References to character's power

Multipliers

Manga

• Great Ape: Stated to be 10x Base by Vegeta
• Super Saiyan: Referenced as 50x Base by several guides.
  • Toriyama once stated that it would be 10x what Goku was previously.
• Super Saiyan 2: Stated to be 2x Super Saiyan in several guides. (100x Base)
• Super Saiyan 3: Stated to be 4x Super Saiyan 2 in several guides. (400x Base)
• Potara Fusion
  • Vegito is said to have the power of Goku x Vegeta in one guide.

Anime

• Super Saiyan: 50x base
  • The Anime Adventure Games has it as 2.5x base.
  • Rilldo states that it is 100x in GT.
• Golden Great Ape: Shown to be 1.2x the power of Super Saiyan 3 in Scouter Battle Taikan Kamehameha.
• Super Saiyan 4: Stated to be 10x Super Saiyan in Scouter Battle Taikan Kamehameha.
• Legendary Super Saiyan: Has a higher multiplier than Super Saiyan. (Over 50x Base)
• Super Evolution: Goku (base) and Cooler (base power) were around equal. Super Evolution made Cooler significantly stronger than Kaio-ken Goku (x20) but significantly weaker than Super Saiyan Goku (x50).

Goku

Manga

Cell Games

• Full-Power Super Saiyan Goku (Cell Games) is said to be stronger than any of the other Z Fighters, except for Gohan.

Buu

• Super Saiyan 2 Goku is stated to be stronger than Super Saiyan 2 Gohan (Cell Games)
• Super Saiyan 3 Goku says Gohan can defeat Super Buu (Piccolo absorbed), and is terrified of figthing Super Buu (Gotenks absorbed).

Anime

Buu

• Stated to be stronger than Vegeta (pre Majin boost) in Budokai games.
• Super Saiyan 3 Goku is stronger than Super Buu (Piccolo absorbed), and can hold his own against Super Buu (Gotenks absorbed)

GT

• Base Goku fights on par Rilldo, who is said to be stronger than Majin Buu. Goku was only using half of his power. Rilldo was said to be holding back.
• Base Goku easily defeats Super Saiyan Infected Goten and Super Saiyan Infected Gohan - though a lot  of their energy may have been taken by Baby Vegeta to make himself stronger.

Vegeta

Manga

Buu

• Start
  • Believes himself stronger than Gohan.
  • Is said to be weaker than Goku until he gets Majin boost.
• Majin boost
  • Is said to be equal to Goku.
  • Can hold off Kid Buu.

Anime

Buu

• Majin boost + Zenkai
  • Is said to be weaker than Goku.
  • Manages to hold off Kid Buu for an extended period of time and blow off parts of his body.

Shin Budokai

• Super Saiyan 2 Vegeta is able to defeat Super Perfect Cell
• Majin Vegeta (Janemba controlled) is able to fight on par with Super Saiyan 3 Goku.

GT

• Vegeta is equal to Goku as they are able to fuse to make Gogeta.

Gohan

Manga

Cell

• Gohan is able to watch Cell's match with Goku without difficulty.
• After his arm is broken by Super Perfect Cell, Gohan states that he lost half of his energy.

Buu

• Gohan is stated to be weaker than before due to lack of training at the start.
• After Z Sword training, Supreme Kai believes that Super Saiyan 2 Gohan could defeat Fat Buu.

Anime

Cell

• The Trunks special anime comics state that Full-Power Super Saiyan Gohan is stronger than Perfect Cell.
• The Trunks special anime comics state that Gohan has a greater potential than Goku.

GT

• Base Gohan is able to fight on par with Super Saiyan Baby Goten.
• Super Saiyan Baby Gohan is able to briefly hold his own against Super Saiyan Vegeta.
• Base Gohan is able to hold his own against Rilldo and reflect and dodge some of his attacks, but is unable to do any damage.
• Gohan becomes Ultimate Gohan once, while watching the battle against Omega Shenron. Gohan's power increase/decrease from Z to GT would also apply to his Ultimate form.

Future Trunks

Anime

Cell

• Super Saiyan Future Trunks (1st HTC trip) is able to easily beat Semi-Perfect Cell.
• Future Trunks (1st HTC trip) when supressed is said to be similar in power to Vegeta, and Krillin states Future Trunks' full power if far above Vegeta, and potentially enough to defeat Perfect Cell.
• Future Trunks (1st HTC trip) is said to have surpassed Vegeta.
• Ultra Super Saiyan Future Trunks (1st HTC trip) is stated to be stronger than Full Power Perfect Cell by Cell himself.

