against a stupidly fast target that can likely teleport and wreck them. One who can run away at will if they get a bit tired. They way you describe the restrictions USS probably isn't a mastered form because they can't train it up without busting the barrier so it would take a significant amount of time to power up to that form just like when Trunks used it, time enough for the SS2 to interrupt and finish them off. An SS2 wouldn't take much time at all to kill an SS1 if both started from the same base strength. Full power from the beginning without playing around robs the SS1 of the time he needs to stall for significant reinforcements to arrive. Once the rouge Scion turns SS2 it would take too long to gather a massed assault to help the SS1. If for some reason they all know instant transmission that drastically reduces the response time but it won't be enough if the SS2 goes straight for the kill on the SS1s. The only hope that plan has of working is if the SS2 acts like a typical DBZ character and gets cocky enough to give them that response time or if they hesitate about slaughtering their own. Against someone who deliberately goes SS2 and accounts for the known plan and has the resolve to to do anything they need to survive? the plan fails.
 
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I don't see at all how any number of regular Saiyans could defeat or even slow down a Super Saiyan 2. Super Saiyan 2 was too fast for even Cell to keep up with (as evidenced by Gohan easily grabbing the Senzus off him), much less an FPSS or regular Saiyans. The Super Saiyan 2 would kill all the regulars and the FPSS couldn't do a thing to stop it.

Put differently, imagine Super Saiyan 2 had a power level of 500,000 - Frieza's first form power level. Super Saiyan 2 multiplies a Saiyan's base power by 100, so it'd be like Frieza fighting against power level 5,000s. Do you really think any amount of Nappas would slow down Frieza who incidentally killed someone with a power level of 10,000 (Bardock)?

But your talking about a massed attack against a fast single target that can likely teleport and wreck them. One who can run away at will if they get a bit tired. They way you describe the restrictions USS probably isn't a mastered form because they can't train it up without busting the barrier and it would take a significant amount of time to power up to that form just like when Trunks used it, time enough for the SS2 to interrupt and finish them off. An SS2 wouldn't take much time at all to kill an SS1 if both started from the same base strength. Full power from the beginning without playing around means robs the SS1 of the time he needs to stall for significant reinforcements to arrive. Once the rouge Scion turns SS2 it would take too long to gather a massed assault to help the SS1. If for some reason they all know instant transmission that drastically reduces the response time but it won't be enough if the SS2 goes straight for the kill on the SS1s. The only hope that plan has of working is if the SS2 acts like a typical DBZ character and gets cocky enough to give them that response time or if they hesitate about slaughtering their own. Against someone who deliberately goes SS2 and accounts for the know plan and has the resolve to to do anything they need to survive? the plan fails.

I wasn't actually talking about USSJ as a feasible means of having a stand-up fight with an SSJ2 -- it isn't, not remotely in a single-fighter duel -- just clarifying how it works.

Bear in mind, I'm not talking about this being the only plan that works. This is one plan. It can work, because there's more than one Super Saiyan to chew through at any one time, everybody else knows to move immediately in this circumstance, and they all, base Saiyans included, are at, "traverse a planet in seconds," speeds. But it's not the only one that can work, it's not even the first one that would be tried, and it's not one that's terribly likely to work. I was using it as an example of something that can work, as a means of demonstrating that base Saiyans are not something that can be safely ignored in sufficient quantities.

Another one would be if a Super Saiyan 1 provoked the Super Saiyan 2 into a beam struggle, and then powered up somehow. Perhaps with USSJ, perhaps with the Kaio-Ken. Either way, at that point they'd be too strong for the enemy to safely turn aside -- even if just for a moment -- and they could hold out for long enough for the rest of the regular Super Saiyans to join in. And then a normal Saiyan could join in. And then another. And then maybe the ten thousand or so Oozaru who've trained to their absolute limits. And another base Saiyan, and another, and another, until all the attacks going into it were enough to take out the Super Saiyan 2.

Or a group of normal Saiyans go Oozaru and stall. They'd all die, but they would die slow enough to buy time, given that the form optimizes for durability and raw power. That would be enough time for at least two Super Saiyans to arrive, and they definitely could stall long enough to buy the other Super Saiyans and hordes of base Saiyans time to arrive.

Or the Super Saiyan 2 could get cocky, pick a fight with three thousand Saiyans as they held a party in the Training Hall, and miss just one single Kienzan in the middle of the storm of blasts being thrown at them.

