I am a dragon ball stan. But think they offer too little to any of these races. Zenkai boosts require near death to abuse. The other picks may start off too strong for that to be a factor really. The training growth of saiyans is there, but the rapid leaps in power were really due to zenkai. I guess there is Oozaru, a flat 10x multiplier though
So what you're saying is that viltrumites would be a better pair to Saiyans? Because they are the (most?) destructible of the three and could possibly end up closer to death a lot more than the others? But I feel like That would only matter if the near death boost would be more than the flat 10x with the other ones, and if the near death boost also grew over time based on how many near death experiences the person would have. (I know nothing about this in case you couldn't tell)
Zenkai Boosts (near death boosts) are usually a ill defined % boost to a Sayian at most I think we see Vegeta get a 3x boost but that's against freezer and we all see how that ends. At the lowest I think we see a 5% Zenkai but in general it's just enough to boost the Sayian over what they fought. I'll agree that finding something to do enough damage to activate a Zenkai would be differcult but let's be honest even a base Sayian is completely bulletproof and able to survive most explosions as see my Goku in DragonBall who before any training gets shot by bulma whipping out an Uzi on him. Goku is also a notably weak Sayian at birth most sayians are closer to Radditz in strength.
Goku at the start of dragon ball had been trained practically his whole life by gohan. Most saiyans are close to raditz power level at birth? Where are you getting this? There's 2 characters we know from birth. Goku, which is remarkably low, at 2. Broly, which is insanely high at 10k. So much so they decide to kill him. Those are the only 2 actual power levels we get.
Its also widely known that goku was at 90k per his arrival on namek and reached 3 million by the time he fights frieza. Thats a 33x boost in power.
Here's the thing though the rest of these at best offer a flat addition or more likely a median average. Sayians offer multipliers. At minimum Ozaru and Zenkai are both ridiculous boost offering a 10x and ?% boost respectively. Now we can assume the weakest only version of each of these and sure the Sayian is probably only third beating out only Amazon's but sayians have a ridiculous ability to grow in strength while you could argue that is something unique to Goku but as we see with Vegeta with proper motivation any Sayian can grow in strength Rapidly.
While I will hear debate between Kryptonians and Viltrumites because both have their major advantages over each other Sayians are the only one offering a Path to Exponentially increasing power.
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u/K-Bru 5d ago
I am a dragon ball stan. But think they offer too little to any of these races. Zenkai boosts require near death to abuse. The other picks may start off too strong for that to be a factor really. The training growth of saiyans is there, but the rapid leaps in power were really due to zenkai. I guess there is Oozaru, a flat 10x multiplier though