Goten

Anime

GT

• Goten mentions that at one point he and Trunks used the Fusion Dance as Super Saiyan 3s.

Trunks

Anime

GT

• Goten mentions that at one point he and Trunks used the Fusion Dance as Super Saiyan 3s.

Gotenks

Manga

Buu

• Goku believes that Super Saiyan Gotenks could defeat Fat Buu.

Vegito

Manga

Buu

• Super Vegito easily defeats Super Buu (Gohan absorbed)

Battle of Gods

• It is stated by Goku that Super Saiyan 3 Vegito would be unable to defeat Beerus (who was heavily suppressed at the time)

Anime

• The Hero's Legacy anime comics state that Vegito (either base or Super Saiyan) is around equal to Super Saiyan 4 Goku.

Gogeta

Manga

Buu

• Super Buu (Gohan absorbed) states that the fusion dance fusion (Super Saiyan 2 Gogeta at least) of Goku and Vegeta would be unable to defeat him.

Battle of Gods

• It is stated by Goku that Super Saiyan 3 Gogeta would be unable to defeat Beerus (who was heavily suppressed at the time)

Anime

GT

• Gogeta is said to be dozens of times stronger than a regular Super Saiyan 4 in the Perfect Files. Meaning he is at least 24x stronger than Super Saiyan 4 Goku/Vegeta.
• Gogeta's Super Saiyan 4 form is different from Goku and Vegeta's. Gogeta also has an attack called the 100x Big Bang Kamehameha, which means it is 10x greater in power increase than the 10x Kamehameha, suggesting that Gogeta's power multiplier for his unique Super Saiyan 4 form is 100x Super Saiyan instead of 10x Super Saiyan.

Beerus

Battle of Gods

• It is stated by Goku that neither Super Saiyan 3 Gogeta nor Super Saiyan 3 Vegito would be able to defeat Beerus (who was heavily suppressed at the time)

Uub

Anime

GT

• Baby states that Base Uub is stronger than Base Tuffle parasite controlled Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Bra combined.
• Majuub is strong enough to equal against Super Saiyan 3 Baby Vegeta, until he powers up - at which point Majuub is easily defeated

Frieza

Manga

Frieza

• Full Power Frieza is able to fight on par with Super Saiyan Goku for several minutes.

Trunks

• Mecha Frieza believes that he can defeat a Super Saiyan using 50% power, so his 50% power would presumably be at least 120,000,000.

Anime

Frieza

• Full Power Frieza is able to fight on par with, and even take an advantage over Super Saiyan Goku. The special The World of Dragon Ball Z, and the Budokai Tenkaichi series states that Full Power Frieza is equal with Super Saiyan Goku.

Shin Budokai

• Base Frieza is able to tire out Super Saiyan Gohan without getting very tired himself. He is later able to hold his own against Super Saiyan Gotenks.
• Full Power Frieza is able to defeat Legendary Super Saiyan Broly (it later takes Super Saiyan 3 Goku to defeat Broly.)
• Gohan and Piccolo refrence Frieza (base true form) as stronger than base Super Buu. Pikkon describes Frieza as having greater energy than Cell, Cooler, and Broly.
• After absorbing much evil energy, Android 18 also states that even if she used all of her energy it would not scratch Frieza, and Krillin (with a Spirit Bomb's power) is unable to defeat him.

GT

• Goku's quote on the "Vengance" card in the DBZCG implies that if Frieza's last physical blow during his rush attack had hit Goku, it would have killed him.
• Frieza believes that his Killer Ball technique has enough power to kill Goku.
• Frieza and Cell are implied to be the strongest of the army of villains in Hell, as they are the ones entrusted with defeating Goku.
• Frieza and Cell believe they can defeat Goku, meaning that combined they must have greater power than SS3 Goku (DBZ) and Kid Buu.

King Cold

Anime

Trunks

• In the Frieza Arc, Frieza states that no one in the universe can match his 50% power, meaning that in 2nd form, Cold's power level is less than 60,000,000.
• Cold fights Piccolo/Vegeta in a video game, and Piccolo/Vegeta is unble to defeat him, but can hold their own. Cold's power level must be above 1,200,000 - which was Piccolo's on Namek.

