

I personally find this to be one of the major plot holes on dragon ball which
makes any intention on defining their real powers pretty hopeless, although if
there's something that explains it, which I'm not aware of, then it's not a
plot hole.

I mean, depending on the situation if their ki based attacks hit something the
effect can greatly change according to the situation, it can destroy just some
landscape, a huge amount of it, a planet, a solar system, a galaxy...

If their energy attacks just destroy some landscape then there's no point in
using them against enemies that could stand to something that would destroy a
galaxy, so there's no reason for them to be used and it would be pointless. If
they cannot control their destruction output everytime that there's a fight
with their current power level the whole universe would be destroyed if some
amount of ki based attacks are used in the fight and don't exactly go directly
to one of the fighters.

But maybe they can control it according to their will of how much destruction
they want them to cause.

Is there something that explains that seemingly relative destructiveness of
their ki based attacks?

Thank you.


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Is there any explanation on how Z fighters control the power of their ki based attacks?


I do not think they are any in-universe explanations for that. I have actually
noticed some inconsistency in the damages the Z fighters can generate when
fighting.

However, it is important to note that Dragon Ball is an old Shonen manga
(first chapter was released in 1984). Back then, authors were not so rigorous
and consistent with the plots and power levels as in other more recent mangas.
Akira Toriyama regularly (and casually!) admits he has introduced many plot-
holes in the Dragon Ball series.

On a side note, when Goku defeats Frieza, he is about 150,000 times stronger
than when he fought Raditz. How much stronger is Goku in Super Saiyan Blue
form? I reckon it can be difficult to be consistent when such exponential
strength growths are involved.

From the latest Dragon Ball Super episodes, I suppose it is safe to say Akira
Toriyama has not changed his approach to mangas and does not pay much
attention to such minor inconsistencies.


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This could all be wrong, but I have a theory based on previous information.

Remember Videl and when she first formed an energy ball, how she could barely
add energy to it. The same thing applies here, except that everyone else is
ripped. No one ever measures how much energy they put into Ki-based attacks,
but we can easily assume it will be only as much energy as they can use, at
most. In order to measure how much, we have to consider how strong everyone
else is, in comparison to Videl. If she were put at the bottom of the scale,
even above Hercule Satan, then based on everyone else's current power level,
we can measure how much energy they all have.

To determine how much energy is pumped into any Ki-based attacks, therefore
defining if each amount is different and determining if Z fighters control the
power of their Ki-based attacks based on which attacks they use in the 1st
place, we would need to use Videl's attack as a basic scale, assuming she is
the weakest above Hercule. It would require a measurement system based on
weighted power, but it would help accurately measure the attacks' power, based
on what does how much damage to whom in particular.


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