Now, all of these have obvious failure points, but they all can succeed as well. They have the noted issue of going up against a monstrously strong opponent, but they're not totally infeasible. Most especially because -- remember -- we're not using the typically-accepted model of Super Saiyan forms being multiplicative. For my ease of use we're on BOD-standard, which holds them to be additive, and so SSJ2 doesn't multiply base strength by x100. It does double the Super Saiyan boost from FPSSJ by 2, but only the boost, not base power, so a Super Saiyan 2 who's just transformed for the first time isn't even twice as strong as a FPSSJ. They are decisively, even overwhelmingly stronger, and the transformation removes limits and allows even greater strength over the long term, but in the short term of the first transformation, which nobody on the planet could possibly miss, they're not to the point where they can take out one FPSSJ quickly enough to stop a second showing up picoseconds later, and then a third. Given that there are up to six Full-Powered Super Saiyans on Garenhuld at any given time, this adds up. And if they can stall for the heartbeat it would take to marshal the horde of base Saiyans -- which is likely -- the SSJ2 would have to contend with that. And by the math, you only need to muster a thousand Saiyans out of three hundred thousand to overcome a Super Saiyan 2.

Now, the SSJ2 could know Instant Transmission. They could also not. But for what that exact reason, there's never a time when there are no Scions, Lords, or ex-Lords capable of the same move, and it's impossible to hide that ki signature. At that point, it becomes a game of endurance. Who runs out of ki first: the pentet/sextet of people who can stay in their transformations all day because they've mastered them, or the one who just got their transformation and has had all of their progress on endurance training nullified because of it? They can't drop out of it -- six Super Saiyans pinging the planet with their full power will find nearly anything, and if the SSJ2 starts dropping their ki to hide, they abruptly become a squishy mortal for a window that is just big enough for the Super Saiyans to IT in and vaporize them in the moment of being strong enough to sense, but weak enough to be helpless.

Or, in the first three seconds of the engagement, the SSJ2 wipes out the Super Saiyans, and then vaporizes any base Saiyans that show up until the planet decides to collectively surrender.

My ultimate point is that a fight between an SSJ2 and a planet of million-unit-plus fighters is an uncertain prospect, enough so that the Lords are willing to throw their entire population into the meat grinder for the slightest hope of slowing the enemy down. They have many plans, all revolving around nullifying the speed advantage in order to bring the collective might of the Exiles to bear, which adds up swiftly. One of them always knows IT. One always knows the Kaio-Ken. All of them learn USSJ at some point if only so they can contest a beam struggle for long enough to get reinforcements. And yes, most of the plans bank on being able to provoke the enemy into unwise action, which is not as foolhardy as it sounds given that the transformation is -- quite literally and exactly -- legendarily hard to remain in control of. And all of this, these literal centuries of preparation and planning, have given them...maybe a forty percent chance of victory. Fifty, at a stretch. Given that they need to concentrate strength and quickly, they are at an inherent disadvantage given that you can't concentrate strength down any farther than a single person.

The reason I'm hitting the ways they could win so hard when they're technically in the minority is because I want to make it clear that we don't just say, "no, not possible," and go home. I want to privilege and reward clever thinking in this quest, and making clear that brute strength can be overcome is the biggest way to do that. Not that any means of doing so are without cost -- but they exist. Even if you take no clever plan and simply order your people to fill the skies with ki blasts so that there's nowhere to dodge, that will add up -- each one will only scratch the SSJ2, but there are over three hundred thousand scratches being fired at any given time, if you martial everybody, multiple times per second.

Not that that has a higher chance of success than perhaps five whole, shiny percentage points. But again, it's a way.
 
...So we need to be at least on the moon when going SS2, having already thrown a Ki blast further out into space as a Hit target for IT, then transform and immedietely leave the planets Area of Influence. Probably stop by on another planet or something. Drop the Transformation then sneak back.

All the while having used Multiform so that we can prove that the other SS2 is not us, because we are here, not out there.
 
Yes. Now they just need to crack it. That one they nearly have. They should have fusion down in another five to ten years. There was a major breakthrough recently.
...Come again? Fusion isn't a particularly hard technique. Just get equal power level (which can be lowered to allow fusion) and size, do the dance, and that's it, or at least that's how it was described in DBZ. Are there other requirements in your game?
 
...Come again? Fusion isn't a particularly hard technique. Just get equal power level (which can be lowered to allow fusion) and size, do the dance, and that's it, or at least that's how it was described in DBZ. Are there other requirements in your game?
Yes, but if no one remembers how to do the dance, they'd pretty have to discover it by trial and error with basically zero knowledge to start with, which, since the dance must be perfomed in a very specific way for the fusion to work would probably be harder than just giving up and trying to figure out why fusion works and then develop another fusion method from scratch.
 