Cell

Manga

Cell

• Imperfect Cell (without humans absorbed) is said to be weaker than Androids 17 and 18
• Power-Weighted Perfect Cell is said to be stronger than Super Saiyan 2 Gohan.
• Super Perfect Cell breaks Super Saiyan 2 Gohan's arm with one shot.

Anime

Cell

• Semi-Perfect Cell is said to be stronger than Super Saiyan Vegeta, and is shown to be weaker than Super Saiyan Future Trunks.

Shin Budokai

• Super Perfect Cell is able to defeat Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks when the latter is messing around. But is defeated in one shot when Gotenks is not messing around.

GT

• Cell and Frieza are implied to be the strongest of the army of villains in Hell, as they are the ones entrusted with defeating Goku.
• Cell and Frieza believe they can defeat Goku, meaning that combined they must have greater power than SS3 Goku (DBZ) and Kid Buu.

Cell Jrs.

Anime

Cell

• Perfect Cell (suppressed) states they have power similar to his.

Dabura

Buu

• Stated to be similar in strength to Cell.

Majin Buu

Manga

Buu

• Kid Buu
  • Huge Buu is said to be stronger than base Super Buu.

Anime

Buu

• Kid Buu
  • Goku states that Kid Buu has twice as much power as any of his previous forms.

Lord Slug

• Super Namek is said to mutiply base Namek by 100.
• King Kai says that not even Frieza (in first form) or False Super Saiyan Goku could defeat Great Namek Lord Slug.

Cooler

Cooler's Revenge

• In the Frieza Arc, Frieza mentions that no one in the universe can match his 50% power, meaning that Cooler's power level in base form is less than 60,000,000.
• Goku says that Fifth Form Frieza's ki is greater than Frieza's.
• Base Cooler is around equal with base Goku. Fifth Form Cooler is able to defeat Kaio-ken Goku (which is 20x), but is easily beaten by Super Saiyan Goku (which is 50x), so the increase in power from Base to Fifth Form must be more than 20x but less than 50x.

Shin Budokai

• Base Cooler is able to hold his own against Super Saiyan Vegeta.
• Fifth Form Cooler is able to defeat Pikkon (w/ Weighted Clothing), and survive against Ultimate Gohan - who is holding back so as not to kill Cooler - when Gohan uses full power he destroys Cooler in one blast.

Broly

Shin Budokai

• Broly is able to force Goku to at least use his full power as a Super Saiyan to defeat him, as Goku is exhausted afterwards (though according to Vegeta he was trying to save energy for Janemba).

Janemba

Fusion Reborn

• Goku says that Fat Janemba is stronger than anyone he has faced before, so Fat Janemba is stronger than Fat Buu.

Shin Budokai

• After absorbing much evil energy, Super Janemba is able to fight almost equally with Super Saiyan Gogeta and is able to defeat Kid Buu.

Rilldo

GT

• Goku states that Rilldo is even stronger than Majin Buu.
  • It is possible that Goku is referring to Mr. Buu, as in the game Scouter Battle Taikan Kamehameha, Meta-Rilldo's power level is 1,200,000,000 which is slightly stronger than Kid Buu's 1,150,000,000. So Rilldo does not become stronger than Kid Buu until he reaches his final form.

Baby

GT

• Goku states that Super Saiyan 2 Baby Vegeta is the strongest in the universe. Meaning he is stronger than any other currently alive character other than Beerus or Whis, as they had not yet been introduced.

Syn Shenron

GT

• Syn Shenron defeats Nuova Shenron with two energy waves. He is also said to be the strongest Shadow Dragon.
• It took Super Saiyan 4 Goku, who had 500x the power of base Goku with energy from Super Saiyans: Gohan, Trunks, and Goten to defeat Syn, Goku defeated him quite fast however.
• Omega Shenron is said to have around 10x the power of Syn Shenron according to GT Perfect File 2
• Omega Shenron must be stronger than Super Saiyan 2 Gogeta, otherwise Gogeta would have used Super Saiyan 2 instead of Super Saiyan 4. He does not have to be stronger than Super Saiyan 3 Gogeta, as Gogeta would not have used this form since it would only give him a small amount of fusion time.

Forms

Ultimate Gohan's brief appearance in GT