DB's Rules of Combat

DB's has one Rule of Combat that determines how a Fight would go and i think it's not very realistic. If Fighter A has a much greater Ki level than fighter B, there is no way B can hurt A, even if caught off guard. Wouldn't it have made DB fights more interesting, if this rule didn't apply?

Most of Dragonball was the complete opposite. There was rarely a time in the series where two people were that far apart in power, and ki levels really didn't exist.

quote D_Warrior

In DBZ nobody has ever defeated an opponent stronger than themself,
Goku always had the greater powerlevel, i would have liked to see a Z-Fighter
just taking out a Villian with pure Intelligence.

-Raditz
-Vegeta
-Buu

Except that Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon was not stronger than Raditz. It's a piercing attack like Frieza's death beams.
The Spirit Bomb did not kill Vegeta or even finish him, it just weakened him. He was actually beaten by Gohan.
Buu...yeah, okay.


And because these weaker fighters have attacks that have special attributes that allow them to beat stronger fighters, that's not fair? That's HOW weaker fighters win against fighters massively stronger than them.

Raditz was about 3 times stronger than Goku and Piccolo. It doesn't matter how 'smart' they are (thought grabbing his tail TWICE worked). With a gap like that, nothing else would have worked. In real life, if somebody can run three times faster than you can and sustain that pace, it doesn't matter how intelligent you are, you won't beat them in a race. If someone is three times stronger than you, you won't beat them in an armwrestle. Period. And that's why strategy is seldom used in DBZ. Because the gaps were almost always enormous.

Vegeta was 3 times stronger than Goku and about 15 times stronger than Gohan and Krillen.

Because of Buu's regeneration, it would have been utterly impossible for someone weaker than him to kill him unless an attack with massive amplification was used.


There were very few fights in the series where the gap between fighters was close enough to a point where strategy and intelligent fighting would have made a difference:

Piccolo vs 17
Goku vs Cell (supressed)
Goku vs Vegeta 2

In all three of those fights, there was a lot more strategy involved than just roflstomping the other fighter.

Goku's instant transmission Kamehameha, for example, was brilliant. And again, if Cell did not have regeneration, it would have been over right there.

Worst. Rule. Ever.