I'm pretty sure the idea of this arc was that Toppo is set up to be Goku's standard rival following a more natural Sorting Algorithm of Power until the Physical God Jiren comes in to completely shatter the algorithm and force Goku to go above and beyond his limits to jump a few tiers of power higher than he's ready for at the moment.
He doesn't use Kaioken until they face off. They prepare to fight but the Grand Preist says no. Also, I'd be surprised if Toppo's as strong as he is without any godly ki to sense Goku's.
edited 15th Oct '17 9:48:57 PM by PushoverMediaCritic
Right now Toppo seems like the harbinger, a common role in Dragon Ball: show up, be strong, but reveal that someone is even stronger that will be the next person to be focused on.
It makes the follow up more platable than if they showed up being that strong without another strong guy setting them up.
There are some fusions or other body alterations I wonder what the resulting character would be like. For example if Zamasu and Gowasu fused what kind of person would result? I could probably ask this about wildly different characters fusing for whatever reason, like Goku and Frieza
edited 15th Oct '17 10:07:31 PM by RJ-19-CLOVIS-93
As far as the remainder of the tournament goes, I have to imagine Toppo will be doing the heavy lifting from here on since Jiren is back to meditating. And with Hit eliminated and Goku still weakened, the only other fighters arguably on par with him is Freeza and Vegeta.
So question; since the Goku vs Jiren fight was so fucking much like the Goku vs Frieza fight (Goku being pathetically weaker than his opponent, having to use the Kaioken x20 with his strongest state only to find out it's still not enough, using and failing with a Spirit Bomb that was used as a last resort, gaining a Deus ex Machina transformation that finally let's Goku rival/surpass his opponent), do you think that Ultra Instinct Omen is 50 times stronger than SSB, in keeping in line with the rest of the comparisons to the Goku vs Frieza fight, or do you think it goes beyond even that?
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Toppo specifically notes he isn't sure if he can beat Goku either, but if that's even in question then Goku stands no chance against Jiren.
I don't think Toppo being comparable to Goku was ever supposed to be in question.