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Mastering all the styles are going to take a lot of cookies.
Mastering all the styles will take decades and is ultimately not worth it in my opinion. Pacifist Style as a main and Jaffur Style in case we need something more potent should be the way to go for us, I think.

@Aranfan, can you support my request for us to have armour in a capsule? When a serious fight breaks out, we'll want it so that we have an edge in combat.
 

To be honest, the order doesn't really matter much to me, I want to learn all the styles for several reasons.

Firstly: I expect that the more styles we know and have mastered the bigger the bonus to making the pacifist style.

Secondly: I expect there to be a special bonus for knowing all the basic styles, as far as making our own style is concerned.

Thirdly: Introducing a Pacifist Style is going to burn quite some political capital, and considering everything that's going to be happening with the seal, we'll probably need the political capital of being an acknowledged master of all the styles to have Pacifist Style get any traction.

These have been confirmed as true by Poptart
 
These have been confirmed as true by Poptart
Not quite. He quoted this specific section as being perfectly correct and nothing else:
To be honest, the order doesn't really matter much to me, I want to learn all the styles for several reasons.

Firstly: I expect that the more styles we know and have mastered the bigger the bonus to making the pacifist style.

Secondly: I expect there to be a special bonus for knowing all the basic styles, as far as making our own style is concerned.

Thirdly: Introducing a Pacifist Style is going to burn quite some political capital
We don't need to master all of them to get traction.

Aside from that, I highly doubt we can get mastery of all the styles without it taking literal decades. Quite a few of them have overwhelmingly aggressive and lethal techniques - techniques which Kakara could spend practising for years each. The Final Flash, Destructo Disc, and Special Beam Cannon to name the most obvious.

An easier, quicker, and way more realistic goal is to achieve Expert on some of them, dropping the more lethal techniques and thus preventing us from getting true mastery. Even reaching Expert level on a single style is bound to give us respect among Saiyans, let alone multiple of them. Heck, even Berra only has three styles outside of his mastered one with the best of the three at a mere Practitioner and the others at Novice. Getting Expert in just four styles will give us major street cred among our fellow murder monkeys.

If I could recommend three, I would start with Goku, Vegeta, and Krillin Style. Goku and Vegeta Style because their affiliations with their respective clans will buy us the most political capital. Krillin Style because its involved and penalised techniques cover and are covered by those of the Goku/Vegeta Style.
 
Aside from that, I highly doubt we can get mastery of all the styles without it taking literal decades.

We can't know that until we know how long it takes to learn a style to mastery. And we will get the most political capital by learning multiple styles to mastery.


I already had what was basically this argument once, and that time it wasn't right after I had woken up.
 
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If I could recommend three, I would start with Goku, Vegeta, and Krillin Style. Goku and Vegeta Style because their affiliations with their respective clans will buy us the most political capital. Krillin Style because its involved and penalised techniques cover and are covered by those of the Goku/Vegeta Style.
I'd rather not practice the Vegeta style, it doesn't really have any involved techniques we'd want.
 
Canon Omake: The Life That Surrounds Us
The Life that Surrounds Us


Kakara gently landed on the grassy top of a plateau. Alone, far from civilisation, here she could unwind after a long day's training with Dad in peace and tranquillity. Sometimes she'd spend the time with her friends or sleeping after such a workout, but this time she decided to isolate herself and just feel.

Sitting at the centre of the plateau, Kakara closed her eyes and opened her mind, her body relaxed utterly. The first thing she sensed was the ki within herself - radiant, powerful, and not so much constrained as merely unsummoned. Then she sensed the life around her, the faint presence of the swaying grass, the steady hum of the single tree inhabiting the plateau, the millions of small life all around her for kilometres around. She sensed the animals, flitting about as they went about their daily lives, their children having smaller yet somehow more potential-filled presence.

Beyond, she could sense her home and the homes of so many others. Millions of people, insignificant in size compared to her own and yet no less unique or precious in what could only be described as a miracle of life. She could sense the positive and negative energies swirling in the same bodies of these creatures, complex like no others on the planet.

Finally, she could sense it all. The pure life energy of all the planet's inhabitants, radiating, moving, mixing in what was ultimately nothing more than a chaotic mess, but an awe-inspiring one nonetheless; a tapestry of infinite colours and complexities, if she was trying to sound fancy. When you looked a bit deeper, though, you find that it's still a mess, but perhaps not strictly speaking a chaotic one. Here, this ki signature came from that toad. There, that one can be followed to its origin, a human child. She could follow these origins easily and even multiple at once, but all of them? That was far beyond her. Maybe one day she could do it, but if so that day was a long way away.

