Why is Gohan shown to be so weak in Dragon Ball Super?


Gohan was the strongest in his mystic form back at the end of DBZ. How could
Gohan have become so weak that he lost the ability to turn Super Saiyan 2 in
such a short period of time? While on the other hand, Frieza was able to
surpass Goku's Super Saiyan Blue transformation in only 4 months of training.
That doesn't make sense.

Tagoma was even able to pierce him with a ki blast. Now he is losing left and
right in every episode. Most recently Frieza in his base form was shooting ki
blasts through Super Saiyan Gohan. So Frieza's base form is stronger than
Super Saiyan now? How did that happen?




> How could be become so weak that cant even go super saiyan 2 anymore in a
> short period of time

According to the
[timeline](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_timelin) of dragon
ball, about 5 years have passed between the end the buu saga and the
Resurection of F saga. Gohan hasn't trained at all since then. We can choose
the analogy of professional athletes here: they need to train almost everyday
to maintain their form, let alone get "stronger". After 5 years, it is
expected than Gohan has become significantly weaker. But again, if he were to
train for a few months, his power would probably go up exponentially. Also
note that he did not train much in the Buu saga, much of his power increase
came from the help of Supreme Kai.

> ...while frieza surpasses goku SSB in 4 months of training

Frieza states that he never had to train one day in his life because he was
already so much stronger than everybody else. If we consider Goku to be a
combat genius, imagine how much training and near-deaths experience he had to
go through to be able to fight on par with Frieza. In the end, only Krilin's
death helped become super saiyan and beat Frieza. Since he never trained
before, it would make sense that his power would go up exponentially after
little training.

> Tagoma was even able to pierce him with a ki blast.

In the movie "Resurrection of F" Goku in Super Saiyan blue was almost killed
by a Sorbet's gun. This tells you that no matter how strong of a warrior you
are, you can be defeated by someone so much weaker than you if you are caught
by surprise.

> So frieza base is stronger than super saiyan now

Yes, when Gohan clearly states than he is no match of Frieza, he is still in
his base form. Gohan might be able to sense Frieza's ki beyond his current
form, but this is just speculation.




> How could be become so weak that cant even go super saiyan 2 anymore in a
> short period of time

According to the
[timeline](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_timelin) of dragon
ball, about 5 years have passed between the end the buu saga and the
Resurection of F saga. Gohan hasn't trained at all since then. We can choose
the analogy of professional athletes here: they need to train almost everyday
to maintain their form, let alone get "stronger". After 5 years, it is
expected than Gohan has become significantly weaker. But again, if he were to
train for a few months, his power would probably go up exponentially. Also
note that he did not train much in the Buu saga, much of his power increase
came from the help of Supreme Kai.

> ...while frieza surpasses goku SSB in 4 months of training

Frieza states that he never had to train one day in his life because he was
already so much stronger than everybody else. If we consider Goku to be a
combat genius, imagine how much training and near-deaths experience he had to
go through to be able to fight on par with Frieza. In the end, only Krilin's
death helped become super saiyan and beat Frieza. Since he never trained
before, it would make sense that his power would go up exponentially after
little training.

> Tagoma was even able to pierce him with a ki blast.

In the movie "Resurrection of F" Goku in Super Saiyan blue was almost killed
by a Sorbet's gun. This tells you that no matter how strong of a warrior you
are, you can be defeated by someone so much weaker than you if you are caught
by surprise.

> So frieza base is stronger than super saiyan now

Yes, when Gohan clearly states than he is no match of Frieza, he is still in
his base form. Gohan might be able to sense Frieza's ki beyond his current
form, but this is just speculation.

