Sadly for Goku, he misses out on some things that Garou will benefit from:
- Garou's martial arts seem a lot more busted (being able to dodge attacks he physically doesn't have the speed to react to in the WC, being able to one shot his opponent with shockwaves, and he could use Bomb's martial arts to slice Goku up from a distance.)
- Garou has shown that he can copy someone's martial arts move to completely cancel it out. (Honestly could just be a weakness of Bomb's form.)
- Garou can take all that he has learned, and condense it into a single martial arts form that maximizes each form's strengths. This is something Goku has never been shown to do. Ever.
- While forms don't increase stats, garou's body can mutate new physical traits to make Goku's life harder. (Growing more arms, wings, and other quality of life changes.)
(I read a lot of but not all of the comments, so I may have missed something).
1. “Garou seems to be a lot more broken” then you proceed to mention feats that Goku has done as a child up to adult hood. Goku has reacted to those his body can’t physically react to. Even without Ultra Instinct. Goku can manipulate the air current with punches to attack. This is called Kiai, but it doesn’t negate durability to a degree like Garou’s shockwave martial arts thing.
Garou has shown that he can copy someone's martial arts move to completely cancel it out. (Honestly could just be a weakness of Bomb's form.)
2. I thought you said Goku and Garou are similar in this regard? Goku has obviously does this. Goku can even create whole new fighting ways to counters to other martial arts. Goku has matched Beerus speed and strength of punches so the power and shockwave would cancel out. He does this after 2 tries, the first and second try was incomplete nullification but good enough to save the earth from getting obliterated.
- Garou can take all that he has learned, and condense it into a single martial arts form that maximizes each form's strengths. This is something Goku has never been shown to do. Ever.
If this means combining all the skills you’ve learned in battle in a fight then Goku has obviously done that. But if it’s some ridiculous bs where Garou literally combined all 11 or whatever number of his styles into one big fighting style then Goku has done the opposite, from one thing he has learned he can create many variations of it. Versatility >>>
Since Garou’s fighting styles are from bomb and bang etc. who aren’t even as skilled as Master Roshi then someone can make an argument that Goku should definitely be able to counter. But I will take the easy way out and say UI negs everything to sunder. Garou can’t catch up to UI.
- While forms don't increase stats, garou's body can mutate new physical traits to make Goku's life harder. (Growing more arms, wings, and other quality of life changes.)
I don’t think this would do anything to someone who can fight an 4 arms with 2 arms . Yeah, Goku fought a master martial Tien, who can create 2 extra arms. Goku beat him by using the 8 arm fighting technique where Goku creates 6 arm
illusions with his arms to fight 4
real arms. Goku can fly, obviously. No idea what biological trait that would counter Goku… Goku’s life isn’t going to be hard at all thanks to his vast experience of fighting multiple life forms.
(I read a lot of but not all of the comments, so I may have missed something).
Yeah you missed a lot, cuz these has been indirectly answered. So I’ll either respond again or refer to where they have been answered.
@FluffyCreatureZ @JOLTxx etc. Have made more arguments than I have. I’m just the guy that spams UI negs cuz it does. Garou has no way of countering it unless you want to thread into NLF domain.
