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you do realise there's a range of AP levels that fall under 5B right? its not illegal to have two people be in the same tier even if one is stronger than the other.
The range of planet level AP is 59.44 Zettatons to to 2.7 Yottatons. The calculation places Piccolo's moon busting feat at 70 zettatons, which for all intents and purposes is really close to the low end of the 5B AP range. Assuming Goku scales to that feat and applying Kaioken x4 since he overpowered Vegeta when using that, that still places his AP level at around 280 zettatons, or 0.28 yottatons, which isnt even close the high end of the 5B range. This of course is mostly hypothetical as Goku's actual power level is much stronger by the time he is revived and thus the multiplication is MUCH greater, but the point im illustrating here is that the range for AP levels to be considered planet level is actually quite high, so even if Goku at the start of DBZ was even 10 times weaker than vegeta, Goku's AP would still be in the Planet level range assuming Vegeta's maximum AP was 600 zettatons or greater.
Actually you know what? I think your statement on limiting characters that arent Vegeta is wrong is multiple accounts, so allow me to make a few statements of my own:
- Despite the statement of Vegeta as a Planet Buster, we still don't have any actual AP value calculated for him aside from just a single statement of him declaring he's going to destroy the planet as well as confirmation of his planet busting status from guidebooks. Impressive, but it still means we have no AP calculation to compare Piccolo's own feat to, so we can't say for sure if Piccolo's feat is an outlier or not. For all we know, Vegeta could be 5A or High 5A because we still don't know how powerful his Galick Gun is, which would still place Goku at Planet level even if he only had a third of Vegeta's power.
- Slight tangent here, but while Vegeta can destroy planets at his maximum, Freiza could destroy Planet Vegeta very casually in his first form. Not saying that Vegeta scales to first form Frieza, but even if Vegeta had only a tenth or even a hundreth of Frieza's AP, that would still place him at High 5A. Not making a new arguement here, but food for thought.
- Again, guide books can be wrong or even contradictory, so they should be taken with a grain of salt. King Piccolo was stated by the same guide books to have a power rivaling a nuclear bomb, yet is stronger than Roshi who could blow up a moon. You could say that Roshi's moon feat is an outlier, but then it would contradict your claim earlier that neither Goku nor Piccolo had gotten stronger in the time skip between DB and DBZ as Piccolo did exactly that in DBZ even without the fan calculation placing him higher.
- Media hype is bullcrap to justify Vegeta being the only one at planet level anyway because even the writers can do power estimates wrong in their own works. For example, In a DC comic involving the flash (I cant remember which), the writers had a statement that flash was moving at a particular speed in order to rescuse a bunch of people (one at a time) in a single hour, yet after a fan calculator calculated the same feat, the statement turned out to be bullshit because in order to actually rescue a bunch of people in that timeframe, he would have to be millions of times faster.
- On that note, Akira Toriyama was a writer who basically wrote by the seat of his pants, in that he basically wrote whatever came into his head without thinking his work through, so even if he looked back on his work and made an official statement that said Vegeta was planet level, he had little to no understanding of the AP levels and calculations to even fathom how much power is needed to blow up a planet, and basically said Vegeta could destroy planets because it was cool.
On the other hand, not only have I provided a explainable calculation for Piccolo's power and tier upgrade, I also took the time to give proper reasoning and justification for why I think this upgrade is necessary, from explaining how much stronger Goku had gotten when compared the the Roshi moon feat he upscales from, to even conceding and changing my explanation from justifying an anime feat as canon to providing evidence from an actual canon feat.
If you're going to keep saying I'm wrong, at least have the decency to bring up some evidence beyond single statement. Provide a statement for how Goku isnt planet level, or provide an actual AP calc for Vegeta destroying the earth so we can determine if Piccolo's own feat is an outlier compared to Vegeta's own + the guidebook statements. At this point you are just sounding like someone justifying a NLF except for power levels somehow.
