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The reason I am suggesting this in both the DBZ Manga and Anime, Piccolo destroys the moon in order to revert Gohan from Great Ape back to normal, which in the anime version was calculated by Kepekly23 to be 5A. Granted, he did say it was non-canon feat exclusive to the anime...but its not.
Ok hear me out. Piccolo destroying the moon is the same feat that occurs in both the manga and the anime regardless of the calculations and is still something the anime matches the manga, so I would like to make the statement that despite the calculation being exclusive to the anime, it should also scale to the manga as its the same feat regardless. The anime feat of Piccolo destroying the moon is the exact same feat, but just...you know...animated. This does NOT mean that we would use any other anime feats to scale to manga goku, but I would argue that the Piccolo moon feat is still justifiable in giving Goku a 5A upgrade.
To further back up my claim, I can look to the Original DB Manga itself to justify this upgrade, despite not having any exact power increases/multipliers:
- The Moon Level tier that DBZ Manga Goku starts with scales to Master Roshi destroying the moon with a Kamehameha. This occurs when Roshi is in his MAX POWER form during the 22nd Budokai.
- King Piccolo is stated to be MUCH stronger than Master Roshi when he was Old and out of his prime. When Shenron restored his youth and returned him to his prime, he became much more stronger. Goku managed to defeat King Piccolo during the King Piccolo saga, meaning Goku is equal/superior to him.
- His son/reincarnation Piccolo could match Goku during the 23rd Budokai, when the latter was much older and also much stronger since the latter hadn't stopped training.
- 5 years then pass between the Original DB and DBZ. Since Goku is obsessed with training and getting stronger, it should be fair to assume that Goku's strength only increased during that period.
As for possible counterpoints, I would like to give solid reasonings for why I think the upgrade is justified.
- Some might argue that Vegeta being capable of destroying the planet and Goku being weaker than Vegeta during their first fight would be reason to reject this upgrade. However, I would argue that just because Vegeta CAN destroy a planet doesn't mean that it should be the peak of his power. If anything that means he would be upgraded to be much stronger.
- Some might also aruge that Frieza casually destroying Planet Vegeta would be a reason to not allow the upgrade since he's already calculated as High 5A in this form. However, it should be noted that Frieza did this in his first form VERY CASUALLY, while this WAS done his first form, it is NOT the upper limit of his first form's power. Also the upgrade for Goku is
5Awhile frieza's feat is only High 5A, so even then Goku doesn't quite scale to First Form Freiza's level. (Even then Frieza's first form can be upgraded). - Of course, this leads us to the biggest issue of all...Cell being Solar System level.
- Cell is stated that he can destroy the Solar System, but I argue that his power could be even greater than that, but he and Gohan didn't realize it. After all, the story focuses more on the fact that Cell is putting the entire Solar system at risk (which also includes the Earth the he and Gohan are fighting on).
- On that note, Cell never exactly managed to launch his attack at the sun (at least canonically), so his power potency of his Kamehameha could be higher than he even knew himself. Also, Cell at the time was, and I quote, "drunk on his own power" so he probably just lowballed his estimated power, since he tends to underestimate even other people's power levels.
- The original post also talks about the fact that the guidebooks place King Piccolo being city level despite The VS Battles community placing him at 5C, so even the guidebooks can have statements that contradict what is seen in the manga (though admittedly this same author also considers Roshi's Moon level Kamehameha to be PIS, so take this with a grain of salt).
- Even with future keys, SS transformations and other multipliers, the power increase has been shown multiple times in dragon ball to be non linear despite guidebook statements, as shown through various calculations and discussions, including the Cell Solar System level post.
EDIT: In light of recent research and wanting to avoid possible ire, I've changed my post to instead argue for the idea that start of DBZ Goku and Piccolo should have a 5B rating. In this post calculating Piccolo's moon feat from the manga, it was calculated that Piccolo destroying the moon would equal about 70 Zettatons of TNT, which would put him and goku at Planet level, and even lowballing the feat would still place them at Small Planet Level (Low-5B) which is still much higher than their current 5C tiering. I will not remake the thread however as I feel that most of what I wrote here still stands regarding my justification for the upgrade, only this time in regards to a calculation that actually is part of the DBZ manga canon.
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