Satisfied and her mind clear, Kakara woke from the deep meditation and started making her way back through the air. Ki was life energy. It wasn't just raw energy gained from a strong body, it was also composed of strength of will and a balanced mind. Today she reinforced the balance of her mind, the better to face whatever challenges lay ahead of her.
 
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I don't know about mastery, but familiarity with every style would be essential if you want to develop an effective pacifist style, mostly because you need means to counter, redirect and shut down the enemy no matter HOW they attack, rather than just defending. You need a win condition, whether that's turning attacks against them, or draining their ki to exhaustion.
 
I don't know about mastery, but familiarity with every style would be essential if you want to develop an effective pacifist style, mostly because you need means to counter, redirect and shut down the enemy no matter HOW they attack, rather than just defending. You need a win condition, whether that's turning attacks against them, or draining their ki to exhaustion.
Being familiar with a style doesn't mean we have to learn it, though, and in fact, I think Kakara already is familiar with all the styles. For example, in the most recent update, we managed to recognize and counter Berra's Goku style even though we don't have any ranks in it.
 
Being familiar with a style doesn't mean we have to learn it, though, and in fact, I think Kakara already is familiar with all the styles. For example, in the most recent update, we managed to recognize and counter Berra's Goku style even though we don't have any ranks in it.
Learn not master however, is much more accessible. And countering it works much better when you have a broader library to source from.
 
@PoptartProdigy

If we do "learn a style" but no other combat stuff, would our skills still atrophy? I mean, it won't be relevant until we finish grinding multiform, but I wants to know.
 
...Come again? Fusion isn't a particularly hard technique. Just get equal power level (which can be lowered to allow fusion) and size, do the dance, and that's it, or at least that's how it was described in DBZ. Are there other requirements in your game?

The dance is giving them problems. They've made quite a few fatsos.

Also, question. You can use USSJ as a FPSSJ, but what about ASSJ?

For whatever reason, you lose granularity at that point and can only go USSJ.

:(

I can't get one for each omake? Mastering all the styles are going to take a lot of cookies.

Nah, that would bloat the number of cookies fast. By the way, I've chosen to canonize your history text omake.

The Life that Surrounds Us


Kakara gently landed on the grassy top of a plateau. Alone, far from civilisation, here she could unwind after a long day's training with Dad in peace and tranquillity. Sometimes she'd spend the time with her friends or sleeping after such a workout, but this time she decided to isolate herself and just feel.

Sitting at the centre of the plateau, Kakara closed her eyes and opened her mind, her body relaxed utterly. The first thing she sensed was the ki within herself - radiant, powerful, and not so much constrained as merely unsummoned. Then she sensed the life around her, the faint presence of the swaying grass, the steady hum of the tree, the millions of small life all around her for kilometres around. She sensed the animals, flitting about as they went about their daily lives, their children having smaller yet somehow more potential-filled presence.

Beyond, she could sense her home and the homes of so many others. Millions of people, insignificant in size compared to her own and yet no less unique or precious in what could only be described as a miracle of life. She could sense the positive and negative energies swirling in the same bodies of these creatures, complex like no others on the planet.

Finally, she could sense it all. The pure life energy of all the planet's inhabitants, radiating, moving, mixing in what was ultimately nothing more than a chaotic mess, but an awe-inspiring one nonetheless. A tapestry of infinite colours and complexities, if she was trying to sound fancy. When you looked a bit deeper, though, you find that it's still a mess, but perhaps not strictly speaking a chaotic one. Here, this ki signature came from that toad. There, that one can be followed to its origin, a human child. She could follow these origins easily and even multiple at once, but all of them? That was far beyond her. Maybe one day she could do it, but if so that day was a long way away.

Satisfied and her mind clear, Kakara woke from the deep meditation and started making her way back through the air. Ki was life energy. It wasn't just raw energy gained from a strong body, it was also composed of strength of will and a balanced mind. Today she reinforced the balance of her mind, the better to face whatever challenges lay ahead of her.

Beautiful. Canon and cookie.

@PoptartProdigy

If we do "learn a style" but no other combat stuff, would our skills still atrophy? I mean, it won't be relevant until we finish grinding multiform, but I wants to know.

Style training is very involved and requires you to study your fighting in some detail, so yes, it counts for the purposes of avoiding degradation.
 
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